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by Bob Moser
Nashville
"When I tell you that the area where I grew up now resembles Tijuana more than the US—well, hang on, you’re about to see what I mean," says Theresa Harmon. Tennessee’s most vociferous anti-immigration organizer has just picked me up, straight from work at a local construction firm, in her red 1986 Mercury Cougar—a "kicker," she calls it fondly, apologizing for the lack of air-conditioning. "Bless your heart—I’m used to the heat," she says, talking her usual mile a (…)

by Randolph T. Holhut
DUMMERSTON, Vt. - Joe Lieberman’s sorry hide has been nailed to the wall, and there is rejoicing in the land (except from the lobbyists, pundits and political hacks who make up the permanent occupation force of Washington).
And while I am pleased to see a discredited, humiliated Lieberman forced to cast his lot in with his friends in the Republican Party, I won’t be completely convinced that the revolution is here until Hillary Clinton’s hide is nailed to the wall (…)

9/11 Truth Extends A Cordial Invitation -To Itself To Camp Democracy in Washington, DC
Cathy Garger
The buzz throughout the Internet is that a sizable number of those who do not buy the “official 9/11 story” that’s been shoveled to America for the past five years are coming en masse to Washington, DC in September. Apparently, many who have done careful research regarding the disturbing events that took the lives of nearly 2,800 have a great deal of information to share.
As anti-war (…)

Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
by Reuven Abarjel, introduction by Jeffrey Blankfort
During the late ‘60s and into the ‘70s, the reputation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which had its start in Oakland in 1966, spread far and wide, not only throughout the United States, but around the world, where the party was considered the leading arm of the Black liberation struggle in AmeriKKKa.
In Israel, the Black Panthers’ exploits (…)

12000 US Dead in Iraq, 25000 Seriously Wounded
Brian Harring - TBR News.org August 15, 2006
Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records linked at the end of this piece.) Given the (…)

by Mary MacElveen
When Ned Lamont won the Democratic primary in Connecticut against the three term senator, Joe Lieberman, it was taken that Democratic voters and Democrats themselves do not take terrorism seriously.
As a Democrat here in the United States, I will go on record stating that is complete nonsense.
Through many columns here at VHeadline.com, I have been calling for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles who is presently being held in El Paso, Texas.
It seems that the (…)

Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil Jeff Wilson and Saijel Kishan
Posted to the web on: 15 August 2006 Bloomberg
THE world may soon pay more than ever for its most abundant food: rice.
A record crop this year in a market anticipating rising production costs will do little to slow the rally for the staple diet of 3-billion people throughout the world.
As China, the top consumer, and Vietnam, one of the food’s biggest exporters, continue to plough up their paddies, (…)

Mexico poll protests turn violent
This is the first time force as been used on the election protesters Mexican riot police fired tear gas and used clubs to break up a protest by supporters of left-wing presidential challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Leftist lawmakers were among at least 30 people injured in the scuffles outside Congress in Mexico City.
Mr Lopez Obrador’s supporters have been camped out in protest at the 2 July election they say was stolen by conservative rival (…)

By Lucas Adler and Peter Schwarz
The Party of the European Left (EL) has appealed to the heads of the European Union (EU) and European governments to play a more active role in the present conflict in the Middle East.
In a statement adopted August 1 by the EL executive committee, the organisation says it is bewildered by “the weak, irresponsible position of the EU and European governments with seats on the UN Security Council, faced with the necessity to exert maximum pressure on all (…)

Israel’s verdict: We lost the war
By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, Israel
Published: 15 August 2006
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
16 August 2006 11:36 Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
Mr Olmert’s admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing (…)