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August 23, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE A number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground have recently been released from prison and are in New York preparing to wreak havoc during the Republican National Convention, The Post has learned....

Congress is facilitating the next "crisis" to drain the Treasury and your future: a pension bailout of epic proportions is very likely (PBGC deficit of $350 billion), but Congress wants to help corporations continue to underfund their pension obligations. You know the drill people. Quack like ducks and then take it....

"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality...and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." —R. D. Laing Ronnie Laing's profound dictum leaves us with many poignant questions regarding the true nature of the psychic lives of so-called ordinary Americans and our ability to function in this corrupt and crumbling empire. In sho...

August 19, 2004 Americas Watch Special Investigation Part of Peace No War Network URL: http://www.PeaceNoWar.net...

Today we are releasing a list of delegates to the 2004 Republican National Convention. This list includes the names, address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of RNC delegates in addition to what hotel each one is staying at during their invasion of New York City....

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Three activists of the Vanguard of Red Youth were detained on Sunday during a small rally outside the Federation Council in Moscow. The three, all of whom are participants in a hunger strike which began nearly two weeks ago, were protesting a bill that will replace social benefits with cash payments, which was just approved by the Federation Council. Another four participants in the rally were hospitalized with dehydration....

"Attac is an element of the anti-war and peace movement because a just world is impossible without peace.. We reject the militarization of foreign policy and war actions of the German army abroad.."...

There has been a good deal of talk about Wal-Mart lately in the liberal and mainstream press, a growing concern with what is called the "Wal-Martization of America," that is to say, the lowering of wages, the lowering of quality, the near-total reliance on goods manufactured in foreign countries, and general anger with the "ugliness" of Wal-Mart....

"The international free market was created artificially in the 18th and 19th centuries and did not develop naturally from the free exchange of goods as neoliberals constnatly claim. According to Polanyi, foreign trade originally meant piracy, robbery and belligerent conquest.."...