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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=712
Hussein and Ford = Dead Criminals
By Mickey Z.

The nation dutifully mourned the unelected president as the corporate media 
dusted off paeans about post-Watergate healing. If citizens of East Timor 
had a say, Ford's corpse might not be laying in state. In fact, he just may 
be hanging side-by-side with Saddam.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=711
And the Empire Mourned..
By Jason Miller

Another unindicted US war criminal has casually ridden off into a peaceful 
crimson sunset. In response, pundits, talking heads, reporters and various 
other infotainment personnel are working feverishly to perpetuate America's 
collective delusion that we embody integrity, decency, and enlightened 
values. Like virtually all of his predecessors and successors in the White 
House (regardless of their party affiliation), Gerald Ford was guilty of a 
host of egregious offenses against the human race. But the Big Lie must not 
die. So in the wake of the United States' recent facilitation of Saddam 
Hussein's hanging, we in the self-proclaimed "bastion of human rights" are 
in the midst of six days of mourning for a man would have swung from the 
gallows long ago had he been judged by the same standards as Saddam.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=713
Soldiers and Imperial Presidents
By Charles Sullivan

There is nothing noble or moral about invading defenseless sovereign nations 
and killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent human 
beings. There is no morally justifiable way of making occupation and the 
outright theft of natural capital, such as oil, respectable or gallant. 
Genocide and theft are crimes against humanity, regardless how the corporate 
advertisers and public relations firms couch them; and the military is 
complicit in the commission of those crimes, whether they are ignorant of 
their role in them or not.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=710
WILL STINKY CUT THE BIG ONE?
By Sheila Samples

It's almost painful to watch the disintegration of George W. Bush and what's 
left of his murderous administration. Those who haven't fled are racing 
blindly through the halls of power, lurching into one another in a desperate 
attempt to distance themselves from Bush and to escape reaping what they 
have sown. Even cutting a bit of slack, it's still inconceivable that any 
thinking person could spend more than five minutes in the presence of Bush 
without the shock of recognizing what a total idiot this country has as its 
president. Other than breaking stuff, killing anything in his path, refusing 
to admit mistakes, and making an obscene mess of anything he touches, 
apparently the only thing Bush can do with any success is break wind -- pass 
gas -- fart.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003526248
Why I Object to Testifying Against Lt. Watada
Sarah Olson, Editor & Publisher

It seems clear that the U.S. Army is attempting to redefine the parameters 
of acceptable speech and to classify dissent as a punishable offense. 
Subpoenaing journalists in this case unequivocally sends the message that 
dissent is neither tolerated nor permitted. Utilize your constitutionally 
guaranteed speech rights and go to prison.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2779.shtml
The Low Profile: CNN and the New York Times Execute a Denial of History
John Collins, Electronic Iraq

At a time when the airwaves are filled with pious reminders of the need to 
"remember the victims" of Saddam's brutality, how are we to read the 
systematic absence of references to the U.S. role in helping to produce 
these and other victims? It seems that while President Bush was keeping a 
"low profile" in Waco, the corporate media were safely ensconced in a bunker 
of amnesia. Indeed, "low profile" is an apt description for the way that the 
corporate media continue to treat the scandalous history of U.S. support for 
repressive regimes across the globe.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061231_chris_hedges_americas_holy_warriors/
America's Holy Warriors
Chris Hedges, Truthdig

The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, 
which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy 
appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much 
larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement.  This effort 
signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the 
radical Christian right to dismantle America's open society and build a 
theocratic state.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/sh-d30.shtml
The execution of Saddam Hussein
Editorial Board, WSWS

Rather than a tribunal modeled on Nuremberg, where the surviving Nazi 
leaders received far more extensive due process rights than were accorded 
Hussein, the proceedings in Baghdad resembled a Stalinist or Nazi show 
trial, with a puppet judge, a predetermined verdict and a sentence carried 
out in the dead of night.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#116759318228411422
A Lynching
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning

One of the most advanced countries in the world did not help to reconstruct 
Iraq, they didn't even help produce a decent constitution. They did, 
however, contribute nicely to a kangaroo court and a lynching. A lynching 
shall go down in history as America's biggest accomplishment in Iraq. So 
who's next? Who hangs for the hundreds of thousands who've died as a direct 
result of this war and occupation? Bush? Blair? Maliki? Jaffari? Allawi? 
Chalabi?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/123006.html
Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness
Robert Parry, Consortium News

Like a blue-blood version of a Mob family with global reach, the Bushes have 
eliminated one more key witness to the important historical events that led 
the U.S. military into a bloody stalemate in Iraq and pushed the Middle East 
to the brink of calamity.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/Elich30.htm
Selective Justice and the Execution of Saddam Hussein
Gregory Elich, Dissident Voice

That Saddam Hussein was once regarded as a friend of the West is rarely 
mentioned these days. As long as he directed internal repression and 
external wars at those US policy makers loathed, he could count on support. 
It was only when his actions went against US interests that he was suddenly 
transformed into a tyrant and criminal. His methods had not changed. Only 
the Western perception of him had shifted, because he no longer served the 
purposes of global capital.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16043.htm
The western anti war movement - the left boot of imperialism?
Kola Odetola, ICH

The main reason given by western radicals for ignoring the assassination of 
the deposed Iraqi president is the crimes against humanity he has allegedly 
committed. How many of these 'left' activists then would welcome a Chinese 
invasion of the British Isles, the sacking of British cities, the 
incarceration and torture of tens of thousands of English youths in 
concentration camps scattered along the Yorkshire Dales, the murder of a 
million British citizens (the equivalent of the Iraq dead) if the reason 
Beijing gave for the invasion was to arrest, try and execute Tony Blair for 
the limitless war crimes he has directly and indirectly carried out in Iraq, 
Lebanon and Palestine over the last three years - killing in Iraq alone (in 
3 years) more than Saddam killed in 35.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mickey_z_070102_are_you_a_health_nut.htm
Are you a health nut?
Mickey Z, Op Ed News

Human beings can eat junk food till their arteries scream for mercy without 
ever running the risk of being called a "disease nut." However, frequent use 
of words like "organic," "natural," or "vegetarian" will send up a red flag. 
Feel free to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day; no one will call you a 
fanatic or zealot. But be wary of how much time you spend at the gym or yoga 
class or running track. That kind of behavior is reserved for obsessed 
people.

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NewsWire

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010207S.shtml
Private security firms granted police powers

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/297417_amy28.html
US military targeting and killing journalists is a war crime

http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1166522799501
Donald Rumsfeld tops list of war criminals

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29419&hd=&size=1&l=e
Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser 
Arafat

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-cockburn30dec30,0,4683063.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
So long to 'our tyrant'

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/667
Why is HUD bulldozing public housing in New Orleans? Follow the money

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122806EA.shtml
Ice shelf collapse sends chill

http://www.mountainsentinel.com/#Aylesiceshelf
Canada's Ayles Ice Shelf Will Soon Disappear from the Map

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2110651.ece
Global warming: Our worst fears are exceeded by reality

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11952
Global warming could spell the end of the Amazon

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1227-02.htm
Dire warnings from China's first climate change report

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece
World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hurricane3jan03,0,3253020.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Max Mayfield's unwelcome message: Hurricane Katrina was nothing compared 
with the big one yet to come

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122806E.shtml
Euro to Overtake US Dollar

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003505560_peakoil27m.html
World's oil outlook frightening

http://www.energybulletin.net/24306.html
Canadian Gas Exports To US Set For Sharp Drop In 2007

http://agonist.org/households_worst_financial_shape_since_wwii
Households in worst financial shape since WWII

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HL23Dj01.html
Global economy faces a dangerous year

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1228-24.htm
The end of the West as we know it?

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