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  • US Congressional Candidate from New Hamshire Missing after minor traffic accident
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not included in the article is the obvious suspicion of foul play. How did this congressional candidate who is clearly fighting the status quo
    suddenly disappear from the site of a minor accident?
    Police from multiple agencies, assisted by tracking dogs and helicopters, searched Thursday for a congressional candidate who disappeared following a Wednesday evening traffic accident.
    State police said Gary Dodds, 41, of Rye, has been missing since his 1997 Lincoln Continental was (…)

  • 9/11: WTC Planehugger Therapy -Top 30 FAQ
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11: WTC Planehugger Therapy -Top 30 FAQ http://www.911closeup.com/nico/FAQ_planehuggers.html
    By Nico Haupt April 7, 2006
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planehugger http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/planehuggers/message/4536
    Definition of a planehugger Definition of Planehuggers as submitted to the Planehuggers Yahoo Group (and as was at least twice deleted by Wikipedia) provided by Ray Antoky
    Planehuggers is a recent political neologism that has been used on the World Wide Web (…)

  • The Architects of War: Where are They Now?
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ThinkProgress.com
    Wednesday 05 April 2006
    President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence.
    Paul Wolfowitz
    Role in Going to War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money for pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be (…)

  • Israel controversy threatens free speech (The Progressive)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel controversy threatens free speech By Amitabh Pal April 5, 2006
    Two academics who recently discussed the power of the so-called Israel lobby have come under intense fire. This episode threatens free speech-and not just on campuses.
    Harvard Professor and Academic Dean (no less) Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer co-wrote a paper (republished in a shorter version in the London Review of Books ) that expressed concern over the influence of the pro-Israel (…)

  • The Anti-War Movement? by Cindy Sheehan (democracyrising.us)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thursday, 06 April 2006
    Being a so-called anti-war movement leader (at least to the MSM), brings much responsibility and so much love for the people and the groups who are working hard to end this insane occupation, but is this enough?
    Recently, a blog written by an aquaintance, Scott Ritter, on AlterNet was called to my attention, where Scott, who is a self-proclaimed Republican, conservative who courageously opposed this war from the beginning, is predicting the eminent demise of the (…)

  • Race, class, and "whiteness theory" By SHARON SMITH
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Race, class, and "whiteness theory"
    By SHARON SMITH
    http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/whiteness.shtml
    Adapted from Sharon Smith’s new book, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Haymarket Books, April 2006). Sharon Smith is also the author of Women and Socialism: Essays on Women’s Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2005). Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the ISR.
    GIVEN THE depths of (…)

  • U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia Znet
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Colombia
    by Garry Leech; Colombia Journal; April 02, 2006 While the U.S. mainstream media widely-reported the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of 50 rebel leaders belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an announcement by the State Department the next day received surprisingly little coverage. On March 24, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson told Colombia’s Radio Caracol that, while the United States would not initiate any (…)

  • Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance (Information Clearing
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance
    by Nolan K. Anderson
    March 24, 2006 Informatiun Clearing House http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AND20060324&articleId=2162
    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
    Today’s news is made up in large part by media hysteria in which the media can enhance their ratings or readership by (…)

  • Divine Strake,The Pentagon to set off bunker buster bomb in Nevada (The Guardian )
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Julian Borger
    April 2, 2006
    Pentagon plans in Washington Saturday April 1, 2006
    Guardian
    The Pentagon is preparing to set off a record-breaking bang, detonating 635 tonnes of high explosives and sending a mushroom cloud into the sky over the Nevada desert. The blast, on June 2, codenamed Divine Strake, is likely to be the biggest controlled conventional explosion in military history, experts said, and is designed to test the impact of bunker-busting bombs aimed at underground (…)

  • U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan (LATimes)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs. By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer April 6, 2006
    The Bush administration Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the nation’s decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system of laboratories and (…)