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  • Cuba’s Great Victory Against The Empire
    2 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    National Assembly Address By Fidel Castro; December 31, 2007 Comrades of the National Assembly:
    You have no easy task on your hands. On January 1st, 1959, surrounded by the accumulated and deepening grievances that our society inherited from its neo-colonial past under U.S. domination, many of us dreamed of creating a fully independent nation where justice prevailed. In the arduous and uneven struggle, there came the moment when we were left completely alone.
    Nearly 50 years (…)

  • Negroponte/Rosen meetings with General Kiani Nov 2007
    1 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: There’s something to watch for in Pakistani politics. Civilian leaders appoint a military commander, then the military commander overthrows the civilians. That’s how Pervez Musharraf got his job, and he wasn’t the first.
    Aired November 28, 2007 - 12:00 ET
    THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
    Jonathan Mann gives us some insight.
    (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: There’s (…)

  • Sarkozy reinvents France for bling era
    31 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris
    The republican monarchy invented by Charles de Gaulle – aloof, discreet, solemn, haughty – vanished last week somewhere between Cinderella’s castle and Space Mountain.
    Nicolas Sarkozy wants to reinvent France for the 21st century. He has started by reinventing the French presidency for the Age of Celebrity. The President of the Republic has become the host of a permanent chat show; the only contestant in a "Big Brother" house called the Elysée Palace; the (…)

  • HOW MUCH DO I LOATHE THEE/
    23 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let me count the ways.
    Part One
    By Peter Fredson
    July 31, 2005
    I have been keeping track of George W. Bush and his shenanigans for over 6 years. I have thousands of files on his doings, sayings, and atrocities. I did not start out loathing him, but was curious about how this callow, shallow, inarticulate, culturally-incurious, spoiled rich boy could possibly have been entered into the political arena by party bosses.
    His early years shed no light on his leadership ability. His rich (…)

  • White House Attack Leaves Cheney Offices In Flames
    19 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Russian Security Analyst reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the offices of one of the United States top War Leaders, Vice President Richard Cheney, came under assault by ‘unknown’ US Military assailants who in retreating before what has been described as ‘withering fire’ from Secret Service Agents assigned to protect Cheney literally ‘blew up’ the Vice Presidents office complex.
    Propaganda reports from US media organs, however, are reporting on this reported attack (…)

  • The Making of an “Exceptional” Monster: Josef Stalin
    18 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Tell Stalin I shall be dying with his name on my lips.” - Nikolai Ezhov, ex-boss of Russia’s feared secret police, the NKVD, prior to his execution on the orders of the dictator.
    Before he was known as a Marxist revolutionist in his home town of Gori, Josef Stalin was a published poet. Gori, located in Georgia, a region of the Romanov Czars’ vast empire, was then known as the “Viceroyalty of the Caucasus.” It sits between the Black and Caspian Seas. Stalin’s tenor voice was so good, he (…)

  • THE ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE: DEAD MAN WALKING
    12 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    December 12, 2007
    THE ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE: DEAD MAN WALKING
    John Chuckman
    The Annapolis Conference was, like so many political and diplomatic events of our time, highly choreographed, finely stage-managed, and heavily marketed. Yet, as soon as it was over, it was apparent little had happened, much as when a child opens a much-advertised, expensive plastic toy on Christmas, a brief, glitzy, big-eyed moment followed quickly by tedium. You might compare it to a George Bush press (…)

  • Sarkozy to create a ’French Pentagon’ military HQ
    12 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anna Willard
    PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to regroup France’s different military commands into one new headquarters on the edge of Paris, a ministry official said on Monday.
    The commands of the navy, the army, and the overall military command, will move in 2012 to one building in southwest Paris next to the existing air force command, the official said.
    Around 10,000 people will be based at the new site in the Balard district, including the 5,000 already located in the (…)

  • SARKOZY
    10 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IGNACIO RAMONET Le Monde Diplomatique
    Like the pied piper of Hamelin, Nicolas Sarkozy initially enchanted eminent figures on all sides with his verve and brio. The media were equally spellbound and joined in the mass hysteria. France was virtually hypnotised by this disconcertingly hyperactive president, fizzing with vague plans.
    The scales began to fall from everyone’s eyes when the true nature of the sideshow was revealed. The magician was just a neo-liberal in disguise.
    This was (…)

  • IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    8 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    Yaakov Katz – jpost.com December 6, 2007
    Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program on Sunday to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during a rare visit he will be making to Israel.
    Admiral Michael Mullen will land in Israel (…)