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  • Why conservatives are winning the Campus Wars
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joshua Holland
    In 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife and Joseph Coors kicked together some seed money to start the Heritage Foundation, the Democrats held the Senate and had a 50-seat majority in the House. As progressives are starting to understand, the funding, planning, and coordination of the conservative movement has led to tremendous success in elections and government policy. But another arena of ideological competition has gone largely beneath the radar. An asymmetric political (…)

  • Gods of War, Gods of Greed and Profiteers of Misery
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    “The process of transformation [American empire building]...is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event-like a new Pearl Harbor.”
    From PNAC plan entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century, endorsed by neocons in the Bush Administration, the corporate media and Washington think-tanks. Ingrained in the plan are ever-increasing levels of military spending, incessant empire building, (…)

  • August 15-17, 1969: flashing back to Woodstock
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thirty-five years ago, as fighting raged in Vietnam, a group of hippies and 400,000 of their soul mates converged on a dairy farm in New York state for three days of frolicking in the spirit of peace, love and music.
    Organizers called it "Woodstock," after the Catskill Mountains town where they’d hoped to have the concert. (The show eventually went on in Bethel, New York, about 50 miles away.) It was 1969, the last year of the tumultuous ’60s. Few words conjure up so well the free spirit (…)

  • Republican Congressman Says Iraq War Was Mistake
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON
    Breaking ranks with the White House and his Republican leaders in Congress, Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska has said in a letter to constituents the U.S. military action in Iraq was a mistake.
    The Iraq war was a "costly mess" with no quick way out, wrote Bereuter, vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a senior member of the House International Relations Committee.
    "I’ve reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty (…)

  • August 18, 1966 begins the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 18, 1966 begins the Cultural revolution. In Peijing, the partisans of Mao Tsé-toung, founder of the communist dictatorship in China known as popular, mobilize youth against carried out the revisionists of president Liou Chao-chi. This one, guilty to have sacrificed the ideology to the requirements of the economic recovery, will die in prison.
    Red-Color News Soldier by Li Zhengsheng A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution
    Introduction by Robert Pledge (…)

  • Parade of Nations, Parade of Ignorance. One Fan’s Disillusionment with the TV Games
    18 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    The author tells of his infatuation with the Olympic games from early childhood—a spell unfortunately broken by ruminating on current events, US policy, and the mind-numbing chatter of American talking head celebrity commentators.
    I have a confession to make. Ever since I was a kid I have always loved the Olympics. I was in love with them ever since I was old enough to cry when they were over. Four years seemed like an eternity to me then, and the pomp-encrusted (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Triumphant: History Making Democracy in Latin America
    16 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sharmini Peries
    President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, first elected in 1998 made democratic history today in a triumphant defeat of the recall referendum on his Presidency.
    The very Constitution that he championed in 1999, that re-elected him in 2000, allows for a mid-term recall referendum for the President’s term in office. After six years in office, in this recall referendum held on Sunday, August 15th, Chavez lead with a 58% majority. Voters clearly exercised their constitutional right (…)

  • Bush plans to cut forces in Europe, Asia
    16 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    US President Bush has decided to bring home tens of thousands of U.S. troops from posts around the world - most of them in Europe and Asia - plus 100,000 of their family members and support personnel, U.S. officials said Saturday. The changes will have no effect on forces in Iraq or Afghanistan.
    As part of the largest troop realignment in years, Bush will shift about 70,000 uniformed military personnel, most of them currently in Europe, two senior administration officials said, speaking on (…)

  • So what if they dare?... Revolution" The referendum as an example of international struggle.
    15 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Roland Denis
    The referendum, as we had thought, will constitute a fabulous scenario for thedeployment of an extraordinary potential of movilization, organization, debate, andof liberation, to a certain degree, of several points of popular organization that for along time had been trapped by the bureaucracy introduced by government- supporting political parties; the organized or disorganized spontaneity with whichthe patrols, the local commands as well as the defense preparation have (…)

  • Jesse Jackson, Naomi Klein, Zinn, Kucinich, others Express Support for Venezuela’s Chavez
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caracas, Venezuela - U.S. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Historian and writer Howard Zinn, activist Naomi Klein, and others sent a letter to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offering their support ahead of the upcoming recall referendum.
    Dear President Chavez,
    We are writing to express our solidarity during this important moment in Venezuela’s history. It is our hope and expectation that, on August 15, you will once again win an electoral mandate from the Venezuelan (…)