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Top Stories » SOLOMON: NUCLEAR BOON FOR BUSH, REPUGNICANS­ For the next four weeks, the Bush administration will do its best to exploit the North Korean nuclear test to stave off a loss of the Republican majority in Congress. We should not allow those efforts to obscure how Bush's reckless record has heightened the nuclear dangers for everyone. » U.S. grants N.Korea nuclear funds  "In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons­grade plutonium from the original reactors." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... » US push for air strikes:  PENTAGON hawks will try to persuade US President George W. Bush he should order immediate military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites. »More Top Stories »Yesterday's News » Archive Iraq »In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens » ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 60 MUTILATED BODIES » An unknown city erupts­by Dahr Jamail » "Partitioning: The Way Out of Iraq" Dr Eland » More Iraq News Asia  |  Middle East  |  Africa » Video Catches Abbas Contradicting Commitment to Rice »KIM'S NUKE & OUR DIVIDE  By JOHN PODHORETZ… WHAT impact will North Korea's nuclear­test claim have on U.S. politics, four weeks before a crucial election? That is an extremely complicated and difficult question. On the one hand, a foreign­policy crisis usually rallies the country behind the president ­ so, advantage GOP. (And maybe... » A holy war in the Horn?  Islamist rulers in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, have declared a holy war against Ethiopia, after hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers reportedly invaded Somalia. The risk of a regional conflict is growing »THE 1.8 MILLION HOMELESS OF N. PAKISTAN  Does that include Osama? »HALF OF WORLD CHOCOLATE MADE BY EXPLOITED AFRICAN CHILDREN?  Buy ‘fair trade chocolate’ this Hallowe’en » CARRIER GROUP SAILS FOR GULF »More

Other PINHEAD COURIC'S RATINGS STILL DROPPING­ Just put an ugly fat guy in shirtsleeves in a newsroom and let him read wire copy »BUFFETT RIPS DRUG-DUMB FRENCH  JIMMY Buffett thinks the French are a bunch of weasels. Following our exclusive on how customs officials at Toulon­Hy�res International Airport said they found 100 tabs of the mind­bending club drug "ecstasy" in his luggage and fined him $380, the "Margaritaville"... » QUENTIN Tarantino has a new babe.  The director was joined at the hip with a "hot young Asian woman" at the Spike TV Scream Awards at the Pantages Theater in L.A. on Saturday. At the after­party at the Hollywood Roosevelt, the woman "tripped and fell flat on her face.". . . More   Business »Dow's phony new high posted by Eric G »The Worrying Housing Bust  If home prices drop too much, the damage to consumer confidence and spending won't be easily offset. The danger: a 2007 recession. »More Business News Tech »Save time with browser shortcuts »More Tech News Jokes »INTERNATIONAL THINKING — AT ITS BEST! » More

Bush's Nuclear Apocalypse  By Chris Hedges The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided­missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast­attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.
»Aging Homeless Population Booming  In New Study, Nearly One­Third Of Homeless Population Over 50
» Gideon Levy : The mystery of America : It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft heading back to where it came from.
» Protesters Corner Jeb Bush in Pa.: Protesters greeted Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his way to a campaign event for a Pennsylvania senator, and he briefly took refuge in a subway station supply closet to avoid the anti­Republican demonstrators.
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»The Worrying Housing Bust Wall Street pundits and commentators are concerned that the industry's downward spiral could exacerbate the slowing down of the general capitalist economy.
This one will leave a mushroom cloud over the US economy. If home prices drop too much, the damage to consumer confidence and spending won't be easily offset. The danger: a 2007 recession.
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»Putin Fights Back  By Mike Whitney   The Bush administration's long­range objectives are already clear. They aim to privatize the Russian oil industry, convert the ruble to the dollar, remove Putin from office, and prevent Russia from controlling the huge oil reserves in the Caspian Basin.
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