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By GREG GRANDIN Counterpunch.org 12/10/06

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s envoy to the UN, died yesterday at 80. She picked a graceful moment to exit, the day after the Iraqi Study Group announced its recommendations, signaling, we are told, the return of realist reason to the Republican Party. In the coming days, expect eulogies that will compare Kirkpatrick’s diplomatic philosophy favorably to the neocon delusion that convinced Bush to believe he could lead a global crusade to “rid the world of evil.” (more…)

Beirut 19/11/2006
The People’s Right to Resistance BRussels Tribunal

In order to transform the historic victory achieved by the Lebanese resistance against the Israeli aggression which targeted the Lebanese population on the 12th of July 2006 (more…)

FEATURED INTERVIEW

By Joe Parko, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News 12/7/06

(APN) JERUSALEM — Ever since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear Technician, confirmed the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons program with his photographs of the secret underground bomb facility published in the London Sunday Times in 1986, the world has known Israel has been making nuclear bombs but has pretended they do not exist. (more…)

Robert Scheer truthdig.com 12/5/06

Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, has been tortured by his own government for the better part of three-and-one-half years, suffering years of systematic sensory deprivation documented in his attorneys’ filings and supported by photos of the prisoner published this week by the New York Times. (more…)

by Matt Pascarella opednews.com 12/8/06

On Monday, gathering in a conference room in Washington D.C., Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and her advisors worked on a draft copy of the articles of impeachment against President Bush.

At the heart of the charges contained in McKinney’s articles of impeachment, is the allegation (more…)

By Ray McGovern truthout.org 12/7/06

At Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the nomination of Robert Gates to be secretary of defense, I felt as though I were paying last respects to the Constitution of the United States. But there was none of the praise customarily given to the deceased. Rather, the bouquets were fulsomely shared round about among the nominee and the senators – all of the “distinguished,” (more…)

By Jon Wiener truthdig.com 9/12/06

The documentary “The U.S. vs. John Lennon,” which opened Sept. 15, recounts President Richard Nixon’s campaign to deport the Beatle because of his antiwar activism. In this report, Jon Wiener, a Lennon historian who consulted on the film, writes that President Bush has gone much further than Nixon in using immigration law to get rid of noncitizens whom the White House doesn’t like. (more…)

Host Glenn Beck threatens Muslims with concentration camps

Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting 12/5/06

The New York Times (12/4/06), profiling new CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck, called him “brash” and “opinionated,” with an “unfiltered approach.” The conservative talk-radio host-turned-cable news announcer, the paper reported, “take[s] credit for saying what others are feeling but are afraid to say.” (more…)