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Published on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by The Independent/UK
USA 2008: The Great Depression
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in
the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now
relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces
economic crisis.......
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Noam Chomsky: International Terror Most-Wanted List
If Washington turned its definition of terror on the
U.S., America could rise to the top of its own most-wanted list........more
Which War Is This Anyway?
"Every country and every people has a stake in the… resistance, for the freedom fighters… are defending principles of independence that form the basis of global security and stability."
"The war… was in itself criminal, a criminal adventure. This crime cost the lives of about a million [people], a war of destruction was waged against an entire people… This is what lies on us as a terrible sin, a terrible reproach. We must cleanse ourselves of this shame that lies on our leadership."
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From Kosovo to Kurdistan
How the Spooks Took over the News
For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.
The sheer ease with which this machinery has been able to do its work
reflects a creeping structural weakness which now afflicts the production of
our news. I've spent the last two years researching a book about falsehood,
distortion and propaganda in the global media.........
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Published on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Just When You Thought the Corporate Media Couldn’t Get Any Worse
I would not have thought that the coverage of the US presidential campaign could get more shallow and meaningless, and then, along comes the plagiarism story. ...more►
Most Important 9/11 Information Document:
Over 50 senior military, intelligence, and government officials are now on record questioning 9/11. Read media statements from members of congress, a former director of the FBI, a former chief economist of President George W. Bush, an assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, the former head of advanced space programs for the Department of Defense under Reagan, a British cabinet minister under Prime Minister Tony Blair, and more. In reports on respected websites (links provided), each of these prominent leaders now claims that there are serious problems with the official government story of 9/11. To see also over 100 respected and distinguished professors claiming a 9/11 cover-up, click here......... .... more►
Published on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by TV 3 News (New Zealand) Children Are Forty Percent of Cluster Bomb Casualties
Four out of every ten people killed or injured by cluster bombs are children, delegates at a major conference on cluster munitions being held in Wellington were told today.
About 560 delegates from 122 countries have converged on Wellington for the conference which aims to draft a treaty text, to be negotiated in Dublin, Ireland, in May.
The attempt to achieve a treaty, known as the Oslo Process, was started last year by New Zealand and six other countries.
Opening the conference, Disarmament Minister Phil Goff said a strong declaration on cluster bombs at the conference would mark a pivotal step in getting the weapons banned.
More than half of the 76 states in the world that stockpile cluster munitions are taking part in the negotiations, along with a majority of the weapon producers.
However, major producers such as the US, Russia, China and Pakistan have not joined the process and have no observers at the conference..... more►
RUSSIA THREATENS NUKE STRIKE
Were US & Israel Behind the 9/11?
Italian ex-President: CIA & Mossad planed that The 9/11 atrocity killed 3,000 innocent Americans and was used by Bush as an excuse to wreak havoc across the world from Somalia to Afghanistan (will Iran be next?). The post-invasion excess deaths associated with the Bush War on Terror in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan has caused the death of millions of people. (see "State Terrorism" on MWC News). Whoever did 9/11 is accordingly also responsible for the subsequent carnage of the Bush Wars...... more►
Top US Lawyer And UNICEF Data Reveal Afghan Genocide
By Dr Gideon Polya
08/02/08 "Countercurrents"
-- - The United States invaded Afghanistan in October
2001 with the ostensible excuse of the Afghan Government’s “protection” of the
asserted Al Qaeda culprits of the 9/11 atrocity that killed 3,000 people. In
the light of as many as 6.6 million post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied
Afghanistan as of February 2008 (see below), it is important to consider the
major problems with this Bush-ite and neo-Bush-ite version of events as
summarized below:........ .......
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NATO Crisis Grows Over Afghan Troops
Global Warming: Nine Things that Will Put us Over the Edge
Published on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 by Reuters
Climate Change Threatens Human Rights of Millions: UN
by Laura MacInnis
GENEVA - Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at risk of losing access to housing, food and clean water unless governments intervene early to counter its effects, experts said on Tuesday. ....more►
Talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot" given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus
"Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia"
It is essential that people across America and around the World take cognizance of the dangers of a Middle East war directed against Iran and act decisively to challenge the US military agenda and reverse the tide of war.
The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens the future of humanity. ......more►
There is mounting evidence that the Bush Administration, in liaison with Israel and NATO, is planning the launching of a nuclear war against Iran, ironically, in retaliation for Tehran's nonexistent nuclear weapons program. The US-Israeli military operation is said to be in "an advanced state of readiness".
If such a plan were to be launched, the war would escalate and eventually engulf the entire Middle-East Central Asian region.
The war could extend beyond the region, as some analysts have suggested, ultimately leading us into a World War III scenario. .......... more►
News 2007-11-16 Actions against Peacemakers
"Justice makes a nation great, and the greater a nation the more solicitous will it be to see that injustice shall not befall even its most humble citizen. Woe upon any nation when only those who possess money and influence can secure ready justice before its courts! It is the sacred duty of a magistrate to acquit the innocent as well as to punish the guilty. Upon the impartiality, fairness, and integrity of its courts the endurance of a nation depends. Civil government is founded on justice, even as true religion is founded on mercy." ..... more►
WAR Counting the whole Cost! - Man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity. Never forget these laws of relation to the Father's will: "Evil is the unconscious or unintended transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Evil is likewise the measure of the imperfectness of obedience to the Father's will. Sin is the conscious, knowing, and deliberate transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Sin is the measure of unwillingness to be divinely led and spiritually directed. Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Iniquity is the measure of the continued rejection of the Father's loving plan of personality survival and the Sons' merciful ministry of salvation. "By nature, before the rebirth of the spirit, mortal man is subject to inherent evil tendencies, but such natural imperfections of behavior are neither sin nor iniquity. Mortal man is just beginning his long ascent to the perfection of the Father in Paradise. To be imperfect or partial in natural endowment is not sinful. Man is indeed subject to evil, but he is in no sense the child of the evil one unless he has knowingly and deliberately chosen the paths of sin and the life of iniquity. Evil is inherent in the natural order of this world, but sin is an attitude of conscious rebellion which was brought to this world by those who fell from spiritual light into gross darkness. ......more►
Published on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 by TruthDig.com
Castro and the Colossus
by Robert Scheer
The resignation of Fidel Castro is more promising for the burnishing of his legacy than the mostly septuagenarian Cuban hard-liners in Miami and their fawning allies in the Bush administration would like to believe. After all, Mao Tse-tung is still honored in communist China, the fastest-growing capitalist power in the world, and former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is, at least for now, a very popular elected Russian leader..more►
Northern Ill. University: Was the Killer Crazy, or the Campus Hopeless?
Bracket this massacre as the work of an lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.
Why? Why did this rage massacre at Northern Illinois University happen? Why did Steven Kazmierczak, "armed with three handguns and a brand-new pump-action shotgun he had carried onto campus in a guitar case," step from behind a screen on the stage of a lecture hall at NIU and open fire on a geology class, killing seven, wounding many more?
Asia's Hidden Arms Race
Read all about it! Diplomats remain upbeat about solving the nuclear stand-off with North Korea; optimists envision a peace treaty to replace the armistice that halted, but failed to formally end, the Korean War 55 years ago. Some leaders and scholars are even urging the transformation of the Six Party Talks over the Korean nuclear issue, involving the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the two Koreas, into a permanent peace structure in Northeast Asia. .......... more►
Iraq: They Call This Stability?
