The US military occupation of Iraq cannot be won militarily and cannot be paid for. The military occupation was sold as a cheap war that would only help the US and the world: more security and a lower price of oil. Empire brings only nihilism/cynicism.

Germany's Green Party is setting up a branch in the United States. The bottom-up initiative aims to bring a more international perspective to the party's work and combat anti-Americanism among some members back home.

A whole series of factors are combining to undermine the financial position of banks. None of this happened by chance. It is only to be expected that brokers should seize every opportunity to line their pockets. If necessary, they invent opportunities, using innovations to kid themselves they can abolish risk.

La creación de la SIP, nacida bajo los mejores augurios en Nueva York en 1950, fue una operación en que la inteligencia estadounidense pirateó descaradamente la organización panamericana legítima creada en La Habana en 1943.

News Junkie Scott's Blog (4/08/2008)

Before I moved here to the United States and became a citizen, I remember vividly watching American elections. There was no doubt in my mind that at given time the final winner would be: JFK, years later Nixon, years later Carter, Reagan, etc. Admittedly there were times. After I was naturalized it seems that a critical portion of my brain was lobotomized – I was never again able to tell what’s going on in the elections. Clinton, Gore, Bush Senior, Bush Jr

Energy will become more expensive and unaffordable for a large part of humanity. If the american way of life is non-negotiable, the Iraq war will be the prelude and not the end to resource wars. The name of this sickness is exponential growth.

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Hey Maryland,
Thought you'd like to know, your state's delegate bloc at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be staying at:

Embassy Suites St. Paul-Downtown

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) - an organization of low-wage workers based in Immokalee, Florida - has launched a national petition campaign to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages & working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery & human rights abuses from Florida's fields.