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  • Bread and Roses: International Women’s Day and the fight for a better life for all
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Given the state of politics in the US and the moribund resistance from popular forces, it is often surprising to many that some of the great struggles of our time had their start in the Belly of the Beast. The tradition of May 1 as International Labor Day, for example, is marginalized in the country of its birth: it was the capstone of American Labor’s fight for the eight hour day in which women and anarchists played a prominent role. International Women’s Day was (…)

  • The Deadly Business of a King’s Murder
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gary Revel
    Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, 26 year veteran CIA Case Officer and Counter Intelligence expert like many African-Americans are somewhat familiar with the now deceased Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI, William Sullivan. Most of those who know of him also know that he was killed a week before he was to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977. What can be learned of his career comes from his autobiography (that was completed and published (…)

  • 1976: U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build nuclear industry
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry March 5, 2006 - In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive that granted Iran the opportunity to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and facilities designed to extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, the current Vice President of the United States, Richard B Cheney served on the transition team and later as Deputy Assistant to the President. (…)

  • THE ANNUAL FICTION REPORT Malcom Lagauche
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No apologies from U.S. government over this once popular pursuit
    March 13, 2006
    Last week, the U.S. came out with its annual human rights report for the world. The only difference between this year’s and those of the recent past is the elimination of Iraq as being the world’s most vile abuser of human rights. Otherwise, the same culprits are mentioned: China, Syria, Iran, North Korea, and a quickly ascending Venezuela.
    Here are a few statements from the report:
    The Chinese (…)

  • PARALLEL UNIVERSES
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PARALLEL UNIVERSES
    By Peter Fredson
    March 12, 2006
    Long ago I was sent as a First Sergeant with my small unit into Normandy, France. I spent several weeks living in fox-holes, tents and Nissen huts. Then the Allies broke through at St. Lo. Large German army units surrendered intact.
    A colonel called me to his portable headquarters and said: “I understand you speak German.” “Yes, sir”. “Do you know army regulations?” “Yes, sir, I’m a chief administrative non-commissioned officer, so I (…)

  • The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent This story has echoes which reverberate loudly at this point in
    8 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent by Jacob G. Hornberger by Jacob G. Hornberger
    The date was February 22, 1943. Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, along with their best friend, Christoph Probst, were scheduled to be executed by Nazi officials that afternoon. The prison guards were so impressed with the calm and bravery of the prisoners in the face of impending death that they violated regulations by permitting them to meet together one last time. Hans, a medical student at the (…)

  • The 1975 World Trade Center Fire
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The February 13, 1975 North Tower Fire has been carefully hidden from you. Here are a few reports concerning it.
    This 110-story steel-framed office building suffered a fire on the 11th floor on February 13, 1975. The loss was estimated at over $2,000,000. The building is one of a pair of towers, 412 m in height. The fire started at approximately 11:45 P.M. in a furnished office on the 11th floor and spread through the corridors toward the main open office area. A porter saw flames under (…)

  • The story of the White Rose inevitably makes people with a military mindset very uncomfortable
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent
    http://www.fff.org/freedom/0196a.asp
    Now, it just so happens that of all the articles I have written for the past 17 years, “The White Rose” is my favorite. It details the efforts of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were brother and sister, to oppose their own government - the Nazi government - in the midst of World War II. The essay was later reprinted in a book of readings for high school students on the Holocaust. While in Munich a few years ago, I (…)

  • Quotations That Make Us Think
    20 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market." Harry Magdoff, The Age of Imperialism NOW READ THROUGH SOME OF THESE NAMES THROUGHOUT HISTORY , WHO ALL SEEM TO DISAGREE WITH THE ADMINISTRATION WHO WILL HEREBY BE KNOWN AS THE TRUST US KILLERS THIEVES AND HOODLUMS ADMIN!! (…)

  • Jazz Great Ray Barretto Passes At Age 76
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist Ray Barretto who had recently undergone heart surgery died today.
    He was 76 years old.
    George Rivera, a friend who has been serving as a spokesman, said Barretto died at 5 a.m. with his wife and two sons by his bedside at the Hackensack University Medical Center.
    Barretto had undergone heart bypass surgery in January and was operated on again two weeks later after an artery burst.
    Barretto was known for integrating the conga drum into jazz. (…)