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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Gen. John Abizaid, who oversees U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as head of Central Command, has agreed to keep the job at least another year at the request of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, defense officials said on Tuesday.
Abizaid, 54, is responsible for about 250,000 troops in the 25-nation Central Command region stretching from the Horn of Africa to Central Asia, spanning much of the Middle East.
Since he succeeded Army (…)

by Daniel Patrick Welch
Given the state of politics in the US and the moribund resistance from popular forces, it is often surprising to many that some of the great struggles of our time had their start in the Belly of the Beast. The tradition of May 1 as International Labor Day, for example, is marginalized in the country of its birth: it was the capstone of American Labor’s fight for the eight hour day in which women and anarchists played a prominent role. International Women’s Day was (…)

George W. Bush continues his "March Madness" Tour in West Virginia . MESSAGE : THE WAR IS GOING GREAT.... Well, the civil war instigated by his Pentagon is going great .... Is that what he is talking about ? The Mossad has trained thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga death squad cadre to join up with their new best friends , the Badr Brigade , to terrorise the Sunni civilian population.... The Pentagon promiscously bragged of carrying this diabloic plan to journalists at Newsweek and , for (…)

by Gary Revel
Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, 26 year veteran CIA Case Officer and Counter Intelligence expert like many African-Americans are somewhat familiar with the now deceased Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI, William Sullivan. Most of those who know of him also know that he was killed a week before he was to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977. What can be learned of his career comes from his autobiography (that was completed and published (…)

The following link is as close to a smoking gun as I’ve been able to find. Opening the link immediately brings you to a playing video. It takes about a minute to open. The style is similar to Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11. Reviewers call it the film Michael Moore should have made. It is being distributed for free by its makers. I think it has high credibility and is quite provocative. Can’t hurt to pass it on. rb
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change

If Italy can have a Mafia, and Russians can have a Mafia, and Japanese can have a Yakuza, etc, etc, etc, and they all have US operations, why would it be any surprise whatsoever that we could have an Israeli Mafia in the US?
Truth being stranger than fiction, it wouldn’t surprise me if they have co-opted most of the US government with what always is at the bottom of trouble - money/wealth.
How else can you explain the US supporting Israel in anything it does, even though it ticks off all (…)

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. is spinning lies about Iran’s nuclear program as an excuse to control more foreign oil.
In a nationally televised speech, Chavez said escalating U.S. concern about Tehran and the invasion of Iraq both resulted from America’s insatiable thirst for petroleum.
One of the world’s most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy also claims the Bush administration is lying about Iranian efforts to build an atomic bomb, while (…)

From Australia to Hollywood, people march to demand that troops be withdrawn.
By Sara Lin and Deborah Schoch
While some brought anti-war placards and petitions to Hollywood on Saturday, a group called Veterans for Peace crafted 100 flag-draped coffins from cardboard cartons and carried them down Sunset Boulevard to mark the more than 2,300 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war.
At MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, the American Friends Service Committee laid out 240 pairs of boots, each (…)

By VANESSA REDGRAVE
I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for—a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman.
This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever (…)

By JAMES KANTER
PARIS - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of France faced an ultimatum from union leaders today to withdraw the employment law that set off huge nationwide demonstrations and sporadic violence over the weekend or face a general strike.
After the protests ended in outbreaks of violence late Saturday, union leaders gave Mr. Villepin a deadline of Monday evening to withdraw the First Employment Contract, which was intended to make it easier for businesses to hire and fire (…)