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  • Good Things Happening in Venezuela
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Parenti
    Even before I arrived in Venezuela for a recent visit, I encountered the great class divide that besets that country. On my connecting flight from Miami to Caracas, I found myself seated next to an attractive, exquisitely dressed Venezuelan woman. Judging from her prosperous aspect, I anticipated that she would take the first opportunity to hold forth against President Hugo Chavez.
    Unfortunately, I was right.
    Our conversation moved along famously until we got to the (…)

  • Children die in Paris hostel fire
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fourteen children and three adults have died in a fire that swept through a building in Paris housing African immigrants, French police say.
    The fire broke out in the capital’s 13th district shortly after midnight. Thirty people were injured.
    Some 200 firefighters took two hours to control the blaze and help many of the building’s 130 residents to safety.
    In April, 24 people died in a fire at a Paris hotel also housing immigrants, prompting calls for better housing.
    Friday’s fire (…)

  • SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN : CAUSE WE KILLED ALL THEM EVIL INGRATE MUSLIMS.
    By Peter Fredson
    A Slight Satire
    I once lived in Texas and know what them Bush whacker critters in Crawford think. Fer instance:
    Yeah, we brought them Iraqi bastards freedom and democracy, and got precious little thanks for it. We did it with 140,000 soldiers, Humvees, helicopters, fighter jets, cruise missiles, heavy tanks, large cannon, grenades, automatic rifles and all that other peacemaking (…)

  • Where is Peace?
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman War is promoted. Anti-war responds. Anti-war protests. War counters. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. Peace. Freedom to make a choice.
    Sgt. Kevin Benderman sits in confinement at Ft. Lewis, Washington. His crime? Making a choice. He chose Peace.
    It’s not about one side winning and the other side losing. Not to Sgt. Benderman. It’s about having knowledge. We all have the right to know the truth about our options, and to be educated in our choices. We (…)

  • False Freedom isn’t Free - The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 19
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    Today when I was driving back and forth between Camp Casey II and the Crawford Peace House, I saw a lot of signs that say "I’m4W" "Support our Troops" and the one I hate the most: "Freedom isn’t Free." I have excerpted an article I wrote a few months ago called: A Lie of Historic Proportions. I am not feeling well tonight, so I am heading to bed before six a.m. tonight.
    Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first Gulf (…)

  • Bush’s Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.
    “I’m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 18)
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas
    I got up really early today to head back to Camp Casey. On the way, I had some amazing conversations with people. In one of those conversations, I was talking to Tyler who was sitting next to me on one of the planes. We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: "Wow that’s where I am going and that’s where I have been all month." He said: "I know I own a (…)

  • How The Republican Party Won Election But Lost Its Soul
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Rapaport
    Give the man big points for chutzpa. Late last month at a speech in front of the National Convention of the NAACP, Republican Party Chairman, Ken Mehlman admitted that his party had indeed engaged in a 40-year racist “Southern Strategy.” In its conception, the idea must have seemed like bold political jujitsu to Mehlman’s speechwriters. After all, if you are chief apologists for the sinister Karl Rove as well as surrogate at the nation’s premier civil rights (…)

  • What our kids don’t know can hurt us: Why it matters to know about Africa and the rest of the world
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    It is well known that American kids traditionally score well below their foreign counterparts in geographic knowledge, and Africa seems to be perennially at the bottom of what they know. The reasons for this shameful lack of interest or insight are many and varied, especially given the US’ current position in the world, but a few problem areas are easy to explain.
    It is unlikely in any society, for example, that kids would outpace their teachers, parents, (…)

  • How Can Some in the Democratic Party Support Death and Destruction?
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    Excuse me for once again coming down hard on my party’s leaders when it comes to the “Bush War” in Iraq, but I along with many others are becoming increasingly angry that the Democratic Party is NOT showing a sign of force, but complicity when it comes to this war. That is not to say that all of our Democratic leaders are supportive of this president, but when you have Mike McCurry a former Clinton White House press secretary stating this in a Washington Post article, (…)