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Dec 27 5:04 AM US/Eastern
Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world’s most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout.
From frustrated traders seeking in vain for stock quotes to anxious newshounds accustomed to round-the-clock updates on world events, millions of people from China to Japan to Australia were believed to have been affected.
There was no chaos on the stock exchanges or any of (…)

A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule - by Stephen Lendman
Borrowing the opening line from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." He referred to the French Revolution promising "Liberte, egalite and fraternite" that began in 1789, inspired by ours from 1775 - 1783. It ended a 1000 years of monarchal rule in France benefitting those of privilege and established the nation as a republic the way ours did for us here a few years (…)

World Leaders Call for Peace on Holiday By TARIQ PANJA
(AP) Christian nuns pray inside the Grotto, the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, within the...
LONDON (AP) - From soldiers who donned red Santa hats in Afghanistan to devoted worshippers visiting Bethlehem, Christians around the world celebrated Christmas with the sobering thoughts of peace and tolerance even as open war flared in Somalia.
Pope Benedict XVI used his Christmas Day address at the Vatican to call for a (…)

by Ivan Eland
Ever since the Iraq Study Group (ISG) issued its recommendations, the debate in Washington has swirled around what to do about the mess in Iraq. Unfortunately, both the recommendations of the study group and the contradictory inclinations of the Bush administration are “bridges to nowhere.” Both groups are in denial about the chaos in Iraq and are not yet ready to offer the tough solutions that could stabilize the country. Perhaps they should accept the top ten things not to (…)

by Mary MacElveen
December 26, 2006
I was going to write a Christmas message to all of my readers, but an error occurred which prevented me from posting any message on my blog. As I see now, it has cleared itself.
With that said, I do hope that all of my readers enjoyed this special day with family and friends. I also hope that our soldiers still deployed over in Iraq and Afghanistan entered our minds as we celebrated a day so full of life. They should have been home amongst their (…)

An Interview with Jason Miller
I recently had the privilege of conducting a “cyber interview” with one of the preeminent domestic critics of the American Empire. Despite his relatively recent start, Stephen Lendman has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous and well-respected chroniclers of truth in the alternative media community. Asserting unflinching support for social democracy, Hugo Chavez, and the countless victims of US foreign and domestic policy, Lendman has penned a growing (…)

Russian General Leonid Ivashov says that international terrorism effectively does not exist and that only national secret services were capable of mounting the 9/11 attacks.
According to General Ivashov: "Only secret services and their current chiefs – or those retired but still having influence inside the state organizations – have the ability to plan, organize and conduct an operation of such magnitude. Generally, secret services create, finance and control extremist organizations. (…)

For the communist militants, it is urgent that the anti-liberal Left make known its alternative propositions during the campaign.
What next steps for the anti-liberal movement? Can the disagreement concerning the candidature for the presidential election be surmounted? How?
"The passage by force (for the candidacy) of the French Communist Party (PCF), and, on another scale, the refusal of the leaders of the Communist Revolutionary League (LCR) to engage in the process, will leave scars", (…)

As Iraqi society descends further and further into mayhem, comedians, satirists and commentators of all kinds have made great hay from the supposed incompetence and stupidity of our leaders.This would be the Mass Media Spin.
But as the Canadian Spectator suggested recently, if it should happen that the United States is not run by buffoons, “one must conclude that chaos, impoverishment and civil war in the Muslim world…far from being the unintended consequences, are precisely the objectives (…)