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  • Palestinians and American Indians: Russell Means Breaks the Silence on Obama.
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    American Indian activist Russell Means said President-elect Obama was selected by the colonial powers as president to improve the US image globally in the aftermath of George Bush. Further, Means said Obama’s appointments show that he is a Zionist controlled by Israel. Speaking on Red Town Radio today, Means said what is happening now to Palestinians is what happened to American Indians.
    “Every policy the Palestinians are now enduring was practiced on the American Indian,” Means said on (…)

  • Video: David Swanson: Appoint a "Special Prosecutor!"
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush’s eight warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. David Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet.org, was one of the speakers at the event. He demanded the appointment of a “Special Prosecutor” to bring to the bar of justice the (…)

  • Video: Marchers Demand: “Arrest Bush!”
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists held a rally at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. Then, they marched, led by the “Veterans for Peace,” about 15 blocks south to the White House. As they paraded, they chanted slogans, like: “Arrest Bush!”; “Prosecute Bush!”; “Stop the Torture!”; Stop the War!”; “Stop Spying on the People”; and “War Crimes!” At the White House, they tossed shoes and boots at a gate, near the recently erected presidential reviewing stands. Again they (…)

  • Message in a Bottle
    19 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    I’m too angry to sleep, too weary to hope. I’m too old for optimism and too young to stop fighting. I’d hit someone if only I knew who; I’d march if only I knew where to go. I support the new President and think that he will bring a new vitality to the nation, but my age and anger tells me that vitality is a show business term. That trickle down never reaches us, and political spin is just so much wind passed into our faces.
    I have seen tax cuts for the rich passed (…)

  • The Humiliation of America
    18 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Humiliation of America
    By Paul Craig Roberts
    January 14, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" — - “Early Friday morning the secretary of state was considering bringing the cease-fire resolution to a UNSC vote and we didn’t want her to vote for it.” Olmert said. “I said ‘get President Bush on the phone.’ They tried and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said ‘I’m not interested, I need to speak to him now.’ He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone (…)

  • W.’s Twilight: A Man of Feeble Temper
    16 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    W. said goodbye to us last night, in an appearance that was surely notable for most Americans mainly because of the annoyance that he delayed by fifteen minutes their prime time shows like Gray’s Anatomy and Eleventh Hour.
    The Bard reminds us that we cannot attribute the dominance of the unworthy ruler to fate, or the stars. If we diminish ourselves and make ourselves underlings and give up our birthright as free citizens, bowing down to a would-be emperor, then we ourselves must accept (…)

  • YES GEORGE, YOU SERVED YOUR MASTER WELL
    14 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power.
    And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, you opened up concentration camps without any concern for the rule of law, and you maimed, tortured, and murdered without any regard (…)

  • I Don’t Care! I Have to Talk to Him Now!
    13 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Olmert says call forced Bush to change U.N. vote, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "shamed"...
    "He gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in favour of it — a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred for. She was left pretty shamed and abstained on a resolution she arranged," Olmert said.
    Fourteen of the Security Council’s 15 members supported the resolution, which has failed to halt Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip and Hamas’s cross-border (…)

  • Obama’s Team of Reactionaries
    12 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obama’s Team of Reactionaries
    8 December 2008
    In recent weeks, numerous media accounts have referred to President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet selections as a "team of rivals." The reference is to a book of the same name by the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln’s choices for key cabinet posts after his victory in the 1860 election, when he confronted the secession crisis and then the Civil War. The media comparisons between Lincoln’s and Obama’s cabinets are specious, (…)

  • The difficulty of being an informed American
    11 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The difficulty of being an informed American
    By Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Contributing Writer Jan 9, 2009, 00:24
    The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If a person intends to be informed, he must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who (…)