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  • Sen. Harry Reid: DC "Overrun by Organized Crime"
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By SEN. HARRY REID
    In 1977, I was appointed chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. It was a difficult time for the gaming industry and Las Vegas, which were being overrun by organized crime. To that point in my life, I had served in the Nevada Assembly and even as lieutenant governor, but nothing prepared me for my fight with the mob.
    Over the next few years, there would be threats on my life, bribes, FBI stings and even a car bomb placed in my family’s station wagon. It was a (…)

  • Kansas City Newspaper on Oklahoma City Bombing — Another Bungled Sting?
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
    Readers are encouraged to review this article in the Kansas City Star:
    Of extreme interest are these statements:
    "The recently released documents, however, indicate that the FBI was investigating a broader conspiracy months after insisting that McVeigh and Nichols were the only suspects . . .[but later] The FBI continues to deny that there was a larger plot..."
    Why would the FBI want to deny what they had been (…)

  • Dr. Martin Luther King & the REvolution of Human Rights
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place,” Dr. Martin Luther King once told a racially-mixed audience. “Eventually the civil rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice.”
    Congresswoman Barbara Lee Remembers Martin Luther King By James Butty Washington, DC 16 January 2006
    listen to the interview with Congresswoman Barbara Lee (…)

  • A court seat for privilege...
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AMAZING AMNESIA. How sweet the white privilege. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ’’Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Right on time for the King holiday, America is elevating yet another man to lifetime power on the claim of sincere ignorance of his association with racism and sexism.
    Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was repeatedly asked in this week’s hearings about his membership in the Concerned Alumni (…)

  • Chomsky: ’There Is No War On Terror’
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush’s current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what’s really behind the global ’war on terror.’
    By Geov Parrish
    For over 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s leading intellectual critics of U.S. foreign policy. Today, with America’s latest imperial adventure in trouble both politically and militarily, Chomsky — who turned 77 last month — vows not to slow down "as long as I’m ambulatory." I spoke (…)

  • The Impeachment of George W. Bush
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Elizabeth Holtzman
    Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush—not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so.
    I can still remember the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach during those (…)

  • Iran bans CNN journalists after presidential misquote
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working in the country after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.
    CNN’s simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad’s lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran’s right."
    In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)

  • How a bill doesn’t become law
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sheila Suess Kennedy
    Remember high school government class and the textbook explanation of how a bill becomes law? Congress drafts legislation, which it sends to the president. If the president vetoes it, it fails, unless Congress has enough votes to override the veto. If the president signs the legislation, he issues a press release, hands out commemorative pens and the bill becomes law.
    Or maybe not.
    As the media often note, President Bush has never used his veto. As it turns (…)

  • GORE SLAMS WIRETAPS: ’A PRESIDENT WHO BREAKS THE LAW IS A THREAT TO THE VERY STRUCTURE OF OUR GOVERN
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html
    In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King 01/16/2006 @ 12:08 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
    His (…)