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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0429-07.htm
Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Associated Press Submarine Sonar Suspected in Mystery Death of 400 Dolphins by Ali Sultan
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania - Scientists worked on Saturday to try to determine why hundreds of dolphins became stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar’s northern coast.
Villagers and fishermen buried the remains (…)

Jim Abourezk on Bush’s "Unparalleled Mendacity" and the "Complete Sell Out" of the Democrats
An Interview with the First Arab-American Senator
By KEVIN ZEESE
James George Abourezk (born February 24, 1931) was a Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator, and was the first Arab-American to serve in the Senate. He represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1973 until 1979. Abourezk is of Lebanese descent, and was born in Wood, South Dakota and lived in South (…)

http://www.counterpunch.org/wingerter04182006.html
Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six?
The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
By ERIC WINGERTER
Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.
When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his (…)

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk04272006.html
Breaking the Last Taboo
The United States of Israel?
By ROBERT FISK
Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he’s one of two authors of an academic paper on the influence of America’s Jewish lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your point of view, is of no interest to him. "John and I have deliberately avoided the television shows because we (…)

Republican Rhetoric; Democratic Cluelessness
Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
By RALPH NADER
What a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
Oil man (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-25.htm
Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Boston Globe In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture by Derrick Z. Jackson
When the US-backed government and military of El Salvador brutally repressed their people in the 1980-92 civil war that took 75,000 lives, Gregorio Rosa Chavez was one of those who pleaded to the outside world, ’’We don’t need bullets; we need beans."
Today, he still pleads for the (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-26.htm
Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism by William Pfaff
Paris — The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France’s student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.
The election that has just given Italy a fragile center- left (…)

Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by Foreign Policy in Focus The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran by Stephen Zunes
With even mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post and The New Yorker publishing credible stories that the United States is seriously planning a military attack on Iran, increasing numbers of Americans are expressing concerns about the consequences of the United States launching another war that would once again place the United States in (…)

Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Associated Press 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest by Desmond Butler
NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.
"End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs lifted by (…)

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.’S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.’S and they need to get out.
Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I’m a pretty (…)