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It seems the Neocons have been churning out propaganda-disguised-as-news to an even greater extent than previously thought:
Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the [...]

There is a reason why only the US and Somalia aren’t signatories to the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child - and Somalia can’t sign because it doesn’t have a recognised government, so its really only the US that chooses to opt out:
The Independent - The notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo [...]

John Harris of The Guardian interviewed British ex-Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg, who described the surreality of his ordeal. I suppose the twisted rationales of fascist regimes always make them seem a tad surreal but this lot take the biscuit:
[the] key weakness of the Bush administration’s supposed war on terror is its almost comical lack [...]

If it honks like a goose and goose-steps…
Boston.com - The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely reviews pieces of legislation before they reach the president’s desk, searching for provisions that Cheney believes would infringe on presidential power, according to former White House and Justice Department officials.
The officials said Cheney’s legal adviser and chief of [...]

Blair is hoping to outlaw conscience:
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.
It comes as Parliament debates a law that will forbid military personnel refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country.
During 2005 alone, 377 people [...]

I think real republicans wishing to reclaim their party (or otherwise distance themselves from it’s hijackers) are the best hope for tipping the scales by giving disillusioned conservatives somewhere else to go - that recalcitrant minority that still believe neoconservatism=patriotism - this could shatter a few neocon memes
(AFP @ Common Dreams)The patriarch of US [...]

Here’s my review of the new “Tool” Album “10,000 Days”
From this weeks “Fourth Estate Radio”
Tool Website
[audio:http://fourthestateradio.com/audio/TOOL_REVIEW.mp3]

So what’s with the children of global leaders all hanging out with the Bushies? They think they are dynasties. Like good Stalinists their daddies have served the party even at the expense of the people of their own countries, and are rewarded with a large dollop of transglobal cronyism.
JOHN Howard’s son Richard is [...]

I’m not too sure what’s going on here, but I’m sure it stinks just as badly as everything else the Bushies do. On Thursday the White House issued a statement criticising Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak for being anti-democratic:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Thursday urged Egypt to set free a leading opposition politician [...]

Jeremy Pikser tackles America’s real illegal problem in The Guardian:
As a redblooded US citizen, I’ve had all I can take of these flagrantly illegal executives flooding into our government. We have a president, a vice-president, a secretary of state, a secretary of defence, and an attorney general who are in daily violation of scores, if [...]

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