This is how the 1975-90 conflict began in Lebanon. Outbreaks of sectarian hatred, appeals for restraint, promises of aid from Western and Arab nations and a total refusal to understand that this is how civil wars begin.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety has a new law-enforcement tool: a car-mounted license-plate scanner. Similar to a radar gun, it reads the license plates of moving or parked cars - 250 or more per hour - and links with remote police databases, immediately providing information about the car and owner.

In his diary of a week which saw yet another assassination, our man in Beirut reflects that the present violence in Lebanon creates longings for a supposedly peaceful past.

Today, foreign influence, that most baneful foe of our republican government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major decision making and policy producing bodies of the U.S. government machine.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates.

So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world.

How ironic these words now sound, when the main stream media makes the claims that the Taliban are in a position to have been able during the 5 years of military occupation to stockpile weapons to be used against the west.

We have been witnessing the results without knowing how they came about for 30 years and more.

Throughout history, various politicos have utilized “Catastrophic Empowering Events” to incite their citizenry and coerce them into accepting undesirable agendas.

It is the most un-American piece of legislation passed since the so-called “Patriot” Act.

Today, we read in the news, “An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion

We have to date found no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities in Iraq.” Mohamed ElBaradei, for the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, 2003.

Despite MSM reports of just 10,000, over 50,000 activists, politicians, religious groups and members of the public gathered in Manchester today, to demonstrate against the criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to also call for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.

Hugo Chavez’s tour de force at the UN

The following article argues that the 9/11 Truth Movement is making a mistake by concentrating on controlled demolition at the WTC and no plane at the Pentagon: