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This Labor Day marks the third year that thousands of working Americans have left their families and their jobs to fight in a war that the Bush administration will not bring to a close.
As always, labor has borne the brunt of the war. The vast majority of the 2,600 dead and 20,000 wounded are young men and women pulled off the factory and shop floors and told that they should defend their country from a threat that proved to be nonexistent.
More than half of those killed were under the (…)

Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK, Aug 30 (IPS) - They were the backbone of the U.S. Gulf Coast economy, working the hardest jobs for the lowest pay.
Now, a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept through the region, thousands of poor African-American women evacuees have been essentially left to fend for themselves in government trailer parks far from any urban centre, with no buses to get to work or childcare if they do find a job.
"We wanted to do something to lift the sisters and give (…)

By Matthew Tostevin
09/01/06 --- -JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Vatican’s envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."
Christian Zionists form a growing part of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, the Jewish state’s main ally. They believe the return of Jews to the Holy Land and establishment of Israel are proof of God’s promises to (…)

"The Jerusalem Declaration On Christian Zionism"
Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
08/25/06
Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme (…)

USA terrorist actions put in place to sabotage Venezuela’s coming elections
Published: Thursday, August 31, 2006 The Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera “Through the labyrinth of revolutions, honor is the best guide." Simon Bolivar
The Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera (Maracaibo) writes: The governor-candidate has returned after meeting with the USA Ambassador in foreign lands (just as we had predicted a few days ago). He went to meet his political and financial mentors and to fetch the (…)

American support for Israel’s unwinnable aim of destroying Hizbullah only boosts its support in Lebanon and beyond
by Noam Chomsky
In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of ceasefires between Israel and its adversaries in a cycle that, as if inevitably, returns to warfare, carnage and human misery. Let’s describe the current crisis for what it is: a US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon, with only a cynical pretence to legitimacy. Amid all (…)

by Holly Dressel Publicly funded health care has its problems, as any Canadian or Briton knows. But like democracy, it’s the best answer we’ve come up with so far.
Should the United States implement a more inclusive, publicly funded health care system? That’s a big debate throughout the country. But even as it rages, most Americans are unaware that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t already have a fundamentally public—that is, tax-supported—health (…)

A strike at the world’s largest privately-owned copper mine has ended after workers voted in a secret ballot.
Union members at Chile’s Escondida mine accepted new contracts, so ending a 25-day dispute, but it will take up to a week for full production to resume.
Workers voted more than 13 to one to accept a new 40-month contract, with a 5% wage rise and a $17,000 bonus.
La Escondida, owned by Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton, produces 8% of the world’s copper supply.
During the (…)

by M.J. Akbar
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Aug. 25, the Washington Post published a startling story from its Baghdad bureau. I can do no better than to quote its opening paragraph: "British troops abandoned a major base in southern Iraq on Thursday and prepared to wage guerrilla warfare along the Iranian border to combat weapons smuggling, a move that anti-American cleric Moqtada Sadr called the first expulsion of US-led coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center. ’This is the first Iraqi city (…)

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IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND ANNIHILATE THEM. by Tom Heneghan
September 1,2006
The Big Media Lie Exposed Again: Woodward Gate 3
Sources close to the the US Justice Dept. confirm Richard Armitage only passed the name of covered CIA Agent Valerie Plame to a noted journalist.
The inquiry aka the outing of Valerie Plame continues at Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s office. This of course makes sense because if (…)