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According to Journalist Jason Leopold (" Gonzales Withholding E Mails" , truthout, 2/15/06 ) Albert Gonzales , our beloved Attorney General, is blocking the production of Emails that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney.... The Watergate stonewall has been put in place - "national security" and "executive privleges" have deployed to obstruct the administration of justice.... So much for the hoary myth of "full White House cooperation" in Plamegate..... Prosecutor Fitzgerald (…)

Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Ted Rall The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0407-23.htm When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries’ treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when (…)

April 6, 2006
Racial Profiling from the Halls of Congress to the Studios of MSNBC
The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
By REMI KANAZI (Counterpunch)
Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a (…)

Weekend Edition April 7—9, 2006
The War Gets More Grim Every Day
Three Years After They Toppled Saddam’s Statue
By PATRICK COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Baghdad. A trio of suicide bombers disguised as women, explosives strapped to their bodies hidden by long black cloaks, killed 74 people and wounded over on Friday when they blew themselves up in a Shi’ite mosque in the capital.
One bomber came through the women’s security checkpoint at the (…)

Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by the Washington Spectator A Culture of Corruption Let’s Save Our Democracy by Getting Money Out of Politics
by Bill Moyers
Money is choking our democracy to death. Our elections are bought out from under us and our public officials are doing the bidding of mercenaries. So powerful is the hold of wealth on politics that we cannot say America is working for all Americans. The majority may support such broad social goals as affordable medical coverage (…)

Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Agence France Presse McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0407-09.htm
The environment group Greenpeace launched a campaign against McDonald’s, accusing the US restaurant chain of abetting the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest by buying meat raised from Amazonian soya.
Greenpeace protestors staged colourful but peaceful demonstrations at several McDonald’s (…)

Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Inter Press Service U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United States, which has been lambasted for human rights abuses both by members of its armed forces in Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and by U.S. law enforcement officials in the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, has backed out of a hotly contested race for membership in the newly-created U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC).
U.S. State (…)

Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by the Las Vegas Sun http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing by Launce Rake The Defense Department’s plan to detonate 700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site is intended to simulate a nuclear blast as part of Pentagon research into development of low-yield nuclear weapons, a science advisory group charged Tuesday.
The Pentagon refused to confirm or deny the claim, made by the Federation of (…)

SECRETS OF THE CIA - Astonishing Video on Google
CIA - Covered International Action
CIA/NSA - US staterunned Mafia/Terror/Drug traficking/Weapon trading and Money laundering Syndicate
A must see for every world citizen to better understand the history of war:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8085945499556832271&q=Secrets+of+the+CIA&pl=true

Nearly two months ago Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WVA) wrote a letter to the coordinator of National Intelligence , John "Batallion 316" Negroponte excoriating the Bush administration for it’s policy of leaking classified information for political purposes.... Rockefeller wrote the following : "....In his book "Bush at War" , Bob Woodward described almost unfettered access to classified material of the most sensitive nature.... He (Woodward) (…)