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  • Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave (IsraelNationalNews.com)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com Majority of Israelis Want Gov’t to Encourage Arabs to Leave http://www.arutzsheva.com/print.php3?what=news&id=103312
    Tuesday, May 9, 2006 / 11 Iyar 5766
    Almost two-thirds of Israelis want the government to encourage Arabs to leave the country, according to a study by the Israel Democracy Institute.
    According to the preliminary summary of the 2006 Democracy Index, 62% of Israelis would like to see the government actively encourage Arabs to (…)

  • Third Reich Tyrants
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 12, 2006 "ICH" — — I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
    The day that the apparently reformed war-monger, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, envisioned decades ago has finally come. It is time for governments to get out of our way.
    I have had a chance since Camp (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Venezuela the New Niger?
    The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    By LARRY BIRNS and MICHAEL LETTIERI
    http://www.counterpunch.org/birns05102006.html
    Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery in Honduras, and (…)

  • URGENT APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From:
    The INTERNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY (I.E.D) at www.iefd.org, a new non-profit foundation whose Board of Directors includes HOWARD ZINN (America’s leading radical historian), MUMIA ABU-JAMAL (America’s most famous political prisoner), GORE VIDAL (America’s premier progressive novelist and essayist), ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD (winner of the Isaac Deutscher Prize), RAMSEY CLARK (world’s leading human rights lawyer), BARBARA FOLEY (Chair of the Left Alliance, the union of progressive (…)

  • High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work By TARIQ ALI (counterpunch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 11, 2006 Ringed by Nuclear States, Iran’s Atomic Program is Scarcely Unreasonable. So Why has Bush Manufactured a Crisis?
    High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran Won’t Work
    By TARIQ ALI
    Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the United States has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics. Iranian foreign policy - fragmentary and opportunist - has always been determined by the needs and interests of the clerical state rather (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1962
    Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    Thursday, May 11, 2006 By: Richard Beeston and Tom Baldwin - The Times
    HUGO CHÁVEZ, the President of Venezuela and one of Tony Blair’s most vocal critics abroad, arrives in London this weekend on a whirlwind visit during which he will be fêted by Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs and the TUC but will avoid contact with the Prime Minister and his Government.
    The diplomatic snub will be delivered (…)

  • Participatory Democracy In Venezuela (znet)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1626
    Participatory Democracy In Venezuela
    By: America Vera-Zavala - ZNet Commentary
    The learning process is a basic argument for, and an important outcome of, participatory democracy. Parallel to the decision-making, a process of learning takes place where people learn how different things work and function and how they can influence them: a budget, a health station, a community kitchen. Knowledge is required to participate in building up (…)

  • My Right Wing "Patriot" friend explains it all
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My good pal (name withheld by my request) has a pat explanation for everything Bush has and will do.
    Regarding the 2000 and 2004 election claims of rigging: "This sort of talk is mad. Pure tinfoil hat stuff. No proof whatsoever"
    Regarding Cheney’s secret energy meetings with Enron and others: "The VP has every right to secrecy. We don’t want the enemy to know who’s getting contracts, do we?"
    Regarding Bush lying us into war:
    "This is the old Liberal Left wing claim and is absolutely (…)

  • Understanding the Case of Marc Emery, and The New Canadian National Anthem
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Understanding the Case of Marc Emery, and The New Canadian National Anthem
    On May 6 2006, the president of the United States of America officially acknowledged that we are in World War III with his statement "I believe that it (the downing of flight 93) was the first counterattack to World War III". The only reason that the spokesman for the American Military-Industrial Complex would be allowed to make this statement is either because everything is in place to intensify the war on a global (…)

  • Ted Sorenson, a former aide to President John F. Kennedy DECREES A Time to Weep
    11 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, June 21, 2004 by AnitaRoddick.com A Time to Weep by Ted Sorenson Ted Sorenson, a former aide to President John F. Kennedy, gave this moving commencement speech at the New School University in New York on May 21, 2004. (The "President Kerrey" he refers to is, alas, former Senator Bob Kerrey who is president of the New School, not future US President John Kerry.)
    This is not a speech. Two weeks ago I set aside the speech I prepared. This is a cry from the heart, (…)