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Dick Cheney gave the orders for Basra campaign
Maliki’s government busy trying to save face by issuing a dead line for Mahdi fighters, but the reality is another way around it is Al-Sadr asks AL-Maliki to leave the city, Maliki was saved by the American helicopters when the fighters surrounded his resident in Basra, Al-Qabas reported about the main problem faced the government in this bad presentation that forced Maliki to use his relatives with extra forces came from Karbala:
Members of (…)

A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal’s conviction should stand, but that he should get a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions.
If prosecutors don’t want to give him a new death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal would be sentenced automatically to life in prison.
Abu-Jamal, 53, once a (…)

Are We Really That Ill?
By CHRISTOPHER LANE | March 26, 2008
CHICAGO - America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants. These statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies indicate (…)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/25/08
EDITOR’S NOTE: After 7 p.m. CDT on March 25, the open-access article will be freely available in full at http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001897. CONTACT: Dian Land, (608) 263-9893, dj.land sCw hosp.wisc.edu
STUDY SHOWS COMPASSION MEDITATION CHANGES THE BRAIN
MADISON - Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more (…)

Global Research March 25, 2008
by Brit Amos
‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [NorthAmerica’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize’.1
This essay (…)

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“All mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” - Tom Paine
On March 11, 2008, a rant from David Mamet appeared in the “Village Voice.” It was entitled: “Why I am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead’ Liberal.” In it, he confesses that he now embraces the “Free Market” theology and that the late economist, Milton Friedman, is one of his heroes. (1) Mamet is a playwright, who prides himself for his writing on “politics.” His article, however, shows he’s not really much of a political (…)

BEAR STEARNS PROTEST WEDNESDAY: THE PRESS RELEASE
HOMEOWNERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST TAXPAYER BAILOUT OF WALL STREET WHILE THE GOVERNMENT ABANDONS AT-RISK HOMEOWNERS
(Jamaica Plain, MA)
On Wednesday March 26th at 12:00 noon in front of JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns corporate offices at 47th and Park Avenue, hundreds of homeowners will take to the streets of New York. The demonstration organized by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) will protest the taxpayer bailout (…)

Credit crunch ’at $1.2 trillion’
The credit crunch will globally cost $1.2 trillion (£600bn) according to a report from the bank Goldman Sachs.
The report says 40%, or $460bn, of those losses will hit US banks, brokerages and other institutions.
Goldman estimates that US financial firms have already reported losses of $120bn since the credit crunch began.
Banks made huge losses on investments backed by US mortgages. That is now hampering their ability to loan money, which (…)

Lizette Alvarez and Andrew Lehren
March 26, 2008
BY THE time Jerry Ryen King decided to write about his experiences in Iraq, the teenage paratrooper had more to share than most soldiers.
In two operations to clear the outskirts of the village of Turki in the eastern Diyala province, Specialist King and the rest of the 5th Squadron faced days of firefights, grenade attacks and landmines. Well-trained insurgents had burrowed deep into muddy canals, a throwback to the trenches of World (…)