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  • Noam CHOMSKY: Manufacturing Consent (videos)
    17 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22881851.html

  • Western Mainstream Media IGNORE real 9-11 crime: 9-11 million Bush War deaths from Haiti to Afghanistan
    17 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On September 16 2008, the major US Mainstream media organization MSNBC had the Headline: “2008 a deadly year for Afghan civilians. More than 1,400 killed so far in attacks by insurgents, U.S. and NATO” (see: ).
    This represents a HUGE UNDER-ESTIMATE of civilian deaths in US-, UK-, NATO- and Australia-occupied Afghanistan. Thus it can be estimated from authoritative UN and medical literature data that EACH YEAR in Occupied Afghanistan under-5 infant deaths ALONE total 327,000 - 90%, i.e. (…)

  • SARAH PALIN: BUSH DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
    16 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 16, 2008
    SARAH PALIN: BUSH DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
    John Chuckman
    Sarah Palin is not qualified for high office, and she has proved it in two interviews, if you were listening, but it was equally clear eight years ago that George Bush was not qualified for high office, and many Americans were not listening.
    The excitement generated around Palin is just as though America were again embracing George Bush – a younger, prettier version of the most incompetent person ever to hold (…)

  • Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
    16 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
    Part 1
    By Nick Beams 16 April 2008 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/nbe1-a16.shtml
    The following is the first part of a report delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia and a member of the World Socialist Web Site international editorial board, to public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on April 9 and 15. Part 2 and Part 3 of the report will be published on (…)

  • Japan criticizes US crisis management
    16 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Japan criticizes US crisis management
    Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:18:37 GMT
    Japan’s premiership hopeful, Taro Aso, has criticized Washington’s failure to prevent the collapse of American financial institutions.
    “There are doubts as to whether taking no action and leaving the matter unattended is the right approach," said Aso, quoted by Japan’s Jiji Press news agency.
    Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Kaoru Yosano, who is also running for the premiership, said the crisis will strike (…)

  • Celebrating Evil with PBS’s Monica Crowley
    15 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saakashvili is a war criminal who ordered the indiscriminate murder of our civilian populace, a crime warranting death anywhere, just ask ourselves. It’s called mass murder.
    Celebrating Evil with PBS’s Monica Crowley
    Our PBS’s Monica Crowley "to somehow suggest that we went into Iraq without the conditions in the second part of the Bush Doctrine, which is: diplomacy, lead time, going to the United Nations, giving a nation like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, all of the benefit of the (…)

  • Man of Peace Swimming against the Current
    15 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    For the first time, since the U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on November 27 last year re-launched the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations, which were interrupted by the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 after the collapse of the Camp David trilateral summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out for the first time on record in Cairo on September 6 to “doubt” striking a peace deal with Israel “by the end of the year because very little time is left;" on September 10 he (…)

  • THE PERILS OF VISERAL VOTING
    15 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One could almost envisage John McCain’s cheshire grin as his strategists whispered into his ear: “Voters are basically stupid. It’s not about substance; it’s about style. It’s not about knowing the issues; it’s about appealing to the worst in human nature, while pretending you’re appealing to the best.”
    “Think about it John! Voters have elected movie and television stars to governorships, to Congress, and even to the presidency. Oftentimes, if those stars die while in office, voters (…)

  • Is the “Mega” Spy Case Headed for Hollywood?
    15 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Spies are...a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors...sadists and drunkards.” - John le Carre, author.
    In May, 2008, an ex-U.S. military engineer, Ben-Ami Kadish, age 84, was charged in Federal Court with four counts of conspiracy for passing classified, defense-related documents to the Israelis. The foul deeds supposedly happened over 20 years ago. The Feds contend that Kadish’s case has ties to the matter of the convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. (1) In 1986, Pollard got a (…)

  • Ralph NADER and the Russia/Georgia Conflict
    12 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    2008 Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader responds to a question from the audience about the Russia/Georgia conflict. Excerpted from the Open the Debates super rally in Minneapolis on September 4, 2008.