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"Imagine that there were a Beatles record only a few people knew existed. And imagine you got the chance to listen to it, and as you did, your excitement grew, note by note. You realized it wasn’t merely as good as Rubber Soul, or Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper’s. It was much, much better. And now, imagine how badly you’d want to tell other Beatles fans all about it.
That’s how I feel for my fellow William Kristol fans. You loved it when Bill said invading Iraq was going to have (…)

Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING, May 23 (IPS)
China is emerging as a new backer of massive dam projects around the globe, giving rise to fears for pristine natural resources and the cultural heritage of river peoples.
Already home to nearly half of the world’s dams, China intends to more than double its hydropower generating capacity by 2020 by adding a series of new dams across the country. More significantly, in recent years, Beijing has been (…)

This week an exciting new candidate has come forward to challenge Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco district where the voters are being ignored by the Speaker of the House. Citizens around the nation are pledging time and sending donations to Shirley Golub in an effort to show Nancy Pelosi that we have had enough. She has failed to uphold the Constitution and appears to be protecting Bush from his crimes, not defending our Constitution and holding him accountable to the law.
Shirley Golub (…)

By William Hughes
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” - Mohandas Gandhi
The late Philip Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, wrote in 1997: “The empire’s wars are killing us.” (1) One of the big props for that empire is the clique in our society, known as the “Military-Industrial Complex.” This is the same powerful special interest that President Dwight D. Eisenshower warned the nation about in his “Farewell Address.” (2) Peace activist Berrigan felt, as a result of the arms (…)

David M. Walker, The Comptroller General of the United States and “head of the Government Accountability Office, announced Friday that he will resign in March to lead a new foundation focused on long-term public policy challenges… Walker, 56, has repeatedly warned that the government faces a long-term fiscal crisis as the baby-boom generation retires, driving up spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”…
“As GAO chief, Walker has warned that the government is ignoring threats (…)

عصابات البيشمركة في الموصل تحاول تكرار جريمتها البشعة في الزنجيلي بحي آخر وعمارة أخرى والأهالي يتصدون لها..! - تفاصيل فاضحة
2008-02-16 :: بقلم: جاسم الرصيف ::
جرائم البيشمركة الكردية قديما كان الكبار في السن يحذرون صغارهم من خسيس اخلاق يتولى سلطة على الناس بقوّة غيره، فيذل كبارهم ويستبيح كل محرّم، وينتهك كل قيمة اخلاقية ودينية واجتماعية،، وحديثا، بعد احتلال العراق، صارت الخسّة سلوكا يوميا (للبيشمركة) الكردية في

US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars: bank
Feb 14 04:20 PM US/Eastern
The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday.
The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is "one of the most vicious in financial history," according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph Quinlan.
Quinlan said (…)

Alternet - February 14, 2008
1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Earning $16/Month and Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves
Posted by Lucinda Marshall Feminist Peace Network
The average age of an Afghan widow is just 35 years, and 94 percent of them are unable to read and write.
The following report from IRIN tells the ghastly truth of what it is like for women in the aftermath of decades of militarism in Afghanistan:
"There over 1.5 million widows out of an estimated 26.6 (…)

Popping The Obama Bubble
Now that the Kennedy’s have formally anointed Obama with the legend of Camelot we have to wonder if he deserves it, or, if "it" is really anything at all. Firstly, JKF gained mythic proportions only by being assassinated. Before that, he became President by the tiniest of margins; in fact, on the day of his assassination he was in Dallas, not as a legend, but as a struggling politician shoring up his sagging political fortunes there in anticipation of his next (…)

Republican lawmakers in Washington, DC, did today what voters and citizens across the country have been trying to do for the better part of the last 8 years: they removed themselves from the House chamber of the Capitol.
Following an impassioned speech decrying "political grandstanding" by minority leader John Boehner, Republican members of the House of Representatives walked out of congress and onto the steps of the Capitol in a move oddly similar to "political grandstanding."
Many (…)