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Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
By Tom Porteous
5-13-6
The first reaction of the Bush administration to the extraordinary letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been to dismiss it out of hand on the grounds that it does not offer any compromises over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That’s a strategic mistake, because the biggest complaint of Middle Easterners about the United States is precisely that it has consistently failed to listen to concerns of (…)

By Jason Leopold
Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (…)

58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror... It’s Time to Put America First
By Hassan El-Najjar
Al-Jazeerah, May 15, 2006
On May 15 1948, world Zionists claimed their state, which they called Israel. It was not good news to the world in general, and the Palestinian people in particular.
Zionist Israelis did not limit their state to the borders prescribed in the 1947 UN Resolution 181, known as Partition Resolution. They occupied most of the lands prescribed to the Arab state of (…)

Capital Punishment for Gays?
By DEBRA SCHAFFER HUBERT
"I would execute gays only if we catch them indulging in sodomy," Gary DeMar, popular Christian evangelical minister is quoted in the December, 2005 issue of Mother Jones. DeMar, who casually condemns millions, envisions sinners in line for the death penalty. [1]
Capital Punishment for Sinners
Gary DeMar stated he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy, but others envision sinners in line for the death penalty (…)

US imposes arms ban on Venezuela
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Duncan Campbell Tuesday May 16, 2006 The Guardian
The US finally reacted to goading by the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez, by slapping a full arms ban on the country last night, claiming it had failed to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
Janelle Hironimus, a state department spokeswoman, said Venezuela had forged close relations with Iran and Cuba, both classified by the US as state sponsors of terrorism. She (…)

Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez - with amigo Ken - gets a hero’s welcome
· Show of solidarity for Venezuelan president · Three-hour speech wins over 800-strong crowd
Duncan Campbell and Jonathan Steele Monday May 15, 2006 The Guardian
Hugo Chávez addresses crowds of supporters at the Camden Centre in London. Photograph: Edmond Terakopian/PA
He has been called a terrorist by Washington but for three and a half hours yesterday in London he could do no wrong. An adoring audience (…)

Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother’s Day of Peace She published the Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation in 1870. By 1873, 18 cities celebrated Mother’s Day of Peace celebrations - some of these celebrations continued for 30 years. Still today, we have the enduring legacy of Mother’s Day.
Now we are faced with the modern carnage of the occupation of Iraq, and still there are (…)

By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Report
Saturday 13 May 2006
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and (…)

Listen to this killer interview with Christopher Bollyn at The French Connection and read Bollyn’s excellent article on Flight 93
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Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, May 14, 2006, a colorful protest action, sponsored by “Code Pink: Women for Peace,” was staged directly in front of the White House. It included a mini-parade, a sing along and plenty of roses waving around. The event, a 24-hour vigil, began the day before. Its theme was “Declare Peace on Mother’s Day.” On a warm, but cloudy afternoon, it featured speeches, from 2 to 4 PM, by activists, like: Cindy Sheehan, a leader in the “Gold Star Families for Peace; and (…)