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  • Like Dubya : Pelosi, Clinton and Mikulski Deserve Boos, Too!
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The Iraq War is the greatest strategic mistake in our history.” - Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA, (Rtd.)
    On March 30, 2008, President George W. Bush tossed out the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener of the Washington Nationals. He was roundly booed by the capacity crowd. He is easily the worse chief executive in the history of the Republic. Bush, with V.P. Dick Cheney and their mob, lied the country into the Iraq War. If you’re keeping count, it was 935 damnable lies! (1) As a (…)

  • Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
    By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret. – 2 April 2008
    Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It is an honor to appear before you again. The last occasion was in January 2007, when the topic was the troop surge. Today you are asking if it has worked. Last year I rejected the claim that it was a new strategy. Rather, I said, it is a new tactic used to achieve the same old strategic aim, political (…)

  • We’re Sitting In at the House Judiciary Committee Office Right Now
    4 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    A dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink are the leaders here. Laurel Jensen is here, and Michael Heaney, Thalia Doukas, Darryl Love, Ed Dickau, Michael Beer, Jes Richardson, Mike Marceau, Dan... People are joining us every few minutes. We’re sitting around in the main room of the office. We have two video cameras going, and we’re discussing...
    10:40 Actually, a (…)

  • ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
    In a February 22 letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent (…)

  • Meeting With the House Judiciary Committee Staff on Impeachment Thursday Morning
    3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Meeting With the House Judiciary Committee Staff on Impeachment Thursday Morning
    By David Swanson
    This is not an April Fool’s joke. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink led a delegation to the House Judiciary Committee office on Wednesday in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2138. They sat down and refused to leave, were permitted to stay, and spoke with the good staff people there about the need to impeach Vice President Cheney before, rather than after, an attack on (…)

  • Paul Craig ROBERTS : A Third American War in the Making?
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
    If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression—a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard—by the Bush Regime could be prevented.
    On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited "a (…)

  • Ralph NADER : Put Impeachment Back on the Table (CounterPunch)
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Open Letter to John Conyers
    Chairman John Conyers House Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20510
    Dear Chairman Conyers:
    Prominent Constitutional law experts believe President Bush has engaged in at least, five categories of repeated, defiant "high crimes and misdemeanors", which separately or together would allow Congress to subject the President to impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution. The sworn oath of members of (…)

  • USA 2008: The Great Depression
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    USA 2008: The Great Depression
    Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis
    By David Usborne in New York
    Tuesday, 1 April 2008
    We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of (…)

  • Ralph NADER : The Silent Violence of Gaza’s Suffering That Candidates ignore
    31 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world’s largest prison—Gaza prison with 1.5 million inmates, many of them starving, sick and penniless—is receiving more sympathy and protest by Israeli citizens, of widely impressive backgrounds, than is reported in the U.S. press.
    In contrast, the humanitarian crisis brought about by Israeli government blockades that prevent food, medicine, fuel and other necessities from coming into this tiny enclave through international relief organizations is received with (…)

  • Two Movies and Three Documentaries for Our Times
    30 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    1984 - “After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother’s listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...” Nineteen Eighty-Four (1:50:29)
    The Road to Guantanamo - “Part drama, part (…)