Science for Democratic Action, Vol. 12 No. 1
The same dangerous policies that are applied to American nuclear allies in Europe can be applied to American allies in the Pacific.

Two recent assassination attempts against Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, have renewed concern in the Bush administration over both the stability of a critical ally and the security of its nuclear weapons if General Musharraf were killed or removed from office.
Administration officials would not discuss their contingency plans for Pakistan, but several said the White House was revisiting an effort begun just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to help Pakistan improve the security of its nuclear arsenal and to prevent Al Qaeda or extremists within the Pakistani military or intelligence services from gaining access to the country's weapons and fissile material.

Central Asian Oil - renewing major US-Russian rivalry?
A dreamer would see harmony between Russia, the United States and China in a sensible exploitation of Central Asia's massive oil and gas and minerals. Unfortunately, the cold reality is that there is simply too much at stake for each country for this ever to happen.

Religion is the most dangerous energy source known to humankind. The moment a person (or government or religion or organization) is convinced that God is either ordering or sanctioning a cause or project, anything goes. The history, worldwide, of religion-fueled hate, killing, and oppression is staggering. —Eugene Peterson (from the introduction to the book of Amos in the Bible paraphrase The Message)

Science for Democratic Action, Vol. 12 No. 1
The same dangerous policies that are applied to American nuclear allies in Europe can be applied to American allies in the Pacific.

- Even the turkey is fake. How can we take the president seriously?

The dirty little secret of America’s current nuclear policy is that 99 percent of the nuclear weapons budget, planning, targeting, and operational activities still revolves around this one anachronistic scenario. The rationale is a throw-back to the Cold War, but however absurd, it still is the axis of current nuclear operations.

MIAMI, Friday 8:21pm EST – The police force continued operating with the brains and appetite of a carnivorous shark today as city officials kept demonstrating "the Miami model" of suppression even as protestors and trade ministers were leaving the city in droves.      More

On November 6th, George W. Bush announced that America, through it's interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan was leading a "global democratic revolution". That he should have made such remarks on the eve of Leon Trotsky's birthday – the architect of "global socialist revolution" – was of course just coincidence. However, the similarities between Trotsky's idea that socialism should be spread at the barrel of a gun and the idea that democracy can be forced upon the Muslim world through violent occupation and threat of invasion are obvious.

Paul Krugman has become the most prominent voice in the mainstream U.S. media to openly and repeatedly accuse George Bush of lying to the American people to sell budget-busting tax cuts and a pre-emptive and nearly unilateral war.    More

Mr. Bush, you can continue to deceive, twist and equivocate, but you can't hide the deaths and untold sorrow of yet another war -- unilateral, illegal, immoral and unnecessary.

True Republican, so I'm not in agreement with all of the latest "official truth".
True Conservative, which means the Constitution is sacred.
True lover of freedom and security!

International law is unequivocal - Paul Bremer's economic reforms are illegal
Bring Halliburton home. Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are just a few of the suggestions for slogans that could help unify the growing movement against the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have focused on whether the demand should be for a complete withdrawal of troops, or for the United States to cede power to the United Nations.

It’s clear the Bush Administration would prefer that the unsuspecting American public see the recent scourge of suicide bombings as evidence of international terrorism rather than what they are, the signs of a growing and well organized insurgency. In this way they can legitimize their dismal grasp of post war Iraq and the failed policies that are now resulting in chaos.

When deceit catches up with a government, officials take refuge in propaganda. Thus, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told the Washington Times (Oct. 24) that he wants a "21st century information agency in the government" to help fight a "war of ideas" and educate Americans and foreigners that Big Brother is right.

When it became obvious that the neoconservatives would succeed in turning the "war against terrorism" into war against the Muslim Middle East, I said that the consequences would be the return of the draft or US use of nuclear weapons.
Bush administration neoconservatives have concluded that reinstating the military draft would incite more opposition than inaugurating a new weapons program to produce "useable nukes."

Key Figures - their profiles and much more

The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
Representatives from 20 nations, 5 continents, 200 participant, 35 speakers.
Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi, received the internationally recognized “Nuclear Free Future Award” and prize of 10,000 Euros on October 12, just prior to the Conference.

The kingdom of God doesn't endorse the principalities and powers of nation-states, armies, and the ideologies of empire; but rather calls them all into question. more>>

Israel/US vs Palestine & The Middle East
Both Israel and US are the only nuclear powers in the Mid-East. Israel is stealing land from Palestine, building Israeli settlements and huge walls through the middle of the stolen land in defiance of many UN resolutions and assassinating people they label as "terrorists". They have reached out and bombed well within Syria, on the grounds of "attacking terrorists or terrorist camps".

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush stole the presidency by combining various forms of vote fraud, not all of which could be concealed from the American public. The month-long battle in Dade County ended with open slaughter of the democratic process, and the occupation of the country by a regime of what may be accurately described as corporate fascists.

Buses carrying hundreds of protesters were expected to leave Sydney for Canberra this morning, to coincide with the visit by the United States President, George Bush.

Jobs for the Good Ol' Boys - But Not Iraqis!
Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed, U.S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South Asia. The use of Asian laborers is at odds with President Bush's emphasis on the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.

Neoconservatives And Their Blueprint For US Power

THE WIDENING CRUSADE
If the White House is going to use military force to subdue and neutralize all "evildoers" everywhere in the world, shouldn't the American public be told now? Sydney H. Schanberg tells you why Bush's war plans are scarier than he's letting on.

I cannot stand by and continue to watch our grandchildren become increasingly burdened by the billions that fly out of the Treasury for a war and a policy based largely on propaganda and prevarication. We are borrowing $87 billion to finance this adventure in Iraq. The President is asking this Senate to pay for this war with increased debt, a debt that will have to be paid by our children and by those same troops that are currently fighting this war. I cannot support outlandish tax cuts that plunge our country into potentially disastrous debt while our troops are fighting and dying in a war that the White House chose to begin.

Amazing Oddities! Baffling Policies! Only $87 Billion!

'' I started to write about the disgraceful situation in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Friday morning. I had read about the International Red Cross's condemnation of the Bush administration's continued detention of 650 or more prisoners, some of them juveniles, captured in Afghanistan two years ago. They have been held in cages on the American military base there, without attorneys, with little access to family, and without any charges being placed against them."

Menwith Hill is the world's biggest military spy base. With 30 giant golf ball shaped radomes on the base, along with a miriad of aerials, the base is key to US political, commercial and miliary espionage.     More about the spy base

What distinguished the Bush administration, "Frontline" contends, was the openness of its arrogance and the magnitude of its policy shift — sending more than 200,000 American troops to invade a Muslim country and recreate it along American democratic lines.         Cost - $100 billion + $4 billion a month

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NO THEATRE MISSILE DEFENSE!
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FUND HUMAN NEEDS!
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Al-Jazeera made the decision to pull two “anti-US” cartoons from its website last month under US pressure.

The US is determined to suppress the independent Arab media