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Nobel Hypocrisy By Stephen Lendman
Alfred Nobel was a wealthy nineteenth century Swedish-born chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, armaments manufacturer and war profiteer who remade his image late in life by establishing the awarding of prizes in his name that includes the one for peace. This most noted award was inspired by his one-time secretary and peace activist, Bertha von Suttner, who was nominated four times and became the first of only 12 women to be honored.
Since it was (…)

By Michel CHOSSUDOVSKY
"We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously...." (George W. Bush, 17 October 2007)
"I believe that. I believe that [the revolt of passengers on the hijacked flight 93 on (…)

by Harvey Wasserman
The nuclear power industry is back to where it always goes when it wants to build new reactors—the taxpayer trough.
And those of us who’ve been fighting them for decades are doing it again, now with help from the musicians’ community, and a petition drive (at nukefree.org) aimed at stripping the radioactive subsidies from the national Energy Bill now before Congress.
Time after time over the past half-century, the atomic energy industry has gone to the government to (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Score Cards! Get your scorecards! Can’t tell the players without a scorecard. In Soviet Russia the one party communist state would choose two candidates to run for a party office. Then the people would be asked to vote to decide on the candidates already anointed by the power structure. It was only the illusion of democracy, a silly exercise.
Only by offering pastries and free beer to those who had voted could the Soviets keep the facade operating.
So when Americans (…)

By Peter Galbraith, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch Posted on October 16, 2007, Printed on October 17, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/65335/ http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/
This essay appeared previously on TomDispatch; it features an introduction by editor Tom Englehardt.
Be careful what you wish for — that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the (…)

There are No Republicans in Science Fiction By David Glenn Cox
Only in America can you win the Nobel Peace Prize and then be condemned in the media. Rather than taking pride that an American won a prestigious award right wing pundits have reignited the whole there’s no global warming shtick. You would thing that they would begin to tire of being wrong, but no. When you never have to admit your wrong it becomes easier to be wrong even when the non-perfected disagree
The party that voted (…)

By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, October 16, 2007
There has been a virtual media blackout on the conduct of major military exercises by both Russia and the US. .
Reminiscent of the Cold War, Russia and America are conducting major war games simultaneously.
The Russian Air Force will be conducting major military exercises over a large part of its territory from the 16th to the 30th of October.
These Russian exercises coincide chronologically with the conduct of major US (…)

Layperson’s guide to counting Iraq deaths MWC News Magazine
AVOIDABLE MORTALITY (technically, excess mortality) is the difference between the actual mortality in a country and the mortality expected for a peaceful, decently-run country with the same demographics (i.e. with the same birth rate and the same population age profile). Avoidable mortality is a fundamental parameter to be considered in any sensible discussion of human affairs – it is the bottom-line issue when assessing the (…)

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” - Harry S. Truman
I’ve been waiting and waiting for her to do the right thing and end the Iraq War. I’m talking about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). She has made one lame excuse after another why she “can’t do,” what she and the other Democrats promised the American people prior to the Nov. 7, 2006 election, they “would do,” if they gained control of the U.S. Congress—end the war. “We don’t have the votes,” is one of Pelosi’s (…)

8 Million Deaths & Media Holocaust Denial from Media with Conscience
by Dr Gideon Polya
The 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan is approaching. This horrendous war crime was committed ostensibly in response to the 9/11 atrocity in which 3,000 people died.
While the egregiously dishonest and violent Bush Administration asserts that this atrocity was committed by Muslim Men in Caves, nobody has been arraigned and tried and there is a large body of available evidence (…)