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Wesley Clark Is Running For Prez-- Makes 10th Candidate

CNN Covers Diebold Bogus Vote Technology

Senate Repeals New Media Ownership Rules

Federal court panel orders California recall balloting put off until March They say they want to prevent another Florida, but then, with computerized voting, they'll more likely see another republican-stolen election like Georgia

$1 billion international image campaign isn't enough to buy U.S. love USA Today

ABC/Wash. Post Poll: 61% Oppose $87 Billion Bush Proposes Spending on Iraq, and only 29% of Women Support it. But the news of this poll-- the worse figures for Bush yet-- is hidden, hard to find on the ABC web site.

Global trade talks collapse in acrimony Trade war looms as African nations storm out; Huge gulf between rich and poor on farm subsidies

Middle class barely treads water Millions of Americans find they can't get by, even with two incomes. USA Today

Israel may kill Arafat, deputy PM says

Bush Aides on TV to Defend Iraq Policy The Bush administration dispatched senior civilian and military officials to blanket the Sunday morning talk programs today and defend its Iraq policy, in particular to deflect charges that it was overly optimistic

U.S. Seeks Expansion of Terror Subpoenas To aid the fight against terrorism, the Bush administration wants to add a subpoena power that does not require federal investigators to seek approval from a judge or grand jury.

Anti-terror laws increasingly used against common criminals

Many in politics raise red flags on rush toward electronic voting systems Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Security fears grow over electronic voting systems Financial Times

America's hidden battlefield toll New figures reveal the true number of GIs wounded in Iraq

Iraq Takes Toll on Rumsfeld
Many blame defense secretary for mounting U.S. casualties and costs exceeding $1 billion a week.

Democrats Call Republican Plan a War on Vets

Dalai Lama Issues a Call for Peace Washington Post

Democrats Find Some Traction on Capitol Hill Republicans on Bush: They no longer feel that he can be a dictator. They no longer feel that he is King George. He is President George now." "It's the blood-in-the-water syndrome."

Senate Democrats plus Renegade Republicans  Block Bush Bill that Would Cut Student Aid

Senate to Bush : ‘ Don’t mess with overtime'

Iraq toll tops '91

U.S.-French Rift Reopened as Powell Arrives for Talks

Despite US opposition, Israel says it will remove Arafat

GIs Mistakenly Kill 11 Iraqi Policemen 

Future of California recall election is in hands of appeals court

Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities

 Wolfowitz Shifts Rationale on War

Returning From Iraq War Not So Simple for Soldiers For the soldiers of the First Brigade, coming home has been a far more complicated, even conflicted, experience than it seemed back in Iraq.

US Judge Wants Opinions on Dropping Moussaoui Case

Blair Was Told of Terror Risks
British intelligence said a war with Iraq would heighten, not reduce, dangers.

US Senate passes resolution on Tibetan autonomy Dalai Lama Meets With prezbush against wishes of Chinese

The city of Santa Cruz has voted in favor of a resolution urging Congress to look into impeaching President Bush 6-1

Bush Wants Police Given More Clout to Fight Terror
(AP)

Senate Halts Overtime Rules
Democrats block Bush plan to keep some workers from getting extra pay.  

Enron Exec 1st to See Prison
The former treasurer pleads guilty to fraud conspiracy and gets five years.

Suits vs. airlines OK'd in Sept. 11 hijackings The crashing of a hijacked jetliner was the kind of "foreseeable risk" that the airline industry should have guarded against, a judge ruled

Health insurance premiums up 14 percent, according to survey

Suicide bombers strike twice in Israel, killing at least 13 others

At Cancun Summit, Bush Administration Advocates New Trade Rules that Put Communities at Risk

Putin Puts Massive Censorship on Media Election and Poll Coverage

Ahmed Qurei 'accepts Palestinian PM post'

IMF Beats Up On Argentina, Demanding Help For Big Business at Expense of Poor; as is typical, energy companies get to rape  the country. .

Herr Rumsfield (the WMD Liar) Says Criticism of Bush Strengthens Foes  Rumsfield is a Threat to Democracy and the American Way. He is a Neanderthal ... no that's an insult to Neanderthals... He's a stupid warlord who would have fit better into millenniums long past.

Zogby: Bush Job Performance Rating hits New Low of 45% Negative ratings by 54%

WTO Drug Deal "A Betrayal" -- A Sell-out to Big Pharmaceuticals

Abbas Quits in Blow to Mideast Peace Plan And the Terrorists Win. So Much For Bush's War on Terrorism. It's not just about bluster and "bring 'em on." It's about Diplomacy-- and Republicans are as diplomatic as drunken 14 year olds.

70% of Americans Beleive Saddam Was Connected to 9-11, In Spite of No Proof; and 52% willing to buy Brooklyn Bridge

UK: Riot gear sold to Hong Kong
The government was last night criticised for approving the export of riot control equipment to Hong Kong while condemning the authorities for trying to introduce a law suppressing democratic rights.

In Texas Fight, One Democrat Finally Blinks

Estrada Cries Uncle; Withdraws from Bush's Judgeship Nomination; One win for the Democratic Minority Fillibuster.

France, Germany Balk
At Draft U.N. Resolution
Chirac and Schroeder say U.S. plan does not cede enough control to U.N. or Iraq.  

Powell, Military Nudged Bush
A reluctant president was persuaded go-it-alone strategy wasn't working.

Cal State Legislators Pass Gay Marriage Bill

Brittany Spears: Mindless For Bush

Judges' Rulings Imposing Death Are Overturned The sentences of more than 100 prisoners in three states were overturned because judges rather than juries had made crucial factual determinations in sentencing them to death

Former Minister Paul Hill Executed for Shotgun Slayings of Abortion Doctor, Bodyguard

Despite reprieves, 3,500 still on death row in the US

Census Shows Ranks of Poor Rose by 1.3 Million more class war!

Right Wing Electoral Fraud Leads to Jail Time...No.... Not in the USA... in Australia

Israel 'all-out war' on Hamas

Ayatollah's killing: Winners and losers Asia Times

Add This to the Despicable Bush Appointee List: Senatorial Race Loser Spencer Abraham is Steward of the Energy Department, Which He Once Sought to Scrap

Saudi Crackdown Encourages Iraq Jihad, Clerics Say

Poor nations can import cheaper drugs

Bush Claims He's Helped Economy... and AIDS is Good for you, and GI's should bring coats to Iraq and... how stupid do his supporters have to be to believe his lie after lie.

Slain cleric backed US efforts in Iraq The Khomenei of Iraq, like a Pope, and the USA fails to Protect Him. Another Example of the Bush Brand of Making the World Safer

Ayatollah Hakim's Last Sermon

Accused 18 year old Web Virus Unleasher Under House Arrest Throw the book at him!! His crime affects thousands, can cost millions.

Blame flying like bullets in Najaf; Top Shiite Ayatollah and Dozens of Others Killed By Car Bomb

Republican Congressman Charged With Manslaughter

Needing Help in Iraq, U.S. Weighs How to Get It From U.N. NY Times  first step; contrition, followed by apology and humility

Bush fund-raising pitch: He's underdog; Bush lie # 9743

Ashcroft faces GOP criticism More in own party want to curb anti-terrorism policies

Pres of Diebold Voting Machines: "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

Schwarzenegger Sex Talk in '77 OUI Magazine

National Organization for Women (NOW/PAC) Endorses Carol Moseley Braun for President

Number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq rising Granma/cuba

Classified Project Funding Highest since 1988

Kudos to  Buzzflash.com! They get accused of Slander by Murdoch's Arch Conservative Weekly Standard we need more Buzzflashes.

Wesley Clark: "White House .... tried to get me knocked off CNN ....because they were afraid that I would raise issues with their conduct of the war"

Poor nations feel US heat on drug patents Independent Online 
The US is pressing poor countries to accept a new condition before it agrees to let them bypass drug patents to import copies of Aids, malaria and other medical treatments, according to aid agencies.

Iran ready to sign additional protocol of IAEA agreement

Spy chief undermines key plank of UK Government's case for war in Iraq

Bush, Speaking to Veterans, Says Iraq May Not Be Last Strike

Calif. AFL-CIO Backs Bustamante in CA Recall

Political Memo: Bush 'Compassion' Agenda: An '04 Liability? NY Times Bush's lies are catching up with him.

Report Warns NASA Needs Sweeping Changes NASA Culture To Blame For Explosion

US/Pakistan Agree NOT to Capture Bin Laden

Attacks: 2 U.S. Officials Liken Guerrillas to Renegade Postwar Nazi Units Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

Security: New Industry in Baghdad: Kidnapping for Ransom Why not? Bush kidnapped the USA

Top U.S. Expert on North Korea Steps Down  Arizona Sen. Kyl Pushed to Have him Removed, because he's more moderate than Chickenhawk, Macho Neocons who Push for Confrontation

Howard Dean Gets Makeover: Says He's 'No Dove,': US Must Stay in Iraq for National Security, Quintuple US Troops in Afghanistan

US green activists vandalise 'polluting' 4x4 cars Guardian  Radical environmentalists have vandalised or wrecked hundreds of sport utility vehicles at car dealerships or in the streets in California over the past few days, causing millions of dollars' worth of damage.

Venture capitalist to use Internet to aid CA Gov recall run "We'll spend more money on Internet political advertising than has ever been spent," vowed campaign director Wade Randlett.

Army foresees doubling up tours

More US Companies Treating Gays Better

Activists decry plan for air travel screening Atlanta Journal Constitution  In the name of security, the government intends to create database profiles of all American air travelers and could blacklist some from commercial flights without recourse, civil libertarians warned Monday.

Pact Gives Tribe Wide Powers
Canada grants the Dogrib self-rule over territory larger than Belgium.

Cheney Stifled Energy Probe, GAO Investigators Say

 Gephart Closing In on Dean. The Two are Far ahead of the Dem Pack: Using the same "technology that enabled OpEdNews.com to predict within less than one percent, what Howard Dean would Win the MoveOn.org Primary, we see a close race between Dean and Gephart, with the other 7 candidates far behind. 

Bombay Blasts Kill at Least 40, Wound 150

Voters Don't Want Bush Re-Elected - Poll Voice of America The majority of American voters would not like to see President Bush re-elected to another term according to a poll by Newsweek magazine.

Bustamante Leads Arnold 35 to 22 in Latest Poll

Bush Team Lied On Drones. They Weren't for WMD

Soaring Gas Prices Nearing Record $4.00 in AZ, $2.40 in CA, due to short supply.

 

BBC Launches Public Attack on "Murdoch Imperialism"

Israel kills four in missile attack Guardian Israeli helicopter gunships kill four Palestinians from Hamas, hours after Israeli army commander warns that all Hamas members are 'potential targets for liquidation'.

Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, Bohemoth Military Contractor, Wants to Be inside Every Voting Machine; Three Way Scam on Diebold Review? by Lynn Landes

Hamas Calls Bush 'Islam's Biggest Enemy Bush Steps In Hornet's Nest-- this will certainly increase terrorist attacks against Americans

Newsweek Poll: Growing Concerns Over Iraq Mission

Polls Shows California  Recall Support Dropping

Revealed: how ministers tried to gag David Kelly Independent  The British Government went to extraordinary lengths to gag Dr David Kelly because of fears that he would expose fundamental flaws in its case for war.

Schumer Faults Bush for Massive Blackout ABC News The massive blackout in Northern states and Canada is an indictment of the Bush administration's failed deregulatory energy policies, Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y., said Saturday.

Convicted, Child-Molesting Ex-Priest Killed in Prison

Franken KO's Fox: N.Y. Judge Denies Fox News Bid to Block His Book :"In addition to thanking my own lawyers," Franken said, "I'd like to thank Fox's lawyers for filing one of the stupidest briefs I've ever seen in my life." And the judge said, of Fox, "It is ironic that a media company, which should be protecting the First Amendment, is seeking to undermine it," Chin said. And the Publisher increased the print run by 50,000 copies.

Alabama's Chief Justice Suspended Over Monument Even Sanctimonious Fundamentalist Judges aren't above the Law

The 5 Groups Cited by the US for Supporting Hamas have their Funds Frozen

Struggling to Fulfill King's Dream
Activists tomorrow will mark 40th anniversary of M. L. King March on Washington

Rage-Filled Palestinians Vow Revenge on Israel Tens of thousands in Gaza City join in march for slain militant leader who planned Bus bombing that killed 23, injured 20 children

2nd Freddie Mac CEO to Resign Wash. Post

New Sobig Virus Clogs E-Mail Inboxes Fastest Spreading Virus in History we received over 1200 virus emails in last 36 hours

Police arrest 19 in Canadian terror probe A man enrolled in a flight school — where training involves flying over the Pickering nuclear power plant — is one of 19 people being held in a Toronto-area jail while federal officers investigate possible links to terrorist groups. .

Powell Is Now Pressing Arafat to Combat Hamas

HOLOCAUST OF THE ELDERLY: DEATH TOLL IN FRENCH HEATWAVE RISES TO 10,000

Ashcroft Criticized for Talks on Terror

'Texas 11' Sues State GOP

Chemical Ali' captured in Iraq

Court told Bali bombing was originally planned for Sept 11 anniversary

Tax, Tax, Tax..even in your sleep Yadda Yadda; Video of Schwarzenegger Economic Summit Main Content in a Nutshell... his target-- dumb dittoheads. Except.. Limbaugh doesn't seem to trust him. 

US-appointed Iraqi provisional government received prior warning that a truck bombing was being planned days before UN Attack.

Kucinich Files Complaint to Revoke FirstEnergy's Operating License

Jerusalem Bus Bomb Kills 20+ At least five of the dead and 40 of the wounded were children

9-11 Moms Battle Bush Gail Sheehy "So afraid is the Bush administration of what could be revealed by inquiries into its failures to protect Americans from terrorist attack, it is unabashedly using Kremlin tactics to muzzle members of Congress and thwart the current federal commission investigating the failures of Sept. 11. But there is at least one force that the administration cannot scare off or shut up. They call themselves "Just Four Moms from New Jersey," or simply "the girls."

Taliban terror surges Afghan officials don't know if group 'getting stronger or just getting bolder.'

Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold by Lynn Landes  OpEdNews.Com

Dem. Leaders' Choice: Davis Or Bustamante?

Blast rips through UN's Iraq headquarters

Blast Hits Home of Afghan Leader's Brother

Saudis in Iraq 'preparing for a holy war' Increasing numbers of Saudi Arabian Islamists are crossing the border into Iraq in preparation for a jihad against US and UK forces.

Israelis Worry About Terror, by Jews Against Palestinians

For Bush, Loss of Jobs May Erode Support in South Carolina "Bush can forget about the Solid South. There's no Solid South anymore." 

US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman

Troops wounded in action not listed among casualties

 

U.S. Troops Shoot Dead Reuters Cameraman in Iraq Reuters (and probably pissed)

 

Clark talks like candidate, bashes Bush

 

Tehran warns Israel against strikes on Bushehr reactor

 

Al-Qaida Claims Responsibility For American Blackout Militant Islamic Media Opportunism orTruth the Bush Admin Will Deny?

 

Warren Buffet, world's 2nd richest man Supports CA Tax increase, and is a Democrat Drudge Report (George Soros should be recruiting Buffet to help fight the Bush treason team)

Liberia: Pentagon quashed report

Saboteurs take out Baghdad water main in northern Baghdad yesterday, forcing engineers to cut off water to the entire capital and raising new concerns that insurgents are hitting Iraq's infrastructure to slow its recovery.

 

Study: 9/11-Style Attack on U.S. Likely  

 

Vatican ordered sex abuse cover up The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church. Guardian

 

Saboteurs attack Iraqi pipeline

 

Bush Lobbied Against Funding to Upgrade Power Grid in 2001. Republicans voted along partisan lines to block the funding. buzzflash.com

N. Korea Shops Stealthily

Europeans uncover elaborate plan by Pyongyang to buy nuclear gear using front companies.

A Liberal's Eye View of the Democratic Candidate's Forum in Philly by Rob Kall, editor, OpEdNews.com, and in this case, reporter. That they all agree on, Good news on Computer Voting, lots of Pics.

A Bigger, Badder Sequel to Iran-Contra By Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

Families, Vets Urge Troops Come Home "Susan Schuman's son writes home from Iraq complaining of poor living conditions, skimpy water rations and dozens of daily attacks on U.S. troops that go unreported. " military.com

Human shields face 12 years' jail for visiting Iraq  Anti-war activists who visited Iraq before the US invasion have discovered that they could face up to 12 years in prison and $1m in fines.

$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim Energy Dept. honcho ordered dissenters at Iraq pre-briefing to 'shut up, sit down'

Is It Fresh Blood, or a Putsch? 6 High ranking Generals Retired. Are the Neocon purging the top military ranks of non-believers?

Jolted Over Electronic Voting
  Report's Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust

Who is Besmirching the Words "Fair and Balanced" Fox or Franken? Fox sues Franken.

Franken Says He Doesn't Mind Fox Lawsuit "And by the way, a few months ago, I trademarked the word `funny.' So when Fox calls me `unfunny,' they're violating my trademark. I am seriously considering a countersuit."

"Smart Stamp" Postal ID plan creates privacy fears

Karl Rove says Florida will be 'ground zero' in 2004 election

Bush/DeLay shadow-directed Texas Republicans Vote to Fine Fugitive Democrats

UK jobless numbers hit two-year low Talk about Teflon. Blair is in trouble even with low unemployment, while Bush lies and terminates millions of jobs and gets off easy.

Schwarzenegger a No-Show
Californians want to hear candidate's platform, but he's still not talking.

Three held in US missile sting Three people, including a Briton, are to face a US court on suspicion of smuggling a missile for use by terrorists.

A Misdirected Forest Strategy President Bush's Healthy Forests initiative has less to do with preventing forest fires than it does with helping his friends in the timber industry.

US tried to plant WMDs, failed: whistleblower Daily Times Monitor, Pakistan

Signs Grow of Innocent People Being Executed, Judge Says A Boston judge said that there was mounting evidence that innocent people were being executed. But he declined to rule that the death penalty was unconstitutional.

Man Killed Before Bush's Arizona Visit

Graham Eyes Potential for Bush Impeachment Reuters

Today We Face Another 'Watergate'
Samuel Dash, Senate Watergate Committee chief counsel "The logic of the government appears to be that the only way we can preserve our freedom and liberty from the efforts of terrorists to destroy them is to temporarily destroy them ourselves. But true security comes from our being a free society blessed with constitutional democracy and a Bill of Rights - rights that if lost cannot be easily recovered."

Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence Finally, the Washington Post is getting serious about digging in to the dungheap of Bush Administration Lies.

 

Right Wingers Question Neocon Empire Policy A Debate Over U.S. 'Empire' Builds in Unexpected Circles "You cannot be for a system of limited government at home and for maintaining military garrisons all over the world." Christopher PReble, Cato Inst. Dir. of Foreign Policy

Wash. Post

 

Tension Grows Between U.S. Troops, Iraqis

 

The Wealthy People Who Love America Are Starting To Come Through Billionaire Soros commits $10 million to defeat Bush Others Give $12 million more. Expect Bush to Use Govt to Attack Them. The donors include Louis and Dorothy Cullman, who helped finance the newspaper ad with Soros; Anne Bartley, former president of the Rockefeller Family Fund; Peter Lewis, founder of Progressive Insurance; Patricia Bauman, head of the Bauman Family Foundation; and Rob McKay, head of the McKay Family Foundation.

 

Have you seen the new Bush action doll?

Americans pay price for speaking out by Kathleen Kenna Dissenters Face Job Loss, Arrest, Threats But Activists not Stopped by Backlash Toronto Star 8/9

GIs flood US with war-weary emails Through emails and chatrooms a picture is emerging of day-to-day gripes, coupled with ferocious criticism of the way the war has been handled. They paint a vivid picture of US army life that is a world away from the sanitised official version.

Terror Group Seen as Back Inside Iraq The American-led administration in Iraq has received intelligence reports that hundreds of Islamic militants who fled Iraq during the war have returned and are planning to conduct major terrorist attacks. New York Times 

 

More than 90 candidates file for Calif. recall election

 

Bush Impeached? Wanna Bet? Outraged by the Pentagon's plan to create a futures market for terrorist attacks, a group of academics is setting up a futures market for predicting what the White House is up to. WiredNews

Texas Congressman Rips GOP for Deficit   "When you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is to quit digging," he said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "Yet the Republican leadership in Washington continues to advocate policies that would put us further in the red."

EBay Admits It Messed Up in Censoring Anti-Bush Artist from The Progressive's McCarthyism Watch

More Evidence of Diebold's Bad Computerized Voting Security

Voting Suit Gains Momentum A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of computerized touch-screen voting systems has moved to a higher-profile venue in federal appeals court.

Democrats Ponder Black Vote Democratic strategists fear that the party is perilously out of touch with black voters who grew up after the civil rights movement

Pentagon Now Considers Poor a Threat to National Security; spell that anti Bush, since pentagon is now run by neocon Bushistas

Study: Bush Plays Hardball to Gag Dissent, Muffle the Left Village Voice

Bounty for killing US soldiers in Iraq raised to $5,000

U.S. troops need relief now, not promises of future fixes USA TODAY

Liberian fighters in frenzy of rape

The Writing On The Wall The walls of Iraq bear witness to the demands of the people. Nermeen Al-Mufti deciphers the graffiti in Baghdad

Bali bomber to face firing squad
Relatives in court cheer and weep - but fear execution will create a martyr.

Iraqis doubt US explanation for continuing attacks

Ebay Censorship Bans Satiric 'cards' that Mock Bush tell ebay this move reeks. The faces, names and signatures policy Ebay invoked. To us, political satire is different than Photos of Celebrities.

Schwarzenegger to Run in Calif. Recall Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator turned Hamlet, announces decision at "Tonight Show" taping.

Indonesia knew hotel area was bomb target for terrorists  Security chiefs admit intelligence failings could mean more attacks.

Read it and Puke: Rove, DeLay Rally College Republicans at Convention

Stoneage Conservatives Worldwide Condemn Bishop might consider cutting ties with the US Episcopalian Church over its appointment of its first openly gay bishop.

Pentagon makes moves to contain complaints from US troops in Iraq

U.S. Backs Florida's New Counterterrorism Database 'Matrix' Offers Law Agencies Faster Access to Americans' Personal Records

US Officials Admit to Dropping Napalm-Like Firebombs on Iraqis

Arabs refuse to recognize U.S. governing council in Iraq Arab League members will not recognize Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council and instead will wait until post-Saddam Hussein Iraq is led by an elected government, league Secretary-General Amr Moussa said Tuesday

N. Korea Plans to Export Missiles to Iran

Vaccine link raised in US troops' deaths

Voting Company Reverses Stand: Flawed software WAS used in Georgia and other elections - Official to city of Boston: There are “kinks” in touch screens By Bev Harris

Episcopalians OK first openly gay bishop

Partisanship of Press Probed "Conservative" editorial pages more partisan than "liberals," study finds. Gee. What a surprise.But it's nice to have scientific evidence that the far right is nastier.

Larry Flynt Issues Call to "Pray" For Bill O'Reilly's Death cnsnews.com This looks like a satire on Pat Robertson's prayer that some of the more liberal Supreme Court Justices have medical problems.

Head of M16- UK's Spy Agency- to Resign over Differences on Iraq Policy. (Like Tenet should have done.) This Does Not Make Blair Look Good.

A younger Khomeini admires US Grandson rejects Iran's revolution ''Religion has got to be separated from regimes, such as it is in America,''

Surge in Rates Threatens Star of the Economy: Mortgages A little more than a month after the Fed reduced its overnight lending rate, mortgage rates have shot up, which could damp a main source of consumer demand.

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Say NO to Bush's $87 Billion Dollar Request. by Rob Kall It is time for honest, tough leadership to show its face in Washington and in congress. We can no longer afford this charade that the president can be trusted, or that he is doing what is good for the US and the soldiers on the front lines. OpEdNews.Com

The Sweet Smell of Bullshit on Sunday Morning by Patricia Ernest OpEdNews.Com

The Idiocy and Dishonesty of "Conservative" Talk Radio by Las Vegas Radio Talk Show Host Doug Basham

A threat to the rich George Monbiot: Forcing the poor countries to walk out of the Cancun trade talks may rebound on the west.

Lee Kyung-hae's last stand What drove a Korean farmer to kill himself in Cancun? Jonathan Watts reports on one man's struggle against the system. Guardian

Euro: The corporate currency, Europe's Version of the WB and WTO00 ie., Another Attack on Democracy-- Caroline Lucas: The euro will only be a friend to big business - as the progressive Swedes have clearly understood. "joining the Euro represents a shift in power from democratic institutions to the unaccountable European Central Bank (ECB) and its corporate bedfellows; because it erodes member states' ability to propose solutions to local, regional or even national disparities; and because it furthers corporate globalisation and entrenches its goals - increased consumption, trade and profitability. This has and will continue to cause a "race-to-the-bottom" as governments fall over themselves to sacrifice democratic control and public accountability for the sake of competitive advantage.

We Can Win the War in Vietnam
And other chestnuts from a not-so-bygone era Daniel Patrick Welch opednews.com

House Training Bush Rob Kall It's time to do some  House Training, Pooper Scooping and Flushing of Bush and His Lock-Step Congress  OpEdNews.com

Aldo Leopold on Bush's JudeoRoman Metaphysic Dr. Gerry Lower, Keystone, South Dakota OpEdNews.Com

George Soros Interview:  We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduce providing those public goods.

Gandhi's Seven Root Causes
An East-West Dialectic Synthesis Dr. Gerry Lower OpEdNews.Com In the Mosaic Decalogue, established to help the people maintain the societal status quo, there is not one word about how we ought behave, in the interest of justice and fairness or in the interest of spiritual maturation. That door has been left closed to allow the rich and powerful to hide and do unto others as they damned well pleased. The result of this approach has been to put control in the hands of the religious rich, at the expense of the people, a fact which motivated the American Revolution against the European church-states employing religious coercion to exploit the American colonies.

Republicans As Election Thieves  by Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence

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Tax the Wealthy to Pay for Iraq War Robert Reich

Madeleine Albright:  'IF THERE WAS A PRESIDENT GORE, WE WOULDN’T BE IN THIS PARTICULAR MESS'

Nader should apologize, not run again ANDREW BARD SCHMOOKLER:

Top Gun Vs. Total Recall Frank Rich  NY Times

The Tax-Cut Con By PAUL KRUGMAN

Bush Lie Number 1; The Tax Cut Lie by Rob Kall OpEdNews.Com Bush is a flat out liar. Borrowing from his father's lie, "read my lips, no new taxes" you can, at any time, read George W's lips and he's probably lying. The biggest lie is that he cut taxes. And a big joke is that it will hit the rich people who are supposed to be benefiting from it too.

US Democracy, Legal System Are Experiencing an Assault from Fascist Elements by J. Russell Tyldesley So far, the corporations do not have their own armies (at least not yet), but they will ally with those governments who can give them security as they roam the world in search of cheap labor and scarce natural resources.

9/11 Air Outrage by Susan Edelman and Stefan C. Friedman "You could end with the EPA killing more people than the terrorists," added Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat whose district includes Ground Zero."

Gunsmoke and Mirrors By MAUREEN DOWD The Bush administration thought it could use scientific superiority to impose its will on alien tribal cultures. But we're spending hundreds of billions subduing two backward countries without subduing them. ....Secretary Pangloss at Defense and Wolfie the Naif are terminally enchanted by their own descriptions of the world. They know how to use their minds, but it's not clear they know how to use their eyes.

Dizzying Dive to Red Ink Poses Stark Choices for Washington By DAVID FIRESTONE When President Bush informed the nation last Sunday night that remaining in Iraq next year will cost another $87 billion, many of those who will actually pay that bill were unable to watch. They had already been put to bed by their parents.

Bred for Power by David Brooks The Protestant Establishment is dead, and nobody wants it back. But that culture, which George Bush and Howard Dean were born into, did have a formula for producing leaders. Our culture, which is freer and fairer, does not. 

For Neocons, 9/11 More Than a Smokescreen by Jesse Lee OpEdNews.Com

Bush's New War Lies by Robert Parry No longer able to sell the earlier reasons for war -- such as Iraq's supposed stockpiles of trigger-ready weapons of mass destruction -- George W. Bush has adopted new emotional appeals to sway the American people. But the new rationales are no more truthful than the old ones.

Disaster in the Making  Eleanor Clift If Iraq is another Vietnam, when will we know it?

Neocon Jobs: Robert Kuttner on why we should restore foreign-policy power to mainstream practitioners -- and let the radical hawks find other employment.

Enough of war, enough of bloodshed. Enough
 Jonathan Freedland: Israelis and Palestinians are ready to do a peace deal - what a pity their leaders are not. Guardian

TV Guided: Matthew Yglesias on how the networks did Bush's bidding in their second-anniversary coverage of 9-11.

Right Sees Blockage of FCC Rules that Cut Diversity as Muzzle on LImbaugh, Hannity, etc.

Baked Alaska on the Menu? By Nicholas Kristof Kaktovik Alaska.  Skeptics of global warming should come to this Eskimo village on the Arctic Ocean, roughly 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It's hard to be complacent about climate change when you're in an area that normally is home to animals like polar bears and wolverines, but is now attracting robins.

 'Latest Iraq casualty: Our national prestige' by Walter Cronkite

Liberty Bushwhacked Washington Post - In more technical terms, Mr. Bush wants to give the Justice Department the power to issue "administrative subpoenas" instead of grand jury subpoenas to compel documents or testimony from reluctant witnesses.

The Genetically Modified Bomb by Thom Hartmann OpEdNews.com

Republicans Seem to Want to Keep Computerized Voting Easily Corruptible by Rob Kall OpEdNews.Com

Analysis: 'Tipping point' of the deficit
President Bush''s announcement Sunday night of increased Iraq-related spending pushed the likely budget deficit for the year to October 2004 over $500 billion. It''s therefore worth asking the question: when does all this get serious?

Two 9/11s, one story Roger Burbach: To understand better what happened in New York in 2001, go back to Chile in 1973. The Guardian

You can't make a deal with the dead Killing or banning Hamas and its leaders will do nothing for peace Kevin Toolis, The Guardian

McCain-Feingold In Trouble Elaine Cassell opednews.com

How We Lost The Vote - How To Get It Back Again  by Lynn Landes Today, the right to vote in America is held hostage by technology - a technology that stands between the voter and a real ballot - a technology that delivers only circumstantial  evidence of a vote while people push buttons, punch holes, throw levers, and dial-up.  

REPUBLICANS  TRYING  TO  DEMONIZE  DEAN by Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence

When will voters finally get wise to the shell game? by Robert Jensen and Rahul Mahajan

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Living Sickly, Dying Quickly By James Boyne  OpEdNews.com

Washington Post's Dionne and NY Time's Krugman Both suggest Iraq War is a Huge Bait and Switch Operation. The scam's goal? Billions for Halliburton.

Whose Sacrifice? By E. J. Dionne Jr.If Bush and his friends aren't willing to sacrifice anything for this cause, they abandon the right to ask sacrifices from of the rest of us.

Other People's Sacrifice by Paul Krugman Mr. Bush created this crisis, and if he were a true patriot he would pay a political price to resolve it. Maybe it's time for him to do a couple of things he's never done before, like admitting mistakes and standing up to the hard right.  

 "Through eyes of foreigners: U.S. political crisis by Robert Jensen

Is the West Winning the War On Terrorism?  MARTIN O'MALLEY:

The White Whore House is Operating Full Tilt, Servicing Corporate America, Screwing the Rest moving environmental rules right of Nixon

This war on terrorism is bogus Michael Meacher The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination
 Meacher, who served as a labour minister for six years, goes further than any other mainstream British politician in blaming the Iraq war on a US desire for domination of the Gulf and the world.

Why Bush Can't Win It could be argued now that President George W. Bush (news -