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  • Third Reich Tyrants
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 12, 2006 "ICH" — — I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
    The day that the apparently reformed war-monger, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, envisioned decades ago has finally come. It is time for governments to get out of our way.
    I have had a chance since Camp (…)

  • XENOPHOBIA: America’s Flip-Flop
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Americans are among the most oprobrious xenophobes on the planet, but the dichotomy is really odd to say the least.
    CUBA: We call Castro a "butcher" but love his cigars.
    RUSSIA: Cheney insults them, U.S.citizens still think they’re all "Commies", but Bush has looked into Putin’s eyes and sees a fine soul.
    CHINA: We hate them for their odd eating and religious habits, abhor their military buildup, but love their food and can’t wait to build more factories on their soil.
    FRANCE: (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Venezuela the New Niger?
    The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    By LARRY BIRNS and MICHAEL LETTIERI
    http://www.counterpunch.org/birns05102006.html
    Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery in Honduras, and (…)

  • URGENT APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From:
    The INTERNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY (I.E.D) at www.iefd.org, a new non-profit foundation whose Board of Directors includes HOWARD ZINN (America’s leading radical historian), MUMIA ABU-JAMAL (America’s most famous political prisoner), GORE VIDAL (America’s premier progressive novelist and essayist), ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD (winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize), RAMSEY CLARK (world’s leading human rights lawyer), BARBARA FOLEY (Chair of the Left Alliance, the union of progressive (…)

  • BIG BROTHER : NSA Has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls (Commondreams)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, May 11, 2006 by USA Today NSA Has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls by Leslie Cauley
    The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
    The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans - most (…)

  • High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work By TARIQ ALI (counterpunch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 11, 2006 Ringed by Nuclear States, Iran’s Atomic Program is Scarcely Unreasonable. So Why has Bush Manufactured a Crisis?
    High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work
    By TARIQ ALI
    Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the United States has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics. Iranian foreign policy - fragmentary and opportunist - has always been determined by the needs and interests of the clerical state rather (…)

  • Chomsky Says U.S. Pressuring Syria, Iran to ’Punish Disobedience’
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, May 12, 2006 by Agence France Presse
    Chomsky Says U.S. Pressuring Syria, Iran to ’Punish Disobedience’
    Leading U.S. intellectual Noam Chomsky was loudly applauded Tuesday at a lecture in Beirut when he lashed out at U.S. pressure against countries, namely Iran and Syria, as a way to "punish disobedience."
    (no AFP on BC thx !)

  • Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress (globalresearch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress
    By Rosalind Peterson
    May 11, 2006
    EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL FAST TRACKING FOR PASSAGE IN U.S. SENATE & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be (…)

  • IRAN : Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that US should analyze all options agains
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US War Doctrine And Iran Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that US should analyze all options against Iran, including nuclear weapons
    By Pyotr Romanov
    May 9, 2006 RIA Novosti and UPI
    Washington (UPI) May 08, 2006
    The Paris meeting on Iran, which the media dubbed "secret" because journalists were barred from it from start to finish, ended in failure as expected.
    The positions of the sides remained the same. The United States wants the United Nations Security (…)

  • My Right Wing "Patriot" friend explains it all
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My good pal (name withheld by my request) has a pat explanation for everything Bush has and will do.
    Regarding the 2000 and 2004 election claims of rigging: "This sort of talk is mad. Pure tinfoil hat stuff. No proof whatsoever"
    Regarding Cheney’s secret energy meetings with Enron and others: "The VP has every right to secrecy. We don’t want the enemy to know who’s getting contracts, do we?"
    Regarding Bush lying us into war:
    "This is the old Liberal Left wing claim and is absolutely (…)