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By Barry Mason
Reports from aid agencies show that many areas in Africa are currently facing drought and threat of famine. In East Africa some 11 million people are suffering a drought that is the worst in a decade and will mean that food aid is urgently needed over the next six months. The countries affected stretch from the Horn of Africa through to Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.
The January bulletin produced by the USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) warned of a (…)

Part 7 of "The Logical Reconstruction of Reality":
Today’s 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King provides a good opportunity to examine Newspeak in full bloom.
The question, of course, is "Did the US government kill him"? The official answer is "No, a guy named Ray did it alone." The intuitive answer of a large part of the US population (not to mention the rest of the world) is "Yes," and the informed answer of the King family is the title of their lawyer’s (…)

Ritter says White House preparing for war in Iran
Ed Barna – Rutland County Herald April 4, 2008
Scott Ritter, former head of weapons inspection in Iraq who protested there were no weapons of mass destruction to justify an invasion, believes the same is true for Iran.
But there is an 80 percent chance of war with Iran, he told about 200 people Wednesday at Middlebury College as part of a series of talks facilitated by the Vermont Peace and Justice Center.
The pattern of (…)

“The Iraq War is the greatest strategic mistake in our history.” - Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA, (Rtd.)
On March 30, 2008, President George W. Bush tossed out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener of the Washington Nationals. He was roundly booed by the capacity crowd. He is easily the worse chief executive in the history of the Republic. Bush, with V.P. Dick Cheney and their mob, lied the country into the Iraq War. If you’re keeping count, it was 935 damnable lies! (1) As a (…)

Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret. – 2 April 2008
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It is an honor to appear before you again. The last occasion was in January 2007, when the topic was the troop surge. Today you are asking if it has worked. Last year I rejected the claim that it was a new strategy. Rather, I said, it is a new tactic used to achieve the same old strategic aim, political (…)

By David Swanson
A dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink are the leaders here. Laurel Jensen is here, and Michael Heaney, Thalia Doukas, Darryl Love, Ed Dickau, Michael Beer, Jes Richardson, Mike Marceau, Dan... People are joining us every few minutes. We’re sitting around in the main room of the office. We have two video cameras going, and we’re discussing...
10:40 Actually, a (…)

ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
In a February 22 letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent (…)

Meeting With the House Judiciary Committee Staff on Impeachment Thursday Morning
By David Swanson
This is not an April Fool’s joke. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink led a delegation to the House Judiciary Committee office on Wednesday in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2138. They sat down and refused to leave, were permitted to stay, and spoke with the good staff people there about the need to impeach Vice President Cheney before, rather than after, an attack on (…)

A global food price crisis, a global food crisis, now threatens billions of people in the Developng World with famine and starvation.
This catastrophe is being driven by the greed of Western countries for the profits from biofuel and carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution .
The resource-greedy, racist and genocidal UK, EU, Australia (Oz) and US are threatening much of the world with Climate Genocide and with Food Genocide.
In British-ruled India during the Second World War about 6-7 million (…)

CounterPunch
The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression—a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard—by the Bush Regime could be prevented.
On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited "a (…)