December 12, 2003

1.  Did you ever think you'd be agreeing with Newt Gingrich on anything?
2.  The possibility of a draft keeps popping up
3.  They put their foot in it yet again...
4.  Stan Goff on Homeland Security
5.  A first person account of the FTAA protests in Miami.
6.  Could the US pick a more tainted piece of real estate for its embassy in Iraq?
 
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 1.  This is a first, Newt Gingrich making sense to me in his commentary on the situation in Iraq (post-war, he is a member of a group that supported the invasion.)  Check it out - http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002188.asp?cp1=1#BODY
 
2.  Another article about the possibility of a draft around the corner esp if Bush is re-elected.
http://www.antiwar.com/ocregister/draft.html
 
3.  Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?  More evidence to suggest that they can't even communicate among themselves, never mind with the rest of the world. When do you think they'll figure out that making other countries angry isn't a good way to get them to participate?
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/international/middleeast/11PREX.html?ex=1072119079&ei=1&en=b0aa9647fde8e5d2
 
4.  Stan Goff has written a great article on how the Bush Administration and the NRC have acted to INCREASE our vulnerability in the case of terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities.  Something to share with folks who think Bush is doing a great job protecting us homeland folks.
 http://www.counterpunch.org/goff12032003.html
 
5.  This is truly chilling. We hear that the Democratic National Party has tapped the Miami police chief to head security at the convention in 2004.  If that is true, we can expect a police state in Boston. The only good news I can find in this scenario is that the empire usually gets rougher in proportion to the level of threat it perceives.  Thus, the various protest movements must be having an impact. 
 http://www.counterpunch.org/adler11292003.html
 
6.  The US is considering Saddam Hussein's palace for the new US embassy in Iraq - are they totally unaware of the symbolism of such a choice?
 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_new_embassy&cid=540&ncid=1480