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  • Video: Gael Murphy: “Not Another Dime...for Wars!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Gael Murphy, cofounder of Code Pink, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See for background:
    http://www.enduswars.org/
    The event was held in Lafayette Park, directly opposite the White House. For information on Code Pink, go to:
    http://www.codepinkalert.org/

  • Video: Brian Becker: “End the Afghan War Right Now!”
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: Brian Becker: “End the Afghan War Right Now!”
    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Brian Becker was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background:
    http://www.enduswars.org/
    The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition. Check out:
    http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
    The ANSWER Coalition is planning a massive antiwar demonstration for Washington, (…)

  • Video: David Swanson: Obama is a War President!
    13 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, David Swanson, activist/author, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular AfterDowningStreet Web Site, go to: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ His best selling book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency,” is both timely and well written. Check out: (…)

  • Belgian Paratroopers to Crush Rising Congo Rebellion?
    8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rebellion in Congo. Belgian Paratroopers to crush rising rebellion? Rwanda Defense Forces flown into western Congo defeated. Kabila regime under threat on multiple fronts. Mainstream media blackout on this story.
    http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com

  • Video: Attack on Pearl Harbor Remembered at Baltimore Ceremony
    8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US Coast Guard Cutter “Taney,” (WPG37), sits in Baltimore harbor, as a museum/memorial, and is known as “The Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor,” according to the program notes prepared by the “Historic Ships in Baltimore.”
    See,
    http://www.historicships.org/
    On Dec. 7, 2009, the “68th Anniversary” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a moving noontime ceremony was held on the “Taney”; it included the dropping of a memorial wreath into the harbor.
    For background on the attack on (…)

  • Obama’s Waterloo: The Afghan Lie
    5 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.”
    “Under the banner of … domestic unity and international legitimacy - and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden - we sent our troops into Afghanistan. Within a matter of months, al Qaeda was scattered and many of its operatives were (…)

  • A RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSERTION THAT ALL NATIONS SHOULD PLAY A PART IN THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSERTION THAT ALL NATIONS SHOULD PLAY A PART IN THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION
    John Chuckman
    Hillary Clinton, in a just-published piece on the Afghanistan mission (see note at bottom), offers us nothing helpful or enlightening, only boiler-plate American slogans, the kind of stuff you’d hear from some provincial Congressman giving a Fourth of July speech in a place like Muncie, Indiana.
    Indeed, her use of the question-begging word “mission” in the title to (…)

  • Video: Fred Goldstein: “Obama Started Two Wars Yesterday!”
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J Meanwhile, the Middle Class in America is fast disappearing. Go to:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-without-a-middle_b_377829.html
    The White (…)

  • Video: “Speak Out Rally for the People” Held at the White House
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a “Speak Out” rally in front of the White House. They are demanding that the federal government bail out the people and not the Wall Street banks. The bail out of the “Banksters” may have exceeded $12.8 trillion. Check out: http://www.truthout.org/051309J The White House event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ Speakers included Larry Holmes, (…)

  • Video: Rev. Graylan Hagler on the Need to Bail Out the People
    4 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2009, advocates for social justice held a rally in front of the White House. The event was sponsored by the “Bail Out the People Movement,” a national organization, see: http://www.bailoutpeople.org/ One of the speakers was the Rev. Graylan Hagler, a longtime fighter for peace and justice. He said: “Let’s build a world filled with justice...We need to push and shove to make people do what is right...If we can reward the banks, then we can surely reward the (…)