World-News

New Orleans deals with a tough election and the upcoming hurricane season.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806U.shtml

Trading placards for handshakes and T-shirts for ties, immigrant rights activists who have recently staged huge rallies across the country took their campaign to the halls of Congress yesterday as hundreds of people met with elected officials or their aides to lobby for immigration reform.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051806S.shtml

"The state party should cease to detain any person at Guantanamo Bay and close the detention facility," said the UN Committee Against Torture, a panel of 10 independent experts on adherence to the UN Convention Against Torture. The United States should also ensure that no one is detained in secret detention facilities under its control and disclose the existence of any such places, the report said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051906Z.shtml

Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

05/19/06

From 1968 to 1992, a quarter-century, Republicans carried the White House in five of six national elections. By the midpoint and latter stages of this second Republican ascendancy, the party had achieved parity and was nearing hegemony at the congressional level. All this is in peril today, as the Republican Party heads into a perfect storm in November that could sweep it away because it has failed not only to address the crisis of the age, but to comprehend it. What is that crisis? America is today a nation bankrupt in the sense that it cannot meet all the IOUs the country has handed out...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14994



God's Own Party

Classically Liberal
by "CLS"

05/19/06

One of the central principles of American Constitutional government is that the states are independently allowed to pursue domestic policies. This division explicitly restricts federal power and allows a diversity of policies at the state level. One such area has been marriage law. But the Bushified Republican Party has basically abandoned all such principles of Constitutional government. These were the guys who claimed to want to devolve power from the federal level back to the states but under their leader, chosen by God himself, they are concentrating power in Washington...

http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2006/05/gods-own-party.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CLS

Officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the capital, Mogadishu.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13081.htm

The full length feature documentary.

The Suppressed Story of The GI Movement to end the war in Viet Nam

Click here to view: Windows Media
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13036.htm

http://www.easttexasreview.com/story.htm?StoryID=3503


Informant: bigraccoon

Cindy Sheehan travels to Canada and discovers that the government is walking a dangerous path, "leading them [Canadians] down this same slippery slope to the fascistic militarism of their immediate neighbors to the south."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306Y.shtml



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

http://www.prorev.com/coup.htm



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

A senior U.S. officer has been working to restore the morale of some 600 Ugandan guards, most of them serving abroad for the first time, following the allegations that they were sexually abused while working with the U.S. forces in Iraq.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/12/content_4539340.htm


From Information Clearing House

The spiralling violence in Iraq has led to sustained "sectarian cleansing" with many families forced to take refuge in squalid camps.

http://tinyurl.com/pytap


From Information Clearing House

In the 'new Iraq' beloved of Bush and Blair, women can be arrested just for complaining.

http://tinyurl.com/k597h


From Information Clearing House

By Michelle Goldberg

Across the United States, religious activists are organizing to establish an American theocracy. A frightening look inside the growing right-wing movement.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13017.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nationalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=theocracy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michelle+Goldberg

Most of our kids did not volunteer to go to Iraq to guard special contractors or kill innocent people to cushion the retirement of the CEO of Exxon. And, newsflash, our recruiters are still lying to our young people telling them that if they enlist they won't have to go to Iraq and other despicable lies.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13019.htm

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/12/06

That the U.S. secretary of state is parading around the world in dominatrix drag tells us everything we need to know about the country she is representing -- and why the image of the 'ugly American' is making an unwelcome comeback. What better outfit for the chief diplomatic official of a nation that routinely threatens other nations with invasion and worse if they don't kowtow to Washington's edicts? Americans may or may not need a 'World Citizens Guide' to advise them on how to dress, talk, and act when traveling abroad and otherwise dealing with foreigners, but surely one specifically written for U.S. government officials is long overdue...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8983


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

05/11/06

Republicans don't vote in Democratic primaries, which is why it's something of a surprise that they've already chosen the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee: Hillary Clinton. Karl Rove has declared that 'anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves.' Key GOP activists and fund-raisers are signing up with John McCain and telling his advisers they think he's the only one who can beat her in a general election. Conservative John Podhoretz has skipped over the electoral process altogether and is ready to make Clinton president. In the newly released, Can She Be Stopped?, he argues that without an immediate programmatic effort to dismantle her, she will beat the Republican candidate in 2008. Of course, letting your political opponent pick your party's nominee is like letting your mother pick your fiance...

http://www.slate.com/id/2141639/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Podhoretz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Dickerson

Houston Chronicle

05/11/06

Rep. Tom DeLay, the once-powerful majority leader whose career was undermined by scandal, said today that he would resign from the House on June 9. 'As you are aware,' the Texas Republican wrote House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., 'I have recently made the decision to pursue new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from an arena outside of the U.S. House of Representatives.' He told Hastert he would resign at the close of business on June 9...

http://tinyurl.com/qqhun


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.slate.com/id/2141588/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

05/10/06

Secret Service records made public today show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff went to the White House twice in the past five years, omitting three other occasions that have been acknowledged by the Bush administration. The visits occurred on Jan. 20, 2004, the day President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, and on March 6, 2001. Abramoff stayed a total of 63 minutes, 29 seconds, but the records do not indicate where he went in the complex or who he met...

http://tinyurl.com/lvkqo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp