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  • Prachanda, Prime minister of Nepal : The challenges ahead
    17 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charles Haviland
    BBC News, Kathmandu
    Prachanda has a massive task ahead of him.
    The elevation of Nepal’s chief Maoist, the leader of the former rebels, Prachanda, to the prime ministership is something he could barely have dreamt of just three years ago.
    By the early 1980s, with political parties still banned, “The Fierce One” had abandoned his job as a teacher and was operating underground as an outlaw.
    Not until 2006 did he appear in public again, after the end of a (…)

  • NEPAL: VICTORY OF COMMUNIST MAOIST PARTY
    17 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Kiran Pandey
    Source: "Nepali Times"
    Former guerrilla chieftain, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, has been elected the first prime minister of the Republic of Nepal after winning a vote in the Constituent Assembly in which the UML, MJF and 13 smaller parties supported his candidature.
    RED PRIME MINISTER: A profusely garlanded and vermilioned Pushpa Kamal Dahal waves after winning the CA election to the post of prime minister on friday.
    The election marks the mainstreaming of the (…)

  • John Edwards Fiddled While America Burned
    11 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.” - Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
    It is rare when I agree with an editorial in Rupert Murdock’s rag—the “New York Post.” But, on Aug. 9, 2008, the tabloid got it right when it ranted about John Edwards’ extramarital affair, while running, in 2006, for president in the Democracy Party primaries. The “Post” roared about the fallen political star: “His (…)

  • A Torture Paper Trail
    30 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation’s great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the U.S. government. But that’s precisely what he did.
    Three previously classified administration memos obtained last week by the American Civil Liberties Union add to our understanding of this disgraceful episode. The documents are attempts to justify the unjustifiable - the use of brutal (…)

  • The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda
    29 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Countercurrents.org
    28 July, 2008
    By Stephen Lendman
    When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles; renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and asserted the right to develop and test new weapons;
    Source: www.wired.com abandoned the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) (…)

  • Be Careful What You Wish For
    29 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The Peoples Corporate Republic of China, the world’s largest slave labor plantation, have sought desperately to showcase to the world their Two Systems -One China policy by hosting the Olympic games.
    So far the plan is working beyond their wildest expectations, but not in the way they anticipated. While many hosting countries have, in the past, feared not having Olympic venues ready in time for the visiting people, China’s problems are just the opposite. They must vet (…)

  • Congress Hears Ringing Call for Impeachment
    25 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    The House Judiciary Committee today, Friday, July 25th, will put impeachment squarely back "on the table" and restored to its prominent place in our Constitution.
    Elliott Adams, President of Veterans for Peace, and a descendant of American revolutionary Sam Adams, will deliver this prepared testimony, in which, if his 5 minutes allow him to reach his conclusion, he will say:
    "For us veterans, when our time came, we volunteered our very lives for this republic; for the (…)

  • Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power
    23 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jul. 23, 2008 | The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into White House malfeasance that would be modeled after the (…)

  • Democrats Voted For FISA Out Of Fear
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was not the fear of terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists that motivated Barack Obama, many Democratic senators and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to grant President George W. Bush expanded powers to wiretap Americans in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
    Instead, it was the fear of Republican campaign operatives who paralyze Democratic lawmakers with these words: "My Democratic opponent is weak on terrorism."
    The advice that Washington wise men give to Democratic (…)

  • N.H. will accept free oil from Chavez after all
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    N.H. will accept free oil from Chavez after all
    With fuel prices rising, N.H. decides to accept free oil from Chavez’s government after all
    NORMA LOVE AP News
    Jul 18, 2008 14:47 EST
    Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil.
    With the state’s blessing, New Hampshire residents will be receiving some of (…)