QUOTE OF THE DAY ... If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa

MORE NEWS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED, IN TOUCH AND KNOWING THE TRUTH

FACE THE MUSIC
Don Hazen, AlterNet
This is no time for cheerleading and playing what-if. It's time to accept some political reality and rethink the way we engage in our politics.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20432/

CONCEDE NOTHING
The Black Commentator
Despite endless attempts from all sides to divide the electorate, blacks stood like a rock in defense of their own interests.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20434/

BUSH'S BIG STICK
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com
The ferocious assault on Fallujah is just the beginning of four more years of an reenergized Bush foreign policy. Next stop, Teheran.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20446/

A LONG STRANGE TRIP
Martin A. Lee, AlterNet
A sprawling cultural history of illicit drug use in post-WWII America sets out to tell the whole truth about forbidden pharmacological fruit.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20442/

FRESH AIR IN JERSEY
Sunny Lewis, Environment News Service
New Jersey has just enacted the strictest mercury and arsenic rules in the nation. Now if only the rest of the country would follow suit.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20440/