contributions

By Nicola Nasser*
Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, a fact that rules out any credible peace process in the foreseeable future and dooms peace and left as wishful thinking as they have been ever since the creation of the Jewish state, until a forcible outside intervention could enforce a de-Zionization of (…)

Joe Lieberman’s record: Why would anyone in Connecticut vote for him? By Mary MacElveen November 2, 2006
Living on the north shore of Long Island and if the weather if favorable, I can see the coast line of Connecticut. The only thing that separates us is a slim body of water known as the Long Island sound. If on Election Day the voters of Connecticut choose to re-elect, Joe Lieberman, we may as well be oceans apart.
As I was reading this article in the Hartford Courant: Focus Stays (…)

by Alina Reyes to support Bellaciao sign here
I just heard that the commitment to trial of Roberto Ferrario, as unique responsible for Bellaciao collective!!??, for the publication, as any website or blog could have done it, of a press statement from CGT related to the Shipyards of St Nazaire story, is notified by the Judge. This repressive action, obvious example of a will to control expression in the Net, is the symptom of increasing and very pernicious politic inflexibility, such as the (…)

Redford To Democrats: Show More Courage
WASHINGTON — The Sundance Kid gathered up the nerve to jump off a cliff with Butch Cassidy. Now, he wants Democrats to show similar backbone.
"Democrats need to regain the courage that’s lost with political compromises over the last few years," actor and environmental activist Robert Redford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "They’ve got to get it together. If they don’t, it will not only be a tragedy for them, but a tragedy (…)

Why should Americans vote Republican? By Mary MacElveen November 1, 2006
In hopes that this column will reach those who are more inclined to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, I want to ask you flat out, why should any voter even entertain voting Republican? What hope have your candidates given to the American people as many continue to suffer from despair?
As many Americans grow bone weary of the war in Iraq and are beginning to wise up, this war has only delivered (…)

Threats to Hugo Chavez As Venezuela’s December Presidential Election Approaches - by Stephen Lendman
On December 3, 2006 voters in Venezuela will again get to choose who’ll lead them as President for the next six years. There’s no doubt who that will be as the people’s choice is the same man they first elected their leader in December, 1998 with 56% of the vote and reelected him in July, 2000 after the adoption of the Bolivarian Republic’s new Constitution with a 60% total. They then saw (…)

"Amoralism is only possible if you are...always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled." - George Orwell (1)
The voters in the state of Connecticut may hold the key to the future well-being of our Republic! I’m not overstating this matter. If the rabid warmonger Joseph I. Lieberman, an unrepentant Israeli Firster, shameless pusher of the draconian USA Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Law, and a turncoat Democrat, now running as an Independent, can win a fourth term in the U.S. (…)

Exorcising Our Demons
Into the infancy of the 21st century has humanity somehow managed to reach, despite our insatiable addiction for violence and suffering that has for millennia been both endemic and devastating, in spite of the continued tribalism, now called the nation state, that fosters competition, ignorance, fear, hatred and war among the peoples of the world, even with the hierarchical need among peoples to perpetually follow corrupt, immoral and warmongering leadership that (…)

It has become abundantly clear to a majority of the American people, not to mention the rest of the world, that the Bush administration has utterly failed to conduct a satisfactory investigation into the events of 9/11. There has been no satisfactory explanation for the failure of our air defenses on that day, and the suspicion that the government itself was complicit in the attacks is widespread and growing rapidly.
Since the 9/11 attacks have been used by the Bush administration to (…)

A momentous step on the anti-occupation consolidation and its national and democratic alternative
Carlos Varea, Pedro Rojo and Houmad El Kadiri, 31 October, 2006
Translated by Manuel Talens
“The announcement of the creation of the UPCIR is an important step towards the practical unification of an anti-occupation social, political, and military base, bringing together individuals and organizations from the Nationalist and Islamic Patriotic Front as well as from the Iraqi National (…)