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Drivers block traffic, protest gas prices
Heavy traffic jams on major highways as enraged taxi, bus drivers fight to reduce gas rates, diesel oil tax
Roi Mandel
18:59 , 06.19.08
Thousands of professional drivers staged a massive demonstration went on a massive rally Thursday, embarking on their battle against the diesel oil tax the Finance Ministry is collecting from commercial vehicle owners. This protest follows the price-hike in gas prices.
Major traffic flow was en route from (…)

Democracy Now June 18, 2008
[includes video and rush transcript]
Guest: Ralph Nader, Independent presidential candidate. He is a longtime consumer advocate and corporate critic.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader discusses his independent run for the White House, the media blackout of third party candidates, and his stance on the Iraq war, the military-industrial complex, the global food crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more.
The race for the 2008 election is (…)

On June 18, 2008, Larry Sinclair gave a press conference at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. He repeated his allegations against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) concerning supposed drug and sex incidents that he said took place in Illinois, “in 1999.” After reading a five page statement, he was questioned by the media, including an opening query from this reporter. This video contains excerpts from that Q&A session. Mr. Sinclair admitted that he is a “former recreational drug user (…)

EU treaty should be dropped, say British voters
By James Kirkup and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Last updated: 6:52 PM BST 17/06/2008
British voters want Gordon Brown to scrap moves to ratify the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, a new poll has disclosed.
The study piles fresh pressure on the Prime Minister to abandon the treaty in the wake of Ireland’s rejection of it in a referendum last week.
According to a YouGov poll carried out after the Irish result was announced on Friday, (…)

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto -
A documentary that Americans won’t ever see.
The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105

Dissident Voice June 17th, 2008
by Mike Whitney
Source: us.i1.yimg.com
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly . . . All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way. V.Giscard D’Estaing, Le Monde, June 14, 2007
Irish voters delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists last Friday by rejecting plans for an EU Superstate. The so-called Lisbon (…)

Global Research, June 15, 2008 truthdig.com - 2008-06-12
by Dr. Elliot Cohen
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the (…)

On Aug. 28, 2007, a Baltimore-based activist, Ms. Diane Wittner, at an antiwar rally, demanded the “impeachment of President George W. Bush.” She underscored: “The crooks in the White House need to be held accountable.” Her call for Congressional action, which is reprised here, rings out today with even more relevancy as President Bush is suspected, along with V.P. Dick Cheney, of plotting a U.S. led attack on Iran. A March 20, 2003 “Coffin for the Pentagon” rally is utilized in this video (…)

Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni.
Since Saturday, June 7 early in the morning,a fierce repression has fallen on the citizens of the town of Sidi Ifni Aït Baamran, in the South of Morocco and against its youth that, fed by false promises of employment and economic advancement of the region, have been blocking the port for the last week. The police and rapid intervention forces have been displaced by thousands from several regions of Morocco . Police forces have (…)

The New Statesman 15 June,2008
In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to the rest (…)