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  • Carol Korreck: A Soldier’s Mother Challenges Anyone Who Will Listen
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    President Bush keeps insisting America needs to "support the troops." What exactly is it that shows support?
    Extending tours of duty? Sending soldiers into battle without the proper training and (…)

  • REJECTING TAPEWORM ECONOMICS AND ITS WAR ON FAMILIES
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carolyn Baker
    Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, during a meeting with working mothers
    A frightening story came across the radio waves this week and was later reported by MSNBC:
    “Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls.” Governor Rick Perry had just signed an order making Texas the first of what is likely to be many states to require that school girls be vaccinated against Human Papiloma Virus (HPV), implementing what at first blush appears to be sensible and humane (…)

  • running with the devil
    3 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When you start listening to that little voice that tells you go ahead take advantage of it , who will know, you are beginning a path leading you toward destruction of your very existence. That’s exactly what is happening to America by allowing george walker bush administration one more minute in charge, its like giving into the devil when he tempts you, and when we give in, leads us all down the realm of total destruction of not only our own souls and morals. so many unaware innocents caught (…)

  • Has the White House interfered on global warming reports?
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists’ climate-change work. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
    More than 120 scientists across seven federal agencies say they have been pressured to remove references to "climate change" and "global warming" from a range of documents, including press releases and communications with Congress. Roughly the same number say appointees altered the meaning of scientific findings on climate (…)

  • Lider Maximo - Havana Tuesday Jan. 30, 2007
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    HAVANA - Emerging from months of seclusion, Cuban President Fidel Castro has appeared on television in apparent good spirits, telling his Venezuelan counterpart his recovery from surgery was "far from being a lost battle."
    Castro, 80, stood for part of the meeting with his Venezuelan friend and ally Hugo Chavez. He seemed far healthier than he did the last time such footage was broadcast by Cuban television three months ago. The video raises new speculation over Castro’s fate and (…)

  • Top GOP senator snubs Bush as experts tell Committee Congress can end Iraq war
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    01/30/2007 Filed by Brian Beutler
    At a Senate Judiciary hearing today to examine Congress’s power to terminate a war, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)—who chaired that committee until the Democrats took power this month—lashed out at President Bush for what he characterized as Bush’s inflated sense of his own power:
    "I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider," said Specter, lampooning a recent gaffe by the president. "The decider is a shared and joint (…)

  • Video of George Tenet’s 9/11 Lie Now at youtube.com
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma — mpwright9@aol.com Former CIA director George Tenet has publicly accused Time magazine of making a false report about the agency’s conduct shortly before the 9/11 attack. The accusation was made during a speech at the University of Oklahoma on March 8, 2005. According to Time, in August 2001 the CIA had misinformed the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was later indicted and accused of conspiring with the 9/11 terrorists. In 2005 Moussaoui pled (…)

  • THINGS BUSH COULD SAY
    29 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Fredson
    January 29, 2007
    Torture? What Torture? No Torture! Just forget it!
    Someone outed a CIA agent? Gee, wonder who that could’ve been?
    Karl Rove. Nice Guy. I hadda put him in charge of reconstruction of New Orleans...
    Tom DeLay? Haven’t seen him around lately.
    Condi Rice? Nice Shoes. Perky. Does anything I tell her to do.
    Dick Cheney? Uncle Dick? Keeps secrets.
    Laura? Knows when to shut up.
    I have to kill them “over there” or else they’ll come to Crawford and (…)

  • The Pentagon hunkers down in Africa
    29 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Charles Cobb Jnr
    26 January 2007 09:18
    The stance of the United States with respect to the rest of the world has changed radically under the “conservative” administration of George W Bush. The latest indication of the militarisation that is at the forefront of this shift came on December 13, when then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that within “one to two months” the US military would establish an African Command — adding a sixth region to the existing five US geographic (…)

  • Rep. John Conyers: “Congress Can Fire Bush!”
    28 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It’s so irresponsible that they can’t be quiet.” - William Kristol, a Neocon, in referring to critics of the Iraqi War. (1)
    Washington, D.C. On a sunny day, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, with the temperatures in the high-40s, the National Mall, was filled with protesters against the Iraqi War. A Who’s Who list of speakers against the ongoing evildoings of the Bush-Cheney Gang let their voices be heard by the spirited crowd. The massive demonstration’s prime sponsor was the United for Peace (…)