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  • Rev. Jesse Jackson Condemns Pat Robertson’s Calls to Kill Venezuela President
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Cleto Sojo
    U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., condemned calls by conservative Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson’s to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    “These comments are morally reprehensible and dangerously suggestive. The international community repudiates Robertson’s remarks, and calls upon him to retract his remarks,” Jackson said in a press release.
    “Calling for the assassination of world leaders is inciteful and wildly provocative. It is (…)

  • Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Levine and David Walsh
    Pat Robertson, the Christian fundamentalist politician and broadcaster with close ties to the Bush administration, has publicly called for the assassination of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
    Robertson issued his Mafia-like appeal for the US government to “take out” Chavez on his television show “The 700 Club,” broadcast to over one million viewers on his own Christian Broadcast Network and Disney’s ABC Family Network. After a ten-minute news clip (…)

  • Human Rights and Religious Groups Condemn Pat Robertson’s Attack on Venezuela
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, August 23, 2005 -The U.S.-based Human Rights group Global Exchange and the National Council of Churches issued separate statements in which they condemned fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Global Exchange said it strongly condemns the actions of Bush supporter Pat Robertson in his call for the assassination of democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. (…)

  • Privatizing the Truth; Bush’s war on information
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 25, 2005
    ’’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality". Bush aide; Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine 10-17-04
    A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush’s inability to tell the truth. In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not. What is meaningful however is that deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the state. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of (…)

  • SOMEBODY SHOULD WALK THE PLANK
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHEN IMBECILES CHART A COURSE
    By Peter Fredson
    August 25, 2005
    There is the classic story about the moron who watched a suspenseful movie 10 different times because he hoped to see a different outcome. This is the same story about a person who watched a very close Super Bowl game in which a football missed the goal posts by inches then saw it in reruns because this time the ball might go in. And the story parallels one of a little boy dressed in Superman outfit who jumps out of the (…)

  • What our kids don’t know can hurt us: Why it matters to know about Africa and the rest of the world
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    It is well known that American kids traditionally score well below their foreign counterparts in geographic knowledge, and Africa seems to be perennially at the bottom of what they know. The reasons for this shameful lack of interest or insight are many and varied, especially given the US’ current position in the world, but a few problem areas are easy to explain.
    It is unlikely in any society, for example, that kids would outpace their teachers, parents, (…)

  • How Can Some in the Democratic Party Support Death and Destruction?
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    Excuse me for once again coming down hard on my party’s leaders when it comes to the “Bush War” in Iraq, but I along with many others are becoming increasingly angry that the Democratic Party is NOT showing a sign of force, but complicity when it comes to this war. That is not to say that all of our Democratic leaders are supportive of this president, but when you have Mike McCurry a former Clinton White House press secretary stating this in a Washington Post article, (…)

  • Love Your Country? Demand Impeachment
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday, August 18, 2005 Love Your Country? Demand Impeachment.
    It was Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States and a Republican, who famously said in 1918, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
    Put differently, and in modern context, blind, unquestioning faith in President Bush is not only (…)

  • VIDEO: Mr. President, Leave My Child Alone!
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan (mother of a soldier slain in Iraq), Jim Massey (ex-Marine recruiter) and others reveal the true impact of No Child Left Behind’s military recruitment in our high schools. With no end in sight to the increasingly lethal American occupation in Iraq, this is the single-most important film for concerned parents and citizens to see. Watch the 11-minute film and then take action to "opt our kids out" at LeaveMyChildAlone.org.
    Created by Mainstreet Moms and Working Assets
    Watch (…)

  • Relatives of some troops killed in Iraq seek hearings on Downing Street memo
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, June 17, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Several parents of soldiers killed in Iraq visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask for congressional hearings on the Downing Street memo, which one mother called President Bush’s “Watergate.”
    Critics say the document, which contains minutes from a meeting in July 2002 between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and top aides, shows that Bush was determined to go to war with Iraq and ignored evidence (…)