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There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12622.htm
It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
Virtually anyone paying attention (…)

The Passionate Attachment:
U.S. Support for Aggressive Zionism, the Real Problem in the Middle East
By Albert Doyle, LL.B., LL.M.
“So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, (…)

PNN exposes the full story of Israeli bulldozers burying a Palestinian alive in Hebron
(Hebron) Saed Al Shouhki 06:00 pm 02.04.06 http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/apr/week1/020406/report1.htm
All week long Hasham Mohammad Mousa Asamahain waits for Friday to come. His reasoning, in short, is that on that day the 41 year old has a chance to go and earn a living. That is why Asamahain readied himself to travel to Beit Shemish, in the extreme north, west of Hebron. He was not in the (…)

From DEMOCRACYNOW !
AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)

By Ahmet Dinc http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12615.htm
04/02/06 "Zaman" — — The United States is firm in its plans to launch a military operation against Iran, said Kazim Jalali, a spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Commission of Foreign Affairs, adding the United States would find another reason for its military operation even if the nuclear plants were immediately shut down.
There are peaceful motives behind the nuclear projects in Iran, said Jalali, when he (…)

Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
By The Associated Press http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12626.htm
04/03/06 "AP" — — OSLO, Norway ? Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement.
Blix, attending an energy conference in western Norway, said he doubted the U.S. would resort to invading Iran.
"But there is a chance that the U.S. will (…)

Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
04/02/06 "Telegraph" — — The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran’s ability (…)

04/02/06 "Washington Post" - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12617.htm
— Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush’s conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
We have had small-scale theocracies in North America before — in Puritan New England and later in Mormon Utah. Today, a leading power (…)

"Israel votes for disengagement and final borders" and "Israelis abandon the dream of Greater Israel" were the main themes in the spin that characterized mainstream, even some progressive, media coverage of the Israeli parliamentary elections which took place on March 28. In reality, the election results revealed that a consensus has emerged among Israeli Jews, not only against the basic requirements of justice and genuine peace, as that was always the case, but also in support of a more (…)

Published on Monday, April 3, 2006 by Max Hastings
Francis Fukuyama’s Iraq recantation has received keen attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Like many US conservatives, he now distances himself from what has been done in the neocons’ name by the Bush administration. Of course, we welcome every sinner that repenteth, but the people who seem most deserving of respect are those clever Americans who got it right in the first place. Most of my US military acquaintances opposed the (…)