WHO STANDS UP FOR REAL AMERICAN VALUES?

Spoken before the US invaded Iraq

Scott Ritter gave this talk before the US invaded Iraq. As a former US Marine Corps officer, UN weapons inspector and expert on the armaments of Iraq, he very publicly disputed the Bush adminstration's claim that Iraq was a threat to the US.

Now the US is on the same path with regards to war against Iran.

THE CALM BEFORE THE CONFLAGRATION

The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq—the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups from their midst.

IRAQ: IN TATTERS BENEATH A SURGE OF CLAIMS

The average month in 2005, before the "surge" was launched, saw 568 civilian deaths. In January 2006, the month before the "surge" began, 590 civilians died.

THE U.S. NEOCONSERVATIVE AGENDA TO SACRIFICE THE FIFTH FLEET - THE NEW PEARL HARBOR

The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran's nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy's Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf.

VISA FOR SALE AT RECORD PRICE-TAG

The world's biggest credit-card network Visa plans to raise a record amount of money by issuing shares and listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

ADULT SUPERVISION

But the superdelegates were created to lead, not to follow. They were, and are, expected to determine what is best for our party and best for the country.

SPACE WARS - COMING TO THE SKY NEAR YOU?

A recent shift in U.S. military strategy and provocative actions by china threaten to ignite a new arms race in space. But would placing weapons in space be in anyone's national interest?

THE MILITARIZATION OF OUR POLICE

Repost of a short video which highlights the militarization of our police -- ZDN

THE RON PAUL REVOLUTION THEME SONG- AIMEE ALLAN

Aimee Allen is an American pop/rock singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, California.[1][2] She is best known for her work on the dance song "Cooties" made for the soundtrack of the 2007 version of the movie Hairspray.

Wow! Very good video and song! -- ZDN

TURKISH WARPLANES POUND KURDISH REBELS IN IRAQ

Turkish fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions Monday in northern Iraq, as troops pressed on with a cross-border offensive despite Iraqi and US calls for a quick withdrawal.

GANDHI PEACE BRIGADE/ 400 FASTERS JOIN LESLIE

Today is the 21st day of Leslie's Hungry for Justice? Impeach him FAST! to pressure Congressman John Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney. 400 people from Vancouver, Washington to Kennebunkport, Maine, have joined the fast, with more signing on every day.

TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY OSCAR BY DOCUMENTING SOMETHING THAT OFFICIALLY DOESN'T EXIST

WHEELCHAIR SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS SENIOR IRAQI POLICEMAN

The bombing, 60 miles north of Baghdad, killed Major-General Abdul-Jabbar Rabee Muttar, the assistant police chief, after two days of savage Iraqi violence.

WOMEN'S LIVES WORSE THAN EVER

Girls as young as six are being married into a life of slavery and rape, often by multiple members of their new relatives. Banned from seeing their own parents or siblings, they are also prohibited from going to school. With little recognition of the illegality of the situation or any effective recourse, many of the victims are driven to self-immolation – burning themselves to death – or severe self-harm.

Six years after the US and Britain "freed" Afghan women from the oppressive Taliban regime, a new report proves that life is just as bad for most, and worse in some cases.

PENTAGON REPORT INVESTIGATED LASERS THAT PUT VOICES IN YOUR HEAD

A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing potential methods of non-lethal torture. Some of the applications the report investigated include putting voices in people's heads, using lasers to trigger uncontrolled neuron firing, and slowly heating the human body to a point of feverish confusion - all from hundreds of meters away.

ARCTIC ‘DOOMSDAY VAULT’ FILLED WITH WORLD’S SEEDS COMES TO LIFE

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Matai will be among the personalities present at the inauguration of the vault, which has been carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, just 1000km from the North Pole.

NEW YORK MERCHANTS EMBRACE EURO

NEW YORK -- "Euros Only" reads a handmade sign in Billy's Antiques & Props on East Houston Street in Manhattan. But that's really just an attention grabber. Actually, owner Billy Leroy explains, the store will accept Canadian dollars and British pounds, and U.S. dollars, too.

NOW THE PENTAGON TELLS BUSH: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY US

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

WAR COST IS THE REAL DANGER TO OUR SECURITY

McCain peddles the same hokum that Bush has espoused since he acquiesced to the demands of the cabal of neocons in his administration. It's no wonder that the president endorsed him before last Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.

OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY CALLED “DOGMA OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”

Bush's approval rating of some 18 percent (give or take a gopper) approaches zero. We're talking black holes and singularities here. This historic plunge is traced to numerous hoaxes Bush pulled on the American people: Iraq, the economy, a phony war on 'tehrruh', the GOPs elitist agenda.

FORMER CIA: WARHAWKS PRAY IRAN BACKS TERROR TO JUSTIFY MILITARY STRIKE

What has been the response of most American hawks to this mess? Prayer. They are essentially waiting for (Iran) the clerical regime to do something stupid so that they can galvanize an awareness among Americans that mullahs should not have the bomb.

DNC TO FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST MCCAIN CAMPAIGN FOR IGNORING FEC LAW

The DNC announced today that it will file a complaint with the FEC against John McCain's campaign Monday, calling on the FEC to investigate whether the McCain campaign violated or is about to violate the law by ignoring the spending limit agreement and other conditions Senator McCain agreed to when he became eligible to receive federal matching funds.

BUSH ADMIN: NEVER MIND, THE SKY ISN’T FALLING

Since the expiration of the poorly-named Protect America Act, the White House and its allies have gone to great lengths to argue that we should be absolutely terrified. Those mean ol’ Democrats in Congress have refused to give the president everything he wants, and the consequences, they’ve claimed, will likely be catastrophic.

BLOOD DETECTING CAMERAS IN UK

The cameras work by sending an infrared beam through the windscreen of vehicles which detects the unique make-up of blood and water content in human skin.

CLINTON GETS CAUGHT AGAIN ON NAFTA

However you feel about NAFTA - and if you are a typical American, polls show you likely do not like it - Clinton now trying to lie and say she never really supported NAFTA is an absolute insult.

BANK OF AMERICA SECRETLY ASKING CONGRESS FOR A BANKING INDUSTRY BAILOUT

The proposal warns that up to $739 billion in mortgages are at “moderate to high risk” of defaulting over the next five years and that millions of families could lose their homes.

YOUTUBE OUTAGE BLAMED ON PAKISTAN

Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for a near global blackout of the site on Sunday.

TAX RESISTANCE -- THE MORAL AND LEGAL DEFENSE

For instance, if you know that the government is breaking domestic and international law, and we have ample proof that they are, see: "Summary of International and U.S. Law Prohibiting Torture and Other Ill-treatment of Persons in Custody"; "US War Crimes During the Gulf War," by Francis Boyle ; "A Chronology of US War Crimes & Torture, 1975-2005" it is incumbent upon you to resist these crimes by refusing to finance them because, according to U.S. law, if you don't, you will be considered criminal liability and subject to prosecution.

DONAHUE TACKLES IRAQ IN BODY OF WAR

Body of War follows Tomas Young (pictured here with Donahue), a soldier who, after returning home from Baghdad paralyzed from the chest down, becomes a vocal antiwar activist.

JON STEWART TAKES ON THE 'UNCENSORED' HISTORY OF THE 9/11 COMMISSION

"It is remarkable the efforts that the Bush White House went through to try to prevent the 9/11 Commission from getting the information it needed," Shenon told Stewart.

RON PAUL FIGHTS A NEOCON WARMONGER

Not McCain, though he fights him too, but Chris Peden, the neocons' choice to kick Ron out of Congress.

MORE LIES FROM THE BUSH FASCISTS

Bush says the Democrats have put "our country more in danger of an attack" by letting the Protect America Act lapse. This claim is nonsense. The 30 year old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives the executive branch all the power it needs to spy on terrorists.

NARCO AGGRESSION: RUSSIA ACCUSES THE U.S. MILITARY OF INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG TRAFFICKING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN

When Russia backed the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the post-9/11 scenario, the last thing it expected to happen was that drug trafficking from Afghanistan would assume gargantuan proportions under the U.S. military. Since 2001, poppy fields, once banned by the Taliban, have mushroomed again. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan produced 8,200 tonnes of opium last year, enough to make 93 per cent of the world’s heroin supply.

VOTE FRAUD AND THE G.O.P. CONVENTION DELEGATES

Before I get into vote fraud, my mail box has been drowning in e-mail from Americans who are very alarmed about Barack Obama. Not all, of course. One man said in his e-mail that he didn't believe what I wrote in my last column. He said, Obama is a "good person." Obama gave him "hope" and "inspiration." It didn't seem to bother this man that Obama's past history includes a cozy relationship with a known communist or that he knows nothing about constitutional solutions.