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  • Obama victory speech: ’This is your victory’
    5 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President elect Barack Obama has addressed supporters in Chicago after beating John McCain to become the next US president. Below is the speech.
    Obama:
    Hello, Chicago.
    If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
    It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in (…)

  • The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on Pakistan
    5 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Islamabad—The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on insurgent targets in northwest Pakistan or risk failure in its efforts to end militancy in the Muslim country, the prime minister warned Tuesday. Yousuf Raza Gilani said visiting U.S. Gen. David Petraeus “looked convinced” when he warned him the strikes were inflaming anti-American sentiment but that he got no guarantee the attacks would end.
    Gilani’s remarks in an interview with The Associated Press underscore how shaping a (…)

  • Bush administration denies funding for FBI probe of mortgage mess
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week.
    Many more agents needed, official says
    Friday, October 31, 2008 Last updated 2:54 p.m. PT
    By PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND DANIEL LATHROP P-I REPORTERS
    "They are bogged down big-time or there would be some indictments by now," said a recently retired bureau official who played a pivotal role in setting FBI policy after 9/ 11. (…)

  • Obama no different to McCain, says Chavez
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Chavez on Obama....
    September 29, 2008 11:29 AM
    Chavez et Obama - Sources : .confidentiel.net/mecanopolis.wordpress
    Relations between Venezuela and the US will not improve even if Barack Obama becomes president, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader, predicted today.
    A persistent thorn in the side of the US, Chavez told his supporters not to get their hopes up over Obama, the Democratic candidate, as there was little difference between him and his Republican rival, John (…)

  • Morales calls for ’reparations to the earth’ (video)
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: cialnanterre.googlepage
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24129560.html

  • Colin Powell : Crisis on January 21 or 22 (10/19/2008) videos)
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Colin PMore Colin Powell on Meet the Press 10/19/2008
    Source: www.timboucher.com
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24140087.html

  • How the masters of the universe outsmarted themselves
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    How the masters of the universe outsmarted themselves Online Journal Oct 21, 2008, 10:23
    How the masters of the universe outsmarted themselves, but don’t count them out yet
    By Chronis Polychroniou
    Online Journal Contributing WriterBy
    Ralph Nader Wall Streer Protest Oct 16th Photo: Joëlle Pénochet
    Even though it probably has deeper and more structural causes associated with it, perhaps due to over-accumulation, to use an old-fashioned Marxist economic term, the September-October (…)

  • Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    © BY ERIC WALBERG
    As the White House lame duck’s reign drags on, and political wars on the home front gather steam, it is pertinent we assess the legacy US President George W. Bush leaves us.
    Part 1 – Inferno
    Where to begin? The hell of Iraq and Afghanistan put everything else in the shadows. Those monstrous crimes will dominate the world’s agenda for decades to come. I have chosen here to deal with only a few major elements of the Bush (…)

  • Sarkozy’s new financial world order - Oct 22 (videos)
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24049837.html

  • Bush Administration to violate law on DHS reports
    25 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.
    Administration told Congress it will skirt law on agency reports Last updated October 24, 2008 11:40 p.m. PT By CHARLIE SAVAGE THE NEW YORK TIMES
    The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and (…)