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  • Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    WHEREAS, Washington, under the Bush Administration, with bipartisan support in the US Congress, has an open policy of overturning the Cuban government and destroying the Cuban Revolution. WHEREAS, the US government has openly allocated millions of dollars towards that end, including direct payments to its clients and agents inside Cuba, the so-called dissidents. WHEREAS, US citizens and legal residents continue to be (…)

  • Release of Pentagon Strike Tape
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 16, 2006 Contact: Press Office 202-646-5188
    Judicial Watch to Obtain September 11 Pentagon Video at 1 p.m. Today
    Department of Defense Responds to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act Request and Related Lawsuit
    (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American (…)

  • Solidarity Street Demonstrations to Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba - by Stephen Lendman
    Maybe it’s just a coincidence that just days before an international expression of solidarity demanding the US keep its hands off Venezuela and Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton (a right wing Republican in good standing) introduced an anti-Venezuelan resolution in the US House of Representatives. His resolution on May 11 was just another step along the way in the Bush administration’s fourth attempt (…)

  • WTC 7
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With WTC 7, it looked more like the building imploded and this could only happen by weakening the structure from multiple internal sites somehow uniformly distributed throughout.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
    "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Only (…)

  • Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    By Tom Porteous
    5-13-6
    The first reaction of the Bush administration to the extraordinary letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been to dismiss it out of hand on the grounds that it does not offer any compromises over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That’s a strategic mistake, because the biggest complaint of Middle Easterners about the United States is precisely that it has consistently failed to listen to concerns of (…)

  • State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
    The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (…)

  • The Battle Cry of G.I. Jesus
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Capital Punishment for Gays?
    By DEBRA SCHAFFER HUBERT
    "I would execute gays only if we catch them indulging in sodomy," Gary DeMar, popular Christian evangelical minister is quoted in the December, 2005 issue of Mother Jones. DeMar, who casually condemns millions, envisions sinners in line for the death penalty. [1]
    Capital Punishment for Sinners
    Gary DeMar stated he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy, but others envision sinners in line for the death penalty (…)

  • US imposes arms ban on Venezuela
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US imposes arms ban on Venezuela
    Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Duncan Campbell Tuesday May 16, 2006 The Guardian
    The US finally reacted to goading by the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez, by slapping a full arms ban on the country last night, claiming it had failed to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
    Janelle Hironimus, a state department spokeswoman, said Venezuela had forged close relations with Iran and Cuba, both classified by the US as state sponsors of terrorism. She (…)

  • A Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: Create a Peace Movement That Ends the Iraq Occupation
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother’s Day of Peace She published the Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation in 1870. By 1873, 18 cities celebrated Mother’s Day of Peace celebrations - some of these celebrations continued for 30 years. Still today, we have the enduring legacy of Mother’s Day.
    Now we are faced with the modern carnage of the occupation of Iraq, and still there are (…)

  • Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Report
    Saturday 13 May 2006
    Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
    During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and (…)