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65 Members to Send "Appeals for Redress" Under the Military Whistle-blower Protection Act
10/23/2006 9:58:00 AM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, 202-246-5303, or Alex Howe, or Laura Gross, 202-822-5200, for Fenton Communications
News Advisory:
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, active- duty members of the military are asking Members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring American soldiers home.
Sixty-five (…)

The GOP’s message of fear and subjugation
By Mary MacElveen
October 23, 2006
In reading this Washington Post article: GOP aims to scare up big voter turn out, I zeroed in on this, “GOP officials plan to spend the final days of the 2006 campaign attempting to rally partisans and limit conservative defections with dire warnings about the consequences of a Democratic Congress.” They are warning the base that “Democrats will raise taxes, weaken national security and liberalize social (…)

The Shame of the Nation: A Collective Perversion - by Stephen Lendman
The daily headlines about a single congressman’s online pedophiliac behavior obscure the greater issue of a nation off its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling the foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what the nation long-claimed to stand for but no longer does if it ever did. Nearly everyone in the administration, Congress and courts share the collective guilt and (…)

Congressman, Tim Bishop is a man that can be trusted and is the ‘real deal’ By Mary MacElveen October 23, 2006
I have been writing now since the 2000 presidential election which pitted Al Gore against George W. Bush. In many past pieces I wrote in the first person and on the advice from fellow writers and editors, over time learned to let the facts speak, but always asking my readers how they felt concerning the issue(s) at hand. I have read how other columnists reach out to their (…)

ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND CANADA
John Chuckman
Canada’s Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B’nai Brith banquet. Normally, there would be nothing notable in this, but his words this time reinforced controversial statements he made while Israel savagely bombed Lebanon. He also continued driving an ugly new Republican-style wedge into Canada’s national politics after calling Liberal leadership candidates "anti-Israel."
Harper said that his government (…)

Israel has for the first time admitted it used controversial phosphorus bombs during fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon in July and August.
Cabinet minister Jacob Edery confirmed the bombs were dropped "against military targets in open ground".
Israel had previously said the weapons were used only to mark targets.
Phosphorus weapons cause chemical burns and the Red Cross and human rights groups say they should be treated as chemical weapons.
The Geneva Conventions ban the use of (…)

by Jason Miller “The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.” attributed to Dresden James
A caricature of a man who has wrought havoc in virtually every endeavor throughout his miserable existence has found his calling. Exuding false bravado and contrived machismo, he has swaggered his way into the deepest recesses of America’s collective psyche, (…)

by Mary MacElveen
Many in the United States celebrate Columbus Day today in honor of Christopher Columbus who discovered the New World in 1492. It was already inhabited by Native Americans and other indigenous people of this region and was discovered only by accident when Columbus was searching for a western route to Asian markets.
Shortly after his discovery of this New World, the Europeans came...
What you may not know of this day is that on October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was executed (…)

There is something most decidedly weird about US Presidential politics; Fair or not, those who can run for the presidency and actually have an honest shot at success fall into a very narrow category,and that ain’t a good thing!
Here are the rules:
Religion: ONLY Christians need apply (or those who pretend to be)
Color: Only the white race need apply (even thought there’s much talk about Rice and Obama, they would be shot before anyone would allow them to govern!)
Height: Between 5 ft (…)

The GOP Campaign: “There’s a sucker born every minute and two to take him”
By Mary MacElveen
October 22, 2006
In the month of October as cited in this article "U.S. sees deadliest month in ’06 in Iraq" we have lost 78 American troops. We depend upon our soldiers to be the front line of our national security. With this astounding number lost to our collective national security under the Bush/Cheney/GOP led government, are you feeling secure?
I think of our soldiers as being our (…)