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We're talking about Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. Professor Chomsky has just released a new book titled "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy." It examines how...

MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2006 Council denounces unprecedented power handed to big business at Summit Ottawa - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken Canada further down the road of continental integration - a move that will further erode Canada’s ability to make decisions...

Mr. Harper goes to Ottawa Borden - Wednesday - March 1, 2006 - by: David Orchard Two and a half years ago Stephen Harper headed a regional and fading political party unable to connect with most Canadians because of its unpalatable policies. Today, Mr. Harper is prime...

Tanks pulling plows moved alongside trenches, firing into the Iraqi soldiers inside the trenches as the plows covered them with great mounds of sand. Thousands were buried, dead, wounded, or alive.{87} US forces fired on Iraqi soldiers after the Iraqis had raised white flags of surrender...

Gospel according to Judas Thursday 06 April 2006, 21:35 Makka Time, 18:35 GMT An ancient manuscript rediscovered after 1,700 years may shed light on the relationship between Jesus and Judas, the disciple said to have betrayed him. Rather than the traitor as Judas is portrayed in the New...

Gospel according to Judas Thursday 06 April 2006, 21:35 Makka Time, 18:35 GMT An ancient manuscript rediscovered after 1,700 years may shed light on the relationship between Jesus and Judas, the disciple said to have betrayed him. Rather than the traitor as Judas is portrayed in the New...

www.PEJ.org www.countmeout.ca If you're a person who bothers to fill out the StatsCan Census, here is your chance to protest government function outsourcing and get at the giant American war profiteer Lockheed Martin. Statistics Canada has contracted out the software and data processing...

State voters approve troop removal by Ann Babe Wednesday, April 5, 2006 U.S. troops in Iraq should be brought home, according to a majority of Wisconsin cities that voted in Tuesday’s spring referendums. Citizens from 32 communities across the state sounded off on the Iraq War, casting their...

March 31, 2006 An Inventory Better Off Under Saddam By GARY LEUPP Saddam Hussein is bad man. As a 22 year old he worked with the CIA on a botched effort to assassinate Iraqi President Abd al-Karim Qasim. The CIA and Egyptian intelligence got him out of Iraq and to Lebanon, where the CIA paid...

Kurt Vonnegut on the socialists who fought for workers Celebrating socialism in the U.S. KURT VONNEGUT is one of America’s best-known novelists, with half a century of writings and close to 20 books to his name. He’s also earned a reputation as an opponent of war and injustice, both in his...

Privatizing the Apocalypse By Frida Berrigan TomDispatch.com Thursday 30 March 2006 Started as the super-secret "Project Y" in 1943, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has long been the keystone institution of the American nuclear-weapons producing complex. It was...

Locking the Golden Door BY JASON MILLER 4/2/06 If she drew breath, the Statue of Liberty would drop her torch in disgust and hang her head in shame. Inculcated with the belief that they are morally superior and endowed with an inalienable right to world domination, the members of America’s...

The failure in Iraq must be seen as a corporate failure, what with the corruption and theft and incompetance in evidence it is unavoidale that examination of capitalist corporate structure will reach the conclusion that unregulated free corporations have more than had thier day and have failed...

Neocons Admit Slaughtering Shia Worshippers Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire March 31st 2006 According to U.S. News & World Report, the slaughter of worshippers at a mosque in the Ur neighborhood of Baghdad was intended to serve as a message “to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr,” an...

f you start looking at them as humans, then how are you gonna kill them?' They are a publicity nightmare for the US military: an ever-growing number of veterans of the Iraq conflict who are campaigning against the war. To mark the third anniversary of the invasion this month, a group of them...

The New York Times Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By March 19, 2006 'American Theocracy,' by Kevin Phillips Clear and Present Dangers Review by ALAN BRINKLEY Four decades ago, Kevin Phillips, a young political strategist for the Republican Party, began work on what became a remarkable book...

Soldiers Flee to Canada to Avoid Iraq Duty By Duncan Campbell The Guardian UK Tuesday 28 March 2006 Hundreds of deserters from the US armed forces have crossed into Canada and are now seeking political refugee status there, arguing that violations of the rules of war in Iraq by...

Apocalyptic President By Sidney Blumenthal The Guardian UK Thursday 23 March 2006 Even some Republicans are now horrified by the influence Bush has given to the evangelical right. In his latest PR offensive President Bush came to Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday to answer the...

Samarra: Lax measures or a plot? By Laith Saud Wednesday 08 March 2006, 10:41 Makka Time, 7:41 GMT Tools: Email Article Print Article Send Your Feedback If it was not evident already, it has now become indisputably clear that the American presence in Iraq has accomplished...

Nearly 700,000 American Gulf War Veterans returned to the US from a war that lasted just a few weeks. Today more than 240,000 of those soldiers are on permanent medical disability, and over 11,000 are dead. In a US government study on post-Gulf War babies born to 251 veterans, 67% of the babies...