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  • VENEZUELA : New Poll Gives Venezuela’s Chavez 82.7% Approval Rating (april 4th)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1934
    Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006
    By: Michael Fox
    Venezuela’s President Chavez during his weekly television program Aló Presidente. Credit: Prensa Miraflores
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 4, 2006-According to the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis (IVAD), 82.7% of the Venezuelan population looks favorably upon the job done by President Hugo Chavez.
    Of those interviewed; 22.9% said the President had done a regular to (…)

  • Rice moves to block Chavez power play
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rice moves to block Chavez power play
    By Philip Sherwell in Washington
    (Filed: 02/04/2006)
    Go to :
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JTNWEKWPJ2O2VQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/02/wperu102.xml

  • THE COMING STORM : E MAIL-GATE
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to Journalist Jason Leopold (" Gonzales Withholding E Mails" , truthout, 2/15/06 ) Albert Gonzales , our beloved Attorney General, is blocking the production of Emails that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney.... The Watergate stonewall has been put in place - "national security" and "executive privleges" have deployed to obstruct the administration of justice.... So much for the hoary myth of "full White House cooperation" in Plamegate..... Prosecutor Fitzgerald (…)

  • The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Ted Rall The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0407-23.htm When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries’ treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when (…)

  • Racial Profiling from the Halls of Congress to the Studios of MSNBC The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 6, 2006
    Racial Profiling from the Halls of Congress to the Studios of MSNBC
    The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
    By REMI KANAZI (Counterpunch)
    Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a (…)

  • A Culture of Corruption by Bill Moyers
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by the Washington Spectator A Culture of Corruption Let’s Save Our Democracy by Getting Money Out of Politics
    by Bill Moyers
    Money is choking our democracy to death. Our elections are bought out from under us and our public officials are doing the bidding of mercenaries. So powerful is the hold of wealth on politics that we cannot say America is working for all Americans. The majority may support such broad social goals as affordable medical coverage (…)

  • THE OTHER LEAK SCANDAL BY GEORGE
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nearly two months ago Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WVA) wrote a letter to the coordinator of National Intelligence , John "Batallion 316" Negroponte excoriating the Bush administration for it’s policy of leaking classified information for political purposes.... Rockefeller wrote the following : "....In his book "Bush at War" , Bob Woodward described almost unfettered access to classified material of the most sensitive nature.... He (Woodward) (…)

  • TEFLON PLUS: Why Bush will never be impeached
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First, lets’ face it, Bush will NEVER be caught in bed with a dead boy or a live girl, so just forget about wishful thinking.
    So how can impeachment of Bush be approached? It can’t. At every turn Bush is "covered".
    He lied us into war?..sure, but he had "War Powers", a coverall which allows him to do anything he wishes in a "time of war" (according to Gonzales et al)
    Torture of innocents in Iraq and in Guantanamo (and in foreign lands where prisoners were "rendered") occured under (…)

  • Bush Administration Unveils Nuclear Weapons Complex Blueprint
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ralph Vartabedian The Los Angeles Times
    Thursday 06 April 2006
    The administration’s proposal would modernize the nation’s complex of laboratories and factories as well as produce new bombs.
    The Bush administration on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the United States’ decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity.
    The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernization of the nation’s massive system (…)

  • The Architects of War: Where are They Now?
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ThinkProgress.com
    Wednesday 05 April 2006
    President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence.
    Paul Wolfowitz
    Role in Going to War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money for pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be (…)