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  • Behind the collapse of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution”
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Behind the collapse of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” By Niall Green 6 April 2006
    Ukraine’s March 25 parliamentary elections and the subsequent back-room deals between the main political actors have exposed the fraudulent nature of the so-called “Orange Revolution” of November and December 2004.
    The Our Ukraine party of President Viktor Yushchenko, proclaimed the “hero” of the Orange Revolution by the Western media, suffered an electoral debacle, ending in third place with 15 percent of (…)

  • Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
    TOM LEWIS reporting from Bolivia
    WINNING THE presidential election in Bolivia last December with an impressive 54 percent of the vote, Evo Morales joined Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Tabaré Vásquez (Uruguay), Alejandro Toledo (Peru), and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) as part of Latin America’s electoral backlash against neoliberalism.1 Morales, an Aymara (…)

  • Blair’s inner circle and its ferocious grab for power
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
    In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his inability to see what makes a story run. But now, as I follow the news, I have developed a blind spot of my own. Piece by piece, month by month, Tony Blair’s (…)

  • U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia Znet
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Colombia
    by Garry Leech; Colombia Journal; April 02, 2006 While the U.S. mainstream media widely-reported the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of 50 rebel leaders belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an announcement by the State Department the next day received surprisingly little coverage. On March 24, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson told Colombia’s Radio Caracol that, while the United States would not initiate any (…)

  • Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance (Information Clearing
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance
    by Nolan K. Anderson
    March 24, 2006 Informatiun Clearing House http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AND20060324&articleId=2162
    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
    Today’s news is made up in large part by media hysteria in which the media can enhance their ratings or readership by (…)

  • Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans from being counted
    By Christopher Moraff
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2513/
    Standing before the House rostrum on the night of January 31, President George W. Bush beamed as he recounted the state of the country’s economic health.
    “Our economy is healthy,” the president declared during his State of the Union address. “Americans should not fear our economic future, (…)

  • The Israel Lobby and its Discontents (in theese times)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    By Salim Muwakkil http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2590/
    An 83-page study, published by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, forcefully argues that pro-Israel partisans within the U.S. government’s policymaking apparatus, including think tanks, politicians, journalists, academics and professional lobbyists, are manipulating America’s foreign policy.
    A working paper by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen (…)

  • Israel : The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud (Counterpunch)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud
    The Rise of Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman
    By SAREE MAKDISI
    Everyone is talking about the successful-albeit lackluster-performance of Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party in Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Kadima won a marginal victory, gaining 28 seats in the Knesset, and giving Olmert the opportunity to form a government.
    But in a sense the real winner of the elections was Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, which pushed past Likud to become one (…)

  • Retired CIA Official Ray McGovern Says Bush Is A War Criminal
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Retired CIA Official Says Bush Is A War Criminal
    04/03/06
    An in-depth interview with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern; McGovern talks about his work as an advisor to Bush 1 and his belief that Bush 2 is a war criminal and should be tried for crimes against humanity.
    Listen to the interview :
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12628.htm

  • Provocative Humanitarianism? Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times By DAVE LINDORFF
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Provocative Humanitarianism?
    Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times
    By DAVE LINDORFF
    What do you call a nation that provides medical aid to desperately poor people in Mexico, heating assistance to low-income families in the U.S., crucial project financing to some of the poorest countries in Africa, and aid to impoverished Caribbean island nations?
    If you’re the New York Times, you call it "provocative," and you call the leader of that country "the next Fidel Castro."
    Venezuela, (…)