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  • Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    By VALUR GUNNARSSON – 1 day ago
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
    For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead on Iceland’s Channel 2 television.
    But (…)

  • We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William Sieghart
    Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners felt safer since Hamas had taken over the Government? Indeed we did, we told them. Without doubt the past 18 months had seen a comparative calm on the streets of Gaza; no gunmen on the streets, no more kidnappings. They smiled with great pride and waved us goodbye.
    Less than a week later (…)

  • Wall St. and the Fed Get Fatter, While Main St. Suffers
    29 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Wall Street has hijacked the economy for the last twenty some years.” - Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
    The Fed and Wall Street are the real powers in the land. During the financial meltdown crisis in the Fall of 2008, the U.S. Congress acted as a patsy for the fiscal elite. The Fed Chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., ordered the politicos to give Wall Street banksters a bailout of $700 billion of taxpayers’ money with (…)

  • Understanding the origin of public insecurity
    25 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Article originally published in spanish language in El Libertario, Venezuela, # 54, September-October 2008, that analyzes and goes over the problem of criminal violence through its social impact on contemporary Venezuela.
    All opinion polls conducted in the country agree on one topic: the insecurity is the main problem for the citizens. The numbers of homicides and personal injuries place us, at present, as one of the most dangerous countries on the continent. This situation is (…)

  • Ford’s Legacy
    21 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Deep Throat is dead. The man who brought down a President by leaking information which otherwise would never have seen the light of day is gone. His passing should be remembered because he was the Paul Revere of his generation. He held up the light of truth in the steeple as he risked his career, his family, and if caught he might have been sentenced to more hard time than all the Watergate conspirators combined.
    Those inside the (…)

  • Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
    21 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We have just lost cabin pressure, and I don’t mean on the Monsanto corporate jet that Tom Vilsack uses.
    Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
    December 18th, 2008
    The fever dream reality of the Obama hive mind goes something like this:
    Obama is just pretending to be evil so that he can get into power, but then the Hope and Change, etc. will flow.
    —The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And Probably Lots (…)

  • Unconventional Warfare in the 21st Century: U.S. Surrogates, Terrorists and Narcotraffickers
    20 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Unconventional Warfare in the 21st Century: U.S. Surrogates, Terrorists and Narcotraffickers
    by Tom Burghardt
    Global Research, December 19, 2008 Antifascist Calling...
    On December 13, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks did investigative- and citizen journalists a great service by publishing the Army Special Operations Forces FM 3-05.130, titled Unconventional Warfare.
    Published in September 2008, the 248-page document though unclassified, is restricted "to U.S. Government agencies (…)

  • Now that we know what “Appease” means, let’s find out what “Conspiracy” and “Theory” mean
    19 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of the main problems with our civilization is that words have lost their meaning. A few months ago Chris Matthews had to explain to Kevin James what the word "appease" meant. Unfortunately for Mr. James, this didn’t occur in private but live on MSNBC’s Hardball.
    In spoken languages, the tone of a word can be used to make inferences that may be completely unrelated to the meaning of the word. This is specially true when dealing with propaganda. When certain people or organizations want (…)

  • Scorched Earth
    19 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scorched Earth By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    There comes a point, as the car careens out of control down the icy highway, when we are no longer the driver but just the person holding onto the wheel. We try to do what’s right but the situation changes from instant to instant and it appears that our actions have little effect.
    The undercurrents of history, however, may appear to move in unseen channels, but still we can’t escape cause and effect. The film “Charlie (…)

  • Free Bush Shoe-Thrower Muntather al Zaidi
    16 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The man who threw shoes at US President George Bush has reportedly been beaten and tortured and is being held in the US run Camp Cropper in Iraq. Mobilize on his behalf to save him. He has taught us how we must protest our bad leaders. Sign the petition for his safety!
    http://www.uruknet.info?p=49618
    http://www.uruknet.info?p=49604
    please forward the information widely