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  • Let’s get this straight, 60 Minutes lies and the Ray Gun kills: the truth about the Active Denial System
    9 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The following is a CBS 60 Minutes segment on Pentagon’s latest torture weapon, a heat wave gun referred to as the Active Denial System (ADS).
    Either the producers of this propaganda video, disguised as news, blatantly lied to the American public, or they are completely incompetent. I would like to rip this video apart and analysis it piece-by-piece but I will refrain from doing so and will try to remain focused on the main topic.
    ADS, the Ray Gun, is a lethal weapon. As Dave Gaubatz, (…)

  • Oil, Unemployment Double Whammy Rocks Wall St.
    7 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Originally published at Money Daily
    Before Friday’s session even began, there was dire news from the Dept. of Labor. With the release of the Non-Farms Payroll data for May - which showed a loss of 49,000 jobs and an increase in the unemployment rate to a ghastly 5.5% - stock futures tanked and when the market opened, the Dow was immediately down 150 points.
    As the day wore on, further declines in the value of the US dollar and a monstrous spike in the price of oil - up $10.75, to a (…)

  • Prosecute Bush for Murder Tonight
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prosecute Bush for Murder Tonight
    By David Swanson
    Tonight, June 5th, from 8-9 p.m. ET, I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Vincent Bugliosi, author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder." Let’s figure out how to do this together.
    Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more.
    Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/... to listen live.
    You’ll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions. You can also phone (…)

  • McCain’s Greatest Enemy
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    So, the Presidential campaign has begun in earnest, the policies, the politics, the personalities. The character assassinations, the implications, the reflexive comments and the unsaid innuendo, but for just a moment lets drop back into a huddle. We, as a species, tend to become overwrought and miss the obvious, outside of the politics, outside of party; we tend over-complicate, while dreaming of flight we forget about gravity.
    We forget the inescapable, the Democrats (…)

  • Voice of the White House June 2, 2008
    4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voice of the White House June 2, 2008
    TBR News.org – June 2, 2008
    “My colleague here showed me an overview, official study concerning U.S. detainees. It is not generally known to the public but the U.S government now has over 30,000 (31,082 as of May 19, 2008 ) people in secret custody, all over the world.
    An official U.S. program of torture and ‘rendition’ has been going on since before 9/11 and has never stopped. A number, estimated to be approximately 3,500, have been killed (…)

  • First Web 2.0 President?
    4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The NYT leads this morning with "Obama Claims Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket." You can see from my headline that I put a different emphasis. I’m not one of those politically correct, color-blind people who finds it indelicate to mention race or ethnicity. I think those categories are largely socially constructed, but I don’t deny that once they have been constructed, they have social and political significance. US urban politics can’t possibly be understood (…)

  • David McCullough, at Boston College, Sees No Evil
    3 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “It is the responsibility of the intellectual to speak the truth and to expose lies.” - Noam Chomsky
    On May 19, 2008, David McCullough, acclaimed author and gifted historian, gave the commencement address at Boston College, a Jesuit institution. His message to the graduating class centered on the “Love of Learning.” (1) He sharply criticized the misuse of the English language and urged the students to “cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation.” Mr. (…)

  • The Substance Of Obama’s Liberalism
    2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John PILGER
    In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968.
    Source: bvar22.iwarp.com
    Having traveled with Kennedy up to the moment of his shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, I heard The Speech many times. He would "return government to the people" and bestow "dignity and justice" on the (…)

  • NADER : Why McCain, Obama, Clinton haven’t signed onto cluster bombs ban Bill?
    1 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 29 2008: 111 countries agreed on a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs, except the USA, Israel, India and China. (+ videos)
    Nader.org Friday, May 30, 2008
    Presidential candidate Ralph Nader wants to know why Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton have not signed onto legislation, S. 594, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, that would serve as a de facto ban on the use and export of nearly all of the one billion cluster bombs in the U.S. Stockpile.
    The bill has 21 Senate (…)

  • Guantanamo Bay judge relieved of duties after threatening to suspend proceedings
    31 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The military judge in the Omar Khadr trial in Guantanamo Bay has been relieved of his duties, a move that Mr. Khadr’s defence counsel implied is a result of the judge siding with the defence on a number of evidence-disclosure issues in the controversial military tribunal case.”
    Omar Khadr is the Canadian child soldier that the United States government has been holding captive in Guantanamo Bay for the last six years.
    “Mr. Khadr’s U.S. military defence lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Bill (…)