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Anti-Empire Notes The Cuban Punching Bag By WILLIAM BLUM The Committee to Protect Journalists, located in New York, calls itself "An Independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide". In December it issued a report that said that "China, Cuba, Eritrea, and...

America’s Blinders By Howard Zinn April 2006 Issue Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that they no longer trust Bush and his Administration, now that the evidence of deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media, always late, have begun to...

Official truth, unofficial consequences Though spin-doctoring might serve to drum up support at home for Canada's military mission, the army's unseemly eagerness to pin blame on Taliban insurgents or reckless Afghans as the authors of their own misfortunes will do little to win the hearts and...

top Ten Reasons Why Canada Needs a Debate About Afghanistan PEJ News - M. Wallace - The Canadian mainstream media refuses any challenge to our role in Afghanistan, with almost no critical voices, despite polling that indicates at least half of Canadians not only question but oppose our...

Chavez: US wants Iran's oil Wednesday 22 March 2006, 7:55 Makka Time, 4:55 GMT Chavez is a staunch defender of Iran's nuclear programme Related: Chavez grants fuel deal to El Salvador Venezuela slams US rights claim Chavez warns US over Venezuelan oil The president of Venezuela has...

Chavez: US wants Iran's oil Wednesday 22 March 2006, 7:55 Makka Time, 4:55 GMT Chavez is a staunch defender of Iran's nuclear programme Related: Chavez grants fuel deal to El Salvador Venezuela slams US rights claim Chavez warns US over Venezuelan oil The president of Venezuela has...

February 15, 2005 Vigilant Resolve Quare siletis juristae in munere vestro? (Why are you jurists silent about that which concerns you?) —Giorgio Agamben Remembering the first siege of Fallujah: excerpts from testimony submitted to the World Tribunal on Iraq, Session on Media Wrongs against...

I think it's about the role of our military today.

Weekend Edition March 18 / 19, 2006 Pot Shots The War on Kids By FRED GARDNER In a series of raids March 16 the DEA took down several East Bay facilities -indoor grow sites and kitchens- at which cannabis-laced candies and sodas were produced for distribution through dispensaries. Twelve...

March 16, 2006 Latin America And Asia Are At Last Breaking Free Of Washington's Grip By Noam Chomsky The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe...

Root and Branch: American Forces Wipe Out Family C. L. Cook PEJ News March 17, 2006 In a terse statement, American military officials said two women and a child died in the raid. But police and witnesses in Ishaqi, a small town 100 kilometers north of Baghdad, tell a different story. They...

March 17, 2006 US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia By JAMES PETRAS and ROBIN EASTMAN-ABAYA Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going...

Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran By Juan Cole Editor’s Note: Truthdig’s Middle Eastern affairs expert argues that the Iranian nuclear issue “has not reached the point of crisis, and therefore other motivations must be sought for the Bush administration’s breathless rhetoric." UPDATE: On...

Scientists discover new Afghan oil Wednesday 15 March 2006, 5:13 Makka Time, 2:13 GMT Two geological basins in northern Afghanistan hold 18 times more oil and triple the natural gas resources than was previously thought, government scientists have revealed. Nearly 1.6 billion barrels of...

Breaking: Sandra Day O'Connor rips into GOP, DeLay, Cornyn, and warns of the "beginnings" of dictatorship NPR's Nina Totenberg aired an amazing story this morning about a talk that just-resigned Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown University. The first woman to serve on...

Looking for answers? Follow the money Nations pursue foreign policies for wealth and power, either to get more of it or to protect it from somebody else who is trying to take it. >by Jerry West March 10, 2006 What are we doing in Afghanistan? That is a question that many Canadians...

March 1, 2006 An Open Letter to the NDP and Liberal MPs Canada and the American Empire By JOHN RYAN As a long time supporter of progressive political policies in Canada I was perplexed and dismayed by the results of our recent federal election. My consternation led me to write the article that...

Forbes announced today that this year we have produced one-hundred new billionaires bringing the total to eight-hundred. I was not one of them. Why is getting filthy rich a growth industry. :)

In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved...

The Towering Solons of Abortion Email this item Email Print this item Print Posted on Mar. 7, 2006 By Molly Ivins AUSTIN, Texas—South Dakota is so rarely found on the leading edge of the far out, the wiggy, the California-esque. But it has now staked its claim. First to Outlaw Abortion...