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The Iraq invasion and occupation was planned with or without UN approval.
– http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e...
Of course, we KNEW this in 2003. Both Blix and Scott Ritter declared there were no WMD and bush’s anxiousness to invade was personal, not based on threats.
Impeachment is still off the table. Thanks Nancy.

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3797 Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 3 Total 3800 Latest Coalition Fatality: Sep 25, 2007
The Charge Of The Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854 Written 1854
Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ’Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns’ he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six (…)

Let Slip the Dogs of War and Demonize Ahmadinejad My column at Salon.com is online: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1: Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war." Excerpt:
’Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become a media circus. But the controversy does not stem from the reasons usually cited.
The (…)

Ghost Dance By David Glenn Cox
When the Teton Sioux nation surrendered in 1876-77 they were promised that they could maintain sovereignty on their land. They would be treated as a sovereign nation; they could elect their own leaders and make their own policies. But very quickly it became apparent that they were captives on their own land. They could choose only the leaders that met with Washington’s approval. They could set only policies that (…)

GM’s U.S. Workers Strike After Contract Talks Fail
By Jeff Green and John Lippert
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp.’s U.S. factory employees staged their first nationwide strike in 37 years after the largest U.S. automaker failed to reach a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers.
The walkout, at 11 a.m. New York time, came 10 days after the union extended the old contract past its expiration while the two sides negotiated. The latest round of bargaining had run for (…)

Things are in the saddle And ride mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a rubber band pulled to its very limits before snapping, tensions regarding the "War on Terror", the Israeli issue, and the seemingly inevitable military conflict with Iran charged the atmosphere with electricity on Monday afternoon when President Amadinejad spoke at Columbia University. Not since the riots of ’68, which in part fomented the ideological foundations for Neoconservativism, has a University event caused (…)

UNPLUG 2007
October 13th Give Mother Earth a Rest!
The "Unplug America" campaign was introduced by Indigenous Peoples in 1992 and is an invitation to all people to show our love and respect for our Mother Earth by challenging our country’s unhealthy lifestyle. Here in the U.S. our continued over-consumption of fossil fuels depletes water resources, pollutes the land and air, and causes health problems throughout Turtle Island and the world. Furthermore, it contributes to climate change (…)

Published on Monday, September 24, 2007 by Inter Press Service US Doors Cracked to Iraqi Refugees
A full-blown humanitarian disaster looms in Iraq, warns a new report on the refugee crisis there by Amnesty International, and the international community is responding with little more than “global apathy”
by Ali Gharib
The report, “Millions in Flight: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis”, released Monday, charges that the international community and particularly countries responsible for the onset (…)

COVER STORY: Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator’s henchmen.
read here :
– http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?...

By Rory Winter
Resulting, no doubt, directly from a vituperative and abusive style deliberately intended to intimidate and defame any opposition to the deranged ramblings of the person or persons calling themselves ’Imam Grouik-Grouik’ (IGG) the mainstream media in France and Belgium has at last taken notice and identified IGG’s nauseating sites (most of which continue to be hosted by Blogger despite a flood of complaints made to them that IGG preaches a litany of religious and race hatred (…)