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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...

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...