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  • This war as an unjust, evil and futile war: MLK on Vietnam/Iraq
    15 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    MLK 1 Unjust Evil and Futile War - mp3
    I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In (…)

  • Flashback: July 5, 1987 - REAGAN AIDES AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU
    WASHINGTON — Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and administration officials have concluded.
    Investigators believe that the advisers’ activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.
    Lt. Col. Oliver North, for (…)

  • My Lai saviour & US hero dies - expose UK-US state terrorism, PC racism & Coalition war crimes
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HUGH THOMPSON, the American helicopter pilot who courageously intervened to save Vietnamese civilians from massacre by US troops at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, has died.
    HUGH THOMPSON (Vietnam veteran, US Army helicopter pilot, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier’s Medal) (4/15/1943-1/6/2006) was an American hero and a profoundly decent human being of the kind whose decency and courage surely give hope for all humanity.
    On March 16 , 1968, Hugh Thompson (24) and his 3 man (…)

  • Keepers at the Gate: He Who Controls Television Controls the Masses
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    In this age of modernity and technology, where the television monitor has become the center of the average American household, from cradle to grave acting as surrogate parent, teacher, role model and as influencer of human thought, it should come as no surprise that entire populations can be controlled with such facility and efficiency, turning once thinking humans into grazing sheeple. For in today’s day and age, he who controls television controls the masses, and he (…)

  • The American’s Creed of 1918-Or Proof It’s Republicans Who Hate Americas Freedom...
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American’s Creed William Tyler Page
    “I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
    “I therefore believe it is my (…)

  • Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Polish Psychologist, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, who lived through the Nazi and Communist occupation of Poland, made a pact with fellow researchers to study the nature of the evil that had fallen on their society. They called the new science “Ponerology” which the dictionary defines: n. division of theology dealing with evil; theological doctrine of wickedness or evil; from the Greek: poneros -> evil’.
    But Dr. Lobaczewski was not proposing a “theological” study, but rather a scientific study (…)

  • The Carnival of Values and the Exchange Value of Carnival
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this issue of The Commoner we are beginning to clear a path (or maybe several paths) out of the dust emerging from the front line, and try to make sense of what is the reason for the smoke and sparks. We see a strange phenomenon occurring: what we practice is often not what we value and what we value is often not what we practice (and in saying this let us not forget that “practice” means many diverse things: work, shopping, eating, filling forms, writing, taking the train, watching the (…)

  • A right to due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty...
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    When I read Howard Kurtz’s article: Bush Presses Editors on Security it reminded me of a CBS movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." You may be asking why this movie came to mind. There are many Americans and those around the globe who have compared Bush with Adolph Hitler.
    One has only to look at the Patriot Act to know this to be true.
    When Hitler came to power, he pushed for an Enabling Act which, as I have stated before, is strikingly similar and during his reign (…)

  • Christmas message: If you have faith in God ... how would He expect you to react?
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    To all of our readers around this planet I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Hannukah and a Happy Kwanza ... no matter how we express ourselves during this season, it is far more important to do so with love in our hearts.
    The other day, taking a cab to the market, in conversation with a Jewish cab driver, I asked him his take on how we should express what is in our hearts during this season. He said: "If someone wishes me a Merry (…)

  • Marx and democratic rights
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ann Talbot
    Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective, Pluto Press, 2005
    The publication of a new, revised edition of The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective by Tony Evans reflects the deep-going interest, especially among young people, in the question of rights. It is a book which now occupies a place on the reading lists of many international relations and human rights law courses throughout the English-speaking world. In the United States the book is (…)