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  • Bush’s Hypocrisy: Cuban Terrorists by Robert Parry
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/042606.html April 26, 2006
    Like an aging rock star singing a beloved oldie, George W. Bush can count on cheers whenever he delivers a favorite line from the Bush Doctrine enunciated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks: Any country that harbors a terrorist is equally guilty as the terrorist.
    Bush got a round of applause at an Indianapolis speech on March 24, 2006, when he declared “one of the lessons learned after September the 11th is that we must (…)

  • Colbert Skewers Bush and Media- Corporate News Tries to Bury Story but Fails
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mainstream Media: Stephen? Stephen Who? Reported by Marie Therese - April 30, 2006
    Today, if you were an average American viewer of any one of the three major cable news stations and you had seen news reports about last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, the name "Stephen Colbert" is not one that would immediately leap into your mind. That’s because there is an ongoing, concerted, deliberate media blackout of any coverage of Colbert’s politically charged comedic appearance at that (…)

  • The Story of Carl - On Workers Memorial Day
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Thom Hartmann
    Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation forces in Japan immediately after World War II, was hoping to graduate from college and teach history, perhaps even at the university level if he could hang on to the GI Bill and his day job in a camera store long enough to get his Ph.D. It was 1950, and he’d been married just a few months, when the surprise came that forced him to drop out of college: his wife (…)

  • Taking the President to Court
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Congressman John Conyers
    As some of you may be aware, according to the President and Congressional Republicans, a bill does not have to pass both the Senate and the House to become a law. Forget your sixth grade civics lesson, forget the book they give you when you visit Congress - "How Our Laws Are Made," and forget Schoolhouse Rock. These are checks and balances, Republican- style.
    As the Washington Post reported last month, as the Republican budget bill struggled to make its way (…)

  • Neil Young’s Songs of Impeachment
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LET’S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT / by Neil Young (Streaming Audio)
    With Neil Young and Pearl Jam releasing devastating anti-Bush albums in the coming weeks, it looks like rock has rejuvenated its protest past.
    By Jan Frel
    Only one friend of mine popped the champagne after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote in Bush v. Gore effectively sealed the deal that we’d see a right winger in office.
    The friend, a fan of ’70s and ’80s punk music, was overjoyed because he told me (I’m paraphrasing), "The (…)

  • Italian Communists Move Beyond Communism
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Il Manifesto
    Fausto Bertinotti, Secretary of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), talks to Valentino Parlato, founding editor of the Communist daily Il Manifesto, about the challenges facing the next center-left government, the challenges to Marxist orthodoxy posed by the powerful rise of democratic mass movements, and the development of the Party of the European Left, a project which Bertinotti is leading in Italy. (Translated by Vittorio Longhi)
    These days much has been said (…)

  • Stephen Colbert smacks Bush down hard at White House Correspondent’s dinner
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening. Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps. He did it to Bush’s face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience’s muted, humorless response. Democratic Underground members commented in real time (here, here, and here).<script language="JavaScript" (…)

  • PM, Bush to discuss convergence in May
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet in Washington with U.S. President George Bush on May 23. The two will focus on Olmert’s convergence plan, the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian Authority, and the Iranian nuclear threat.
    Olmert’s first trip abroad as prime minister will be devoted entirely to meetings with U.S. administration and Congressional leaders in Washington, and he will not travel to other destinations.
    Advisers Dov Weissglas and Shalom Turjeman (…)

  • Stephen Colbert Speaks Truth to Power at the White House Correspondent’s dinner
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.’S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.’S and they need to get out.
    Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I’m a pretty (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Bolivia weighs in on Peru vote along with Venezuela
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolivia weighs in on Peru vote along with Venezuela
    LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales invited nationalist Peruvian candidate Ollanta Humala on Sunday to visit Bolivia, after Peru withdrew its ambassador to Caracas over Venezuela’s comments backing Humala in its presidential election.
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