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April 25, 2006 Wars, Debt and Outsourcing The World is Uniting Against the Bush Imperium By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Is the United States a superpower? I think not. Consider these facts: The financial position of the US has declined dramatically. The US is heavily indebted, both government and...

Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy By E&P Staff Published: April 24, 2006 4:45 PM ET NEW YORK President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq "diplomatically to the max." Speaking to a business group in Irvine, Ca., he...

Weekend Edition April 22 / 23, 2006 Dreher's Jamaican Pregnancy Study More Suppression of Marijuana Research By FRED GARDNER In the 1980s Melanie Dreher and colleagues at UMass Amherst began a longitudinal study to assess the well-being of infants and children whose mothers used cannabis...

Weekend Edition April 22 / 23, 2006 The Meddlesome Ambassador Trivelli Whose Democracy is the US Supporting in Nicaragua? By BRYNNE KEITH-JENNINGS In Nicaragua, the US government continues to flex its muscles to achieve an electoral defeat of Daniel Ortega in the November presidential...

Condi and the Bush Monarchy Above the Law Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire www.kurtnimmo.com Saturday April 22nd 2006 “Ratcheting up their defense against espionage charges, the lawyers, representing former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, got tentative...

F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana Article Tools Sponsored By By GARDINER HARRIS Published: April 21, 2006 WASHINGTON, April 20 — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that "no sound scientific studies" supported the medical use of marijuana, contradicting a 1999...

Japan veteran returns after 60 years Thursday 20 April 2006, 2:59 Makka Time, 23:59 GMT Uwano was drafted in the Japanese imperial army in 1943 A former Japanese World War Two soldier, who recently turned up living in Ukraine, has set foot in his motherland for the first time in more than...

Containing China By Michael Klare, Tomdispatch.com. Posted April 20, 2006. Despite Bush's preoccupation with Iraq and Iran, the administration is more concerned with keeping China from becoming an economic and military superpower. [Editor's Note: China's president, Hu Jintao, meets today...

Another Grim Jobs Report How Safe is Your Job? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Is your job safe? Not if it can be done abroad. The only safe jobs are in domestic services that require a “hands-on” presence, such as barbers, hospital orderlies, and waitresses. For a number of years the Bureau of Labor...

The Not-So-Secret Foreign Energy Source by Walter Brasch www.dissidentvoice.org April 14, 2006 President Bush, several years after most Americans, has decided the nation can’t be dependent upon foreign energy sources. For much of his life, when he wasn’t stoned or wasted, and...

The One and Only Answer: Two Cappuccinos Please by Bill Willers www.dissidentvoice.org March 24, 2006 Send this page to a friend! (click here) The corporate world now owns the federal government. Billions from its coffers fund the campaigns of legislators who therefore allow its...

Theocons and Theocrats By Kevin Phillips The Nation 01 May 2006 Issue Is theocracy in the United States (1) a legitimate fear, as some liberals argue; (2) a joke, given the nation's rising secular population and moral laxity; (3) a worrisome bias of major GOP constituencies and...

Doomsday For The Internet As We Know It? Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 By Paul Joseph Watson Several developments that are coming to the fore indicate a noticeable advance towards a government regulated, taxed and controlled system that spells doomsday for the Internet as we know it. The first...

Updated: April 1, 2003 Anti-American? What about anti-Canadianism? Dimitry Anastakis, MSU Visiting Fulbright Scholar Toronto Star, Op/Ed piece, March 27, 2003...

n 2005, Exxon CEO Raked In 190K a Day ThinkProgress.org Friday 14 April 2006 (Photo: ThinkProgress.org) Average Americans are struggling to keep up with persistently high gas prices, now approaching $3 a gallon. Testifying before Congress last November, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond...

Media Cheers Canada's Military Future C. L. Cook PEJ News April 13, 2006 What is this place we've found ourselves in? Am I alone in discomfiture? Canada's flower, "our" young men and women serving in uniform far afield demand support. They beg, so their spokesmen would have me believe, I...

Letter to David Frum re: "Nuclear Jihad" David Frum Dear Dave, I’ve just read your fascinating article, “Nuclear Jihad,” on the American Enterprise Institute website! Dave, I do believe that you’ve overlooked a 4th possibilty in your search for reason in the Iranian Mullah’s current nuclear...

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary...

Crumbling Under Debt By John F. Ince AlterNet Saturday 08 April 200 Last month, for the third time during the presidency of George W. Bush, the U.S. Congress raised America's debt ceiling. By bumping up our own credit limit, the country's leaders allowed us to technically avoid...

Why are we in Afghanistan? (2) The people of Afghanistan want peace. The occupiers and their puppet and former Unocal employee, Hamid Karzai, want oil. >by Canadian Peace Alliance April 10, 2006 Canada has 2250 Canadian soldiers stationed in Kandahar Afghanistan. The soldiers are...