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by Mark Engler
When Bolivian President Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize his country’s oil and natural gas resources in early May, he did more than lay out a promising path for development. He also provided an ideal opportunity to illustrate how large segments of the U.S. and British press have adopted roles as watchdogs for corporate globalization. Since Bolivia’s energy exports go to Brazil and Argentina rather than the United States, and since the nationalization is unlikely to (…)

The American democracy that was once exemplary to the world is now under siege by a power-hungry president with an insatiable lust for global dominance. For more than five years, George W. Bush has continuously violated the law of the land by ignoring the Constitution, by rewriting laws passed by Congress with his signing statements, and by issuing more than 200 executive orders as new directives for fine-tuning the government to suit his policies. The United States is now facing a regime (…)

9/11 TV Fraud
16 CGIs, which fooled the world (Pt.2) http://911tvfakery.blogspot.com/
"The debate" - how 3 ’movies’ contradict each other (or: ’9/11 TV Fakery vs. 9/11 Truthling Fakes’)
A ficticious (?) interview between DJ 9/11 TV Fakery, Bugs Bunny and MC Plane Hugga * observed by Nico Haupt (aka ewing2001) June 1st, 2006
MORE HERE: http://www.911closeup.com/nico/rrr3.html mirror (thefilehut attacked version)
For non newbies: Compare the 9/11 TV Fraud (…)

(with profound apologies to Agatha Christie. No offense to Native Americans OR East Indians)
Ten little Indians, standing in a line
Delay is indicted and then there are nine.
Nine little Indians having a debate
McClellan gives up his job and then there are eight.
Eight little Indians talkin’ ’bout Heaven
Santorum flips his lid, and then there are seven.
Seven little Indians, nothing can they fix
Abramoff rats out his pals and then there are six.
Six little Indians drinkin’ in a (…)

Like Kennedy and Truman, Democratic neocons want to beef up the military and won’t run from a fight.
By Jacob Heilbrunn, Jacob Heilbrunn, a former Times editorial writer, is writing a book on neoconservatism.
DON’T LOOK now, but neoconservatism is making a comeback - and not among the Republicans who have made it famous but in the Democratic Party.
A host of pundits and young national security experts associated with the party are calling for a return to the Cold War precepts of (…)

There will be an International 9-11 truth movement conference, entitled "9/11- Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" at Chicago-O’Hare Rosemont, Illinois,June 2-4, 2006, Embassy Suites Hotel, starting Friday @4pm. and going til Sunday night.
Former MI5 agents Annie Machon, and BYU Professor of Physics Steven E. Jones will deliver keynote speeches during a weekend of exposition and strategy aimed at challenging the official version of the 9-11 attacks, and raising public awareness (…)

by Simon Assaf
The Iraqi town of Haditha will now forever be linked with the blood and terror of the US occupation. For many it will be Iraq’s equivalent of Vietnam’s My Lai, a symbol of the violence of imperialism.
Before the war the sleepy town of 70,000 on the banks of the River Euphrates was known mainly for its date growing.
Now it is known for a massacre. And that massacre has underlined the much wider process of invasion, and the urgent necessity for every one of the US and (…)

In a country that spends so much time extolling the glories of democracy, it’s amazing how many elected officials go out of their way to discourage voting. States are adopting rules that make it hard, and financially perilous, for nonpartisan groups to register new voters. They have adopted new rules for maintaining voter rolls that are likely to throw off many eligible voters, and they are imposing unnecessarily tough ID requirements.
Florida recently reached a new low when it actually (…)

By CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA
More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s chaotic early days has come to light - a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
The letter - dated the day of the Army’s mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 - is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in (…)

New photographs lend weight to allegations of revenge killings by US unit under attack in which 24 unarmed civilians died
by Paul Harris in Washington and David Smith in Basra
Fresh photographic evidence seen by US investigators is believed to reveal that some of the 24 unarmed Iraqis killed in the Iraqi town of Haditha after an American died in a roadside bomb in November were in effect executed, it was reported yesterday.
According to Congressional and defence officials quoted by the (…)