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By William Fisher Two weeks from now, a South Carolina pain management physician will surrender at the Talladega, Alabama, prison to begin serving a 2.5-year sentence for drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. Dr. Michael Jackson is one of hundreds of pain management specialists arrested, charged and jailed by federal and state authorities for violating the Controlled Substances Act, designed to limit the dispensing of illegal prescription drugs by doctors and their use (…)

http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/
OUR PURPOSE
To help reclaim the honor of the United States of America
Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor is a basic attribute of character. That we are no longer cadets is irrelevant. We stand appalled by the deceitful behavior of the government of the United States and, in particular, its widely known malefactors. (…)

poignant pic, check it out
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by Brian McAfee
As Chile struggles to overcome the past and restore justice and human rights, an obstacle remains in the system. In the 1980s Chile’s then dictator, Augusto Pinochet, installed an electoral law that in effect blocked the left from participation in the electoral process. The "binominal" sometimes called binomial system, was composed by the far right and imposed on Chile by Pinochet.
The Pinochet imposed system allowed the far right to have 35 percent of votes and to have (…)

To anyone who has read the Constitution and and has any sort of need for justice, it has become blatatly obvious that the only way to uphold our Constitution and stop these criminals with sinister intentions is to Impeach Bush and Cheney immediately to stop them from committing any more atrocities, looting the treasury and prevent them from being in charge during any more national emergencies. We have been given a line of excuses as to why this hasn’t happened which goes something like this (…)

By David Swanson
Ray McGovern wasn’t aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he’d lied us into a war. That was just a side benefit. Ray wants answers, and he’s taking his demand to Donald Rumsfeld’s house in Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, May 18, a large coalition of groups is planning to deliver to the White House all the signatures and comments posted on a petition at www.DontAttackIran.org As the name of (…)

By Sarah Meyer
AP: "Do you feel that the new government will have a honeymoon, or will it be immediately faced with challenges?"
KHALILZAD: “I think it will be faced immediately with challenges because the terrorists are not going to go away, they’re going to persist in their effort to promote a sectarian conflict. They want Iraq to fail, but Iraq in itself is not important for them. Iraq is one theater in a global war; that they want to provoke a war of civilization.”
One only needs (…)

Conservatives are winning the battle over how the 1960s are remembered. But their version is far from the truth.
By Astra Taylor
It wasn’t until I got to college that I heard that the 1960s had "failed" and that all the Baby Boomers went straight and sold out.
Yet such sweeping proclamations never quite rung true. Those weren’t the people I knew when I was a kid: the aging organic farmers, the people living on and running a commune founded long before I was born, the self-sacrificing (…)

by Hilary Wainwright
The fourth European Social Forum, held in Athens in May, outstripped the modest expectations of the Greek organisers. Hilary Wainwright reports on the key themes of the Athens forum - and what might come next
In the build up to the European Social Forum (ESF) in Athens, the fourth since Florence in 2002, the Greek organisers were modest in their expectations of its political significance. ‘It will be a well organised event; but that’ll be it,’ said Panayotis Yulis (…)

By Iason Athanasiadis
TEHRAN - The West is just coming to know the resoluteness of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad as he doggedly sticks to his beliefs with regard to Iran’s nuclear program, despite the weight of international and domestic pressure building up against him.
To friends and colleagues who have known Ahmadinejad for a long time, though, his perseverance in the face of daunting odds comes as no surprise.
"Mahmud has not changed in the 30 years I’ve known him, at school (…)