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  • The Money System In a Nutshell: How the Rich get Richer and Why We Never Do
    8 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wealth is forever. In case you’ve never thought about it, it’s true, once it’s created it’s forever. All you have to do is hold onto it. That’s something I realized a while back when I started analyzing how our society is set up, and it’s set up to make the rich and powerful more rich and powerful by using us and taking our share of the wealth we create for themselves.
    It’s about money, that green stuff that strangely doesn’t turn out to be anything at all. It has no inherent value, you (…)

  • PROTEST AGAINST GEORGE BUSH’S VISIT TO LONDON
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When journalist George Monbiot was asked last week why he had tried to exercise a citizen’s arrest on neocon John Bolton - one of the prime instigators of the Iraq war - he replied, "We must ensure that people do not forget. This is not an ordinary political mistake which was committed in Iraq. This was the supreme international crime, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those people were not killed in the ordinary sense; they were murdered.
    And they (…)

  • Voice of the White House June 2, 2008
    4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voice of the White House June 2, 2008
    TBR News.org – June 2, 2008
    “My colleague here showed me an overview, official study concerning U.S. detainees. It is not generally known to the public but the U.S government now has over 30,000 (31,082 as of May 19, 2008 ) people in secret custody, all over the world.
    An official U.S. program of torture and ‘rendition’ has been going on since before 9/11 and has never stopped. A number, estimated to be approximately 3,500, have been killed (…)

  • Washington Planning To "Checkmate" Chavez By Stephen Lendman
    3 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Countercurrents.org 02 June, 2008
    So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues.
    In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said "Washington does not want to lose (…)

  • War Abroad, Poverty at Home, By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS *
    31 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch May 23, 2008
    Another Stimulus Package for the Pentagon
    The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring.
    As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed from foreigners.
    The “world’s only superpower” is so (…)

  • Video : Prof. John Mearsheimer on AIPAC and Congress (Part 2 of 2)
    30 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On May 29, 2008, on Capitol Hill, Professor John Mearsheimer shared his views, at a public forum, on the the powerful Israel Lobby, particularly its leading element, AIPAC; Christian Zionists; the late Rep. Tom Lantos; Rep. Henry Waxman; Rep. Howard Berman;and the U.S. Congress, among other matters. Bottom line for Professor Mearsheimer: “The Israel Lobby’s undue influence...on our foreign policy...isn’t good for the country...or for our democracy...Congress isn’t doing its job...And, that (…)

  • Video : Prof. John Mearsheimer on AIPAC and Congress (Part 1 of 2)
    30 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On May 29, 2008, on Capitol Hill, Professor John Mearsheimer shared his views, at a public forum, on the the powerful Israel Lobby, particularly its leading element, AIPAC; Christian Zionists; the late Rep. Tom Lantos; Rep. Henry Waxman; Rep. Howard Berman;and the U.S. Congress, among other matters. Bottom line for Professor Mearsheimer: “The Israel Lobby’s undue influence...on our foreign policy...isn’t good for the country...or for our democracy...Congress isn’t doing its job...And, that (…)

  • FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
    24 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
    By Bill Van Auken 23 May 2008
    The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.
    The World Socialist Web Site, together with (…)

  • Trials Of Henry Kissinger (video 79 mn)
    20 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice.
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19742567.html

  • The Masada Complex : Bush and Olmert are Exhibit A
    19 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Man regards himself as harmless and so adds stupidity to his iniquity.” - Carl G. Jung
    Who suggested to President George W. Bush and Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that a Photo Op at Masada, on May 15, 2008, would enhance their personas? Whoever it was, they deserves plaudits, since it backfired. Masada, which I visited in the late 70s, is a fortress, 1,400 feet high. It is located in the desert, near the Dead Sea—a place where 960 Jewish zealots—men, women and children—committed (…)