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  • American Caesar by Ralph Nader (CommonDreams.org )
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 8, 2006 by CommonDreams.org American Caesar by Ralph Nader
    In the name of fighting stateless terrorism, George W. Bush is looming as the American Caesar running roughshod over the civil liberties of the American people who have turned against him in ever larger majorities.
    In the name of fighting terrorism, George W. Bush fabricated numerous excuses for illegally invading Iraq and occupying it for now over three costly years in ways that are magnets for the (…)

  • The Wisdom of Charlie Chan: Bush aphorisms
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Most of us have fond memories of Charlie Chan. Here are some of his original aphorisms from films made in the 30s and 40s. Amazingly astute in relation to the current political arena.
    Gonzales on NUKE use: "Executioner merely servant of law"
    Observation on American public: "Eyes of kitten open only after 9 days"
    On the current Republican Party: "Faces may alter, but finderprints never lie"
    On impeaching Bush: "Fish in sea like flea on dog....always present but difficult to catch" (…)

  • NYT : BUSH AWARE , `NOT IMPLICATED ’ IN CIA LEAK ?
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Neocon New York Times has posited a most unusual theory; to whit , King George of PNAC was aware of the plan to leak the CIA identity of Valerie Plame but is not directly implicated in the leak.... Say What ? "And nobody has suggested that the investigation directly implicates the president. Yet Mr. Bush has yet to address some uncomfortable questions....There is the broader issue of whether Bush was aware of any effort by his aides to use the CIA officer’s identity to undermine (…)

  • Venezuela Hunts Down Serial Killers
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Hunts Down Serial Killers
    Caracas, Apr 7 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Minister for Interior and Justice Jesse Chacon announced the arrest of three of the five people involved in the quadruple murder that rocked the country.
    Colomb Paramilitary Heats up Venezuela
    The cruelest of the recent bloody crimes in Venezuela was this kidnapping February 23 of 12, 13 and 17 year old siblings and their driver. Their bodies found on Apr 4.
    The crime wave includes an Ultimas Noticias (…)

  • PERU PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS : HUMALA FOR PREZ !
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Humala Campaign Enlivens Peruvian Election
    By JOAQUIN RIVERY TUR rivery @granma.cip.cu
    With a flurry of activity, the campaign for the presidency of Peru is in the home stretch and the polls have the leading two candidates neck and neck for the April 9 vote.
    The main sensation that turned the race into a hotly contested three-way campaign is without a doubt Ollanta Humala of the Partido Union por el Peru (Union for Peru Party) who surged to the top of the polls and has a decent chance (…)

  • Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Juliet Eilperin
    Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.
    Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in (…)

  • As an American
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    As an American citizen,I look around me,and I listen to what other American citizens are saying,and like me, how they are trying to survive in corporate owned America,and I have to tell you,it"s not easy.The deck is,as they say,stacked against us.We are not represented and our voices are not heard.As an elderly lady said to me recently,"we know who the real terrorists are".We may indeed know,but the laws that our corporate owned politicians have passed only benefit the politicians and their (…)

  • National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corportate Media
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corportate Media http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/impeach.htm
    By Peter Phillips
    If a national movement calling for the impeachment of the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate media are not covering it, is there really a national movement for the impeachment of the President?
    Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have been printed in the past six months (…)

  • Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate: Complete Transcript of a video : http://www.democracynow.org/finkelstein-benami.shtml
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    AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to one of the longest running and most bitter conflicts in modern history: Israel and the Palestinians. Well over a decade has passed since the historic Oslo Accords that brought hopes for a lasting peace. Today, relations between the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority (…)

  • So Pro-Israel That it Hurts by Daniel Levy (commondreams.org)
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune
    So Pro-Israel That it Hurts
    by Daniel Levy
    A recent study entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" should serve as a wake- up call on both sides of the ocean. It is authored by two respected academics - John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (it appeared first on the Kennedy’s School’s Web site, and was then (…)