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  • GE Contamination in Spain: A Warning for Europe - Greenpeace
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 04, 2006
    Contact: Gina Sanchez Greenpeace International Communications - Office: +31207182051 Mobile No. +316 2700 0064
    Vienna, 4 April 2006—The spiralling uptake of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Spain is causing massive genetic contamination, threatens the livelihood of farmers and urgently needs to be suspended, says Greenpeace. In a new report: ’Impossible Coexistence’, environmentalists (1) show how GE crops in Spain - the only EU country that grows Genetically (…)

  • Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest - the Independent / UK
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Independent / UK Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest by David McNeill and Michael McCarthy
    Japan’s ruthless push for the return of commercial whaling received a significant setback yesterday when pressure from green campaigners forced five big food companies to pull out of supporting the Japanese whaling industry.
    The five firms, led by the Japanese seafood giant Nissui and its wholly-owned US frozen (…)

  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)

  • Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker By Matthew Rothschild
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker
    By Matthew Rothschild March 11, 2006
    Linda Laroca has a bumpersticker on her car that says, “1360 Air America Progressive Talk Radio.”
    That allegedly got her into trouble with her boss at Advantage Sales and Marketing, according to an article in North County Times [1] by Teri Figueroa.
    Laroca appeared on the Ed Schultz radio show on March 10 and gave this account.
    She and her boss were speaking in a parking lot (…)

  • By Matthew Rothschild Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers
    By Matthew Rothschild February 22, 2006
    Dwight Scarbrough used to be in the Navy. He was a machinist on submarines, some of them nuclear, in the Pacific from 1975-1980.
    Now he heads up the Vets for Peace chapter in Boise, Idaho.
    And he’s not shy about expressing his opinion.
    At any given time, he may have as many as ten bumperstickers or peace signs on every conceivable spot of his truck.
    He (…)

  • Noam Chomsky : Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by TomDispatch
    Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq
    by Noam Chomsky
    This piece is adapted from Chapter 2 of Noam Chomsky’s newest book, "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy" (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
    In 2002, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales passed on to Bush a memorandum on torture by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). As noted by constitutional scholar Sanford (…)

  • Failed States, Rogue States and America (Democracy Now) By , Democracy Now!
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on April 3, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34321/
    [Editor’s Note: This is an edited transcript of an interview from the radio program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The interview originally aired on March 31, 2006, and the full transcipt and podcast are available for download from Democracy Now!.]
    AMY GOODMAN: The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive." The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most (…)

  • from france
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    More than 3 000 000 protesters today !
    Join us !
    Stop liberalism
    Total strike
    A great day

  • The Art of War for the anti-war movement by Scott Ritter
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s high time to recognize that we as a nation are engaged in a life-or-death struggle of competing ideologies with those who promote war as an American value and virtue.
    04/01/06 "Alternet" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12592.htm
    In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition, and for three years since, I have spent many hours speaking to numerous anti-war forums across the country and around the world. I have always been struck by the (…)

  • Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From DEMOCRACYNOW !
    AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
    JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
    NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)