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Editor’s note: In an interview with Truthdig research editor Joshua Scheer*, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) criticizes the leadership of his own party for announcing Tuesday that it would support a massive increase in spending for the Iraq war.
Truthdig: What was the upshot of [Tuesday’s] Democratic caucus meeting?
Kucinich: At this point the Democratic leadership-the speaker and the majority leader and Rahm Emanuel-are all recommending that the Democrats support the appropriation that is (…)

The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela - by Stephen Lendman
"Today we gave another lesson in dignity to the imperialists, it is another defeat for the empire of Mr. Danger....another defeat for the devil. We will never be a colony of the US again....Long live the socialist revolution....Destiny has been written....Socialism is human. Socialism is love." This is how Hugo Chavez Frias characterized his smashing electoral victory on December 3 when he appeared on the balcony of the Palacio de (…)

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "I’m a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." They say that the torture is (…)

RUSSIAN SPY’S POISONING - A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE WORLD
Cathy Garger
With the recent poisoning of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, widespread word of the gritty reality of the painful details of his murder were spread internationally. Surprisingly, the controlled US Mainstream Media revealed that a lethal radioactive substance called polonium-210 was administered to an unsuspecting individual in order to cause devastatingly painful, swift, and certain demise. (…)

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Cindy Sheehan
Little did I know, as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) and I were driving through the streets of a Cleveland, Ohio, another American city that looks like it is preparing for the onslaught of a very cold winter on that gray morning, that he would be presenting me with a clear, reasonable, and obvious plan for bringing American troops out what is rapidly becoming total anarchy in Iraq.
The previous evening, Dennis and I, both spoke at the (…)

In the 1968 presidential campaign Richard Nixon promised to end the war in Vietnam, but would not tell anyone exactly he would do it. In as many words this came to be known as his "secret plan." Yet, after his election the war still dragged on for another five years with 20,000 more American deaths and 100,000 wounded. Now along comes the Iraq Study Group supposedly with a plan for extricating ourselves from the strategic disaster in Iraq, if not the moral one. And let us (…)

ROME, Piazza di Spagna - 6/12/2006
The first escapes of shopping christmas, to the center of Rome, have had Wednesday 6 Decembers an unscheduled program. Two representatives of the aboriginal people mapuche, Rogelio Fermin and Dina Huincaleo, arrive to you from the Argentine, have contested the Italian multinational Benetton, with an action in front of the store of the company, to Public square of Spain. The photos are of Simona Granati.
http://www.carta.org (…)

It is generally understood that the recent overthrow of Republican control of congress was a direct result of the war in Iraq. As if ‘ taking Impeachment off the table wasn’t enough’, now Democratic ‘leaders’ are promising to stay the course in Iraq. Americans are tired of destroying an innocent nation, killing hundreds of thousands and poisoning possibly millions with Depleted Uranium just so Halliburton can continue it’s looting.
The problem however, is that the Democratic leadership (…)

“No American should ever have to give one drop of blood for a lie-ever!” - Elizabeth Holtzman (1)
Baltimore, MD - Despite the temperature hovering in the low 20s, over thirty activists showed up, on Dec. 5, 2006, at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, only blocks from Penn Station, to protest Colin Powell’s appearance. The former Secretary of State in the ultra-hawkish Bush-Cheney administration (2001-04) was in town to give a talk at the facility as part of a speaker’s series, which has (…)

PEOPLE, IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A BEST PLACE TO IMMIGRATE WHAT COUNTRY WHOULD U CHOOSE, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND?
WHICH OF THESE CONTRIES WILL SUFFER LESS WITH THE CRISIS IN AMERICA ECONOMY? WHICH OF THIS COUNTRYES HAVE A BETTER FUTURE IN THE LONG-TERM?!
POST YOUR OPINION!