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  • Colbert Skewers Bush and Media- Corporate News Tries to Bury Story but Fails
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mainstream Media: Stephen? Stephen Who? Reported by Marie Therese - April 30, 2006
    Today, if you were an average American viewer of any one of the three major cable news stations and you had seen news reports about last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, the name "Stephen Colbert" is not one that would immediately leap into your mind. That’s because there is an ongoing, concerted, deliberate media blackout of any coverage of Colbert’s politically charged comedic appearance at that (…)

  • Peter Goss’s CIA
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I know this is a rather long read and sounds somewhat conspiratorial. However, there is a lot of documentation available for verification if one is interested. This is a pass along for FYI. By going to the link at the end of the article and scrolling halfway down the page, there is an actual picture of the plane and several other of receipts for clearer explanation..
    April 21, 2006 — SPECIAL REPORT. Porter Goss’s Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) has links to "Al Qaeda" and Saudis. Last year, (…)

  • More Rendition Flights
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I wonder if there will ever be an end to these flights.
    April 30, 2006 — As the CIA seeks to cover up further details about its secret rendition flights and prisons, more information has been revealed about another rendition aircraft. It is a Gulfstream V (tail number N1HC), registered to United States Aviation Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, an air charter company. The firm is owned by Roger Hardesty, named in 1998 as one of the 400 wealthiest Americans. The aircraft has been spotted as recently (…)

  • Who Wants Peace in Darfur?
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The "Save Darfur" rally today was aired on C-Span. The rally was small — only several thousands according to Reuters ("Thousands March to Stop Darfur Killing," 30 April 2006). And the crowd in attendance was overwhelmingly white. But, boy, it was a professionally-staged photo op, with celebs, politicos, and exiles from Sudan at the podium expertly framed by the U.S. Capitol in the background.
    The timing of the rally was perfect, designed to coincide — and scuttle — the Abuja peace (…)

  • The Story of Carl - On Workers Memorial Day
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Thom Hartmann
    Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation forces in Japan immediately after World War II, was hoping to graduate from college and teach history, perhaps even at the university level if he could hang on to the GI Bill and his day job in a camera store long enough to get his Ph.D. It was 1950, and he’d been married just a few months, when the surprise came that forced him to drop out of college: his wife (…)

  • Taking the President to Court
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Congressman John Conyers
    As some of you may be aware, according to the President and Congressional Republicans, a bill does not have to pass both the Senate and the House to become a law. Forget your sixth grade civics lesson, forget the book they give you when you visit Congress - "How Our Laws Are Made," and forget Schoolhouse Rock. These are checks and balances, Republican- style.
    As the Washington Post reported last month, as the Republican budget bill struggled to make its way (…)

  • Solidarity from Barrio to Barbershop
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Laura S. Washington
    “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women-full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work-are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.”
    Mexican President Vicente Fox’s comments last year to a group of Mexican businessmen ignited a political firestorm across the Americas. Fox also foreshadowed a powerful divide in the national debate over immigration reform.
    He was defending Mexican immigrants, arguing they are hard-working, (…)

  • Neil Young’s Songs of Impeachment
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LET’S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT / by Neil Young (Streaming Audio)
    With Neil Young and Pearl Jam releasing devastating anti-Bush albums in the coming weeks, it looks like rock has rejuvenated its protest past.
    By Jan Frel
    Only one friend of mine popped the champagne after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote in Bush v. Gore effectively sealed the deal that we’d see a right winger in office.
    The friend, a fan of ’70s and ’80s punk music, was overjoyed because he told me (I’m paraphrasing), "The (…)

  • INT’L LABOUR DAY: Migrants Flex Muscle With National Boycott
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - In more than 100 years, people in the United States have not seen what they are likely to witness this May Day, with massive rallies and protests against the treatment of undocumented workers expected to take place all over the country.
    "No work, no school, no buying, no selling," vow posters in cities and towns across the U.S., as campaigners for immigrant rights plan to hold a nationwide strike on Monday, May 1.
    Every year on May 1, workers (…)

  • IRAQI slaughter :US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing BY JONATHAN STEELE
    30 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - MUCH ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on the verge of, in the midst of, or nowhere near civil war. Wherever you stand in this largely semantic debate, the one certainty is that the seedbed for the country’s self-destruction is Iraq’s plethora of militias. In the apt phrase of Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in Baghdad, they are the "infrastructure of (…)