FBI: Using Untrained Informants–as in recent case
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror12may12,0,63628.story?coll=la-home-center (h)
More of these at http://www.bordc.org/news/
Hi-lights and Lo-lights   The Beginning of the Great Turning    Sat  May 12, 2007
A Mother’s Day Video and More by Robert Greenwald http://www.alternet.org/authors/7277/
Also, see Robert Greenwald’s VIRTUAL IRAQ WAR MEMORIAL–one of our few “stop the war” folk who’s speaking to more than “the choir” Go, Robert! http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/161341.shtml
America’s got OIL on the brain & more: http://www.alternet.org
http://www.alternet.org/authors/7277/
The Amy Goodman-Greg Palast Interview C-Span http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1222
post #1224 “Roving Around North Carolina Op Ed By Connie L. Nash http://blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1225
Whatever we may think of Hugo Chavez & the World Bank, this may want to cause us to wake up! How can we blame the “victims” of the World Bank & those left out of this or the oil perks from doing exactly this?
Hello Venezuela Takes On Oil Multinationals By Stuart Munckton
http://www.countercurrents.org/munckton120507.htm
Thousands of Venezuelan workers took control of foreign-owned oil fields yesterday as Hugo Chavez stepped up his battle with Washington in a new wave of nationalisation and an announcement that the country was leaving the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund [IMF], - reported the British Guardian on May 2
Adios, World Bank! By Nadia Martinez
http://www.countercurrents.org/martinez120507.htm
As the controversy around Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz’s uncertain future as president of the World Bank intensifies, the financial institution is not only losing supporters. It’s also losing victims. In Latin America, countries are paying off their World Bank loans early, cutting off ties with the Bank, and creating their own financing instruments to replace the world’s oldest multilateral lending agency. The Good American By Scott Ritter
http://www.countercurrents.org/ritter120507.htm
I yearn for a time when “good Americans� will be able to stop and reverse equally evil policies of global hegemony achieved through pre-emptive war of aggression. I know all too well that in this case the “enemy� will only be emboldened by our silence, since at the end of the day the “enemy� is ourselves
Our US Rep. REALLY in Iran’s face–war drums! We’ve got to impeach him now! Along with all the others, Rove,Bush. etc. etc. as soon as possible.
Cheney Threatens Iran From US Aircraft Carrier In Persian Gulf By Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/auken120507.htm
Underscoring the essential objective of his Middle East tour, US Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf Friday to deliver a bellicose threat against Iran
Of Course…not anything like Rice’ lies (see Bill Moyers’ Journal, Friday May 11 2007 Blair’s Departure:The View From Baghdad By Patrick Cockburn
http://www.countercurrents.org/cockburn120507.htm
Iraq may be seen in Britain as Tony Blair’s nemesis but Iraqis yesterday greeted his departure with utter indifference. Asked what they thought about it, most simply shrugged their shoulders and looked surprised at being asked the question. Others said they saw him as a surrogate for President Bush
Michael Moore hero or mystery man? I like what he’s doing for health care…however, has he ever come clean on his support for Gen. Wesley Clark? Just asking. And I don’t think Gen. Wesley Clark has ever come clean on School of the Americas has he? Which is in sore need to be closed down now–as one of the most public of our MANY clandestine & not “US schools of torture” in the US and around the world… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGStsbCRKk4
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan04/Rothschild0122.htm
A little humor, or not?? http://www.alternet.org/rights/51729/ Will Chimp Life Get Human Rights? By Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. Posted May 11, 2007.