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  • Black Civic Groups Having D.C. Vigil Urging Vote to Renew Voting Rights Act
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Michael H. Cottman
    A broad coalition of civil rights groups will gather Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill for an "urgent call to action" to pressure the U.S. Congress to stop stalling and vote on the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
    Black leaders say because congressional lawmakers have delayed voting on the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act, many black Americans could find their right to vote in jeopardy.
    "We are urging Congress to take action now," Melanie Campbell, (…)

  • Serpent’s Egg By Chris Floyd
    14 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/14/120.html
    Over and over, the Bush regime and its media apologists have peddled the same mendacious line in defense of their war crime in Iraq: "We’re fighting the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them over here." But in fact the occupation is breeding a cadre of vicious terrorists intent on bringing death and destruction back home to America’s streets, using the deadly skills they’ve learned — in the U.S. military. (…)

  • Joe Wilson’s Response To Robert Novak Column
    14 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Joe Wilson’s Response To Robert Novak Column Posted by SusanUnPC on behalf of Ambassador Joseph Wilson Thursday, 13 July 2006 UPDATE FROM LARRY JOHNSON:
    Many thanks to Susan for getting this story up. I just got to a computer and wanted to add a couple of notes. First, Robert Novak has been repeating the nonsense that he learned Valerie’s name because he looked her up in Who’s Who. Excuse me? If you looked up Valerie in Who’s Who back in July 2001 it said nothing, I repeat NOTHING, (…)

  • US Policy In Lebanon
    14 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Policy In Lebanon By Ray Close || a former CIA analyst in the Near East division || Member, Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (sent via Larry Johnson, and posted by SusanUnPC) Thursday, July 13, 2006 Dear Friends:
    Not surprisingly, some (not all) of my Israeli and American Jewish friends have objected strenuously to my characterization of Israel’s response to recent Hamas and Hizballah actions as disproportionate and counterproductive.
    Let me make it (…)

  • PLO-U.S. Connection: Time to Make or Break
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PLO-U.S. Connection: Time to Make or Break
    By Nicola Nasser*
    Several indicators have shown recently how fragile has been the “connection” between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the United States. And because Washington could deliver but won’t and the Palestinian people could not be held forever hostage to waiting for the American Godot, time seems ripe to make or break this futile connection.
    To the disappointment of the PLO leaders the “connection” never developed to (…)

  • Atrocities...
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#115264752348608248
    It promises to be a long summer. We’re almost at the mid-way point, but it feels like the days are just crawling by. It’s a combination of the heat, the flies, the hours upon hours of no electricity and the corpses which keep appearing everywhere.
    The day before yesterday was catastrophic. The day began with news of the killings in Jihad Quarter. According to people who live there, black-clad (…)

  • The Rev. Billy Graham is No Phil Berrigan!
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Phil Berrigan took the Gospel...personally!” - Martin Sheen
    Baltimore, MD - The Rev. Billy Graham, now 87 years old and once a crony of the disgraced President, Richard M. Nixon, was in town recently doing his evangelical thing. He rallied the faithful at Camden Yards, located near Harborplace, over a three day period. Graham’ call, according to his PR flacks, brought crowds estimated at 83,000 to the baseball facility, including about 3,200, who made the big decision to “dedicate their (…)

  • The World’s Most-Expensive BBQ
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carsten Volkery and Björn Hengst
    US President George W. Bush starts a two-day visit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday in her parliamentary district near the Baltic Sea. The two leaders will talk foreign policy and hope to bond during an expensive country barbecue.
    At first glance, nothing distinguishes the visit by US President Bush to eastern Germany from his earlier trips: Mysterious airplanes land at regional airports, commando divers examine the local pond, a (…)

  • Look on the Bright Side!
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Take a deep breath, back off cool down, and look at the world the way a Zen philosopher does.
    Good Stuff is happening, or should I say Bad Stuff is NOT happening...sort of.
    Afghanistan isn’t yet back in the hands of the Taliban, and Karzai is still asking for foreign investment and promising to stop the drug trade.
    Israel hasn’t nuked Lebanon or Palestine yet. AND, that soldier may yet be alive!
    Iran has quieted down for a spell. No threats to bomb Israel or attack the USA.
    North (…)

  • Bush’s visit in Germany
    13 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s pictures talk. The world most expensive barbeque: 12 million Euro official, but 45 million Euro in reality.