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Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq
By Chris Floyd http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18278.htm
08/30/07 --- - From the New York Times: The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves...The effect of this vast migration is to drain religiously mixed areas in the center of Iraq, sending Shiite (…)

Published on Friday, August 31, 2007 by Foreign Policy In Focus Death at a Distance: The US Air War by Conn Hallinan
According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan’s Pakitka Province and slammed into a Madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people were dead.
The killers were robots, General Atomics MQ-1 Predators. The AGM-114 Hellfire missiles they used (…)

Yard Sale Treasure
By Peter Fredson, Esq.
August 31, 2007
To relieve the stress and strain of retirement, I have taken up several hobbies. One was blogging. The other is attending yard sales. This is a very rewarding hobby for old farts. I highly recommend it to all retired people as cathartic and entertaining. You can see all the precious stuff people collected and saved in their attics and basements, and wonder at their idea of “taste.”
Most people really HATE to part with (…)

According to the AI report, 2,245 Colombian union members were murdered in the 15 years between 1991 and 2006. In the same time period, 3,400 received threats and 138 were disappeared. Almost half of the killings are attributed to rightist paramilitary groups, which have links to politicians within Colombia’s government. AI found government security forces responsible for 43 percent.
AI Chile Director Sergio Laurenti (right) details recent Colombia report. Photo by Sean Havey
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There is no evidence of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu Wu
Americans, dizzy from all the conflicting "War on Terror" reportage, were recently assured by numerous, customarily reliable sources that the Neocons no longer held the reins of the empire. Indeed, even the Neocons said so themselves. Witness their Exhibit A: the premature resignation of PNAC, which they ran from as if it were an unattended backpack in an airport. This from a group of fellows routinely (…)

George Bush is hoping against hope to build a magnificent presidential library (he’s having a hard time finding a city which wants to host it!),to promote and hail his "legacy", as he believes it should be written.
My contacts tell me there won’t be a "library" (that’s libary to Bush), but instead a sort of Addam’s Family forboding mansion,made of rotting wood and bedecked with cobwebs. It will be called The Horrors Museum.
Over the entrance will be a coat of arms, featuring a white (…)

China Scientists sound alarm as black soil erodes in NE
Xinhua
2007-08-27 16:48
BEIJING - Chinese scientists are warning that the country’s northeast breadbasket regions are in danger of losing their fertility because of soil erosion and degeneration.
"The northeast areas are the granary of the country. Soil erosion and degeneration will jeopardize the nation’s grain security," said Zhang Xudong, a soil expert with the Shenyang-based Institute of Applied Ecology under the Chinese (…)

DBS to inject emergency funds into CDO instrument
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 HONG KONG: DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, said Monday that it would provide emergency liquidity for an asset-backed financial instrument worth 1.4 billion Singapore dollars after investors withdrew support due to volatile credit markets, making it the latest Asian bank to declare unexpected exposure to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
DBS said in a statement that it had not previously defined its obligations (…)

Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money
Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: August 26, 2007 10:59:35 PM
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they’ve extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.
The payments, in return for the insurgents’ allowing supplies to move and construction work to begin, have taken place since the (…)

By Caspar Davis British Columbia Editorialist
I am disgusted, but not surprised, that police agent provocateurs attempted to discredit the peaceful demonstrations at the North American summit in Montebello, Quebec.
I was at the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999 as an accredited observer, and I followed the events there closely. Although that event is always referred to in the media as "the battle of Seattle" and the epitome of violence, the only violence on the part of the hundreds of (…)