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  • US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 8, 2006 by Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0408-07.htm
    US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
    The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
    The article by investigative (…)

  • The Usual Suspects: Tweaking movie quotes for Bush
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Everything is political, they say. Perhaps you’ll recognize these familiar quotes from famous films, altered "just a tad" for your amusement.
    BUSH: "Frankly, America, I don’t give a damn!"
    MAMA BEADS BUSH: "He coulda’ been somebody, instead of a bum,which is what he is"
    BUSH: "Dicky, I’ve got a feeling wer’re not in favor anymore"
    KERRY TO BUSH: "May the farce be with you"
    HARRY REID: "What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate"
    HOWARD DEAN RE: BUSHSPEAK: "I love the smell (…)

  • VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    Many Americans are victims of the illusion, carefully crafted, that the Catholic bishops have no significant influence on American presidents. No doubt the degree of influence differs from one president to the next. But they all feel and respond to this influence.
    The National Catholic Reporter, a major national Catholic weekly newspaper, published a most revealing report in its December 29, 1989 issue. Doug Wead, special assistant to President (…)

  • WSJ PUNDIT HARWOOD DEFENDS NIE LEAK
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal appeared on MSNBC last night - in full defence mode of King George W. Bush.... The Leak of the National Intelligence Estimate by Bush and Cheney was no big deal claims John...... "EVERYBODY DOES IT" chirped Johnny ..... Mr. Harwood convienently omits crucial facts.... The information King George leaked to Judith Miller was untrue .... All the information Libby was authorised to disclose to reporters in the runup to the war , classified secrets (…)

  • Iraq: Permanent US Colony
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t tive
    Tuesday 14 March 2006
    Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history?
    Why do these bases in Iraq resemble self-contained cities as much as military outposts?
    Why are we hearing such ludicrous and outrageous statements from the highest (…)

  • IRAQ : How Massacres Become the Norm By Dahr Jamail (t r u t h o u t)
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tuesday 04 April 2006
    US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked. Private and public statements of denial and dismissal immediately start to fill the air. We hear, "American soldiers would never do such a thing," or (…)

  • The U.S. gulag prison system: Shame of the nation and crime against humanity by Stephen Lend
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. gulag prison system: Shame of the nation and crime against humanity
    by Stephen Lendman
    Photos: © Jacob Holdt 2004
    No, not the gulag you think, outrageous as it is. I’m referring to the U.S. prison system that’s with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June 2004 and growing larger by about 900 new inmates every week.
    Blacks, mostly poor and disadvantaged, especially (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Hugo Chavez: Bush’s enemy, Blacks’ ally by William Reed
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Hugo Chavez salutes his people. He often speaks proudly of his African and Indigenous heritage and uses Venezuela’s oil wealth especially to uplift those who share his bloodlines. Like their cousins in the U.S., they have long been oppressed.
    Sometimes it’s just hard to go against a guy when you know in your heart that he ain’t as bad as they say he is. So what should you have to say about Mr. Hugo Chavez: (…)

  • VENEZUALA-USA : Connecticut latest state to accept Venezuelan oil
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Connecticut latest state to accept Venezuelan oil
    by Venezuelanalysis.com
    This Little League team in Meriden, Connecticut, is sponsored by the East Main Street Citgo station. They were the 2000 playoff champs.
    Residents of Connecticut become the latest northeasterners to receive discounted heating oil from the Venezuelan-owned oil company Citgo, after the state’s attorney general dismissed questions by the state governor that the program might be illegal.
    Record crude oil prices (…)

  • How the Vatican influences and supports the Bush Administration
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Vatican Connection: How the Roman Catholic Church Influences the Republican Party.
    John M Swomley on how, in the 1996 elections Robert Dole’s endorsement of the Catholic political agenda, along with a similar endorsement by the Republican Party platform, made the Republican Party in effect a religious or sectarian party, how the Catholic bishops took action to aid the Republican Party and how Henry Hyde, in turn, according to the National Catholic Reporter, invited Catholics to help (…)