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  • Bush sacks Top Generals in preparation for an Iran attack
    13 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before the end of his rogue presidency, Bush seems determined to attack Iran.
    The evidence for that becomes clearer every day. Not only is there an ongoing military build-up in the Gulf area but, more ominously, he has now sacked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, who is known not only to oppose an attack on Iran but to be an opponent of the neocons’ plan for a Long or Generational War.
    If the Senate approves his nomination, Pace’s replacement will be Chief of (…)

  • Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent by Ralph Nader (COMMONDREAMS)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, May 19, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
    Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent
    by Ralph Nader
    The current issue of the UTNE Reader (May - June ‘07) carried a short but sensibly provocative article protesting the stagnation and the cul-de-sac nature of street protests that involve nonviolent civil disobedience.Joseph Hart, the author, asks why the current antiwar movement is so impotent, despite “a staggering 67 percent disapproval of President Bush’s handling (…)

  • Is Ralph Nader an Unreasonable Man? (ALTERNET)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is Ralph Nader an Unreasonable Man? By Chuleenan Svetvilas, AlterNet Printed on June 11, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/48983/
    What Is Ralph Nader’s Legacy? An Unreasonable Man tries to answer this question as it chronicles Ralph Nader’s life and career as a public interest attorney, consumer advocate, and presidential candidate. The two-hour documentary opens with a George Bernard Shaw quote: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to (…)

  • The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 11 June 2007
    America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
    From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has (…)

  • Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example ZNET
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example by Federico Fuentes; Green Left Weekly; June 11, 2007
    Under the banner of "For freedom of speech and against imperialism", hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on June 2 in defence of their revolution, and as a direct response to the domestic and international campaign being whipped up by Washington in the wake of the non-renewal of Radio Caracas TV’s (RCTV) broadcasting concession, dwarfing all (…)

  • Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    Near the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi King ibn Saud on the USS Quincy. It began a six decade relationship guaranteeing US access to what his State Department called a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history" - the region’s oil and huge amount of it in Saudi Arabia. Today, the Middle East has two-thirds of the world’s proved oil reserves (around 675 billion barrels) and the Caspian basin an (…)

  • US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First-Strike Threat
    By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
    Global Research, June 6, 2007
    These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, as explained in my book "The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence"
    By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And in any event what really matters here is the (…)

  • Italian Protest of Proposed New US Base Confronts Prime Minister
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was confronted by a hostile audience this week at an event in Trento, Italy, where he spoke at a conference on economics. The "No Dal Molin" movement from Vicenza, Italy, which is opposing the construction of a new U.S. military base protested outside the event and inside.
    In an attempt to satisfy the audience, the moderator permitted the citizen activist leader Cinzia Bottene to come on stage with Prodi and address him. She did so, and the people (…)

  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler: President and Attorney General are engaged in a criminal conspiracy
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, said today that there is no question that the warrantless wiretaping engaged in by the Bush Administration is a felony offense and that the President and Attorney General engaged in a criminal conspiracy worse than Watergate. Nadler was referring not to the mysterious program that the Acting Attorney General refused to support, but rather to the (…)

  • Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria By Chris Marsden (Global Research)
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
    By Chris Marsden
    Global Research, June 9, 2007 World Socialist Web Site
    The Bush administration has used discussions between Israeli Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to insist that there should be no talks between Israel and Syria.
    State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday June 6, “We’re (…)