Rogue President -- The president seems confused. After making a curious remark observing that the war in Iraq was placing a strain on the psyche of America, President Bush has become the primary focus of concerns about a strained psyche. Last week, the president uttered more than one oracular pronouncement. First he acquiesced to the analogy that has been on everyone’s lips since well before the launch of the Iraq War – Does Iraq resemble Vietnam? Courtesy, Middle East Online (10/26/2006)
Collapse of Ecosystems Likely if Plunder Continues Humans are living well beyond their ecological means and are now exhausting natural resources at an unprecedented rate. In so doing, says WWF's bi-annual report, we are threatening ourselves and all other species with extinction. New calculations on the decline in the planet's capacity to provide food, fibre and timber, and absorb carbon dioxide, suggest we are using 25% more resources than are renewed naturally in a year. Courtesy The Guardian Unlimited (10/25/2006)
	Burma Discusses Version of Democracy - Delegates to the convention, which has been meeting for most of this month, said they expected it to finish its work on a new constitution by next year - thereby completing the first stage of the military's so-called "seven stage path to democracy". This year foreign journalists were given rare access to the opening stages of the meeting. To get to the Nyaung Hna Pin camp, where the convention is taking place, we drove through flat, flooded fields, a landscape akin to a tropical Holland. Courtesy, BBC (10/23/2006)
No Further Nuclear Tests, North Korea Tells China - Press Trust of India - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has told a Chinese envoy his country has no immediate plans to conduct another nuclear test but that US policy toward Pyongyang will determine the future. Kim made the remarks to Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan during talks last week in Pyongyang to discuss the North's first-ever nuclear test on October 9, Kyodo News agency reported on Sunday from Beijing, citing unnamed officials familiar with the discussions. Courtesy, Hindustan Times (10/23/2006)
	Could Horn of Africa Be Next Terror Front? - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - From the Red Sea to Lake Victoria, the Horn of Africa is one of the few places in the world where, if careful, a traveler can move 1,400 miles across four countries without producing a passport or encountering a single government official. These footpaths, back roads and rivers have been used for centuries by merchants and slave traders, explorers, smugglers and bandits. Courtesy, The Guardian Unlimited (10/21/2006)

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Saddam’s Genocide Trial And Ours    Article by WorlNews.com Correspondent Beverly Darling.   As the sun set over the Presidential Palace, displaying beautiful pastel colors of crimson, lavender, and gray, the evening air was mixed with excitement and anticipation. In the distance, you could hear the muffled voices of people and the shuffling and planting of feet. Suddenly, tens of thousands of campensinos, students, laborers, teachers, unionists, and social activists emerged carrying signs with courageous messages declaring: ‘Libertad para los Campensinos!’ (Liberty to the Farmers!), ‘Donde estan los Desparecidos?’ (Where are the Disappeared?), ‘No mas Opresion!’ (No more Oppression!), ‘Alto el Muerto!’ (Stop the Murder!), ‘Libertad para los Laborios!’ (Liberty to the Worker!), and ‘Victoria Siempre!’ (Victory Always!). (MORE)

The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock Hardcover by Virginia Tilley, Publisher: University of Michigan Press (May 24, 2005)

Grand Theft Pentagon :Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror by Jeffrey St. Clair, Publisher: Common Courage Press (July 1, 2005)