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We've asked Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and seen no progress. Iraq's Parliament, on the other hand, is taking steps to legally require that the occupation end. A note from you, as an American, to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C., might help move the Iraqi government where Congress dares not go.

SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.democrats.com/node/13188

As a resident of the United States, I am contacting you in a spirit of friendship and sorrow. I apologize for the behavior of my government and its insistence on occupying your nation. I would like to urge your government to do what the majority of the American people and the majority of the Iraqi people want done, but what the U.S. government is unwilling to do: end the occupation. If you will take this step and send our military men and women home to their families, I will commit to doing everything I can to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq by Iraqis once the occupation is over.

ADD YOUR NAME: http://www.democrats.com/node/13188


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California could become the first state to formally call for immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq under a ballot proposal that the state Senate approved on Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060707H.shtml

Representatives of three liberal-leaning groups came to the Justice Department in 2004, armed with evidence that hundreds of public-assistance agencies had illegally failed to offer voter registration to their mostly poor and minority clients.

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Robert Parry writes: "It's a well-worn talking point for George W. Bush's supporters to say there was no underlying crime beneath former White House aide I. Lewis Libby's conviction for obstructing justice, a debatable point itself. But the evidence is clear there was a larger cover-up conspiracy - and it could still unravel."

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The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking answers regarding an "uncomfortable" conversation on the firing of US attorneys between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Monica Goodling that the former Department of Justice aide described in recent testimony.

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Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his closest political confidants and financial backers.

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Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in written remarks Wednesday, that Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a top Justice Department lawyer after the official called into question the legality of the White House's secret domestic spying program.

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HLV INFO 60/AT

7-06-2007

Prof. Dr. Karl Richter 6-06-07

VERANSTALTUNGSHINWEIS

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

in Zusammenarbeit mit der neugegründeten 'Kompetenzinitiative zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie' lädt das Bündnis saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk für den 12. Juni, 19.30 Uhr, in den großen Sitzungssaal des Rathauses Homburg / Saar zu einem Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, Physikprofessor der TU München und Vorsitzender der ÖDP, ein:

"Macht Mobilfunk krank?"

Einladungstext mit weiteren Angaben anbei.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/plakat_vortraege_2007.pdf

Die erwähnte Kompetenzinitiative, die wir bei dieser Gelegenheit mit vorstellen werden, ist eine deutschlandweite und internationale Reaktion auf beobachtete fachliche, demokratische und ethische Defizite derzeitiger Verbraucherschutz- und Umweltpolitik. Über ihr Programm und erste Aktivitäten - u. a. Auseinandersetzung mit industriefinanzierten Ärzteschulungen und einem fragwürdigen Spiegel-Journalismus - informiert die Website http://www.kompetenzinitiative.de ; über die Arbeit unseres saarländischen Bürgerbündnisses http://www.buerger-machen-mobil.de .

Vorträge zu einem verantwortungsbewussten Einsatz der Messtechnik, zum Verschwinden der Bienen und den Folgen einer staatlich konzessionierten Mitgestaltung des Verbraucherschutzes durch die Interessenvertretung der Mobilfunkindustrie (IZMF) werden in unserem diesjährigen Veranstaltungsprogramm folgen.

Wir bitten die Medien des Landes, auf unsere Veranstaltungen hinzuweisen und darüber zu berichten.

Wir bitten interessierte Ärzte, Heilpraktiker, Wissenschaftler sowie Landes- und Kommunalpolitiker aller Parteien, die sich einer verharmlosenden staatlichen Informationspolitik und erst recht der 'Aufklärung' von Ärzten, Schulen und Eltern durch die Mobilfunkindustrie nicht anvertrauen wollen, mit uns Kontakt aufzunehmen.

Wir bitten Bürgerinnen und Bürger, unsere Arbeit zum Schutz von Mensch, Umwelt und Demokratie zu unterstützen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i. A. des Bündnisses saarländischer Bürgerinitiativen Mobilfunk
Prof. Dr. Karl Richter, Judith Hemm und Armin Scheid

IDA and RSPCA call on consumers and lawmakers to reject deadly "delicacy".
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FOIE GRAS SHOULD MAKE YOU SICK
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by Rick Perlstein, TomPaine.com

How Christian conservative activists spread a vicious lie about a hate crimes bill.
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Six human rights groups on Wednesday released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown, calling on the Bush administration to abandon such detentions.

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Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, former senior Justice official James B. Comey told senators yesterday. Comey's disclosures, made in response to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicate that Cheney and his aides were more closely involved than previously known in a fierce internal battle over the legality of the warrantless surveillance program.

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Jun 7 2007

by Lyndsay Young, Bootle Times

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to install a mobile phone mast near a Bootle school will go before Sefton Council’s planning committee tonight (Thursday).

It is expected that the plans to site a T Mobile phone mast on the corner of the pavement at the junction of Orrell Mount and Hawthorne Road will go ahead.

The 15m high monopole and equipment cabinets would be sited on the pavement in front of the Orrell Mount Industrial Estate, 80m from houses and 150m from St Wilfrid’s High School.

A letter objecting to the plans was submitted by the school as well as three letters from residents in Rose Avenue, Walker Drive and Hawthorne Road.

They complained it is too close to the school, houses and major redevelopment schemes; there is a lack of information about the health impact and it would have detrimental affect on the appearance of the road.

However has been recommended that prior approval should be granted by councillors at tonight’s meeting at Bootle Town Hall.

In his report to the committee, Andy Wallis, Sefton Council’s planning and economic regeneration director said: “The proposal will not have a detrimental impact on the visual amenity of the area, nor on nearby residential properties and schools, therefore approval is recommended.”

In his report he comments that The Stewart Report on the health affects of mobile phone masts concluded that there was no general risk.

Mr Wallis said: “There is substantial independent expert opinion that indicates that exposure levels from living near to a mobile phone base station are not likely to pose any risk to health.”

The report states that when Sefton Council has refused applications for masts they are generally given the go-ahead if an appeal is made.

Mr Wallis added: “The monopole and cabinets are sited sufficiently far from houses and the school not to have any direct detrimental impact on residents and schoolchildren.”

l The planning meeting will start at 6.30pm.

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#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

07. Juni 2007

Zu dem angeblichen G8-Durchbruch beim Klimaschutz erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katja Kipping:

Man hat den Eindruck: Die G8 reden vom Wetter, wir reden vom Klimaschutz. In Zeiten des Klimawandels reicht es nicht aus, auf Schönwetter zu machen. Sicherlich sitzt mit George Bush Frau Merkel ein harter Klimaschutzgegner gegenüber. Der angeblich erzielte Durchbruch ist ein weiterer Schritt auf dem Pfad der wirkungslosen Unverbindlichkeiten. Man könnte auch sagen: Außer Spesen nicht gewesen.

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PARENTS are fearing for their children’s safety after a phone mast was erected on a neighbouring rugby field.

Residents of Hartshead Avenue, which backs on to Ashton Rugby Club’s ground, claim they were not told about the mast, which was erected two weeks ago.

Mum-of-four Elaine McCabe’s garden is next to the field.

“I was really shocked. Children play on that field and schools use it too and I wonder if parents have been made aware they are playing under one of those things,” she said.

“I’ve read articles about electromagnetic radiation — about incidents of childhood cancer increasing because of it. My garden is around 150m from the mast so I’m annoyed that I didn’t receive a letter warning me about it.

“There’s not been enough research done about these masts so they shouldn’t be putting them up anywhere near houses fullstop. There’s plenty of hills round here — why don’t they put them on there?

Tameside Council says it is only legally obliged to inform residents within four metres of any planned mast, but that on this occasion informed the 40 nearest houses, without any complaints being made.

Rugby Club secretary, Dennis Gee, said: “As far as safety, emissions from that — so we’ve been told — are about the same as when you use your own mobile phone. The mast has gone through three years of planning applications at the highest level possible.

“It’s a T Mobile mast, a massive company — they’re not just going to plonk one of these things down unless they’re sure it’s safe,” he said.

“If residents have any problems we want them to come in and see us at the rugby club. We don’t want any hassle, we want to get on with out neighbours.

“We’ll sit down and have a chat.”

A Tameside Council spokeswoman added: “This site was specifically chosen because it is furthest from local houses and near to existing trees to provide screening.” Eve Dugdale

First published by the Tameside Advertiser

© Copyright 2007 Guardian Media Group

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WIFI news from Norway

Good news, we have made some progress in Norway regarding WIFI.

There is now a major initiative from the largest environmental organisation in Norway to ban WIFI from all public areas, starting with schools and kindergardens.

http://www1.vg.no/teknologi/artikkel.php?artid=153690

The article headline reads: "Fears that children are getting damaged by radiation. Environmentalists want to ban wireless networks."

And continues... "Wireless transmitters for PC networks emits so much health damaging radiation that a ban is called for in Norwegian schools.

The man on the photo is the main guy in the largest Norwegian environmental organisation, Kurt Oddekalv.

We have been working on this issue together with one of the leaders in the Norwegian el-sensitive group, who now works for this environmental organisation. It will be an interesting process to see what players will enter this discussion now to try and ridicule or stop it.

Anyway, the discussion has started and surely there will be some activities from parents and the like to have schools remove WIFI.

Regards,

Børge Mørk
Norway

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Norwegian Environmental Group

Green Warriors of Norway
http://www.greenwarriors.com/
Leader: Kurt Oddekalv
Phone: (+47) 90 89 22 68
Email: kurt (Add @nmf.no)

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Wireless causes health problems
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Salon
by Jennifer Daskal

06/06/07

If the Bush administration had any sense, Monday’s courtroom spectacle would mark the death knell of the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On Sunday evening, I climbed off a chartered jet full of journalists, cameramen, lawyers, military handlers and other independent observers, anticipating what was to be the start of the first full-blown trials here. After more than five years in U.S. detention and multiple court challenges, two detainees — Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was arrested, and Salim Hamdan, alleged to be one of Osama bin Laden’s drivers — were finally going to be brought to trial. But by Monday evening, both cases had been dismissed, and the fate of any future such trials was left in serious jeopardy...

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LewRockwell.Com
by Karen Kwiatkowski

Today, in the United States, unlimited information is instantly available to old and young, to the formally educated and the illiterate, to the fact finder and the politician, the entrepreneur, the scientist, the worker, and the business mogul. This wonderful 21st century may be exactly what the anti-federalists envisioned. I am often reminded of the famous quote from the 1992 movie remake of the Last of the Mohicans. A Loyalist commander asks, ‘And who empowered these colonials to pass judgment on England’s policies, and to come and go without so much as a ‘by your leave?’” Cora Munro answers, ‘They do not live their lives ‘by your leave!’ They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!’ Mostly due to modern technologies, we have today outstanding decentralization, mobility, unleashed human creativity, and if we need it, anonymity. We have the wilderness. We have, or can get, what we need to live our lives, and control our destinies. We can ‘hack’ out our own lives. We may be taught to live our lives at the direction, and by the permission, of government, but in fact, we don’t have to... (speech given at the recent FFF conference; published 06/06/07)

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Gary D. Barnett

06/06/07

Some comparisons are just too tough to stomach, but the time has come to stomach one of them just the same. The United States has become the opposite of what was intended by our Founding Fathers. It is now not free, but rather sunk in dictatorial morass. What has become of us Americans? Why are we so weak as a people? Why do we not stand up for justice, right, and freedom, and against big, omnipotent government?

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Asia Times
by M K Bhadrakumar

06/06/07

The escalating war of words over the United States’ proposed deployment of a missile defense system in Europe highlights the determined effort by Washington to eliminate Moscow’s strategic parity with the US. This is the first essential step toward the US regaining “unipolarity”. Moscow is firmly resisting, no matter what it takes, and has a budding ally in China...

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The American Conservative
by Andrew J. Bacevich

06/04/07

Courting the soldier vote during the 2000 presidential campaign, the candidate made this simple promise: ‘Help is on the way.’ Throughout the 1990s, Republicans had regularly lambasted the Clinton administration for misusing America’s military and for failing to show soldiers proper respect. Electing George W. Bush was supposed to fix that. The electoral strategy paid off handsomely: the absentee votes of soldiers helped Bush carry Florida and claim the Oval Office. Yet rather than delivering help, the Bush administration has since subjected the Armed Forces of the United States to sustained abuse. The scandal at Walter Reed is not some isolated blemish on an otherwise admirable record. It is emblematic of the way that this administration has treated soldiers...

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MSNBC

06/06/07

A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and four other groups have drawn up a list of 39 so-called ‘ghost detainees’ — people they claim are held by U.S. authorities and are still missing...

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Bennington Banner

06/07/07

Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, picked by President Bush as his White House war adviser, said Wednesday he had been skeptical of Bush’s decision to send thousands more U.S. troops into Iraq. In a written response to questions by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lute confirmed news reports that he had voiced doubts during a White House-led policy review that led to Bush’s Jan. 10 announcement that 21,500 more combat troops would go to Baghdad and Anbar province...

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Are corporate foundations really out to feed the hungry, or are they hypocritical Trojan Horses on a mission to hijack the world's food supply - to create the most complete and ultimate state of dependency.

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Global Confidence In Greenback Falls
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Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6724531.stm


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Without fanfare, or announcement of any kind, the president recently signed a directive which states that in case of a "catastrophic emergency" the "President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." What is a catastrophic emergency? Well, it is anything that Bush says it is.

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Australian David Hicks became the military commission system's first scalp when he pleaded guilty on March 30 to a terrorism charge.

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Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, says US treatment of those combatants violates the Geneva Conventions.

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Congress warns on Guantanamo rulings

THE White House must work with Congress on a new system for trying terror suspects after a military court threw out charges against two Guantanamo Bay inmates, top Democrats said today.

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Democrats want habeas corpus for detainees

Congressional Democrats are seizing on rulings against the current terror trial system to call for the right of detainees to file habeas corpus suits.

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14 US Congress Members Support Cheney Impeachment
http://www.impeachcheney.org/

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Five US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment

US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has become the fifth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the additional three Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), and Albert Wynn (D-MD).

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0169.html


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Six Congress Members for Impeachment

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

Thank Lynn here: http://woolsey.house.gov/contactinfo.asp

Ask her to please encourage other Progressive Caucus Members to sign on.

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging impeachment of Bush and Cheney has just grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 76 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



Seven Congress Members for Impeachment

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23440

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Lynn Woolsey, the other Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

Thank Barbara Lee here: http://tinyurl.com/yqt9hw
Thank Lynn Woolsey here: http://tinyurl.com/28nxpo

Ask Lee and Woolsey to please encourage other Progressive Caucus Members to sign on.

Ask other Progressive Caucus Members to please sign on.

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging impeachment of Bush and Cheney has just grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



Eight Congress Members for Impeachment

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23590

By David Swanson

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has joined Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, the two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Steering and Policy Committee, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). For details, see: http://impeachcheney.org

On Wednesday, June 13, Waters and Kucinich plan to hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss "Renewed Efforts in the House of Representatives to Impeach Vice President Cheney." The event is planned for 9:30 a.m. at the Cannon Terrace (on the outside of the Cannon House Office Building).

The reference to "renewed" efforts may be related to this discussion of impeaching Cheney in which Congresswoman Waters engaged in April 2006: http://davidswanson.org/node/811

Congresswoman Waters has spoken out strongly on this issue since June 16, 2005: http://homepage.mac.com/bhughes2/iMovieTheater138.html

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging the impeachment of Bush and Cheney has recently grown to 15. Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions, which have now been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list



33 Congress Members for Impeachment
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/25325


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US Foments Unrest and Spurns Overtures
http://www.counterpunch.org/gresh06062007.html


From Information Clearing House

One of Afghanistan's many springs of blood and tears has just started. Its vast southern and south-eastern mountains and deserts witness the fiercest battles between the Taliban and NATO troops. Blood and destruction are all over the place. Villages are left empty ruins, and the carpet bombing and the Taliban guerrilla warfare turned life for the innocent civilians into a hell.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1609/2/

Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq, dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago.

http://tinyurl.com/2vxeu5


From Information Clearing House

By Emanuel E. Garcia

A quartet of laws has been signed that lays the complete legal foundation for the takeover of our constitutional democracy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17841.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Emanuel+E.+Garcia

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6276/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8

Five environmental groups and a labor union petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to restrict the use of chemicals that are found in many household detergents and have been linked to gender changes in fish and other aquatic life.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060607HA.shtml

"The global 'Race to the Bottom' is fast erasing blacks from the ever-shrinking unionized labor force, a historical crisis that demands an all-out campaign to dismantle the corporate agenda," says Glen Ford. "Black folks have already seen the bottom, and will not go back."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060607LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glen+Ford

Atop Greenland's Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air. "We don't have thunder here. But I know it from movies," says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen. "It's the ice cracking inside the icebergs." Greenland's ice cap is melting, and faster than scientists had thought possible.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060607EB.shtml

About half of all National Guard equipment is being used in the Middle East, and the Guard’s senior uniformed officer said Tuesday that could hurt the organization’s overall readiness at home. The equipment problem is the result of a long-term strategy of assuming risk by underequipping - and underfunding - the Guard.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607S.shtml

The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group was charged Wednesday with tax evasion and obstructing a Senate inquiry as part of the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607V.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/060607Arrested.htm

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Infowars' Matt Lepacek arrested after GOP debate

Video

Infowars' Matt Lepacek confronts Rudy Giuliani pollster Ed Goeas in the spin room after the 6/5/07 Republican debate in Manchester. He is arrested; later, his colleague Luke Rudowski is led outside by police. Rudowski is let go and explains what just happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOerYpJse30


From Information Clearing House

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Will fiendish Giuliani be Bush III?
http://www.alternet.org/story/53356/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Taibbi

Seit kurzem ist unsere öffentliche Petition zur Veröffentlichung der Arbeitslosenzahlen online und kann unterzeichnet werden. Zur Petition gelangt man über

http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=455

wir bitten Sie, die Petition zu unterstützen und über Ihre persönlichen Verteiler unter die Leute zu bringen, wir brauchen viele, viele Unterschriften um das Thema über die Petition in den Bundestag zu bringen.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung

Pia Witte


Text der Petition:

Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen, dass das statistische Bundesamt die offizielle Zahl der Arbeitslosen in Deutschland veröffentlicht. Als Arbeitslosenzahl soll gelten: Die Summe aller im gesamten Berichtszeitraum arbeitslosen bzw. arbeitsuchenden Menschen, die Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB III (ALG I), nach dem SGB II (ALG II), arbeitsuchend mit oder ohne Leistungsbezug sind oder sich in einer Arbeitsgelegenheit, einer Fortbildungs- oder sonstigen arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahme befinden.

Begründung: Um bei Bundestagswahlen zu entscheiden, welche Partei er wählt, braucht der Bürger verlässliche Informationen über die Erfolge bzw. Nicht-Erfolge der an der Regierung beteiligten Parteien. Für eine große Mehrheit der Bürger ist es von herausragender Bedeutung, inwieweit die Regierung das Problem der Massenarbeitslosigkeit meistert. Zur Zeit werden die monatlichen Arbeitslosenzahlen in der BRD durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit bzw. das Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales veröffentlicht. Da auch die Leistung dieser Stellen an der Höhe der Arbeitslosenquote gemessen wird, ist es nur allzu menschlich und verständlich, dass sie die Zahlen möglichst vorteilhaft darstellen. Dadurch kann es für den Bürger schwierig sein, anhand der veröffentlichten Zahlen seine Wahlentscheidung sachkundig an diesem wichtigen Bereich zu orientieren. Beispielsweise werden Personen, die an Maßnahmen teilnehmen und per Gesetz dazu verpflichtet sind, beim Angebot eines Arbeitsplatzes auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt die Maßnahme unverzüglich abzubrechen, dennoch in der derzeitigen Statistik nicht als Arbeitslose geführt. Der Bundestag lege daher per Gesetz fest, dass die monatlichen Zahlen über den Stand der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland nicht mehr von der Bundesagentur oder dem Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales veröffentlicht werden, sondern durch die neutralere Instanz des statistischen Bundesamts. Dabei sollen die Zahlen wie folgt aufgeschlüsselt werden: I. Im gesamten Berichtszeitraum arbeitslose bzw. arbeitssuchende Leistungsbezieher: - Gesamtzahl der Leistungsbezieher in der Bundesrepublik, dann aufgeschlüsselt nach: a) Anzahl der Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB III (ALG I) b) Anzahl der Leistungsbezieher nach dem SGB II (ALG II) - Gesamtzahl der als arbeitssuchend gemeldeten Personen, kann aufgeschlüsselt werden nach: c) Arbeitssuchende mit Leistungsbezug d) Arbeitssuchende ohne Leistungsbezug - Personen in arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen können aufgeschlüsselt werden nach: e) Anzahl der Personen in einer AGH (1 Euro ?Job) f) Personen in einer Fortbildungsmaßnahme g) Personen in sonstigen Maßnahmen h) Personen mit SGB II Bezug die einer Erwerbstätigkeit nachgehen (Aufstocker) Die Summe der Personen unter I. a), b) und d), abzüglich h), soll als offizielle Gesamtzahl der Arbeitslosen im Berichtszeitraum gelten und durch das statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht werden. II. Weitere im Rahmen der Sozialgesetzbücher berücksichtigte Personengruppen: - Gesamtzahl derer, die im Berichtszeitraum arbeitssuchend gemeldet waren und eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Tätigkeit aufgenommen haben, aufgeschlüsselt nach: a) durch die Bundesagentur/ARGE in Arbeit vermittelt, b) ohne die Vermittlung durch die Bundesagentur/ARGE den Weg in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt gefunden. - Gesamtzahl der Kinder unter 15 Jahren in der Bundesrepublik, die vom Sozialgeld leben. Diese weiteren Angaben unter II. und weiter aufgeschlüsselte Informationen unter I. stehen immer zur Veröffentlichung frei.

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Petition gegen geschönte Arbeitslosenzahlen

Hintergrundbericht dazu:
http://www.gegen-hartz.de/urteile/0344e1994808f9709.html



http://tinyurl.com/2z222o

Shortly after Democrats won majorities in Congress last November, we asked our readers what changes they should make first. From a list of 140 possible changes, your #1 response was "Restore Habeas Corpus - access to courts for all prisoners of the U.S." http://www.democrats.com/change-poll-results-1

Habeas corpus, which permits the accused a fair hearing in front of a neutral judge, is the most fundamental check on executive power in our Constitution. The United States Supreme Court asserted that habeas "is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against lawless state action."

Today, Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent us this message:

"Many of you may recall the hasty passage of the Military Commissions Act in the weeks leading up to last year's election, a bill that set new rules for trying detainees, in particular those currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

"The passage of this bill was a profound mistake, and its elimination of habeas corpus review was its worst error. Righting this wrong is one of my top priorities, and on the first day of this Congress I joined with Senator Arlen Specter to introduce the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S. 185). This bipartisan bill already has 17 cosponsors, but it faces a crucial vote in the Judiciary Committee this Thursday so we need your help.

"Please e-mail your home-state Senators today and urge them to protect our fundamental liberties by supporting the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act!"

http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/113


Iraq Idea: Better Than Calling Congress

We've got to keep the pressure up on Congress to end the occupation of Iraq, but right now it is only Iraq's Parliament that has begun taking steps to legally require that the occupation end. A note from you, as an American, to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C., might help move the Iraqi government where Congress dares not go. There are always ways to find hope if we look outside the box and reach out to our brothers and sisters across barriers. Please take a moment to sign this petition to the Iraqi government: http://democrats.com/node/13188

Read about an heroic Iraqi woman who inspired this idea: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23375


23 Anti-War House Primary Nominations So Far

Last week, we asked you to nominate anti-war candidates who could challenge the 58 "Bush Democrats" in Democratic primaries in 2008. As of today we have 23 nominations for 15 of the 58 races.

We are using the list of 58 Representatives who voted against the McGovern Amendment on 5/10/2007. If they change their position to oppose the endless occupation of Iraq, we will cross them off our list.

If you would like to nominate a candidate for one of the races below, click on the link and post a comment below their picture. http://www.democrats.com/primary-2008-list

Over 23,000 have signed our pledge to vote against every Senator and Representative who approves funding to continue the disastrous Iraq War. Sign it now and tell your friends: http://www.democrats.com/iraq-vote-pledge

Let's do it for Cindy Sheehan - and for her beloved son Casey.


4 Co-sponsors for Cheney Articles of Impeachment

Thanks to grassroots organizing by local activists, freshman Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) became the 4th co-sponsor for Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333). She joins Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), and Albert Wynn (D-MD).

Clarke writes, "When the American people voted on November 7th, they asked for a change in direction by electing the Democratic party in the House and Senate. I have heard the loud cries of my constituents, and they want accountability. My support of HRes 333 reflects the voices of the residents of central Brooklyn." http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0169.html

On Tuesday, Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine for perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the criminal outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. Libby refused to tell investigators the truth for one reason: to protect his boss Dick Cheney, who appears to have instructed Libby to out Plame to punish her husband Joe Wilson for exposing Bush's pre-war lies.

Urge your Representative to hold Cheney accountable by co-sponsoring H. Res. 333: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/73

Help us organize a Congressional District Impeachment Committee in your district: http://democrats.com/cdic-find


Forward this message to everyone you know!

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Help RESTORE Habeas Corpus and the Constitution

Habeas corpus, which permits the accused a fair hearing in front of a neutral judge, is the most fundamental check on executive power in our Constitution. The United States Supreme Court asserted that habeas "is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against lawless state action."

HABEAS CORPUS ACTION PAGE: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/113

Today, Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S. 185), a correction of the miscarriage of law making from last year which had shamed us all, the Military Commissions Act which purported to strip detainees at Guantanamo of all human rights.

Our activist friends at Democrats.com have an action page to continue to support S. 185, in the which could now come up for a full vote in the Senate at any time. We encourage all our participants to speak out through the page above.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL CONTINUES TO CLIMB

And while we are speaking of the Constitution, yet more crimes of the greatest offender of them all, Dick Cheney, were exposed this week. As reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, Cheney was the primary bully in pushing for the illegal wiretaps, even going so far as to block the promotion of a senior Justice Department attorney who had the integrity to raise concerns about them. There is a link to this article on the action page for the National Cheney Impeachment Poll.

IMPEACHMENT ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

which now has more than 63,000 votes, of which 99.37% of your friends and neighbors have voted "Yes" to impeach. Not only that, but 6 members of the House have already signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 333, for articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. And all the other 429 are waiting for is to hear from more of us to speak out. So let's DO it.

You can vote yes or you can vote no. Your choice. We are not asking people to predict whether he will be impeached of not. The question is, "SHOULD he be impeached?" All you need to participate is to have an opinion on that question.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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Bring Back Habeas Corpus

The Senate Judiciary Committee has sent to the Senate floor a bill to restore habeas corpus. Sign the petition, write letters, join in the discussion. This is not a battle our society can afford to lose.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/07/bring-back-habeas-corpus/

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/07/restore_habeas.php

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Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Restore Habeas
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0607-10.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

By James Rothenberg

If a war crime was committed, it is elementary that those that aid and abet this crime are also war criminals. This includes the Congress when it repeatedly funds the operations which are criminal. It also includes the soldiers who carry out the orders of the war criminals. And, yes, to the extent that we don't publicly object to it, you and me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17838.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Rothenberg

By Charley Reese

The "global war on terror" is just a bad metaphor that doesn't have any connection to reality. How long are the American people going to allow liars to lull them into sacrificing the most precious treasure the country has - its youth - in a futile, lie-ridden, corruption-pocked war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17839.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charley+Reese

Paul Craig Roberts

The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of US forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer an option.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17834.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

Earnings of the average US worker with an undergraduate degree have not kept up with gains in productivity in recent decades, according to research by academics at MIT that challenges traditional explanations of why income inequality is rising.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607F.shtml

Monday's indictment of Jefferson (D-Louisiana) came before Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) could publicly announce her decision to start permitting anyone, not just members of Congress, to file ethics complaints.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

"These days, even amidst the talk of America remaining in Iraq for decades, the administration is engaging in feints and spin about the possibility of the US withdrawing tens of thousands of troops prior to the 2008 election - the election, it just so happens, that will decide which party controls the Executive Branch (and presidential pardons) for the next four years," writes Bernard Weiner. "Do they think we're that stupid not to see through their unbelievable, pre-election BS? Wait, don't answer that question."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Weiner

House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. The contacts were disclosed Tuesday by a House Democratic aide and an attorney familiar with the matter who both spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is ongoing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Abramoff

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/06/1695/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+LaMarche

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/06/1690/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/06/1685/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daryl+Hannah
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/06/1683/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8

Summer is finally here and for many Americans that means it's time to head back to the shore. We all know that feeling when you first step onto the beach and feel the sand between your toes -- but what is actually going on under the ocean surface?

The sad truth is that our oceans are in trouble, and we have no comprehensive national law -- like a Clean Water Act or a Clean Air Act -- to address fundamental problems. A variety of threats, including decades of overfishing, pollution of all kinds, aggressive invasive species and severe habitat loss have individually and collectively altered the basic way our oceans function. Marine scientists have called the changes we are seeing in our oceans "the rise of slime" -- where jellyfish, algae and bacteria take over ocean areas that no longer contain and can no longer support other forms of life.

To protect and restore our oceans and ocean economies we need to make smarter decisions about the activities that the federal government funds and permits -- on land and in the water -- that affect ocean ecosystems. "Oceans-21" -- the recently introduced Oceans Conservation, Education and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act -- provides both that vision and the necessary mechanisms to ensure its success.

== What to do ==
Send a message urging your representative to co-sponsor Oceans-21, the Oceans Conservation, Education and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 21).

== Contact information ==
You can send a message to your representative directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/ If you prefer to call your representative, the Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607D.shtml


Informant: Scott Munson

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Chalmers Johnson: Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?

In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17708.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson

By Paul Dicken

Campaigner: Jade Bryan has started up a petition against the planned phone mast

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Ponders End is campaigning to stop a mobile phone giant putting up a phone mast at the end of her street.

Jade Bryan started up a petition after discovering that O2 was applying for planning permission to erect the 15m high mast.

Miss Bryan said the main reason she objects to the mast is its proximity to St Matthew's Primary School and the potential health risks.

She said: "That's the number one problem, I think. Also, for me, I thought about the children. This is a really comfortable, laid-back area. This will spoil it a bit.

"London is a really crowded area in itself. No matter where it is, I would feel quite strongly about it."

Miss Bryan said O2 decided to put up the mast on the High Street, in Ponders End, opposite Allens Road, to improve reception for local customers.

But she added that an O2 customer who signed her petition against the mast had full signal on her phone, metres away from the proposed mast site.

Miss Bryan is also concerned about the amount of "street furniture" on the road already.

She said: "There's too many things on the street. There's a camera post going up when we've already got one operating - it's just ridiculous. I don't know how they expect people to walk on the pavement around here."

Community relations manager for O2, Jim Stevenson, said: "Basically, we are looking to increase capacity. We have 18 million customers demanding a service all the time.

"We understand the lady's concerns and we do listen to people all the time and are more than willing to talk to them.

"I can reassure her that she'll have no problems with the mast as far as health and safety is concerned."

He said the increased capacity was for making sure people in the area could use their phone at any time, day or night, as signal areas became jammed when too many calls were made at once.

In the Enfield area there are currently around 123 masts, with three in the immediate area around the proposed site in Ponders End. In total, across London, there are 6,421 of the so-called "base stations".

The Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, set up in the UK, found that scientific evidence to date, suggested exposure to radio waves at guideline strengths did not cause adverse health effects in the general population.

However, Sir William Stewart, who chaired the group, has called for a review on the possible effects of mast radiation and wireless internet networks.

When the group published their findings in 2000, Sir William, now chairman of the Health Protection Agency, felt that the scientific research was sufficient enough for a precautionary approach for siting masts near schools, recommending that masts should not necessarily impact on areas where children are exposed.

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1451044.0.jade_battles_o2_over_phone_mast.php

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

06. Juni 2007

Die USA hält an ihrer Verweigerungshaltung zum Klimaschutz fest. Dazu erklärt der stellvertretende Vorsitzende Wolfgang Methling:

Noch bevor der G8-Gipfel begonnen hat, ist er gescheitert. Aufgrund der Verweigerungshaltung der USA kann auf dem G8-Gipfel offenbar keine Einigung über verbindliche Ziele im Kampf gegen die Klimaerwärmung erzielt werden. Die Signale aus Washington sind eindeutig, die USA sind nicht daran interessiert. Diese Verweigerungshaltung wird nicht nur verheerende Auswirkungen auf die Klimaerwärmung haben, sondern wird sich auch auf das Verhalten der so genannten Schwellenländer auswirken. Wenn die G8-Staaten als Hauptverursacher des drohenden Klimawandels mit seinen katastrophalen Folgen nicht bereit sind, ihrer Verantwortung ernsthaft nachzukommen, dann kann dies auch nicht glaubhaft von anderen Staaten eingefordert werden. Kanzlerin Merkel ist als G8-Präsidentin nun gefordert, das vielbeschworene gute Klima zwischen den USA und Deutschland für mehr Klimaschutz zu nutzen. Denn beim Klimaschutz hört die Freundschaft auf. Es wird Zeit, dass die USA endlich die Notwenigkeit eines weltweiten Engagements begreifen und sich aktiv am Klimaschutz beteiligen. Eine Fortschreibung des Kyoto-Prozesses über 2012 hinaus wäre das einzig richtige Zeichen. Aber auch die Bundesrepublik lässt wirkungsvolle Schritte beim Klimaschutz vermissen. Der geplante Bau neuer Kohlekraftwerke steht allen Bemühungen um eine wirksame Eindämmung der Emission von Klima schädigenden Giften diametral entgegen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35884

Schalt ab!...für's Klima Unter der Schirmherrschaft des bekannten Autors und Fernsehjournalisten Dr. Franz Alt ruft die Bürgerinitiative "Schalt ab!...für's Klima" alle Einwohner Deutschlands zu einer gemeinsamen Stromabschaltaktion während des G8-Gipfels auf. Vom 6. bis 8. Juni 2007 soll an drei Tagen jeweils von 19:45 bis 20:00 Uhr der Strom abgeschaltet werden. Die UmweltBank macht mit -- Machen auch Sie mit!

Mehr unter http://www.schaltab.net

Tallying up the farm bill, which Congress will likely vote on this fall, yields losers and winners. The losers: farmers, farm laborers, food processing workers, rural communities, the environment, poor country peasants, many developing country agricultural industries, and urban laborers in both developed and developing countries facing wage competition from rural migrants and US taxpayers. The winner: corporate agribusiness.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=agribusiness

The influential Foreign Affairs Council, comprising mostly senior retired US diplomats and ambassadors, says the US State Department is in crisis, facing a shortage of 1,100 staff, and that in the "first two years of Secretary Rice's stewardship, almost no new net-resources have been realized."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607O.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Condoleezza+Rice

"Al Gore is earnestly talking about the long-term implications of the energy and climate crises, and how the Arctic ice cap is receding much faster than computer models had predicted, and how difficult and delicate a task it will be to try and set things straight in Iraq. You look at him and you can't help thinking how bizarre it is that this particular political figure, perhaps the most qualified person in the country to be president, is sitting in a wing chair in a hotel room in Manhattan rather than in the White House," writes Bob Herbert.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Al+Gore
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

The Bush administration faces pressure to overhaul how it brings foreign terrorism suspects to trial after the surprise dismissal of war crimes charges against two prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired US attorneys, saying he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=subpoenas
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys

The Iraqi Parliament has passed a binding resolution that will guarantee lawmakers an opportunity to block the extension of the UN mandate under which coalition troops now remain in Iraq when it comes up for renewal in December. Without the cover of the UN mandate, the continued presence of coalition troops in Iraq would become an armed occupation, at which point it would no longer be politically tenable to support it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607J.shtml

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.com

A trillion dollars and nowhere to go but up.
http://ga3.org/ct/Cd20pgF1JzHF/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial

Liam Madden-Marine War Resister-Boston 6-7-07



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_Iz61y8HQ

Support Liam Madden of the Boston Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and co-founder of the Appeal for Redress

Because of his courageous antiwar activism, the Marines are attempting to go after him and saddle him with an "other than honorable discharge"

Sign the Online Petition in defense of Liam Madden: http://www.petitiononline.com/liam/petition.html

Background: Former Marine Liam Madden and Adam Kokesh, who is also under attack, both served in Iraq and were both honorably discharged. Upon their return, they both joined Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Liam is also a cofounder of the Appeal for Redress, a statement signed by nearly 2,000 active-duty troops that garnered a lot of media coverage, and he has been helping to organize a bus tour to some 20 military bases throughout the eastern U.S. Adam has been in Germany, reaching out to soldiers at the U.S. Army base at Ansbach. Both Adam and Liam participated in the first installment of Operation First Casualty, in which IVAW members brought the war home through street theater by mounting "patrols" in the streets of Washington, D.C., on March 19. Now the Marine Corps is trying to make an example of them. Both men are still part of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), an inactive status that practically all troops pass through prior to final separation from the military.

Now, both Adam and Liam are being charged with appearing in uniform at a political event. Additionally, Liam is being charged with "disloyal statements" for calling the war in Iraq "a war crime." Adam is facing a military hearing on Monday June 4th in Kansas where he will be "tried" by a panel of 3 officers. If found guilty, an "other than honorable discharge" will prevent him from ever being able to get a government job or many other types of jobs, similar to the effect of a criminal record. Liam has not received a hearing date yet, but he expects to. Why we need to fight this: "The military is trying to stifle the IVAW's voice in the public discourse about the war," Liam has said. "If we are to have an informed and free discussion in society about the most pressing issue of our generation, the war in Iraq, then the voices of returning veterans are a crucial aspect." This is an attempt to squash informed discussion of the true reality of their war as well squash the budding movement of antiwar soldiers and veterans turning against the war. "They perceive me as a figurehead or a vocal component of this, and it's their tendency to nip that in the bud by going after the figurehead. The troops are allegedly fighting for freedom and democracy, yet their voices are suppressed when they get home--if their voices go against the grain." They want to silence Liam's message that the whole war is a war crime- and you cannot "win" a war crime, you can only end it-- immediately. The military's charges against Liam send a threatening message to other soldiers and veterans that they should not dare to speak or organize against the war. If they get away with punishing Liam, the military will be emboldened to go after many other dissenters. The antiwar movement must step up and send a message that it will have the backs of its antiwar brothers and sisters within the ranks of the military. Gary Kurpius, the national commander of the 2.4 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars has recently made news with his statement that "Trying to hush up and punish fellow Americans for exercising the same democratic right we're trying to instill in Iraq is not what we're all about,".

At a time when the majority of people in the US, the vast majority of Iraqis, and unprecedented numbers of US troops are against this war, we can't let some of the most important voices in the antiwar movement be silenced. This is about the important antiwar voice and contributions of Liam Madden but also about the current and future antiwar leadership of countless soldiers and veterans whose vocal and active opposition will be essential to ending this war.

IVAW's Liam Madden Holds Press Conference
http://www.bostonnow.com/news/local/2007/06/08/marine/


Ashley Smith

From ufpj-news

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Liam Madden Speaks to Truthout

While Adam Kokesh was dominating the headlines, another former Marine, Sgt. Liam Madden was also being targeted by the Marine Corps. The free speech issues are more apparent in Madden's case: He is being investigated for statements that he made at anti-war events. Madden traveled with Kokesh to Kansas City for Kokesh's separation board hearing. The day before the hearing Truthout's Geoffrey Millard sat down with Sergeant Madden.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062607L.shtml



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

06/04/07

‘Hello. I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.’ Conservatives love to use this line to mock the idea that government can do constructive things for you. Nothing gets a bigger laugh at conservative gatherings. The sentence has two meanings. First, it makes fun of the notion that politicians have your interests at heart and truly wish to serve them...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0706a.asp


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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

06/04/07

The Bush administration has decided its new model for a long-term solution in Iraq is Korea. It’s an attempt to stifle the inevitable comparisons of the Iraq quagmire to Vietnam and a way to justify the eventual reduction of U.S. forces in Iraq (to take the heat off of Republican candidates in the 2008 elections), while retaining a substantial U.S. military presence by establishing three or four long-term major military bases. The plan would ultimately be a disaster for the United States...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1977


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Hawaii Reporter
by Congressman Ron Paul

06/04/07

Good intentions frequently lead to unintended bad consequences. Tough choices, doing what is right, often leads to unanticipated good results. The growing demand by the American people for us to leave Iraq prompts the naysayers to predict disaster in the Middle East if we do. Of course, these merchants of fear are the same ones who predicted that invading and occupying Iraq would be a slam dunk operation; that we would be welcomed as liberators, and oil revenues would pay for the operation with minimal loss of American lives...

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Independent [UK]

06/06/07

Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today. Three weeks before he stands down as Prime Minister, Mr Blair will join forces with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in an attempt to secure a breakthrough in the battle against climate change. They will press a reluctant US president to agree that the world should cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050. Such an outcome from the last international gathering that Mr Blair will attend with President Bush would at last allow him to answer critics who claim he has got little in return for his ’shoulder to shoulder’ support for the US President, notably on Iraq and other issues related to the ‘war on terror’...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2617436.ece


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Kannapolis Independent Tribune

06/05/07

Several Republican senators Tuesday called for President Bush to implement a new war strategy based on recommendations by the Iraq Study Group, which advocated winding down the U.S. combat mission. ‘The president needs bipartisan support if the United States is to sustain a long-term position in Iraq,’ said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn...

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Pensacola News Journal

06/05/07

President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration. ‘I would certainly not send him to the United Nations’ to represent the United States, said Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor and one-time member of Bush’s Cabinet, midway through a spirited campaign debate...

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Phil Mattera writes: "In the business world these days, it appears that just about everything is for sale. Multi-billion-dollar deals are commonplace, and even venerable institutions such as the Wall Street Journal find themselves put into play. Yet companies are not the only things being acquired. This may turn out to be the year that big business bought a substantial part of the environmental movement."

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"The contents of government budgets are a big deal in other democratic societies - witness 40,000 marchers in Vancouver, BC, protesting government priorities. Down here, we follow the DUI arrests of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, 'American Idol' contestants; the custody battles over Anna Nicole Smith's baby, and other examples of what Al Gore calls 'the new priorities in America's news coverage,'" says Joel Connelly.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507ED.shtml



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Indonesia's rainforests - especially those on Borneo island - are being stripped so rapidly because of illegal logging and palm oil plantations for biofuels that they could be wiped out altogether within 15 years, some environmentalists say.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EC.shtml

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by declining snow and ice cover as a result of global warming. The risks facing people include rising sea levels and losing access to drinking water, a UN study concludes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EB.shtml

The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world that the US is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060507EA.shtml

"Politics in the American style has never been particularly sane, to be sure. Every so often, however, the usual level of strangeness we're accustomed to reaches a new gear, and the whole show just goes right over the moon. Over the last few years, we've pretty much been permanently locked into that higher gear, so it takes something exceptionally deranged to ring the cherries," says William Rivers Pitt. "Leave it to a Republican Party official, of course, to spelunk our national dialogue into a whole new low."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060507S.shtml



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Stop U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction
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06 June 2007

A NEW mobile phone mast will go up in Churchill despite strong opposition from parish councillors.

At a meeting of Churchill and Langford Parish Council, members voted unanimously against the proposed mast on land near Bath Road, but their views did not reach North Somerset Council.

They said the mast is too close to houses and they were worried about the potential impact on residents' health. The mast will be sited 400m from an area of outstanding natural beauty but will be disguised as a telegraph pole.

Parish clerk Lindsay Ireland posted a letter containing the council's response on May 18, but it failed to get to planners at the district council.

The local authority then gave its permission for the mast to go ahead at a planning meeting a week later, as it had not received any objections from the parish council.

Mrs Ireland said: "This is hideous and I shall be writing a letter of complaint to the council. The parish council had previously rejected the plans for the mobile phone mast and so the planning department would expect that we would again reject the application.

"The parish council will make a formal complaint to the planning department.

© 2007 Archant Regional Limited. All rights reserved.

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By Tony Donnelly

PROTESTORS against a plan to site a phone mast in Bishampton will take their fight to the company at the weekend when they mount a picket and protest outside the T-Mobile shop in central Evesham.

The villagers have been angered by the company's refusal to meet to discuss alternative sites for the placement of the 15-metre mast just yards from their homes.

And at a public meeting in the village hall last month, residents voted for more direct action, leading to the decision to demonstrate outside the Bridge Street shop this weekend.

Leading objector Tony Waghorn, who lives near Nightingale Farm, where it is proposed to site the mast, said: "T-Mobile have rejected alternative sites and we believe this is purely down to money. This mast should not be anywhere near people."

He said villagers feared the mast could affect their health and action group members pointed to a newspaper report which condemned T-Mobile for not heeding a warning about the alleged dangers from cancer from mobile handsets and masts.

T-Mobile spokesman John Shaunnassy previously said the company had commissioned four reports on the subject and only one was of the opinion there could be a problem.

He also said that three other sites proposed by villagers were not suitable.

Mr Waghorn responded: "We are not against mobile phones - we appreciate people do have them and do use them.

"But we do not feel it is right that these masts should be close to our children's bedroom windows."

© Copyright 2001-2007 Newsquest Media Group

http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/ejnewslatest/display.var.1449857.0.phone_mast_protest_picket_planned.php

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Poor Little Rich Boys (and Girl)
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TAKE ACTION NOW!
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Video

Another Excellent Interview
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RON PAUL AT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP DEBATE
JUNE 5TH 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BjK1QqDOo

Ron Paul debates fellow GOP at the June 5th CNN debate.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
http://www.youtube.com/ronpaul2008dotcom
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Forget the Fed and Washington, D.C. Because of its swing position in the world's oil market, Saudi Arabia wields the real power over our economic future.

http://tinyurl.com/2le3km


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration may have sidestepped a key 1991 law regarding congressional notification of intelligence activities when it chose to alert just a handful of lawmakers of its warrantless surveillance program following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to Democratic sources.

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From Information Clearing House



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Federal Judge Reggie Walton also ordered I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to pay $250,000 in fines. Additionally, the former aide will be on probation for two years following the completion of his prison term. Libby must report to a probation officer within 72 hours of sentencing.

http://tinyurl.com/2vfm39


From Information Clearing House

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The Scooter Files: Washington X-Ray

by Rick Perlstein, TomPaine.com

The letters written on behalf of "Scooter" Libby offer an unappealing look inside our political system.

http://ga3.org/ct/1d20pgF1JzHK/

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Bush Faces Libby Pardon Dilemma

The 30-months sentence imposed on I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby puts new pressure on Bush, who may soon confront the choice of triggering a political storm by pardoning a convicted perjurer, or letting one of the early architects of his administration head off to prison.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607M.shtml



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HOW did the United States, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, come to adopt interrogation techniques copied from the Soviet Union and other cold war adversaries?

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From Information Clearing House



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Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Iraqi Oil Workers Union

U.S. Government's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0605-02.htm



Iraqi Oil Workers On Strike

Workers began the strike at 6.30 this morning by shutting two 14" pipelines carrying oil and gas products inside Iraq.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/23290


From Information Clearing House



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U.S. troops detain four insurgents smuggling Iranian weapons in Baghdad

The detainees are believed to be members of a "secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training," a military statement said.

http://tinyurl.com/2px2h4



U.S. diplomat accuses Iran of passing weapons to Taliban

A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan - the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6122658



U.S. official says Iran violating U.N. rules by sending weapons to Afghanistan's Taliban

A senior U.S. diplomat, lobbying world powers for tougher sanctions against Iran, accused Tehran on Wednesday of violating international law by arming its once-bitter foe - Afghanistan's Taliban - and of trying to destabilize the Middle East.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/13/europe/EU-GEN-France-US-Iran.php



U.S. claims Iran funding terrorism

A day after a top U.S. official accused Iran of arming the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asked the financial world to freeze the assets of an Iranian bank.

http://tinyurl.com/38gfsc



Some doubt U.S. claims Iran arming Taliban

Some analysts question U.S. reports that Iran is arming the Taliban, saying Tehran has other allies there and the weapons are available on the open market.

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20070613-041300-8367



Iraq: U.S. Troops Arrest Another 3 Iranian Officals

US soldiers on Friday reportedly arrested three Iranian diplomats north of Baghdad. The officials had first been detained by Iraqi forces who had subsequently freed them, allegedly after the intervention of the Iraqi foreign ministry.

http://tinyurl.com/2js2bk



Kidnappers of British contractors in Iraq were backed by Iran: US General

The kidnappers who snatched five British contractors last month were funded, trained and armed by Iran, the US commander in Iraq said in an interview published late Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070620/wl_mideast_afp/iraqbritainkidnapus



Iranian weapons still flowing into Iraq: US General

Smuggled weapons and deadly explosives are still coming into Iraq from neighbouring Iran and continue to kill American soldiers, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL154330.htm



Presstitute and war pimp alert:

Muqtada al-Sadr moving toward all-out fight with Iraqi leaders:

Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces - a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protected by his powerful Mahdi Army.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/133565



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

Gates: Iranians kill US soldiers

The US Defense Secretary blames Iran for the killing of US troops in Iraq as the Bush administration steps up rhetoric against Tehran.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=52941&sectionid=351020101



U.S. military official:

Iran boosting support for Iraqi, Afghan rebels

Admiral Mike Mullen conceded at a Pentagon news conference Friday that he has "no smoking gun" proof that the highest leadership in the Iranian government is involved.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/04/25/5386151-ap.html



Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran

The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19799.htm



Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:

U.S. ship opens fire on patrol boats near Iran

MSNBC says the Iranian boats were approaching at a high rate of speed and were within 100 yards of the ship when crewmembers fired eight .50-caliber rounds and three M-16 rounds that forced the vessels to turn away.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/report-us-ship.html



Iran denies any clash with US vessel

Iranian Navy official told IRNA that no such an incident took place in the Persian Gulf.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0804254916210524.htm



US 'extremely concerned' over Iran

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Admiral Michael Mullen said the US would maintain a presence in the Gulf in an attempt to deter Iran from taking any military action.

http://tinyurl.com/65kh2u


From Information Clearing House

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Conflicting arms claims on Iran reveal US rift

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

06/21/07

The evidence that Iran is arming the Taliban isn’t as ‘irrefutable’ as some US officials are claiming, says the US NATO commander in Afghanistan. He points to more likely sources for the arms, such as drugs and weapons smugglers. The anti-Iran language used by the accusers points to Vice President Dick Cheney, who would like nothing more than an invasion of Iran before his boss leaves office...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF22Ak04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Iran helping to plan attacks in Iraq - US

Iran is training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure for change, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, while violence around the Arab state killed at least 19 people.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27811652.htm



U.S.: Iran Helped in Deadly Iraq Strike

U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner also accused Iran of using its Lebanese ally, the Shiite militia Hezbollah, as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/35knk3



Iran 'baring its teeth' in Afghanistan, officials say

In public, Afghanistan has played down US and British allegations that Iran is feeding weapons to Taliban insurgents, but in private, officials here say the charges are true -- and worrying.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=183385



Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran

Evidence that Iranian territory is being used as a base by al-Qaeda to help in terrorist operations in Iraq and elsewhere is growing, say western officials.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9cc4d5f4-2be3-11dc-b498-000b5df10621.html



Sunni Insurgent Leader Paints Iran as 'Real Enemy'

A leader of an armed Sunni group in western Baghdad described his hatred for Iran and the current Iraqi government, while outlining the dimensions of an armed insurgency that extends well beyond al-Qaeda in Iraq, the organization that U.S. officials routinely identify as their central enemy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301792.html



US finds Iranian rockets aimed at Iraq base

US soldiers discovered a field of rocket launchers near a US army base south of Baghdad armed with 34 Iranian-made missiles, the military said Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070714/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestus



On Heels Of Senate's Iran Vote, Brownback Declared I'm Ready To Strike Iran

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-0 to pass a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to censure Iran "for what it said was complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq." The resolution required the Bush administration to regularly report to Congress on Iran's role in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/15/brownback-attack-iran/



U.S. says Iran knows its weapons reaching Taliban

Iranian arms are entering Afghanistan and reaching Taliban insurgents in such quality and quantity that the Tehran government must know about it, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/2tcmh8



Iran attack could be 2nd Holocaust, Gingrich warns

Former US House speaker, who is considering running for presidency on Republican ticket, warns that if Iran acquires nukes, Israel and US would be under severe threat; 'Firing one or more bombs at Israel could be a second Holocaust for the Jewish people,' Gingrich says.

http://tinyurl.com/2wt5g6



Chinese missiles smuggled through Iran into Iraq

US: The US military on Sunday said its troops had found Chinese-made missiles which they believe were smuggled into Iraq by groups in Iran in order to arm groups fighting US-led forces.

http://tinyurl.com/2qy85g



U.S. says Iran training Green Zone bombers

Top commander blames Tehran for better aim of mortars, rockets
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19972418/



Iran fist-in-glove with Iraqi rebels: America builds its case

A senior US official in Baghdad told the Guardian in May that Iran was fighting a proxy war in Iraq. He accused Tehran of "committing daily acts of war against US and British forces", including weapons and other assistance to militias and ad hoc cooperation with individual extremists tied to al-Qaida.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330261901-103681,00.html



'Iran-armed militia behind 3/4 of Iraq attacks'

Rogue Shiite militia fighters said to be armed and trained by Iran were responsible for nearly three-quarters of attacks that killed or wounded Americans in Baghdad last month, the No. 2 US commander in Iraq said Sunday.

http://tinyurl.com/29yddx



Bush levels dubious Iran nuclear arms charge

US President George W. Bush charged Monday that Iran has openly declared that it seeks nuclear weapons -- an inaccurate accusation at a time of sharp tensions between Washington and Tehran.

http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070806211216.lgvvjg5f.html



Iran trying to sway US debate on Iraq -US general

A U.S. general said on Saturday Iran had increased supplies of weapons to Shi'ite militias in Iraq to attack U.S. troops and influence debate in Washington before the presentation of a crucial report on Iraq next month.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL151455.htm



US labels Iran's Guards terrorists

The Bush Administration has decided to move against the 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guards because of what officials say is the corps' growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its support for extremists throughout the Middle East.

http://tinyurl.com/yvnkjo



Iran meddling in Afghanistan

US lawmaker: An influential US lawmaker has accused Iran of meddling in the internal affairs of Afghanistan by allegedly supplying arms and equipment to Taliban and al-Qaeda.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?187138



Fifty Iranians helping militias in south Iraq

About 50 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were believed to be training Shi'ite militias in the use of mortars and rockets in southern Iraq, the general commanding U.S. troops in the area said on Sunday.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n119779



Fox Attacks: Iran

Video

FOX are repeating the same distortions and fear mongering as they did before the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18244.htm



Iranian operatives step up flow of weapons and training from Iran says general

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives are trying to sabotage US security gains in Iraq, by stepping up the flow of arms and training to Shiite extremist groups, a top US commander charged Friday.

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070824-080557-1271r



US forces arrest Iranian-linked agent in Iraq

U.S. soldiers detained a "highly sought individual" suspected of links to senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guards in a predawn raid on the holy Iraqi Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL525810.htm



Reports Iranian arms reaching Taliban worry U.S.

The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3587034



Iran Linked to Iraq Rocket Attack

U.S. military officials in Iraq tell ABC News that a rocket used in an attack on coalition headquarters at Camp Victory Tuesday was made in Iran.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3593296&page=1



The Iran Attack That Wasn't

How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq.
http://www.prospect.org//cs/articles?article=the_iran_attack_that_wasnt



Iranian Arms Destined for Taliban Seized in Afghanistan, Officials Say

'Large' Shipment Said to Include Armor-Piercing Bombs
http://snipurl.com/1qsnq



U.S. says seizes Iraqis "linked" to Iran Qods force

U.S. forces captured 12 Iraqis in Baghdad on Monday suspected of smuggling weapons from Iran, including one linked to Tehran's elite Qods force, the U.S. military said in a statement.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17792324.htm



Syrian military blast explained

A Syrian military installation rocked by an explosion in July was being used to develop chemical weapons, and Iranian engineers were among those killed, a respected defence publication has reported.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/syrian+military+blast+explained/821747



American commander accuses Iran of arming Taliban

A top U.S. military commander accused Iran on Friday of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the United States would "act decisively" if the cross-border flow continued.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/21/business/afghan.php



Iran smuggling missiles into Iraq: US military

Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070923/pl_afp/iraqunrestiranus



UN envoy doubts U.S. assertion Iran arming Afghan insurgents

A top United Nations diplomat is rejecting repeated claims from the Bush administration that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/1r53i



Iran 'arming Taliban with roadside bombs'

Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to insurgents in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers.

http://snipurl.com/1rrwh



US Iraq general steps up accusations against Iran

The U.S. military commander in Iraq stepped up accusations over the weekend that Iran was inciting violence there and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07597509.htm



Bush warns of World War III if Iran goes "nuclear"

We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel, US president says at White House press conference after Russia cautions against military action against Tehran's suspected atomic program.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461069,00.html



US Military: Intercepted Afghan Weapons Came From Iran

U.S. Army General Dan McNeill said Thursday NATO forces stopped a convoy from Iran on September 5 in western Afghanistan. He said the convoy contained a number of advanced technology improvised explosive devices.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-18-voa39.cfm?rss=topstories



Afghanistan Skeptical Iran Arming Taliban

Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak said evidence of Iranian cooperation in arming Taliban insurgents with advanced weapons is inconclusive.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212110087.shtml



Iran "perhaps single greatest" security risk to US: Rice

President George W. Bush last week warned that a nuclear-armed Iran evoked the threat of "World War III," and Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday spoke of "serious consequences" unless the Islamic republic comes to heel.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=199616



US blames Iran-backed group for Baghdad bombing

Iranian-backed militants were behind a bombing that killed 13 Iraqis at a Baghdad pet market, the U.S. military said on Saturday, raising concerns that Shi'ite militias might be switching tactics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc



Pentagon report to accuse Iran of fueling Iraq strife

A Pentagon report to be released Tuesday will accuse Iran of continuing to funnel weapons and technology to fighters in neighboring Iraq even as it cites lower violence overall, US media said.

http://snipurl.com/1vi6u



Pentagon report: Iran keeps funding militias in Iraq

A new Pentagon report says violence is down across Iraq but notes that Iranian influence on Iraq's security continues, despite some assurances this fall that Iran was reducing its shipments of weapons into Iraq.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1220/p25s03-usmi.html



Iran still training militants

THE commander of US forces in Iraq said during a tour of an Iraq-Iran border crossing that Tehran was still training militants despite its pledge to cut support for the insurgency.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23065451-23109,00.html



Iran speeding up development of missiles, head of U.S. agency says

The head of the United States' missile defense program sought Wednesday to bolster Washington's argument for anti-missile sites in Europe by warning that Iran has sped up development of long-range missiles.

http://snipurl.com/1xl0u



Europe Side Steps Iranian Sanctions

Energy companies throughout Europe continue to defy U.S.-negotiated sanctions against Iran by putting several new deals on the table.

http://snipurl.com/1xl0w



Crying (Iranian) wolf in Argentina bombing

The US Embassy in Buenos Aires at the time - including ambassador James Cheek - have confirmed the absence of evidence linking Iran to the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded another 300.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA25Ak02.html



U.S. sees attacks by Iranian-backed groups up in Iraq

Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in Iraq have increased in recent months, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, casting doubt on the view Iran might have reduced its support for violence in the war.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zn



US spy chief retreats from Iran intel

The top US intelligence official is backing away from his agency's recent assessment that Iran halted its 'nuclear weapons program', PressTV reported.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zo



Order given to fire on Iranian speedboat

One of the commanding officers "had literally given the order to fire and it turns out one of the fast boats turned about simultaneously," Mullen said.

http://snipurl.com/1z7zp



U.S. Intelligence Chief On Iran

Al-Qaida is the preeminent terrorist threat to the United States, said Michael McConnell, U.S. Director of National Intelligence. But Iran, said Mr. McConnell, "also remains a threat to regional stability and to U.S. interests throughout the Middle East".

http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2008-02-19-voa2.cfm



U.S. military contradicts State on Iran

Hundreds of weapons caches found in Iraq: Iranian-backed militias are apparently preparing for major strikes against the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, military officials said.

http://tinyurl.com/yscdqb



'Iran still developing nuclear warheads'

The Iranian regime is undoubtedly developing a nuclear bomb," said Mohammad Mohadessin, a leader of the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran. He presented reporters in Brussels with information he said had been collected on two sites in Iran on top secret studies on nuclear warheads.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTMyMzA2MTc5



Iran 'continued nuclear weapons programme'

Britain's envoy to the United Nations nuclear watchdog contradicted the findings of US intelligence officials who said Iran stopped developing a nuclear weapon in 2003.

http://tinyurl.com/24kdkc



Iran may be biggest threat to Iraq - U.S. general

Odierno also said he was not surprised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was able to move around without security problems during his two-day visit to Baghdad as the groups that often target high-profile visitors are Iranian-backed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN04505031



Iran reneged on pledge to quit supporting Iraqi militias

The top two U.S. officials in Iraq said this week that Iran was still training Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias, in violation of its promises to Iraqi leaders.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/29593.html



Iran fomenting violence in Iraq, U.S. says

The military offers details of Tehran's role in continuing to train and equip militias and insurgents.

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2008/03/10/iran-fomenting-violence-in-iraq-us-says/



Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program

Retaining his tough stance against Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Tehran may have restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report said was halted in 2003.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7397533



Cheney talks tough on Iran's N-program

"What we do know is that they had then, and have now, a process by which they're trying to enrich uranium, which is the key obstacle they've got to overcome in order to have a nuclear weapon," he said.

http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/international/story/303548.html



Bush says Iran announced desire for nuclear weapons

President Bush contended that Iran has "declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people" and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a secret program.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31114.html



McCain's repeated "slips of the tongue" on Iran and al-Qaida

"As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq."

http://tinyurl.com/ytte6w



Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7311565.stm



PM-Cheney meeting shrouded in mystery

US Vice President Dick Cheney's second meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, like their first meeting Saturday night, was shrouded in mystery, leading to speculation among diplomatic officials that the focus was on how to stop Iran's nuclear program.

http://tinyurl.com/26n7af



Iran's lethal uranium plans

VICE-President Dick Cheney has said Iran was developing a uranium enrichment program for military purposes. "Obviously, they're... heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels," Cheney said in an interview with ABC television.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23428344-15084,00.html



Cheney Claims Iran Trying To Develop Bomb Despite No Evidence

Cheney alleged in an interview Monday that Iran was trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, even though international inspectors have never found such evidence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/cheney-claims-iran-trying_n_93303.html



Iranian, Syrian missiles to pound Israel in next war

Secret report paints grim picture: Thousands of casualties, nationwide power outages.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3522937,00.html



US Military Says Iran Behind Latest Violence In Iraq

Iran is behind the violence raging in Iraq by providing training to those firing rockets in Baghdad and by not doing enough to rein in lawless gunmen in Basra, the U.S. military charged Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/3b5vev



Report warns of Saudi Arabia and Turkey possibly joining in a nuclear arms race

The report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also says Turkey would come under pressure to follow suit if Iran builds nuclear weapons. It says while Turkey doesn't see Iran as an enemy, it also believes a power balance between the countries is the primary reason for a peaceful relationship between them.

http://www.wandtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8109721


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Explosive charge blows up in US's face
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A former top British diplomat Tuesday called for a speedy troop withdrawal from Iraq and predicted that the process of leaving Iraq would cause 'strain' in Anglo-American relations.

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From Information Clearing House

The situation in Iraq continues to worsen, with more than 2 million Iraqis now believed to be displaced inside the country and another 2.2 million sheltering in neighbouring states.

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From Information Clearing House

Author: John Perkins

Video

John Perkins talks about his follow-up to his 2005 book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," at Barnes & Noble in New York City. In his new book, Mr. Perkins argues that the United States uses its foreign policy to further U.S. business interests around the globe, often to the detriment of poor countries.

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8345&SectionName=&PlayMedia=Yes



Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption

Audio & Transcript - Interview with John Perkins

Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations -- what he calls the "corporatocracy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17829.htm



The Secret History of the American Empire

The Truth About Global Corruption

Video - John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man.

Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21000.htm


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Economic Hitman
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By César Chelala

A 2005 report by the World Policy Institute states that most of the U.S.' arms sales to developing countries go to governments that the U.S. State Department qualifies as undemocratic, such as Pakistan, Angola and Saudi Arabia.

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