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  • Video: Ex-Rep. Gilchrest: Pressure Groups Have “a Hold on Congress!”
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On April 7, 2009, a public hearing on the “True Costs and Benefits of US Military Aid to the Middle East, 1980-2010),” was held on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., in the Rayburn House Building, room 2168. One of the speakers was ex-Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD). He said that pressure groups, on Middle East issues, have “a hold on Congress.” He mentioned “AIPAC” as one of the groups. The event was sponsored by the “Council for the National Interest,” see: http://www.cnionline.org/ For (…)

  • WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
    Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of deaths construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah! Black Sabbath – War Pigs
    You know civilization is in danger when I find more wisdom in the words of Ozzy Osbourne than in the words of any (…)

  • SEVEN REASONS WHY OBAMA IS WRONG ON AFGHANISTAN
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    By Jack Random
    Recently, the Center for American Progress published “Seven Reasons Why We Need to Engage in Afghanistan.” Sounding eerily like a Neocon Brain Trust from the Bush era, it was an argument defending the president’s policy of escalation in and prolonged occupation of Afghanistan.
    The argument came in anticipation of Obama’s first international tour as president of the United States. He appealed to the members of the North Atlantic (…)

  • Democracy ? Police controls a journalist in Strasbourg
    6 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    While running a police check was going well, the situation where a skid POLICE COMMISSIONER just attacked us.
    COMMISSIONER says starts with taking the camera from our 1st confrere, then rushed on the second which had its accreditation MEDIA NATO press card will be requested and confiscated on the spot.
    At this time we still do not know or is this card or press and we can recover.
    One thing is sure, a complaint will be filed in the coming days.

  • Should Obama be tried for his Afghan Genocide war crimes in Occupied Afghanistan?
    5 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the new American president tours Europe garnering support for mass murder of Indigenous Asians in Occupied Afghanistan and robot-bombed Pakistan, sensible, anti-racist, humanitarian people should take stock and ask the pertinent questions e.g. how many people have died avoidably in Occupied Afghanistan so far under American Emperor Barack Hussein Obama?
    Occupation excess deaths can be either violent (from bullets and bombs) or non-violent (from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated (…)

  • NATO’s 60th Anniversary: TIME TO DISBAND NATO: Sign Petition
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    NATO’s 60th Anniversary: TIME TO DISBAND NATO: Sign Petition
    Global Research, April 4, 2009
    http://www.petitiononline.com/z9m2x3nb/petition.html
    NATO, must be Disbanded for Contributing to the Scourge of War, and For Defying Peremptory Norms
    While, on April 4, 2009, the NATO state leaders are poised to celebrate the 60th Anniversary Conference of NATO in Strasbourg and Baden Baden, the majority of states of the United Nations would probably be more inclined to celebrate the demise of (…)

  • Sri Lanka: Killings, Concentration Camps and International Silence
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Arundhati Roy
    What is happening rightg now in Sri Lanka, and what is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny, is a brazen, openly racist war. The world must step in. Now.
    http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...

  • Police and protesters clash in Strasbourg, France at NATO summit (videos)
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRASBOURG, France — Police are clashing with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the NATO summit is underway.
    Several hundred protesters in eastern Strasbourg are hurling Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles as they try to push their way into the city’s centre.
    Some 100 riot police bearing shields and wearing body armour are responding with tear gas in a bid to break up the melee with the demonstrators, many of whom are clad in black and wearing masks.
    Across the river in the German (…)

  • Anti-NATO protests continue in France
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anti-NATO protests continue in France An anti-Nato protester hurls a stone in Strasbourg.
    Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:11:35 GMT
    NATO heads of state are meeting on the outskirts of French city of Strasbourg to mark the organizations’ 60th anniversary amid protests.
    Anti-NATO demonstrations continue in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl despite the deployment of thousands of German and French troops and police forces.
    Police clashed with protestors, who have (…)

  • Your war questions answered: Why is Obama getting a pass on Afghanistan troop increases?
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Your war questions answered: Why is Obama getting a pass on Afghanistan troop increases?
    by Andisheh Nouraee
    Global Research, April 3, 2009 Creative Loafing
    A Don’t panic! special update: What is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan?
    Dear reader(s),
    In recent days, I’ve experienced a surprising emotion: nostalgia for the Bush era.
    It’s not nostalgia for his administration’s catastrophic pairing of cronyism and incompetence.
    It’s not nostalgia for his “kinda-drunk John Wayne with a (…)