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  • Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama on Meet The Press (video)
    28 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24158169.html

  • Video: Courtroom Testimony that voting machines were hacked...
    28 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Courtroom Testimony that voting machines were hacked. America’s Democratic process is a joke. America is a fraud.
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21a_1225010361

  • US missile strike targets village in Pakistan
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Walker and agencies
    Source : The Guardian Monday October 27 2008
    A missile believed to have been fired from a US drone aircraft has killed up to 20 people in Pakistan’s South Waziristan border region, Pakistani officials said today.
    The strike targeted a house belonging to an aide to a local Taliban leader in what is thought to be a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida forces.
    Up to 20 bodies were found at the scene, intelligence officials, quoting local sources, said. (…)

  • Abortion: Government’s Choice?
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William John Cox
    Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).
    The pregnant woman is forcibly strapped to a Gurney and wheeled into the treatment room where her fetus is aborted and her fallopian tubes are tied. Why? A test has shown that the fetus has Down syndrome and she already has one living child. Where? (…)

  • Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    © BY ERIC WALBERG
    As the White House lame duck’s reign drags on, and political wars on the home front gather steam, it is pertinent we assess the legacy US President George W. Bush leaves us.
    Part 1 – Inferno
    Where to begin? The hell of Iraq and Afghanistan put everything else in the shadows. Those monstrous crimes will dominate the world’s agenda for decades to come. I have chosen here to deal with only a few major elements of the Bush (…)

  • Top World thinkers & writers sign Le Feyt Declaration for END to US-UK Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The “Le Feyt Declaration on Iraq” (see: ) demands the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces from illegally occupied Iraq and has been signed by eminent scholars, writers and professionals from around the world.
    Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. I was accordingly OBLIGED to add my name to the Le Feyt Declaration when invited to do so, the more so since I have been researching the avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that should not have happened) (…)

  • Bush Administration to violate law on DHS reports
    25 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.
    Administration told Congress it will skirt law on agency reports Last updated October 24, 2008 11:40 p.m. PT By CHARLIE SAVAGE THE NEW YORK TIMES
    The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and (…)

  • Cheney, Obama embrace family ties, reveales Cheney’s wife
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) — U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Barack Obama, a leading Democratic contender for the next presidency, are embracing a recent revelation that they have common ancestors, the Hill newspaper reported Friday.
    The family ties, which were first revealed by Cheney’s wife, Lynne, according to the report.
    When asked about the fact that he and Obama could trace back their ancestry to an immigrant couple from France, Cheney said that he and "cousin (…)

  • CHANGE, OR MORE OF THE SAME?
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David R. Hoffman
    In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about this reality.
    The memos, written in 2003 and 2004, were designed to alleviate the concerns of then-CIA director George Tenet that agents (…)

  • The Opium Of The Masses By Max Kantar (on Republicrats)
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    24 October, 2008 Countercurrents.org
    This November, Americans face a choice. But the choice not between John McCain or Barak Obama; it is between submitting to the will of the corporate-military establishment or taking a moral stand in boycotting their rigged institutions of fake democracy.
    Democracy, in any meaningful sense, is a system that allows people to have a say in decisions to the degree that they are affected. Do we have that? With popular support for the Bush administration (…)