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  • Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
    4 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
    · Biden says criminal violations will be pursued · Democrats have issued subpoenas to Bush aides · 3 staffers have been held in contempt of Congress
    Elana Schor in Washington
    guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 03 2008 19:32 BST
    Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
    Biden’s (…)

  • VIDEO TO COMMEMORATE 9/11: LOOSE CHANGE: FINAL CUT
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598

  • Whose Streets?
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Our Streets!
    “Anarchist Tackles Cop, Frees Demonstrator at RNC”
    Could this be the beginning of a revolution?
    “Trip! - Whose Streets?”
    Or is this a continuation of a long hard struggle…
    “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
    to stop Fascism!
    “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
    Based on the following Youtube comment for the first video, it appears that many are serious about what is happening:
    * All those fucking hippies standing around chanting, and all it took was ‘one’ brave anarchist to (…)

  • U.S. DATA ON GROWTH EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. DATA ON GROWTH EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE It is false that it has a kind
    By Karl Weiss
    An article in the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) ironically sarkastischer way in the publication of the U.S. government, in the second quarter of 2008 had a growth rate of gross national product (exactly: Gross National Product, GNP) of 3.3%. The title of the article spottet on the investors: "They still want to believe" and the other is tough figures shows: The U.S. economy is already in crisis, the (…)

  • Schooling: Liberation or Mind Control?
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Schooling: Liberation or Mind Control?
    BY RICHARD HEINBERG
    If there were no age-specific and obligatory learning institution, “childhood” would go out of production. The youth of rich nations would be liberated from its destructiveness, and poor nations would cease attempting to rival the childishness of the rich. If society were to outgrow its age of childhood, it would have to become livable for the young. The present disjunction between an adult society which pretends to be humane and (…)

  • Free eBook: Body Of Secrets: Anatomy Of The Ultra-Secret National Security Agency by James Bamford
    2 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    DESCRIPTION Everybody knows about the CIA—the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. Its home office in Maryland "contains what is probably the largest body of secrets ever created."
    Little was (…)

  • "Whoever takes up the sword, will - at the end - perish by the sword": A play with fire
    2 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the big Politshow Denver Democrats in the U.S. was unanimously Barack Obama became the first African-American presidential candidate. This ended the dispute, whether with the first woman or black the first time in accordance with the spirit of the race for the seemingly most powerful post in the world wanted to go. The New York Times dampened on 28 August the more expensive erkauften jubilation with the words, the goal is "to bring a lofty candidacy to ground level", an exuberant (…)

  • Holding Murderers Accountable: The Case Against Bush, Cheney, et al
    2 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although Americans have access to the greatest selection of information sources in the world, including books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable, and the Internet, the frequency of the news cycle has increased to the point where we have forgotten that our president and vice president have committed horrendous war crimes, or we may have missed the fact as it flashed by.
    Most of us may have been fleetingly aware in 2006 that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were lying (…)

  • Mussolini’s Fascism, this is what it looks like
    1 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the “Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism,” once said: “the keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
    Just in case we needed a little reminder of what Mussolini meant and what Fascism really looks like, below is a photo from the (…)

  • ’America’s Outrageous War Economy!’
    1 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’America’s Outrageous War Economy!’ Pentagon can’t find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on ’national defense’
    By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Last update: 7:27 p.m. EDT Aug. 18, 2008
    ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, America’s economy is a war economy. Not a "manufacturing" economy. Not an "agricultural" economy. Nor a "service" economy. Not even a "consumer" economy. Seriously, I looked into your eyes, America, saw deep into your soul. So let’s get honest and officially call (…)