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  • Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Unanswered Letter - A Strategic Mistake
    By Tom Porteous
    5-13-6
    The first reaction of the Bush administration to the extraordinary letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been to dismiss it out of hand on the grounds that it does not offer any compromises over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That’s a strategic mistake, because the biggest complaint of Middle Easterners about the United States is precisely that it has consistently failed to listen to concerns of (…)

  • US imposes arms ban on Venezuela
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US imposes arms ban on Venezuela
    Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Duncan Campbell Tuesday May 16, 2006 The Guardian
    The US finally reacted to goading by the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez, by slapping a full arms ban on the country last night, claiming it had failed to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.
    Janelle Hironimus, a state department spokeswoman, said Venezuela had forged close relations with Iran and Cuba, both classified by the US as state sponsors of terrorism. She (…)

  • Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez - with amigo Ken - gets a hero’s welcome
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez - with amigo Ken - gets a hero’s welcome
    · Show of solidarity for Venezuelan president · Three-hour speech wins over 800-strong crowd
    Duncan Campbell and Jonathan Steele Monday May 15, 2006 The Guardian
    Hugo Chávez addresses crowds of supporters at the Camden Centre in London. Photograph: Edmond Terakopian/PA
    He has been called a terrorist by Washington but for three and a half hours yesterday in London he could do no wrong. An adoring audience (…)

  • Code Pink Challenges White House
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, May 14, 2006, a colorful protest action, sponsored by “Code Pink: Women for Peace,” was staged directly in front of the White House. It included a mini-parade, a sing along and plenty of roses waving around. The event, a 24-hour vigil, began the day before. Its theme was “Declare Peace on Mother’s Day.” On a warm, but cloudy afternoon, it featured speeches, from 2 to 4 PM, by activists, like: Cindy Sheehan, a leader in the “Gold Star Families for Peace; and (…)

  • Fanning the Flames of Dissent
    15 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    05/12/06 "Information Clearing House" — — Let no man claim that the United States is not a representative government. There is no greater representative government on earth. The trouble is that the U.S. represents the interests of wealthy Plutocrats and multinational corporations, rather than the people. The vast majority of the citizens are essentially without representation. The government has fallen so completely under the spell of the corporations that it is virtually indistinguishable (…)

  • Morgan Reynolds DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE bush 2001-2:Media hide truth: 9/11 was inside job
    14 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Saturday, former Bush administration official Morgan Reynolds drew an enthusiastic capacity crowd to the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium. It is probably the first time in Historical Society history that a political talk has drawn a full house on a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of final exams.
    Reynolds, the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and the ex-top economist for George W. Bush’s Labor Department, charged the (…)

  • NEW YORK Times’ Frank Rich: Any ’witch hunt’ for traitors should begin in the White House
    14 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Times’ Frank Rich: Any ’witch hunt’ for traitors should begin in the White House
    RAW STORY Published: Saturday May 13, 2006
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    Defending journalists who have been castigated as traitors for exposing government blunders, New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes that any "witch hunt" for traitors should begin in the White House, RAW STORY has found.
    "What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal (…)

  • VIC Conference marks fourth anniversary of defeat of coup against President Chavez
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VIC Conference marks fourth anniversary of defeat of coup against President Chavez The Venezuela Information Centre (VIC) held a conference on Saturday 8 April 2006, in Bolivar Hall, London to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the coup that briefly ousted democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez on 11-14 April 2002.
    The conference was opened by Keith Sonnet, UNISON Deputy General Secretary and Chair of the Venezuela Information Centre, began by informing the meeting about (…)

  • Dear President Bush
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear President Bush:
    In this, your most distressing hour, with poll numbers down to rock bottom, I am writing to let you know that you’ve still got fans out here in the American hinterlands.
    I been told you’ve had a bad rap in the press and by those weasley Democrats who only wish you ill. Various pundits are saying you were an idiot way back when 9/11 happened and you just sat there reading My Pet Goat. I just think you were focused and enjoying yourself. Anyone can do that.
    I loved (…)

  • MEDIAS : THE QUOTES
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.doublestandards.org/quotes.html
    “There is not one of you who would dare write his honest opinion. The business of Journalism is now to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, fall at the feet of Mammon and sell himself for his daily bread. We are tools, vessels of rich men behind the scenes, we are jumping jacks. They pull the strings; we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are the properties of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” (…)