Although the strategy is older than the mean sheriff and his less sadistic deputy in the Old West, we need to only go back a few years here. If one recalls prior to the US/UK invasion on Iraq in 2003, there were several initiatives to "promote democracy" in that country. Usually it was the State Department that played the good cop to the Defense Department’s bad cop. Give money to dissident groups and others opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein—that was the good guy approach. (If there (…)
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Folly, Tragedy and Farce Condi and Iran By RON JACOBS Counterpunch
16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Killing Off Slobo Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch
16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsOn March 11, the former Serbian leader and president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in his prison cell at the Hague, where he had been on trial for four years and one month for war crimes and genocide. The Serbian Socialist Party leader Zoran Andelkovic responded to the news of Milosevic’s death with the following statement:
"Slobodan Milosevic, the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia and a former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia was murdered today at the Tribunal in (…) -
Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can’t Talk Anymore by Jeremy Scahill / GNN | March 15 2006
16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the “Butcher of the Balkans.” If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he “ended up cheating history” by dying before judgment was passed. But the world has already passed judgment on Milosevic and what is being cheated by his death is history itself.
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H. Con. Res. 328 to condemn Venezuela set for vote Thursday, March 16, 2006
16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsBolivarian Republic of Venezuela Venezuela Information Office asks for your help! By Urgent Reqest Mar 15, 2006, 04:51
H. Con. Res. 328 will be voted on this week! Your calls are needed in Congress today Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Friends,
We just received word that H. Con. Resolution 328 will be up for a subcommittee vote this Thursday, March 16. Your help is needed to stop this intellectually dishonest, anti-Venezuela resolution. Please call Congress today!
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"The Pres. Has Committed a Crime & We Have to Deal With that"
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentTestimony given by former NSA Atty Professor Turley to Democratic House Judiciary Committeem, January 20, 2006.
This audio and partial transcript testimony to Congress on Domestic Surveillance Operations MP3
Professor Turley
President Bush has for many years asserted authority that is both absolute and in my view, quite dangerous.
In August 1 2002, there was the infamous torture memo, put out by the justice department, that stated in significant part, that the President could indeed (…) -
Bolivia: From Neoliberalism To A Homeland For All by Evo Morales
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
ZNet | Bolivia
Green Left Weekly; March 13, 2006
Today our government celebrates its first month, the first 30 days of the democratic and cultural revolution that we are heading, with the overwhelming popular mandate of December 18, 2005, when Bolivians from the countryside and cities decided to turn the page on a history full of injustice and discrimination.
We have named a cabinet that is representative of the social movements, business owners, the middle classes, indigenous peoples, (…) -
Life in a strong hold of the “Bolivarian Revolution” from ZNet | Venezuela
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Zachary Lown; March 08, 2006
Lara, Venezuela- Rito Martinez a former guerilla fighter with flowing white hair and a long white beard stands in the town square of Sanare, a small mountain village. Sanare is located in the state of Lara, a state which lies roughly 200 miles southwest of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. Inspired by the revolution in Cuba Martinez along with thousands of other fighters in the 1960s took to the surrounding mountainside. In response the Venezuelan government (…) -
F**king, spineless, gutless, b*llless Congressional Democrats
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOnce again our elected so-called leaders stick wet fingers in the wind, consult the political "Don’t-ever-take-a-stand-or-some-voter-realorimagined-somewhere-may-take-offense-and-not-vote-for-me" manual, and fail to back Russ Feingold in his (actually mild) censure resolution. It was okay for 20 Senate Dems. to vote to censure Bill Clinton for getting bl*wj*bs by a consenting adult on his own time, and for the House of Representatives to impeach him for the same thing, but not okay to even (…)
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France : a look at the growing revolt against CPE
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package CPE on the 16th of January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”. The law would see employers hire 18-26 year olds on two year contract that would allow them to fire the youths without notice, and without explanation.
In responce, student union bodies called for a week of meetings and mobilisation from 30th january including a call for a (…) -
George W. Bush is not evil. He is just stupid.
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsI once saw a bumper sticker that read: “I’ve never made a mistake. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.”
Well I have made a mistake. And today I must apologize to loyal PRAVDA.Ru readers, and to the thirty percent of Americans still enamored with the Bush dictatorship.
George W. Bush is not evil.
He’s just stupid.
On second thought, this stupidity does make him susceptible to the Machiavellian machinations of evil men, like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto (…)