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"Relief" For Aristocracy By Robert L. Moore June 26, 2006 If achieving one’s goals is the measure of a successful presidency, then George W. Bush is one of the more successful presidents in history. He has, after all, helped transfer much of the nation’s wealth into the hands of the already wealthy, which has long been a major goal of the Republican right.
Bush’s rewriting the tax code diverted billions away from the nation’s treasury and into the clutches of select multimillionaires — (…)

Scrawled Bush Threat Sparks California Port Scare By Dan Whitcomb Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:03pm ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bomb threat against President George W. Bush and his "Jewish gang" scrawled in a cargo ship prompted authorities to shut down part of a major California port on Monday until investigators determined that no explosives were on the vessel.
Officials shut down a terminal at Port Hueneme, about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, after a dock worker discovered the message inside (…)

A "Secret Formula" Against Colombia’s Guerillas?
by Paul Wolf
The US State Department has developed the secret formula to dismantle the armed groups of Colombia’s war. Or so it believes. It is believed that the demobilization of 28,000 members of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) was the result of threatening its leaders-notably Salvadore Mancuso and Don Berna-with extradition to the US.
Fear of extradition, accompanied by promises of amnesty, convinced (…)

Source: http://www.ciponline.org/ April 13, 2006
If you’ve ever traveled to Colombia, then you’ve seen the DAS, the government’s Administrative Department for Security. As soon as you get off the plane, DAS employees are there to stamp your passport and, perhaps, to ask why you’re visiting.
The DAS does much more than stamp passports, though. It is a powerful agency, a sort of “secret police” institution founded in 1960. Its principal purpose is intelligence and counterintelligence, both (…)

Army Wives Get Phone Death Threats From Iraq By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 25/06/2006)
Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers’ mobile telephones.
The growing number (…)

Tall Stories: The Plot To Topple Chicago’s Sears Tower Was Not All That It Seemed The Plan Uncovered By The FBI Last Week Proved Little More Than Wishful Thinking. But Could It Be A Sign Of Worse To Come? By Rupert Cornwell Published: 25 June 2006 The alarming news flashed across America’s TV screens on Thursday evening: government agents had thwarted an al-Qa’ida plot, using home-grown American terrorists, to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago in a ghastly repeat of 9/11.
When the dust (…)

If Wanton Murder Is Essential To The US Campaign In Iraq, It’s Time To Leave The Reported Atrocities By American Soldiers Are Not Isolated Incidents But The Inevitable Offshoots Of Occupation Gary Younge Monday June 26, 2006 The Guardian Every four years it’s the same. The hand of God, the sending off, the miskick that finds only our net - the fluke that shatters the dream. Each World Cup some freakish incident dashes England’s hopes with such predictable regularity that the only truly (…)

Terrorists In Miami, Oh My! June 26, 2006 By Robert Parry
The Bush administration finally took action against alleged terrorists living in plain sight in Miami, but they weren’t the right-wing Cuban terrorists implicated in actual acts of terror, such as blowing a civilian Cuban airliner out of the sky. They were seven young black men whose crime was more “aspirational than operational,” the FBI said.
As media fanfare over the arrests made the seven young men, many sporting dreadlocks, (…)

Facing A Tough Re-Election Bid, Sad Sack Santorum "Finds" WMD By Bill Gallagher June 27 2006 Detroit - It just becomes a matter of faith, blind faith. Facts and reason have no place in discussions about the unending mess in Iraq and the contrived reasons the Busheviks sold to carry out the invasion. The desperate defense of the indefensible reached a new, laughable low when Sen. Rick Santorum declared that, indeed, Saddam Hussein’s hidden weapons of horror have been found.
The sorry (…)

Recently, sixteen American GIs were killed in the Iraqi War in one week! (1) This brought the total U.S. fatalities to 2519. This is the same conflict which was recklessly launched in March, 2003, by the Bush-Cheney Gang based on lies. (2) The chief architect of the war, Paul Wolfowitz, a Neocon, then a Deputy Secretary of Defense, now sits in a cushy office in Washington, D.C., bringing down a six-figure salary, as the President of the World Bank. (3) Meanwhile, another pro-Iraqi War (…)