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Anybody seen this Flag - the U.S. Civil Flag of Peacetime?
Time to start flying this one again.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/uscivilflag.html

Was Unitary Executive Bush deeply involved in the drafting of the 2003 State of the Union Address that included the so called `16 words ’ - a bogus formula of words that included the assertion that Iraq was trying to acquire uranium from Africa ? ............. Read Prime Minister Cheney’s comments on Bush’s hands-on involvement in crafting State of the Union speeches - as related to Fascist Rush Limbaugh on his radio broadcast of February 1 ,2006 : "...... The thing that amazes me about (…)

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
A Palestinian teen was seriously wounded when he was hit in the head by an Israel Defense Forces rubber bullet near Nablus on Tuesday afternoon.
Mohammad Saker, 17, was shot by IDF troops operating in the Askar refugee camp located adjacent to the West Bank city of Nablus.
According to Palestinian sources, clashes broke out when an IDF jeep pulled into a junction situated at the western entrance to the Askar camp.
Palestinian (…)

by David Sirota
Since my book, Hostile Takeover, is a look at how both parties engage in corruption, people have asked me a lot lately for good examples of exactly who is leading the Hostile Takeover of the Democratic Party on behalf of Big Money interests. While there are certainly a lot of examples, today it seems the best example comes in the form of Mike McCurry.
The former Clinton press secretary, who appears throughout the media billed as a party strategist, is now using his skills (…)

by Blake Fleetwood
Statistics don’t lie.
Figures from the World Health Organization clearly show that The United States lags behind 36 other countries in overall health system performance ranging from infant mortality, to adult mortality, to life expectancy.
20 countries in Europe and four countries in Asia have a better life expectancy than the U.S. If you are a male between the ages of 15 and 59, your chances of dying are higher in the U.S. (140 per thousand) than in Canada, 95, (…)

International Campaign Launched to Stop Attack on Iran 250,000 Petitions say "Stop War On Iran"
April 12, 2006—In response to the growing threat of a U.S. attack on Iran, an international campaign, initiated by clergy, academics, and activists, has drawn world-wide support.
Since the online campaign was launched, nearly 250,000 petitions have been sent to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, and the Board of Directors of Halliburton calling for "an immediate end to (…)

Final Resolution
US policy in Iraq: A War Launched to Erase both the Culture and Future of the Iraqi people
The Association of Iraqi Academics estimates that more than 180 academics, from a wide range of academic and scientific fields of study from all over Iraq, have been assassinated since the US invasion in 2003. Many hundreds more have been forced into exile. Most were high-level academic staff members. The Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (…)

he Prophecy of Oded Yinon
Is the US Waging Israel’s Wars?
By LINDA S. HEARD
Many throughout the Muslim world and beyond are asking this question: What are the real reasons behind the US invasion of Iraq and its wish to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran?
For all their grandiose posturing, in truth, Iraq, Syria and Iran have never posed a direct threat to the US mainland. Put simply, they’re too far away from the neighbourhood. So why would the US be willing to expend so many (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0425-01.htm
Published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by the Boston Globe Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts 2 from Mass. play role in deal for region
by Susan Milligan
CARACAS - Leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said yesterday he would greatly expand the discounted home heating oil program he started last year for needy people in Massachusetts and other northeastern states.
Chavez, a firebrand populist who has clashed repeatedly with (…)

The new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is the perfect Bushmen..... A talentless ,wan , sycophant - willing and even eager to tell you any falsehood , no matter how outrageous or demonstrably false , to serve the Bush family cult ........ He’s the female Mary Matalin - another Bush shill who keeps landing on her feet , despite failure after failure after failure ......... Snow flopped as speechwriter for old man Bush ....... He flopped as the co-host of Fox’s News singular (…)