Truth Written, Truth Spoken, Truth Handed Down Through the Ages

By Hugh Lipsius

In all of man's history, truth (that which agrees with the final reality) has always held itself out to be embraced...and whether it waxs or wains...freedom, liberty, national interest, the pursuit of happiness, or any nations way of life must take a back seat to it. Without the written and spoken word of truth to light the way,to help us recognize the lie, lawlessness occurs, and all other principles and values are doomed to destruction. Truth is the forerunner of justice, and lies the forunner of injustice. Without truth to confront the lawlessness of the lie, there is nothing else to value.

Truth Has No Boundaries
by Hugh Lipsius

When Addressing anything...truth is what matters most...when truth was told thousands of years ago that has its bearing today...it must be embraced...not ignored...you might do all you can to prove this wrong before you will accept it as truth...but when you finally accept it...then truth will be all that matters...and politics nor any government administration can seperate itself from the truth...no matter how hard it tries...there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed in its time.

The lawless one cometh - read carefully
Submitted by Hugh Lipsius

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day (the Day of our Lord) will not come unless the falling away ( of truth speaking, saving faith, the faith once delivered unto the saints) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition...who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God (mercy, grace, patience, kindness, goodness and truth) or that is worshipped (life), so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God (thinking to himself that he knows what is best for mankind and it is his destiny to fulfill that mandate)...( "if you eat of that tree you will surely die"[Sound like someone you know]?)...Do you not remember that while I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, (mercy, grace, patience, kindness, goodness and truth), that he (the lawless one) may be revealed in his time ( when these are no longer embraced by Gods people on earth)...For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He (God, and all His character) who now restrains (when that character is yet still in us) will do so until He (God's character that it meant to be embraced in us) is taken out of the way. (Love and its characteristics are received or rejected voluntarily by an act of our own free will)....And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord (the spoken and living word of truth) will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming...The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders...and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish (who reject, or turn from the truth and instead embrace the lie), because they did not receive the love of the truth (even though it was offered, instead choosing forms, rights and rituals,...all external coverings of what is meant to expose internal truth...false Christianity...the lie), that they might be saved...And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrightousness (selfish, self-centerdness that desires to control the freewill of others through the deception of self-righteousness and seeks its own reward)...But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification (setting apart) by the Spirit and belief in the truth (which refuses to allow us to exalt self in place of GOD). II Thessalonians 2:3-13

Convoy of Death

The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

Sunni Says No Chance For Iraq Constitution Deal

"The constitution issue is dead until the referendum," said Sunni negotiator Hussein al-Falluji on Thursday. "We will vote 'No' and we will not accept the American policy of aggression to get what they want. There is no way we will support it."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK947253.htm

U.S. General Casts Doubt On 2006 Troop Cut In Iraq

The top U.S. general in Iraq on Wednesday cast doubt on his previous forecasts of a substantial cut in American forces in 2006, saying Iraq was in a period of heightened uncertainty that made it "too soon to tell" if troops can be brought home.

http://tinyurl.com/c7v7l

Manipulating the Public Mind

By Charles Sullivan

No one is more effectively enslaved by the power brokers in government than those who wear the chains of servitude but think they are free. Unfortunately, the average American has no conception of how effectively their perceptions are shaped and manipulated by the media propaganda they unwittingly feed into their unsuspecting minds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10448.htm

The U.S. Has Plans To Invade Iran Before Bush's Term Ends

By Walter C. Uhler

We simply cannot permit the Bush "war party" to run roughshod over America's democracy once again.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10441.htm===

Spotlight on U.S.Troops in Paraguay

Concern is mounting in South America over a series of 13 joint military exercises involving US special forces in Paraguay.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4289224.stm

The Anti-war Speech Everyone is Talking About

Here is the transcript. Read and pass it along - it has the power to topple tyrants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10435.htm

" ... No "terrorist" gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the(y), and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere: Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN: 10/03/2001

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.": Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong: James Bryce

Cartoon of the week

George W Bush says many powerful and insightful things. See if you can find one of them in this political cartoon.

http://www.doodie.com/george_bush_political_cartoon_animation.php

Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams

War On Web Terror

COMMENTS posted on a website praising a "terrorist" attack anywhere in the world could land a person in jail under tough new laws to be debated by state and federal leaders today.

http://tinyurl.com/75rd2

The Silent Coup

By John Atcheson

The grease that lubricates this new model of government is greed; the fuel that feeds it is money. Lots of it. And overwhelmingly, the hard-line, right-wing conservative branch of the Republican Party are both its architect, and its beneficiary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10407.htm

The Right To Armed Struggle

By Mickey Z.

When early American revolutionaries chanted, "Give me liberty or give me death" and complained of having but one life to give for their country, they became the heroes of our history textbooks. But, thanks to the power of the U.S. media and education industries, the Puerto Rican nationalists who dedicated their lives to independence are known as criminals, fanatics, and assassins.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10411.htm

U.S.Assassinates Puerto Rican Independence Figure

By Bill Van Auken

The nationalist leader was struck by a single bullet from a sharpshooter's high-powered rifle. While he suffered no wound to any vital organ, he was left to bleed to death on the floor of his home as FBI agents refused to allow Puerto Rican authorities and emergency medical teams anywhere near the house, maintaining a militarized perimeter for 24 hours.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10405.htm

A Torturous Silence

by Ray McGovern

Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10410.htm

Like Silt In a River

"What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . . Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'. . . must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. . . .Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone. You don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' . . . But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves. When everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. . . .You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father . . . could never have imagined.” From Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, the Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

Our Fathers Call Across the Years

Our Fathers Call Across the Years

Modern Prophecy From The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness

Modern Prophecy From The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness

Bush Urges Larger Role for Military

George W. Bush yesterday called on Congress to consider giving the U.S. military a leading role in recovery efforts in a catastrophic natural disaster or terrorist attack, a break with precedent sure to spark controversy.

http://tinyurl.com/dst79

Australia: Labor Propose Lockdown Powers

LABOR has proposed unprecedented anti-terrorism laws which would allow police to lock down entire neighbourhoods and stop and search anyone without a warrant.

http://tinyurl.com/b8sta

The Hebron Confessions

As ex-soldiers speak out about seeing Palestinian civilians being killed

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10392.htm

Video: Scenes Of Israeli Massacre In Qana 1996Warning!This video of an Israeli Massacre of Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in April of 96 is very graphic and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/quana_01_19_03.htm

Peaceful Asualt on the Epicenter of Evil

by Jason Miller

Many Americans are overcoming the lies they have been "programmed" to believe since they were able to fashion conscious, coherent thoughts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10401.htm

Confessions of a Hit Man

John Perkins' book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" explains American foreign policy better than any of the academic tomes you might read on the subject.By Charley ReeseThe foreign country hires American contractors to build the systems, and they make big profits. Then, mired in debt, the head of state will do what the United States government tells him to do. If he proves too independent or too honest to accept bribes, then he will be removed from power, either in a coup or in an accident.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10398.htm

The Galloway Phenomenon

By Butler Shaffer

Galloway went on to remind people that the families of those who died on 9/11 did not suffer any greater pain than did the relatives of Iraqis and Afghans who died from American and British bombings. Each suffered unjustifiable deaths delivered from the sky.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10396.htm

Our Fathers Call Across the Years

Our Fathers Call Across the Years

Modern Prophecy From The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness: 07/10/05

Modern Prophecy From The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness: 07/10/05

Chavez Nails US Again

Chavez repeated his earlier description of the United States as "an empire" that has "a terrorist administration," which is "a threat to humanity."

http://tinyurl.com/bcpv7

The Madness of George W. Bush

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It's an illness that has been with us since time immemorial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10388.htm

For Many, Anger Has Grown Since Start of War

Now out of the military, McNamara donned his desert camouflage uniform again yesterday to march against the war in which he served.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10381.htm

Marching for Withdrawal

In DC, protest organizers estimated a crowd of about 200,000 rallied at the Ellipse, then marched around the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue.

http://tinyurl.com/dy52y

America's Longest War

By Charles Sullivan

Even during our nation's darkest hours, there have always been people of conscience and courage who acted as a counter friction to the machine of social injustice that ravaged the nation and plundered the earth. Since the founding of our nation, there has always been a struggle between the rich and powerful and the nation's working poor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10387.htm

Finding Osama

By Robert Fisk

Bin Laden's story was as instructive as it was epic. When the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Saudi royal family - encouraged by the CIA - sought to provide the Afghans with an Arab legion, preferably led by a Saudi prince, who would lead a guerrilla force against the Russians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10374.htm

Anti-war Movement Takes To the Streets on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Duncan Campbell and Jamie Wilson in WashingtonThe anti-war movement on both sides of the Atlantic is hoping that tens of thousands of protesters will take to the streets today in London and Washington as conditions in Iraq deteriorate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10372.htm

A Policy of Absolute Barbarism?

Basra; another milestone in war on terrorBy Mike Whitney"What our police found in their car was very disturbing - weapons, explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets." Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, spokesman for the Mehdi Army.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10376.htm

You Can't Wash Your Hands When There Covered In Blood

by Hart Viges

My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.

So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn't need to jump into Baghdad airport.

As we drove into Samawa to secure their supplies my mortar platoon dropped numerous rounds on this town. I watched Kiowa attack helicopters fire Hellfire missile after Hellfire missile. I saw a C130 Spectre gunship ... it will level a town. It had belt-fed artillery rounds pounding with these super-Gatling guns.

I don't know how many innocents I killed with my mortar rounds. I have my imagination to pick at for that one. But I clearly remember the call-out over the radio saying "Green light on all taxi-cabs. The enemy is using them for transportation".

One of our snipers called back on the radio saying "Excuse me but did I hear that order correctly? Green light on all taxi cabs?" "Roger that soldier. You'd better start buckling up." All of a sudden the city just blew up. Didn't matter if there was an innocent in the taxi-cab - we laid a mortar round on it, snipers opened up.

Next was Fallujah. We went in without a shot. But Charlie Company decided they were going to take over a school for the area of operations. Protesters would come saying "Please get out of our school. Our children need this school. We need education".

They turned them down. They came back, about 40 to 50 people. Some have the bright idea of shooting AK-47s up in the air. Well a couple of rounds fell into the school ... They laid waste to that group of people.

Then we went to Baghdad. And I had days that I don't want to remember. I try to forget. Days where we'd take contractors out to a water treatment plant outside of Baghdad.

We'd catched word that this is a kind of a scary place but when I arrive there's grass and palm trees, a river. It's the first beautiful place that seemed untouched by the war in Iraq. As we leave, RPGs come flying at us. Two men with RPGs ran up in front of us from across the road.

"Drop your weapons". "Irmie salahak." They're grabbing on to women and kids so [we] don't fire. I can't take any more and swing my [gun] over. My sight's on his chest, my finger's on the trigger. And I'm trained to kill but this is no bogey man, this is no enemy. This is a human being. With the same fears and doubts and worries. The same messed-up situation.I don't pull the trigger this time ... it throws me off. It's like they didn't tell me about this emotional attachment to killing. They tried to numb me, they tried to strip my humanity. They tried to tell me that's not a human being - that's a soft target.

So now, my imagination is running ... What if he pulled his trigger? How many American soldiers or Iraqi police, how many families destroyed because I didn't pull my trigger. After we leave this little village we get attack helicopters, Apaches, two Bradley fighting vehicles, and we go back. And we start asking questions. Where are they? Eventually they lead us to this hut where this family is living, and myself and [another soldier] started searching for AK-47s, for explosives, for RPGs, you know ... evidence. And all I can find is a tiny little pistol, probably to scare off thieves.

Well because of that pistol we took their two young men ... Their mother is at my feet trying to kiss my feet like I deserve my feet to be kissed. Screaming, pleading. I don't need to speak Arabic to know love and concern and fear. I had my attack helicopter behind me, my Bradley fighting vehicle, my armour, my M4 [semi-automatic] with laser sight. I'm an 82nd Airborne killer. But I was powerless ... to ease this woman's pain.

After I came home I applied for conscientious objector [status]. I'm a Christian, what was I doing holding a gun to another human being? Love thy neighbour. Pray for those who persecute you, don't shoot them.

I get my conscientious objector packet approved. I'm free. It's all gone now, right? No! I still swerve at trash bags ... fireworks ... I can't express anything. All my relationships are falling apart because they can't fucking understand me. How do they know the pain I've gone through or the sights I've seen? The innocence gone, stripped, dead? I couldn't stand the pain. People were leaving me.

I couldn't cut my wrists. So I called the police. They come stomping through my door. I have my knife in my hand. "Shoot me." All of a sudden I was the man with the RPG, with all the guns pointed at him, thinking "Yes, we can solve the world's problems by killing each other". How insane is that? Lucky I lived through that episode. See, you can't wash your hands when they're covered in blood. The wounds carry on. This is what war does to your soul, to your humanity, to your family.

© 2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.

Bush Has ChevronTexaco Lawyer Head Fed's Oil Price Gouging Probe

President Bush made sure to preempt any real investigation into price gouging by his financial backers in the oil/gas industry when last year he appointed a former ChevronTexaco lawyer, Deborah Majoras, to head the FTC.

http://snipurl.com/hvmt

Carter Says Gore Won 2000 Election

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter delivered a shocker at an American University panel in Washington Monday: He told the crowd he was certain Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.

http://snipurl.com/hvmo

Air Force Col: Bush, Cheney, Neocons Treasonous

"You know our freedoms are not under attack from the remnants of Saddam Hussein's Bathist Party. They're under attack by the likes of John Ashcroft. They're trampled by Donald Rumsfeld, they're disdained by Dick Cheney, and they're not even understood by George W. Bush."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10362.htm

NYPD Unplug Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn't stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.

http://tinyurl.com/7hlho

Who's Blowing Up Iraq?

by Mike Whitney

New evidence that bombs are being planted by British Commandos

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10343.htm

Iraqi Police Detain Two British Soldiers in Basra

The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said.

http://tinyurl.com/9hm7v

British Undercover Unit Has Weapons Confiscated

Picture shows weapons which Iraqi police said were confiscated from two undercover British soldiers after their arrest in Basra

http://tinyurl.com/cd6e9

The day that Iraqi anger exploded in the face of the British occupiers : Dressed in plain clothes - according to some they were wearing traditional Arab dress - the two men had been driving in an unmarked car when they arrived at a checkpoint in the city. In the confrontation that followed, shots were fired, and two Iraqi policemen were shot, one of whom later died.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10342.htm

Iraqi Police Accused British Soldiers of Planting Bombs

Monday's clashes stemmed from the arrest by Iraqi police on Sunday of two Britons, whom Iraqi police accused of planting bombs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10341.htm

What Is Covert Action?

Covert Action operations are often Disinformation Operations, which are conducted in such a way as to discredit the opposition or the enemy. This is done, for example, by doing a violent action, such as a bombing, but making it look like the forces of another country or group did it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10356.htm

Fake Terrorism is a Coalitions Best Friend

Iraqi police recently caught two terrorists with a car full of explosives. Would it surprise you to learn they were British Special Forces?

http://tinyurl.com/dlpj8

Bush Suggests Lifting Ban on Using the Military Domestically

Congress has always avoided amending Posse Comitatus, the law that has kept active-duty soldiers out of civilian law-enforcement affairs since Reconstruction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10328.htm

Khalizad Threatens Syria

The neocon program is obviously to create a string of client-states in what it calls the "Greater Middle East"---an empire dripping with oil, bedecked with U.S. military bases, spread-eagled for U.S. corporate investment, warmly receptive to Israeli advances.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10333.htm

Lords of War

by Mickey Z.

The Center for International Policy estimates that around 80% of U.S. arms exports to the developing world go to non-democratic regimes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10327.htm

Bishops Criticise US Over Foreign Policy and War on Terror

A group of Church of England bishops issued a report today criticising American foreign policy, the US war on terror and some American Christians' use of biblical texts to support a political agenda in the Middle East, and accuses the US of using illegitimate and dangerous rhetoric.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10335.htm

What Noble Cause?

Cindy Sheehan

Upon reflection on the events of this past August, I have come up with two reasons why George could not meet with me: He is a coward and there is no Noble Cause.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10330.htm

Top Dems Ignore Public

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll tells us what we already know: a strong majority of Americans favor bringing troops home from Iraq. Specifically, 55% support a withdrawal, while just 36% back Bush's position that current troop levels should be maintained

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0915-35.htm

Wake Up

Hundreds of billions and tens of thousands of innocent lives wasted later, what have we achieved? Nothing.

By Cindy Sheehan

Enough, George! What is disgusting is not, as the first lady says, criticism of you, but rather the crimes you've committed against this country and our sons and daughters. Stop hiding behind your twisted idea of God and stop destroying this country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10331.htm

Iran Readying For Conflict With US

Iran Readying for Conflict With US

Incredible though it may sound there are signs that Tehran may be preparing for a military confrontation with the United States, and has convinced itself that it could win.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10319.htm

U.S. Ambassador Predics US Will Go Into Syria

Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Ambassador to Iraq, made the off the record prediction that the US will go into Syria to combat insurgents that have been using the country as a staging ground for terrorist activity in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/d996h

Pentagon: Muslim Society Does Not Seek To Be Liberated By U.S. :

"There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-U.S. groundswell among Muslim societies -- except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the U.S. so determinedly promotes and defends," the Pentagon board said in a report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10320.htm

This Is a Mess of Our Own Making

Tim Collins told his troops this was a war of liberation, not conquest. Now he says that he was naive to believe it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1572844,00.html

American Support For Iraq War At An All-time Low- poll

Nearly half of all Americans are not proud of what the United States is doing in the war, the poll found.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17209568.htm

Hurricane Hugo At the U.N.

By Mike Whitney

Hugo Chavez's performance at the UN was greeted with the bucket-loads of bile that one expects from America's rightward-titling media. - The outpouring of venom came from all corners; appearing in many newspapers across the nation, invoking the hackneyed expressions of contempt for any foreign leader who rebuffs Washington or who follows redistributive economic policies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10318.htm

Values That Make America Worth Fighting For

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10313.htm

We Have Long Ago Lost Our Moral Compass, So How Can We Lecture the Islamic World?

By Robert Fisk

It is true that most Christians, Jews and Muslims draw on the tolerant, moderate aspects of their tradition. We prefer not to accept the fact that the religions of the children of Abraham are inherently flawed in respect of intolerance, discrimination, violence and hatred.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10321.htm

New Orleans Unmasks "Aparthied, American Style"

By Jason Miller

America's wealthy, predominately white power-brokers dominate the US government by utilizing their money to win elections, buying elected officials through campaign finance, applying expensive lobbying efforts to sway votes and decisions, and exerting influence through powerful corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10260.htm

Transcript: Hugo Chavez's Interview

Hugo Chavez told ABC News' Ted Koppel today that he has evidence of a United States plan to invade Venezuela. In New York for the U.N. Summit, Chavez discussed his strained relationship with the United States government, Robertson's comments and the United States' dependence on Venezuela's oil supply.

http://tinyurl.com/9dkaz

"US Planning Invasion"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country.

http://tinyurl.com/cqlm5

Venezuala sends cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline direct to Louisiana

Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 electrical plants and drinking water supplies to help the homeless, aid which has been rejected.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45995

Georgie, You're Doing a Heck of a Job

The last few weeks have been irrefutable proof that America is being wrecked and mismanaged by the most incompetent, dangerous and out of touch boobs ever to obtain power.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave3_035.htm

Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims

In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10314.htm

Real Reports from Katrina Relief

"It's Not That the Government Isn't Responding, They are Obstructing the Response"

http://www.counterpunch.org/archer09162005.html

In case you missed it

Noam Chomsky: Audio: Propaganda and War: Iraq and Beyond

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9274.htm

Nuke 'em if ya got 'em

Given the Bush Doctrine's fondness for shooting first and asking questions later, it's not surprising that the military brass drafted a document titled "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" that incorporates nuclear weapons into the mix. But outside the insular mind-set of the Pentagon, American citizens ought to be shouting, "Don't even think about it!"

http://snipurl.com/hrbk

President Chavez's Speech to the United Nations

The full respect towards the principles of International Law and the United Nations Charter must be, Mr. President, the keystone for international relations in today's world and the base for the new order we are currently proposing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10315.htm

An Elementary Truism

By Andy Price

What is right for us is right for others: if it is right for our, Western governments to reserve the right to attack a sovereign nation for either perceived crimes committed or possible future crimes, then it is right for the enemy to do the same. In this case, Iran would be well within their rights to attack the US, pre-emptively, now.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10312.htm

Values That Make America Worth Fighting For

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:

Values that makes America worth fighting for

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10313.htm

Shocking Ruling

The court said Congress has given the president authority to order the jailing of anyone anywhere for as long as he wishes, as long as he claims it's connected to the war on terrorism.

http://snipurl.com/hnjj

Hurricane Bolton Threatens to Wreak Havoc on the Global Poor

Unbeknownst to the US public, however, at the very time impoverished Americans are being showered with support from the world community, the Bush administration's newly appointed UN ambassador, John Bolton, has been waging an all-out attack on the global poor.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0913-36.htm

Bush Says He Needs More Power In Disasters

He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/12629945.htm

Pentagon Draft Plan Calls for Preemptive Use of Nukes

Critics say plan is designed for possible attack against Iran.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0914/dailyUpdate.html

News From Behind the Facade

By John Pilger

The poor were no longer invisible; the bodies floating in contaminated water, the survivors threatened with police shotguns, the distinct obesity of American poverty - all of it mocked the forests of advertising billboards and relentless television commercials and news sound-bites (average length 9.9 seconds) that glorify the "dream" of wealth and power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10275.htm

The Blue Pill People

There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1543.htm

A Nation Of Fools

The trouble is that most Americans don't want to know the truth because it would make them uncomfortable. So they turn their heads the other way and allow themselves to be distracted from their civic and patriotic duties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10237.htm

From Federal Failure Arises More Federal Power

by Paul Craig Roberts:

Many readers see a concocted militarization of civil society. They insist that these new precedents, together with the recent federal appeals court ruling that the White House has the power to seize American citizens and to hold them indefinitely on mere suspicion or accusation without charges or presentation of evidence against them, mean the overthrow of liberty and accountable government in the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10255.htm===

Police State America

U.S. citizenship will not protect individuals from being deprived of their liberty if the Administration decides they are a threat to U.S. national security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10222.htm

Today, Padilla. Tomorrow, who?

Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina all but drowned out what may well be one of the most consequential court decisions in American history - and one that should focus even more attention on the ideological composition of the Supreme Court.

http://snipurl.com/hkw4

It's Accoutability Time

by Scott Ritter:

We were repeatedly told that a threat to our security loomed on the horizon, a threat so grave we as a people needed to cede our liberties to a benevolent federal authority that guaranteed the security of a nation we now called our "homeland."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10211.htm