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Your marriage was supposed to last forever. You intended to live with your partner forever, saying, "until death do us part." Unfortunately, marriages end. Marriages end, and it is okay. Couples sometimes grow apart over time. They start functioning like roommates instead of romantic partners. If you are there or almost there, you have options. The Law Office of Julia M. Pendleton helps clients navigate the following challenges: Find a Qualified Divorce Lawyer in Greensboro North Carolina Your partner may have initiated divorce proceedings against you, or you may have begun the process. Either way, you need a Greensboro North Carolina divorce lawyer to guide you through the process smoothly. The lawyer should have experience and knowledge of state laws. The state is a no-fault jurisdiction. Here, either party may seek a divorce without proving the other party acted wrongly. It also means you can get a divorce even if your spouse does not agree to the end of the marriage. Consulting a Greensboro Domestic Law Attorney Even at the initial stage of divorce proceedings, you may face a domestic charge. The charges may be severe, such as those related to assaults, harassment, threats, and domestic violence, and require the intervention of a Greensboro domestic lawyer. Such accusations can have a severe impact on your life. It is advisable to consult a lawyer as soon as possible.

CounterPunch by Greg Palast (South End Press, 2002) offers a scathing critique of the Bush administration's actions even before the events of September 11, 2001. Palast, a journalist working for BBC and The Guardian, digs through what he calls "covert operations' involving Enron (prior to its collapse) and the Bin Laden family. He sees both in Iran after the Islamic revolution and later the Carlysle company, whose board members include James Baker III, the senior counselor to the President,former Senator David Boren and former Secretary of State Frank Carlucci. Palast believes Carlysle capitalizes on tax breaks, then trades on the political connections of its members to get defense contracts in other countries, such as propositioning Saudi Prince Bandar. The Clintons also come under fire from Palast; he asserts that until Monica Lewinsky entered President Clinton's life, the Clinton administration was more generous when it came to military aid to Indonesia but reduced funding for enforcement of labor rights in the same region. Palast's criticisms of the Bush administration lack fact instead account for their dealings with both as playing out in the Middle East is after Bush's inauguration, which linked the Bin Laden family and Enron. He spends the rest of the book further critiquing Bush's Presidency, sharing in no uncertain terms his dissatisfaction with the Commander-in-Chief and his colleagues. While the volume collects previously published articles and creates a disorganized narrative as a whole, reflecting newspaper column compilations with multiple authors, the general goal of such a volume is to persuade those who may not consider all events as they unfold in what the media and the White House call the "War on Terrorism." Palast's book CounterPunch provides distilling and extensive information, even for those web smart few from its original newspaper columns to fill the gap in understanding the politics of today. But knowing that headlines tell the stories of day-to-day events, detailed analysis commentary can be less accurate. Even when Palast's motivations for writing such a book are pure and patriotic as he claimed, his methods create reasonable doubt, thus the overall book leaves informed readers wary and undeniably troubled as the United States continues on its trajectory.