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Dear Mayor Nagin,
Congratulations on your re-election.
I would like to suggest to you a form of housing that is low cost, yet extremely durable and energy efficient. I first heard of it in Mother Earth News magazine - www.motherearthnews.com - which has been publishing since the 60’s. The article can be found in the October/November 2005 issue. (They are a bi-monthly publication.) It is called Earth Bag construction.
This could really be a good alternative around the entire Gulf Coast (…)

Which of the following will YOU see and/or experience in your lifetime?
EARTH’S AXIS SHIFTS: Actually, it’s already happening, but if it shifts about 1 degree or so then the poles may reverse, and ice will cover Egypt.
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE WEAPON KNOCKS OUT ALL US AND EUROPEAN COMPUTERS, SHUTS DOWN MARKETS,FREEZES TRAFFIC,ETC.
BIRD FLU OR SIMILAR VIRUS CAUSES WORLDWIDE PANIC AND DEATH. (Hey!, it could happen..no, really!)
METEOR OR ASTEROID PIECE HITS EARTH: This could cause (…)

By Daniel Patrick Welch
Those who wish to read US history undistorted, rather than use its mythology for their own ends, are already hip to the never-ending plight of immigrants to "America"’s shores. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Lazarus’ famous poem, like its namesake, winds up rising from the dead, or rather, (…)

by Sue West
I believe Dennis Kucinich,Russ Feingold and Cindy Sheenan deserves the JFK award, more than John Murtha by Sue West
In my opinion, Dennis Kucinich, Russ Feingold and Cindy Sheenan, deserves the JFK award, more so than Murtha does! While, Murtha’s recent stand to bring our troops home immediately is admiralable and commendable, and I totally agree with it, it’s easy when war is unpopular to be against it but it takes REAL "profiles in courage" to stand up and be against it (…)

“Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you.” - Mark Twain
Recently I read the book: “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/II World,” (2005, Metropolitan Books),” which contains interviews by David Barsamian with Noam Chomsky on a wide range of issues, including the Iraqi War. I was deeply disappointed with it. Not because there wasn’t a lot of solid analysis in it. There was. My misgivings dealt with what was left out of the paperback. If the comedian Stephen Colbert (…)

By Danny Rubinstein
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Haaretz Monday that the Hamas government is prepared to agree to an extended cease-fire if Israel withdraws to the 1967 lines.
"If Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, peace will prevail and we will implement a cease-fire [hudna] for many years," Haniyeh said during an interview in his south Gaza office. "Our government is prepared to maintain a long-term cease-fire with Israel."
Palestinian Transportation Minister (…)

New Estimate of Venezuela’s Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grand Prizes for US - by Stephen Lendman
I just finished reading an important new book the author’s publisher sent me, which I’ll shortly be reviewing for publication. The book is investigative journalist (and in his words "forensic economist") Greg Palast’s latest foray into exposing the hidden from view crimes and wrongdoings of the Bush administration. I’m very familiar with Palast’s important work and can only (…)

Contact David Swanson
Ray McGovern to Lead March to Sec. Rumsfeld’s Home
Delivery of petition to White House opposing attack on Iran
When: 1-3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.
March to Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld’s House
When: Departing at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.
A broad coalition of organizations has collected over 40,000 signatures on a (…)

The fourth ESF gives a strong place to the migration struggles, analyses and demands.
The several meetings and seminars aimed at the European and transnational dimension of migrants’ movement and struggles.
More or less every day we can find all over Europe, and not only Europe, protests and campaigns against camps and deportations, for asylum rights for women and men, for a european citizenship of residence and against exploitation of migrant labour.
In this frame, we want to propose (…)

Report from the european network after the seminars, working sessions and Assembly on Palestine during the ESF in Athens, conducted with the participation of Palestinians civil society representatives and Israeli anticolonialist activists.
The occupation system on Palestine is achieving a new stage. Israel is implementing its strategy in order to achieve its own unilateral solution completing the building of an apartheid system. The total isolation of Gaza is part of this system.
We (…)