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  • Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso
    17 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso (my translation)
    Sun, 08/16/2009 - 12:30 — AP
    Help! Our Voice, Radio Progreso and ERIC SJ
    Our Voice in the political crisis:
    Radio Progreso and the Team for Reflection, Investigation and Communication ERIC of the Jesuit community in Honduras
    Saturday, August 15, 2009
    HELP!
    Radio Progreso was placed under siege by an army contingent the very day of the coup d’etat. At gunpoint and without a warrant, the military penetrated our facilities and (…)

  • CIA Trained Security Chiefs Elected to Palestinian Leadership
    16 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US government has been meddling in the Palestinian internal affairs since at least 2003. Its effort is to transform the Palestinian national movement for liberation and independence into a more compliant or quisling government, willing to accede to Israel’s political and security demands..
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  • If You Build Them They Will Come
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The healthcare debate just keeps spinning out of control, death panels and let’s kill off granny movements bumbling, stumbling with overweight, jackboot wannbes. Watch them pretending outrage while keeping one eye on the director.
    I was watching the video of the St. Louis town hall scuffle and one man seems to always be on the edge of the camera shot. When he looks at the camera the camera moves forward almost like he was giving instructions. But when you hire amateurs (…)

  • The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
    11 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Global Research, August 11, 2009
    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the (…)

  • Liquidating Our Empire. Three Good Reasons And Ten Steps to Take to Do So
    11 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Chalmers Johnson Global Research, August 10, 2009 Tomgram.com - 2009-07-30
    However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal (…)

  • Western Sahara : Status quo risk
    10 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American diplomat Christopher Ross was chosen this past summer to untangle this mess. Ross was originally selected for the job in September, but it took several months to make it official, after Morocco obstructed his appointment because, as the moroccan press say, that, from now on, any talks must focus on how to implement the king’s autonomy plan, not whether to do it the Moroccan autonomy plan must be the "sole platform" for future discussions, leaving aside any proposals from (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    Posted by Al Giordano - August 8, 2009 at 11:39 am
    By Al Giordano
    In three decades of organizing or reporting on social movements, one develops a very good memory of which of them won their battles, which were defeated, and what made the difference between those that won and those that lost.
    If it could be boiled down to a single factor it would be this: In victorious struggles, a critical mass of the organizers arm (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Al Giordano
    Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.
    It was one of three such sessions, and the only public meeting of the three. Almost immediately upon the completion of the screening of (…)

  • Way smoothed for genocide in Western Sahara
    6 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following is extracted and edited from a letter to Charles Clarke, my Member of Parliament. Morocco is being extremely active in promoting its new plan for the the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which it partially occupies, and has had a number of “constructive” talks with European politicians in recent weeks. Morocco has been praised for its efforts by a number of individuals and bodies, including political representatives of the EU. It appears that the way is being smoothed for (…)

  • How Far Must Johnny March ?
    6 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Lost in the debate over health care and in between Sarah Palin’s speeches and right about the time the thriller stopped thrilling was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announcing a “Temporary” expansion of the Army by 22,000 men. This temporary expansion is designed to take the strain off the Army. The Army has been growing all along and had reached 547,000 before this latest announcement. Some don’t think that 22,000 are enough; Senator Joe Lieberman issued a position (…)