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Dear George... Have I Told You How Much I Appreciate You?
by Zbignew Zingh

You see, unlike your predecessors - Republican and Democratic presidents 
alike - you have absolutely no skill whatsoever concealing in silken gloves 
the tightly clenched iron fists of greed and power. True, your predecessors 
hammered their victims as viciously and as you do, but they succeeded in 
covering their actions with a veneer of righteousness that, in those naïve 
days, caused me to accept the veneer as reality. Your naked power plays, by 
contrast, are so crass, so blatant, so transparent that you have completely 
shattered any illusion that what America does is for the good of its 
citizens and the good of the world. In short, George, you've opened my eyes, 
not just to your transgressions and those of your associates, but to all 
that preceded you, too.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=627&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
AMERICA'S BRUTAL TACTICS
By John Chuckman

Naturally enough, few details of what American troops do in Iraq and 
Afghanistan reach the nation's television screens, the main source of news 
for most Americans. American television takes the approach of the New York 
Times when it refers to professional soldiers as GIs, as though they were 
humble mechanics and bricklayers of America drafted into the titanic 
struggle against Hitler and Tojo. But if you are genuinely interested in 
discovering the truth, there are plenty of sources for first-hand 
information. And anyone taking a little time to search through some of these 
comes away with a sick feeling.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04012006.html
Did Oprah Pick Another Fibber?
Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch

Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel's Night: Is Frey or Wiesel the Bigger Moral 
Poseur?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/148254
Noam Chomsky on Failed States
Democracy Now!

A few years later -- this is Clinton -- Clinton devised the concept of rogue 
states. 'It's 1994, we have to defend ourselves from rogue states.' Then, 
later on came the failed states, which either threaten our security, like 
Iraq, or require our intervention in order to save them, like Haiti, often 
devastating them in the process. In each case, the terms have been pretty 
hard to sustain, because it's been difficult to overlook the fact that under 
any, even the most conservative characterization of these notions -- let's 
say U.S. law -- the United States fits fairly well into the category, as has 
often been recognized. By now, for example, the category -- even in the 
Clinton years, leading scholars, Samuel Huntington and others, observed 
that -- in the major journals, Foreign Affairs -- that in most of the world, 
much of the world, the United States is regarded as the leading rogue state 
and the greatest threat to their existence.

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/03/your-huddled-masses-are-now-my.html
Your Huddled Masses are now my Wretched Refuse: Locking the Golden Door
Jason Miller, Thomas Paine's Corner

Inculcated with the belief that they are morally superior and endowed with 
an inalienable right to world domination, the members of America's ruling 
White Patriarchy and their ardent supporters have an immigration problem. 
Too many "little Brown people" are streaming across their southern border. 
As America's de facto ruling class wrangles with numerous potential 
solutions, they are overlooking the obvious: ask the Native Americans what 
to do. After all, those who forged the American Empire nearly drove the 
indigenous people of North America to extinction. At the very least, the 
relatively few survivors of the Native American genocide could help their 
White "superiors" put their comparatively minute problem into perspective by 
reminding them that things could be much worse.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006ringling_brothers
Under the Tent: The Bizarre Battles of Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey
Kari Lydersen, Infoshop News

There are plenty of short stories, independent films and music videos 
depicting the seedy underbelly of the circus. But in a case of reality 
apparently being stranger than fiction, several lawsuits filed against Feld 
Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey 
Circus, allege an incredible web of intrigue and illegal espionage 
undertaken by the company in an effort to protect its image and profits.

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NewsWire

http://www.sundayherald.com/54975
America's war on the web

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/pres-a01.shtml
US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0401-07.htm
Agent Orange: Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143846635791&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Uncle Sam's scientists busy building insect army

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ARQDKSMXA34BVQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/02/wiran02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/02/ixportaltop.html
UK Government in secret talks about strike against Iran

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8788
War Against Iran, April 2006: Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292

http://www.startribune.com/535/story/344293.html
Oil heads toward $70, with potenially grave consequences for global economy

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/265052_acid31.html
Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble

http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Temp/2006.htm
2005 hottest year on record

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