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Cheney Continues to Violate Law on Energy Policy Task Force
Dick Cheney has continued to cloak the composition of his 2001 energy task force in secrecy. The Federal Advisory Committee Act says the government must disclose the work of groups that include non-federal employees. A lawsuit is pending to force disclosure. Jane Mayer of
The New Yorker suggests that
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were planned well in advance of the September 11th crisis - planned for the benefit of US oil corporations headquartered in Texas
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Bush Never Dreamed of Iraq Elections: and Deserves No Credit
5 Years ago, George W, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and their neo-conservative cadre were spoiling for war with Iraq.
Democratic elections were not a goal of the US invasion and are now being used as a smokescreen for yet another phase of deepening US involvement.
It was the powerful cleric
Ali al-Sistani who first pressed the issue - and then as part of an exit strategy for the US.
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Nader, Gonzalez, Landis, Smith, Lafortune

Hundreds of people came out to the Rio Theater on January 24. The event featured talks by Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez, Todd Landis, and Martin Smith, and performance by the Dance Brigade. Local Green Party organizer, Louis Lafortune, MCd the show.
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Dance Brigade at the Rio Theater

The Dance Brigade performed at the Rio Theater on Monday, Jan 24th, along with talks by Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez, Todd Landis, and Martin Smith.
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Decoding Da Dubya Code
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Revolutionaries, reporters and film crews assembled on
Friday morning for a "Press Conference and Anti-Inaugural
Banquet." It was held near Howard University at Café
Manowaj, a cool and funky hang-out run by a crew of radical South
Africans. Steaming breakfast dishes (named for people’s
heroes and historical highpoints) soon appeared. Indymedia and RW
reporters tended to order Amandla eggs. The Fox-5 TV guy was all
over the Paris Commune French Toast. (His footage of our
red-flag-filled cowboy-hat stomping made the 5 o’clock news
that night.)
Sunsara Taylor: Are there any born-agains in the
house who are deep into biblical armageddon prophesies? No? In that
case, I first need to first walk you all through my ‘Armageddon
Crash Course for post-Enlightenment Thinkers’....
At this very moment millions of people are being seduced into
going for simple, good-versus-evil answers to the agonizing and
growing complexities of the world. They are consumed with the coming
Judgment Day, the return of Jesus, Armageddon, the Rapture.