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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 301 through 375 of 375.
- The debate over the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Britain reopens today with research which suggests that infant deaths were higher in areas where rain fell as the plume of fallout passed overhead. - How income inequality has intensified under Bush
- The Democrats’ Athena only differs from Bush on the details. - Even though Canada's former Liberal government downplayed it, small numbers of Canadian military personnel have been serving side by side with their American counterparts in Iraq. And the Canadians have been serving there since day one in the war in Iraq. - The recent elections in Belarus have been condemned by the U.S. and the European Union (EU). Both sides state they will impose sanctions and travel restrictions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Sound familiar? It should because this is yet another hypocritical action taken by the U.S. in its quest to democratize the world. - ...the Straussian neocons have it out for a large number of nations, most notably in the Islamic Middle East, but also in Latin America. North Korea, China, and Russia also figure prominently on the neocon lit list. - an unblinking look—in words and images—at the reality of warfare (Warning: Graphic and disturbing images) - The IMF already crudely imposes extreme hardship on the vast majority of people in the countries where it intervenes. - The shocking conditions of Chinese toy workers bring to mind the life of the working class of the nineteenth century, at the beginning of the industrial revolution. - To become competitive centers for corporate banking, first South Dakota and then Delaware removed their "usury ceilings" about 25 years ago. Usury laws are state legislation designed to prevent lenders from charging exorbitant or usurious interest rates on loans and credit. - There are troubling signs that it was staged. - About 6,000 non-Iraqi security contractors are operating in Iraq. During nine months in 2004-05, contractors reported firing into 61 civilian vehicles; no one was ever prosecuted. Security analysts say it is likely that such incidents are vastly underreported.
- “We owe them for the invasion and for 10 years of sanctions that devastated a society and strengthened a tyrant..." - As Barbara Bush spent two hours championing her son's software company at a Houston middle school Thursday morning, a watchdog group questioned whether the former first lady should be allowed to channel a donation to Neil Bush's Ignite Learning company through Houston's Hurricane Katrina relief fund. - Putin and Russian government: Latest targets of the neo-cons and likely forged documents. - ...the invasion of Iraq was all about destroying Iraqi society and nationalism. It was a coup de grâce delivered after twelve years of brutal, immoral, sadistic, and medieval sanctions designed to break the Iraqis down. It has everything to do with defeating secular Arab nationalism and in this respect the occupation (and destruction) of Iraq is an Israeli project. - Despite daily reports about mounting anti-occupation attacks in Iraq, Americans hear very little from mainstream media about the most basic facts of what’s going there. - Common Cause, League of Women Voters Decry FBI "Intimidation" - Everyone is at risk from trigger-happy US troops - Report reveals how the world's poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations - Radioactive forever - Kansas & Nevada littered with destroyed & dangerous war machines - One of the most tragic consequenes of the Iraq war has been its effect on children. The war continues to claim them among its main victims, while the health of the majority of the population also continues to deteriorate. - A lot of fossil fuel goes into producing, packaging and shipping our breakfast
- I will give seven good reasons why an upcoming "terrorist" attack makes perfect sense there. From an Illuminati perspective of course. - by - Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D. - These are physically impossible crashes. Airplanes do not exhibit completely different physical behaviors within .05 seconds at a given place. They cannot be invincible and then shatter and crumble without slowing down. - There is no money to be made in cures, but there are billions of dollars to be made in treatments. The medical establishment is afraid of anything which would prevent people from getting diseases, because they make money off treating diseases. - Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future. - For some reason we are expected to believe this loon was capable of crashing a 747 into the White House.
- 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 the US entitle them to asylum - As significant as the national data is, foreclosure and delinquency rates for regions most neglected, abandoned, or destroyed by consequences of capitalism are the most revealing. - The U.S. overshadows every aspect of Colombia’s war. Whether through Plan Colombia, the war on drugs, or the war on terrorism, whatever they call it, the U.S. funds, organizes and orchestrates a war against the poor, and actively enforces the massive displacement of people on behalf of its multinationals, particularly its oil companies, under the so-called "Free Trade Agreement of the Americas." - The corporate media is not controlled by anyone; they are the tool of the controllers. - CNN, and its equally empty colleagues at Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS, have helped the White House convince Americans that the nation's most dangerous enemy is an Iraqi rebel, or an al Qaeda terrorist. But that's a lie, and most professional reporters aren't dummies; they must know it's a lie. - "Looks like we can go now Dave, the next shift's just turned up." - The media certainly weren't skittish about pictures of the tsunami victims. Or the bloated corpses of Rwanda. Or abandoned bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans. Editors and producers had no problem with those bodies. Their only problem is with bodies in Iraq. - Says video cameras, binoculars, sketch pads are terrorist tools - Bases getting bigger, more elaborate - Children as young as five have suffered strokes, heart attacks, hallucinations and convulsions after taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. - The FBI is under attack in Puerto Rico for operations that critics say unfairly target pro-independence activists. - MSNBC VIDEO: Moussaoui wore "stun belt" for new testimony
- Perhaps you want the opinion of an expert ... - An estimated 2 to 3 million striking workers and students demonstrated in cities and towns throughout France yesterday in opposition to the Gaullist government’s "First Job Contract" (CPE—Contrat première embauche) legislation, which permits employers to dismiss young workers without cause or compensation during their first two years on the job. - INFO CORROBORATED BY THREE SEPARATE U.S. TREASURY SOURCES - If you believe the line towed by the corporate media, a line manufactured in the deep recesses of the Pentagon, the United States stumbled into Iraq based on "intelligence failures..." - Human rights issues will be less pressing, cost of living cheaper and the bases will be a little closer to both Russia and the Middle East for all of your bombing needs. - The Pentagon has once again investigated itself! And -- have a seat, get the smelling salts, hold all hats -- the Pentagon has once again concluded the Pentagon did absolutely nothing wrong and will continue to do so. - We are thrilled to tell you that in the past week the government of Argentina decided to stop sending soldiers to train at the School of the Americas, and the government of Uruguay affirmed that it will continue its current policy of not sending soldiers to the SOA/ WHINSEC! - If, like the Lancet report, we are speaking of all civilian deaths that have resulted from the war, it is, therefore, now accurate to speak in terms of hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands. - One of four British citizens and residents seized by the Americans in Africa before two of them were flown to Guantanamo Bay has told The Independent that they were victims of an MI5 plot - ...high-level members of CNN management advised the producers of the show to "kill it." This statement was clearly made to stifle any further coverage of 9/11 despite the admitedly huge ratings boost and response garnered from the recent coverage of Charlie Sheen's statements on 9/11. - More 9/11 Demolition?
- ...the system in the advanced countries has been rejigged since the 1960s to take wealth from workers, and from the funding of government, and transfer it to stockholders and corporate executives. - The fact that electronic voting machines don't work may finally be sinking into a segment of the mainstream media. The fact that e-voting machines can, have been, and will be used to steal elections, continues to go unreported. - Events in Iraq are giving the lie to administration claims that all it wants to do is create a stable, democratic Iraq, and then leave. - WTO rules put free-trade of agribusiness above national health concerns - Since the government of Ariel Sharon came to power in 2001, Britain has exported around £70 million worth of military equipment to Israel. - Truth crusaders Walter and Rodriguez to appear on Hugo Chavez's weekly TV broadcast - The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said. - Taking a tip from an old playbook—recall Al Capone ensconced at his South Florida mansion when the St. Valentines’ Day Massacre rocked Chicago— Bush slipped out of D.C. just as his erstwhile buddy Abramoff was facing the music (such as it was) in a Miami Federal courthouse. - ...in a situation of generalized lies supported by an enormous media apparatus which has sold out or been intimidated by the dictatorial power of the US government and elite, the simple affirmation of basic truths is, rightly, considered dangerous and intolerable. - A "trigger-happy" U.S. army squad leader shot the foot off an unarmed Iraqi man and soldiers kicked a severed head around like a soccer ball, a U.S. war deserter told an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing Thursday. - ...a new era of nuclear weapons for profit threatens to turn Armageddon into a paying operation. - ...ask around to find the head of the organized crime ring that has your hostage in custody... - The Capitol Hill police are rife with officers hired by the Republican leadership and the recently-departed and nepotism scandal-tainted police chief Terrance Gainer, who got his start as a rookie cop in Chicago in 1968 clubbing anti-Vietnam War protestors at the Democratic National Convention.
- The thrust of this document, reiterated by the party’s Congressional leaders, is that the Bush administration has bungled the war in Iraq and the overall "global war on terror," and that the Democrats can do a more competent job of waging both. - The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church -- especially the Archdiocese of Boston -- knows no bounds. When they're not defending child abusers, they're bashing gays. Now, they're defending and protecting Antonin Scalia. - ...Cheney continues to own stock in Halliburton. Stock that has risen in leaps and bounds since its former CEO moved into the White House and developed the most prolific war profiteering scheme of all time. - Meanwhile, the share of national income going to wage and salary workers has fallen to 56.9%. Except for a brief period in 1997, that's the lowest share for labor income since 1966 - An Inventory - by Michael C. Ruppert - There Are Good Reasons Why 9/11 is Having Its 15 Minutes of Fame Now – Look at Who’s In the Spotlight - The Bush administration is getting desperate for good news out of Colombia. - Harvard study of Israeli lobby's influence costs the academic dean of the Kennedy School his job - The blogosphere nails a California Republican for his view of Iraq. - U.S. raid on Shiite shrine served as a warning - What we witnessed on that ghastly morning was a carefully planned, perfectly orchestrated PSYOPS attack on a citizenry by its own government.
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