Opinion • More about Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
CONNECTING THE DOTS
ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY STEM FROM ILLUSIONS OF INTEGRITY
11-06-2006
Frosty Wooldridge
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Feature Article • More about Humor
The Simpson's War of the Worlds
Powell Gammill
The end conversation between the martians on the political ramifications of invasion is priceless. (6:20 minutes)
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Feature Article • More about Voting and Elections
What can libertarians share with the Iraqi people about voting?
Ernest Hancock
Many of us close to the political process here in America already know the path that has been laid out for the Iraqi people, and where it leads. The Western World has a culture that legitimizes the most horrendous acts of their governments with the r
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Feature Article • More about Bill of Rights
"V" Goes To DC:
WTP Admonishes US Officials
Powell Gammill
Bob Schulz, Chairman of We The People Foundation and "V", will make several stops in the nation's Capital to deliver a communication to Government officials regarding the People's First Amendment Right to Petition.
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Criminal Justice System
Report: Prosecutors refusing FBI terror cases
11-6-2006
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AP
The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute
FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years, according to private researchers who reviewed department records.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
Drug War
Calif. 'Pot Docs' Put Selves at Risk
11-6-2006
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AP
Dr. Mollie Fry never thought telling her patients where to get the medicine she recommended for pain, depression and nausea would be a problem.
Federal drug agents who raided her home and office thought otherwise, and she was indicted last year on
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Powell Gammill
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WAR: About that War
The war has cost a lot more than $2 trillion
11-6-2006
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Milken Institute (PDF)
In January, we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly high. But since that time, the cost of the war " in both blood and money " has risen even faster than our projections anticipated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
Torture
More on soldier who killed herself after protesting torture
11-5-2006
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E & P
In the book and in interviews at that time, Williams described how she had been recruited to briefly take part in over-the-line interrogations. Like Peterson, she protested torture techniques -- such as throwing lit cigarettes at prisoners -- and was
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Powell Gammill
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Politics: Republican Campaigns
The GOP must go
11-5-2006
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The American Conservative OpEd
The meaning of this election will be interpreted in one of two ways: the American people endorsed the Bush presidency or they did what they could to repudiate it. Such an interpretation will be simplistic, even unfairly so. Nevertheless, the fact tha
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Powell Gammill
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WAR: About that War
1999 war games foresaw problems in Iraq
11-5-2006
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AP
The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of
Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
WAR: About that War
Possible Iraq Deployments Would Stretch Reserve Force
11-5-2006
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Washington Post
The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for U.S. troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
Military
Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist
11-5-2006
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ABC News
An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.
Equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York,
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Powell Gammill
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Military
Anger Joins Grief for Family Feeling Misled by Military
11-5-2006
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NY Times
And it was before persistent questioning, guided by intimations of a darker explanation from their son’s platoon mates, enabled the Whites to piece together a picture of what had happened at Bagram Air Base when Corporal White, 19, was killed by a si
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
WAR: About that War
Pentagon targets Kim’s nuclear sites
11-5-2006
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London Times
THE Pentagon is speeding up plans for possible military strikes on North Korea’s nuclear program as concern mounts that Arab states are also looking to acquire nuclear technology.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
WAR: About that War
Former Defense Secretary William Perry: US may attack Korea
11-5-2006
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The Yomiuri Shimbun
Perry said if China and South Korea "did not the provide the coercion" by threatening to cut off their supply of food and oil to North Korea if it completed a large nuclear reactor, the US "might destroy the reactor before it could com
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Powell Gammill
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Torture
U.S. says terror suspect shouldn't talk to civilian lawyer
11-5-2006
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AP
A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
Bill of Rights
U.S. Wants Filmmaker's Suit Dismissed
11-5-2006
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AP
The U.S. government filed a motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an aspiring American filmmaker who spent two months in an Iraqi prison without being charged.
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Powell Gammill
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WAR: About that War
On Second Thought: Neocons Rethink Iraq War
11-5-2006
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Vanity Fair
A group of powerful neoconservatives who urged the Bush administration to invade Iraq now say the White House has failed disastrously.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • More about Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
EL PLANETA DE LOS CHANGOS ¿OAXAQUE'OS?
11-05-2006
Ricardo Valenzuela
Hace ya algunos años, tuve una experiencia que me servía como llamada de atención ante un problema que, en esos momentos, ya mostraba su filosa dentadura, un apetito insaciable y, en especial, el gigantismo de su propietario sin dar señales de haber
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News Link • More about
Bush Administration
Rummy got to go
11-5-2006
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Army Times
One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld: “mission accomplished,” the insurgency is “in its last throes,” and “back off,” we know what we’re doing, are a few choic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • More about
Foreign Policy
Flashback -- Deja vu again in Iraq
11-05-2006
(With Saddam getting ready to hang, it's interesting that this has happened before, with a different "tyrannt" in Baghdad) 40 years ago, the CIA, under Kennedy conducted its own regime change in Baghdad, carried out in collabration with
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • More about
Criminal Justice System
FBI willing to go undercover in Congress, if necessary
11-05-2006
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McClatchy Newspapers
(Hmmm, it will be necessary)The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting in Congress
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • More about
Voting: Vote Fraud
Nearly 13,000 dead voters still on voter registry
11-05-2006
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News Net 5(Ohio)
After watching the 5 on your side investigation on dead voters, Cuyahoga Country prosecutor Bill Mason said he will prosecute anyone who knowingly cast a vote in the place of a dead person. (I'll sleep better knowing this)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • More about
Economy - International
UAE considers cutting it's dollar reserves
11-06-2006
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Financial Times
(Wants to get nuclear technology, and cutting it's dollar reserves. Another country to invade) The United Arab Emirates, the second-largest Arab economy, signalled yesterday that it might cut its holdings of dollars by almost half
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Jean Carbonneau
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Opinion • More about Politics: General Activism
And You Are Still Voting for the Incumbent (Part 3)? Battle Stations: The Land Nazis Are Coming For
11-06-2006
Dave Hodges
In the past week, the Arizona Republic has led an all-out assault on Proposition 207 with daily editorials, posing as news stories, that are designed to purposely fool the public into not voting on behalf of protecting their personal property rights.
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Environment
Is this the end of Seafood?
11-05-2006
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AP
Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades. If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • More about
Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Man finds letters to God at sea
11-05-2006
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Reuters
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A U.S. man who found 300 letters to God floating in the Atlantic Ocean said on Friday he will donate them to a church instead of selling them on eBay following protests from religious people.
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Dave Gallagher
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Feature Article • More about Imperialism
Agitprop Capital of the World (the USA) Exports Its Poison to Venezuela
Stephen Lendman
How US dirty tricks are trying to disrupt the Venezuelan electoral process
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Opinion • More about Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
And You Are Still Voting for the Incumbent? Toss Them All (Part Two): The United States Senate
11-05-2006
Dave Hodges
Why would anyone vote for an incumbent (i.e., Jon Kyl-Republican Wing of the Washington Party) who has been instrumental in creating a seven hundred billion dollar trade deficit which has directly led to the loss of quality American jobs?
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News Link • More about
Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Thousands of students join sex trade to fund degrees
11-05-2006
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Mathaba
According to the SUD-Etudiant union, 40,000 students in France - or nearly 2% - fund their studies through the sex trade. The union says jobs taken by female students include hostess work and freelancing for escort services - as well as
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Jean Carbonneau
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