Western Bloc central banks and financial and investment corporations are locked into an inflationary dynamic in order to sustain their system’s militarist imperialism
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]]> John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.
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]]> Brainless partisans, such as those watching O'Reilly and Hannity on FOX, will hear much about the tactics behind Obama's move, as well as repetition ad nauseam about how poorly Obama's ties to Rev. Wright reflect on his own "judgment."
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]]> An April 2007 Pew Research Study survey found that viewers of the conservative Fox News channel had the lowest knowledge of national and international affairs.
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]]> Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," written two years after Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo, has been used again and again to illustrate the vanity and hubris of an empire gone to ruin.
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]]> Cheney Visits them, and Saudis then Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards"

'One Tick Closer to Midnight'
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]]> Within the last week Bush and John McCain, have made widely broadcast statements about Iran that are as demonstratively false as they are provocative.
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]]> In a 42-minute speech to the National Religious Broadcasters convention, the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency,” Mr. Bush said, to a standing ovation.
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]]> The Grand Canyon, the great American landmark which is one of the world's most celebrated preserved areas taking millions of years in the making, so why in God's name are they putting it in danger.



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]]> This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds.

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]]> So the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be exercises in counter-terrorism, as the Bush Administration frequently and dishonestly insists. They are premeditated wars of unprovoked conquest and occupation.


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]]> The BBC takes a look at the documentary “No End in Sight,” which features Bush administration insiders who offer a behind-the-scenes look at the incompetent invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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]]> The country simply can't afford to sustain any of this, while all of the leading Fox News Republican presidential candidates advocate a continuation and worsening of this state of affairs, as do the leading Democrats.
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]]> In a just world Bush would be put on trial, but the moral rot that infects the nation has seeped into the bowels of the legislative as well as the executive branch.
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]]> Aboriginals in eastern Ontario warned Friday that they would ignore a court order and illegally occupy the site of a proposed uranium mine north of Kingston later this month unless the province calls a halt to the project.
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]]> In recent months, Jim has been providing transportation to Iraq Veterans
Against the War for their various tours and other activities. Last night, Jim
escaped a fire of suspicious origins that destroyed the bus.
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]]> Fox no longer tries to pawn the euphemistic "fair and balanced" nonsense off on their viewers. They now cast themselves as "the most powerful name in news." But is "power" something that is desirable in a news network?


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]]> The Florida State School Board is holding public hearings to talk about changes to science standards.

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]]> "There's no reason for Colorado forests to be less protected than national forests in other places," said Pete Kolbenschlag, spokesman for a coalition of Colorado conservation groups.




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]]> Charles Chatman, right, listens Thursday as Texas Judge John Creuzot orders his release. Chatman had served almost 27 years in prison for a rape that new DNA evidence shows he never committed.
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]]> Many in big media have soured on Edwards and his "harsh anti-corporate rhetoric." As a result, we're now in the midst of a classic conflict between corporate media sensibilities and grassroots left-leaning populism
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]]> Below is a story out of California and it makes one think, "Oh no, this can't be happening. The government would never allow the people of that large a region to be exposed to such things."

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]]> The Bush administration revealed today its intentions to remove existing legal protections from over 4.4 million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Colorado.
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]]> Dominionism, born out of Christian Reconstructionism, seeks to politicize faith. It has, like all fascist movements, a belief in magic along with strident call for supremacy of a master race.

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]]> Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches, only they didn't come.
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]]> Beginning with Ronald Reagan many Democrats started playing footsie with Republicans and large corporations and failed working Americans and the poor for the obscenely wealthy...
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]]> Beck got much more than he bargained for the other day when he interviewed author and media critic Norman Solomon on national television.
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]]> This week, the FCC went before the Senate Commerce Committee to discuss media ownership rule changes that Chairman Kevin Martin(republican) has been advocating.
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]]> The sole goal of the freeze is to prevent owners of mortgage-backed securities, many of them foreigners, from suing U.S. banks and forcing them to buy back worthless mortgage securities at face value - right now almost 10 times their market worth.
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]]> What the President is claiming, Sen. Whitehouse said, is that "I don't
have to follow my own rules, and if I break them, I don't have to tell
you that I am breaking them."


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]]> Or his jokes that appeal with Southern Baptists and other evangelical Christians who share his faith.

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]]> Those whose pulse did not quicken at "other purposes" have probably not read George Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language," or they voted for the other George both times.
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]]> Do you think they really give a shit about Iraqi freedom? We worked hard to make you believe that, but c'mon, they don't give a shit about the Iraqi people.
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]]> Again in what looks like a prelude to a fourth made-in-Washington attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader that must be monitored closely as events develop


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]]> For speaking out, Dr. Wilkerson too was brutalized by the police.
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]]> Listen to what people are talking about on TV and such and it is clear the American people are pathologically disconnected from reality.
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]]> Those of us living in the US live in a fascist system, right now, today. We live in a system where powerful corporations call the shots, both nationally and globally. They do this beneath a façade of democracy.
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]]> In a survey of participants to determine which issue would be “most important” in choosing a presidential candidate, the summit’s organizers didn’t even think to list the war, health care or fighting poverty among the 12 hot-button options.

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]]> Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior women officials: "I hate all Iranians."
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]]> Have you wondered, as I often have, if Dubya's embrace of fundamentalist Christianity is fake or genuine? In other words, is this man a cynic or a zealot?
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]]> The similarities between ruling members of the Republican party and the now purged Iraqi Baathist leaders are really quite stunning once you start listing them:
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]]> The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction” (St. Martin’s Press), a rehash of neo-con arguments for “regime change” – by military force, if necessary – in Tehran
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]]> "I know of no country where there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America."

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]]> Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?


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]]> Maybe these Guys Stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Green Zone!


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]]> From none stop war and nuclear bomb proliferation, to over population and the insatiable drain of Earth's resources, to Global Warming, join the movement for a more sustainable universe.
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]]> Harper received a phone call that morning from White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino, who, Harper told friends, said the president read the article and was unhappy about the way he was portrayed.


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]]> Oakland lawyer Jon Eisenberg calls the case of Al-
Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush the strangest he has
ever handled. How strange?
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]]> All branches of the United States military are afforded the same rights to religious freedom as are American civilians.
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]]> Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Albert Einstein
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