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Organizers expect more than 300,000 people to converge in Washington this weekend seeking more than resolutions.
By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
When thousands of Iraq war protesters gather in Washington Saturday, their chants and amplified speeches are likely to be heard inside the secure grounds of the White House where the commander in chief has made his case for sending more troops into combat.
But the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue – the (…)

Why will American citizens accept a Nuclear strike on IRAN?.........Because they "think "that no American soldiers will die in a nuclear airstrike.The fact that the middle east will become a radiation fallout zone(it already is-DU) dosen’t matter as long as they can continue to go to work,go to the mall,brink beer and watch t.v. The fact that thousands if not millions of innocent Middle Easterners will suffer horribly MEANS NOTHING!!
The ONLY reason that American citizens are against (…)

Here are the top 10 reasons Hillary doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell: 1. Being the quintessence of a flipflopper, she’s far more chameleon than true leader, watching the wind far more than stirring the currents, especially regarding Iraq. 2. Name recogniition by this time has, like a carton of old cottage cheese, exceeded its expiration date. (Just ask Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson and Newt Gingrich about that syndrome) 3. Her voting record is an agenda that prompts running from (…)

BOOGA,BOOGA!
Trinity Thu Jan 25, 2007 13:40
The bogus terror scare we were sneering at on Monday turned out to be a big winner for the fearmongers at the New York Post.
Under the headline:
CHILLING PLOT FOR 9/11 II
New York Post readers found out that Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq planned to sneak into the United States with student visas and carry out a devastating new round of 9/11-style attacks [...] Whoa! It’s a major emergency, right?
Well, not exactly... Details of the (…)

Venezuela’s RCTV Acts of Sedition - by Stephen Lendman
On December 28, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias delivered his annual "greeting speech" to the National Armed Forces (FAN) and announced the operating license of TV station Radio Caracas Television (known as RCTV) broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 won’t be renewed when it expires on May 27, 2007. The station played a leading role, along with the other four major commercial private television channels in the country controlling 90% (…)

Synopsis: US-based Daniel Patrick Welch reacts with expected horror to George Bush’s surreal State of the Union address. Democrats, he notes, don’t appear willing or able to stop the runaway train. With no cavalry riding to the rescue, Welch turns to familiar metaphors to describe a new despair.
Daniel Patrick Welch http://danielpwelch.com
It strikes me how little of George Bush’s bullshit I can actually stomach as time goes on. It’s a little bit like THC, which builds up in the (…)

“Powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” - Ambrose Bierce
Washington, D.C. - While the Liar-in-Chief, George W. Bush, was giving his so-called, “State of the Union,” message inside the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, 2007, demonstrators were outside robustly exercising their First Amendment Rights, on the west side of the building, near its reflecting pool. Close by is a monument to one of my heroes—Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The protesters listened to (…)

"It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." Henry Kissinger
Americans Trapped in the Panic-Stricken Present What’d You Do Before the War, Uncle Dick?
The wonderful folks at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London have shown a correlation between brain damage to the hippocampus and amnesia which not only prevents remembering the past but the ability to visualize the future, as presented in the latest Proceedings of the (…)

Protesters clench fists as they march during the anniversary of the Mendiola massacre in Manila January 22, 2007. Demonstrators marked the 20th anniversary of the Mendiola massacre, commemorating 13 protesters who were killed and 80 wounded by a hail of bullets from policemen and soldiers
Still No Land, No Justice
Twenty years after the infamous Mendiola massacre, the victims and their families have yet to attain justice. The government did not give them any assistance even for burial (…)

The death of dogma is the birth of reality. Immanuel Kant During the latter part of the 90s the Neocons distilled their intentions into dogmas and ideologies aimed to spread democracy and Capitalism across the globe, particularly in the Middle East. Consequently, democracy, which had previously existed as a largely non-ideological phenomenon and written with a lower case ’d’ became an ideological set of beliefs written with an upper case ’D’. From Greece to Rome to the hinterlands, where (…)