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White House Leak Cheney’s Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike
By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel. Posted October 26, 2007.
High-ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls ’World War III.
US Vice President Dick Cheney — the power behind the throne, the eminence grise, the man with the (very) occasional grandfatherly smile — is notorious for his propensity for secretiveness and (…)

By Tara Lohan,
With 11 actions planned across the country, the U.S. will show this Saturday that we will not be still or silent until our troops are home. Will you join us?
The majority of Americans and Iraqis oppose the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Polls indicate that 70 percent of Americans are against the war and over 80 percent of Iraqis want coalition troops out of their country. In the four and a half years since the invasion, nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed and nearly (…)

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to Iraq to topple Saddam’s regime, they not only ordered these men and women to commit crimes against humanity, they also commanded them to perpetrate crimes against nature.
The first Gulf War had a horrific effect on the environment, as CNN reported in 1999, "Iraq was responsible for (…)

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday night.
The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the officials said. While the United States has long labeled Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, the decision to (…)

Putin has grasped the fact that what the Cheney Crowd is threatening is World War
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Global Research, October 22, 2007
The visit to Tehran on Oct. 16, by Russian President Vladimir Putin was officially billed as his participation in the second summit of the Caspian Sea littoral nations, convoked to deal with legal and other aspects of resource-sharing in the oil-rich waters. Although that summit did take place as scheduled, and important decisions were reached by (…)

GLOBAL RESEARCH
By WILL WEISSERT AP Writer for Global research
Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington a day before the White House plans to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
"The danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush’s recent initiative to transform foods into fuel," Castro wrote in Cuban news media, referring to U.S. support for using corn and other food crops to (…)

Computer story of 2007: Asus selling Eee PC at 2 per sec, $299. Bad sign for US industry.
1. Photo of Asus Eee has interface like no other.
First of all, this isn’t really bad news, as the US juggernaut needs to be slowed down. Don’t believe the Eee is big? Watch for it on Google News. You’ve heard similar things before, but this really is N-E-W-S. The $299 "Model T Ford" of computing has arrived — Asus Eee — and its Taiwan intro saw sales of 2 per second! $299 (headed for $50?) (…)

Russia Orders ‘Immediate’ Purge Of All Windows Computers As Virus Fears Grow
October 24, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Reports circulating within President Putin’s Security Council are stating that a ‘redline’ of Russias Information Security Doctrine has been crossed and that the ‘potential’ for massive cyber attacks against the military infrastructure of both the Russian and Chinese Military Forces ‘appears’ to be imminent.
According to these (…)

(Shameless self-promotion; satirical newspaper article)
New Washington, D.C. - The Empire has finally succeeded in its long term endeavor to improve the thoroughness of the Terrorist Watch List, “The List” now contains 301 million names, which is more than the total number of citizens in the Empire. “The List” now includes every citizen, and then some. No longer can freeloaders in our glorious Empire escape the security enhancing, character building groping and cavity searches at airports, (…)

Jim Rogers Shifts Assets Out of Dollar to Buy Yuan
By Marcel van de Hoef and Danielle Rossingh
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Jim Rogers, chairman of Beeland Interests Inc., said he is shifting all his assets out of the dollar and buying Chinese yuan because the Federal Reserve has eroded the value of the U.S. currency.
I’m in the process of — I hope in the next few months — getting all of my assets out of U.S. dollars,’’ said Rogers, 65, who correctly predicted the commodities rally in (…)