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  • State considers return to gold, silver dollars: Proposed bill slams Fed, allows payments in precious metals
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Drew Zahn
    A bill being considered in the Montana Legislature blasts the Federal Reserve’s role in America’s money policy and permits the state to conduct business in gold and silver instead of the Fed’s legal tender notes.
    Montana H.B. 639, sponsored by State Rep. Bob Wagner, R-Harrison, doesn’t require the state or citizens to conduct business in gold or silver, but it does require the state to calculate certain transactions in both the current legal tender system and in an (…)

  • Torture Worked for the Bush Cabal
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s ’Smoking Gun’ Witness Found Dead
    The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.
    A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed - at the demand of Bush torturers - to say that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam Hussein is suddenly dead. Several weeks ago, Human Rights Watch investigators discovered the missing inmate and talked to him. He had been secretly transferred by the (…)

  • Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
    by Rick Rozoff
    Global Research, May 14, 2009 Stop NATO
    "Today the situation is much more serious than before August 2008....[A] possible recurrence of war will not be limited to the Caucasus.
    "The new President of the United States did not bring about any crucial changes in relation to Georgia, but having a dominant role in NATO he still insists on Georgia’s soonest joining of the Alliance. If it happens, the world would face a more (…)

  • Bailouts and Boots
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bailouts and Boots By David Glenn Cox
    When Americans went to the polls last November they were given what appeared to be two clear choices. Either, a more of the same trickle down economics from an elderly Republican war hero so spineless as to waffle on his own statements within twenty fours hours of making them.
    Or a young and vigorous man who offered us hope. Barack Obama is very intelligent, very personable and engaging. After eight years of George Bush and Dick Cheney the Democrats (…)

  • Video: Rep. Kucinich: “Healthcare is a Civil Right!”
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    At a press conference, on Capitol Hill, on May 13, 2009, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) spoke out strongly for a single payer healthcare system. He said: “Healthcare is a Civil Right!” The event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. In 2008, Rep. Kucinich ran for president in the Democratic Primary. Of all the candidates, he was the strongest in opposing the immoral and illegal Iraq War. For background, see:
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ and http://kucinich.house.gov/ (…)

  • Video: Actor Mike Farrell at Capitol Hill Rally for Single Payer Healthcare
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of the speakers at a Capitol Hill rally, on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, advocating for a Single Payer Healthcare System was actor Mike Farrell. Mr. Farrell is a long time champion of progressive causes and a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The spirited event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the U.S. Congress. For background and any updates, see:
    http://www.healthcare-now.org (…)

  • Video: Activists Champion Single Payer Cause
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, a rally was held on Capitol Hill advocating for a Single Payer Healthcare System. I talked with activists Dr. Carol E. Ritter, Adrienne Breidenstine, James Crawford, Adam Schneider and Medea Benjamin about the issue. The spirited event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the U.S. Congress. For background and any updates, see:
    http://www.healthcare-now.org
    and (…)

  • Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
    Posted on May 10, 2009
    By Chris Hedges
    The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. We are not delivering democracy or liberation or development. We are delivering massive, sophisticated forms of industrial slaughter. And because we (…)

  • The New US Budget: No Money for the People, but Trillions for the Banks and the War
    13 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New US Budget: No Money for the People, but Trillions for the Banks and the War
    by Professor Dr Michel Chossudovsky, Canada
    cc. The following text contains essential parts of a larger article written by the Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky. The complete text “America’s fiscal collapse” was published on 2 March 2009 on www.globalresearch.ca.
    Continue to read:
    http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=768

  • The American Revenue Authorities: Expansion of the Combat Area (on to Switzerland)
    13 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American Revenue Authorities: Expansion of the Combat Area (on to Switzerland)
    Discussion with Luis Suarez-Villa, professor for economy at the University of California, Irvine
    Luis Suarez-Villa made his doctorate in international policy at the University of Cornell. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, whose member he has been since 1982. He specialized in innovative technology and its connections with social changes, economic development and regional analysis. (…)