The CIA exploited the Soviet Union's desire to pilfer western technology to send it flawed software that resulted in a huge explosion on a natural gas pipeline in 1982.

The means of the federal government's welfare policies should serve the end: promote greater freedom.

The Soviet authorities in 1970 set up a new KGB section, known as Directorate T, to plumb Western research and development for badly needed technology . . . The documents showed the Soviets had stolen valuable data. "Our science was supporting their national defence."

Studies on US news coverage in the Third World by a number of communications scholars in the 1980s and early 1990s consistently found an ideological predisposition to follow the cues of official Washington and other self-interested sources "rather than exercising independent journalistic judgments".

When future historians look back on America’s economic performance in recent decades, no problem will loom larger in retrospect than that of the deteriorating trade position.

I'm not anybody's meek little serf, and I'm under no obligation to act like one in the presence of meek little serfs. Rather I feel an obligation to show the serfs I encounter how a free man reacts in the face of tyrannous insult.

Labour loyalists criticised Clare Short this morning, while a series of former diplomats, weapons inspectors and even the former UN secretary-general himself came forward to confirm that bugging was commonplace.

"Lady, they're going to remove you from your home and dump you in the Negev and you're worried about me?"

Krohn also suggests a deeper problem. The Bush administration's fetish for secrecy is most pronounced in the Pentagon and especially Iraq.

US foreign policy seems to run in ten-year cycles, with the same bloody events repeating themselves once a generation in order to assure that at least a sizeable segment of the population remembers nothing from the last fiasco.

It's OK to talk about "the Americans", "the French", "the Israelis"..."The Kurds", "the Bosnians", "the Catholics." We often hear references to Christians and Muslims...to Hindus and Buddhists. But "The Jews" has a particularly uneasy and troubling aspect to it . . .

That NSA memo outlined surveillance of a half-dozen delegations with swing votes on the U.N. Security Council, noting a focus on "the whole gamut of information that could give U.S. policy-makers an edge in obtaining results favorable to U.S. goals.

Vladimir Putin"s political advisors have done a good job: dismissal of the Cabinet and all subsequent events.

Some of those projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices.

The only thing AntiSemitic about The Passion is the furor being created over it by the Jews!

Welcome to America’s newest cultural war.

Certainly the interventions and occupation in the Balkans have proven to be an exercise in frustration.

America's assault on al-Qa'eda has scattered its terrorist expertise across the globe, meaning that the United States will be menaced by Islamic extremism "for the foreseeable future", George Tenet.

Not only are there no trade statistics, but America’s perennially rising trade deficits have received virtually no attention from the Fed’s monograph writers in recent years.

The two leading contenders for the U.S. presidency are both members of Skull and Bones, one of the oldest secret societies in America. Why is this not a major election-year issue?

Despite a legion of legitimate doubts, the hyperbole manages to grow more inflated.

Oil refineries in western Europe have suffered a severe shortage of oil because Russian exports through the Bosphorus Strait have been drastically reduced in recent days.

Treacherous bastards, these Greens and, in the crunch, not standing for a goddam thing except the two party, corporate dictatorship.

Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, has given America an object lesson in how the Left imposes its radical social revolution on a confused majority that knows not how to fight it.

Because illegal aliens typically earn so much less than natives, their economic contribution is much less than their numbers would suggest— and immigration enthusiasts incessantly claim.

In his interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press, President Bush tried doggedly to justify the Iraq war even though it was predicated on what he now acknowledges as “faulty intelligence.”

His departure spells an end to the legacy of the Boris Yeltsin era in the federal government, and Mr Putin will use the vacancy to install a loyalist.

Michael Anthony Peroutka of Baltimore will use a Presidential candidacy on the Constitution Party line to make an indelible imprint of his own on the 2004 Sweepstakes for the American Presidency–and along with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, may play a kingmaker’s role in determining the eventual winner on the first Tuesday in November.

'The Cabinet is not being dismissed for underachieving. In fact I'm quite satisfied generally with the work it has done. This change is coming with the intention of redefining our course for national development after March 14, 2004.'

Debt is the fundamental problem the central planners at the Fed will not address. The total U.S. federal debt is more than $7 trillion, and government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product has never been higher except during World War II.

Since the Patriot Act was passed in the wake of 9/11, liberty activists have been warning that the threat to our civil liberties is more dangerous to our much vaunted "way of life" than any terrorist.

The United Nations must be given charge of introducing fair globalisation, a major new report says.

Today, if we look at how government in this country is working, we find that the federal government has its tentacles into every area of our lives.

Now this is a hard thing to explain, but people do tend to tell each other secrets, and one of hers was that she was involved with JFK Mark II, the man who is now running for president.

Haiti is once again aflame and pressure is building for the United States to “do something.” The temptation is to go in and fix our southern neighbor once and for all. But the real problem is that the U.S. government, over almost a century, has done too much—not too little—in Haiti.

With Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry now the obvious winner of the Democratic primaries, it has proved to be true once again that highly unified black voters determine the party's nominee.

Law and order continues its rapid collapse in the United States, not only because of criminals but also because of prosecutors and police.

The BBC should be dismantled, its governors replaced by an independent body ruled by Ofcom and the licence fee slashed immediately by £30 and eventually phased out in radical recommendations that could form the backbone of Conservative party policy.

Shocking new details about the death of Dr David Kelly emerged exclusively today on the Alex Jones radio show. Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer who was a guest on the show, revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are `furious' that Kelly was murdered.

The recent epidemic of same sex weddings in San Francisco is the latest symptom of the desire of some way out in left field gay rights activists and their allies in the judiciary to further demean the institution of marriage and family.

The media have a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti — one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has become a corrupt authoritarian who is relying on armed gangs to crush a popular uprising. In reality, the anti-Aristide opposition that is behind the uprising shaking Haiti today is a Washington-connected collection of Haitian businessmen and a scattering of former leftists.

No, I am not talking about foreign policy. My concern is with how both Left and Right seem to have their straightjackets into which they want everyone to be strapped, like it or not.

Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars.

Read his announcement and also listen to it in MP3 format and the official open email discussion list for Constitution Party of New York members and friends.

The one alternative is simply not to vote. That’s always the best alternative unless you have the opportunity to vote for a truly good candidate who will not compromise your liberty.

The decision by France, Germany and the UK to call for a super commissioner is an attempt to make sure a European Commission of 25 or more is coherent, said a top German government source.

I urge patriotic and conscientious Americans who have access to these documents, and who know it is wrong for their bosses to lie to the public about why we are in this war, to consider doing what I wish I had done in 1964 or early 1965, years earlier than I did: Go to Congress and the press; tell the truth, with documents. The personal risks are real, but a war's worth of lives are at stake.

The contraction of the American empire will begin in June. It has already lost considerable legitimacy in the eyes of the voters, not because of some great alteration of their principles, but because we are being car-bombed out of the place. The oil is not flowing. Sand isn't worth the price.

ONE QUESTION for the Rev. Gene Robinson, the nation’s first openly gay Episcopal priest (now bishop) who cautions those of us opposed to same-sex marriage: “Don’t waste your time and energy defending marriage from something that doesn’t threaten it.” Doesn’t polygamy threaten marriage?

Asian central banks are quietly moving away from holding the US dollar in their foreign exchange reserves, suggesting further weakness in the value of the greenback this year.

MPs will be asked on Wednesday to vote to approve the renewal of internment powers in part four of the 2001 terrorism legislation.

A coup? A hijacking? A conspiracy? Come to think of it, the situation more closely resembles the word "neocon" -- just take off the "neo."

"The public is entitled to expect that the Government will protect its right to life and liberty by doing everything possible."

Diane Sawyer's Primetime interview with Gibson dripped with an insulting condescension toward Christianity, a condescension liberals would regard as bigoted were it aimed at Judaism or Islam.

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report prepared by the Pentagon warns that climate change may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater risk than "terrorism".

There will be conversions because of this film. The straightforward faith expressed by Gibson and his allies is far more likely to attract new Christians than the belief, expressed by at least some of Gibson’s critics, that the principal legacy of Christianity is hatred and the principal task of today’s Christian is apology.

"Everyone with any common sense knows that it will only encourage a new wave of illegal aliens."...

The need for political quiescence, along with G.W. Bush’s candid desire for dictatorial power, helps to clarify the purpose of the administration’s shadow government.

Like the neocons want us to swear allegiance to an abstract "proposition nation", they'll have us defending ourselves against abstract proposition weapons.

G-FIRST, Chief Information Security Officers Forum and the Cyber Interagency Management Group will serve as a forum for defense and law enforcement officials to coordinate a response to a major cyber attack.

JFK demanded Israel allow inspectors to see Dimona, three months later he was assassinated and pro-Israel Johnson is President.

There have been so many half-truths and shadings of the truth, as well as disinformation, about Iraq, one is tempted to conclude that officials who lie to journalists and then believe what they read in the newspapers, or see and hear on TV and radio news, can now cause wars.

The State is a ubiquitous, pesky beast that claims a large territory to range and feed. Sovereign individuals may share that territory without surrendering to or appeasing the beast’s appetite.

The following letter is a response to "An Open Letter to Ralph Nader," which appeared in the February 16 issue of The Nation.

The number of illegal aliens caught crossing into the United States increased dramatically just days after President Bush proposed a guest-worker program that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants now in this country.

War critics of all stripes should insist on discussing whether, even if Iraq did have nasty weapons of many sorts, did it pose such a grave threat to the national security of the United States.

Libertarians who consistently oppose American military interventionism are sometimes accused of selfishly being concerned only about their own liberty.

Researchers and investigative reporters are fascinated with the neoconservatives, that group of American empire peddlers who turned George W. Bush into a junkie war criminal. A similar group, the New Democrats, has been pushing its own dangerous brand of U.S. hegemony but with much less fanfare.

Between Iraqi insurgents, foreign jihadists and Ansar al-Islam, US-Iraqi authorites dispute who is reponsible for attacks.

In a country whose much-loved president in the 1930's and 40's was famous for saying "we have nothing to fear but fear itself," the Bush administration has developed fear-mongering to a fine political art.

Executive Order 9066, a knee-jerk response to the Japanese attack, was implemented to allegedly protect the country “against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities.”

One never knows all the terrible outcomes of war. That was and remains one of the strongest arguments against the Iraq War. We won't understand for years the full damage of what Bush has done.

Maine is one signature away from becoming the first ‘ILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY STATE’ in America. Immigration lawyers supporting illegal aliens are pushing Governor Baldacci to sign an executive order that will stop state agencies from questioning a person’s immigration status.

Abe Foxman needs a reality check. He obviously does not understand that this is the 21st Century and not the Middle Ages. He is demanding that the Church issue warnings about Gibson’s movie because he thinks it resurrects the old deicide charge.

A small article on page A12 of the January 29 issue of the New York Times is revealing with respect to the extent of the power of the military-industrial complex in American life.

In the end, Dean threatened a troika of powerful institutions. He was a threat to the political parties (because he attacked Democrats' centrist drift), to media (because he criticized their cowardly reporting) and to big business (because he would roll back chummy tax-benefits for corporations).

The following is not simply a diatribe against humorist Al Franken. It's a diatribe against all mushy-thinking liberals.

The Asians are financing our government’s budget deficit with dollars obtained from our Asian trade deficit.

One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own.

Why are the Americans pulling back to fortified garrisons outside Iraqi cities? Answer: That policy saves the lives of American soldiers while leaving the Iraqi citizenry to the wolves. If a civil war eventually breaks out . . . Saddam Hussein’s regime could seem like the good ole’ days for Iraqis.

It matters not what political party is examined, both democrats and republicans can be placed on the enemy list, either by their actions or inactions.

The neo-cons, who were the leading strategists and cheerleaders for a new war against Iraq, are among the strongest supporters of plans to overhaul US intelligence operations - not because they believe that the CIA doesn't get its facts right.

Richard Perle, a chief proponent of last year's U.S. invasion of Iraq, yesterday called for the chiefs of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency to step down because of their faulty conclusions that Saddam Hussein possessed mass-killing weapons.

The Frum-Perle prescription would ensnare America in endless conflict.

If the neocons purport to see ethnic hatred in everyone else’s motives, is it unfair to explore for an ethnic affinity in their own? Why does every grand strategy neocons advance, from “American empire” to “benevolent global hegemony” to “a Pax Americana” to “world democratic revolution” have as its centerpiece solidarity with Sharon and a vigorous wielding of American power against all the enemies of Israel?

You know something is up when even Bill O'Reilly, the Fox network's champion bloviator, is admitting that he was wrong about the "weapons of mass destruction" he and the rest of the War Party insisted were in Iraq.

For the Bush Administration and fellow travelers at the Wall Street Journal and the CATO Institute, “facing reality” in immigration policy means passing an unprecedented open-ended foreign worker importation act granting legal status to millions of illegal aliens already in the U.S.

Bull and Scones had, at one time, two mascots called, respectively, Pompous John and Gorgeous George. Pompous John, who had been in a terrible scrape years before, said to everyone who would listen, that he would never fight again for anything. But Gorgeous George, who had managed to avoid getting into any scrapes except for minor traffic violations, told anyone who would listen that he would get into a fight with anybody, any time, over anything.

While there is no Palestinian leader today calling for an exclusively non-violent struggle for Palestinian freedom on a level of prestige with King or Gandhi, we must also realize that there is no Israeli leadership willing to listen.

But really, the main reason why I am such a pro-gun pacifist is that I see the same principle at work with our government. I am enough of a student of history to know that the reason for the Second Amendment is not to keep criminals from breaking into your home. It's to keep the government from doing it.

After more than 25 years at the forefront of the push to reform Social Security, the Cato Institute today, for the first time, unveils a detailed blueprint for returning solvency to the government's ailing retirement system.

Bookmark this site for continuous updates . . .

The Utah Legislature may finally address the big unanswered question in state gun policy: whether gun rights trump private-property rights. It is a showdown Republicans ruling the state Capitol have carefully avoided for years. But now they are being pushed to come down on one side or the other.

Bush planned to remind troops about the stakes in the war on terrorism and in Iraq.

http://www.dagbladet.no/print/?/kunnskap/2004/02/17/391159.html

Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have reached a "broad understanding" on a framework for peace talks after two days of meetings in Islamabad.

Saudi Arabia is flirting with economic disaster. Its population growth stands at about 3.5 percent a year, exceeding its GDP growth and creating risky levels of unemployment for its huge population of young people. These realities threaten to turn Saudi Arabia into even more of a fertile breeding ground for extremists bent on shedding all ties with the United States.

Never before in American history have very prominent staunch conservative organizations joined liberal groups to tell a Republican president and Congress that -- in the words of American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene -- they ''reject the idea that it is necessary to sacrifice civil liberties in order to increase security.''

A letter purportedly written to senior al-Qaeda leaders by a key associate, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, appears to undermine a major thesis of hardcore neo-conservatives who led the United States drive to war in Iraq.

"After entering Iraq, the mission will seek to develop the traditional friendly relations between the peoples of the two countries and protect the rights and interests of the Chinese in Iraq," Sun said.

Although I have never been a supporter of President George W. Bush, I take no pleasure in writing the harsh assessment that you are about to read.

During the last century, governments given totalitarian powers killed an estimated 169,000,000 people. If you don't think it can't happen here, I would remind you of the flames that destroyed the Waco, Texas compound . . .

Within the USA there has always been a relatively strong libertarian voice, in contrast to most other countries. And within the libertarian movement two strands have quarreled in a civil but not altogether gentle tone.

Since 9-11, our country, on its best days, has been on conditional alert against a possible terrorist attack . . . Carefully assessed, the reality still looks much the same, but we are behaving differently. What is going on?

On Presidents' Day, Americans have an opportunity to reflect on its Presidents - past and present - and particularly on those who have been great leaders.

Brazil's powerful agribusiness industry is not pleased with the prospect of a weak Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) or the possible failure to reach the January 2005 deadline for completion of the talks.

"The 'little plan' of disengagement from Gaza, accompanied by the screams of the settlers, is meant to win America's heart so that it will stop complaining about the fence and allow Sharon to complete 'the grand plan' of annexing territory in the West Bank."

To paraphrase the well-known saying of former US Senator Everett Dirksen, a division sent here, a division over there, and pretty soon you are talking about real empire.

If there is one thing that Tony Blair has never underestimated, it is the importance of an American presidential election in shaping the dynamics of British domestic politics.

Two leading American experts on computer voting have warned that the forthcoming US presidential election could be more chaotic than the last.

"Anyone aware of the reality will see how hurriedly the enemy is forming the police and army, which have begun to take over its duties. That enemy is made up of rejectionists [Shi’ites] and augmented by Sunni collaborators and is the real danger we face.

It is now clear that in the years following September 11, 2001, the US government did everything it could to hide the role of the Pakistani military in proliferating weapons of mass destruction, while at the same time exaggerating that possibility with regard to Iraq, which possessed no such weapons.

Tony Blair's plan to lower the burden of proof for prosecuting terrorists and gangland criminals will lead to innocent people being sent to prison, the head of the body that reviews miscarriages of justice has warned.

In these days of the New World Order, Washington sets the political and Hollywood the cultural terms of world trade.

Yet, the president has a grave problem, and it is this: Burrowed inside his foreign policy team are men guilty of exactly what Gore accuses Bush of, men who did exploit our fears to stampede us into a war they had plotted for years.

If anything, the combined scandals of all post-FDR administrations may prove as nothing compared to this administration’s sins against the American people and the world. The Republican party had better be afraid, very afraid.

In the more than 250 days until Nov. 2, John Kerry can answer questions that linger despite, or because of, all he has said so far.

VDARE.com's skepticism about George W. Bush made us awfully unpopular in some quarters. But since the President unveiled his immigration plan on January 7th, our doubts about Bush have become common among Republicans.

Once upon a time in America, truth was an absolute defense to any charge of libel or slander. Indeed, the whole point of trials and open-court litigation was pursuit of the truth. No more. Trust me - I'm a lawyer.

For democracy, read fantasy. Iraq is getting so nasty for our great leaders these days that anything - and anyone - is going to be thrown to the dogs to save them. The BBC, the CIA, British intelligence - any journalist that dares to point out the lies that led us to war - get pelted with more lies.

Just after Wolfowitz's bizarre and crass pronouncement that growing numbers of deaths of occupation troops and Iraqis are evidence that "US efforts are succeeding" in that chaotic country, there were other surreal utterances by his commander-in-chief concerning struggles, success, leadership and all those good things.

More than 40 years after the United Nations first became involved in the Cyprus problem, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said a settlement is “in reach” after the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders committed to his plan to reunify the island nation ahead of its entry into the European Union (EU).

THE Iraq war is now more unpopular than ever. Almost half of us - 49 per cent - believe that military action was wrong.

At the beginning of 2003, the level of debt that American’s owed as an absolute amount, and as a ratio of income, was already approaching levels never seen before.

President Bush’s advisors assured Americans that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators — with flowers and hugs — when the United States invaded Iraq. That promise turned out to be one of the biggest frauds of the Iraqi debacle.

The Israeli government said yesterday it will boycott a hearing at the international court of justice at The Hague on the legality of the "security fence" under construction through the occupied Palestinian territories.

How can Christians justify their role in overturning that constitution?

The Drudge Report is reporting that John F. Kerry, Democrat presidential candidate flavor of the moment, allegedly had a recent affair with a female reporter.

His justification for the ethnic cleansing, rape, and murder of the Palestinian people to facilitate the founding of the Jewish state left me numb.

We believe the verdict given is in contradiction to medical teaching; is at variance with documented cases of wrist-slash suicides; and does not align itself with the evidence presented at the inquiry.

A confidential report prepared by the US-led administration in Iraq says that the attacks by insurgents in the country have escalated sharply, prompting fears of what it terms Iraq's "Balkanisation".

The bottom line was that if President Bush could not get OPEC to materially drop the price of oil, the Bush administration would have to make a choice in Febraury 2004.

The tide of anti-Aristide sentiment is unmistakable; the result of years of inaction on Haiti's disastrous economy, compounded by multiple signs of corruption and personal enrichment, and a loss of faith by the international community.

In 2002, Georgia purchased electronic voting machines from the Diebold company in an attempt to improve its voting system. With this purchase, an erosion of the State’s electoral accountability became apparent. Georgia did not insist on a paper trail with the system.

The result of all of this, as John Kampfner, editor of the New Statesman puts it is that "...this naïve report will make it harder than ever to really find out why we really went to war in Iraq."

What happened to the Republicans of our childhood? Blue-suited white males espousing balanced budgets, deregulation, less government, all suffused with a general reluctance to get involved abroad or tell the states what to do.

As invaluable as David Kay's testimony that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction did not exist has certainly been, it's unfortunate he chose the phrase "we were all wrong" in describing "our failure" to know the truth before Bush's unwarranted invasion.

Even the blind Mr. Magoo can tell by now -- after all that is said and done -- that the ultimate target of the neo-cons and neo-colonialists is China.

While New Age religion infiltrates the classroom in almost every subject, they have forbidden one of the main textbooks that once was used to teach geography, reading, literature, history and a host of other subjects.

"It seems very overreaching for the government to be tracking prescription drug use of all health care recipients in our state."

The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history.

Make no mistake about what happened on January 26, 2004. On that day, one of America's most prestigious mainstream newspapers gave space to an opinion piece that considers ethnic cleansing an acceptable and not "necessarily immoral" "solution."

Internationally, the United States is pushing for a United Nations ban of all human cloning, too. The UN General Assembly recently postponed a decision.

The recently enacted Medicare drug benefit, which the Bush Administration rammed through Congress with unprecedented pressure, is the worst example of subverting conservatism to aid business.

Even if the E.U. does lift the embargo, which looks increasingly likely, it seems that any weapons sales to China will still be illegal under the 1998 code of conduct on arms exports.

There are three things one can usually depend on: death, taxes, and conservative columnists strongly supporting President Bush. Well, maybe two things.

President George Bush seems committed to writing a new chapter in the grotesque saga of U.S. nuclear policy: 'do as we say, not as we do','' Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, told IPS.

Whether there's another four years for President Bush may come down to a numbers game: 2.2 million, 2.6 million and 38.

Most Americans yet believe President Bush did the right thing in ridding Iraq and the world of Saddam Hussein. Yet, how we were persuaded to go to war raises grave questions about the character and competence of those who led us into it.

Robert Bartley, a closet one-worlder at the WSJ, used his newspaper’s "conservative" clout to seduce American business leaders into sacrificing U.S. sovereignty for trade.

No one, and no thing can control a (liquid) market forever, especially that of money. Reflect on this; what would be the point of a market then?

President Bush, saying the economic recovery is firmly in place, yesterday proposed adding $1 trillion to the national debt to fund the cost of shifting to a partially privatized Social Security system.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expressed support for Israel's need for nuclear weapons at a NATO meeting in Munich, reported Ynet Wednesday.

The top two stories on yesterday's front page heralded an event long anticipated in my various columns on the subject: the investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame – which may soon be dubbed Scooter-gate – is about to morph into a scandal that could bring down the roof on this administration, and strike a knock-out blow to the War Party.

Illegal immigration's staggering financial burden is causing a cancer-like accelerating death of cities and states across America. With 10-13 million illegal aliens already here and growing by more than 2,000 daily, seven days a week, 365 days per year, our country stands at the cross roads of an irreversible crisis.

Utopian reflexes have become part of the job description of the American presidency. We take them for granted. The idea that the president is merely an “executive,” that is, executing the laws passed by Congress, seems pathetic and pusillanimous.

With less than six weeks to go before crucial presidential elections in Taiwan, Beijing has launched its own propaganda and diplomatic campaign to thwart the re-election chances of pro-independence leader Chen Shui-bian and prevent the holding a of referendum that may vent anti-Beijing opinions.

On the NYT article - Israel Winning Broad Support From U.S. Right - ALISON MITCHELL

AntiYuppie's comments: Has it ever dawned on the likes of Gary Bauer and other mind-numbed members of the "Christian Right" that they are being cynically manipulated and used by Kristol and other neocons?

Mel Gibson says he was inspired to make his controversial film The Passion of the Christ after finding that he needed to take a good look at himself and did not like what he saw when he did.

1) 9-11 Media Challenge (February 10, 2004)
2) Howard Dean's Bloody Carcass (February 9, 2004)
3) Controller Parasites (February 6, 2004)
4) 9-11 Broken Promises (February 5, 2004)
5) Media Trained Monkeys (February 4, 2004)
6) Government Grifters (February 3, 2004)
7) George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers (February 2, 2004)

1) The Big Change in Islamic Societies
2) Muslims & The Clash of Civilizations
3) The Mentality of Violence... and the Games Nations Play!
4) A Movement Bred in the Isolation of the Desert
5) The Fall of the Oppressors and the Emergence of the Sword
6) The Crisis Facing Non-Wahabbi Islam

On November 7, 2001, BBC Television's Newsnight and the Guardian of London reported that the Bush administration thwarted investigations of Dr. A.Q. Khan, known as the "father" of Pakistan's atomic bomb.

"We thought we would get rid of the US, get a new government with a good leader, and all our problems would be over," says the former revolutionary.

For whatever reason, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force has opened an investigation into the Des Moines branch of the National Lawyers Guild. Justice Department prosecutors have convened a grand jury and have issues four subpeonas to members of the Guild's Des Moines branch.

Tony Blair undermined the global fight against weapons proliferation by raising "false expectations" about Iraq's arsenal and by marginalising intelligence experts, Brian Jones, the key witness of the Hutton inquiry, has warned.

1 - Radical Judges
2 - Judicial Emergencies
3 - Brain Drain
4 - Staff Crisis

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is having a think about the relative merits of abandoning the greenback for the European single currency, and some analysts expect it to be discussed at the powerful oil cartel's special meeting in Algiers on Tuesday.

I love the headline: "Canadians to Bush: Hope You Lose, Eh?" Me too.

Unless Skull and Bones desires a change in their CEO, it's Bush in a landslide. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will get the DLC nomination. And, then his real record will come out.

"The whole NCIS approach to this has been to say, whatever happens, intelligence will be at the heart of it," said an NCIS spokesman.

The entire world now knows that the reason Bush and Blair gave for invading Iraq was false. The invasion was a strategic blunder. It has created new enemies for America throughout the Muslim world, and perhaps beyond.

Today, for the first time, I worry deeply about America’s future. We are in a deep hole. I believe President George W. Bush’s decision to initiate war in Iraq will be the greatest and most costly blunder in American history. He has set America on the wrong course.

Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky conclusion of a religious cult, but rather the result of diligent analysis sourced by hard data and the scientists who study global “Peak Oil” and related geo-political events.

In what may be the first subpoena of its kind since Sept. 11, 2001, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war protesters.

The disaster in which U.S. foreign policy finds itself arises mainly from the lies of an administration that had long wanted war in Iraq.

Many writers have trouble taking rejection well. They’re sensitive souls, after all, and don’t like being told that their work, in a word, sucks. Anthony Gancarski, author of Unfortunate Incidents, and a former columnist for Antiwar.com, is a case in point. I rejected what was to have been the latest installment of his column – and he went over to the Dark Side.

G7 Summit: Intervention to curb currency fluctuation is agreed, with help from the Asian economies

Treasury Secretary John Snow has tacitly but unmistakably abandoned Washington's long-standing support for a strong dollar in favor of a weak dollar that is getting weaker, though he continues to insist there has been no change in policy.

Only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.

Because it will be easier for the White House to sell a guest-worker plan to the public than an amnesty plan, however, immigration moderates should be concerned by the very real threat of a bad guest-worker bill making it through Congress and back to the president’s desk this session.

"I'm not going to change." With those five short words, President George Bush has set out his stall for the forthcoming election that suddenly looks a lot trickier than even a month ago. And America and the world have been served notice: anyone who expects new circumstances to produce a new Bush is mistaken.

Many Americans can only envision a loss of liberty at the hands of foreign invaders, or jack-booted demagogues screaming into microphones while secret police whisk us away in the night. It is much harder to see how our own democratic government could pull the rug out from under us.

If a "rogue nation" or swarthy men with foreign accents did it, we know what we'd call it. What the world's most powerful military did to the village of Abou Siffa must be called the same thing: terrorism.

We are a nation damned.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are past being able to pretend otherwise, no matter what comfort might be found in the deception. The United States has invaded and conquered a foreign nation under false pretexts. President Bush and his cronies lied us all into a war.

Hundreds of protesters demanding restitution for Mexicans who worked in the United States during and after World War II pushed past private guards and spent about four hours Saturday at the ranch, located about 185 miles northwest of Mexico City in the state of Guanajuato.

"She's sent out major [indirect] signals to him: Please don't send me to the State Department, please don't do that to me," a Rice confidant reported.

Ambitious US plans for NATO to help stabilise the "Greater Middle East" met niggling resistance in Europe over the weekend and highlighted the important strategic differences between them.

Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The worst part is that derivative transactions stay off the books and away from the prying eyes of investors and analysts.

Russert: Did you know him at Yale?

President Bush: No.

Russert: How do you respond to that?

President Bush: Politics. I mean, this is-you know, if you close your eyes and listen carefully to what you just said, it sounds like the year 2000 all over again.

Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.

President Bush: It's so secret we can't talk about it.

Russert: What does that mean for America? The conspiracy theorists are going to go wild.

President Bush: I'm sure they are. I don't know. I haven't seen the (unintel) yet. (Laughs)

The Carlyle Group sent a strong signal that the private equity business was reviving when it said yesterday it would return $2.1bn to investors because of a superb performance last year.

The Iraqi exile who passed on the controversial "45-minute" claim about Iraqi chemical and biological weapons to British intelligence has insisted he did so in good faith, but had no means of checking it himself, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.

The former UN chief weapons inspector has claimed the British government dramatised the power of Iraq's alleged pre-war arsenal of illegal weaponry.

Torrents of mail poured in from the U.S. condemning the Bush administration

The media has become a decisive factor in electoral politics in democracies in all parts of the world. I would even argue that it is impossible to find a democratic country today in which a candidate could win a majority without using the media.

Bush must be laughing his ass off. Voters too dim to recall yesterday's news are letting him get away with running on the imaginary successes of a phony record.

Four biologists from Europe and North America met face to face for the first time on the UC Berkeley campus last month.

A government critic said on Tuesday that Israel was aware before the war against Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, but Israel did not inform the United States.

The Bush amnesty for 8 to 12 million illegal aliens is more than a dereliction of his constitutional duty to enforce America’s laws. It is an admission by President Bush that the Third-Worldization of America is inevitable and unstoppable.

The globalization of the world economy which we have been experiencing these past decades has not been a sound and inevitable process, nor is it a result of the forces of supply and demand in a liberalized world that impose painful but beneficial changes on the economies of the world, to the benefit of mankind.

Sunni rebels must understand they would lose a fight with the Shia.

You have to give CIA director George Tenet credit: he managed to pack more obfuscations, evasions, and outright lies into what couldn't have been more than a half hour speech than one might have thought humanly possible.

From where does it actually come? To whom does it actually go? Would our neighbors still think us traitors to demand – DEMAND! - these answers from our government? Will our children judge us traitors if we do not?

Of course our children don't even know they are the ones that are going to be stuck with the loan to pay off George's spending spree.

Tom DiLorenzo reminds us that the "peace-loving" Democrats are just as fond of funding adventures around the world as Republicans. But hey, in the game of Reps vs. Dems, you've gotta root your team on. When they favor invasion, root them on. When they oppose invasion, root them on. And don't worry about propaganda.

Both neocon Noonan and neoliberal Wallis believe that morality can be legislated – Noonan with her support of Bush’s moralist legislation and Wallis with his support for State intervention in corporate affairs.

I am a grateful slave. My master is a good man. He gives me food, shelter, work and other things. All he requires in return is that I obey him. I am told he has the power to control my life. I look up to him, and wish that I were so powerful.

Iraqi ministries will now be able to borrow billions of dollars to buy much-needed equipment from overseas suppliers, but only by mortgaging the national oil revenues through a bank managed by New York-based multinational JP Morgan Chase.

Tony Blair has signalled that tougher controls will be imposed on immigration from former Eastern Bloc states, following the intervention of Michael Howard.

Pakistan has refused to submit its own nuclear programme to any UN inspection, despite embarrassing revelations that its top scientists leaked nuclear secrets.

Talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas have largely stalled over South American demands for an end to domestic U.S. farm subsidies, negotiators said Thursday.

The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has lit the fuse on what may prove to be one of the most explosive political debates in the American election.

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