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  • Memorial Day speech
    30 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman
    Ladies and gentlemen:
    During the Memorial Day Holiday, it is customary to honor those courageous individuals who lost their lives in the numerous wars America has fought during its two hundred and thirty years of existence. But it goes without saying that nobody questions the bravery, the commitment and the sacrifice made by those intrepid men and women.
    So, in today’s world, it is perhaps more fitting to devote a Memorial Day Speech to the cowards, the liars, the (…)

  • From Historic Jamestown, VA to the Endgame
    26 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “History...has no present, only the past rushing into the future.” - John F. Kennedy, our martyred President. (1)
    Jamestown, VA - For some reason, I wasn’t invited by the British Embassy to welcome QE II to the 400th reunion bash, which celebrated the founding of the colony here a few weeks back. It might have had something to do with the fact that the last time I was in Her Majesty’s presence, it was at a major league baseball game at the now-defunct Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, on May (…)

  • Polish witchhunt
    18 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ignacio Ramonet
    The Poles call it the law of lustration, a term meaning ritual purification; the word has strong connotations of repentance and penitence in Poland, where history and Catholicism are so closely intertwined.
    Under the law, which was passed last October and entered into force on 15 March this year, 700,000 Poles are required to confess any collaboration with the communists between 1945 and 1989. All senior civil servants, university professors, lawyers, headmasters and (…)

  • Ex CIA Spook alleges Kennedy’s Assassin was the US Government
    9 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "LBJ took a walk one day down Main Street USA, When he got there what did he see? The youth of America on LSD! LBJ ... USA ... CIA ..." (Lyrics from original HAIR Musical)
    For a moment, forty years ago, it looked like the radicalising political effect of the Vietnam War together with the US Civil Rights movement would synthesise with the upcoming ’drop out’, psychedelic culture that swept over the youth of North America.
    John and Yoko Lennon, part of that drop-out anti-war culture (…)

  • MARTIN KING SHOT!
    5 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    As a Result of These Events 39 Years Ago = George W. Bush - Today ? "A young reporter, a historic event A firsthand history of King’s assassination. By Bob Mann SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Sunday, April 01, 2007 My city editor in Fort Worth beat me to the phone. I was wrapping up an assignment in Atlanta, and I was going to call and suggest that I fly to Memphis, Tenn., and try for an interview with Martin Luther King Jr. It was April 4, 1968, and King was in Memphis in (…)

  • Maurice Papon’s Cynicism and Death
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maurice Ulrich
    Dead at the age of 96 years on Saturday [February 10, 2007], the former minister never admitted his role in the imprisonment of 1645 Jews in concentration camps, as he never showed any regret for anything he did.
    There are some silences which speak volumes. Yesterday, a day after Maurice Papon’s death, the only two reported political reactions were those from Marie-George Buffet and François Hollande. The old man, who died at Pontault –Combault (Seine-et-Marne) at the (…)

  • The Sacco and Vanzetti Case Revisited
    7 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Great trials express—bear—the soul of a nation...” The late historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1)
    It read like the kind of brutal crime—especially in that Roaring Twenties era—that might have been pulled off by gang headed by a trigger happy John Dillinger, or someone of that ilk. At 3 PM, April 15, 1920, two men robbed, and then shot to death, a shoe factory paymaster carrying about $16,000 in cash and his security guard. The incident took place in South Braintree, MA, near Boston. The (…)

  • Google Snubs King
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First they re-name road, then Martin Luther King Day fails to make the cut
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (OfficialWire) — 01/15/07 — Online Reservation System Despite the company’s quaint habit of commemorating holidays and ’important’ events with a ’holiday logo’ and despite having twice previously recognized Martin Luther King Day (), Google, Inc.—the world most popular search engine—has given the famous leader of the American civil rights movement the cold shoulder on his birthday.
    On January (…)

  • Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook Honors MLK Jr.’s Memory
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The ultimate measure of a man is...where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
    Baltimore, MD - On Saturday, January 13, 2007, Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook gave the annual Enoch Pratt Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative lecture. It was held in the Wheeler Auditorium, at the Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street. She touched on three main themes in recalling the impressive legacy of the slain Civil Rights hero. Dr. Cook said: “The ‘spirit of (…)

  • The Spirit of Tom Paine
    4 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spirit of Tom Paine - by Stephen Lendman
    We only know about Tom Paine because Thomas Edison discovered him in the 1920s. Edison believed he was our most important political thinker, and it was essential that his writings and ideas be taught in the nation’s schools. It’s no exaggeration that there might never have been an American Revolution without this man’s writings that had such a profound influence on the nation’s founders and masses of people he reached through one of the few (…)