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Listen to that great song of Patti Smith on youtube :
People Have the Power
I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair and my sleeping it was broken but my dream it lingered near in the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized and my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry that the people / have the power to redeem / the work of fools upon the meek / the graces shower it’s decreed / the people rule
The people have the power The people have (…)

Rage against injustice
John Pilger’s Freedom Next Time confronts some uncomfortable truths, says Nicholas Lezard
Saturday June 9, 2007 The Guardian Buy Freedom Next Time at the Guardian bookshop
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger (Black Swan, £8.99)
A recent profile of the politically active comedian Mark Thomas described him as "John Pilger with a sense of humour". This is a bit hard on Pilger. It might be easy to think of him as the grim chronicler of the world’s many injustices, (…)

Texaco’s Toxic Legacy In Ecuador by César Chelala and Alejandro M. Garro June 14, 2007
It can be considered one of the most unequal battles in the world today. It pits a group of indigenous people in Ecuador, almost totally devoid of material resources, against one of the most powerful oil corporations in the world. The outcome of this battle will impact them for the rest of their lives.
From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron and is now called Chevron) carried out oil (…)

Published on Saturday, June 16, 2007 by The Independent/UK Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today “Palestine” - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime (…)

Posted on Fri, Jun. 15, 2007 New Orleans turns to international aid By BECKY BOHRER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/77475.html
NEW ORLEANS — The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain slow to flow.
Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin, said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn’t identify the countries, (…)

/- A Red Line -/- Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Never had I fathomed, not even in my remotest imagination, that a day will come when God’s houses will be attacked and destroyed. The way they are today, in Iraq...Never.
This was and remains the most unthinkable, unacceptable act to me and to countless others... This Red Line is now crossed...Crossed, transgressed, trespassed into blasphemy...
In fact, this Red Line was (…)

Iraqis on the hunt for security contractors truth-about-iraqis
June 16, 2007
We start today with a news quote:
According to Victoria Wayne, who served at the Reconstruction Logistics Directorate of the Corps of Engineers in Iraq, the military wanted to hide information showing that private guards were fighting and dying in large numbers because it would be perceived as bad news, the paper said.
"Wanted to hide information ..."
Is that new to any of us Iraqi patriots? For years, in (…)

Fallout from a Smear Finkelstein and The Progressive JOHN HALLE, CounterPunch
June 16, 2007
For those of us in the academy, among the most important stories of the week was a successful smear campaign waged by Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist lobby resulting in noted scholar and author Norman Finkelstein being denied tenure at DePaul University. The distinguished historian Raul Hilberg spoke for many in admitting to "a sinking feeling about the damage this will do to academic freedom." (…)

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m33736&hd=&size=1&l=e
Laboratory rats: Palestinians of Gaza and our contemporary Josef Mengeles. Agustin Velloso
Madrid - Spain - June 16, 2007
Faced with the fear that things may get even worse, one must not lose sight of the causes of the events in Gaza, their connection with the situation in Lebanon and Iraq and above all the lies the media use to defend the interests of the West and Israel at the expense of the Palestinians.
An editorial of (…)

Tavistock Institute: The best kept secret in AmeriKKKa
CONSPIRATORS’ HIERARCHY: THE STORY OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300
by Dr. John Coleman
The author, a former intelligence agent of British MI6, rips the lid off the conspiratorial group which knows NO national boundaries, is ABOVE the law of ALL countries and controls every aspect of politics, commerce, religion, industry, banking, insurance, mining, and even the drug trade. Learn how this small elite group who are answerable to NO ONE, (…)