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  • Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush’s Illegal Spying
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ALTERNET LINK
    Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush’s Illegal Spying By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet Posted on May 8, 2006, Printed on May 8, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35807/ Five months after news of the NSA’s warrantless spying program broke, and after we’ve learned numerous details of the program’s extent, a Portland, Ore., attorney may have finally obtained hard evidence of illegal wiretaps by the government.
    Thomas Nelson has been practicing administrative law for most of (…)

  • STRATEGY FOR TOTAL VICTORY
    7 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRATEGY FOR TOTAL VICTORY
    By Peter Fredson
    May 7, 2006
    I recently reviewed remarks of George W. Bush and those of his cabinet officials regarding war, terrorism, environment, deficit, employment, pensions, social security, Medicare, the oil crisis, health management, education, science, religion, patriotism, scare tactics, security arrangements, CIA, and many other topics of national interest.
    In no case have I been satisfied with the clarity of the remarks, or their credibility. (…)

  • APPEAL : International Endowment for Democracy (USA)
    7 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Statement of Purpose International Endowment for Democracy
    When someone asked what he thought about Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied, "I think it would be a good idea". We are only saying the same thing about American democracy-"We think it would be a good idea".
    Inspired by this idea, a number of progressive American scholars, lawyers and activists have created the International Endowment for Democracy (IED) to highlight- the tragic and rapidly deteriorating state of (…)

  • TABOO: The Questions Which Reporers Cannot Ask
    7 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whether its out of fear for their jobs or just the excercize of "diplomacy", there are meaningful and dynamic questions whiich the Press cannot ask of the Bush administration. Among them:
    Will you please tell us why you won’t investigate HUGE government waste in the Pentagon (which "lost" over a trillion dollars!) and other departments? Surely at very least BILLIONS of dollars could be saved by so doing.
    Why do our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq still have inadequate armor and food? (…)

  • The Downing Street Fixation
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street papers are proving a formidable challenge to the White House PR machine as it desperately tries-in often-ludicrous ways-to slow down a train that has already left the station. And interest continues to build. The leaked British documents are now on the top-ten list of Google queries.
    One huge fly in the ointment for the administration was British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s early decision that it would be a fool’s errand to challenge the authenticity of the papers. Why? (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo Proves that Ray McGovern is Right ’the facts were fixed around the policy’
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: this is a repost from last year. When this came out last year, it really seemed that congress might finally act toward accountability however nothing has come of this information which proves that Ray Mcgovern is correct in calling Rumsfeld a liar. The entire administration lied repeatedly in the run up to war in Iraq and they are doing it again for Iran. The Downing Street Minutes Demand Action
    (- ; mp3 Cliff Notes to teach your neighbors :o)
    The "Downing Street (…)

  • Impeach Cheney First
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It’s been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman and Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters is talking about it. See below.
    I’m persuaded of thevalue of this approach for several reasons. Among activists who very much want impeachment, one can hear a long list of (…)

  • 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
    Atlanta - 36 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    The two latest co-sponsors, as of Friday, were US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) and US Rep. Chaka Fattah (D- PA).
    "For the House to impeach and the Senate to convict a President, the public must be (…)

  • ’Good economy’ remains an illusion
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’Good economy’ remains an illusion
    By Ernest F. Hollings
    With the Iraq debacle, the Washington establishment campaigns for the elections in November on: "The economy is good, the economy is good." As in the old movies, let’s have a "preview of coming attractions."
    First, Washington hasn’t paid a bill in five years. Inheriting a budget "with surpluses as far as the eye can see," the president and Congress have been spending. In five years they have added $2.5 trillion to the national (…)

  • VENEZUELA : A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1710
    A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?
    Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006
    By: Michael Fox - Venezuelanalysis.com
    Yesterday morning, Caracas awoke to the news in the Venezuelan daily paper, 2001, that US intelligence sources had reported the existence of a secret agreement between Iran and Venezuela whereby Iran will be sending nuclear weapons to Venezuela and Cuba.
    Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations, Ali Rodriguez Araque, was up before (…)