Sunday, March 15, 2009—We’re overjoyed to announce that we now have ten times as many distribution points in Kittery as we did a fortnight ago.
We’d like to thank everybody who suggested distribution points. We’d like to particularly thank Jackson’s Hardware, who called and asked if they could distribute the paper, and Jon Wyckoff, who volunteered out of the blue to distribute across the river.
We’ve also added links to a couple of new articles on our Memorial Bridge page.
Lastly, we’ve uploaded a 3 MB pdf file of our February 27, 2009 paper. In it, in lieu of a Rant, we publish “Helicopters, Cover-Ups, and War Crimes,” a deeply disturbing piece by Jeffrey Klein and Paolo Pontoniere.
Jeffrey Klein is an investigative journalist and co-founder of the magazine Mother Jones. Paolo Pontoniere is author of the economic blog glocanomica, and a European commentator for New America Media. The country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations, New America Media was founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996.
Klein and Pontoniere write that the outrageously expensive contract for 28 new Marine One helicopters appears to be “a payoff to the Italian government for supplying the forged documents showing Saddam had obtained weapons grade uranium from Niger. President Bush famously used this fraudulent yellowcake’ intelligence to justify launching the war.” This is must-read material. Our thanks to New America Media for permission to publish it.