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  • The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico City
    2 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico City - by Stephen Lendman National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon had center stage at 12:01 AM, December 1 at the presidential residence of Los Pinos as Mexico’s new president addressed the country on national television after a brief stealth swearing-in ceremony for him to the office he didn’t win and will now assume illegitimately because of the fraud-laden electoral coup d’etat that gave it to him. He then had to be slipped in a back (…)

  • Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book - Perilous Power
    29 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book: Perilous Power - by Stephen Lendman
    Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. He’s MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and a leading anti-war critic and voice for over 40 years for social equity and justice. He’s also one of the world’s most influential and widely cited intellectuals on the Left. Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese-French academic, author, social activist, Middle East expert and professor of politics and international relations (…)

  • Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador declares himself president
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHADOW INAUGURATION As his critics dismiss it as an act of a loser’s desperation, Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador declares himself president ’Parallel’ government begins
    By MARION LLOYD
    The left struggles in Mexico,Parallel government launched in Mexico Protesters clash with police in Oaxaca ,Leftists rally in Mexico City, Oaxaca
    MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s nearly five-month-old political standoff took a surreal twist Monday when the losing presidential candidate was "sworn in" before tens (…)

  • Mexican Ex-Presidents Blasted in Report
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JULIE WATSON
    The Mexican government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blamed "the highest command levels" of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the 1960s to the 1980s.
    The report ends a five-year investigation by a special prosecutor named by President Vicente Fox to shed light on past crimes, including a 1968 student massacre and the disappearance of hundreds of leftist activists (…)

  • Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise?
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    [I dedicate this essay to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman’s creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual.]
    We have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the earth’s resources, the land and its riches and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These (…)

  • Palestinian human shields give Israel pause
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Joshua Mitnick
    TEL AVIV - In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields.
    In recent months, Israeli security forces have used telephone calls to warn Palestinian militants and others near alleged militant safe houses and weapons caches, giving them up to a half hour to evacuate. When militia (…)

  • Oaxaca Assembly Gives Governor an Ultimatum
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina)
    Oaxaca People’s Assembly (APPO) demanded on Saturday that Governor Ulises Ruiz resign his post before November 25 or they will undertake new actions against him in all the Mexican states.
    Flavio Sosa, leader of that organization, reported at the national meeting of trade union, academic, artistic, social, and political organizations with the APPO, said Ruiz should be ousted, when "the legitimate president takes up his post."
    He called on those who (…)

  • “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 18, 2006
    http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm
    “V” Makes A Mark In DC
    Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred
    It’s working.
    We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”
    “V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money (…)

  • V is for Vendetta... in Washington, D.C.
    15 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Petition of redress greivences...more pictures on site.
    – http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com
    No msm press there-as usual.

  • Demand Action From Congress: 500,000 Impeachment Letters to Pelosi by Jan. 3
    14 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News has spread across the country, but Americans remain unhindered by spineless Democratic leaders’ calls for a cut and run from Impeachment. Instead of being silenced, patriotic Americans have been emboldened by this call to action and have turned up the volume on their demands for justice.
    Anti-war Activists in San Francisco are already raising their voices outside Nancy Pelosi’s office “Activists urge Pelosi to halt war in Iraq”
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    We’re out here today telling Nancy Pelosi (…)