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  • Anti War Album - "Hypnotize" by System Of A Down : A review
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The quick review of System Of A Down’s "Hypnotize" is that this album is a masterpiece. This group of very talented and extremely intelligent individuals have just put themselves into the history books. The message shared is to educate ourselves, to learn that we are free, and to resist corporate laws disguised as protection from invisible enemies. This is done eloquently in operatic form by two vocal talents, each with dual personalities, and delivered with force while riding on a crest of (…)

  • What Really Happened
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Friends,
    As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight.
    I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.
    There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened:
    This afternoon at the People’s State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John (…)

  • State of the Union: Cindy Sheehan Arrested for "Unlawful Conduct" - Wearing an Antiwar T-shirt
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the House chamber on Tuesday shortly before President Bush gave his State of the Union address because she refused to cover up an anti-war slogan on her shirt.
    Sheehan, who was attending the speech as the guest of Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California, was taken from the Capitol in handcuffs and charged with unlawful conduct, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
    A Reuters photographer said Sheehan entered the (…)

  • Israel’s shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Chris McGreal in Khan Yunis
    As the votes were counted in the Palestinian election and the scale of Hamas’s landslide became apparent to the world, Aya al-Astal drifted away from her home and wandered towards the fence along the border between the Gaza strip and Israel.
    The nine-year-old girl’s parents realised she was gone as they watched the election results on television. They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: “Bush’s Presidency Is Illegitimate!”
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, D.C. - Cindy Sheehan is back in town! I’m sure that big bully in the White House, President George W. Bush, will be shaking in his cowboy boots when he hears that news. When Sheehan, the popular anti-Iraq War activist, showed up at Crawford, Texas, last summer, Bush refused to meet with her. He seemed cowed by her mere presence at a vigil (a/k/a “Camp Casey”) so close to his once-secluded ranch. Sheehan was then demanding a face-to-face meeting with the Spymaster Bush, whose (…)

  • The 100th British Soldier...
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rounded numbers
    Rounded lives
    The 100th soldier
    From the UK dies
    Tears of grief
    Tears of shock
    The 100th soldier
    Another loss
    Mourning on
    Mourning off
    The 100th soldier
    We count the cost
    Of wars fought
    In our name
    Of loss loss
    With no gain
    Of cost cost
    To our shame
    The 100th soldier
    The 1st
    The 25th the 3rd
    The numbered souls
    On lists and roles
    Names no longer called
    This memoriam
    The final
    For them
    They drew their last breath
    Final thought...
    Noble cause?

  • World Social Forum: Series of Global Protests to Begin in March
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS- A day of international protests against the occupation of Iraq, on Mar. 18, will mark the start of a series of demonstrations and mobilisations organised at the sixth World Social Forum, which ended Sunday in Venezuela.
    A conference against the U.S. occupation of Iraq will be held Mar. 24-27 in Cairo, Egypt, announced the international Assembly of Social Movements, which met on the final day of the WSF in Caracas.
    Some 2,200 civil society organisations (…)

  • Gorilla Empire? A Global State of Disunion
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Engelhardt
    This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Union Address to brand Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — the first two then bitter enemies, the third completely unrelated to either of them and on the other side of the planet — as a World-War-II-style "axis of evil." It was the first great State of Disunion deception of the Bush administration’s regal reign of error. Only (…)

  • Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - As his plane lifted off the runway here in August 2003, Brian Dean Curran rewound his last, bleak days as the American ambassador in this tormented land.
    Haiti, Mr. Curran feared, was headed toward a cataclysm, another violent uncoupling of its once jubilant embrace of democracy more than a decade before. He had come here hoping to help that tenuous democracy grow. Now he was leaving in anger and foreboding.
    Seven months (…)

  • PSYOPS Blowback & the Imperial Arrogance of the DeceptoCons
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon Document Shows ’PSYOP’ Messages Boomerang to U.S.
    By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer January 27, 2006
    WASHINGTON (AP) A Pentagon "road map" to more effective use of information as a weapon says psychological warfare messages targeted at foreign audiences are increasingly finding their way into the United States.
    The 78-page document, released Thursday by the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research group, spells out the Pentagon’s reasoning for putting greater emphasis (…)