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  • University of Oklahoma Cancels Speech by CIA Agent After Questions Were Raised
    29 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL P. WRIGHT
    In April 2009, the Campus Activities Council (CAC) of the University of Oklahoma had a Facebook site announcing that on May 2 CIA agent Michael Scheuer was scheduled to give a speech on campus. Scheuer was described as "the long-time chief of the Bin Laden tracking center."
    This is interesting because OU president David Boren, a former U.S. Senator, has many ties to the CIA and is widely known as the mentor and sponsor of George Tenet, who was CIA director when the (…)

  • Police and protesters clash in Strasbourg, France at NATO summit (videos)
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRASBOURG, France — Police are clashing with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the NATO summit is underway.
    Several hundred protesters in eastern Strasbourg are hurling Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles as they try to push their way into the city’s centre.
    Some 100 riot police bearing shields and wearing body armour are responding with tear gas in a bid to break up the melee with the demonstrators, many of whom are clad in black and wearing masks.
    Across the river in the German (…)

  • Record numbers join anti-Sarkozy protests
    20 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record numbers took to the streets of France yesterday in the biggest demonstrations since Nicolas Sarkozy’s election, to protest about his handling of the economic crisis.
    Unions estimated that more than three million people took part in demonstrations across the country, in the second general strike over the economic crisis in two months. Police put figures at about 1.2 million. With one in three people supporting the protest, it had the highest public backing for a strike in a decade. (…)

  • Indigenous Activist Splitting-the-Sky Arrested at Bush Demo (+ video)
    18 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Indigenous activist Splitting-the-Sky was arrested in Calgary yesterday. He was protesting the presence of George Bush. Although both Canadian and domestic law compels Canada to bar or arrest Bush as a "credible" war criminal suspect - the government has thus far shielded Bush from any move to do either. Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a staunch neocon and supporter of Bush policies.
    Splitting the Sky was in the process of instructing Calgary Police as to their obligations when (…)

  • It All Gets Real
    14 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    “Some get stoned, some get strange, sooner or later, it all gets real” (Neil Young)
    We live in a cloud with our inputs overloaded, like pool balls bouncing off the bumpers, looking for a hole. The news media tells us about the mean old Chinese that are harassing an unarmed US navy vessel. Those bad old Chinese, how dare they do that to our boys? Except that it is a US spy ship spying off the Chinese coast, and we want to blame the (…)

  • Nato Counter summit in Strasburg
    12 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 3rd and 4th — Strasburg. NATO turns 60. Let’s celebrate. An opportunity to seize, a call to be heard. Counter-summit in Strasburg: not an appointment with the Power, but a meeting with the situation.
    Civilization knew it was bound to die someday – but only in theory. After several shocks and attacks, it now feels it through all its fibers, all its vital flows. A feeling of death in the democratic air. It is no longer denied, it has become a threat, a pretext for mobilization. Powers (…)

  • Bush Not Bashir
    5 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By People vs. Bush
    The American war criminal George W Bush has been invited to speak in Calgary, Alberta, Canada by a large lawfirm connected to the oil industry - Bennett Jones. He will arrive on March 17, 2009. There are more foreign dates planned as well.
    He will be travelling for the first time, without immunity, across an international border into a foreign jurisdiction. He should immediately be arrested and held for war crimes. He has much to answer for.
    Canada must be made to (…)

  • Being Woody Guthrie
    1 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Today we have so many celebrities who take on social causes; it is almost a given that they will each have some charity or cause that they support. That is good, I suppose, but still there is a clear distinction between being socially conscious and being Woody Guthrie.
    Woody has been dead almost half a century, and his deeds and exploits have fallen from public memory. Woody wasn’t socially conscious, he was its conscience. In the dark (…)

  • SUPPORTING freedom of expression
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What the hell did he do ??
    Well, the man is being tried for selling the communist daily "L’Humanité-dimanche" in the street : his trial is to take place on February 18th.
    Lounis merely sold the French daily at the Dejean Market, in the 18th ’arrondissement’ in Paris... where he had been selling it for 20 years.
    And yet, in 2007 -about 8 weeks before the French presidential election- he was questioned by the police for "selling goods in a public place without any authorization".
    A (…)

  • Let the Sky Fall
    11 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Let the sky fall, let the sun crash and commence with the days of iron rain. Let the blood of the guilty and the tears of the innocent mix and intermingle in the sewers of greed. There is no bipartisanship in Washington; there is only buy partisanship. The President, still in his first month in office, has had dinner with Republican pundits. He has gone to Capitol Hill to meet with both House and Senate Republicans.
    He has supported a (…)