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Archive for the Month of May, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 1 through 75 of 323.
- Media coverage of the Bush/Colbert show - For more than 100 years, May Day has symbolized the common struggles of workers around the globe. Why is it largely ignored in North America? The answer lies in part in American labour's long repression of its own radical past, out of which international May Day was actually born a century ago. - Ultimately, to solve the problem of oil we need to solve the problem of empire. - To make one at home, you need four fresh ingredients. The processed version isn't so simple. - As the Bush/neo-con kleptocracy disintegrates in a toxic cloud of military defeat, economic bankruptcy, environmental disaster and escalating mega-scandal, its attack on basic American freedoms---its "New Totalitarianism"---has escalated to a desperate new level, including brutal Soviet-style prosecutions against non-violent dissidents and an all-out offensive for state secrecy, including an attack on the internet. - DEPLETED URANIUM DUST –PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN - The CIA, the FBI and other federal agencies are using polygraph machines more than ever to screen applicants and hunt for lawbreakers, even as scientists have become more certain that the equipment is ineffective in accurately detecting when people are lying. - Nationalizing the oil industry should be the central tenet of any progressive political movement. Evidence of the industry's involvement in the invasion of Iraq as well as its obvious complicity in corrupting the political system should provide ample proof that the oil giants are a clear and present danger to democracy and need to be put under state control. - But maybe the "why" can be answered in part by "who" made Flight 93. It arrived packaged and promoted by Universal Studios, which is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns NBC, which is all owned by General Electric, media giant and major weapons contractor. - In pursuit of balance, wingnuts get excessive airtime and big stories don't make the newslist - Our findings cast doubt on the Commission's narrative regarding what actually happened on board the planes. This narrative, which describes in detail the 9/11 Arab hijackers, is almost entirely based on recorded cell phone conversations. The telecom industry is unequivocal. Given the wireless technology available on September 11 2001, these cell calls could not have been placed from high altitude.
- HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN LIKE THIS? WARNING: Graphic images. - President Evo Morales ordered the military to occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields on Monday after nationalizing the industry and threatening to expel foreign companies that do not recognize state control. - If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food - Total regulation rules are close at hand, a new internet will kill free speech and weed out anything deemed "inappropriate" - A renowned U.S. scientist who has documented fertility and sex changes -- including decreasing penis size -- due to environmental contamination says he wouldn't apply pesticides on his own lawn. - ...they had a vehicle pass which gains entry to all coalition military bases in Iraq. - Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years... - It takes a deft hand to not only erase an active sponsor of genocidal violence, but also hide some 200,000 butchered human beings. - More than 500 soldiers carrying guns will fan out through Winnipeg streets beginning Sunday, in the largest urban-warfare training exercise in the Canadian military's history. - The US wants to play this as it’s the Iraqi initiative and an Iraqi choice... - One of Carlson’s sons is Tucker Carlson, the embarrassing conservative television talking-head, the other, Buckley, works with Republican pollster/spinner Frank Luntz. It’s a small world. - Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its latest annual report that more than 1,300 media workers were attacked or threatened last year and more than 100 were in jail. - The Not so Hidden Agenda in Administration Policies
- The CIA, "Cocaine One" & Putting Planes in Suspense - Dictatorship and despotism thrive when ignorance and stupidity rule societies. - Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call "George W’s palace" rising from the banks of the Tigris. - The longer the fiasco in Iraq drags on, the more we hear the folks who cooked up the idea of invading that sand dune republic denying that they had anything to do with it. - Those who personally profited from the U.S.-led war against Iraq got the money over the dead bodies of over 100,000 Iraqis. - Torture and inhumane treatment are "widespread" in U.S.-run detention centers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba and elsewhere despite Washington's denials, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. - ...Iran fired the first shot in a battle that will ultimately change the global economic system. Mehr News Agency announced that the long-anticipated Iran Oil Bourse (OIB) will open sometime next week on Kish Island competing head-on with the US dollar. - To get a good sense of where US policy is heading, one need only read the front page of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal - painful as that may be to do. - There is a focus on the activities of Porter Goss's CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who was reportedly assigned to John Negroponte's death squad and Contra support operations in Honduras in the 1980s. - Middle-aged English people are "much healthier" than their American counterparts, even though the US spends far more on medical care than the UK... - According to US Postal Service insiders, the Bush administration, which has prided itself on tax cuts, has imposed a stealth war tax on the American people.
- Polar bears and hippos are among more than 16,000 species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction... - "Most secure" countries included Canada, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the four Scandinavian nations. - Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday. - Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant. - Myanmar's military rulers have launched a major new crackdown on the country's main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, fueling widespread speculation that the hardline State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) intends to eliminate its harassed and beleaguered rival completely within the next 12 months. - The latest government hysteria about an alleged coming epidemic of bird flu is worth mentioning for two reasons. - Thirty six years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen shot 13 college students at Kent State University who were protesting US incursions into Cambodia as part of the Vietnam War. Nine victims survived, including one who is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Four students -- Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, Bill Schroeder, and Sandy Scheuer -- were killed. - Now that al-Zarqawi has been replaced by "sectarian violence" and "civil war", the big news is the attacks by Sunnis on Shia mosques and bazaars. The real news, which is not reported in the CNN "mainstream", is that the Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq. - The Jalili Report - "This is America," former CIA analyst says as security tries to drag him away
- The number of children taking antipsychotic medicines soared 73 percent in the four years ending in 2005... - Tuesday night is karaoke night at Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace in central Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. - ...the FBI has elevated its concern to "priority" level, claiming that the group is subject to "counterterrorism" monitoring... - Left Strike at Indian Airports - The Subsurface World of Inflation, Cannibalism and the Plight of the Squeezees - "What sort of democracy limits a man's liberty on the pure assumption that he could break the law again?" - Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans. - ...the invasion and occupation of Iraq is primarily about oil and the preservation of the American way of life. It is based on the premise that the latter is a question of supreme importance, a moral value overriding all others. - Herzlia (or Herzliya), Israel is a city north of Tel Aviv which is of some interest... - Prostitutes financed by Jack Abramoff and linked to AIPAC and former Israeli prime minister serviced House, Senate members, media hosts, top military, other feds: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough allegedly cooperating with probe regarding Abramoff indictments—considering whether to report sex-ring scandal on "Scarborough Country": U.S. intelligence: Sen. Leader William Frist and reporter Robert Novak alleged as regular clients
- They're At It Again! - I have been speaking about some kind of an "October Surprise," i.e. some kind of a spectacular event designed to assist Bush and his Republicans to overcome growing evidence that his party will be obliterated at the November, 2006, mid-term elections. - This isn’t the first time Big Cola has tried to sugar coat its image. - Doug Feith should be in shackles and an orange jumpsuit, convicted as an engineer of mass murder and working as an Israeli mole. - "Carbon copy" of Bush, mom of slain U.S. soldier says. - "They brought the house down on people's heads." - The "international community" has never cared a whit about Iran or its fictitious weapons programs. The driving force behind the hostilities is Washington. - Individuals familiar with IN-Q-TEL report that the company is suspected of steering CIA funds to start-up firms with close ties to the GOP as well as "pump and dump" penny stock firms... - "This report confirms that Afghanistan has been 'Enron-ized' by the Bush administration." - Simple - because Labor does not control the media - MONEY does. - Nice to know we're in good hands, eh?
- Around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer. - US neocons are delighted at the demotion of a Blair minister lacking in total loyalty to their agenda - Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of the world, and turning it into desert... - Hayden bringing his special baggage from Fort Meade to Langley - Ever heard of "hydraulic despotism"? Why I ask is because knowing a bit of history might help us understand what the despots have planned. - Noam Chomsky, in explaining why he is not interested in 9/11, has made a number of basic logical errors. - Top U.S. and coalition commanders and their staffs now enjoy an array of modern conveniences and amenities across the command center. - As usual, the neocons will get pretty much everything they want and will continue to do whatever they want—including the further eviscerating the Constitution—until they are dragged kicking and screaming from the White House and Pentagon, an unlikely prospect at best. - Appalachia's mountains are being blasted at a rate of several ridgetops each week. Parents fear for the health of their children. And those trying to fight the devastation have found that coal baron Don Blankenship, C.E.O. of Massey Energy, is tougher than bedrock
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