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With his announcement that the war on terror is actually a war against "Islamo-fascism," President Bush has opened a fruitful debate. As is so common with Bush, however, his use of the term seeks to stigmatize more than characterize, to evoke glandular excretions more than intellectual reflections.
But in one sense, the president has performed a useful service. By re-introducing fascism into legitimate public discourse - by "rehabilitating" it, as it were - the president may actually help (…)

My Name is Danile Ilabaca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQd5a7_pTx0

Washington- Fresh from a trip to the Middle East, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is ready to help craft "a comprehensive peace agreement" between Lebanon and Israel.
Presidents, diplomats and the United Nations have failed at that. Enter Kucinich, who failed to become president or establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace but who did have a lot to do with saving Cleveland’s municipal electric system.
"I feel that one person can make a difference," the Cleveland Democrat said in an interview (…)

George Bush spoke today at a safe venue: The Republican Troops for the Neverending War...in Ft.Ticonderoga, Georgia. ********************************* Good day! (troops: "Hoo-Rah!")
We’re all real Americans here, and we’ve got a long slog of a fight ahead of us. We’re engaged in an almost endless battle for truth, justice and the American way. We all love freedom and must fight terror where and when we find it.
Our old enemy Ben Laden, that creepy cave-dwelling leader of the Evil Forces (…)

7 members of Blair’s government resign
By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - Seven junior members of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government resigned Wednesday to protest his refusal to leave office as calls for the British leader to announce when he will step aside gained momentum.
The rebellion in Blair’s Labour Party flared despite strong hints by senior ministers that Blair planned to step down within a year, and a news report claiming the departure date would be July (…)

CIA asset tied to bin Laden infiltrated FBI before 9/11 Date: September 5, 2006 Topic: 9/11 Investigations
Special prosecutor Fitzgerald met twice with asset, covered up links to al Qaeda and corruption implicating immigration officials and NY Mayor Giuliani—all connected to documents linking Vice President Cheney to 9/11 plot in Philippines
By Tom Flocco
Patrick Fitzgerald New York-September 5, 2006-Tom Flocco.com-A former ABC News investigative reporter and a U.S. intelligence expert (…)

Fury as 75 academics claim 9/11 was ’inside job’
by JAYA NARAIN, 5th September 2006
The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an "inside job", according to a group of leading academics.
Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers in the White House to justify the invasion and the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries.
The claims have caused outrage and anger in the US which marks the fifth (…)

When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic"
By STANLEY HELLER
The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports that the head of Germany’s Jewish community accused a minister in Angela Merkel’s German government of "anti-Semitism" because of the minister’s statement on Israel’s use of cluster bombs. Development Aid Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul had asked for a United Nations probe into Israel’s use of cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon.
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central (…)

Has Bush gone over the edge?
September 5, 2006 06:06 AM
An increasing number of Republicans, ranging from former conservative Congressman Joe Scarborough to former President George H.W. Bush, worry that President George W. Bush’s tenuous hold on reality is slipping away and the leader of the free world may be sliding into a full-fledged mental breakdown.
Scarborough sounded the warning recently when he devoted an episode of his MSNBC talk show to the topic "Is Bush an Idiot?" Other (…)

Putin Calls Russia Defender of Islamic World
12.12.2005 18:05 MSK MosNews
Russia is the most reliable partner of the Islamic world and most faithful defender of its interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Chechnya’s capital Grozny. Putin unexpectedly visited the war-ravaged republic to speak in the local parliament that opened for its first sitting on Monday.
“Russia has always been the most faithful, reliable and consistent defender of the interests of the Islamic world. (…)