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Published on Sunday, April 2, 2006 by the lndependent/UK US and UK Forces Establish ’Enduring Bases’ in Iraq Despite talk of withdrawal ’when the job is done’, there are signs that coalition troops will be there for the long term
by Andrew Buncombe in Washington
The Pentagon has revealed that coalition forces are spending millions of dollars establishing at least six "enduring" bases in Iraq - raising the prospect that US and UK forces could be involved in a long-term deployment in the (…)

He is almost certainly the next GOP presidential nominee..... He is leading near certain Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by margins of 10-15% in all national polls..... According to American Research Group , he is leading leading Hillary Clinton by nine points- in Massachusetts ! ..... His name is Senator John McCain and by all accounts he posesses a most unpresidential demeanor..... His temper is volcanic... His propensity for War unsatiable.... Little wonder he was (…)

29 March 2006
New video highlights the threat
In a newly released video, titled "Will America use nuclear weapons in a military showdown with Iran?", Dr Jeorge Hirsch, Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego, compellingly draws the attention of the international community to the threats and dangers of a US nuclear attack on Iran.
In an August 2005 issue of The American Conservative, former CIA officer Philip Girarldi raised the alarm over in-process Pentagon (…)

Dr.Lawrence J. Peter is known for his famous "principle", the focus of his famous book "The Peter Principle" His principle states that "Every employee in a hierarchy rises to the highest level of competency. After that, with one more promotion he stops at the level of his INcompetency"
Nowhere can I find a better example than with our current (crazed) Secretary of State, Ms.Condoleezza Rice, who, after having achieved fame as an accomplished ballerina, classical pianist, Russian expert (…)

Scholars for 9/11 Truth call for verification and publication by an international consortium.
Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 — A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11.
They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" (…)

By CRAIG S. SMITH
PARIS, March 28 - Armed with hot dogs and baguettes, balloons, buttons, banners and, of course, gallons of red wine, France’s major trade unions set out Tuesday to change the law, or to bring down a prime minister trying.
Responding to their rallying cry, more than a million people showed up in the streets, marching in the familiar protest parades that the unions sponsor from time to time. In Paris, the slow-moving street fair stretched for miles.
"The unions haven’t (…)

By BC Editor Bruce Dixon
Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same federal legislation that brought at least three hundred thousand into the streets of Chicago two weeks earlier, and smaller crowds in dozens of other cities. As this article is written, the U.S. Senate has just stricken the most onerous provisions of pending immigration bills which make an instant felon (…)

by Uri Avnery
THE MOST dramatic and the most boring election campaign in our history has mercifully come to an end. Israel looks in the mirror and asks itself: What the hell has happened?
On the way to the ballot box, in the center of Tel-Aviv, I could not detect the slightest sign that this was election day. Generally, elections in Israel are a passionate affair. Posters everywhere, thousands of slogan-covered cars rushing around ferrying voters to the ballot stations, a lot of noise. (…)

It was added to a list of proscribed substances in an act of crass stupidity by a junior apparatchik during the 1920’s.
Of course, however the mistake is made, we all know that our wonderful governments do not admit to fallibility. How we have suffered as a result. Now the time has surely arrived for us, as a nation, to take a grown up standpoint on such a ridiculous decision.
Cannabis is called weed for a single reason: if it gets the chance it will grow anywhere. From that position (…)

By Derrick Z. Jackson
PRESIDENT BUSH said he invaded Iraq to rid the world of a madman. It is ever more clearer Bush went mad to start it.
This week, the New York Times reported on a confidential memo about a meeting between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Jan. 31, 2003. It was just before Secretary of State Colin Powell would go before the United Nations to convince the world of the planetary threat of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ask for a second UN resolution to (…)