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by Atilio A. Borón, Pagina12, Buenos Aires, January 7, 2006
Translated from Spanish into English by Ernesto Páramo a member of Tlaxcala, the network of translators for linguistic diversity -. This translation is copyleft.
On January 7, 2006 a few hours after the victory of Evo Morales, the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, declared that she expected the new head of State " to govern democratically.” The spokeswoman for the White House also pointed out that relations between (…)

I don’t understand. An hour after I saw the Times "scoop" on the Bush illegal wiretapping plan, I wrote that it was clearly illegal and unconstitutional.
But as it now turns out, dozens of politicians, as well as the New York Times knew about the surveillance plan and did nothing.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, and Senator Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, a man known for some sensitivity to civil liberties infringements, and a (…)

This month, cocaleros (coca farmers) champion Evo Morales was victorious in Bolivia’s presidential elections, with 51% of the vote. His triumph at the polls is a direct challenge to the US’s anti-narcotics campaign in the region, with Morales defending the production of the coca leaf - which, when refined, produces cocaine.
Cocaine: the white man’s invention
The coca leaf is traditionally chewed by the indigenous people of Bolivia to alleviate altitude sickness, a practice that predated (…)

2 Media Outlets have started to report as well as other local news agencies.
Viewpoint/Chemical trail fallout continues, but the truth is out there By Michael F. Williams The Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/living/13583252.htm
Well, the jig is up. A small group of alert citizens in a remote coastal California county has pulled the curtain from over our Federal Chemtrail Program (FCP).
Thanks to readers such as Richard Palmquist and the truthradio.com Web site he (…)

Senator Frank Church chaired the Senate Hearings on the FBI’s Cointelpro operation, which spied upon & attempted to INFILTRATE, DISRUPT & DISCREDIT the peace movement, even Martin Luther King Jr.
" if a dictator ever took over, the NSA “could enable [him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
From James Bamford’s NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother, Senator Church:
“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American (…)

Dear Members of Congress:
We are scholars of constitutional law and former government officials. We write in our individual capacities as citizens concerned by the Bush Administration’s National Security Agency domestic spying program, as reported in the New York Times, and in particular to respond to the Justice Department’s December 22, 2005 letter to the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees setting forth the administration’s defense of the (…)

What do we make of the President boldly proclaiming that he has “spy powers?” Does he have X-ray vision too?
When he and his cronies crawl up into Cheney’s bunker with the sign on the door “He-man Woman-haters Club. No Girls Allowed (except Condi),” do they synchronize their spy decoder rings and decide what new absurd folly to unleash on the world?
Illegal invasion of Iraq, suspending writs of habeus corpus, secret CIA torture dungeons, or election rigging? Most people outgrow such (…)

The President must have impaired memory , the result of one too many encounters with the cocaine dear old Dad shipped into the country. He doesn’t know Jack Abramoff ? He also didn’t know Ken Lay , despite writing letters to him adressed "Kenny Boy".
Cocaine flashbacks are a bitch ,they say.
The president also forgot that he served in the Texas Air National Guard in 1973. More recently he forgot that he told the American people that it was certain that Sadam Hussein posessed "Drones (…)

Wolf "Zionist" Blitzer reports from Sharon’s death bed:
In an exclusive from CNN, we can report that Ariel Sharon, man of peace and courage, has moved, however slightly, resulting in his passing of gas. The stench, fowl and noxious, had apparently been stagnating inside his rectum since the end of Hannukah. Contrary to Jewish tradition, doctors report it smelled of rotten pork, a dirty animal Jews of religious faith are prohibited from eating.
The cloud of flatulence is the first sign (…)

By David Swanson
President Nixon famously said that if the President does it, it’s legal. And he didn’t think that up on his own - that’s a way of thinking that has long had currency in America.
Today there are over 150 Out of Iraq events like this one happening around the country. A dozen members of Congress are taking part. Numerous candidates for Congress, local elected officials, and national leaders of the peace movement are speaking. Large crowds are gathering. We’ll see what sort (…)