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  • History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security By Matthew Rothschild
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security
    History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security
    By Matthew Rothschild January 2, 2006
    Grant Goodman is an 81-year-old emeritus professor of Asian history at the University of Kansas.
    He has had an ongoing correspondence by snail mail with a former professor of history at the University of the Philippines, where Goodman had taught on three separate occasions.
    In early December, he was shocked when a (…)

  • Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest by Jim Lobe
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Inter Press Service
    Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest
    by Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - Although still united in pushing for confrontation with Iran, the coalition of hawks that propelled U.S. troops toward Baghdad three years ago appears to have finally run out of steam.
    Demoralized by the quagmire in Iraq, as well as Pres. George W. Bush’s still falling approval and credibility ratings, the coalition of aggressive nationalists, (…)

  • Noam Chomsky : Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by TomDispatch
    Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    by Noam Chomsky
    This piece is adapted from Chapter 2 of Noam Chomsky’s newest book, "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy" (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
    In 2002, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales passed on to Bush a memorandum on torture by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). As noted by constitutional scholar Sanford (…)

  • Farm Workers Target McDonald’s, Suppliers Over Wages Farmers Workers Target Mac Donald
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by OneWorld.net
    by Abid Aslam
    WASHINGTON - Florida tomato pickers converged on McDonald’s Corp.’s flagship Chicago restaurant over the weekend to protest poor working conditions and wages they say have stagnated for 30 years.
    The farm hands, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, want a penny-per-pound pay raise from their employers, growers based in and around Immokalee, Florida. And they want Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s to (…)

  • Failed States, Rogue States and America (Democracy Now) By , Democracy Now!
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on April 3, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34321/
    [Editor’s Note: This is an edited transcript of an interview from the radio program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The interview originally aired on March 31, 2006, and the full transcipt and podcast are available for download from Democracy Now!.]
    AMY GOODMAN: The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive." The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most (…)

  • The Hyperpower Hype By Tom Engelhardt
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Hyperpower Hype
    By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on April 5, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34468/
    Just last week, a jury began to deliberate on the fate of Zacarias Moussaoui, who may or may not have been the missing 20th hijacker in the September 11th attacks. At the same time, newly released recordings of 911 operators responding to calls from those about to die that day in the two towers were splashed across front pages nationwide. ("All I (…)

  • RIDE , RIDE THE ANTI- JOEMENTUM TIDE !
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The national Democratic Party has shat upon it’s base yet expects it’s strongest supporters to form a mighty host on Election Day 2006.... Such insufferable arrogance is the result of placing IDF volunteer Rahm Emanuel and his loopy pro-Blair , DLC confederates in charge of plotting strategy in the forthcoming canvass.... Our country needs an opposition party, now more than ever.... Many conservatives privately acknowledge that to be the case.... The national Democratic Party is (…)

  • A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER : PRESIDENT JOHN McCAIN
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He is the warmonger’s war-monger.... He makes Bush look like Gandhi .... The prospect of President John McCain should scare the hell out of you . It probably doesn’t scare you because his bitches in the MSM refuse to inform you of his volcanic temper and irrational lust for war..... What hypocricy we see on display... The African-American congresswomen Cynthia McKinney is facing an arrest warrant and possible indictment because those Jim-Crow KKK Capitol Hill police thugs goated her (…)

  • The Only Hope For the World By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D. (Information Clearing House)
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    04/01/06 "ICH" — — The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!
    Of course, as I tell my students.. the history of the world is (…)

  • The Art of War for the anti-war movement by Scott Ritter
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s high time to recognize that we as a nation are engaged in a life-or-death struggle of competing ideologies with those who promote war as an American value and virtue.
    04/01/06 "Alternet" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12592.htm
    In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition, and for three years since, I have spent many hours speaking to numerous anti-war forums across the country and around the world. I have always been struck by the (…)