From a Thursday, July 3, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog

The price of oil set a record high above $146 a barrel here on Thursday, driven by falling reserves of US crude, simmering tensions over Iran and a weak dollar, traders said. Russian energy giant Gazprom, meanwhile, forecast that oil would "very soon" hit $250 a barrel.

A senior military official said the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is stepping up attacks in Mindanao in a bid to pressure the government into restarting its stalled peace talks with the rebel group. Meanwhile, the MILF blames the AFP for the attacks. According to Regional Army chief Maj. Gen. Reymundo Ferrer, elements within the MILF want to put pressure on the government to resume the talks by launching the attacks.

Cheney and Chavez talk shit about the Columbian hostage release.

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Radical writer Mike Marqusee talks to Scottish-Lebanese founder of AK Press Ramsey Kanaan about Zionism and resistance to it.

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Australian and Japanese sources report that police are taking unusual steps in their overzealous efforts to secure the nation of Japan ahead of the upcoming G8 Summit.

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Federal agents seized 32 computers from Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge early this morning at the US-Mexico border.

No more Soaking for San Francisco's women!

The communist New People's Army (NPA) has apparently intensified its rebellious campaign as it has launched attacks on government stablishments and a private-owned business for allegedly not paying its demanded "revolutionary tax

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Strike July 4th instead of protesting, it may not be wise to gather in large groups in open spaces with all the recent chemical spraying that is going on.

The legacy of California Slave Trade and Commerce remains a journey toward freedom ~ Lest we forget ~ The special relationship best documented by the great Frederick Douglas whom urged the early migration to California is reprinted here. It seems that both Presidential candidates have slave owning blood ancestry from Kansas and Mississippi. In the 112th Congress, thanks to Honorable John Conyers, Chair of the Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, are finally preparing to have an adult conversation about the great sin and shame of America.

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Philippine president Arroyo's recent visit to the White House presages a deeper involvement of the US ruling corporate elite in the "killing fields" of its neocolony, and the return of the Furies from the massacres of Bud Dajo and Bud Bagsak in the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902.

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