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TOP REPUBLICAN Reagan Treasury official, writer, editor and academic Paul Craig Roberts has written that the World must stop Bush’s impending war on Iran that may involve nuclear weapons. Quoting Australian nuclear medicine expert Dr Helen Caldicott, he is horrified by the appalling consequences of a US-Israeli nuclear attack on peaceful, remote Iran (population 70 million).
Paul Craig Roberts declares that the World can halt Bush’s crimes by dumping the US dollar.
Paul Craig Roberts was (…)

Here is the short, concise and accurate Democratic objection to President Bush’s Surge policy in Iraq. This clearly demonstrates that the Democrat’s resolution is a firm and noble challenge.
Dear President Bush.
As a united body, we hereby support a resolution to stop your SURGE of 21,500 troops to finally bring peace to Iraq.
We want to leave the troops who are already there in place to continue the progress they’ve made over the last four years. We note many advances and successes (…)

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Russian Military Analysts are reporting today that President Putin has issued orders to the Russian Interior Ministry to ‘immediately’ dispatch Spetsnaz (Special Forces) troops to Iran to protect ‘vital’ Russian assets, including the Bushehr Nuclear power plant.
These reports state that this order from President Putin to the Interior Ministry includes the phrase, “against any and all hostile forces”, and which analysts state is (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
The Israeli arrogance of being the regional military super power, unequivocally backed by the U.S. world super power, is dictating a kind of politics that deals trivially with the national and religious grievances of Israel’s geopolitical neighbors, whom the Jewish state is supposedly aspiring to live with in peace and as a regional integral part, while at the same time she is pursuing policies that antagonize those same neighbors to preclude altogether whatever potential (…)

You know the standard talk by now, pure rhetoric about how the bombing and/or invasion fo Iran by the U.S. or Israel/Great Britan is likely to initiate worldwide conflagration, with Muslim populatons from Palestine to Indonesia attacking "Allied Interests", and then sending suicide bombers to our homeland to destroy our infrastructure and way of life?
Mule muffins! I have it on good authority from my friends and contacts in Washington....good folks like Cheney, Rove, Feith and Rice, that (…)

About 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen, Germany, February 10, 2007
Members of non-governmental organisations wear masks of the G7 finance minsiters as they protest for development aid and the remission of debt for poorest contries in front of the G7 finance ministers meeting in Essen, western Germany.
World finance chiefs gathering for a G7 summit were upbeat on the outlook for the global economy, but warned that high oil prices could put an (…)

The struggle against the new U.S. military base in Vicenza, Italy continues. Another national demonstration will be held on February 17. Our group, U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice, has endorsed this march and will participate, together with U.S. Citizens Against War in Florence.
National Demonstration: "Defend Our Land Against Bases of War" Vicenza, Italy
Vicenza is already home to several U.S. military installations, including Camp Ederle. The new base would occupy an area (…)

by KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Democrats have made it clear: They don’t support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn’t need lawmakers’ support for some of the changes that he wants to make to Medicare and Medicaid. He could get about $23 billion in savings over the next five years by issuing new federal regulations.
Students are among those who could (…)

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
President Nixon, a very good poker player, once defined the art of brinkmanship as persuading your opponent that you are insane and, unless appeased by pledges of surrender, quite capable of blowing up the planet.
By these robust standards George Bush is doing a moderately competent job in suggesting that if balked by Iran on the matter of arming the Shi’a in Iraq or pursuing its nuclear program he’ll dump high explosive, maybe even a couple of nukes, on that (…)

Killers in the Classroom
2/11/07
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
juneterpstra.com
During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had "sacrificed" by “serving” in Iraq so that I could enjoy the freedom to teach in the USA. Parroting their master’s slogan about “fighting over there so we don’t have to fight over here”, these students proudly proclaimed that they terrorized and killed defenseless Iraqis. They (…)