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  • Segregated Schools: Shame of The City
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jonathan Kozol
    Stuyvesant High School is one of the most vivid symbols of the consequences of decades of systematic racism in the United States. Black and Hispanic children make up about 72 percent of the citywide enrollment in the New York City public schools. At Stuyvesant � the most prestigious public school in the city � they make up less than six percent of enrollment.
    In fact, the percentage of black kids who go to Stuyvesant has decreased dramatically in the last quarter (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)

  • Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dissent! and Autonomedia
    Bob Geldof’s appointment as an advisor to the Conservative party has provoked a reassessment of the momentous week last summer when the G8 met in Gleneagles. This reassessment is aided by the timely publication of a new book full of first hand accounts by those more interested in shutting the G8 down than lobbying it.
    David Watts, one of the books editors, commented: "There seems to be a growing sense of disillusionment with the legacy of the Live8 concerts (…)

  • Pants on Fire: the Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
    The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and (…)

  • Old, blind, crippled - and fit for execution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Schwarzenegger accused of ’affront to human dignity’ as he rejects clemency plea
    By Andrew Gumbel
    California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has denied clemency to the oldest prisoner on California’s Death Row, saying a murderer’s life should not be spared because he is old and ill. Although Clarence Ray Allen still has an appeal pending before the Supreme Court, the decision increases the likelihood that he will be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, a day after he turns 76. (…)

  • New Alito Opposition Efforts Launched
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By civilrights.org staff
    With Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearings scheduled to begin next week, groups opposed to President Bush’s nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court are stepping up their efforts to inform the public about Alito’s record.
    IndependentCourt.org, a coalition of public interest organizations, launched a new 30-second television spot Wednesday focusing on the fact that as a federal judge, Alito has more than once broken promises he made to the Senate (…)

  • Intelligence indications and warnings abound as Bush finalizes military attack on Iran
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By wayne madsen
    January 2, 2006 — Intelligence and military sources in the United States and abroad are reporting on various factors that indicate a U.S. military hit on Iranian nuclear and military installations, that may involve tactical nuclear weapons, is in the final stages of preparation.
    Likely targets for saturation bombing are the Bushehr nuclear power plant (where Russian and other foreign national technicians are present), a uranium mining site in Saghand near the city of (…)

  • 40 + Jewish & Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dismayed by the refusal of EU to publish their own Ramallah and East Jerusalem Heads of Mission findings regarding Israeli state actions towards non Jewish residents of East Jerusalem, Jewish and other peace groups and Palestinian Solidarity campaigns around Europe have decided they must take matters into their own hands.
    Every organisation listed below will publish the Report on their websites. A copy of the report can be found on the PSC www.palestinecampaign.org
    The day after the (…)

  • Christmas message: If you have faith in God ... how would He expect you to react?
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    To all of our readers around this planet I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Hannukah and a Happy Kwanza ... no matter how we express ourselves during this season, it is far more important to do so with love in our hearts.
    The other day, taking a cab to the market, in conversation with a Jewish cab driver, I asked him his take on how we should express what is in our hearts during this season. He said: "If someone wishes me a Merry (…)

  • Let’s cut trough this deafening silence!
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BellaCiao Collective UK
    A violent attack is underway in Italy against the law n. 194 which regards the ‘norms protecting maternity and voluntary pregnancy termination’. The attempt is to curb the rights of women to self-determination and to diminish the responsibility women have long exercised and demonstrated in procreation.
    We believe the 194 is a good law which enables women to use their freedom responsibly.
    We believe this law has not boosted abortion but has granted the support (…)