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  • The Hardline Right Moves into the Élysee Palace - Sarkozy Wins the French Presidential Election
    11 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jean-Paul Piérot
    Presidential Elections. With a record participation rate (85%), the French have given a majority to the UMP candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy (53%).
    The news wasn’t exactly unexpected, but it still represents a serious shock for millions of French voters, including for the majority of the younger generation, who learnt at 8 pm on Sunday 6 May that Nicolas Sarkozy had been elected to the Élysée Palace, with his 53% victory in the second round of the presidential elections, (…)

  • Read All About It: Great Nation Still Perplexed Over Why it Went to War
    10 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages. Turkish proverb The books pile up. Commentators liberally critique. Critics liberally comment. In a kaleidoscopic rush of analysis, disseminated mostly on the internet, the reasons and the causes for the Iraq War ceaselessly tumble forth. Sad, many of the moves are made to cover someone’s ass. Tenet didn’t mean ’Slam Dunk’ but ’Foul Shot’ it turns out. And he didn’t want to release the information he had before the election, well, (…)

  • The War on Free Expression
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    The War on Free Expression - by Stephen Lendman
    In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason. But losing that most precious of all rights means losing our freedom that 18th century French philosopher Voltaire spoke in defense of saying "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." (…)

  • Off the Table: A Farce in One Act
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    Stage set: a dining room at left, an office at right
    A woman enters the office where the phone is ringing. She answers it.
    NP: Hello? Why do you ask? Yes, I’m sure. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Impeachment is off the table. Now let me tell you about some new legislative proposals that I think you’re really going to like. I’ll give you what we’re going to pass in the first hundred seconds and in the first hundred months. Which one do you want first? Let’s (…)

  • THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: IRAQ
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRIDE: It goeth, they say just before the fall. Bush brags that "We freed them", egad, what gall!
    ENVY: Cheney says Iraqis envy U.S., but when polls are taken, results? just guess!
    GLUTTONY: Neocon nutjobs stuff gullets each day ,but starving Iraqis don’t eat, they can’t pay.
    LUST: The monster oil companies lust for more dough, too bad Iraqis, your profits must go!
    GREED: The commonest sin of mankind is greed, and Bush/Cheney love it, results of "bad seed"
    SLOTH: Our Congress is (…)

  • The Clock Ticks For Thee
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tick ... Tick ... Tick (2007)
    "No man is an island, entire of itself," wrote John Donne. "...[A]ny man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
    http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mh...

  • Second Disaster to Strike Kansas
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The deadly tornado that struck Greensburg Kansas last Friday was but the first affliction soon will come the second. As certainly as thunder follows lightning after a disaster of this magnitude comes the Bush full Monty stump speech full of euphemisms and faux promises of assistance. Coming soon to a disaster near you! George of the bungle will set up his standard kiss and consolation photo op offering kisses kind words and consolation but not much else. The administration learned (…)

  • TYING UP LOOSE ENDS
    8 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tying up Loose Ends By Peter Fredson May 8, 2007
    After my last blog, I was asked why I oppose George W. Bush in such vehement tones. So I compiled a list of complaints about the Issues that Bush has failed to meet adequately.
    The Valerie Plame affair is still open Several hundred prisoners are still in Guantanamo. Iraqi civilians are still being killed wholesale Iraqi oil is still coveted Iranian oil is still coveted Oil anyplace in the world is coveted Attempts to destabilize nations (…)

  • Former spy fighting to step into the front line
    6 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Ms Livni was raised in a household of Zionists. Her Polish-born father, Eitan, was the head of operations of the Jewish military organisation Irgun when it blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 28 Britons, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and five others." By Anne Penketh,() Diplomatic Editor Published: 03 May 2007
    "Do you ever see male hormones raging around you?", Israel’s Foreign Minister was asked a few months ago. Rather than fudge the answer, she responded frankly: (…)

  • Blair’s Corrupt Britannia gerrymanders the Scottish Elections
    4 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blair’s Corrupt Britannia gerrymanders the Scottish Elections
    Up all night watching the electoral results of the Scottish parliamentary and municipal elections. For the first time it seemed as if the Scottish National Party (SNP) had a chance of leading the next Scots Parliament at Holyrood.
    Everyone was expecting Nu Labor to get a hammering north of the border.
    But, hey! Guess what. It looks like Tony Blair’s corrupt crowd have done a Bush fix and stolen the election from under our (…)