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What Bush’s Open Mike Revealed By Robert Scheer Posted on July 18, 2006 Editor’s note: In the midst of a Middle Eastern crisis that threatens to destabilize the entire region and perhaps beyond, it was unnerving that what most seemed to interest President Bush at the G8 summit is that China is a long flight from Western Russia. Bombs were exploding and innocents dying, from Beirut to Haifa to Baghdad, and yet George Bush managed to pose for yet another photo op, smiling as he gave the (…)

United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah Bush ’gave green light’ for limited attack, say Israeli and UK sources Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall and Patrick Wintour Wednesday July 19, 2006 The Guardian
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
The Bush (…)

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will introduce a resolution in Congress on Wednesday that calls on President Bush to appeal to all sides for a cessation of hostilities in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict and to commit the United States to multi-party negotiations.
Also, at bottom, read the speech that Rep. Kucinich delivered on the House floor on Tuesday that warned of “mutually assured destruction” if saner heads do not soon prevail in the Middle East.
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Is The USA Bankrupt? Bill Bonner, Editor: The Daily Reckoning Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Is the United States of America, asks Laurence J. Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, "at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors?"
Or, abandoning the Oxford English Dictionary for Ray Charles, are Americans "busted, broke...no bread...I mean like nuthin’?"
Answering his own (…)

Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails Report Shows Department Of Defense Surveillance Of UC Berkeley Students’ Plans To Hold Protest By Kaitlin Anderson, Contribution Writer Thursday, July 13, 2006 Newly surfaced government surveillance reports reveal that the U.S. Department of Defense monitored anti-war and anti-military e-mails sent by UC Berkeley students in April. The students’ e-mails contained plans to host a campus protest against the war in Iraq and against the presence of (…)

Jean C. Edwards is a former CIA agent who recently listed Valerie Plame’s famous CIA front company Brewster Jennings Associates as her own former employer. Edwards attended at least three conferences with nuclear engineers and scientists from Iran, Pakistan, and other prospective and actual nuclear nations, apparently to spy on them.. The conferences were held in Trieste, Italy, in 1991, 1992, and 1995 while Edwards worked for the CIA. In the lists of attendees below, Edwards is listed as (…)

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Bush Gives Female German Chancellor Uninvited Neck Massage At Summit By John in DC - 7/18/2006 12:06:00 AM
At first I thought this was just weird. Then I looked at the photos and the video. The chancellor looks rather surprised at someone suddenly touching her neck from behind. This is sexual harassment in any other workplace, isn’t it? And it’s rather inappropriate behavior for any man, let alone the president of the United States at a summit with (…)

The Hidden War On Women In Iraq By Ruth Rosen TomDispatch July 13, 2006 Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly were involved in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a young Iraqi girl. Her body was then set on fire to cover up their crimes, her father, mother, and sister murdered. The rape of this one girl, if proven true, is (…)

Israel’s War Is Not Ours Ilana Mercer Tuesday, July 18, 2006 It’s ominous to hear prominent American neoconservatives speak of Israel’s war as our own and the conflagration in the region as the commencement of WWIII. “What’s under attack,” writes William Kristol, “is liberal democratic civilization.”
It’s ominous but not surprising. Hyping a war as a symbolic war gives it momentum-and facilitates its expansion beyond regional confines.
Iran and Syria’s involvement in instigating the (…)

The first to be evacuated from Lebanon are those poor, starving, and desperate members of the Embassy in Beirut.
Next came about 75 truly needy US citizens, caught up in the dreadful Israeli bombings. They include.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont Smithe-Fettering III, starving owners of the "Stuffed Pig" gourmet restaurant.
A family of 14 from the American University, the Wellington-Farquarts of the Hamptons,CT. They were desperate and caught in the crossfire. They were pulled out just in (…)