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  • VENEZUELA BETWEEN BALLOTS AND BULLETS By James PETRAS
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    November 14, 2007
    Venezuelan Democracy, the Presidency of Hugo Chavez and the Great Majority of Popular Classes Face a Mortal Threat
    Venezuela’s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup.
    Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students have led to major street battles in and around the center of Caracas. More seriously, the former Minister of Defense, (…)

  • Ron Paul, The Federal Reserve, JFK and M3: Devaluing Americans into Bankruptcy
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Comptroller General of the United States, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, which is “a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government”, in their latest audit of the federal debt have revealed that “deficit spending and promised benefits for federal entitlement programs have put every man, woman, and child in the United States on the hook for $175,000”. This is exclusive of the personal debt that each person (…)

  • Why Bush Doesn’t Have to Suspend the Constitution!
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” - George C. Wallace
    Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, suspended his country’s Constitution on Nov. 3, 2007, and began arresting opponents of his dictatorial rule. President George W. Bush doesn’t have to resort to that kind of strong arm tactic. This isn’t because he has any second thoughts about doing so. It’s because there isn’t ANY opposition, in the realm of institutional politics, to the Bush-Cheney (…)

  • THOSE BASTARDS NEVER GIVE UP
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THOSE BASTARDS NEVER GIVE UP
    By Peter Fredson
    November 12, 2007
    Everyone is aware of the neocon dream of world domination, set forth in the Project for the New American Century Their fascist philosophy of ruthlessness, bullying, preemption, secrecy in the quest for power and wealth was published long before 9/11. Bush and his base fully intended to have wars of choice to seize the scarce resources of weak nations, and they had no hesitation in accepting whatever deaths were caused by (…)

  • The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    by Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D. – The Canadian November 8, 2007
    The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games (…)

  • DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA: Masters of war plan for next 100 years
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We think urban is the future," says James Lasswell, a retired colonel who now heads the Office of Science and Technology at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. "Everything worth fighting for is in the urban environment."
    By Nick Turse Oct 16, 2007 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/IJ16Aa01.html
    Duane Schattle doesn’t mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late (…)

  • While Pakistan Burns
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While Pakistan Burns
    If you think Musharraf’s wrong to free jailed Taliban members while he busts dissidents, wait until you hear who’s back on the loose.
    By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 9, 2007 | Updated: 11:27 p.m. ET Nov 9, 2007 Pakistani lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition-party members can scarcely ignore the irony of their situation: while thousands of them are being beaten and locked up under President Pervez Musharraf’s newly declared (…)

  • BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT EVO MORALES...
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolivian President Evo Morales on Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Iraq, Establishing Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Che Guevara’s Legacy and More on Democray Now (Amy Goodman)
    In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. In a wide-ranging conversation, Morales discusses the impact of the war in Iraq on Latin America, warns against the use of biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and highlights the importance of indigenous (…)

  • Independence, fear, and the King Georges of Our History
    7 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    This week I took a trip with a busload of other veterans to visit the World War II monument in Washington. While there I saw the paranoid fear and the tense security in our Capitol city. Our driver was told he could not pass in front of either the White House or the Capitol. I wondered if our people were cowards when the British King George held sway over our destiny.
    I harkened back to our Declaration of Independence, got a copy to peruse, and was astonished at the (…)

  • It’s Time to Impeach Cheney
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dennis Kucinich
    As a member of Congress, I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of our nation, and I have pledged to represent the views of my constituents and of all Americans.
    That’s why I feel both duty and sorrow in pursuing the path of impeachment against Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
    While the impeachment movement has generated intensely strong sentiment and activism, there have been only two polls published on the question of impeaching Vice (…)