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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...

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...

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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...