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Published on Thursday, Mach 30, 2006
The Lincoln Group was tasked with presenting the US version of events in Iraq to counter adverse media coverage. Here we present examples of its work, and the reality behind its headlines;
This is the news from Iraq according to Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration.
A week after the US Defense Secretary criticized the media for " exaggerating" reports of violence in Iraq, The Independent has obtained examples of newspaper reports the Bush (…)

Published on Thursday, March 30, 2006
The vast majority of the U.S. public appears to have grown thoroughly disillusioned with Pres. George W. Bush’s crusade to spread democracy abroad, according to a new survey by one of the country’s premier public opinion analysts.
The survey, designed by Daniel Yankelovich, also found that public concern about U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources has skyrocketed in recent months, and has now joined Iraq as the kind of foreign policy issue that (…)

Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
As far as we can piece things together, March 31st, two years ago is the day that the First Cavalry arrived in Sadr City, a slum in Baghdad, formerly named "Saddam City," Iraq. I say "as far as we can piece together" because we have heard many different stories, but this date seems to be the one that we have heard most often.
Casey began a letter to us, his family, on April 1, 2004, telling us that he finally had an address where we (…)

by Adrian Salbuchi
Analysts the world over are starting to recognize the early warning signs of a gathering storm regarding the strength of the international financial system in general, and the stability of the United States Dollar, in particular.
This essay provides an alternative view on this impending crisis, written from the viewpoint of an Argentine analyst whose country has undergone recurrent monetary and financial crises over the past forty years, albeit on a domestic rather (…)

The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive."
The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most useful citizen"
He was recently voted the world’s number one intellectual in a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.
We’re talking about Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. Professor Chomsky has just released a new book titled "Failed States: The Abuse of (…)

Award winning director, producer and actor Ed Asner is the latest high profile public figure to voice his support for Charlie Sheen’s stance on 9/11 and share his own concerns about 9/11, the war in Iraq and the Neo-Cons.
Speaking to The Alex Jones Show Asner, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, echoed Charlie Sheen’s sentiments in stating, "I became suspicious of 9/11 on the day it happened."
"I will always be that suspect of it and challenge (…)

SAVING OUR HONOR
By Peter Fredson
March 31, 2006
It is indeed heartwarming to see the vigilance that Republicans are exercising over our morals, virtue, honor, and fine American character.
Recently a baseball player seemingly lied about taking some sort of performance enhancement drugs. This is abominable, unheard of, something destined to bring disrepute to the entire game, and will shame us on the world-wide stage.
Harsh treatment is certainly called for, to make sure that sports (…)

Every once and awhile someone disagrees with me and doesn’t accept some of my fundamental thoughts. Yeah I heard your jaws hitting the floor. So it’s like this, I received a reply this morning to one of my rants about 9/11 and how I’m upset because I can find no plane parts at the Pentagon. The writer is writing under the annon name of Vince because he is famous and well known and that’s the way it is. My life is filled with famous and well known people - nothing I can do about it. So here (…)

Who are all these "Abu’s" captured by US and Iraqi government forces ? Are they all ’ top aides’ to Insurgent leader’ , Abu Musab al- Zarqawi ? ..... Many in Iraq believe Zarqawi is running nothing more than his mouth.... Other reports indicate he’s dead.... One report from BBC claims he was caught and released in late 2005..... Have these men really taken the first name of their alleged leader , Zarqawi ? .... I well remember another Abu - as in Abu Nidal . He was an asset of (…)

FEINGOLD ANNOUNCES WITNESSES FOR HEARING ON CENSURE Reagan Official Bruce Fein, Nixon Counsel John Dean to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold announced today that Bruce Fein, former official in the Reagan Administration, and John Dean, former Counsel to President Nixon, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at Friday’s hearing on Feingold’s resolution to censure the president. The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday (…)