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The Comptroller General of the United States, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, which is “a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government”, in their latest audit of the federal debt have revealed that “deficit spending and promised benefits for federal entitlement programs have put every man, woman, and child in the United States on the hook for $175,000”. This is exclusive of the personal debt that each person (…)

“There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” - George C. Wallace
Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, suspended his country’s Constitution on Nov. 3, 2007, and began arresting opponents of his dictatorial rule. President George W. Bush doesn’t have to resort to that kind of strong arm tactic. This isn’t because he has any second thoughts about doing so. It’s because there isn’t ANY opposition, in the realm of institutional politics, to the Bush-Cheney (…)

While certain counties battle with their citizen over the legality of labeling genetically modified foods, and chemically produced and enhanced foods as ‘natural’, other countries are showing us how to work with nature.
The following two part CBC documentary from ‘The Nature of Things’ with David Suzuki examines Cuba’s ‘Accidental Revolution’, where in less then a decade Cuba learned how to grow food that feeds its people using only 5% of the energy that is required in Northern (…)

THOSE BASTARDS NEVER GIVE UP
By Peter Fredson
November 12, 2007
Everyone is aware of the neocon dream of world domination, set forth in the Project for the New American Century Their fascist philosophy of ruthlessness, bullying, preemption, secrecy in the quest for power and wealth was published long before 9/11. Bush and his base fully intended to have wars of choice to seize the scarce resources of weak nations, and they had no hesitation in accepting whatever deaths were caused by (…)

Tracking scientists moving from country to country to share their expertise in building biological weapons is a major challenge, a top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday.
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, September 26, 2007
(09-26) 11:21 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) —
Unlike nuclear weapons or missiles, biological weapons can be manufactured in relatively nondescript facilities that are hard to detect. That makes tracking the people with the know-how to build the (…)

Charismatic and exotic, Ms Pederson was an Arab-American linguist whom David Kelly met in Iraq in 1998...Mai Pederson — a bellydancing US Army sergeant who, according to both her ex-husbands, is a spy with an astonishing ability to bewitch men.
By NORMAN BAKER MP, Last updated at 00:59am on 23rd October 2007
Uuncorrected to this day, the transcripts of the Hutton Inquiry still refer to a mysterious figure called Mike Peddison, mentioned in the testimony of David Kelly’s wife Janice as a (…)

By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African (…)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/
"Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh." George W. Bush

Nader.org Published on November 05, 2007
Question of the day- who and what is determining the price of oil and your gasoline and home heating bills? Don’t ask Uncle Sam, because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are running a regime marinated in oil that does not issue reports which explain the real determinants of petroleum pricing beyond the conventional supply-demand curves.
Columbia University 09/04 Photo : Joëlle Pénochet
First, let us create a historical framework to provide some (…)

IPS - Inter-Press Service News Agency
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (IPS) - A "dramatic increase" in targeted violence against schools and educational institutions, mostly in conflict zones, is having a devastating effect on students, teachers, trade unionists, administrators and education officials, according to a new U.N. study released here.
Photo : International Action Center
In 2006, militants killed 85 students and teachers, and destroyed 187 schools in battle-scarred (…)