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By Nicola Nasser*
The crisis in Lebanon is rapidly accumulating the potential to plunge the country in a second civil war, while Israel is closely watching on the sidelines for the right moment to exploit the ensuing security vulnerability and finish the Lebanese divide off by intervening militarily to conclude what it officially describes as the “inconclusive” war last summer. Meanwhile, the most influential external potential mediators, regional and international, are more or less part (…)

Wayne Madsen – Wayne Madsen Report January 28, 2007
Corporate media and DC law enforcement collude once again in shaving anti-war march numbers. On a postcard perfect weather day in Washington, in excess of 150,000 people gathered on the Washington Mall, west of the US Capitol, to hear members of Congress and Hollywood celebrities call for the Bush administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. However, as with past anti-war demonstrations in Washington, the corporate media, largely (…)

Bernard Lagan in Sydney
Huge bill to fix leaking pipes Canberra to take control of rivers
As Australia’s drought deepens, ruining farms, leaving towns without water and causing thousands of city homes to crack as the soil dries out, John Howard, the Prime Minister, announced a radical A$10.5 billion (£4 billion) programme to restore the nation’s dwindling rivers.
Mr Howard declared the viability of the vast Murray-Darling Basin at risk and announced that the Government would take over (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma — mpwright9@aol.com Former CIA director George Tenet has publicly accused Time magazine of making a false report about the agency’s conduct shortly before the 9/11 attack. The accusation was made during a speech at the University of Oklahoma on March 8, 2005. According to Time, in August 2001 the CIA had misinformed the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was later indicted and accused of conspiring with the 9/11 terrorists. In 2005 Moussaoui pled (…)

This one is moving and inspiring. Stop Bush before he kills again.
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
Peace,
Justice Suffram

By Peter Fredson
January 29, 2007
Torture? What Torture? No Torture! Just forget it!
Someone outed a CIA agent? Gee, wonder who that could’ve been?
Karl Rove. Nice Guy. I hadda put him in charge of reconstruction of New Orleans...
Tom DeLay? Haven’t seen him around lately.
Condi Rice? Nice Shoes. Perky. Does anything I tell her to do.
Dick Cheney? Uncle Dick? Keeps secrets.
Laura? Knows when to shut up.
I have to kill them “over there” or else they’ll come to Crawford and (…)

White House increasingly isolated as even the Republicans join condemnation of ’surge’
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 28 January 2007
As thousands of demonstrators protested against the Iraq war outside the Capitol yesterday, top Congressional Republicans have warned President George Bush that his controversial troop increase has a few months at the very most to show results.
The threat that his own party will turn against him is the clearest sign yet of the (…)

Charles Cobb Jnr
26 January 2007 09:18
The stance of the United States with respect to the rest of the world has changed radically under the “conservative” administration of George W Bush. The latest indication of the militarisation that is at the forefront of this shift came on December 13, when then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that within “one to two months” the US military would establish an African Command — adding a sixth region to the existing five US geographic (…)

As President Bush orders more troops to Iraq, thousands of demonstrators marched on Washington’s National Mall Saturday to urge the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
The Washington Post reported authorities have pegged the crowd at about 100,000 people, including venerable war opponents such as Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Penn chided Bush for what he said was trying to make Americans afraid.
"Remember a time when presidents said ’the only thing you have (…)

“It’s so irresponsible that they can’t be quiet.” - William Kristol, a Neocon, in referring to critics of the Iraqi War. (1)
Washington, D.C. On a sunny day, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, with the temperatures in the high-40s, the National Mall, was filled with protesters against the Iraqi War. A Who’s Who list of speakers against the ongoing evildoings of the Bush-Cheney Gang let their voices be heard by the spirited crowd. The massive demonstration’s prime sponsor was the United for Peace (…)