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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0404-07.htm Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Reuters
Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
HOUSTON - Two environmental groups said on Monday soil samples from an area east of New Orleans hit by an oil spill during Hurricane Katrina last year show high levels of diesel and arsenic contamination.
Some 25,000 barrels of mixed crude oil spilled in St. Bernard Parish from a storage tank that floated (…)

Published on Saturday, April 8, 2006 by Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0408-07.htm
US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
The article by investigative (…)

Everything is political, they say. Perhaps you’ll recognize these familiar quotes from famous films, altered "just a tad" for your amusement.
BUSH: "Frankly, America, I don’t give a damn!"
MAMA BEADS BUSH: "He coulda’ been somebody, instead of a bum,which is what he is"
BUSH: "Dicky, I’ve got a feeling wer’re not in favor anymore"
KERRY TO BUSH: "May the farce be with you"
HARRY REID: "What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate"
HOWARD DEAN RE: BUSHSPEAK: "I love the smell (…)

VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
Many Americans are victims of the illusion, carefully crafted, that the Catholic bishops have no significant influence on American presidents. No doubt the degree of influence differs from one president to the next. But they all feel and respond to this influence.
The National Catholic Reporter, a major national Catholic weekly newspaper, published a most revealing report in its December 29, 1989 issue. Doug Wead, special assistant to President (…)

The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research that found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding will likely have far-reaching implications for returned soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones and people who might live near uranium mines or processing facilities.
Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have (…)

John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal appeared on MSNBC last night - in full defence mode of King George W. Bush.... The Leak of the National Intelligence Estimate by Bush and Cheney was no big deal claims John...... "EVERYBODY DOES IT" chirped Johnny ..... Mr. Harwood convienently omits crucial facts.... The information King George leaked to Judith Miller was untrue .... All the information Libby was authorised to disclose to reporters in the runup to the war , classified secrets (…)

By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t tive
Tuesday 14 March 2006
Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history?
Why do these bases in Iraq resemble self-contained cities as much as military outposts?
Why are we hearing such ludicrous and outrageous statements from the highest (…)

Tuesday 04 April 2006
US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked. Private and public statements of denial and dismissal immediately start to fill the air. We hear, "American soldiers would never do such a thing," or (…)

ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006 http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/campaign.shtml
By LEE SUSTAR
THE CONTROVERSY over a Danish newspaper’s publication of caricatures of Muhammad is the result of an anti-Muslim campaign by the West that justifies everything from Washington’s imperialist “long war” against “terrorism” to vicious crackdowns on immigrants across Europe and the United States.
Moreover, the crisis highlights the failure of the antiwar movement in the U.S. to defend the civil (…)

http://venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/ven/web/2006/articles/driving_crazy_2.html
This is why Chavez is driving them crazy. He enjoys 82% popular support according to the latest opinion poll Caracas, March 17th 2006. The recent political opinion polls in Venezuela reflect the still growing popularity of President Hugo Chavez as the country heads towards the December presidential elections.
The pollster Seijas which worked with the now opposition Democratic Action party (AD) for many years, (…)