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  • Morales Government Tackles Agrarian Reform
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Roger` Burbach
    The government of Evo Morales is tackling the explosive issue of agrarian reform less than three weeks after nationalizing Bolivia’s natural gas and petroleum resources. In a country riveted with glaring land inequities, Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera proclaimed that large tracts of agricultural land would be redistributed to “peasants and indigenous communities.” While “productive lands” will be exempted from expropriation, Garcia stated that this would not be the (…)

  • IMMIGRATING TO EUROPE: Italy May Loosen its Borders
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A left-wing minister just appointed by Prime Minister Romano Prodi has outraged his opponents with a plan to legalize any foreigner in Italy with a job. The dust-up recalls a recent controversy in the US over "amnesty" for illegal aliens.
    First it was the United States that began wrestling with how to deal with a ballooning illegal immigrant population. Next came Spain, as would-be African immigrants have begun targeting the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa as a possible new (…)

  • Report to advise Bush on post-Castro Cuba
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. commission is preparing to advise President George W. Bush on how to inject democracy into a post-Castro Cuba, but critics say Washington’s 40 years of isolating the island may limit its chances of heading off a communist succession.
    The report by the Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba, expected in the next few days, will suggest ways Washington can influence Cubans to turn away from communism and move to democracy and a free-market (…)

  • Not Out To Impeach President
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: While Conyers backs away from impeachment indicating that the allegations of misconduct are not proven, he is also trying to pass a law to stop Bush from illegal wiretapping...a law to force Bush to obey the law. Why is he making it seem as if the case for impeachment over illegal wiretapping has not been made when he knows that Bush has broken the law? As Republicans have become increasingly nervous about whether they will be able to maintain control of the House in the (…)

  • On Memorial Day: 3 Letters to Bush
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear President Bush: I’m writing to you from Iraq to say to your honor I’m true. I know that I’m fighting to keep our land free to stamp out a tyrant, protect family. This is a tough war, it’s hard but it’s worth it, but I know you’ll protect me, unlike that John Murtha!
    ....John. Q. ********************************* Mr.Bush: I’m here at the hospital in Ramstein Air Base an IED blew off a lot of my face Part of my spleen was destroyed in addition, and docs say I’m not in the finest (…)

  • Blair in Rome: PRODI PROVOKES THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WE DON’T WANT BLAIR IN ROME
    In these days we have repeatedly asked the [Romano] Prodi government to abolish the obscene war parade of June 2. Why should the Holiday of the Republic be celebrated with lethal weapons and units of the occupation troops of Iraq and Afghanistan? Why not transform it into a holiday for everyone, eliminating the military presence? No answer: the parade has been confirmed.
    We have then asked the new president of the House, Bertinotti [Fausto Bertinotti, former (…)

  • Con[gress]
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Con artists come from diverse backgrounds. They may come from a broken home or the most stable and well-adjusted of families. They may have been afforded an excellent education, or very little. Such backgrounds do not set them apart.
    Nor are they set apart by their country of origin, sexual preferences, political bent, religious beliefs, or ingrained social values. Actually, pertaining those last three, the con artist is a free spirit. His own personal welfare far outweighs any such (…)

  • Need Not Run
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IMHO, none of these Senators need run for (Corporate) President of the United States.
    Voting "Yea" — S. 2611 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 )
    The Senate version ought to be DOA in the House. Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brownback (R-KS) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Clinton (D-NY) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Craig (R-ID) Dayton (D-MN) DeWine (R-OH) Dodd (D-CT) Domenici (…)

  • Latest Confrontation Between US Empire and Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Latest Confrontation Between the US Empire and Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez - by Stephen Lendman
    I’ve said before it’s easy to know what the empire is thinking (especially its powerful movers and shakers sitting in corporate boardrooms) by reading the Wall Street Journal daily as I do. Despite its heavy pro-empire bias, readers can also get some real news and information - something nearly impossible elsewhere in the corporate media especially from the venerable New York Times I’ve (…)

  • GOP: Mowed Down By The Bushwacker
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What we’ve all been praying for is going to happen: George bush and the Crony Crew are going to expose every Republican lie and dirty secret ever cooked up in any copy of their books. Indeed, it’s already BEEN happening. Their rationale for the Iraq war has been shattered numerous times, everytime they try to flip it to something else it gets blown out, and nobody but the densest believe any of it now. It’s become painfully obvious they did it so they could siphon off defense contracting (…)