Russia Promises Retaliation if Bush Deploys Missile Shield, And China Snubs Our Military

Russia believes the shield is targeted against its missile arsenal and poses a threat to its national security. President Vladimir Putin has suggested there would be unspecified retaliatory measures if the shield goes ahead.

Manufacturing Consent for World War III

While the antidemocratic implications of Manufacturing Consent were first popularized in the late 1980s by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s (1988) classic book of the same title, the methods of manufacturing public consent were honed much earlier by communications researchers participating in the seminal (Rockefeller Foundation funded) Communications Group, and many of the founding fathers of mass communication research.

20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally

The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops sustained brain trauma as the 4,471 officially listed by the Pentagon through Sept. 30. These cases also are not reflected in the Pentagon's official tally of wounded, which stands at 30,327.

Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki

So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."

Iraq's foreign militants 'come from US allies'

Around 60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to files seized by American forces at a desert camp.

Local students walk out, march for peace

Seventeen-year-old Ferndale High School senior Amy Englesberg knew she would take some heat, but felt the repercussions would be worth the statement she hoped to make by leading over 100 students in a national Walk-Out Against the War protest at noon on Friday.

Iraq

At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded by a bomb at a crowded pet market in central Baghdad today, the deadliest attack in the capital for weeks.

Bush blackmails Congress and threatens to fire civilian military workers

Congress has been trying to tie conditions to further Iraq funding -- conditions like a withdrawal timeline. But the White House must have its way -- open-ended war for all of the foreseeable future.

Dennis Kucinich blasts Democratic leadership, says the vow from his party's leadership is "total fraud"

"This is a fraud, a total fraud, and it breaks the promise the Democrats made to the voters that we would get out of Iraq," Kucinich said of his own party's congressional leadership during an interview Wednesday.

Hands Off Iran

I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture. But an attack on Iran--which appears increasingly likely before the coming presidential election--will unleash a regional conflict of catastrophic proportions.

No reason (or law that requires you) to pay them now. Forget Iran; STOP FUNDING THE MACHINE THAT IS GRINDING US UP!!! Your income tax dollars go directly to pay the interest on the money that the [non-federal] Federal Reserve counterfeits for the government (Google: "grace commission" irs), who should be printing it, interest free, itself as is provided for in the US Constitution. -- ZDN

US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan

In the midst of public statements of support for “democracy” in Pakistan and the recent visit to Islamabad by the American envoy John Negroponte, Washington is quietly preparing for a stepped-up military intervention in the crisis-ridden country.

Don't Let Go Of Your Guns

Considering what happened to Jared Massey in Utah at the hands of power mad Utah Highway patrolman John Gardner, and the fact that the Utah Highway Patrol doesn't appear to be doing anything about it, I'd say that now is definitely not the time to accept any semblance of a law to restrict our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, Supreme Court be damned.

DHS to begin full fingerprint scans for visitors

The Homeland Security Department intends to begin scanning all 10 fingerprints for foreign visitors starting Nov. 29 at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, department officials said Tuesday.

Premeditated Merger: North American Union 'a couple years away'

WASHINGTON – The next giant step toward world government will be integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in European Union-style merger in the next few years, says the author of a best-selling book on the power of shadowy international organizations promoting the move.

Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

Your Cell Phone is an Enemy of the State Tracking Device

Not much has changed over the years, except technology. Now the feds, in collusion with telecoms, are zooming in on “real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts” not of drug dealers but political enemies.

Three More Taser Deaths

A World of Total Surveillance

Boston Police Go Door to Door to Search for Guns

The New Inquisition Against 9/11 Truth

What generated the most buzz -- and condemnation -- was a powerpoint demonstration from Mark Weitzman of the Simon Weisenthal Center, whose powerpoint presentation titled "Internet: Incubator of 9/11 Conspiracies and Disinformation" showed a video of building 7 collapsing as well as a screenshot of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth's website in between websites which featured bomb-making techniques and a terrorist's training manual.

Dollar Falls Below 108 Yen on Outlook for More Fed Rate Cuts

``Dollar weakness is going to continue,'' said Stephen Halmarick, co-head of economic and market analysis in Sydney at Citigroup Australia, a unit of the largest U.S. bank by assets.

A True Patriot Speaks-Out For America, Is Anyone Listening?

Today, as we come together once again in this great city, we raise our voices in unison to say to President Bush, to Vice President Cheney, to other members of the Bush Administration (past and present), to a majority of Congress, including Utah’s entire congressional delegation, and to much of the mainstream media: “You have failed us miserably and we won’t take it any more.”

What Antiwar Activists Have to Be Thankful For

2. The American people are beginning to wake up. The really good news is that a large majority of Americans not only oppose the Iraq war, but also are hopping mad that they were lied into initially supporting it.

Bubble Boy urges Americans to ‘give back’

You might think that a presidential speech on Thanksgiving would be open to all comers. But no, even when President Bush is talking about something as uncontroversial and inclusive as the essential goodness of our country, he wants his audience prescreened for obsequiousness.

Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us, 2007 Version

Another year has almost passed under the Bush Administration, and so it's time to review how much less we know.

Shut Up (About) Chavez

“Walk through poor barrios in Venezuela and you’ll hear the same stories over and over. The very poor can now go to a designated home in the neighborhood to pick up a hot meal every day. The elderly have monthly pensions that allow them to live with dignity. Young people can take advantage of greatly expanded free college programs. And with 13,000 Cuban doctors spread throughout the country and reaching over half the population, the poor now have their own family doctors on call 24-hours a day.”

Bill Moyers explains how and why to stop getting unwanted catalogs in your mailbox

This is the website to visit after you watch the video (click on the headline): catalogchoice.org -- ZDN

MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns

What we found was that depending on how a university's network is set up, installing and using the MPAA tool in its default configuration could expose to the entire Internet all of the traffic flowing across the school's network.

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

The NSA has always been intimately involved in U.S. cryptography standards -- it is, after all, expert in making and breaking secret codes. So the agency's participation in the NIST (the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology) standard is not sinister in itself. It's only when you look under the hood at the NSA's contribution that questions arise.

Computer Stupidities By Topic

Customer: "Do I need a computer to use your software?"