U.S. Iraq war veteran Brian Turner's book of poetry "Here, Bullet" provides a sly, detailed look at the war in Iraq from a first-person participant. This important work of art in its own right transports the U.S. reader to sit, like a quiet bird passing through Iraq, on Turner's shoulder.

Along with declaring over 100 million Americans terrorists, Herr Bush, noted implementations of government actions with the statement, it is a “strategy we’ve been pursuing since September 11, 2001.” The preface for the declaration of American terrorists was unveiled in a speech before the General Assembly of the UN on November 10, 2001, with the statement, “Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves,...”

In the wake of Sept. 11, thousands of Arab and Muslim-Americans volunteered to serve in the U.S. armed services or in law enforcement. They are protecting us. And they should be thanked, not feared or scapegoated.

News Junkie Scott's Blog (9/11/06)

With time running out on a Bush Administration that is itching for more war in the Middle East and more political control at home, a former Army intelligence and public affairs officer has a vital question for all Americans: Are this week's Al Qaeda news and secretive, suspicious government terror drills a set up for a new 9/11 5th anniversary attack, code-named 9/11-V?

Interview with Sarah Anderson, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies & co-author of the "Executive Excess 2006" salary survey, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

It is probably no coincidence that a useless video of old Osama bin Laden reruns mysteriously appeared on Al Jazeera at about the same time George W Bush decided to break the Guiness Book of Records on 'terrorism speeches' -even though he already held the record ! And it was also probably no coincidence that his terrorism speech fest was timed to kick off the U.S. midterm elections. In fact it is both humorously and sadly all too obvious.

A trial against four police men, who tortured a man that resisted his deportation on 7th of April 2006, has been ended without any consequences on 31st of August 2006 in Vienna. Though the Cruelty was confessed by the officers, three of them were sentencd to 8 months on probation and another officer to 6 months on probation.