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How to Conquer Canada Michael Byers, a professor in British Columbia, writes in the Toronto Star about a little-known plan to increase cooperation between the Canadian and American militaries: They seem harmless enough at first: two mid-level Canadian Forces officers and a mild-mannered...

The Invisible M3 and Plumping Up the Economy The Subsurface World of Inflation, Cannibalism and the Plight of the Squeezees by Zbignew Zingh www.dissidentvoice.org May 5, 2006 In March 2006,with practically no explanation, the federal government stopped reporting on M3, the broadest...

The Inevitable Collapse of the Greenback by Mike Whitney www.dissidentvoice.org May 3, 2006 Send this page to a friend! (click here) “The ultimate financial impact of trading oil in Euros rather than dollars is a complex one, but according to many experts, such a move could lead...

Afghanistan's Poison Legacy: Lost Souls Abroad, Lost Souls at Home Mohammed Daud Miraki - Afghanistan is become the disaster words could not describe, hence, I decided to illustrate this disaster via these photos of babies born deformed. www.afghandufund.org [Below is Dr. Miraki's account of...

Careless Industry: How Corporate America Perpetuates the Health Care Crisis By David Sirota In These Times Monday 01 May 2006 This article was adapted from Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government - and How We Can Take It Back, with permission...

Coming Home From War on the Cheap By Judith Coburn TomDispatch.com Thursday 27 April 2006 Shortchanging the wounded. On the eve of his Marine unit's assault on Falluja in November, 2004, Blake Miller read to his men from the Bible (John 14:2-3): "In my father's house...

Osama, Abu, and Ayman: al-CIA-Duh Telethon Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire April 28th 2006 First it was Osama bin Laden, then Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and now Ayman al-Zawahiri. In the span of a week, these three al-CIA-duh heavyweights (two from beyond the grave) have issued communiqués...

THE PARADIGM IS THE ENEMY: The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse A Speech by Michael C. Ruppert for the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma Conference April 27-29, New York City, at Cooper Union [This is the most important speech of my life. If you read anything I’ve...

Free Markets and Property Rights Trump Humanity and the Environment! Here's to Saint Charles America’s wealthiest owe a significant debt of gratitude to their patron saint, Charles G. Koch. Mr. Koch’s Herculean efforts have virtually ensured that the United States’ plutocracy and its...

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April 25, 2006 Obliterating the Dollar ... and the Middle Class? Preparing for the Economic Typhoon By MIKE WHITNEY Gold traders love George Bush. They know that his blundering mismanagement of the economy will keep gold soaring well into the future. In the last year alone gold increased...

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...