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  • LEADING TO WAR, A New Film to See ead Download
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens – and to the wider world – the reasons an rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are employed? And how is a nation brought to support the profound decision to wage war against another nation? These are the questions that LEADING TO WAR seeks to explore.
    This 72-minute film shows the evolution of the United States government’s case for military action against (…)

  • A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    15 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    Great article below and great coverage of the recent U.S. independent trucker action. However it is inaccurate to translate "camionero" as "teamsters" since in the U.s. "teamsters" would be taken and "Teamsters’ Union". the truckers wert NOT members of the Teamsters Union and actually the Teamsters Union OPPOSED the independent trucker action.
    And much. much bigger independent trucker actions are planned for May Day 2008, of course.
    Will any (…)

  • United States is torturing children and then falsifying evidence against them (videos)
    14 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, born 19 September 1986 in Ottawa Canada, “has been detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps since he was captured at the age of 15 following a 2002 firefight between American troops and militants in Afghanistan.” He has been accused by the United States of “throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, leading to charges of war crimes and providing support to terrorism.” That, of course, is what the Bush administration is officially stating, the truth (…)

  • Ralph Nader on Environment Policies : "We’re All Screwed"
    14 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s only gotten worse since the 2000 Presidential Campaign.
    video:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18689501.html

  • Costs of war: US budgetary apocalypse
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An estimate of the cost of war in Iraq is US$12 billion per month, and in the meantime, demographic trends are creating a budgetary apocalypse, Shaun Waterman writes for ISN Security Watch.
    08 April 2008
    By Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (08/04/08)
    Before the 2006 election campaign, I asked a veteran congressional aide how Republicans would explain to voters the ruinous continuing costs of the war in Iraq.
    "They’ll just tell ’em the good news," he said. (…)

  • BUSHSPEAK (from Shakespeare)
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    To stay or not to stay, that is the question. Whether ’tis more politically expedient in fact to garner petroleum revenues for outrageous fortune...or to sell more arms in a sea of troubles.
    To die; to sleep; not us! we shall not slumber and will not cease this honypot endeavor.
    The heartache and the thousand natural shocks that sons and daughters on both sides are heir to..’tis a consumation devoutly to be wished, since profits multiply with their demise. To die, to sleep, perchance to (…)

  • Chavez: Castro Predicted Fall of Dollar
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez: Castro Predicted Fall of Dollar
    Thursday, April 10, 2008.
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his close friend Fidel Castro predicted the fall of the U.S. dollar. Chavez said Cuba’s 81-year-old former president mentioned the prediction some time ago before signs of a weakening dollar had begun to appear.
    "Fidel told me one day, ’Chavez, it won’t be long before the crisis of the dollar occurs,’" the Venezuelan leader said in a televised (…)

  • Bill Clinton 1998 : “Saddam has WMD & will use” (video, 1998)
    12 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bill Clinton Lie on Iraq WMD (video, 1998):
    "The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow."
    Bill Clinton in 1998
    video:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18607015.html

  • Ike’s Warning on Military-Industrial Complex Ignored
    10 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
    On April 6, 2008, I drove by the farm in Gettysburg, PA, that the late President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower called home after he retired from public office. The old warrior, loved by the people, would easily recognized it today, since little has changed over the years. Something, however, he wouldn’t recognize in 2008, is the Military-Industrial Complex. In his prophetic “Farewell Address” of 1961, President Eisenhower (…)

  • Germany’s Green Party Opens Chapter in Washington
    9 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    09.04.2008
    Germany’s Green Party is setting up a branch in the United States. The bottom-up initiative aims to bring a more international perspective to the party’s work and combat anti-Americanism among some members back home.
    The chapter is due to be officially founded next weekend in Washington DC. It hopes to tap into the experiences of the growing number of Germans working in the US capital in international organizations, foundations and think tanks, as well as in the media, the (…)