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History, indeed, is like a picture gallery in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis deTocqueville "The Old Regime and the French Revolution." 1856
For years now, as both "the War on Terror" and the War in Iraq have devolved more clearly into tragic blunders, the Administration has consistently relied on two themes to sustain their legitimacy: 1. "fighting the terrorists over there," and 2. making the world safer by establishing democracy in Arabia and the Middle East. (…)

Al Jisser is accepting submissions for its upcoming book: Poets for Palestine. The concept of this book was inspired by two spoken word shows held at The Bridge art gallery in Manhattan. The first show, the Poetic Injustice Poetry Show, took place in conjunction with the display of the Made in Palestine art exhibition.
Excited by the intensity and effectiveness of spoken word, The Bridge brought back the Poetic Injustice Poetry Show for a second night. It was held during an equally moving (…)

by Nicola Nasser* The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia. Hardly a week had passed since his speech than Winston Churchill - author, journalist, former Member of Parliament and grandson of the former British prime minister - was speaking at an American university to condemn “Radical (…)

The Logical Reconstruction of Reality, Part 4: The Onion Peeled
Michael D. Morrissey, Sept. 28, 2006
May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, with copyright acknowledgement; orig. place of pub. is http://www.mdmorrissey.info/logical4 (read there for hyperlinks). Parts 1-3 are accessible at http://www.mdmorrissey.info/title.
This is the hard part. Having peeled the onion (see Part 3), what do we do with it? Since I didn’t set out to change reality, but only to reconstruct it, (…)

By Sheila Samples
[b]I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals." George W. Bush[/b] My friend Bernie says a lot of folks have George Bush figured all wrong. "Sure he lies," Bernie said, "every time he opens his mouth. But — think about it. Even when Bush is lying he ends up telling us what he’s gonna do. He can’t help himself — he just blurts it out. But by the time we understand what he’s saying — he’s already made a stinkin’ mess and moved on to the next one."
Bernie says (…)

Timeline of the Progress Toward a North American Union from Vive Canada Canadian, U.S., and Mexican elites, including CEOS and politicians, have a plan to create common North American policies and further integrate our economies. This plan goes by various names and euphemisms, such as "deep integration", "NAFTA-plus", "harmonization", the "Big Idea", the "Grand Bargain", and the "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative". Regardless of which name your prefer, the end goal of all of (…)

Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban By Robert Scheer Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.
That’s the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of (…)

(CNSNews.com) - Democrats and liberal advocacy groups have been talking about impeaching President George W. Bush for months. But when Republicans say the president indeed may be impeached if Democrats regain control of Congress, they’re just trying to scare people, a Democratic operative says.
In an op-ed column in Thursday’s Detroit Free Press, Robert Weiner, a former press secretary to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), accused Republicans of "trying to create hysteria about the likelihood (…)

CONPLAN8022 THE CABAL PLAN TO NUKE IRAN
(Fear The October Surprise!) with good reason!
Trinity CONCEPT PLAN (CONPLAN) 8022 Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:25
Re: Time is coming for Iran. Israel is behind it. on: Yesterday at 11:33:40 PM » Post #50575 Reply to: Trinity, at Post 50551 Post Reply Quote Flag If memory serves me, it’s called CONPLAN 8012; I think it’s 8012. That’s the CONtingency PLAN for war with Iran. It was developed a few years ago under the Veep’s oversight. IOW, it’s been long (…)

Integration talks kept in the dark The Calgary Herald Thurs 21 Sep 2006 Page: A22 Byline: Maude Barlow
While the media were busy obsessing over rumours of a budding romance between Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay last week, a more significant relationship was developing behind closed doors.
Away from the spotlight, from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor met with U.S. and Mexican government officials and (…)