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  • Recession, Energy Worries Turn Americans Gloomier, Poll Finds
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Benjamin
    Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — Confidence in the economy continues to erode, with expectations of a recession growing and a solid majority of Americans now saying the economy is doing poorly, according to a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey.
    The growing pessimism is being driven by higher energy costs, the weakening dollar and fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis. To stem foreclosures, most Americans want the government to require lenders to freeze interest rates on (…)

  • Bush Drops Standard on Iran as Credibility Questioned
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Drops Standard on Iran as Credibility Questioned
    By Ken Fireman and Jeff Bliss – Bloomberg.com December 5, 2007
    President George W. Bush, his credibility under fire because of intelligence that Iran halted its nuclear weapons drive in 2003, adopted a new argument yesterday to justify tougher sanctions: Just knowing how to produce a bomb is dangerous.
    Bush, speaking at a White House news conference, said a new report by U.S. intelligence agencies concluding that Iran halted its (…)

  • Voices of the Iraq War Dissenters Ring Out
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “One’s first obligation is to the moral truth buried deep inside our own souls.” - Ex-Private First Class Joshua Key, U.S. Army (1)
    From soldiers in the U.S. Army, who refused to be deployed to Iraq; to diplomats who resigned their offices rather than endorse an illegal war; to courageous whistleblowers inside the U.S. and British governments, who put themselves at risk to tell the truth about the lies that took their countries to war; this book has it all, and more. Entitled: “Dissent: (…)

  • DECLARATION OF WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE (LONDON, DECEMBER 1st)
    4 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    This conference of delegates from peace, anti-war, anti-imperialist and liberation movements across the world declares its opposition to the “endless war” prosecuted by the US government against states, peoples and movements in all parts of our planet.
    We oppose the interference of the US and its allies in sovereign states, and assert the right of all peoples to self-determination. We support all people fighting for peace and against imperialism.
    In particular, we demand:
    * An (…)

  • GEORGE W. BUSH’S ATTEMPT TO CLOAK FOR IRAN/CONTRA
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Operation Black Eagle : google it and you’ll find that the Bush Cabal has tried to connect it to operations being carried out by US troops in Iraq and, they’ve done a damn fine job of it too...
    Don’t be fooled!
    The Coke was Stored in Hangars 4 and 5 Operation Black Eagle became a network of 5000 people who made possible the export of arms in the direction of Central America, and the import of drugs ... in other words, IRAN/CONTRA www.freedomdomain.com/drugwars/contra01.html - 16k - (…)

  • US forces pillage, destroy humanity’s most ancient artifacts in occupied Iraq
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An-Nasiriyah
    Iraqi Resistance Report for 12/1/2007
    140,000 ancient relics officially recorded as having been stolen or destroyed since US invasion in spring 2003
    In a dispatch posted at 9:54pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces were continuing to destroy, rob, and smuggle ancient Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts despite opposition by UNESCO, Iraqi intellectuals, and even the attempts by the American-installed "Iraqi Ministry of Culture" to stop (…)

  • O’Malley Hugs Olmert, While USS Liberty Is Forgotten
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Time’s glory is...to wrong the wronger, till he render right.” - William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon
    On Nov. 27, 2007, an ultra-hyped, one-day Mideast parley was held in Annapolis, MD, the capital of the state. This is also where the U.S. Naval Academy is located. The idea that the hawkish Bush-Cheney Gang is going to successfully broker an Israel/Palestine peace is absurd. In a show-off-like gesture Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley invited Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for (…)

  • BILL CLINTON, ANTI WAR ??? by FAIR
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
    Times, Post and Bill Clinton’s dishonesty slide
    The New York Times and Washington Post (11/28/07) both failed to adequately challenge the dishonesty of former President Bill Clinton’s declaration that he had been opposed to the Iraq War "from the beginning." Clinton, in fact, was a supporter of the war, both before the invasion and in the first year or so of the fighting.
    In the Times’ words, though, Clinton’s new stance was just "more (…)

  • Who Your Friends Are,Says a Lot About You
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Who Your Friends Are,Says a Lot About You By David Glenn Cox
    President Bush said “a fledgling democratic movement that he sees spreading through the Middle East is essential to defeating terrorism, and warned Syria and Iran against thwarting the "momentum of freedom" and fomenting instability in the region.
    "The chances of democratic progress in the broader Middle East have seemed frozen in place for decades," Bush said at the National Defense University at Fort McNair. "Yet, at last, (…)

  • IRAQ: 120 WAR VETS COMMIT SUICIDE EACH WEEK
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Penny Coleman, ALTERNET November 26, 2007.
    The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
    Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the (…)