Yearly Archives: 2007

UN: Baghdad Security Operation Has FailedThe Irish Examiner UKWednesday 25 April 2007 Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighbourhoods of Iraq’s capital, despite the coalition’s new Baghdad … Continue reading →

Possible ‘Illegal’ White House Activity ProbedBy DEB RIECHMANN, AP WASHINGTON (April 25) – A little-known federal investigative unit has launched a probe into allegations of illegal political activity within the executive branch, including a White House office led by President … Continue reading →

Canada’s Spiesby Stefan ChristoffApril 21, 2007Montreal Mirror The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is conducting regular interviews and interrogations with hundreds of Arabs and Muslims across Canada at their work places, homes and in the vicinity of local mosques, say … Continue reading →

POWER PLAY: HOW DENMARK PAVED WAY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCEBy Leila Abboud Thirty-Year Plan Uses Wind, Taxes, Pig Fat; Consumers Pay More [Rachel’s introduction: Denmark is working steadily to conserve energy and get itself loose from the grip of Big Oil … Continue reading →

As premier loses stature, radical cleric is gaining itBy Juan ColeArticle Launched: 04/22/2007 01:45:27 AM PDT Radical young Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may have become more important in hiding than he was when he could dare come out in public. … Continue reading →

What’s frightening about this video is not the ignorance. It is the arrogance and the racism, two traits that have every potential to wreck everything for which these idiots believe Amerika stands.

7. Create socialism (economic democracy) for “commodities” (insurance, banking, steel, oil, power) A “commodity” in this sense means a service or product that is in a non-competitive business environment. That is, there are no “market forces” in a short-run context. … Continue reading →

Iraq war brain trauma victims turn to private care23 Apr 2007 13:03:29 GMTSource: ReutersBy Kim Dixon CHICAGO, April 23 (Reuters) – Sgt. Eric Edmundson arrived at the U.S. Army’s Walter Reed hospital in October 2005 with a severe head concussion, … Continue reading →

From Informed Comment Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked Sunday that the US military halt its construction of a security wall around the Sunni Arab district of Adhamiya. Al-Maliki spoke from Cairo where he is meeting with foreign ministers of Iraq’s … Continue reading →

Blackbirds Would Sing On my day off, I do all the jobs that have accumulated over the week; those we try to put off – until … forever. Sweeping the patios and cleaning the garden is one of them. Ages … Continue reading →

Plan B: Budget For Saving CivilizationBy Lester R. Brown 04/21/07 “ICH ” — — Mobilizing to save civilization means restructuring the economy, restoring the economy’s natural support systems, eradicating poverty, and stabilizing population. We have the technologies, economic instruments, and … Continue reading →

CODEPINK sings Don’t BOMB BOMB Iran, John McCain! Running on Inferno’s PlatformBy Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate” (Abandon all hope, you who enter here) Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy; ‘Inferno’ 04/22/07 “ICH” – — – There is … Continue reading →