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Sixth Anniversary of al-Aqsa Mosque Intifada Passes Still Unresolved - by Stephen Lendman
September 28 marked the sixth anniversary of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem (the Noble Sanctuary for Muslims and Temple Mount for Jews and Christians) that caused the eruption of the al-Aqsa Intifada still raging today with Palestinians on the painful receiving end of most of it. From that time till now, the Israeli (…)

by Walter C. Uhler
With elections but little more than a month away, President Bush’s do-nothing Republican majority in both houses of Congress is up for grabs. And, thus, so is a genuine investigation into the Bush administration’s lies, deceit and crimes concerning Iraq — especially its "Chicken Little" clamoring about weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda that, as we would learn later, didn’t actually exist.
Also requiring investigation, however, is the extraordinary (…)

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In Bob Woodward’s highly anticipated new book, “State of Denial,” President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given to an almost religious certainty that makes him disinclined to rethink or re-evaluate decisions he has made about the war. It’s a portrait that stands in stark contrast to the laudatory one Mr. Woodward drew in “Bush at War,” his 2002 book, which (…)

by Nikolas Gvosdev and Ray Takeyh
AS THE midterm elections approach, Iraq dominates the headlines. In a remarkable misappropriation of history, President Bush is conjuring the ghost of Hitler and outlandish World War II analogies to justify his policies. In the Bush administration’s distorted lexicon, calls for withdrawal are appeasement, and dissent is yet another form of disloyalty.
But if the United States wants to achieve its strategic objectives in the Middle East — after three and (…)

Action urgently needed: Contact Wal-Mart now!
Maquila Solidarity Network
Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers’ attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.
This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully (…)

Plus, Anti-Globalization Forces Equated with Terrorists!
By Matthew Rothschild
So it turns out that the National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism does confirm what we’ve been saying all along: that the Iraq War is fueling terrorism.
A lot of the news reports said that the estimate listed “the Iraq jihad” as one of the “four underlying factors [that] are fueling the spread of the jihadist movement,” which is “increasing in both number and geographic dispersion.”
But if you read the (…)

by Evan Eisenberg
"A senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said in an interview that Bush essentially got what he asked for in a different formulation that allows both sides [Bush and dissident Republican senators] to maintain their concerns were addressed. ’We kind of take the scenic route, but we get there,’ the official said." —Washington Post
MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006
SEC. 8 - IMPLEMENTATION OF TREATY OBLIGATIONS
(a) IN GENERAL. — For (…)

by Dave Zirin
New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday trying to make us believe that the Crescent City—through the magic of sports and the return of the New Orleans Saints—is on the verge of resurrection.
The symbol of deliverance, we were told repeatedly during the broadcast, was the (…)

by Holly Sklar
Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only.
If you’re net worth is a mere $999 million, forget it. A billion means a thousand million, and that’s the Forbes 400 minimum — up from $900 million in 2005.
Donald Trump and two of his kids grace the Forbes 400 cover, but ranked No. 94 with $2.9 billion, Trump’s a long way from No. 1 Bill Gates with $53 billion.
The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is a (…)

By MARJORIE COHN
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, "unlawful enemy combatants."
Bush & Co. has portrayed the bill as a tough way to deal with aliens to protect us against terrorism. (…)