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Permit Or Not, Protesters Prepare For Republicans In New York
NEW YORK TIMES
by Randal Archibold
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0524-01.html

EXPOSED - THE CARLYLE GROUP
Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of America's democracy. Click on the following link ... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm ... to view the 40-minute (approx.) streaming video and then please forward widely. Thank you all ... peace & solidarity!

It's Not Just The Emperor Who Is Naked, But The Whole Empire
COMMON DREAMS
by Robert Jensen
A few years ago, anyone who described the United States as an empire was branded part of the loony left. But since 9/11, even conservative pundits talk of empire, albeit in perversely positive terms, exhorting U.S. leaders to seize the opportunity to remake the world. But that project didn't begin with 9/11. Whatever point in U.S. history one claims as the beginning of the imperial project (the genocide of indigenous people in North America? the Monroe Doctrine? the conquest of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?), there is no doubt that U.S. empire building went into high gear after World War II. The fact that the United States doesn't acquire colonies in the same fashion as past empires, preferring instead to install compliant governments that will do its bidding, doesn't make us less an empire. The modalities of control change, but the game remains the same; set the terms for the world economy and derail the possibility of independent development by any means necessary, with a gargantuan military on call when violence is required. To read more of this article, click on the following link: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0524-05.htm

"When Advocates Become Regulators" ... President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.
DENVER POST
by Anne C. Mulkern
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0523-02.htm

Our Darkest Days Are Here
60 MINUTES
by Andy Rooney
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0524-12.htm

'Wedding Video' Clouds US Denials
BBC NEWS
A videotape has been broadcast which purports to show before-and-after footage of a wedding which Iraqis say the US bombed, killing about 40. Read the whole story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3741223.stm

Bill Clinton Attacks Bush Over Iraq
INDEPENDENT/UK
by Tom Murphy & Angus MacSwan
http://truthout.org/docs_04/052404F.shtml

Pearl Jam Goes To The Movies
TWO FEET THICK
by Jessica Letkemann & John Reynolds
http://www.twofeetthick.com/articleread.do?id=23