Next post will provide just links of some of my favorite political sites and blogs.

Recap: the most important entries of this last week of blog posts include stories, comments and links regarding Colin Powell and Jack Straw, Salam Pax and Peter Maas, and the featured site of http://cursor.org/ for a dynamite site with great graphics. Comments are always welcome here and the feature of comment is available with the byline of this author.

Dissent is patriotic. The service of social action is very important to provide a means of productive communication and responsible response to unreasonable actions by one's governmental administrators when they act unjustly. I did not vote for the incumbant president who was not elected by the people. The US is responsible for being the greatest threat to world peace at this point in time. From within, Americans strive to correct unjust and globally destructive actions promoted by a corrupt administration.

This is an incredible site I just found within the links of Tom Tommorrow's site at http://www.thismodernworld.com

Just take a look at a few graphics from the site - links to various pages:

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and then there is Operation Desert Snipe:
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And here is a snip from today's top story, a story going all over the world EXCEPT FOR in the US:

Media Patrol

A Guardian report of a meeting between Jack Straw and Colin Powell at the Waldorf hotel before Powell's U.N. presentation on Iraq, is getting almost no play in the U.S. media. It cites leaked transcripts of the meeting -- "being circulated in Nato diplomatic circles" -- in which Powell tells Straw that he was "apprehensive" about the intelligence and hoped the facts, when they came out, would not "explode in their faces."

Although Powell sees no point in getting "trapped in the long-winded debate about what was known and not known" before the war, he would likely be called to testify during televised U.S. Senate hearings on Iraq intel, that are being pushed for by Republican Senator John Warner.

Hear, Hear! U.S. intelligence officials tell the San Jose Mercury News that the Iraqi National Congress "bypassed skeptics in the CIA and DIA and fed the same information about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and links to Al-Qaida to the [New York] Times and the Pentagon, so Pentagon officials would confirm what the nation's most influential newspaper was hearing and the newspaper would confirm what the Pentagon was hearing."

"Misleading the public has been a consistent strategy for the Bush team on issues ranging from tax policy and Social Security reform to energy and the environment," charges Paul Krugman. "So why should we give the administration the benefit of the doubt on foreign policy?" Plus: Returning dignity to the White House."

So, where are the US media stories on this? This, like the scandal of the hyped-up and erroneous reports of how Private Jessica Lynch was actually rescued, is something that cannot continue to be hidden. When it is not some bizarre "leftist" media source that is dismissed immediately by mainstream US media, but instead a story reported throughout the rest of the world, we MUST take a look, and not weeks later!

Link for the cursor.org story for June 4:
http://www.cursor.org/