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  • Karen Armstrong on Religion and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Man is kind enough when he is not excited by Religion." - Mark Twain.
    Washington, D.C. - On a rainy, windy afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007, before a capacity audience at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, only a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, Karen Armstrong, a distinguished author, Feminist and scholar, addressed the potent issue of religion as it impacts on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event was sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), a feisty grassroots group, with (…)

  • USA Disses UN Human Food Rights
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    USA Disses UN Human Food Rights
    United Nations, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina)
    The government of President George W. Bush shamed the United States into international isolation after it rejected a UN resolution defending the human right to food.
    After a week of UN debates on humanitarian affairs, US diplomats were the only ones to vote against a resolution supporting the Right to Food.
    The related text was sponsored by an unusual majority of 131 countries, and another 44 UN member states (…)

  • “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 18, 2006
    http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm
    “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred
    It’s working.
    We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”
    “V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money (…)

  • THE LAST MESSAGE OF MALACHI RITSCHER
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE LAST MESSAGE OF MALACHI RITSCHER
    http://www.savagesound.com/gallery99.htm mission statement
    My actions should be self-explanatory, and since in our self-obsessed culture words seldom match the deed, writing a mission statement would seem questionable. So judge me by my actions. Maybe some will be scared enough to wake from their walking dream state - am I therefore a martyr or terrorist? I would prefer to be thought of as a ’spiritual warrior’. Our so-called leaders are the real (…)

  • WHY MEDIA HIDE THE SUICID PROTEST OF MALACHI RITSCHER
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I read to day ,in the french diary"Le Monde", this information :Emotion après l’immolation d’un musicien à Chicago pour protester contre la guerre en Irak( Emotion as a musician of Chicago immolate himself to protest against the war in Irak) .
    http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-834560,0.html
    When the monks in Vietnam did this all the world had information . When Jan Palach in Czechoslovakia every body knew it .
    We have to now and remember the act of Malachi Ritscher whose last (…)

  • To Elliot Spitzer and the Democratic Majority, the people’s needs must come before impeachment
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Elliot Spitzer and the Democratic Majority, the people’s needs must come before impeachment
    By Mary MacElveen November 18, 2006
    There is a big lesson for us all as one reads E.J. Dionne’s piece Remember who sent you in which he speaks to the new Democratic majority of why they were elected to take over both houses of congress and also this piece once again reaffirms my original belief that those across America did not vote for this new majority to get their pound of flesh through an (…)

  • Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror - by Katherine Hughes (submitted by Stephen Lendman)
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror: Muslim Charities and the Case of Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir By Katherine Hughes “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’” Martin Luther King, Jr.[1] “The truth shall set you free? Maybe. But first the Truth must be set free.”
    Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, (…)

  • US is top purveyor on weapons sales list - Shipments grow to unstable areas
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US is top purveyor on weapons sales list - Shipments grow to unstable areas
    By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | November 13, 2006
    WASHINGTON — The United States last year provided nearly half of the weapons sold to militaries in the developing world, as major arms sales to the most unstable regions — many already engaged in conflict — grew to the highest level in eight years, new US government figures show.
    According to the annual assessment, the United States supplied $8.1 billion worth (…)

  • HERE’S YOUR PATRIOT ACT - WATCH THE VIDEO
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UCLA Student is TASERED because he would not show ID or get up for campus police.
    Try these websites for decent AntiWar Anti-Dictatorship Act (’Patriot Act’) people.
    homepage
    AND
    homepage
    OR IF IT DOENSN’T TAKE YOU THERE THEN GO TO - - http://360.yahoo.com/profile-Nf6j_0wzbqqP9df0PwLX1XlZ5Q—?cq=1
    and here - - http://truthfulnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/
    1984 IS HERE - WITH ALL THE EXTRA POWER OF TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION GOON SQUADS TO USE ON YOU, YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR (…)

  • To the Victors Belongs Impunity
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Of Incorrigible Transgressors, Tacit Complicity, and Lady Justice’s Conspicuous Absence
    By Jason Miller
    “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
    Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
    Baghdad’s kangaroo court has issued a verdict that virtually guarantees that Saddam Hussein will launch his journey into the hereafter from the platform of a gallows. Convicted of “revenge killings of 148 people, deportation of 400, and razing of (…)