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  • The Only Hope For the World By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D. (Information Clearing House)
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    04/01/06 "ICH" — — The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!
    Of course, as I tell my students.. the history of the world is (…)

  • The Cannabis Man Fights On
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So what exactly is it about cannabis that frightens governments so much? Now isn’t that a question that great swathes of the world’s population would like an answer to? Let’s face it, many, many people turn to cannabis at one point or another in their lives. We all know that just about ever pop musician in the world has a relationship with this plant, that’s not mention at least one member of the Royal Family in Britain and people on probably every street in the nation not to mention in many (…)

  • Greg Palast Speaks With President Chavez
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
    By Meirion Jones Producer, BBC Newsnight
    04/03/02 "BBC" — — In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Greg Palast, Mr Chavez - who is due to host the Opec meeting on 1 June in Caracas - said he would ask the oil cartel to set $50 a barrel as the long term level.
    During the 1990s the price of oil had hovered around the $20 mark falling as low as $10 a barrel in early 1999.
    "We’re trying to find an equilibrium. The price of oil could remain at the low (…)

  • How the US ’lost’ Latin America By BBC
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12622.htm
    It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
    While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
    Virtually anyone paying attention (…)

  • Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From DEMOCRACYNOW !
    AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
    JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
    NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)

  • Government in secret talks about strike against Iran by Sean Rayment ("Telegraph")
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
    By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
    04/02/06 "Telegraph" — — The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
    A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
    It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran’s ability (…)

  • The Israeli Elections A Decisive Vote for Apartheid By OMAR BARGHOUTI (Counterpunch)
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Israel votes for disengagement and final borders" and "Israelis abandon the dream of Greater Israel" were the main themes in the spin that characterized mainstream, even some progressive, media coverage of the Israeli parliamentary elections which took place on March 28. In reality, the election results revealed that a consensus has emerged among Israeli Jews, not only against the basic requirements of justice and genuine peace, as that was always the case, but also in support of a more (…)

  • The New Definition of Military Valour - Saying No To Politicians, The Guardian/UK
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, April 3, 2006 by Max Hastings
    Francis Fukuyama’s Iraq recantation has received keen attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Like many US conservatives, he now distances himself from what has been done in the neocons’ name by the Bush administration. Of course, we welcome every sinner that repenteth, but the people who seem most deserving of respect are those clever Americans who got it right in the first place. Most of my US military acquaintances opposed the (…)

  • LIKE BUSH ? : YOU’LL LUV WARMONGER JOHN McCAIN
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He is almost certainly the next GOP presidential nominee..... He is leading near certain Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by margins of 10-15% in all national polls..... According to American Research Group , he is leading leading Hillary Clinton by nine points- in Massachusetts ! ..... His name is Senator John McCain and by all accounts he posesses a most unpresidential demeanor..... His temper is volcanic... His propensity for War unsatiable.... Little wonder he was (…)

  • Dr.Lawrence J. Peter and Condi Rice
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dr.Lawrence J. Peter is known for his famous "principle", the focus of his famous book "The Peter Principle" His principle states that "Every employee in a hierarchy rises to the highest level of competency. After that, with one more promotion he stops at the level of his INcompetency"
    Nowhere can I find a better example than with our current (crazed) Secretary of State, Ms.Condoleezza Rice, who, after having achieved fame as an accomplished ballerina, classical pianist, Russian expert (…)