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By Greg Moses
On the stock-market channel Friday afternoon, just before commercial time, comes news that the Senate of the USA has declared Inglés the “national language†of state. Then comes the commercial, cutting to a Chinese couple standing in a busy airport, somewhat startled by a youngish white man who rushes up to them and says “welcome to America†in Chinese. “I practiced all morning,†says the gleamy-eyed realtor. “I hope you understand. Welcome to America!†The (…)

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
– Robert F . Kennedy

New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded (…)

Australian Prime Minister Howard is touring the world carrying a message of blind loyalty to the Bush Administration and unrelenting support ("stay the course") for the criminal Bush Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mainstream Media have reported the honours lavished on Howard by the war criminal Bush Administration and the extreme right-wing minority Canadian Harper Government (which has recently extended the Canadian presence in Occupied Afghanistan despite majority popular opposition).
In (…)

For the first time of the prisoners a trap with their guards on the American basis in Cuba • They had tightened simulated a suicide • Bilan: six wounded.
It is the first time that that arrives since the opening of the camp of Guantanamo in January 2002: the commander of the center of detention revealed Friday that a confrontation had burst Thursday between guards and prisoners who had tended to them out of trap while making believe in a suicide attempt per hanging. “Six prisoners were (…)

my, my that’s quite a list of accomplishments for one administration. . .
Articles of Impeachment
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of (…)

Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans
By Chris Floyd
May 1, 2006 chrisfloyd.com
Imagine growing up in a family where every day, father raped daughter, mother tortured son, brother abused brother, sister stole from sister, and the whole family murdered neighbors, friends and passing strangers. Imagine the underlying assumptions about life that you would adopt without question in such an atmosphere, how normal the most hideous depravity would seem. If some outsider (…)

VIDEO: Pentagon 911 Images Released by the DoD do not Prove that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon Analysis by Thierry Meyssan
May 18, 2006
At the request of Judicial Watch, under the Freedom of Information Act, the Department of Defense has released the complete video images of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon
The Pentagon had initially refused to release the images. The US Justice Department had in fact blocked the release on the grounds "that it was evidence in the prosecution of (…)

Immune Reactions to Transgenic Protein Serious
Independent Scientists Demand A Ban on GM Food & Feed while All GM Crops Are Tested
The following memo and report were sent to international and national regulators on behalf of the Independent Science Panel.
Please circulate widely, forward to your regulators and policy makers, and the press.
From: Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, member of Independent Science Panel (www.indsp.org), Director, Institute of Science in Society (www.i-sis.org.uk)
To: (…)

Just as Ruinous as Republicans Democrats and the Defense Budgets
By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
All the conditions are ripe for a major debate on America’s defense budget. A Republican White House and Congress have produced, at increased cost, a military establishment that is shrinking, aging and less ready to fight. The ruinous effects have shown up again and again, in the form of over-stretched, poorly supported forces in Iraq.
There is, however, no debate. The Democratic Party, while happy (…)