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  • Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (video)
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video from Bellaciao - Paris - 09-01-29
    By Ian Traynor,
    Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters
    France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the (…)

  • CLINTON: Israel has right to respond to Gaza rocket attacks
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    29/01/2009 HAARETZ By News Agencies Source: stevecotler.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Israel had a right to defend itself and that Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish territory could not go unanswered.
    "We support Israel’s right to self-defense. The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas [in Israel] cannot go unanswered," Clinton said in her first news conference at the State Department. (…)

  • NEW! 2008 Trilateral Commission Membership list
    30 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW! 2008 Trilateral Commission Membership list
    http://www.augustreview.com/knowledge_base/getting_started_with_globalism/trilateral_commission_membership_-_2008_20081010103/

  • Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Inter Press Service (IPS)
    by Gareth Porter
    Source: ohmygov.com
    WASHINGTON - When U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran of "subversive activity" in Latin America Tuesday, it raised the question whether he is trying to discourage President Barack Obama from abandoning the hard line policy of coercive diplomacy toward Iran he has favored for nearly three decades.
    In making a new accusation against Iran, just as Obama is still (…)

  • Long Shadows
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    The "American Spectator" calls it Obama’s New Deal; CNBC and its parrot networks call it Obama’s New Deal, as well. As would be expected, the right tries to frame the argument by smearing the left. So lost and out of touch are these Ba’thist dead enders that they fail to realize that a New Deal sounds like a pretty good idea to millions of struggling Americans. But Obama’s stimulus program is not another New Deal, it is merely patching the (…)

  • Uncle Tom Obama supports Afghan Genocide & Racist Zionist (RZ) Apartheid Israeli Occupation of Palestine
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obviously Obama is vastly preferable to the Bush and McCain racist religious right republicans (R4s) and, while he could have done more and better so far, he has already done some good things e.g. appointments of Professors Chu and Holdren as top scientific advisers on climate change and other matters; US presence in Occupied Iraq to start declining; aid restored to African aid programs practicing birth control; closing Guantanamo Bay within the next year; and permitting life-saving and (…)

  • We’re the Government - and You’re Not !
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today’s Americans how to be good citizens?

  • Noam Chomsky: No change coming with OBAMA
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prestv.com Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:14:45 GMT
    The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky.
    Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you’ve written about in the context of Yugoslavia, is the man [President Barack] Obama has (…)

  • Two US Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama’s Pakistan Policy
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Truthout Saturday 24 January 2009
    by: R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick,Washington Post Staff Writers
    Leaders from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area along the border with Afghanistan met with Pakistani Army officials last February. On Friday, the US launched air attacks in Pakistan within the Waziristan area in a concrete demonstration of the Obama administration’s Pakistan policy.
    Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected (…)

  • Video: Jean Athey: Guard Shouldn’t be Used as “Backdoor Draft”
    24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2009, the “Bring the Guard Home! It’s the Law” campaign held a press conference. One of the speakers was Jean Athey of Maryland, Peace Action. She said that her group is proposing legislation to the General Assembly of Maryland that would require “the Maryland National Guard only to be called into federal service for legal purposes and that in the absence of legal authority, the Maryland National Guard should stay within the (…)