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Freedom Next Time Bantam Press 2006

After leaving Afghanistan, I flew to the United States, where a rebellion within the ‘old’ establishment is under way (more…)

William Fisher IPS 6/29/06

Last March, the U.S. Congress passed legislation requiring Justice Department officials to give them reports by certain dates on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using the USA Patriot Act to search homes and secretly seize papers (more…)

Bush Loses Guantanamo Case

By MARJORIE COHN Counterpunch 6/30/06

In the most significant rebuff to George W. Bush’s assertion of executive power since he declared his “war on terror,” the Supreme Court called a halt (more…)

Starving in the Dark

By VIRGINIA TILLEY Counterpunch 6/30/06

On the excuse of rescuing one kidnapped soldier, Israeli is now bombing the Gaza Strip and is poised to re-invade (more…)

Gutting New Orleans
By BILL QUIGLEY Counterpunch 6/28/06

Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water (more…)

By Greg Palast Progressive July 2006

You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez’s behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States (more…)

by James Mckinnon The Bachelor 9/16/04

Dr. Rafil Dhafir was living the American dream. A naturalized U.S. citizen of Iraqi descent, Dhafir was a prominent oncologist in the Syracuse community as well as a founding member of the charity Help the Needy (more…)

The High Price of American Gullibility

Paul Craig Roberts Counterpunch

In National Socialist Germany, by the time propaganda lost its grip, Germans were in the hands of a police state. It was too late to take corrective measures. Not even the military could correct the disastrous policies of the executive. In the end, Germany was destroyed. Does a similar fate await Americans? (more…)