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  • Were Abbey Hoffman Jerry Rubin and the Chicago 7 really Police Agents?
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Do you think Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago 7 (exception Bobby Seale) were civilian assets for the police from the very begining as has been documented by Skolnick?
    Short preface 3/17/2004.
    After this preface there is re-typed, VERBATIM, my original investigation report of 1972. Since there is currently supposed Anti-Iraq War Movements, it is instructive to study prior such movements. Why? To determine, by example, if the leadership and direction they are taking secretly serves the (…)

  • Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.
    "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.
    Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. They said the hearings would focus on the secret electronic surveillance program and whether Mr. Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
    Administration sources said the (…)

  • We Deserve More Than the Lesser of Who Cares
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    As each year goes by, I think of the body politics and throw up my hands since I no longer see any candidate worth fighting for. As we go on, I am reminded of a short speech given by the fictional Chief of Staff on the West Wing, Leo McGary where he said: “Because I’m tired of it year after year after year after year having to chose between the lesser of who cares? Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar (…)

  • Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur. Some outlets spread spurious charges of anti-Semitism
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. In a Christmas Eve speech, the Center said, Chavez declared that "the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world."
    The Voice of America (1/5/06) covered the charge immediately. Then opinion journals on the right took up the (…)

  • The King is Dead! Long Live the People!
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bryan Evans Senator Clinton & U.S. Congressional Leadership: Three cheers from the American "street" and the "outlands" of the Americas for your timely metaphor regarding Congress being run like a "PLANTATION"— by which you surely mean it has become elitist, corrupted, poisoned by paranoia, blinded by industry? All the "good old boys" with their bankrolls and silky suits spitting out barred windows on common taxpayers and the vast "underpriveleged" who barely rate a mention? (…)

  • Bush Administration Seeks to Squelch State of the Union Protest at Capitol on January 31
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Administration Seeks to Squelch State of the Union Protest at Capitol on January 31 January 22, 2006
    World Can’t Wait Capitol Hill Office: 511 ‘C’ St. NE Washington DC 20002, Stanton Square DC PRESS CONTACT: Don Spark, 202-536-4310, donspark@worldcantwait.org
    Press Conference: Monday, January 23, 9:30 a.m. National Press Club, Edward R. Murrow Room 529 14th Street, NW Washington DC
    The Bush administration has expanded the special security zone around the Capitol, effectively (…)

  • Evo Morales Has a Dream for Bolivia
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Luis Enrique González (Special Envoy)
    La Paz, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) Only by thinking about the people, about Bolivia, I want to be the best president, to lead the best government, Evo Morales said on Sunday, just a few hours before his inauguration.
    For the first time, I can reveal this desire of mine, he said. The elections of December 18 made me fall in love with all of Bolivia, according to our indigenous culture, Morales told Prensa Latina at a meeting with Cuban journalists. (…)

  • WHO SAYS GOVERNMENT CAN’T HUSTLE?
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Since Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Mississippi Gulf Coast last December, the U.S. Government has come under scathing criticism for being slow to respond.
    But the Administration of President George W. Bush has recently showed it is more than capable of hustling on issues it considers top priorities.
    Little more than a month after the Senate voted to ban appeals to the Supreme Court by suspected terrorists detained by the U.S., the Department of Justice (DOJ) (…)

  • THE MISSION: Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s final chapter
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
    In one of his more bizarre Oval Office confidences, Lyndon Johnson said that he didn’t want to “follow Hitler” but that Hitler had the right idea: “Just take a simple thing and repeat it often enough, even if it wasn’t true, why, people accept it.” Johnson was speaking by telephone to Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, about how to convince Southern whites that Southern blacks deserved the franchise. The curious political-science tutorial came on the (…)

  • Latin America Shifts Left: It’s the Economy
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolvia’s Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.
    By Mark Weisbrot
    Evo Morales’ election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.-sponsored attempts to eradicate the production of coca. He has talked about nationalizing the natural gas (…)