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  • The United States of Corruption: Government of Corporate Overlords, by the CIA/Pentagon, for the Royals
    4 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States of Corruption: Government of Corporate Overlords, by the CIA/Pentagon, for the Royal Elite
    Responding to President Obama’s Claim that "We, the People, are the Government"
    B.Z. Burnbridge Cinco de Mayo, 2010
    "From the bosom of the devastated Earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says ’Disarm!’ ’Disarm!’ The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." —Julia Ward Howe, Mother’s Day Declaration, 1872
    In the past industrial century, human beings have been (…)

  • letter of may to the president Obama
    3 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 2nd, 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    More than a year after your election, we sincerely thought that we would not be having to write you again to ask you to free the Cuban Five – René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero, who have been political prisoners (…)

  • Elitism and Empathy in American Presidents: Who Cares for the Suffering Children?
    3 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Who cares that millions of children are suffering and dying around the world, in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Gaza, Sudan, the Congo, Colombia, and Mexico, and in the United States?
    Why are American voters only given the choice of voting for members of the political, social and economic elite to be their president, rather than for leaders who care for and identify with the needs of ordinary people?
    Do presidential candidates supplant their empathy with loyalty to (…)

  • Video: Ann Wright Spotlights the Killing Fields of Gaza
    3 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ann Wright Spotlights the Killing Fields of Gaza from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    Former U.S. Diplomat, and U.S. Army/Army Reserves veteran, Ann Wright, a retired Colonel, described how Palestinians are being slaughtered again in the “border zone” at Gaza/Egypt. She traveled to Gaza three times in 2009. Col. Wright, who is also a CODEPINK activist, denounced the ongoing “collective punishment,” which is the fate of the Palestinians under the Israeli onslaught. In her remarks, she also (…)

  • Video: Sights and Scenes from the “Our Harbor Day Celebration”
    2 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sights and Scenes from the “Our Harbor Day Celebration” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On a sunny Saturday, May 1, 2010, scores of individuals participated in plays, parades and protests. They also staged “storytelling” events, which spotlighted different themes, particularly, “Human Rights.” One play was held in the historic Plaza at Baltimore’s City Hall, only blocks from the Inner Harbor. Excerpts of the play are featured in this video, along with a commentary by Ms. Diane Wittner on (…)

  • Video, Jeremy Scahill: “Torture Is Ongoing Under Obama!”
    30 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jeremy Scahill: “Torture Is Ongoing Under Obama!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a “Teach-In on Capitol Hill,” was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the U.S. Congress must do to end the U.S. Wars and secure a peaceful Middle East. One of the five panelists at the event was Jeremy Scahill. He is an investigative reporter and the author of the best-selling book, “Blackwater:The Rise of the (…)

  • Video: Teach-In on Capitol Hill on Ending U.S. Wars
    30 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Teach-In on Capitol Hill on Ending U.S. Wars from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a “Teach-In on Capitol Hill,” was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the U.S. Congress must do to end the U.S. Wars and secure a peaceful Middle East. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) served as the Moderator. On the panel were: David Swanson, Chris Hedges, Ann Wright, Jeremy Scahill and Josh Stieber. For more details on (…)

  • LIBERTARIAN-SOCIALISM: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
    24 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ever since the passage of the health care reform bill in America, many so-called “tea-partiers” and their supporters have been stoking the fear that this new law has somehow created a “slippery slope” that will culminate in the destruction of the Constitution, and the ascendancy of a “socialist” government.
    For those unfamiliar with the terminology, the “slippery slope” argument is analogous to a snowball rolling down a mountainside: the more it rolls the more snow it collects and the (…)

  • Armenian Genocide Day (24 April) & Australia-NZ Anzac Day (25 April) link ignored by complicit Australia
    24 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Armenian Genocide Day (24 April) and Australia and New Zealand (NZ) Anzac Day (25 April) are tightly linked by history - but this is resolutely ignored by a genocide-complicit, genocide-ignoring Apartheid Australia that is presently involved in 7 genocidal atrocities, the reality of which it also ignores.
    April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day that remembers the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Turkish Government in 1915-1923.
    April 25 remembers Australian and New Zealand war dead in (…)

  • Video: Ralph Nader: “Why Aren’t Corporate Crimes Prosecuted?”
    22 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On April 20, 2010, author and political gadfly Ralph Nader gave a lecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), in Baltimore, MD. He spoke before a near capacity audience for over an hour. Mr. Nader said corporate crimes, as opposed to “street crimes,” go mostly under-reported by the establishment media in the U.S. and are “rarely prosecuted.” He detailed how corporate “misbehavior, negligence and crimes” cost thousands of deaths every year in the country from “preventable” (…)