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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/042606.html April 26, 2006
Like an aging rock star singing a beloved oldie, George W. Bush can count on cheers whenever he delivers a favorite line from the Bush Doctrine enunciated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks: Any country that harbors a terrorist is equally guilty as the terrorist.
Bush got a round of applause at an Indianapolis speech on March 24, 2006, when he declared “one of the lessons learned after September the 11th is that we must (…)

By Dave Zirin, DAVE ZIRIN is the author of "What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States" and a columnist for Slam magazine.
MAY DAY 2006 is being called the "Great American Boycott" or "A Day Without Latinos."
Across the country, Latinos and their allies say they will neither work nor shop Monday to protest what they consider anti-immigrant legislation before Congress.
Although many industries and work sites may be affected, one multibillion-dollar enterprise (…)

by Kim Scipes
On March 6, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC., to demand that the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center immediately break off all ties with the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The NED is a leading component of the US Government’s efforts to maintain the US Empire, and the Solidarity Center is one of the NED’s four "core institutes," along with the international wings of the (…)

United for Peace and Justice
Largest antiwar labor turnout in US history.
Oscar Winners Susan Sarandon, Mercedes Ruehl and Jonathan Demme, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Hurricane Survivors, Iraq War Veterans, Military Families, Immigrant Rights Activists, Religious Leaders and Labor Unions Join Together to Call for New Priorities
29 April 2006, New York, New York: The streets of New York City echoed today with the chants, songs and shouts of at least 350,000 (…)

Mainstream Media: Stephen? Stephen Who? Reported by Marie Therese - April 30, 2006
Today, if you were an average American viewer of any one of the three major cable news stations and you had seen news reports about last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, the name "Stephen Colbert" is not one that would immediately leap into your mind. That’s because there is an ongoing, concerted, deliberate media blackout of any coverage of Colbert’s politically charged comedic appearance at that (…)

I know this is a rather long read and sounds somewhat conspiratorial. However, there is a lot of documentation available for verification if one is interested. This is a pass along for FYI. By going to the link at the end of the article and scrolling halfway down the page, there is an actual picture of the plane and several other of receipts for clearer explanation..
April 21, 2006 — SPECIAL REPORT. Porter Goss’s Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) has links to "Al Qaeda" and Saudis. Last year, (…)

I wonder if there will ever be an end to these flights.
April 30, 2006 — As the CIA seeks to cover up further details about its secret rendition flights and prisons, more information has been revealed about another rendition aircraft. It is a Gulfstream V (tail number N1HC), registered to United States Aviation Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, an air charter company. The firm is owned by Roger Hardesty, named in 1998 as one of the 400 wealthiest Americans. The aircraft has been spotted as recently (…)

The "Save Darfur" rally today was aired on C-Span. The rally was small — only several thousands according to Reuters ("Thousands March to Stop Darfur Killing," 30 April 2006). And the crowd in attendance was overwhelmingly white. But, boy, it was a professionally-staged photo op, with celebs, politicos, and exiles from Sudan at the podium expertly framed by the U.S. Capitol in the background.
The timing of the rally was perfect, designed to coincide — and scuttle — the Abuja peace (…)

by Thom Hartmann
Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation forces in Japan immediately after World War II, was hoping to graduate from college and teach history, perhaps even at the university level if he could hang on to the GI Bill and his day job in a camera store long enough to get his Ph.D. It was 1950, and he’d been married just a few months, when the surprise came that forced him to drop out of college: his wife (…)

By Congressman John Conyers
As some of you may be aware, according to the President and Congressional Republicans, a bill does not have to pass both the Senate and the House to become a law. Forget your sixth grade civics lesson, forget the book they give you when you visit Congress - "How Our Laws Are Made," and forget Schoolhouse Rock. These are checks and balances, Republican- style.
As the Washington Post reported last month, as the Republican budget bill struggled to make its way (…)