An open letter to my governement from me the governed - PLEASE READ

"An open letter to my governement from me the governed""With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have...

Australia to say no to aboriginal compensation

Australia rules out aboriginal compensationTue Jan 29, 2008 By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters)  Australia's government on Tuesday promised an apology for Aborigines forcibly taken from their homes under past assimilation policies, but ruled out compensation payments for...

Daughter of the West

" * LRB * 13 December 2007 * Tariq Ali more detail icon * printer icon print layout * mail icon tell a friend Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...

If our next president isn't an FDR or a Lincoln, this country is toast

"There are three Republican candidates for the presidency who don’t believe in evolution.  We now have a prominent political party that thinks we are so despicably dumb that it can present candidates who think that a 2,000 year-old rambling fairy tale is a better...

Withdrawing to Kurdistan Is No Withdrawal

"An increasing number of moderates opposed to the Bush administration's policy in Iraq – and even some supporters of it – are flirting with the option of redeploying U.S. forces to the Kurdish areas in the north. Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democratic presidential contender,...

A Democratic Sellout on Bush's Mercenaires by Jeremy Scahill and Tom Engelhar...

"Let's be clear about what it is – when it comes to "withdrawal" from Iraq – that the president will veto this Wednesday. Section 1904(b) of the supplemental appropriations bill for the Pentagon, H.R. 1591, passed by the House and Senate, mandates that the secretary of...

U.S. asks court to cut lawyers' access to Guantánamo

"The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration's detention...

The Century of the Self

The Final Punch: Removing Iran from the New Middle East Equation

"The Final Punch: Removing Iran from the New Middle East Equation by Ramzy Baroud Global Research, February 23, 2007 Email this article to a friend Print this article The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during...

Pirate Island: The Pirate Bay Seeks to Buy Sealand

I found this posting through boingboing.net: you, too, can be  a citizen of an oil-drilling platform! Think "Treasure Island" meets "Breaking the Waves"."CFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are...