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Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush’s Illegal Spying By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet Posted on May 8, 2006, Printed on May 8, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35807/ Five months after news of the NSA’s warrantless spying program broke, and after we’ve learned numerous details of the program’s extent, a Portland, Ore., attorney may have finally obtained hard evidence of illegal wiretaps by the government.
Thomas Nelson has been practicing administrative law for most of (…)

By Nelson Lichtenstein
Today’s May Day marches are putting hundreds of thousands on the street and have politicized more people than anything since the height of the civil rights movement. Like every other massive social protest in American history, the events have generated their share of fear. Democrats and some leaders of D.C.-based immigrant groups worry that the call to boycott work and shut down Latino-dependent businesses will generate a backlash. Republicans and nativists see them (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
In October 2005, on a University of Oklahoma bench within a two-minute walk of the stadium while a football game was in progress, OU student Joel Hinrichs set off a bomb in his backpack and killed himself. This happened three minutes before half time. The bench was adjacent to a sidewalk. Go here for my full report:
Evidence strongly suggests that Hinrichs intended to kill others but experienced an accidental early detonation. (…)

MUCKRAKER LINK http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archive...
While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company.
follow link for rest of story

STRATEGY FOR TOTAL VICTORY
By Peter Fredson
May 7, 2006
I recently reviewed remarks of George W. Bush and those of his cabinet officials regarding war, terrorism, environment, deficit, employment, pensions, social security, Medicare, the oil crisis, health management, education, science, religion, patriotism, scare tactics, security arrangements, CIA, and many other topics of national interest.
In no case have I been satisfied with the clarity of the remarks, or their credibility. (…)

Statement of Purpose International Endowment for Democracy
When someone asked what he thought about Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied, "I think it would be a good idea". We are only saying the same thing about American democracy-"We think it would be a good idea".
Inspired by this idea, a number of progressive American scholars, lawyers and activists have created the International Endowment for Democracy (IED) to highlight- the tragic and rapidly deteriorating state of (…)

Whether its out of fear for their jobs or just the excercize of "diplomacy", there are meaningful and dynamic questions whiich the Press cannot ask of the Bush administration. Among them:
Will you please tell us why you won’t investigate HUGE government waste in the Pentagon (which "lost" over a trillion dollars!) and other departments? Surely at very least BILLIONS of dollars could be saved by so doing.
Why do our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq still have inadequate armor and food? (…)

The Downing Street papers are proving a formidable challenge to the White House PR machine as it desperately tries-in often-ludicrous ways-to slow down a train that has already left the station. And interest continues to build. The leaked British documents are now on the top-ten list of Google queries.
One huge fly in the ointment for the administration was British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s early decision that it would be a fool’s errand to challenge the authenticity of the papers. Why? (…)

publisher’s note: this is a repost from last year. When this came out last year, it really seemed that congress might finally act toward accountability however nothing has come of this information which proves that Ray Mcgovern is correct in calling Rumsfeld a liar. The entire administration lied repeatedly in the run up to war in Iraq and they are doing it again for Iran. The Downing Street Minutes Demand Action
(- ; mp3 Cliff Notes to teach your neighbors :o)
The "Downing Street (…)

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On Friday, 12th may 2006, Bellaciao is convened by a judge in the court of Saint Nazaire.
The « Shipyards of St Nazaire » filed suit for slandering after the publication on the Bellaciao collective website of a statement from the French union USM-CGT on 16th September 2005 entitled «Piracy of modern times», consultable here
Since the "Shipyards of St Nazaire" do not contest the facts, but use the words of the French union (…)