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  • Israel wants the laws of war changed.
    21 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RON BOUSSO
    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his government to draw up proposals to amend the international laws of war after a damning UN report on its war in Gaza.
    NO AFP on BELLACIAO please AFP don’t want...
    read :
    – http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-...
    "What peace process are they talking about? There isn’t one."
    "What peace process are they talking about? There isn’t one."
    "What peace process are they talking about? ............."

  • Government to get special swine flu vaccine
    21 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Government to get special swine flu vaccine
    Published: 18 Oct 09 12:00 CET
    Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091018-22649.html
    Just a week after it emerged that the German armed forces was getting a different kind of A/H1N1 vaccine to the general population, Der Spiegel magazine reports that the government will also get special treatment.
    The general population will be offered the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, called Pandemrix, which contains a new booster element, or adjuvant, (…)

  • HONDURAS: OBAMA’S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
    20 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. I am here to launch a new chapter of engagement that will be sustained throughout my administration."
    Barrack Obama, Summit of the Americas, April 2009
    The United States Civil War – a war that cost over 600,000 lives – was a blessing to the indigenous tribes of the North American continent. While the white (…)

  • letter to President Obama after his Nobel price
    18 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mister President Barak Obama 14/10/09 The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, D. C. 20500
    Mister President Obama,
    First let me congratulate you for recently receiving the Nobel Price for Peace.
    This is not by coincidence if you were elected.
    To hand out such a prize to a newly elected president of United States, is a proof that the world desires to witness your country’s politics based on principles of justice, rather (…)

  • Statement against impending military offensive by Indian govt in indigenous people’s areas
    17 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sanhati (www.sanhati.com), a collective of activists/academics who have been working in solidarity with peoples’ movements in India by providing information and analysis, took the initiative to bring together voices from around the world against the Government of India’s planned military offensive in Central India. A statement and a background note were drafted in consultation with Indian activists, and duly circulated for endorsement - several eminent intellectuals/acadmics along with (…)

  • Video: Candidate Obama’s Promises on Iraq War, Gitmo, Habeas Corpus & FEMA Justice
    12 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On February 11, 2008, then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made a campaign stop at College Park, MD. This was the day before the Democratic presidential primary in Maryland. At this event, Sen. Obama promised a cheering audience at the Comcast Center: “I will bring this [Iraq] war to a close. In 2009, I will bring our troops home. It is time for the Iraqis to stand up and stabilize their country. We cannot have a permanent occupation in Iraq...We are going to close Guantanamo and restore (…)

  • THE UNFULFILLED RIGHTS OF HUMANKIND: AMERICA’S BROKEN PROMISE
    5 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    In what Thomas Paine christened The Age of Reason, democracy supplanted the royal monarchy as the government of choice for enlightened nations. There was much discussion in those pivotal times of human advancement concerning the inherent Rights of Man. Borrowing from England’s Magna Carta, the British philosopher John Locke and the French philosophers Jean-Jacque Rousseau and Francois-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire), Thomas Jefferson immortalized the (…)

  • Abbas helps Israel bury its crimes in Gaza
    4 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ali Abunimah
    Representing the moribund Palestine Liberation Organization, the executive committee of which seen here, Mahmoud Abbas has abandoned a resolution to hold Israel accountable for its alleged war crimes in Gaza. (MaanImages/POOL/Omar Rashidi)
    Just when it seemed that the Ramallah Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas could not sink any lower in their complicity with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the murderous blockade of Gaza, Ramallah has dealt (…)

  • Video: Candidate Obama: “Promises, Promises!”
    3 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On February 11, 2008, then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made a campaign stop at College Park, MD. This was the day before the Democratic presidential primary in Maryland. At this event, Sen. Obama promised a cheering audience at the Comcast Center: “We can go ahead and tell the lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over...They will not run my White House and they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I am President of the United States of (…)

  • letter to President Obama
    3 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barak Obama, The White House, 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue N. W., Washington D.C. 20500
    1st October 2009
    Dear Mister President Obama,
    October is here, and the five Cubans Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and René Gonzalez are still imprisoned in your country.
    Following their arrest on 12th September 1998, they were placed in isolated “holes” during 17 months in the Miami’s prison, in such totally inhumane conditions. Once the trial was (…)