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  • HUGO CHAVEZ’S NEW WORLD VISION
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hugo Chavez’s New World Vision - by Stephen Lendman
    After agreeing to supply discounted oil to the richest city in Europe - London - to help its low income residents use the city’s buses at a reduced cost after earlier providing discounted heating oil for the poor in several northeastern US cities including its richest one - New York, Hugo Chavez is at it again. This time he offered to aid the US oil and cash-rich state of Alaska by providing an even greater benefit - free or subsidized (…)

  • Poem for Hugo Chavez
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hugo Chavez On his address to the UN, Sept. 20, 2006 ( http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html )
    Michael D. Morrissey Sept. 21, 2006
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/chavez.
    Your words bring solace to a damaged nation not yours, but mine, a limping giant wounded in its soul by its very leaders, the men you call imperialists and devils, assassins, torturers. We know this too. (…)

  • Hugo Chavez at UN
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fits in perfectly with David Ray Griffin:
    Address to the United Nations
    Rise Up Against the Empire
    By HUGO CHAVEZ
    http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html

  • Prof. Jonathan Turley: “Stop Being a Country of Chumps!”
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” - James Madison (1)
    Baltimore, MD - On September 18, 2006, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) held a very informative program to honor the 219th anniversary of the birth of the U.S. Constitution. One of the featured speakers at the splendid event, entitled “Constitution Day at MICA,” was Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington U.’s School of Law, in the District of Columbia. He’s a (…)

  • Bush’s Empty Words to the U.N.
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Parry
    One of the most striking features of George W. Bush’s presidency has been his proclivity to use soaring, idealistic rhetoric that is totally at odds with reality, a tendency that was on display again in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.
    Bush framed his Sept. 19 speech in the context of the U.N.’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “The words of the Universal Declaration are as true today as they were when they were written,” Bush declared.
    But (…)

  • Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    19.9.2006
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/

  • Impeachment a "Gatekeeper Meme"?
    18 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeachment a "Gatekeeper Meme"?
    Michael D. Morrissey
    Sept. 18, 2006
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/impeach.
    If you look for the word "impeach" on all the 9/11 truth websites, you’ll find it only rarely. Why is that? It’s unrealistic, we hear, because we don’t have the votes in Congress, and here is another argument (I will identify the person if she wants me to):
    Calls for (…)

  • Breaking away as the only way out
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Éric Toussaint
    The World Bank’s ongoing coup d’état
    The list of governments in power as a result of military coups and supported by the World Bank is impressive. Among the best known examples are the Shah’s dictatorship in Iran after Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in 1953, the military dictatorship in Guatemala which the United States set up after the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in 1954, the Duvaliers in Haiti from 1957, General Park Chung (…)

  • SOMEWHERE: Bush sings! (a song about torture?)
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A song parody..to the tune of "Somewhere"..from West Side Story
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    http://www.musical-information.de/all/West_somewhere.mid BUSH SINGS: THERE’S A PLACE FOR ME THE HUMAN RACE HATES ME FIRE AND BRIMSTONE AND SMOKY AIR WAIT FOR ME DOWN THERE. THERE’S A TIME FOR ME TO PAY FOR CRIME, I SEE TIME WITH CHENEY AND RUMSFELD TOO! KARL ROVE AND CONDI TRUE. SOMETIME! SOMEWHERE... WE’LL FIND A TOUGH WAY OF LIVING CITIZENS AREN’T THAT FORGIVING UNFAIR! THERE’S (…)

  • The Hariri Assasination Revisited
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Hariri Assassination Investigation: Are Those Who Pulled the Trigger Pulling the Strings? Interview with Jürgen Cain Külbel conducted by Silvia Cattori. Silvia Cattori
    September 15, 2006
    Berlin
    Jürgen Cain Külbel, born in 1956 in Berlin, graduated in Criminology, is among those honest and courageous investigative journalists who are ready to undergo great sacrifices in order to contribute to the search for truth and the respect we owe our readers. Reading his book (1), as well as (…)