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By La Rage du Peuple
One year after the most important urban riots in this beginning of 21th century the French suburbs burn again.
Since September, three attacks against the police are committed with stones, iron bar and Molotov cocktail. Yesterday night, fire persists around Paris, 2 buses are burned and the fight against the police and authorities continue. Isn’t the school who are taken for target, in spite of an education system which excludes in the peripheral territories. They are (…)

Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
Storytellers of the American Narrative
The creators of American reality, those propagators of charades and mirages who dwell inside the hallways of the Ministry of Truth - otherwise known as the Corporate Media - continue their dance of deception and whitewash, festering in their offices of propaganda, directing the narratives and the epics hundreds of millions of Americans consider truth. Much like the disappearance of warmth giving way (…)

James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States - by Stephen Lendman
James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also an advisor to the landless workers in Brazil and the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. Along the way, he managed to find time to write many hundreds of (…)

Why Cats Eat Uncovered Meat
By Peter Fredson
October 26, 2006
Recently Australia’s senior Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly gave a controversial sermon in Arabic to 500 worshippers in Sydney, independently translated by an SBS Arabic expert, part of which follows:
“When it comes to adultery, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes (…)

“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.” - Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright
Bahrain is an island nation located in the Persian Gulf. Like so many countries in the region, it was a former colony of Imperial Britain. (1) It’s the early 1970s, just outside its capital city of Manama, in the steaming hot desert. A young Irishman can be found testing what he labels “electronic counter measures,” to be used against British military forces in the Occupied Six Counties of northeastern (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
The absence of a proportionate Palestinian reaction to the ascendancy of Israel’s far right leader, Avigdor Lieberman, into the mainstream strategic decision-making in Tel Aviv has indicated of how dangerously the inter-Palestinian divide is overshadowing the Israeli threats and encouraged the visiting European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, to legitimize with a public meeting the only man who could abort not only the mission of his visit but all prospects (…)

Harry Truman used to say that a real Republican could beat a phony one — one running as a Democrat — every time. I want to prove the great President right once again.
I predict that Sherrod Brown (running for U.S. Senate) and Lewis Katz — Republicans in Democratic "clothing" — are going down to defeat. I will vote against them myself but for most other Democrats.
Like Mr. Truman, I feel that a fake Democrat and a fake Democratic Party are worse than nothing. By aping the Republicans (…)

www.impeachbush.org
Bush’s newest deceptions and the tragedy of Iraq
A message from Ramsey Clark, recently returned from Baghdad
"If fear is the ultimate enemy of freedom, Iraq is the least free society on earth."
The Bush Administration’s presentation of its purpose and continuing role in Iraq is one of elaborate and shifting deception just as were its original explanations of why it waged its war of aggression against Iraq. First one thing, then another: weapons of mass (…)

Victor N Corpus is a retired brigadier general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP); former chief of the Intelligence Service, AFP; and holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Copyright 2006 Asia Times Online Ltd
PART 1: Striking the US where it hurts By Victor N Corpus
A noted Chinese theorist on modern warfare, Chang Mengxiong, compared China’s form of fighting to "a Chinese boxer with a keen knowledge of (…)