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  • Anti-Empire Notes The Cuban Punching Bag By WILLIAM BLUM (COUNTERPUNCH)
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 22, 2006
    The Committee to Protect Journalists, located in New York, calls itself "An Independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide". In December it issued a report that said that "China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are the world’s leading jailers of journalists in 2005".
    On January 7 I sent them the following email:
    "Dear People,
    "I have a question concerning your report on imprisoned journalists. You write that you consider journalists (…)

  • Rest Easy, Bill Clinton Slobo Can’t Talk Any More By JEREMY SCAHILL (Counterpunch)
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 13, 2006
    Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he "ended up cheating history" by dying before judgment was passed. But the world has already passed judgment on Milosevic and what is being cheated by his death is history itself.
    What the corporate (…)

  • Iraq’s My Lai? US Troops Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves By PATRICK COCKBURN
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 22, 2006
    Arbil, Iraq.
    The US military is investigating two incidents in which American soldiers killed at least 26 Iraqi civilians and then claimed that they were either guerrillas or had died in cross fire.
    The growing evidence of retaliatory killings of unarmed Iraqi families, often including children, by US soldiers seemingly bent on punishing Iraqis after an attack, will spark comparisons with the massacre of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
    US troops have been (…)

  • I’ve got your "GOOD NEWS" right here, pal!
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Dubya Bush has been lambasting the press for not focusing on good news in our endless "war on terror", particularly in Iraq.
    It’s high time we responded with some hopeful stories and became optimistic. Here are some examples of real progress I dug up just this week:
    In Ramadi, 6 bodies were found two days ago, bound and gagged and dead. BUT...the good news is that they hadn’t been tortured!
    7 new schools opened in just the last month, according to the Coalition assessments. That (…)

  • Impeach.
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I think the Democrats should avoid any talk of impeachment.Just leave the Commander- in -chief at his post and in those wonderful words of John Erlichman,"Let him hang there.Let him twist slowly,slowly in the wind."

  • Who Is Killing New Orleans?
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, March 24, 2006 by The Nation
    by Mike Davis
    Afew blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity and New Orleans. In the nighttime distance, the downtown skyscrapers on Poydras and Canal Streets are already ablaze with light, but a vast northern and eastern swath of the city, including the Gentilly neighborhood around Dillard, remains shrouded in darkness.
    The lights have (…)

  • March 24, 2006 — Sponsor of terrorism: the United States
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 24, 2006 — Sponsor of terrorism: the United States. Imagine a group of five CIA officers dispatched to a foreign country to investigate and report on an Al Qaeda cell planning a series of major bombings in the United States, including hotel and shopping mall bombings. Then, imagine the outcry if the five CIA agents were arrested by the nation where they were assigned and hit with trumped up charges, found guilty before a kangaroo court, and sentence to life terms in prison for (…)

  • REASSESSING GEORGE W. BUSH
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REASSESSING GEORGE W. BUSH
    By Peter Fredson
    March 24, 2006
    Ever since George Bush came upon the political scene I have been trying to divine the source, or sources, of his certainty. I realize that he has been anointed by friends, cronies, parents, fundamentalists, corporate executives, neoconservatives, and by the Old Testament God of his faith, and wrapped in cotton batting so that no critic or heretic can harass him.
    In his bubble of comfort and security, he can suck his thumb (…)

  • MEET THE" FIGHTING DEMOCRATS" : DLC POSEURS
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Americans wish to support Democratic candidates in the coming elections to demonstrate their outrage at Bush’s insane policies , that is a recourse open to them... .... Will Democratic takeover of Congress finnally cause Bush to Stop the Madness ?... It’s possible . Not Likely...... If a citizen chooses to vote (D) , it must be noted that in competitive races the "progressive" alternative is very likely no better - and in some instances actually worse - than his Republican (…)

  • Media Yawns: Impeachment Movement Gains National Momentum By PETER PHILLIPS
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If a national movement calling for the impeachment of the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate media are not covering it, is there really a national movement for the impeachment of the President?
    Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have been printed in the past six months asking for impeachment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer George Matus says, "I am still enraged over unasked questions about exit (…)