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  • THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Lendman
    "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and know well are fading into memory. If we’re honest, they should be removed from "Lady Liberty" and be replaced with something like: We’ll take your Anglos, especially well-off ones, and the ones we choose with needed skills; you keep the (…)

  • PRISONS AND TORTURE IN IRAQ
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sarah Meyer
    There is, at present, confusion about the closure date of Abu Ghraib. The United States is uncomfortable under the global spotlight on its prisons and torture policies in Iraq. Rather than moderate their policies to accommodate democratic and legal guidelines, they are, instead, planning to move ‘detainees’1 to newly built prisons which they hope will be less visible.
    In February ’04, The International Red Cross published its (January) “Report on the Treatment by the (…)

  • Letter to Col. Adkins Who Said Bush Must Go.
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Colonel James A. Adkins US Army Retired,
    I want to commend you as I read your comments concerning Pres. Bush: “I am no longer a Republican. Now I think the president needs to go. His failure to hold subordinates accountable now places the blame for his administration’s incompetence squarely on his shoulders” At this point the handling of this war transcends party lines. I am a Democrat where I was and still am opposed to this war in Iraq. I feel that this is an American issue and (…)

  • Assaulting Cynthia McKinney
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a metal detector (members of Congress are not required to go through metal detectors) an officer, according to a witness, asked McKinney (…)

  • AGENT ORANGE VIETNAM: Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andre Bouny
    1) Historical context - Decision.
    2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
    3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
    4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
    5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
    This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

  • From Bolivia to Iraq, "Trickle-Down Economics" a Total Failure
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlie Cray
    While it’s hard to see it here in the U.S., "trickle- down" economics is beginning to be confronted by popular democratic movements, which are bubbling up in communities across the country as well as all over the world in countries like Ghana and Bolivia, where fierce resistance to the privatization of water not only pushed big water multinationals like Bechtel out of the country , but led the government of Bolivia to begin pushing the world’s international financial (…)

  • James Ridgeway and Sidney Schanberg Interviewed
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy Now! Interview with James Ridgeway and Sidney Schanberg
    AMY GOODMAN: Nat Hentoff is still writing for the Village Voice, at this moment, at least. Jim Ridgeway now joins us in the studio in Washington, D.C. In addition to being the paper’s former Washington correspondent, he is the author of many books. His latest is called The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Jim Ridgeway.
    JAMES RIDGEWAY: Hi, Amy.
    AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. (…)

  • Iraq, Vietnam, and the Bloodbath Theory
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Laderman
    Mr. Laderman is Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
    By now we have all seen the analogies drawn between the present war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam decades ago. Some of these analogies have been insightful. Some, to put it charitably, have not. Nearly all, however, have focused on how the United States entered and fought both wars. Little attention has been heeded to what the Vietnam war might tell us about the United States getting out (…)

  • U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s deportations
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
    His father and oldest sister were farming sugar beets in the fields of Hamilton, Mont., and his mother was cooking tortillas when 6-year-old Ignacio Piña saw plainclothes authorities burst into his home.
    "They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, Calif., of the 1931 raid. "They didn’t let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that he and his five siblings were (…)

  • Final Jeopardy: Asking the Right Question About the President’s Involvement in the CIA Leak Affair
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Elizabeth de la Vega
    The latest in a parade of horrors emanating from the Bush administration appeared Thursday in the form of a revelation buried in papers filed in federal court by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in his investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, now under indictment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, told the Grand Jury Fitzgerald convened that President Bush (…)