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by Keith Barratt ("Welshman") 25 February 2006
The United States and Iran share an expression of public opinion, one that still causes considerable distress to the majority of British:
[In 1997] the people of Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated a monument to Bobby Sands and the other Irish Republican Army hunger strikers.... The monument stands in a traffic circle known as “Bobby Sands Circle,” at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park. The Iranian government named a street in Tehran (…)

HAVE YOU EVER SAW A MORE GRUESOME TRIO???

Did Congress and the Senate "Day Trade" Ethanol on the day of the State of the Union address and rip-off Americans the following morning by selling it off?
It certainly looks as though the marriage between the White House, Senate and Congressional leadership and Wall Street has been exposed.
A side note: On January 18, 2006, Rep. Louise Slaughter stated that she had information relating to Rep. Tom DeLay and Rep. Bill Frist having "day-traders" working out of their offices. She said that (…)

Friday 24 February 2006
The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.
The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador (…)

MSNBC Countdown provides analysis from David Sirotaan who is an expert on big money’s influence on government:
This is not a scandal about one deal with one country. What’s especially motivating the President in his threat to issue a veto is the fact that he knows that if Congress is allowed to override this [deal] a precedent is set.
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America’s trade policy, for two decades, has entirely been [controlled by] corporate-owned free trade. If this deal is allowed to be blocked it would (…)

The journalists who are employed at major outlets have no fig leaf to hind under. In preface , I don’t know believe in war crimes prosection for the moronic neo-con websites . However , well educated , lavishly funded professional war agitators in the cable TV universe as well as their allied magazine and newspaper flagships need to feel the heat. They are no better than the radio announcers who fomented the genocide in Rwanda or hyped Der Fuhrer’s lies and cheered on his (…)

the second picture , explains the first picture of why Laura took a frying pan to dumbyas head. _ 2.22.06: Bush in Golden, Colorado. (AFP/Jim Watson)
"The Crack At The End Of The Whip"
I saw the Army for what it was: a powerful militant arm of a corrupt and ruthless government; the crack at the end of the whip.
February 24, 2006 Socialist Worker
JEFF ENGLEHART (…)

2-25-06
CONSPIRACY PHOBIA
by Dr. June Terpstra
Most people in the west have been programmed by media propagandists to react negatively when they hear the word "conspiracy." They treat anyone who investigates actual conspiracies as an oddball and call them names in an attempt to dismiss and discredit what is being said and what is being investigated at times with thorough and revealing research.
I struggle with this because on one hand history proves that people with power (…)

February 23, 2006 — Add two more U.S. ports to Bush-Dubai deal. In addition to the ports of New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia-Camden, Balitmore, Miami, and New Orleans being taken over by Dubai Ports World, add two military contracts that are held by the company — Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O Co.) that has been purchased by the Dubai firm. The two contracts, let by the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, provide stevedoring [loading and (…)

Upping the ante in what may be a high-stakes legal battle, an Upstate New York lawyer filed a $20 billion class-action lawsuit against Verizon last week, charging that the company violated customer confidentiality in aiding warrantless eavesdropping by a federal spy agency.
The civil suit is the second to challenge corporations for helping the National Security Agency carry out a secret order by the president to spy on communications between people in the United States and parties overseas (…)