Iraqi forces tick off Kurds by invading
• ReutersThousands of Iraqi police and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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The Goal is Freedom
• FEE(Sheldon Richman)Call me nostalgic, but I still have a thing for the Articles of Confederation. Maybe it's the enticement of forbidden fruit. In the government schools I attended little if anything was said about the 8 years during which the USA were governed u
Top NATO General warns of Afghans backing Taliban
• New York PostNATO's top commander in Afganistan warned on Sunday that a majority of Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if their lives show no visible improvements in the next 6 months. Gen. David Richards, a British o
FEMA spend millions on "puppet shows and yoga"
• Sun Sentinal(Fla)This is FEMA tax money at work. It's also paying for Hurricane Bingo, puppet shows, "salsa for seniors, " and yoga on the beach. Last year, FEMA awarded Florida $22.6 million of "crisis couseling" for victims of hurricanes W
Back to the Future: Echoes from 1935 (Part Two)
Dave HodgesWe can bid farewell to our former constitutional era when Americans could say "it can't happen here." The Holocaust-inspired, heart-rending cries of “Never Forget” contain warnings which are quickly disappearing into the winds of time.
Republican Sex Scandals, Old and New: The NeoCons Gaslight America
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterMark Foley depends on the likes of Matt Drudge and John Fund to save him from the consequences of his own nasty behavior. Matt and John have been working on doing just this kind of thing since the 90s. It is lucrative work. Now, however, bloggers
Strange places for good ideas.
• OPMI know what you're thinking. Has this guy lost his mind? Well, I guess so, but just thought I'd point to the fact when people are given a variety of choices, they become smart and they pay attention to costs.
Cost of war: Hidden from purview
• National InterestDespite past objections about multiple requests for defense funds and inadequate justification for parts of the spending request, the defense bill that Congress approved Friday is no different. Either the clamor has not been loud enough
Britian tried to restrain US on Iraq
• ReutersThe British government tried to rein in US policy in Iraq from the outset of the March 2003 invasion but found itself powerless to do so, a former cabinet minister was quoted on Saturday as saying. David Blunkett, Home Secretary of the time of the i
Tigris River Yields hundreds of corpses
• ABC NewsA system of iron weirs in the Tigris River 20 miles southeast of Baghdad was designed to prevent lily pads, known here as "Nile flower," from traveling down-river and clogging canals vital to farmers for irrigating Iraq's south. But no
Putin critic shot to death
• BloombergRussian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of the most vocal critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Chechnya, was gunned down in Moscow today, the 3rd execution-style killing in the past 3 weeks.
Republicans hit by wave of political bad news
• ReutersWhile Republicans tried to contain the fallout from Rep. Mark Foley's lewd messages to teenage congressional assistants, they also are forced to fight off new political firestorms over the Iraq war and a lingering influence-peddling scandal.
Heywood Banks - Big Butter Jeebus
• www.teambio.orgThis clip definitely goes into the “Non-Believer” category in the contents pages on this site. But a lot of believers know exactly what they are talking about.
Concentration Camps in America??
• What Really HappenedEnclosed is a letter from former Congressmen William Hefner, who represented the 8th District in North Carolina. Did some checking, and indeed there was a William Hefner who was in Congress from 1975-1999. You decide.
US eating crow in the Caribbean
• Barbados Free PressThe 2003 decision by the US to cease providing military aid to Barbados and other Caribbean area nations who refused to sign agreements exempting US troops from prosecution under the International Criminal Court ended up being
Jon Stewart imagines the $20 million Iraq victory 'kegger'
• Raw Story (video link)The latest spending bill for Iraq includes $20 million for an Iraq and Afghanistan victory celebration. Jon Stewart at The Daily Show imagines what that "raging kegger" would be like.
Buying friends and influencing drug lords
• Asia TimesAs Hand in Glove, a new study by the Chiang Mai-based Shan Herald Agency for News demonstates, Myanmar's army, the Tatmadaw, has been a good friend of the drug trade for years. This probably explains why Myanmar
Has Washington found it's Iranian Chalabi
• Mother JonesAnd once again, Perle had an exile leader he wanted America to know about: Amir Abbas Fakhravar, "an Iranian dissident student leader who escaped first from Tehran's notorious Evin prison, then, after months in hiding, from Iran".
Dengue fever spreading in India
• Times OnlineAn outbreak of dengue fever has penetrated the residence of the Indian Prime Minister, infecting members of his family and putting pressure on his Government to declare an epidemic. The virus, which is carried by mosquitoes
EPA call electronic business "trashy"
• UtneThe electronics industry has become pretty trashy business. The EPA cites estimates that 130 million cell phones are thrown out in the US each year and 250 million computers will be out-of-date in less than 5 years. These figures aren't surpris
Fed caught between a rock and a hard place
• Resource Investor(Doug Casey)Even a casual observer can see that the Fed is now caught between a rock and hard place. If it lowers interest rates to head off the economic devastion that would come with a collapsed housing bubble - housing is estimated to have, directly
What Tom Cruise said about Ritalin that scared the Pharmacology Industry
• Today ShowTom slaps 'em around good.
Back to the Future: Echoes from 1935 (Part One)
Dave HodgesAs the United States is just over eighteen months away from the implementation of the Real ID Act (i.e., National ID Card), Americans, everywhere, should be experiencing a sense of foreboding. Hitler and Stalin must be jumping for joy as Thomas Jeffe
Meet the "Whack Iran" Lobby
• Mother JonesExiles peddling shaky intelligence, advocacy groups pressing for regime change, neocons bent on remaking the Middle East. Sound familiar?
American show trials
• St. Petersburg TimesTo get at those we suspect of terrorism, the protections that have defined us as a nation for more than 200 years have been diminished.
Business community cheers Brazil's conservative candidate
• McClatchy NewsThe surprisingly strong finish of conservative Brazilian presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin in Sunday's elections has boosted this country's stock market and raised hopes that if he's elected in the Oct. 29 runoff, long-blocked trade
Satirical Iraqi TV show provides insight into Baghdad's mood
• McClatchy NewsThe year is 2017. The Americans are still here, the government is still bumbling, and the anchor wants his viewers to drink their tea slowly so they don't burn themselves. "You cannot go to the hospital during the curfew," he warns.
Careers of Hastert's recent predecessors ended amid scandals
• McClatchy NewsThe careers of the three previous speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives ended amid scandals, as did the career of a would-be speaker. The House speaker is third in line to succeed a fallen president, behind the vice president and the presiden
U.S. European Commander Confirms Quotes in Book
• Washington PostOne of the highest-ranking generals in the U.S. military stood by views attributed to him in a controversial new book about the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq but said it was important to understand the context in which those v
Bush asserts right to edit Homeland Security privacy reports
• APIn the law Bush signed, Congress stated no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security dept. activities that affect privacy. But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency’s 200
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