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  • Is It Time to Rein in AIPAC?
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “All of these people [in the Israel Lobby] are pleading a special interest. I am an American.” — President Harry S. Truman
    Grant F. Smith’s latest book, “Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From The 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal,” reveals the controversial history of the influential lobbying organization, known as “AIPAC”. It comes on the heels of his insightful tome, “Deadly Dogma,” an expose’ of the Neocons, where he evidenced their (…)

  • José Ramon Rivero: “In Venezuela, we are going against the tide of neo-liberalism”
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Cathy Ceïbe
    Latin America: An interview with the Venezuelan labour minister, José Ramon Rivero, who describes the reform of working hours in Venezuela, recalling also the tensions between the Government and the Venezuelan Employers’ Confederation (Fedecamaras).
    Huma: The working-time reform should start in 2010: six hours a day or 36 hours a week. In what way is this a “socialist proposal”, which is how you have refered to it?
    José Ramon Rivero: In these times when capitalist (…)

  • The Target: Fidel Castro
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 1960, the CIA contacted a former FBI agent and right hand man of billionaire Howard Hughes, who in turn conspired with the Mafia to have Fidel assassinated.
    The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations, established in September of 1975 and presided over by Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, was mandated to investigate the “government’s operations with respect to Intel Surveillance activities.” It had drawn up a 347-page document describing the plots to (…)

  • All the Print that’s Fit to News
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    All totalitarian governments use the media to promote their policies, the media becomes an arm of the government. The Nazi’s understood the use of mass media to convince the public and as the bombs rained down on Germany cities the media would lament how the war had been forced on Germany. How that warmonger Churchill had forced Germany into war.
    In Russia everyone loved Chairman Stalin, the parades and demonstrations with school children dancing were proof enough to the casual observer. (…)

  • The 5:32 AM Train to Washington, D.C.
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The actual outlook [for the survival of Civilization] is very dark!” — George Orwell
    Baltimore, MD — The commuter train belonging to the MARC Line, pulled out of Penn Station, on Aug. 7, 2007, at exactly 5:32 AM. I was lucky to get a seat. It was overbooked and headed for Washington, D.C. about an hour away. The first thing I noticed on the train was how quiet it was. No one was talking. There was no chattering—just—silence. The passengers were mostly sleeping. Some had on their head (…)

  • VP Cheney in 94, Iraq would become a quagmire under US occupation. Amazing video
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

  • No One Told You When to Run
    9 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s incredibly hard to wake the working class, not because they are heavy sleepers or because they are lazy. But because they go to sleep tired and worried, about their kids and their jobs and their future. They are too preoccupied with the day to day struggle for life to hold intellectual arguments on class warfare. Much like our Iraqi brethren trying to live through Bushes shock and awe Saddam’s politics don’t mean a damn thing when you’re just trying to keep your family alive.
    I had to (…)

  • Rice Backs Appointed Palestinian Premier and Mideast Democracy
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 3, 2007 By HELENE COOPER and STEVEN ERLANGER RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug. 2 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, embracing an appointed Palestinian prime minister here in the West Bank, said Thursday that the United States still supported democracy in the Middle East. But she defended the American refusal to recognize the earlier, elected, Hamas-led government.
    Standing next to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, during a news conference here, Ms. Rice said, “We believe (…)

  • You Just Gotta Believe Tink!
    3 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Have you ever seen a UFO? Millions of us have, credible reports have been made by hundreds and thousands and even the Apollo 11 astronauts reported sightings of strange phenomenon. But what does the government say? Nonsense! No such thing, never was never will be; yet the sightings continue. Unexplainable events, which cause the government’s explanation of, no such thing to fall to pieces. Travis Walton’s disappearance for five days after his coworkers reported his abduction is case in (…)

  • 33 Congress Members for Impeachment
    2 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    I ran into Congressman Donald Payne Tuesday evening and asked him if he would sign on to cosponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. He said yes immediately and brought his legislative director in on the conversation. They both said yes, as a matter of course, as if all they’d been waiting for was someone to ask them. Now, I know that’s not quite the case, and that citizens of New Jersey have been lobbying Payne and other New Jersey (…)