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by David Swanson
I ran into Congressman Donald Payne Tuesday evening and asked him if he would sign on to cosponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. He said yes immediately and brought his legislative director in on the conversation. They both said yes, as a matter of course, as if all they’d been waiting for was someone to ask them. Now, I know that’s not quite the case, and that citizens of New Jersey have been lobbying Payne and other New Jersey (…)

by Wayne Besen
A weighty new study released last week suggested that if you can’t make your podgy friends purge, you might have to purge your podgy friends. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that having a portly pal increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by a whopping 57-percent. That’s right, the weight of your friend Jim matters more than how much weight you lift in the gym.
The most amazing part of the research (…)

EVELYN LEOPOLD Reuters July 31, 2007 at 3:59 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police in an effort to stop attacks on millions of displaced civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Expected to cost more than $2-billion in the first year, the combined United Nations-African Union operation aims to quell violence in Darfur, where more than 2.1 million people have been driven into camps and an estimated 200,000 (…)

US military package for allied Middle East states is designed to create a de facto Sunni Arab front against Iran as the region slips deeper into crisis.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=17927
31 July 2007 Commentary by Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch (31/07/07)
A high-level US delegation will hold talks with foreign ministers from allied Arab states in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday on a planned military package for allied Middle East (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab – Israeli conflict or India; however several factors are ruling out this window of opportunity, including his militarization of the U.S. foreign policy, obsession with the “regime changes” overseas, his insistence on exploiting to (…)

For many years, Azmi Bishara has been one of the most prominent voices representing the 1.5 million Arabs living in Israel. But now he is a fugitive, facing some of the most serious allegations ever made against an Israeli MP. What happened? In a rare interview, he talks to Rory McCarthy
When war broke out in Lebanon last summer there were few dissenting voices in Israel. Opinion polls showed unprecedented public support for the conflict. Politicians and pundits crowded television studios (…)

Hopelessly lagging the freewheeling high-tech entrepreneurs of the day, the nation’s spy agency recognized it needed better access to cutting-edge technologies to carry out its mission of collecting, analyzing and communicating intelligence data. But rather than sending covert agents, the agency took a more direct approach: It began knocking on doors with money. And for once, the CIA made no secret of its plan.
Sunday, July 29, 2007 BY J. SCOTT ORR Star-Ledger Staff WASHINGTON
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Love good radical music.
Social Justice songwriter Patrick Dodd offers over 30 songs for free. Also, music videos.
http://www.patrickdodd.com

1 if by land 2 if by sea , the fascists are here , the fascists are here , would say paul revere. lets all urge ron paul to either seek dennis kucinich and reverse a few of his weak points or ron gravel as his vp and form a new party called the purple party people power the 4P’s, get candidates that agree with the ideals of a continentL CONGRESS WHERE PEOPLE CAUCUS NOW AND SET OUT THE PEOPLES AGENDA. THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS ELECTED FAILED IN THEIR MANDATE TO EITHER FORCE BUSH CHENEY REGIME (…)

By Thomas Lemahieu
Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
Employees from the countries newly (…)