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  • Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Guardian/UK Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies’ part of growing anti-war network Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
    by Oliver Burkeman and Emma Brockes in New York
    Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment (…)

  • RALPH NADER : The Bush-Cheney Cabal
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don’t just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House - George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.
    Already, a large majority of you do not consider this shifty duo trustworthy. By more than two to one you disapprove of Bush’s war in Iraq. Similar majorities believe this is also a President whose administrative (…)

  • Kerry Sponsors Collective Punishment of Palestinians on Behalf of Israel
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00361.htm
    Kerry Sponsors Palestine’s Collective Punishment Friday, 28 April 2006, 10:51 am Opinion: Genevieve Cora Fraser
    By Genevieve Cora Fraser
    As a former state prosecutor and lieutenant governor whose father was a Foreign Service officer, the former Presidential candidate Senator John Forbes Kerry should know a violation of international law when he sees one. Perhaps he could blame intimidation by the American Israeli PAC organization or a (…)

  • Administration’s Nuclear Saber Rattling on Iran Threatens Global Security by Dr. Kurt Gottfried
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Administration’s Nuclear Saber Rattling on Iran Threatens Global Security Statement by Dr. Kurt Gottfried, Chairman, Union of Concerned Scientists
    April 30, 2006 ucsusa.org
    Statement by Dr. Kurt Gottfried, Chairman, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cornell University
    "Recent reports suggest that the Bush administration is considering using nuclear weapons against Iran. The very fact that nuclear weapon use is being discussed as an option-against a (…)

  • USA An Interview with the First Arab-American Senator by KEVIN ZEESE
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jim Abourezk on Bush’s "Unparalleled Mendacity" and the "Complete Sell Out" of the Democrats
    An Interview with the First Arab-American Senator
    By KEVIN ZEESE
    James George Abourezk (born February 24, 1931) was a Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator, and was the first Arab-American to serve in the Senate. He represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1973 until 1979. Abourezk is of Lebanese descent, and was born in Wood, South Dakota and lived in South (…)

  • The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.counterpunch.org/wingerter04182006.html
    Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six?
    The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
    By ERIC WINGERTER
    Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.
    When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his (…)

  • The United States of Israel? By ROBERT FISK
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk04272006.html
    Breaking the Last Taboo
    The United States of Israel?
    By ROBERT FISK
    Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he’s one of two authors of an academic paper on the influence of America’s Jewish lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your point of view, is of no interest to him. "John and I have deliberately avoided the television shows because we (…)

  • Stephan Colbert shreds the Bush Administration/Press at 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 (…)

  • Bush challenges hundreds of laws- Claims Dictatorial Powers
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    President cites powers of his office
    By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 30, 2006
    WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Article Tools
    Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that (…)

  • On Trial - Saddam Hussein or Iraqi Special Tribunal?
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Diana Lee
    Out of 500 possible charges, prosecutors in the acclaimed “trial of the century” have narrowed it down to 12 documented cases to be presented against the former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Since October 19, 2005, the slow progress of Saddam’s first trial has descended into mayhem. The circumstances surrounding the trial and the court proceedings have raised serious doubts about the fairness and legitimacy of the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
    Like the Nuremberg Trials and the (…)