AMERICANS HAVE TWO CHANCES TO MAINTAIN THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES & ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: SLIM AND NONE...

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The Dollar's Full-System Meltdown

By Mike Whitney

Everyone in Washington already knew that doomsday
was approaching. That’s the way the system was designed
from the very beginning. It’s all part of the madcap scheme
to “starve the beast” and transfer the nation’s wealth to
a handful of western plutocrats. Continue

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Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent markets meltdown:

Paulson re-activates secretive support team to prevent
markets meltdown Judging by their body language, the
US authorities believe the roaring bull market this autumn
is just a suckers' rally before the inevitable storm hits

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United States National Debt:

An Analysis of the Presidents Who Are Responsible For
Excessive Spending

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Introduction To U.S. History Uncensored :

I have been and will continue to be accused of hating America
and lacking gratitude for the benefits of being born in this
nation. To this accusation I can only call on the wisdom
of the great American writer Mark Twain who stated
that “We should be loyal to our country at all times
and to our government when it deserves it.”

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Target Iran

This is a must listen

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh.

The Truth About the White House's Plans for
Regime Change. Click to listen.

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The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country:

As the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II:
"War is essentially an evil thing ... To initiate a war of
aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it
is the supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole."

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Scott Ritter: Weapons of Mass Delusion :

Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the
invasion and occupation of Iraq

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The way the police treat us verges on the criminal:

Guilty until proven innocent now seems to be the
watchword of a government that increasingly treats
its law-abiding citizens with absolute contempt

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Top accountant says U.S. faces financial ruin:

"This is about the future of our country, our kids and
grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States
warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel.
"We the people have to rise up to make sure things
get changed."

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Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela:

[T]he US has had two major weapons for controlling
Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic
controls, the other is military force. They have both
been used continually. Both of them are weakening
and it’s a very serious problem for US planners

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Airport screeners fail to see most test bombs:

Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport,
one of the starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed
20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover
U.S. agents last week, missing concealed bombs and
guns at checkpoints throughout the major air hub's
three terminals, according to federal security officials.

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The Worst Congress Ever

By Matt Taibbi

How our national legislature has become a stable of
thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps . Continue

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Bush The Cheerleader

By Ray McGovern

When President George W. Bush was asked at his
news conference last Wednesday whether we are
winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're
winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough
to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president
as he lived through another bad week with further
diminished credibility. Continue

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Robert Scheer: A truly scary Iraq scenario :

The astounding arrogance that underwrites Bush's
smug determination to keep killing and maiming
tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people is
no different than that of Presidents Lyndon Johnson
and Richard Nixon. Both knew the war was a failure,
but determined to "stay the course" for a decade
out of a misguided belief in protecting an image
of American infallibility that was paired with
shameful political motives.

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The Spoils of Corruption

By Charles Sullivan

The mainstream media, like organized religion, is
used to program public perceptions-to steer us
away from truth and to perpetuate fairy tales
that extol the virtues of bribery, violence, and
greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot
think for themselves and persuades them to act
like fools in the eyes of the world. Continue

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The Enlightenment of Resistance

By Manuel Valenzuela

Resistance will begin when the many begin the healing
of civilization and the planet, when a massive movement
commences to purge warmongering leadership from
our midst, when a tidal wave of humanity floods the
concrete jungles and steel canyons we live in, marching
to the drumbeats of peace, non-violence and universal
harmony. That is Revolution at the dawn of the 21st
century. Continue

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US-Latin American Relations

By James PetrasMeasuring

The Rise or Fall of US Power : A realistic analysis
demonstrates that political interventions, class
conflict and international markets play a major role
in shaping US-Latin American relations and more
particularly the ascent and decline of US imperial
power, social revolutionary forces and the other
political variants in between. Continue

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US Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting toInterrogation Techniques

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Diebold Demands HBO Cancel Documentary on Voting Machines

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The New York Times: The Fence Campaign

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Norman Solomon: How I Was WrongAbout Thomas Friedman

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Dean Baker: Social Security Is on the Ballot Next Week

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Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Wants Republicans to Win

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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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ONE OF OUR BEST "WAR CORRESPONDENTS" HAS A FEW HUMBLING WORDS. AND I MEAN HUMBLING WORDS, AND THAT'S PUTTING IT MILDLY...

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Joe Galloway: Ruining America

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Study: Drink more water, lose more weight at USATODAY.com

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Curry may keep elderly minds sharp

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A diet containing curry
may help protect the aging brain, according a study of
elderly Asians in which increased curry consumption
was associated with better cognitive performance on
standard tests.

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Army monitors soldiers' blogs, Web sites


RICHMOND, Va. - From the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan
to here at home, soldiers blogging about military life are under
the watchful eye of some of their own.

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Race casts shadow over tight US senate race

One of the tightest races in the US legislative elections
has devolved into racially-charged mudslinging aimed
at a man who hopes to become the first African-American
elected to the senate from a Southern state.

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No climate action may spark economic crisis: report

Ignoring climate change could lead to economic upheaval
on the scale of the 1930s Depression, underlining the
need for urgent action to combat global warming, a
British report on the costs of climate change said.

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Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela:

[T]he US has had two major weapons for controlling
Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic
controls, the other is military force. They have both been
used continually. Both of them are weakening and it’s a
very serious problem for US planners

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Frank Rich: Dying to Save the GOP

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The Los Angeles Times: Racism Enters the Races

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Top Government Official Says US on Verge of Economic Disaster

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"The President Knows More Than He Lets On"

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Cheney's Remarks Fuel Torture Debate

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Robert Parry: Part III: Original October Surprise

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What We Expect Democrats To Do If They Take Congress

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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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ANOTHER PROFILE OF COURAGE: KEITH OLBERMANN. HIS PROFOUND AND ASTUTE ARTICLE IS A TRUTH UNTO ITSELF. A REAL MASTERPIECE...! AND HONEST AS CAN BE...

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Keith Olbermann: Advertising Terrorism

AND

Advertising Terrorism

By Keith Olbermann

You have adopted bin Laden and Zawahiri as spokesmen
for the Republican National Committee! Video and transcript

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Comment: And here's another profile of courage, and
a man I've always respected for his gutsy perceptions
that most of us walk right on by. He sees the world
like a child does...and wonders what it's all about. A
hero in my estimation. And I believe Mr. Rooney
would be proud of the above article written by
Mr. Keith Olbermann in every respect. Two honorable
men. Difficult acts to follow, that's for sure...

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Rooney: What Are We Doing In Iraq?

Andy Thinks Getting Rid Of Saddam Hussein Was Good
But Wonders What We Are Doing There Now

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Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
The president's real goal in Iraq
The Project for the New American Century.
The Plan is for the United States to rule the world.
America's War for Global Domination:
Will Iran Be Next?
Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy
Secret Downing Street Memo
UK Ministers Knew WMD Was "Excuse"
Leaked Cabinet Office paper
Poll: U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006

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Norman Solomon: Channeling Thomas Friedman

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Bill McKibben: How Close to Catastrophe?

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Dean Baker: After the Housing Bubble Bursts

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U.S. Planing Coup against Maliki Government:

Iraqi army officers are reportedly planning to stage a
military coup with U.S. help to oust the government
of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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Scott Galindez: It's About Checks and Balances

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Robert Parry: How Democrats Might Blow It

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Former CIA spy branded a traitor wants to clear his name:

He was hurtling into history as one of this nation's most
infamous traitors until three years ago -- when a federal
judge concluded he'd been buried with the help of
government lies.

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Why War Fails

By Howard Zinn

I suggest there is something important to be learned
from the recent experience of the United States and
Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks
are not only morally reprehensible but useless in achieving
the stated aims of those who carry them out. Continue

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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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"GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!": OH, REALLY? THAT CAN BE ARRANGED THESE DAYS. YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE ASSASSINATIONS, RENDITIONS & TORTURE, ETC.

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The limits of liberty: We're all suspects now :

Ten years ago, the novelist and polemicist Henry Porter
would have felt silly speaking out about human rights in
Britain. But that was before the most fundamental assault
on personal freedom ever undertaken. Now, he argues, it's
time we woke up to reality

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Congress' shameful retreat from American values:

None of the men and women who voted for this bill has
any right to speak in public about the rule of law anymore,
or to take a high moral view of the Third Reich, or to wax
poetic about the American Ideal. Mark their names

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Do ‘computer police' have too much power?:

On Saturday morning, Sept. 23, 2006, many police
vehicles appeared in our driveway. Men in black with
flak jackets ran to and around our house.

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Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases:

The administration has formally notified the U.S. District
Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider
hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at
the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

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Bush’s S.S. Grills 14 Year-Old:

Two super-sized adult male U.S. Secret Service (“S.S.”) agents
banged on the front door at 14 year-old Julia Wilson’s home
last Thursday during school hours, but Julia wasn’t home.
Predictably (except to the S.S. agents), the straight-A student
was in her microbiology class at school.

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William Rivers Pitt: A Major Event

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AMERICANS WANTED TO BELIEVE

BY CYNTHIA TUCKER

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The New York Times: It's Voter-FoolingTime in America

Also see: http://factcheck.org

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Tony Karon: No, Iraq Is Not Vietnam

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Matt Taibbi: Time to Go!Inside the Worst Congress Ever

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Kevin Tillman: After Pat's Birthday

Comment: A heartrendering account of the status quo.

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David Swanson:

The Industrial Services ComplexFormerly Known as the Military

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Missy Comley Beattie Surges: The Dowand the Death Count

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Win or Lose, Democrats Plan Another Wimp-Out

By Ted Rall

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Dean Baker: Are We Doing Good Yet?

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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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UNBELIEVABLE...! PROMINENT CONSERVATIVES ARE ACTUALLY WISHING FOR A DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? IF NOT, SEE FOR YOURSELF

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Time For Us To GoConservatives on why the GOP should lose in 2006.

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Australian Treasurer Seeks Orderly Withdrawal From U.S. Dollar

By John Garnaut Economics Correspondent

Central banks in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong
Kong have channelled immense foreign reserves into American
government bonds, helping to prop up the US dollar and hold
down American interest rates. Mr Costello said "the strategy
had changed" and Chinese central bankers were now looking
for alternative investments. Continue

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Striking the US where it hurts

By Victor N Corpus

A decision by China to shift a major portion of its reserve
to the euro or the yen or gold could trigger other central
banks to follow suit. Nobody would want to be left behind
holding a bagfull of dollars rapidly turning worthless. The
herd psychology would be very difficult to control in this
case because national economic survival would be at stake.
Continue

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America's Greatest Threat

By Keith Olbermann

We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived. as people in fear.
And now - our rights and our freedoms in peril - we slowly
awake to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Continue

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Upon Red Rivers of Genocide

Living Inside Hell on Earth

By Manuel Valenzuela

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Riverbend is back: Iraqi girl blog:

The Lancet Study...:

This has been the longest time I have been away from
blogging. There were several reasons for my disappearance
the major one being the fact that every time I felt the
urge to write about....

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Reflections on the Eve of Another Rigged Election

By Ernest Partridge

The Bush administration can not allow the Democrats
to take control of either house of Congress. And they
are in a position to prevent it, regardless of the will of
the American voters. Continue

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Democracy Now! Interview: Ghost Plane:

The True Story of the CIA Torture Program

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10/18/06
The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic.

By Juan Cole

Bush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US
Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of a court
review (habeas corpus) for some classes of suspect. Suspect,
mind you, not proven criminal. Continue

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A Time Of Shame

National yawn as our rights evaporate’By Keith Olbermann -
Anchor, 'Countdown'First thing this morning, the president
signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which
does away with habeas corpus, the right of suspected terrorists
or anybody else to know why they have been imprisoned,
provided the president does not think it should apply to you
and declares you an enemy combatant. Video and transcript.

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Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America

By Stan GoffAuthor Stan Goff, a retired 26-year
veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a
warning call that many of the historical precursors
of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture,
vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia
and economic destabilization—are ascendant in America
today. Continue

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Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil

By Joshua Holland

Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil
war, four big oil companies are on the verge of locking
up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone
in the petroleum industry as "the prize." Continue

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LAPD is cracking down on the city's poorest residents.:

"It's like we are dogs," said Melvin, an elderly homeless man in a
wheelchair, as tears streamed down his cheeks.

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Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq

By Chris Floyd

Yes, victory. You wonder why Bush and his minions
maintain the seemingly irrational belief that "things are
going well" in Iraq, that "we're making progress," etc.?
That's because things are going well in the war they are
fighting: the war for money and power. Continue

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The propaganda of our times

By Paul R. Dunn J.B.

Priestly in the Root Is Fear wrote: "Almost all propaganda is
designed to create fear. Heads of governments and their
officials know that a frightened people are easier to govern,
will forfeit rights it would otherwise defend, are less likely
to demand a better life, and will agree to millions and millions
being spent on 'defense'." Between now and Election Day
we'll see Karl Rove's minions flaunt the Islamic Fascist line
repeatedly and unabashedly to garner votes. Continue

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The worst in Iraq is still to come

By Simon Tisdall

In the US, Iraq is now primarily an electoral rather
than a nation-building, humanitarian or counter-terrorism
issue. With the Republicans fighting to retain control of
Congress in next month's midterm polls, George Bush's
Middle East freedom mission has become a hard-nosed
numbers game. Continue

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Stewart in Leg-irons; the latest victory in the war on terror

By Mike Whitney

So far, Bush’s only triumph in his muddled war on terror has
been locking up the two Stewart Sisters, Lynne and Martha.
(They’re not really sisters) Neither posed any threat to national
security, but that’s beside the point. Their arrest sends a chilling
message to “home-decoration mavens” and 67 year old cancer
patients that they’d better “watch their step” or they’ll find
themselves in prison-pinstripes. Continue

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Iraqi Judge Sentences U.S. Citizen To Death After U.S. Military
“Demanded” the Man Be Executed: An Iraqi-born US citizen is
in a battle to save his life as he tries to avoid execution in Baghdad.
But he’s not up against insurgents groups – he’s up against the
Iraqi and US governments.

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Iraq Through a Rebel's Eyes

By Andrew Greene

Thomas Jefferson was a rebel, as so many of his comments
demonstrated. He also was a gun enthusiast, and not the
bird-shooting kind. His gang of insurgents fought the British
with the eighteenth century equivalents of assault rifles, RPGs,
and roadside bombs — and that is why they are worth recalling
when our conversation turns to Iraq. Continue

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America's "Other" War Party

By Mike Whitney

The giddiness among Democrats about their prospects for a
sweep in both Houses of Representatives has reached a level
of absolute euphoria. But what exactly are the voters are
hoping for? Continue

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If Only George Bush Had Been Amish

By Doug Soderstrom,

Having “the last say” depends not so much upon who is able
to throw the final punch, but rather who it is that is most wise,
who is able to impel folks to be a friend of he who happens to be
crowned as victor. Continue

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F. William Engdahl: Crisis of the U.S. Dollar System:

The US position in the world since 1945, and especially since
1971, has rested on two pillars, however: The superiority of
the US military over all, and, the role of the dollar as world
reserve currency. That dollar is the Achilles heel of American
hegemony today.

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Molly Ivins: Don't Count the Republicans Out

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The New York Times: The Odor From Capitol Hill

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The New York Times: Guilty Until Confirmed Guilty

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Are YOU the Enemy?by Joe Wolverton II, J.D.

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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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