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  • It’s a Small World After All
    12 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s a Small World After All By David Glenn Cox
    Here we are on this God forsaken mud ball orbiting a second rate sun on a Cul de Sac set off in a back water solar system, light years from the main road of the universe. Perhaps that’s why some choose to treat us as if we just fell off the proton truck from Pluto. The belief that we literally don’t know the difference between shit and shinola or the difference between impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.
    CBS the only American (…)

  • BOYCOTT OF COUNTRYWIDE - ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST ACTIONS
    12 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BOYCOTT OF COUNTRYWIDE - ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST ACTIONS
    (Jamaica Plain, MA) - On Thursday October 11th at 12:00 p.m. at NACA’s headquarters (3593 Washington Street, J.P, MA), a nationwide boycott of Countrywide Financial Corporation will begin. The boycott of the nation’s leading mortgage lender is being led nationally by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (“NACA”) and locally by the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Predatory Lenders. NACA is working with other local (…)

  • Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S
    Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:42pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
    Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, (…)

  • The People vs. the Profiteers
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Consider the case of Grayson’s client Bud Conyers, a big, bearded 43-year-old who lives with his ex-wife and her nine children, four of them his, in Enid, Oklahoma. Conyers worked in Iraq as a driver for Kellogg, Brown & Root. Spun off by Halliburton as an independent concern in April, KBR is the world’s fifth-largest construction company. Before the war started, the Pentagon awarded it two huge contracts: one, now terminated, to restore the Iraqi oil industry, and another, still in (…)

  • HOW BRAVELY COWARDS WAGE WAR
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A popular movie catchphrase from the Blaxploitation era of the 1970s proclaimed: “The Mob wanted Harlem. They got SHAFT.”
    In today’s America there is a similar catchphrase: “The people voted for change in the last election. They got the SHAFT.”
    This reality lends credence to the late Che Guevara’s theory that democracy is simply an illusion designed to quash the impetus for meaningful social change. As long as the masses are duped into believing that the electoral process is capable (…)

  • SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and Twenty Blows to the Head
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and Twenty Blows to the Head By James Nimmo
    (OKLAHOMA CITY) As we approach the ninth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard (October 12, 1998) it’s neither sentimental nor maudlin but realistic to reflect on two festering sores that have finally broken open this past month in the Congress. Their maturation has been a long time reaching this point but I’m afraid suppuration will begin again from the re-infection and contamination by the homo-haters that are (…)

  • State Department Hired Corrupt Contractor To Build U.S. Embassy In Iraq
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Should we really expect anything better of them?
    The State Department has come under intense criticism recently for its lavish $592-million embassy in Iraq. The embassy complex will have a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs will total $1.2 billion a year.
    At a July hearing, the State Department official overseeing the construction assured Congress that the project was “on schedule and on budget” and bragged about the “extremely high quality of construction.” Yet the cost of the (…)

  • One of the main reasons behind the collapse of the US Dollar: Why the US wants to attack Iran
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The Bush administration may be highlighting accusations that the Iranian government is behind attacks in Iraq in order to strengthen its hand in preparing for military strikes on Iran, according to a leading British think-tank.”
    This analysis suggesting that the US is using Iran as a scapegoat for it’s failures in Iraq came as Iran stated that it would not succumb to “enemy” efforts to halt its nuclear program, while the US deployed its armada in the Persian Gulf earlier this year. (…)

  • Blackwater - at it again
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    .... Shopkeeper Ammar Fallah, a witness to the shooting, told AFP the guards, who were escorting a civilian convoy through the streets, signalled for a woman driving a car to pull over as they passed.
    "When she failed to do so they opened fire, killing her and the woman next to her," he said. "There were two children in the back seat but they were not harmed. The women were both shot in the head." ......
    "Winning the hearts and minds", or blowing their brains out if not. (…)

  • US forces torture Press TV reporter
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press TV correspondent in Afghanistan, Fayez Khurshid has said that he was tortured by US forces after his illegal detention last night.
    According to Khurshid, foreign soldiers stopped him on the way home, grabbed him by the collar and asked if he was a member of the IRGC (The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) and worked for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    The Afghan journalist was rendered unconscious by a taser and taken to a US base where the officers in charge of (…)