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"Time’s glory is to...unmask falsehood and bring truth to light...To wrong the wronger till he render right." - William Shakespeare
A few months ago, I was in Washington, D.C., working as an extra in a movie. Hollywood loves to shoot films in the nation’s Capital because of its ambiance. Robert De Niro, a brilliant actor, was directing the flick called, “The Good Shepherd.” It has to do with the origins of the CIA. (1) In any event, when I was on a break in Georgetown, where they were (…)

World Can’t Wait just announced their next major protest- October. Anyone else think that’s a little funny?
Last year the Downing Street Memo came out on May 1st, soon after UFPJ announced the big rally for Sept 24th. Why do they always skip over the summer months? Because that’s when the weather is nice, and people might actually have the time to camp and stay.
The crooks in power don’t care if we schedule another weekend protest- the one thing they don’t want is an extended protest (…)

Of course, unlike the situation in the 19th century, the democratic West is now politically correct (PC) and eschews explicit racism. Kurtz’s assertion of "exterminate all the brutes" in Joseph Conrad’s African novel "Heart of Darkness" was acceptable back in circa 1900 when it was first published in an explicitly racist Britain. Western intellectuals armed with Darwin’s "Origin of Species" justified racist colonial impositions in terms of "survival of the fittest" (i.e. those with guns). (…)

This Wednesday, Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) intends to introduce a resolution in the House condemning Venezuela for supposedly not cooperating with the United States in the fight against narco- trafficking.
Please contact your House representative today!
– http://www.democracyinaction.org/di...

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May 6, 2006
Congressman Kucinich has been asking tough questions of the President and the Secretary of Defense.
He wrote letters in April to both Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush. The text of the letters appears in the May 4 issue of the Congression Record Extensions of Remarks.
Kucinich’s April 5 letter to Rumsfeld began, "I am writing to request a copy of all records pertaining to Pentagon plans to use U.S. Special Forces to advise, support and train Iraqi (…)

Posted on May 8, 2006 By Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas-Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six.
I don’t care what anyone smoked 20 years ago, I approve of those who boogie till they puke, and I don’t care who anyone in politics is screwing in private, as long as they’re not screwing the public.
On other hand, if you expect me to pass up a scandal (…)

Sometimes ‘ignorance is bliss’ and sometimes we must ‘pursue the truth’. If you have not yet watched the video ‘911 Loose Change’, this is a MUST SEE!! The link is listed below:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...
This movie is packed a lot of very credible information ----based on science and logic, not on imagination or craziness. I ask you to take the time to watch this and then encourage your friends and family to do the same.
All Americans need to view this--- we need to (…)

There has been much published lately about the Neocons (Perle, Wolfowitz,Feith,Cristol et al) and their lamentable and abject failure to implement the P.N.A.C. scenario (Project for a New American Century). Don’t believe it. Their enthusiasm hasn’t waned, it’s just temporarily in limbo.
When one considers their dream it really is Utopian in a way, and absurdly optimistic in it’s aims and aspirations.
Did anybody really believe the dream? Yes! Here’s what they hoped would happen: (…)

How Tim Russert became Karl Rove’s bitch. by kant Mon May 08, 2006 at 10:19:01 AM PDT There is an ESSENTIAL conversation happening in the comments on a post over at Firedoglake.
Call me stupid, but when I read these comments and the links embedded in them, it was like I was hit by a thunderbolt. I never really understood how guys like Russert and Mathews went from being eager and earnest Democratic liberals to shills for Bushco. Well it all comes down to one man... The widely revered (…)

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Brown’s challenge to battered Blair: Name the day Unprecedented attack by Chancellor, calling on PM to ’set down’ timetable for exit. Secret letter leaked to ’IoS’ reveals plan by rebel Labour MPs to ’ambush’ leader By Marie Woolf and Francis Elliott Published: 07 May 2006 Gordon Brown will today urge Tony Blair to stand aside as Prime Minister, challenging his embattled rival to "set down" a clear timetable for a handover of power.
In a carefully timed intervention, (…)