There's a new documentary about Sibel Edmonds, the famously gagged whistle-blower, who found out too much about the criminals who occupy the highest levels of power in this country and others. It's called Kill the Messanger. Make sure to follow the links to Lukery and Mike Mejia. Lukery's http://sibeledmonds.blogspot.com/ is already full of tons of information as well as his wotisitgood4.blogspot.com Watch the trailer here.

Everyone join the celebration! Jim bovard has a few ideas for how to get this party started: 1) Wiretap your neighbor.

From the Battalion Chief Kenahan of the FDNY Safety Battalion debriefing of firefighter Banaciski: "They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. "I...

As we say at Antiwar.com, the best way to spread the best parts of the American way - the rights of the individual, free markets, self-government and so forth - is by example. That when we export our way with force, we lose our own liberty and, by killing people overseas and setting a bad example for those who would like to emulate us, we make matters worse for the average foreigner. As John Quincy Adams put it in 1821: "[America] has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests...

For those of you who saw the Sept. 11 debate between Popular Mechanics and Dylan Avery and his researcher on Amy Goodman's show, here's a quick HOWTO on viewing the extremely popular 9/11 conspiracy doc Loose Change. FIrst, download the flick using this torrent. I have confirmed it contains two high quality movie files (one is called "extra footage"). If you don't know how to download a torrent, install Azureus. The torrent you downloaded will now open with it by default. Azureus will do all...

And I thought his speeches were pathetic... Here are a couple of parts of Bush's Friday press conference that warrant some review (There are more, but I no longer have the patience.): "QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don't you think that Americans and the rest of the world are...

It seems to me that when the Bush administration makes loud accusations about a Middle Eastern state's "weapons of mass destruction" programs, the average Joe would question it. After all, they must have made up a hundred lies about Iraq: that the motivation for the invasion was to protect the people of America, that Iraq had "reconstituted nuclear weapons" (the evidence for which was forged documents and rocket tubes), that Saddam had a "long-standing relationship" with al Qaeda (providing...

By Paul Sperry Antiwar.com. "In its miniseries about the missteps that led to 9/11, ABC spared not only Bill Clinton but also George W. Bush. Our hawkish War President had almost nine months to respond to the USS Cole attack and did nothing, even as his security staff fired off memo after memo fingering Osama bin Laden and urging retaliation.Clinton claims, feebly, that he didn't have enough evidence to pin the October 2000 attack on bin Laden. But Bush certainly did. On March 2, 2001,...

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Someone recently asked me, "Why is it that you say America cannot be a republic and an empire?" Well, my friend, here is your answer: The Secretary of the United States Air Force wants to shoot you with ray guns in order, he says, to justify shooting them at foreigners. "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation [and we really want to shoot them at foreigners as soon as possible]." Now comes the test. Will he...

Man, oh, man. Bob Dreyfuss has done it again. Go read, and get back to me. Go ahead and throw in Robert A. Pape's new one for the Cato Institute.

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Antiwar.com research editor, Jason Ditz, has an interesting analysis of what's going on in the Blair government over in the UK. It seems Blair wants to replace himself with a guy named Reid instead of his long-time heir apparent, Gordon Brown. But why? And why did Blair fire ex-Stalinist Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary? Check it out here.

Yes, I know, you already knew that, but I have to complain about the Presiden't speech Monday night. There was a bunch of Roosevelt-invoking garbage in there, obviously, but there's one particular lie that Bush will not stop telling the people of this country, which, due to its total absurdity, is beginning to chap my Texas hide. So let's get this straight once and for all: If America leaves Iraq, the chances that al Qaeda will take over and use the oil money to build a giant al Qaeda...

The assholes from Popular Mechanics made fools of them today on Democracy Now! Really stupid. Update: Those indestructable towers the kooks want you to believe in: