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  • AMERIQUE LATINE : In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-25.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Boston Globe In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture by Derrick Z. Jackson
    When the US-backed government and military of El Salvador brutally repressed their people in the 1980-92 civil war that took 75,000 lives, Gregorio Rosa Chavez was one of those who pleaded to the outside world, ’’We don’t need bullets; we need beans."
    Today, he still pleads for the (…)

  • EUROPE : Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-26.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism by William Pfaff
    Paris — The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France’s student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.
    The election that has just given Italy a fragile center- left (…)

  • The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by Foreign Policy in Focus The United States, Israel, and the Possible Attack on Iran by Stephen Zunes
    With even mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post and The New Yorker publishing credible stories that the United States is seriously planning a military attack on Iran, increasing numbers of Americans are expressing concerns about the consequences of the United States launching another war that would once again place the United States in (…)

  • NEW-YORK CITY : 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Associated Press 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest by Desmond Butler
    NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs lifted by (…)

  • Stephan Colbert shreds the Bush Administration/Press at White House Correspondent’s dinner
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.’S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.’S and they need to get out.
    Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I’m a pretty (…)

  • Bush challenges hundreds of laws- Claims Dictatorial Powers
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    President cites powers of his office
    By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 30, 2006
    WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Article Tools
    Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that (…)

  • Comments on Noam Chomsky’s New Book - Failed States
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    COMMENTS ON NOAM CHOMSKY’S NEW BOOK - FAILED STATES - by Stephen Lendman
    Noam Chomsky hardly needs an introduction. Throughout his lifetime as an internationally esteemed academic, scholar and activist he’s the rarest of individuals I know. He’s world renown twice over - in his chosen field of linguistics where he’s considered the father of modern linguistics and as a leading voice for equity, justice and peace for over four decades. Although the dominant US corporate media religiously (…)

  • On Trial - Saddam Hussein or Iraqi Special Tribunal?
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Diana Lee
    Out of 500 possible charges, prosecutors in the acclaimed “trial of the century” have narrowed it down to 12 documented cases to be presented against the former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Since October 19, 2005, the slow progress of Saddam’s first trial has descended into mayhem. The circumstances surrounding the trial and the court proceedings have raised serious doubts about the fairness and legitimacy of the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
    Like the Nuremberg Trials and the (…)

  • King Would be Proud of Rep. Barbara Lee!
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Washington, D.C. - On April 27, 2006, at 9 AM sharp, in Room 2325 of the Rayburn Building, on Capitol Hill, the highly-respected Chairwomen, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), called to order the second Congressional public forum on how to bring the troops home from Iraq. She is one of the cofounders of the House of Representatives’ “Out of Iraq Caucus.” One of the other cofounders of that anti-Iraqi War group is Rep. Barbara (…)

  • USA : Join in the May 1st Boycott and Day of Action for Immigrant Rights!
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, May 1, International Workers Day, we will all be participating in one of the most momentous political events as millions of immigrant workers and students, and hopefully a large number of their allies, participate in the Great May 1st Boycott. Initiated from within the immigrant workers movement itself, the call for the May 1 Boycott has received the active support of organizations throughout the country.
    For the last six weeks ANSWER chapters, organizers and volunteers have (…)