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  • Two fingers to America
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    He’s a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House
    Thursday August 25, 2005 The Guardian
    Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, is a genial fellow with a good sense of humour and a (…)

  • Bush and Death
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I fault this president (George W. Bush) for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our twenty-one year olds who wanted to be what they could be.
    On the eve of D-day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.
    But this president does not know what (…)

  • Letter from a Soldier in Iraq to his Senator
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From: B K
    To: J C Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:29:57 -0400 Subject: Re: HMMWVs
    J C Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff U.S. Senator Olympia Snow 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510
    Dear Mr. C
    We have not received all the 1114 HMMWV’s that are required for our mission.
    I still head out of the gate in a 1025 Humvee that doesn’t have floor armor, basically all you have is armored windows and sub par armored doors. As evident by the bullet holes and shrapnel (…)

  • How The Republican Party Won Election But Lost Its Soul
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Rapaport
    Give the man big points for chutzpa. Late last month at a speech in front of the National Convention of the NAACP, Republican Party Chairman, Ken Mehlman admitted that his party had indeed engaged in a 40-year racist “Southern Strategy.” In its conception, the idea must have seemed like bold political jujitsu to Mehlman’s speechwriters. After all, if you are chief apologists for the sinister Karl Rove as well as surrogate at the nation’s premier civil rights (…)

  • Rev. Jesse Jackson Condemns Pat Robertson’s Calls to Kill Venezuela President
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Cleto Sojo
    U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., condemned calls by conservative Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson’s to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    “These comments are morally reprehensible and dangerously suggestive. The international community repudiates Robertson’s remarks, and calls upon him to retract his remarks,” Jackson said in a press release.
    “Calling for the assassination of world leaders is inciteful and wildly provocative. It is (…)

  • Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Levine and David Walsh
    Pat Robertson, the Christian fundamentalist politician and broadcaster with close ties to the Bush administration, has publicly called for the assassination of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
    Robertson issued his Mafia-like appeal for the US government to “take out” Chavez on his television show “The 700 Club,” broadcast to over one million viewers on his own Christian Broadcast Network and Disney’s ABC Family Network. After a ten-minute news clip (…)

  • Human Rights and Religious Groups Condemn Pat Robertson’s Attack on Venezuela
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, August 23, 2005 -The U.S.-based Human Rights group Global Exchange and the National Council of Churches issued separate statements in which they condemned fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Global Exchange said it strongly condemns the actions of Bush supporter Pat Robertson in his call for the assassination of democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. (…)

  • Privatizing the Truth; Bush’s war on information
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 25, 2005
    ’’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality". Bush aide; Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine 10-17-04
    A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush’s inability to tell the truth. In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not. What is meaningful however is that deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the state. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of (…)

  • SOMEBODY SHOULD WALK THE PLANK
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHEN IMBECILES CHART A COURSE
    By Peter Fredson
    August 25, 2005
    There is the classic story about the moron who watched a suspenseful movie 10 different times because he hoped to see a different outcome. This is the same story about a person who watched a very close Super Bowl game in which a football missed the goal posts by inches then saw it in reruns because this time the ball might go in. And the story parallels one of a little boy dressed in Superman outfit who jumps out of the (…)

  • Love Your Country? Demand Impeachment
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday, August 18, 2005 Love Your Country? Demand Impeachment.
    It was Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States and a Republican, who famously said in 1918, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
    Put differently, and in modern context, blind, unquestioning faith in President Bush is not only (…)