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It was recently reported by Mainstream media that George Bush had rejected a pre-Iraq War offer by Saddam Hussein to leave with a mere $1 billion (see: (see the circa 27-28 September 2007 UK Daily Mail: , UK Telegraph: ), and the Washington Post: ).
Decent folk are OBLIGED to examine the human and financial cost of the Iraq War in comparison with this $1 billion offer that could have prevented it if Bush were not INTENT on invading and occupying Iraq for OIL and HEGEMONIC CONTROL. (…)

Strauss-Kahn’s candidacy was first proposed by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in July and the campaign soon gained momentum with the support of the EU, which collectively holds 32.09 percent of IMF voting rights, and the US, the single largest contributor with 16.83 percent.
France’s Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn
29.09.2007
The International Monetary Fund has named Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its managing director at a time when the (…)

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The war that Dick Cheney has been planning against Iran, has moved from the back burner to the front, and those who do not see this are either blind or complicit.
Military deployments are in place, as laid out in detail in a Sept. 16 feature by Michel Chossudovsky in Global Research, while the statements of intent to wage war, issued by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, have been hyped in British and American news outlets.
The fact that war is high on (…)

This article says they "believe" avian flu has been found in Mexico City.
While Americans have been diverted via a complicit neo-con media with protestors/supporters of Iraq war, Vick’s dog problems, Britney’s personal problems, Congressional sex problems, a much earlier beginning of the Presidential race , Cheney & Co.’s saber rattling against Iran, Syria, Turkey and anyone else who looks sideways at the neo-con’s agenda and aggression for oil, as well as a myriad amount of other (…)

by David Bromwich
Yesterday, by a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Kyl-Lieberman amendment in support of military actions against Iran. This is the second such endorsement of the president by a senate majority in just three months. In July, the Lieberman amendment to “confront Iran” passed with the far stronger majority of 97-0.
The original draft of Kyl-Lieberman had asked U.S. forces to “combat, contain, and roll back” the Iranian menace within Iraq. But the words “roll back” were (…)

Published on Friday, September 28, 2007 by The Nation
Making a Killing
by Jeremy Scahill
It’s being described as “Baghdad’s bloody Sunday.” On September 16 a heavily armed State Department convoy guarded by Blackwater USA was whizzing down the wrong side of the road near Nisour Square in the congested Mansour neighborhood in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi police scrambled to block off traffic to allow the convoy to pass. In the chaos, an Iraqi vehicle entered the square, reportedly failing (…)

by Mark Klempner
I consider the Internet to be one of the world’s great wonders. And also America’s last hope for a free press.
When I was growing up in the 1970s, there were many people with a lot of things to say, but they generally had no platform. That’s why we needed figures like Bob Dylan to be “the voice of a generation.”
The present generation has YouTube, whose motto-irresistible to young people-is “Broadcast Yourself.” So now, for example, a pert 18-year-old known as (…)

by Michael Yoder
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - The date Aug. 4, 1964 still haunts Daniel Ellsberg, despite the passage of more than 40 years.
He was a 33-year-old on his first day at the Pentagon as special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton. It also was the day the North Vietnamese navy allegedly fired 21 torpedoes at U.S. naval vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Ellsberg was one of 100 people who saw top secret transmissions later in the day saying the attack never (…)

The division of Iraq into three states will bring much more problems compared to the current ones. One should remember the following facts:-
1- Sunnis, sheiaats, and kurds did not fight through out the long history. The invasion of Iraq, Mr Bush policies of establishing poppet governments that are based on ethnic and religious bases brought the current fighting. In addition to that the great influence of IRAN, which has always tried to export its revolution to the region, has found free (…)

"Methinks, sire, your vision lacketh clarity, ’tho what elan it doth proclaim!" ........ Shakespeare.
It’s paradigm shifting time in the homeland. This is the profound and succinct message thrown out to the public at large by the Republican Guard and it’s phalanx of jovial pundits. When the Encyclopaedia Britanica is scripted ’er long, Mr. Bush will fare better than most of us could imagine. Those who control the pen control history. If you don’t believe it just check out the majority (…)