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Blood On Our Hands One Month After Pundits And Editorialists, Following The Lead Of The President, Declared (Yet Again) New Hope In Iraq, The Death Toll Is Soaring And Alleged Atrocities Mount. Who, Now, Will Dare Speak Up? By Greg Mitchell (July 05, 2006) - By now, the routine is not just appalling, but disgraceful. Some halfway positive event occurs in Iraq, the president urges patience while declaring strong progress, and editorial writers and pundits — from respected columnists such as (…)

Panel Orders Abu Ghraib Documents From Pentagon By Kristin Roberts Wed Jul 5, 2006 6:41pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel has ordered Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison after the Pentagon failed to respond to an earlier request.
The House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Rumsfeld last week and said the Pentagon must produce a raft of documents, including all drafts of the report (…)

“Man needs...the sense of wonder.” - George Orwell
It was early May, 2004, and almost dusk in northern California, near its border with the state of Oregon. The Pacific Ocean was close by; I could feel its cooling breeze. I was tired from driving all day, but my wife, Ann said, “We’re getting close. Keep going.” She had the map out and was doing the navigating. I remembered thinking to myself, “I’ve heard that one before.” Then, as if on cue, we were there! There was no entry sign.
It (…)

The Chemtrail Smoking Gun - Proof of Global Geoengineering Projects illustration - by Bruce Conway / revised 6.20.03 / Lightwatcher Publishing
forward: For the past few years investigators and researchers have been searching for hard evidence on the elusive phenomena of chemtrail spraying. If one searches GoogleNews for articles on chemtrails in (with 4500 periodicals represented) not one article will be found. There is simply no coverage on this topic in the mainstream media.
Imagine (…)

KYOTO The Protocol of Kyoto is a 1997 international agreement providing for a 5.8% reduction by the year 2010 in emissions of greenhouse gases on the basis of 1990 levels. Implementation of the agreement is under threat because it has not yet been ratified by large countries such as the USA and Russia. GEOENGINEERING) ‘The intentional large-scale manipulation of the global environment. The term has usually been applied to proposals to manipulate the climate with the primary intention (…)

Think Again: Al Jazeera By Hugh Miles July/August 2006
It is vilified as a propaganda machine and Osama bin Laden’s mouthpiece. In truth, though, Al Jazeera is as hated in the palaces of Riyadh as it is in the White House. But, as millions of loyal viewers already know, Al Jazeera promotes a level of free speech and dissent rarely seen in the Arab world. With plans to go global, it might just become your network of choice.
“Al Jazeera Supports Terrorism”
False, though the network makes (…)

What Would Gore Have Done? By Joe Sobran June 20, 2006 Given the Bush administration’s spectacular record of across-the-board bungling in nearly everything it does, it’s tempting to think we might have been better off if Al Gore had won the presidency in 2000. Try as I may, I can hardly imagine Gore being worse than the dubious victor, if only because he would probably have been more cautious, or at least more constrained. For one thing, President Gore would have been checked by the (…)

To Be An Expat? By Ira Katz July 5, 2006
Expatriate: to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one’s native country
I have been Living in Paris for the last six months working for a French company. I am scheduled to go back to teaching in the United States in January. However, I am now thinking about staying in France indefinitely; that is, I am thinking of becoming an expat.
My decision rests on many factors regarding career, finances, and especially family (…)

Food For Thought US Language Police Want To Make English An “Official” Language-But What Would This Do To Our Restaurant Menus? By Walter Brasch July 5, 2006 Let’s pretend it’s dinner time, and you’ve just developed a sudden craving for Mexican food. Yesterday, it was Chinese. Tomorrow it may be Italian. But today, it’s Mexican.
And, while we’re pretending, let’s pretend that a four-star Mexican restaurant just opened around the corner.
You walk in, and the red-haired hostess (…)

This War Is Based On Denial The Reality Beneath The Flag-Waving By Paul Craig Roberts July 04, 2006 Americans who get their propaganda from Fox "News" or are told what to think by right-wing talk radio hosts are outraged at news reports that US troops planned and carried out the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They are not outraged that the troops committed the deed; they are outraged that the media reported it. These "conservatives," who proudly wear their patriotism on their (…)