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Staying The Course, Without A Map Joe Conason Posted on Jun 28, 2006 In the acrid debate over Iraq, the president’s supporters will say anything. They will question the patriotism of those who disagree with “staying the course.” They will insinuate cowardice on the part of those who would “cut and run.” Even though they themselves may have avoided military service, they will denigrate the records of decorated veterans like John Kerry and Jack Murtha. They will even accuse the war’s critics (…)

Bush Urged To Intervene After Castro’s Death By David Usborne in New York Published: 03 July 2006 A new high-level report due for publication later this week urges the United States government to begin preparations to intervene in Cuba in the event President Fidel Castro’s death. The goal is to help spawn a speedy transition on the island towards "democracy and political freedom".
The recommendations, which include the creation of an $80m (£43m) fund to promote democracy in Cuba, are (…)

Ugly Americans In Iraq By Nir Rosen Posted on June 27, 2006 Editor’s note: The following is an oral history of a U.S. soldier who served with the Army’s Special Forces during the allied occupation of Iraq in 2003 and 2004, as told to journalist Nir Rosen.
It is a companion piece to Rosen’s essay “The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds,” which describes his experiences as an American reporter who sometimes passed as a Middle Easterner during the occupation.
The oral history is (…)

To maximize profits the banks and corporations have for a long time hopeed, wished, prayed, schemed, scamed, calculated, bribed, killed, and genocided to ensure their control structures of the stupid money system, the facade of "democratic government agendas", "human rights" and other forms of state - banking financed agendas have been played out through the centures as giant social experiements of the elite to create a seperate controlable group of people that act like MIND PROGRAMABLE (…)

Today more than any other time in our common history, the glorious mass of noble working creative humans are evolving past their false structures of elitist driven mind controling dogma of facade governments, fake relgions, and contextual manipulation of human events for the purposes of mind control and tyranny.
Today we have awakened from our slumber and we are evolving into a great and wonderous information society of thinking, feeling, loving, and truth oriented people seeking true and (…)

Bush’s Assault On Freedom: What’s To Stop Him? By Paul Craig Roberts July 3, 2006
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision ruled that President Bush’s effort to railroad tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees in kangaroo courts "violates both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions."
Better late than never, but it sure took a long time for the checks and balances to call a halt to the illegal and unconstitutional behavior of the executive.
The Legal Times quotes David Remes, a (…)

The High Price Of American Gullibility Watch Us, Wiretap Us, Search Us, Jail Us ... By Paul Craig Roberts July 2, 2006 What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran, North Korea and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way? Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and to (…)

The Military’s Problem With The President’s Iran Policy By Seymour M. Hersh Issue of 2006-07-10 Posted 2006-07-03
On May 31st, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced what appeared to be a major change in U.S. foreign policy. The Bush Administration, she said, would be willing to join Russia, China, and its European allies in direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program. There was a condition, however: the negotiations would not begin until, as the President put it in a June 19th (…)

How Bush Breaks The Ten Commandments By Brooke Allen and Patrick Doyle, TheNation.com Posted on July 3, 2006, Printed on July 3, 2006 The Bush presidency is the most overtly religious in living memory, probably in all of American history. The President has stated his belief that he has been called by God and acts as if Americans are God’s new chosen people, successors to the ancient Israelites.
Some evangelical Christians claim to base their moral code on Mosaic law, and last year the (…)

In all the consideration given to the issue of drug use and abuse within our society there is surely one question that is missing. What exactly are the laws for? If they are designed to protect a simple people from themselves then any trip to a club, town centre, suburban housing estate or shopping centre will prove their failure. And yet, one would suspect that, if challenged, your local politician would cite exactly that reason - i.e. these drugs are dangerous and evil and you need (…)