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  • Video: Ex-Rep. McKinney: “President Obama, Stop Bankrupting our Nation!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See for background: http://www.enduswars.org/
    he event was held in Lafayette Park, directly opposite the White House. Rep. McKinney ran for President of the United States in the 2008 election on the Green Party ticket. She is also a champion of Human Rights and has consistently, and courageously, stood up for the beleaguered peoples of Occupied Palestine.

  • Video: Rep. Kucinich: “These Wars Are Corrupting...our Nation!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) was one of the featured speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Rep. Kucinich has acted as the conscience of the House of Representatives in opposing U.S. wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Video: Gael Murphy: “Not Another Dime...for Wars!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Gael Murphy, cofounder of Code Pink, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See for background:
    http://www.enduswars.org/
    The event was held in Lafayette Park, directly opposite the White House. For information on Code Pink, go to:
    http://www.codepinkalert.org/

  • Video: Brian Becker: “End the Afghan War Right Now!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: Brian Becker: “End the Afghan War Right Now!”
    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Brian Becker was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background:
    http://www.enduswars.org/
    The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition. Check out:
    http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
    The ANSWER Coalition is planning a massive antiwar demonstration for Washington, (…)

  • Video: David Swanson: Obama is a War President!
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, David Swanson, activist/author, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular AfterDowningStreet Web Site, go to: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ His best selling book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency,” is both timely and well written. Check out: (…)

  • Something in a Name
    11 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Most of my immediate male relatives are named Steve. There was Stephen A., my grandfather, who begot Stephen B., who begot Stephen R., who begot Stephen R. Jr., who has not begot anybody yet but another Steve cannot be far away. Stephen R. Sr., my brother, is inexplicably not Stephen C. (Chaires having a venerable Florida history on my mother’s side), and equally inexplicably it was not his first son Stephen who went to West Point, like himself and his father, but his second son Brian (…)

  • Is the President Overworked?
    8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    There is an old Firesign Theatre comedy piece, a parody of “The Price is Right,” where a woman contestant is asked, “Do you want what’s behind the door or what’s in the bag?”
    She blurts out, “I’ll take the bag! Why… why this is a bag of shit!”
    “Yes” the announcer answers, “but it’s really great shit!”
    Two years ago CNBC, America’s first name in fascism, sent cutie pie Erin "Black Widow" Burnett to Dubai for live, on-sight interviews with all the movers and shakers (…)

  • Video: Attack on Pearl Harbor Remembered at Baltimore Ceremony
    8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US Coast Guard Cutter “Taney,” (WPG37), sits in Baltimore harbor, as a museum/memorial, and is known as “The Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor,” according to the program notes prepared by the “Historic Ships in Baltimore.”
    See,
    http://www.historicships.org/
    On Dec. 7, 2009, the “68th Anniversary” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a moving noontime ceremony was held on the “Taney”; it included the dropping of a memorial wreath into the harbor.
    For background on the attack on (…)

  • Obama’s Waterloo: The Afghan Lie
    5 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.”
    “Under the banner of … domestic unity and international legitimacy - and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden - we sent our troops into Afghanistan. Within a matter of months, al Qaeda was scattered and many of its operatives were (…)

  • A Smart and Simple Tax
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The burden of taxation in the United States has been shifted from those who most benefit from our government to those who work the hardest and earn the least. This shrugging of responsibility is not only unfair, it fails to accomplish public policy goals required to move the economy out of recession and the environment out of crisis.
    Uncorrected, the heavy burden of taxation borne by workers and small businesses today for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy elite will certainly (…)