contributions

By Andy McSmith
There is a two-word answer to those who think the Olympic torch is a symbol of harmony between nations that should be kept apart from politics – Adolf Hitler.
The ceremony played out on the streets of Paris yesterday did not originate in ancient Greece, nor even in the 19th century, when the Olympic movement was revived. The entire ritual, with its pagan overtones, was devised by a German named Dr Carl Diem, who ran the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Although he was not a (…)

New Hampshire Legislature to Vote on Impeachment
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 4:49 pm
Column: Rosalea Barker
New Hampshire Legislature to Vote on Impeaching Bush and Cheney
On April 16, the New Hampshire legislature will consider House Resolution 24, a resolution petitioning Congress to commence impeachment procedures. Introduced by veteran legislator Betty Hall, 87, its successful passage would create U.S. history.
For those interested in finding out more about events between now and (…)

The US – or more precisely the United States of Israel (USI) – is the world #1 threat to the world, #1 threat to world peace, world #1 terrorist state, and the world #1 rogue state .
Several years ago 1993 Nobel Laureate for Peace and world elder statesman Nelson Mandela declared that the US threatens world peace by its invasions in the Middle East: he specifically condemned United States intervention in the Middle East as "a threat to world peace". .
Lord Kelvin argued for the (…)

Dick Cheney wrapped up his tour of the Middle East last week and it appears that he has accomplished his main objective: to prepare his allies for the proliferation of war.
While the general consensus from most news sources is that “Cheney has not made meaningful headway”, reading between the lines tells a different story. The misinterpretation of what Mr. Cheney’s mission has accomplished begins with the assumption that the vice president of the United States, representing those in (…)

Petraeus Testimony Next Week Will Signal Iran Attack
By Paul Craig Roberts
06/04/08 "ICH’ — - April 5, 2008. Today the London Telegraph reported that “British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities, according to a Whitehall (…)

Over the last 20 years Jeffrey Smith has worked with over 30 scientists to collect all of the known health risks of genetically modified foods. Studies have produced thousands of sick, sterile and dead laboratory animals; thousands of people linking toxic and allergic type reactions to these foods and damage to virtually every system in the laboratory animals studied.
Despite this alarming evidence 70% of the foods in our supermarkets have genetically modified organisms in them.
Video: (…)

by Uri Avnery
TOMORROW WILL BE the 32nd anniversary of the first "Day of the Land" - one of the defining events in the history of Israel.
I remember the day well. I was at Ben Gurion airport, on the way to a secret meeting in London with Said Hamami, Yasser Arafat’s emissary, when someone told me: "They have killed a lot of Arab protestors!"
That was not entirely unexpected. A few days before, we - members of the newly formed Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace - had handed (…)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee while lending support to a sanitation workers’ strike Denis Mueller MPI, 22 mars 2007
video:
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-14722614.html

Published on Friday, April 04, 2008. Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group.
Not all the companies in which lawmakers invested are typical defense contractors. Corporations such as PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson have at one point received (…)

By RON JACOBS
April 4, 1968 was the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. He had been working with the Memphis sanitation workers in their struggle for better working conditions and a union. The night before his assassination he gave his speech that ended with the words "But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the (…)