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  • Deliberate birth of an activist: Fo runs for mayor in Milan
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Owen in Milan
    OUTSIDERS, says Dario Fo, think of Milan in terms of fashion and style, "but the people who run the city have neither elegance nor moral values. This used to be a city in which engineers, architects and artists all thrived."
    That’s why Italy’s finance and fashion capital could soon find as its mayor the Nobel prize-winning playwright, a man with a reputation as an anarchic clown and a merciless, sharp-tongued satirist of the rich and powerful.
    At his flat in a (…)

  • African World Social Forum Meeting Opens
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Jan 20, (Granma) The African gathering of the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) opened in Bamako, Mali on Thursday with around 30,000 participants.
    The opening ceremony began with a march from the independence monument to the Modibo Keita Stadium. Aminata Dramane Traere, former minister of culture and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) were among the participants.
    The 2006 WSF is being held at three (…)

  • Call is out to impeach Bush
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — A Democratic congressman, a prominent legal scholar and a self-described target of government surveillance urged Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday to consider impeaching President George W. Bush for his domestic surveillance program.
    The recommendation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., law scholar Jonathan Turley and Florida-based political activist Richard Hersh emerged at an unofficial Judiciary Committee hearing staged entirely by Democrats.
    The (…)

  • They hate our freedoms?Why did the President circumvent the government and disregard those freedoms?
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement today at a Democratic Judiciary hearing, which questioned the legality of President Bush’s controversial domestic surveillance programs. The hearing focused on findings by the New York Times and other news sources, which have been corroborated by the Administration that President Bush authorized domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) without court approval. In addition, Richard (…)

  • ......to act is necessary
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As bellaciao says: To Rebel is right, to disobey is a duty, to act is necessary. I think as a people we have forgotten that those that sit in power have no power but the ones we give them. We can, if there was a way to join together, and be of one mind, can take them down. It is that which they fear. Ergo the division, the fear tactics, the misinformation. All it would take is getting it together and doing the deed. It is my belief that the concequences are what stops us. For there will be (…)

  • Muravchick, American Enterprise Institute: My Comrades? My Ass!!!
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Joshua Muravchik an American Enterprise Institute scholar wrote an article for, Commentary magazine, titled ’Comrades’. The title is a testimony to the authors earlier days as a Socialist, Communist sympathizer, not that there is anything wrong with that, unless they conspired to commit treason. The first paragraphs of Muravchik’s article, recounts, when the author wrote an article in 1972 for Commentary magazine attacking George McGovern. It is ironic that McGovern was a decorated war (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela: Building Solidarity at the 2006 World Social Forum
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. It is incontestable that at the current stage, what Chavez and his supporters are doing in Venezuela amount to Social Democratic reform implementation, not a socialist revolution. Given the current global politics of imperialist neoliberalism imposed by the WTO, IMF, World Bank and the US treasury department (for these four have to be considered together), and the fact that since the collapse of the so called socialist countries of East Europe and the USSR and the capitalist (…)

  • Armageddon Of The Mind
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Moors | creativecosmos.org
    Though we may see Armageddon in the outer world, the inner condition which brought it on is far more intense. The cosmic tug of war between light and dark is fought inside the mind of humanity and is merely reflected externally. The images on TV of this occurrence may strike fear into our heart, but is it not merely showing us what lurks in our own subconscious?
    Angels of Truth have sounded and Demons of Darkness are struggling hard to hold their (…)

  • Is Bush Stupid — Or Is America?
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many Americans believe George W. Bush is uninformed, simpleminded and, in a single word, stupid. But there is a different way to look at the evidence and conclude that while Bush may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, it is he who thinks the American people are the real dullards.
    After all, Bush is the one who explains the “facts” about current events as if he’s speaking to people with the mental capacity of a five-year-old. He also assumes - with some justification - that his listeners (…)

  • What is an Antiwar Movement?
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Against Laundry Lists and the Exhaustively Debated, Politically Correct, 58-Point Platform
    By JoANN WYPIJEWSKI
    Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hopeless hacks, claims Lenni Brenner here on the CounterPunch site a couple of days ago. They should be avoided by any pure and peace-loving activist, but then Brenner argues that Louis Farrakhan, who believes white people were created by an evil spaceman, who is profoundly sexist and anti-Semitic, who was involved in the murder of Malcolm X and (…)