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The Media’s ‘Irreparable Harm’ to our soldiers and to the Iraqi people By Mary MacElveen November 28, 2006
While I wish to congratulate NBC news for labeling this war over in Iraq a ‘Civil War’, it does not take back the irreparable harm done upon the Iraqi people as well as our soldiers. The reason I chose the terminology of irreparable harm is because that was the phrase used in the Bush V. Gore case in which a the counting of votes during that presidential campaign would be seen as an (…)

Hugo Chavez Gains An Ecuadoran Ally - by Stephen Lendman
Ecuador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal is still counting the votes in the November 26 presidential runoff election but the results seem clear - with one-half of them tallied so far they show: the peoples’ candidate, Rafael Correa, 68% and the bible-toting billionaire banana tycoon oligarch who’s also the richest man in the country, Alvaro Noboa, - 32% - results consistent with two exit polls and an unofficial citizens election watchdog (…)

The launch of the English-language version of Al-Jazeera Television in the United States was met with glee by America’s corporate-controlled media. At first this reaction seemed curious, particularly since another English-language news channel would also mean another option for viewers in the highly competitive “information” industry.
But soon the source of this glee became evident: No cable or satellite television service in the United States is carrying Al-Jazeera. Although America’s (…)

ROME (ANSA) - A controversial docu-film which accuses former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party of election fraud sold out within hours of going on sale in Italian newsstands on Friday. The film, Uccidete la Democrazia! (Killing Democracy!), came out on DVD with left-wing political weekly Diario but all 100,000 copies were immediately snapped up.
Diario said it had printed a further 50,000 copies which would go on sale on Saturday.
"We weren’t expecting such a huge response. (…)

Hugo Chavez Holds Commanding Lead Eight Days Before Election - by Stephen Lendman
Hugo Chavez holds an insurmountable lead in two late November polls - one by Ipsos Venezuela/the AP-Ipsos Poll and the other by Zogby International-University of Miami. Both were released on November 24 and are the most current and reliable data available and are consistent with most independent poll results for months. This is in stark contrast to several fraudulent US National Endowment of Democracy (…)

A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, (…)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities brought terrorism charges against two men for providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah television channel al-Manar to U.S. customers, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday.
Saleh Elahwal, 53, and Javed Iqbal, 42, were charged with providing material support to al-Manar — branded by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization in March — the indictment said. Each faces a maximum of 110 years in prison if convicted of all 11 counts. (…)

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” - John F. Kennedy
Catonsville, Maryland - On the evening of Nov. 20, 2006, peace activist, Kathy Kelly, gave a talk at the U. of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus (UMBC). It was entitled, “Eyewitness to War, Witness for Peace.” She said: “It’s a heck of a lot more ‘comfortable’ to take the party line of former Secretary of State, James Baker. He went for four days into the ‘Green Zone’-[a heavily-guarded, fortified (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com The Associated Press reports that the brother of a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up last year on campus is now facing federal charges in Colorado. Thomas Hinrichs was charged Tuesday in Denver federal court with threatening to assault or murder an FBI agent.
Review: Joel Hinrichs Most Likely Intended to Commit Mass Murder in October 2005 In a broadcast two weeks after Joel Hinrichs exploded the bomb and (…)

Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez - by Stephen Lendman
Eva Golinger’s eagerly awaited new book is now out - but only for those able to read and understand Spanish as it’s not yet available in English. It’s appropriately called Bush vs. Chavez - Washington’s War Against against Venezuela published by Monte Avila Editores in Caracas. Hopefully it will soon be available in English as well.
Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney specializing in international human rights and (…)