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  • Video: Lori Perdue’s “All You Can Eat” Poem
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush’s eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The “good riddance” to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. One of the featured speakers at the event was Ms. Lori Perdue. She is a poet, activist and a member of “Code Pink.” She did a dramatic reading of her excellent poem, “All You Can Eat.” (…)

  • Palestinians and American Indians: Russell Means Breaks the Silence on Obama.
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    American Indian activist Russell Means said President-elect Obama was selected by the colonial powers as president to improve the US image globally in the aftermath of George Bush. Further, Means said Obama’s appointments show that he is a Zionist controlled by Israel. Speaking on Red Town Radio today, Means said what is happening now to Palestinians is what happened to American Indians.
    “Every policy the Palestinians are now enduring was practiced on the American Indian,” Means said on (…)

  • Video: David Swanson: Appoint a "Special Prosecutor!"
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush’s eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet.org, was one of the speakers at the event. He demanded the appointment of a “Special Prosecutor” to bring to the bar of justice the (…)

  • Video: Marchers Demand: “Arrest Bush!”
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists held a rally at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. Then, they marched, led by the “Veterans for Peace,” about 15 blocks south to the White House. As they paraded, they chanted slogans, like: “Arrest Bush!”; “Prosecute Bush!”; “Stop the Torture!”; Stop the War!”; “Stop Spying on the People”; and “War Crimes!” At the White House, they tossed shoes and boots at a gate, near the recently erected presidential reviewing stands. Again they (…)

  • Message in a Bottle
    19 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    I’m too angry to sleep, too weary to hope. I’m too old for optimism and too young to stop fighting. I’d hit someone if only I knew who; I’d march if only I knew where to go. I support the new President and think that he will bring a new vitality to the nation, but my age and anger tells me that vitality is a show business term. That trickle down never reaches us, and political spin is just so much wind passed into our faces.
    I have seen tax cuts for the rich passed (…)

  • The Humiliation of America
    18 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Humiliation of America
    By Paul Craig Roberts
    January 14, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" — - “Early Friday morning the secretary of state was considering bringing the cease-fire resolution to a UNSC vote and we didn’t want her to vote for it.” Olmert said. “I said ‘get President Bush on the phone.’ They tried and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said ‘I’m not interested, I need to speak to him now.’ He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone (…)

  • A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening?
    16 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening? 14 01 2009 Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times. Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter. The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical. Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay that left residents in that area heading in to winter with less than usual, and you have the makings (…)

  • W.’s Twilight: A Man of Feeble Temper
    16 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    W. said goodbye to us last night, in an appearance that was surely notable for most Americans mainly because of the annoyance that he delayed by fifteen minutes their prime time shows like Gray’s Anatomy and Eleventh Hour.
    The Bard reminds us that we cannot attribute the dominance of the unworthy ruler to fate, or the stars. If we diminish ourselves and make ourselves underlings and give up our birthright as free citizens, bowing down to a would-be emperor, then we ourselves must accept (…)

  • Share the Dream, Live the Realty
    15 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    "I have a dream..."

  • The Afghan Scam: Why the U.S. Is Certain to Fail in Yet Another War
    15 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the failure of American reconstruction in Afghanistan. While the U.S. has occupied the country — for seven years and counting — and efficiently set up a network of bases and prisons, it has yet to restore to Kabul, the capital, a mud brick city slightly more populous than Houston, a single one of the public services its citizens used to enjoy. The problem is not simply that the Bush administration skimped on aid, but that it set up a system to transfer (…)