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  • From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.
    It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This (…)

  • Britain’s secret torture centre : The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German spa became a forbidden village where Gestapo-like techniques were used
    by Ian Cobain
    Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was," he reported, "one of the most disgusting sights of my life."
    Curled up on a bed in a hospital in Rotenburg, near Bremen, was a cadaverous shadow of a human being. "The man literally had no flesh on him, (…)

  • Arlo, Katrina and a musical trail to New Orleans
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The son of Woody Guthrie knew exactly how to revive the musical heritage of the Big Easy. He took a train ride from Chicago all the way down south.
    By Andrew Buncombe
    But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream, And the steel rail still ’ain’t heard the news. The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain: This train has got the disappearin’ railroad blues.
    More than 30 years ago Arlo Guthrie, son of the late folk legend Woody, sat in a now (…)

  • Everything Old is New Again...A Declaration of Conscience
    14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s (R-Maine)A Declaration of Conscience
    June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine spoke on the Senate floor on behalf of the Declaration of Conscience. The declaration opposed McCarthyism. Smith’s speech is printed here.
    I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a (…)

  • ’60s Freedom Riders celebrated at LMU
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By R. W. Dellinger
    "The greatness of our nation was the persistent, steady struggle of people, many unnoticed and invisible, who laid the foundation by which we live today. And the struggle of the ’50s and ’60s was one of the great movements," declared Rev. James Lawson at a Nov. 11 luncheon hosted by Loyola Marymount University to honor civil rights activists.
    The pastor emeritus of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement, reported (…)

  • The Night John Lennon Died
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henry Marchand
    Twenty-five years is a long time, set beside the life span of the average human being. One quarter of a century, that’s time enough to experience all the usual milestones. But sometimes it seems a blink; sometimes, something that happened twenty-five years ago remains so vivid in memory, the passage of so much time is astounding.
    Assassinations. Declarations of war. Natural disasters. Political scandals. These are the kinds of public events, as opposed to personal (…)

  • Working Class Hero
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As soon as you’re born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    When they’ve tortured and scared (…)

  • The New Evil Empire
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist threat? Or how about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief metaphor for evil in the 20th century?
    Most Americans, certainly those younger than 30, don’t remember either. Hell, they don’t even remember Vietnam or Nixon or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless encountered in history texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember what America (…)

  • Vine Deloria Jr. passes after a life of seminal work
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Adams
    TUCSON, Ariz. - Vine Deloria Jr., the intellectual star of the American Indian renaissance, passed on Nov. 13, after struggling for several weeks with declining health. His immeasurable influence became immediately apparent in an outpouring of tributes from all corners of Indian country.
    ’’I cannot think of any words I could possibly say that even begin to capture the significance of this man and his work among Native people and on our behalf for the past half century,’’ (…)

  • ROSA PARKS: WHY ONE PERSON MATTERS
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Ask any non-American to name three leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and chances are they’ll stop after one: Martin Luther King.
    But in fact the movement had many leaders.
    Malcolm X went from being a street-wise Boston hoodlum to one of America’s most influential black nationalist leaders, advocating black pride, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He was assassinated in New York City in 1965.
    Stokely Carmichael saw nonviolence as (…)