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  • Kevin Zeese Blasts "Special Interests" at Senate Debate
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "We need another political party. We’re certainly choosing between the lesser of two evils, and as the saying goes—’You are guaranteed evil!’” - Jonathan Turley (1)
    Baltimore, MD - An historic three-way debate, at a "Town Hall Forum," for the office of U.S. Senate in Maryland, was held on Oct. 3, 2006, at 512 Orchard St. in this city. It was sponsored by the Greater Baltimore Urban League. It pitted Kevin Zeese, the popular "Unity Candidate," who has a strong anti-Iraqi War platform, (…)

  • DIABETES AND DEPLETED URANIUM: IF ITS AN EPIDEMIC, ITS NOT GENETIC
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leuren Moret
    The global pandemic of diabetes which is increasing each year, began with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The resulting global atmospheric pollution has resulted in a diabetes pandemic caused by hundreds of thousands of pounds of vaporized depleted uranium used in atomic and hydrogen bombs as "tamping", fission products from nuclear power plants, and the illegal use of depleted uranium radioactive poison gas weapons introduced to the battlefield (…)

  • Kissinger’s "Salted Peanuts" and the Iraq War
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Prados
    It is important to view Kissinger’s advice in his September 10, 1969 memo to Nixon in its appropriate context. The specific circumstances of this advice are these: a first cosmetic withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from South Vietnam had already begun. The Nixon administration faced a decision about further withdrawals, while the president struggled to craft a strategy under which he could coerce North Vietnam into ending the war on Nixon’s terms. Nixon and Kissinger had (…)

  • Man Arrested For Telling Cheney “Your Policies In Iraq Are Reprehensible” Files Lawsuit...
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arrest over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit
    By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News October 3, 2006
    A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
    Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of (…)

  • Hidden Costs of the Iraqi War Exposed
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
    Washington, D.C. If you need a boost to your morale, or better yet something to restore your faith in our fast-fading Republic, then I suggest that you make room on your schedule to attend a hearing of the “Out of Iraq Caucus” (Caucus) of the House of Representatives. This Ad Hoc Committee, founded in June, 2005, is chaired by a wonderful, gutsy lady from California’s 6th congressional district, (…)

  • THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America - by Stephen Lendman
    On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that "date....will live in infamy" because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did. Two and one-half months later on February 19, 1942, FDR himself committed an infamous act signing into law Executive Order 9066 which authorized the internment of 120,000 Japanese (…)

  • Plans for a massive and quick U.S. military evacuation from Iraq
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 2, 2006 — , . . Pentagon sources report that plans for a massive and quick U.S. military evacuation from Iraq have been drawn up — and that they borrow heavily from the U.S. evacuation experience in South Vietnam.
    Pentagon and U.S. Central Command contingency planners, fully expecting a major insurgent offensive against U.S. forces in Iraq that will result in a mandatory U.S. military withdrawal, have already identified evacuation staging locations, including from the grounds of (…)

  • Candidate-veteran attacks Bush on Iraq
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DENNIS CONRAD
    WASHINGTON - An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed to appeal to voters.
    Duckworth‘s address served as a response to the president‘s weekly radio talk and gave the Democratic Party a chance to showcase one of its strongest candidates as it seeks to regain control of the House in November‘s elections.
    "Well, I (…)

  • IRAN WAR PLAN EXPOSED! : PREPARE FOR THE SINKING OF A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IRAN WAR PLAN EXPOSED! : PREPARE FOR THE SINKING OF A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER
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    IRAN WAR PLAN EXPOSED! : PREPARE FOR THE SINKING OF A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER
    IRAN WAR PLAN EXPOSED! : PREPARE FOR THE SINKING OF A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER [ Post 294965490 ]
    Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: International Affairs Synopsis: Source: www.halturnershow.com Published: September 30, 2006 (…)

  • Human Rights Experts: “Israel Committed War Crimes!”
    2 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The evil that men do lives after them.” - William Shakespeare
    Washington, D.C. On September 27, 2006, a capacity audience, at the Palestine Center, heard from Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA, (AI), and Joe Stork, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch, Middle East and North Africa Division (HRW). They are internationally recognized experts in the important field of Human Rights. They recounted, in chilling terms, their experiences gathering (…)