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Bush’s Nuclear Apocalypse
By Chris Hedges
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the
guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer
USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the
fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write,
making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The
ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month.
It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show
of American power. But I doubt it. Continue
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Ambling towards Disaster; Bush’s North Korea Policy
By Mike Whitney
It took 6 years of relentless threats, sanctions and belligerence,
but Bush finally succeeded in pushing Kim Jong-Il to build
North Korea’s first nuclear bomb. Now, Kim can just add a
few finishing touches to his ballistic-missile delivery system,
the Taepo-dong ICBM, and he’ll be able to wipe out the 9
western states with a flip of the switch. Continue
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Nuclear Blackmail
By Eric S. Margolis
North Korea has repeatedly agreed to junk its nuclear weapons
provided the US does three things: 1. deal directly with
Pyongyang, which Washington refuses to do; 2. provide
security guarantees that the US will not attack North Korea;
3. provide economic aid. The Bush Administration’s hard-line
neoconservatives refuse to ‘validate’ North Korea’s totalitarian
regime through direct talks. Neocons are determined to overthrow
Kim Jong-il. Continue
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Cindy Sheehan : A Nation Still at War:
Friend---it is going to take us (me and you) to effect any
changes in this country. From the anti-slavery movement
to the Civil Rights movement, to every good movement in
between, it has been we the people demanding these changes
and not resting until we got them. Good comes from the
bottom up---crap rolls down hill. I am tired of getting
crapped on by our government
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The Two Faces Of Rumsfeld:
2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to
sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: declares
North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and
a target for regime change
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Where are the voices?
The shame of silence in the face of Israeli and US crimes
By Paul J. Balles
Where are the voices of moral righteousness that the
world has always depended upon to rein in the evil forces
of conquering warlords? The teachers and professors - why
are they silent? The virtuous - the clergy and elders of
church and mosque and synagogue - who covered their
mouths with duct tape and broke their pens and keyboards?
Continue
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Wars and propaganda machines
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Propaganda machines are dangerous, even more so in a
democracy than in a totalitarian regime, because their
goal is to confuse, disinform, lie, raise fear and manipulate
the opinions of the people. Continue
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Welcome to the Nuclear Club!
By Norman Solomon
Rest assured that while President Bush was at a podium
in the White House on Monday denouncing the North Korean
nuclear test as a "provocative act," Karl Rove was hard
at work to fine-tune plans for a rhetorical onslaught linking
this crisis to the "war on terror." Continue
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Documents: CIA warned of plane bomb plot
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Andy's Geography Lesson
When Andy Rooney learned geography, there were only
48 states. Now he wonders if he - along with all other
adults - should be forced back to school every few years.
The consequences of failing could be dire! More...
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Food For Thought
There are always warnings about certain foods - most
recently tainted spinach. Andy Rooney ponders some
of the foods he likes and dislikes, including horsemeat,
and wonders if the world will eventually turn vegetarian.
More...
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All The President's Men And Women
It takes an army of people to keep the White House
running; it turns out there are 433 assistants. And as
Andy Rooney found out, some of them have pretty
interesting titles, such as "Director of Lessons Learned"
and "Gift Analyst." More...
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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
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Comment: Installments seventeen and eighteen are now posted
of the serialization of F. Scott Sinclair's novel: Pancho Villa Avenged
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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