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British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil by Adam Porter in Lisbon Friday 20 May 2005 9:49 PM GMT Labour politician and former UK environment minister Michael Meacher has slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush for starting a war, he says, to secure oil interests...

One shouldn't believe everything they read in a book, but in the case of "Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor" by Robert B. Stinnett, there can be no denying the awful truth that FDR not only knew the Japanese were going to attack, but official documents prove FDR wanted them to...

Let us start with the infamous Anthrax letters, which terrorized the United States in the weeks after 9-11. Interesting reading. Any input???? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/framingarabs.html

THE first mortar shell fell close to a solitary shack on a bluff overlooking the Euphrates river. The second exploded a few yards from a parked US Marine Humvee armoured vehicle full of officers directing construction of a pontoon bridge that was intended to carry US forces across the river into...

UKUSreal: "You must agree to stop production of nuclear weapons." IRAN: "We aren't making any nuclear weapons." UKUSreal: "WE are serious. You MUST suspend your nuclear weapons program." IRAN: "We don't HAVE a nuclear weapons program. We're building a power station. Your inspectors have...

They lied to us Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate 05.10.05 - AUSTIN, Texas -- Meanwhile, back in Iraq. I was going to leave out of this column everything about how we got into Iraq, or whether it was wise, and or whether the infamous "they" knowingly lied to us. (Although I did plan to point...

Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern...

Americans Increasingly Reject Bush Commentary / Commentary Date: Apr 09, 2005 - 08:38 PM With George Bush's approval rating now at the lowest level of any incumbent president since World War II, are the hard times and absurd lies finally getting through to Americans? By Martin Graham On the...

Does our government respect human life the way it claims to do? Hardly. And being a soldier is no deterrent. Ignore for a moment the lies surrounding 9-11, TWA 800, the USS Iowa, and the Gulf of Tonkin, and step back into horrid history with me. PUBLIC LAW 95-79 [P.L. 95-79] TITLE 50...

Looooooooooooooooooooooooooolooooooooooooooooooooool Now the world is in deep shit. Sorry for my French. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Wednesday Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz would make a "strong president" of the World Bank, calling him "a compassionate, decent...

At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier. The driver started shouting we were Italians, "We are Italians! We are Italians . . ." Nicola Calipari dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I...

How Dumb Does George Really Think We Are? Commentary from The Laura Flanders Show , February 5, 2005 Oh really. How dumb does George really think we are? Does the President really think we'll fall for it a second time? Here's what I want you to do: for every time W says the words...

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005 Noam Chomsky: U.S. Might Face "Ultimate Nightmare" in Middle East Where Shiites Control Most of World's Oil One of the country's leading dissidents, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, gives a major new address on the Iraq war, the re-election of President Bush and...

Iraq elections, democratic practice but ... By Ahmed Janabi When Baghdad was occupied on 9 April 2003, the last Iraqi ambassador of Saddam Hussein's government to the UN, Muhammad al-Duri, declared that the game was over. A journalist, university professor and statesman who served as an...

Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs By ALEXANDER COCKBURN When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books. Start with sanity, in the form of Ward Churchill, a tenured prof at the University of Colorado. Churchill is known...

Wake Up! Bush Is Serious by Paul Craig Roberts Readers in numbers beyond my ability to reply individually have challenged me whether President Bush's inaugural speech is a statement of his intentions or merely a celebration of himself and American democracy. Surely Bush doesn't believe...

Giant in decline By Marshall Auerback In his 1849 novel Les Guepes, Alphonse Karr penned the classic line: "The more things change, the more they stay the same." In the case of the United States in 2005, however, the opposite might be true: The more things stay the same, the more they are...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House estimated on Tuesday that the U.S. budget deficit for 2005, including an extra $80 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan operations, will total $427 billion. "In the 2006 budget that we release on Feb. 7, OMB will estimate that the 2005 deficit, including the...

I posted the whole article since the WP website requires registration. Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain New Espionage Branch Delving Into CIA Territory By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 23, 2005; Page A01 The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic...

Now what are the Chinese doing with the Iraqis in Boston? BOSTON (AP) — Airport and transit authorities responded to an FBI report of a possible terrorist plot against Boston by boosting security — adding patrols, activating radiation detectors and posting pictures of some of the suspects...