Fri 7 Jul 2006
By William Fisher Truthout 7/6/06
    President Bush and Vice President Cheney were apoplectic. Publication of the details of US government surveillance of the SWIFT money-transfer program were “disgraceful,” a threat to national security (more…)
Thu 6 Jul 2006
By SAUL LANDAU Â Counterpunch 7/6/06
On Memorial Day, I read the following in a Chilean magazine: “In November 1977, ‘Mamo’ [General Manuel Contreras, chief of DINA, Chile’s Secret Police and Intelligence] asked him to cook up a bacteria soup to ‘incapacitate’ Mena (more…)
Thu 6 Jul 2006
Nationalize the Defense Industry!
By JOHN STANTON Â Counterpunch 7/6/06
In 1969 John Kenneth Galbraith penned a piece for the New York Times titled The Big Defense Firms Are Really Public Firms and Should be Nationalized arguing (more…)
Wed 5 Jul 2006
by James Bovard The American Conservative July 17, 2006 Issue
For generations, Republican politicians have spoken reverently of the rule of law (more…)
Wed 5 Jul 2006
Howard Zinn Progressive Media Project 7/4/06
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed (more…)
Tue 4 Jul 2006
The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another (more…)
Mon 3 Jul 2006
By Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot.com 6/29/06
Years ago I read William Greider’s excellent book published in 1987 on how the US Federal Reserve System works (more…)