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Published on Thursday, September 13, 2007 by the Washington Post
Week of Antiwar Events To Start With a ‘Die-In’
Protesters Advocate Civil Disobedience By Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein
A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person “die-in” at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
The die-in will be the culmination of a (…)

REASONABLE EXPLANATIONS
By Peter Fredson
September 13, 2007
Yesterday, in Fort Pierce, Florida, a 16-year-old boy said he shot his parents. His explanation was simple: “because he always felt like a disappointment to them because he didn’t have a job, smoked marijuana and didn’t share the same "qualities or interests" as his father.”
"So there’s nobody, now there’s nobody to be disappointed in me, try to make me lead ... their life," the lad said.
General Petraeus recently (…)

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/951
It takes approximately 2 1/2-hours to read the names of the “2,801 souls lost at the World Trade Center” on September 11, 2001. That comes out to approximately 3.2 seconds for the reading of a single name.
If we assume that it will take the same amount of time to read the name of anyone in the world, irrelevant of their country of origin, then it will take approximately 929 hours to read the names of the one million Iraqis who have died due to the US (…)

by Cathy Garger www.mytown.ca/garger Aloha! I just found out that the Navy is planning on expanding its war games and numerous new weapon "toys" in an area of 235,000 square nautical miles around Hawaii! Incredibly, the Navy is proposing a major upgrading and expansion - in order to do more research, development, testing, and evaluation of military weapons and systems, to the tune of 140 (that is One Hundred Forty) projects, including even the use of Directed Energy Laser Weapons. Why (…)

What is happening with the Jena 6 is reminding us all about the times when Slavery was the Law and Lynching Blacks the norm in the United States of America.
An “all-white jury, promptly convicted” a black teenager “of aggravated second degree assault, battery and conspiracy,” for beating a white kid. This high school student is now awaiting “sentencing which may put the teenager in prison for the next 22 years.” Five of the remaining black kids are awaiting their day in court.
What (…)

Snapshots of the Apocalypse By David Glenn Cox
Come gather round people were ever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you’ll be drenched bone if your time to you is worth saving then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone for the times they are a changing. (Bob Dylan)
Sire, the people are revolting! “Yes, I know and they smell bad too.” Shhh, it’s a secret and the Republican (…)

"Methinks thine aspiration resembles
the lowly lamb among slavering wolves,destined for an early and inevitable grave".....Shakespeare
Keep your chins up,your noses to the grindstone, your shoulders to the wheel and your hopes high. This is the advice of the pundits on American Sunday morning TV and also of the largest portion of Republican fat cat ideologues and war profiteers.
Let’s face it, George Bush and his slimey cohorts, with patsies Patraeus and Crocker, have told their tale, (…)

Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil producer, is pursuing increased gas and exploration business in China, two years after the company won a tussle with Cnooc Ltd. for control of Unocal Corp.
By Ying Lou
The company will seek opportunities in exploration, deepwater drilling and natural gas output, Isikeli Taureka, president of Chevron International Exploration and Production, said in an interview in San Francisco yesterday.
Oil demand in China, the world’s (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the Israeli government, a mission which nonetheless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is taking seriously, against all the odds, pursuing a “hope” that their preoccupation could yet be a window of opportunity to revive serious Palestinian – Israeli peace negotiations and break through (…)

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” - Abraham Lincoln
Washington, D.C. — It was just a press conference! The northwest corner of Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, was the site. It was called on September 6, 2007, by the ANSWER Coalition to promote the massive antiwar demonstration scheduled for September 15th in this city and to spotlight the ongoing harassing conduct used against that organization by the government, both local and national. The (…)