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  • Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurie
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurier 20 June 2007
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    For more than 30 years, residents of Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, were exposed to contaminated water. From 1957 to 1987, Marines/Naval personnel, family members and civilians drank and used water (…)

  • Middle East : Iraq US military launches massive assault in Iraq (WSWS)
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq US military launches massive assault in Iraq By Bill Van Auken 20 June 2007
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    Backed by armored columns and helicopter gunships, some 10,000 US troops have launched a massive assault on the provincial capital of Baquba and other areas north and east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
    The operation, dubbed Arrowhead Ripper, is one of the largest since the US invasion of Iraq (…)

  • FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    GEAB N°16 is available! Global systemic crisis / Summer 2007 : Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU Public announcement GEAB N°16 (Special Summer 2007 issue - 23 pages!)
    This second quarter’s fundamental event about to shove most players’ anticipations over the coming months, is certainly the final and simultaneous failure of the two key-strategies defined by US leaders, i.e.:
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  • U.S. Is ‘Really in Trouble,’ Says Bloomberg
    19 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. Is ‘Really in Trouble,’ Says Bloomberg
    By DIANE CARDWELL Published: June 19, 2007
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18 — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, sounding every inch the presidential candidate he insists he is not, brought his message of pragmatic, nonpartisan leadership to California on Monday, telling a crowd of Google employees that the nation was “really in trouble.”
    In unusually stark terms, Mr. Bloomberg expressed his frustration with the state of the nation, touching on (…)

  • Stephen King: A crisis of faith among central bankers
    19 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stephen King: A crisis of faith among central bankers
    Published: 18 June 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article2670015.ece
    I’ll begin with a statement of the bleeding obvious. There are lots of things we simply don’t know. Those, in turn, can be split into the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns, to use the terminology famously employed by Donald Rumsfeld. Although he was ridiculed for his apparently unusual take on epistemology, his comments were, (…)

  • How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats By SUSAN ROSENTHAL
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats
    By SUSAN ROSENTHAL, M.D.
    Cindy Sheehan is the Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace. When her son Casey was killed in Iraq in the spring of 2004, she threw herself into the campaign to end the war.
    Sheehan became a thorn in the side of President Bush, following him wherever he went. She camped outside the White House and established "Camp Casey" next to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. Her challenge to the president was simple (…)

  • The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices By LEONARD PELTIER
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Racist Restrictions in the US Prison System The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices
    By LEONARD PELTIER
    Religious freedom is a fundamental right of all, including American Indians, yet the struggle to preserve and protect our religion has always been a difficult one. More so when incarcerated Native Americans are concerned who tend to be given second rate acknowledgement by prison officials and mainstream faiths.
    In 1984 Robert Wilson, (Standing Deer) Albert Garza and I (…)

  • Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
    By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
    I Had Enough?
    Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods (…)

  • The “Cloud” over Dick Cheney Just Got Darker!
    17 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It is an extraordinary subversion of the [U.S.] Constitution to send people to die...on the basis of a lie.” - Elizabeth Holtzman (1)
    There is a story told about a criminal defense lawyer, a colorful kind of character at the Maryland Bar, who has since gone on to his final reward. Supposedly, he comforted his guilty-as-hell client as the trial date approached by repeatedly telling him: “Don’t Worry! Everything will be all right!” Well, on the day of the trial, the trial judge assigned to (…)

  • Bio-electromagnetic Weapons: The ultimate weapon
    17 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Institute of Science in Society Global Research, May 29, 2007 ISIS Press Release, Harlan Girard
    A weapon system that operates at the speed of light, that can kill, torture, enslave and escape detection.
    A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members’ website.
    The ultimate weapon
    Electromagnetic weapons operate at the speed of light; they can kill, torture and enslave; but the public are largely unaware that they exist, because these weapons operate by (…)