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  • VENEZUELA: Another CIA sponsored Coup D’Etat?
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Prof James PETRAS
    Venezuela’s D-Day: Democratic Socialism or Imperial Counter-Revolution The December 2, 2007 Constituent Referendum
    On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday (December 2, 2007). The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the head of (…)

  • America: No Country for Old Men
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The evil...in man...is of gigantic proportions.” - Carl G. Jung
    Baltimore, MD - On Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, my wife and I went to the new movie theatre in town. It’s called, the “Landmark,” and it is located in the Inner Harbor area, just south of one of my favorite neighborhoods, “Little Italy.” The film we chose to see was “No Country for Old Men,” produced and directed by the talented Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. It is based on the best selling novel, penned in 2005, by Cormac (…)

  • inconvenient Peace Prize
    27 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    THIS YEAR’S Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.
    The other award winner, former US vice president Al Gore, has spent much more time telling us what to fear. While the IPCC’s estimates and conclusions are grounded in careful study, Gore doesn’t seem to be similarly (…)

  • Mike Gravel unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bravely speaks truth to power
    26 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This past Thanksgiving weekend, upon visiting a mall, I witnessed every day Americans coming together to support our troops overseas in Iraq and even Afghanistan. The volunteers manning this booth were collecting donated items and they in turn were packaging individual boxes to be shipped via Fed-Ex. These packages were being sent to our troops in time for the holidays. In seeing that display of true compassion, again in my mind, I screamed: They did not have to be there in the first (…)

  • Time to Wake-up and Save America is Now: Interview with Naomi Wolf (video)
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Naomi Wolf’s essays have appeared in numerous publications including, ‘The New Republic’, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Glamour’, ‘Ms’, ‘Esquire’, ‘Washington Post’, and ‘The New York Times’, she is also the author of numerous books including the international best seller, ‘The Beauty Myth’, ‘Fire with Fire: the New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century’, ‘Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood’, ‘The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, (…)

  • No trace found for thousands of manuscripts U.S. troops discovered in 2003
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    azzaman.com By Mohammed Dhaher Azzaman, November 19, 2007
    Thousands of manuscripts have disappeared among them priceless copies of the Holy Koran, an Iraqi librarian said.
    The librarian, who wanted his name kept secret, said the manuscripts were “expropriated” by a U.S.-led force shortly after the 2003 invasion of Baghdad.
    The former government had moved the manuscripts from the national library shelves to a cellar close to the Umm al-Teboul mosque in Baghdad for fear of damage or (…)

  • A Vote of No Confidence in America’s Leaders
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Contact: Doug Gavel (617) 495-1115 • News Office
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    November 12, 2007
    A Vote of No Confidence in America’s Leaders, According to the 2007 National Leadership Index Growing concern about an across-the-board ‘leadership crisis’
    A new survey reveals a profound and growing unhappiness among Americans with their current leaders, not only in politics but in nearly every sphere. More than three quarters of the public (77%) (…)

  • Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sherwood Ross November 19, 2007
    By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
    So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."
    "More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (…)

  • Are US allies abandoning a sinking ship?
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three countries that have been allied with the United States are rapidly trying to distance themselves from what appears to be a sinking ship.
    First “Turkey on Tuesday signed an agreement with neighboring Iran for joint power production projects despite U.S. pressure against investment in the Islamic Republic.
    “Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler played down U.S. discontent with flourishing energy cooperation between its NATO ally Turkey and Iran, saying more agreements would be (…)

  • U.S. Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has stepped up chartering of tankers and requests for extra fuel in the U.S. Central Command area, which includes the Gulf, shipping and oil industry sources say.
    23 Nov 2007 11:07:33 GMT Source: Reuters
    By Stefano Ambrogi
    A Gulf oil industry source said the charters suggested there would be high naval activity, possibly including a demonstration to Iran that the U.S. Navy will protect the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route during tensions (…)