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Hollow Women of the Hegemon
By Dr. June Terpstra
3-8-08
This article is a call in honor of International Women’s Day warning the people not to follow the woman leader who stands by her hegemon. This is a call for new women leaders who will stand with men to resist and defend the people against tyrannical governments posing as democracies. This is a call to us all, women and men, to end the oppression of globalized debt based economics that funds all wars, profiting from state terror (…)

Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
On his recent trip to the Middle East, George Bush said: "Iraq is now a different place. Levels of violence are significantly reduced. Hope is returning to Baghdad."
Try telling that to residents of the southern outskirts of Baghdad, whose homes were flattened on January 10, when US bombers unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives in the (…)

ANTIWAR/INTER PRESS SERVICE March 7, 2008
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-17474083.html
Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.
Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today’s Iraq, women are being killed by militia (…)

I wrote this on June 20, 1991, but it still seems relevant:
There once was a president malevolent
Who took the law of the country as affrontery.
So he said to his henchmen:
"Don’t be back-benchmen,
Get into drugs and gun-runnery.
"It may seem a bit crummy
In this way to make money
To stir up the rabble
And flood ’em with babble
While they sit there and say, ’Ain’t it funny.’
"But to hell with democracy.
It’s just old-fashioned hypocrisy.
The world is OUR oyster (…)

President Bush claims that Afghani Women are "learning the Blessings of Freedom" But all we’ve given them is Poverty, Death and Abuse
Women’s lives worse than ever. That’s the actual headline to an article in The Independent about the state of women’s (and girls’) lives in Afghanistan, six years after our war to "liberate" them.
At a White House Celebration of International Women’s Day, March 12, 2004, President Bush said: "In the last two-and-a-half years, we have seen remarkable and (…)

Deutsche Welle TV 25 mn 54 s - 5 févr. 2006
Toxic Textiles - Pesticides drench most cotton products, including many we eat.
Toxic Textiles? Are the sales personnel of Germany’s clothing retailers at risk of being poisoned? The textiles they sell are contaminated with highly toxic chemicals. The chemical PCP (Pentachlorophenol), which is prohibited in Germany, is applied to garments to protect them during transport to Europe. Other hazardous pesticides used in the cultivation of cotton in (…)

CounterPunch March 5, 2008
I remember when Rafael Correa visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us as Vice President, before becoming the President in an unexpected situation that took place in Ecuador. He had been receptive to a program of ophthalmologic operations (…)

CounterPunch Weekend Edition March 1 / 2, 2008
By Kathleen and Bill CHRISTISON
We want to express our strong support for Ralph Nader’s presidential candidacy.
There are several reasons.
The first is a response to the many who say that, because Obama cannot be seen to sympathize with the Palestinians or criticize Israel during the campaign, we should all lie low for now, not even press him on the issue, get him nominated and elected, and then work on him to change after he becomes (…)

Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families, is down 46% from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports before Katrina (…)

There’s a Beggar at the Door, It’s Your Banker By David Glenn Cox
My parents used to tell me about the last great depression, I vividly remember my father explaining to me how the landlady would come to beg his parents for the rent. Not to ask for the rent or demand the rent but beg. My grandparents would give her whatever they had at the time, fifty, seventy-five cents. She would leave, joyous for a small percentage of the five-dollar rent.
She was happy because it was her grocery (…)