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Let’s try to back away from hate for a bit, and look at the current situation realistically.
Israel has rights, Palestine has rights, and Lebanon is a sovereign country. But all factions have gone over the edge now, and the whole world is staring into the proverbial abyss together. There doesn’t seem to be an exit strategy for any party. It’s what we call in the U.S. a "Mexican Standoff". No winners possible.
My concern is with the poor guys in the middle of this conflict; shop owners, (…)

Hit Movie Director says Hollywood stars, including Bruce Willis, having political paradigms changed by 9/11 conspiracy documentaries
by Paul Joseph Watson
Acclaimed writer-director Richard Linklater, currently riding high on the favorable reception of A Scanner Darkly and best known for his 2003 production School of Rock, has publicly slammed George W. Bush as a "Yalely frat boy" who is in over his head and more corrupt than Richard Nixon.
Linklater also says that his efforts to (…)

by Dave Stratman
Delphi, General Motors’ largest parts supplier, is in bankruptcy court seeking permission to break labor contracts which run through 2007 with its 33,000 hourly employees. Delphi is demanding a 40% wage cut and reductions in the benefits and pensions of current and retired auto workers. It plans to close 25 plants and fire 23,000 employees. Delphi claims it needs these cuts to become competitive in the global marketplace, the same argument that Ford and GM and countless (…)

By Ibrahim Ebeid
As the racist war on Iraq and Palestine rages on, the killing of Iraqis and Palestinians continue to proliferate with no end in sight. One might wonder if these coordinated attacks projected by the United States and the Zionist entity were no other than a war of terror and genocide against the Arab Nation?
As a person who was born in Palestine, before the creation of the Zionist state, I was observing the racist acts of the West unfolding against my own country, (…)

By DP Mason
It just makes your heart swell with Australian pride to discover that ’The Most Influential Australian Of All Time’ actually turns out to be an American.
The Bulletin Magazine has oh-so-pomously decided that some ex-Australian media mogul named Rupert Murdoch deserves to be called ’The Most Influential Australian’, despite the fact that he didn’t think being an Australian citizen was worth as much as owning a few American television stations.
That Murdoch is ranked above (…)

by Jim Kirwan
Unregulated Capitalism is a continuing crime that has enabled most of what passes for commerce today.
The latest and perhaps most serious attempt to regulate those of us who challenge these behemoths of commerce and industry; is the pending legislation that seeks total control over who can use the world-wide web. If these people have their way, the internet will become a toll-road with diamond lanes for them and the backroads of lengthy delays for the rest of America. If (…)

by Mary MacElveen
A reader responding to my article concerning North Korea wrote me this response: "Your article makes clear that North Korea is the bigger threat if Chavez is even any kind of threat at all. But I’m curious, you made no mention of the Chavez visit to North Korea planned for later this month. Do you think it wise for Chavez to belly up to the beast as it were? You could make the moral equivalence of the US allies that are just as bad as Kim Jung Il, but I’d rather hear of (…)

By Gabriele Zamparini
“The France legend, playing in his final match before retirement, was dismissed in extra-time for chestbutting Italy’s Marco Materazzi” the Guardian reported.
“Zinédine Zidane’s despicable, unfathomable act of violence” (1) has been unanimously blamed as a “stupid reaction”, a “disgrace”. “How sad that he should save the most shameful episode for the final page of his story” wrote the BBC. (2)
Yes, but why? Why did the 34 year old experienced football player who (…)

By Bruce Dixon, BC Editor
"Don’t put that out there" is the admonition delivered to folks impolite enough to talk about bad things which might happen but have not yet come to pass, as if mere discussion or consideration of some awful possibility makes it more likely. We at BC understand politeness. But failing to recognize, to examine and to understand unpleasant possibilities before they become devastating realities is worse than impolite. It’s foolish.
The unpleasant truths of this (…)

By Joe Conason
Editor’s note: In this column, Conason points out that the Connecticut senator who would lecture us on ethics drafted a bill in 2005 that made generous giveaways to pharmaceutical companies-one month after his wife went to work in the pharmaceuticals division of a major lobbying and PR firm.
Whenever Sen. Joseph Lieberman complains that he is the target of a “single-issue” challenge by upstart millionaire Ned Lamont, the three-term incumbent proves he doesn’t quite get (…)