Whack North Korea, Before It Can Protect Itself? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The US is the new Rome--there is no legitimate power but us. Any other power is a potential threat to our interests and must be eliminated before it gets any independent ideas. The US, however, is far more dangerous than Rome. Rome saw its world as the Mediterranean and, for a while, Northern Europe, but the US thinks the whole world is its oyster. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13942.htm





Bush’s Scatterbrain “Reconciliation” Plan By Mike Whitney

Bush is dreaming if he thinks that he can patch things together by throwing a bone to the resistance. What good does amnesty do when the country is in rubble and an American stooge is running the government from the Green Zone? This just forces the resistance to stiffen their resolve and continue the struggle. There's really no other option. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13940.htm





How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. : Barry Lopez:



= Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose: Helen Keller:


= Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing: Arundhati Roy:


Take Me Home By Geoff Rutledge I was sent to this far away land, half a boy half a man. 4 Minute Video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13944.htm



=== At least 30 killed Monday as U.S. occupation continues:

Two bombs blasted Baghdad's Talbiya district, a stronghold of Shi'ite militia fighters, killing 12 people and wounding 62, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO038872.htm


=== 7 killed as gunmen ambush bus in Sunni neighborhood: The gunmen killed all six passengers, including a woman, and the driver before setting the bus on fire in the Amariyah neighborhood of western Baghdad, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said http://tinyurl.com/phyc2



=== Iraq's Islamic Party accuses Iraqi police of murdering Muslim cleric: Iraq's Islamic Party claimed Saturday that the Iraqi police murdered a Muslim cleric on a security checkpoint in southern Iraq. http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=884366



=== Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm


Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2544 http://icasualties.org/oif/


The War in Iraq Costs $294,869,361,150 See the cost in your community http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182


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