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Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
· Biden says criminal violations will be pursued · Democrats have issued subpoenas to Bush aides · 3 staffers have been held in contempt of Congress
Elana Schor in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 03 2008 19:32 BST
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
Biden’s (…)

Nicaragua prepares to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
04/ 09/ 2008 MEXICO, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - Nicaragua is preparing to officially recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a Nicaraguan deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.
Russia recognized South Ossetia and Georgia on August 26, two weeks after it had concluded its operation "to force Georgia to peace." The operation came in response to an attack by Georgian forces on breakaway South Ossetia on August 8.
Nicaraguan (…)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598

Eleven years ago yesterday the trial against Matthias Rust began in Moscow. A few months earlier, on May 28, 1987, the 19-year-old German had landed his single-engine Cessna about 100 meters from Red Square. There are still unanswered questions about how this amateur pilot was able to penetrate what Bill Keller of the New York Times called “the world’s most vaunted air defenses” (NYT, June 7, 1987).
There is no question, though, about the aftermath:
“With surprising speed and openness, (…)

Our Streets!
“Anarchist Tackles Cop, Frees Demonstrator at RNC”
Could this be the beginning of a revolution?
“Trip! - Whose Streets?”
Or is this a continuation of a long hard struggle…
“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
to stop Fascism!
“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
Based on the following Youtube comment for the first video, it appears that many are serious about what is happening:
* All those fucking hippies standing around chanting, and all it took was ‘one’ brave anarchist to (…)

By David R. Hoffman
Over ten years later, I still remember the lecture. My law professor had drawn two squares on the chalkboard and labeled them A and B.
“These squares,” he explained, “represent two neighboring factories that manufacturer the same product. The product is of the same quality and sold for the same price. It is manufactured for export only, so all profits come from overseas markets.”
“The problem,” he continued, “is that manufacturing this product is environmentally (…)

U.S. DATA ON GROWTH EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE It is false that it has a kind
By Karl Weiss
An article in the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) ironically sarkastischer way in the publication of the U.S. government, in the second quarter of 2008 had a growth rate of gross national product (exactly: Gross National Product, GNP) of 3.3%. The title of the article spottet on the investors: "They still want to believe" and the other is tough figures shows: The U.S. economy is already in crisis, the (…)

By Brian McAfee
Again today reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children. Three were killed and seven injured when western troops fired artillery shells at a civilian house in western Afghanistan. This occurs in the wake of the August 22 bombing that resulted in the deaths of 90 people, 60 children, 15 women and 15 men. Afghans and UN officials have confirmed the numbers but the U.S. insists there were only 5 dead children and 25 dead Taliban. Civilian casualties are a (…)

Schooling: Liberation or Mind Control?
BY RICHARD HEINBERG
If there were no age-specific and obligatory learning institution, “childhood” would go out of production. The youth of rich nations would be liberated from its destructiveness, and poor nations would cease attempting to rival the childishness of the rich. If society were to outgrow its age of childhood, it would have to become livable for the young. The present disjunction between an adult society which pretends to be humane and (…)

DESCRIPTION Everybody knows about the CIA—the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. Its home office in Maryland "contains what is probably the largest body of secrets ever created."
Little was (…)