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  • A RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSERTION THAT ALL NATIONS SHOULD PLAY A PART IN THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSERTION THAT ALL NATIONS SHOULD PLAY A PART IN THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION
    John Chuckman
    Hillary Clinton, in a just-published piece on the Afghanistan mission (see note at bottom), offers us nothing helpful or enlightening, only boiler-plate American slogans, the kind of stuff you’d hear from some provincial Congressman giving a Fourth of July speech in a place like Muncie, Indiana.
    Indeed, her use of the question-begging word “mission” in the title to (…)

  • Video: Fred Goldstein: “Obama Started Two Wars Yesterday!”
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J Meanwhile, the Middle Class in America is fast disappearing. Go to:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-without-a-middle_b_377829.html
    The White (…)

  • Video: “Speak Out Rally for the People” Held at the White House
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J The White House event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ Speakers included Larry Holmes, (…)

  • Video: Rev. Graylan Hagler on the Need to Bail Out the People
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a rally in front of the White House. The event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ One of the speakers was the Rev. Graylan Hagler, a longtime fighter for peace and justice. He said: “Let’s build a world filled with justice...We need to push and shove to make people do what is right...If we can reward the banks, then we can surely reward the (…)

  • Video: War Vet Jim Baldridge Speaks Out Against Obama’s Afghan Surge
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with Jim Baldridge, who is with the “Veterans for Peace” and (…)

  • Video: Max Obuszewski: Obama Is Worse Than Dubya!
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with the long time Peace and Justice activist—Max (…)

  • Video: Baltimore Activists Oppose Obama’s Afghan Surge
    3 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, antiwar activists gathered in a light rain, at the War Memorial Building, in Baltimore, MD, just opposite the City Hall Plaza. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest President Barack Obama’s LBJ-Vietnam-War-like decision to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to that country, which is well known as a “graveyard of imperial powers.” I talked with Peace and Justice activists Maria Allwine, Ellen (…)

  • letter of december to the President Obama(traduction)
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barak Obama,
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N. W
    Washington, D.C. 20500
    Mister President,
    Last month an international symposium was held in the Cuban town of Holguin, dealing with the liberation of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René Gonzalez, imprisoned since more than eleven years in the United States.
    Over forty five nations attended, and numerous journalists, lawyers, writers, political officials (…)

  • Video: Obama’s Afghan Surge Protested at White House Rally
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, 2009, a spirited antiwar rally was held in front of the White House, led by activists from the ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and other Peace and Justice groups. Its purpose was to object to President Barack Obama’s reckless decision, (shades of LBJ’s disastrous Vietnam fiasco), to “expand the war in Afghanistan.” For some historical perspective on how the “unwarranted influence” of the powerful Military-Industrial Complex continues to dominate American society, (…)

  • Video: Brian Becker: “U.S. Can’t Win in Afghanistan!”
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, 2009, a spirited antiwar rally was held in front of the the White House, led by activists from the ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and other Peace and Justice groups. Its purpose was to object to President Barack Obama’s reckless decision, (shades of LBJ’s disastrous Vietnam fiasco), to “expand the war in Afghanistan.” I talked with Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, who shared his views with me about this situation and the plans for future (…)