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Olbermann Our New Murrow By Larry C Johnson Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 22:43 If you missed Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Donald Rumsfeld’s accusation that Americans who criticize the Bush Policy in Iraq are basically traitors, then you missed a chance to witness history. Olbermann’s courage and genius should be celebrated and cherished. God bless him. The man has a set of stones.
The following is posted at Keith’s blog. If you don’t want to read it, check out the video posted at (…)

Salt Lake City Rally Protests Bush Admin and Congress
Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson
Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah August 30, 2006
A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.
Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation - and for our world?
And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth?
Let’s hear it: "Give us the (…)

9/11 Newsmedia Failure Noel Gibeson Thursday, August 31, 2006 Investigative reporting used to be a respected business and an American art form, but now it seems that the traditional newsmedia is either part of an active cover-up of 9/11, or they have just become too simple to be taken seriously at all. In either case, the American newsmedia has abrogated its responsibility in a dreadful way. Have they really become so incompetent, or do they answer to some corporate master who has (…)

Yesterday, Aug 30th 2006, Donald Rumsfeld delivered an erudite and foreceful speech to the Republican Veterans of War (membership 16 men). Here is a transcript:
Good Evening:
Today we are fighting a new kind of war. We went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq to strike back at those who attacked us on 9/11,and to find and destroy WMDs, which we know are still to be located beneath the burning sands. These monsters in turbans, these Neo-Nazi Muslim extremist Islamo-Fascists use terrible (…)

COLORS Restaurant - A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry By John Lawrence
In the fall of 2005, COLORS restaurant opened in the heart of Greenwich Village, in New York City. In an elegant setting with Bauhaus and Art Deco touches, COLORS offers a creative seasonal menu based on favorite family recipes of its staff, who hail from 22 countries.
More than an excellent restaurant, however, COLORS is one part of a labor struggle to revolutionize the New York restaurant (…)

Venezuela’s Cooperative Revolution. The Hidden Story
An economic experiment is the hidden story behind Chávez’s ’Bolivarian Revolution.’
By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice.
Zaida Rosas, a woman in her fifties with 15 grandchildren, works in the newly constructed textile co-op Venezuela Avanza in Caracas. The co-op’s 209 workers are mostly formerly jobless neighborhood women. Their (…)

CNN’s Vice President of Racism and Associates - by Stephen Lendman
Move over Bill, Chris, Michelle, Rush, Sean, & Company. Make way for a worthy challenger to the title of leader of the racist rant pack holding court weekday evenings on his hourly show on CNN. Who would have thought back in the days when this well-known cable TV financial news anchor was CNN’s executive vice president and then president of the ill-fated CNNfn program he launched that one day he’d switch roles on the (…)

UN slams Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
8/30/2006 8:00:00 PM GMT
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, slammed Israel for its “completely immoral” use of cluster bombs in Lebanon, the BBC reported.
UN efforts to clear cluster bombs in Lebanon have been under way since the Israeli offensive ended two weeks ago.
According to Egeland, the UN Mine Action Co-ordination Centrehad had found "nearly 85 percent of bombed areas in south Lebanon" and identified "359 (…)

Arabic T-shirt sparks airport row
8/31/2006 9:00:00 AM GMT
Jarrar, an architect of Iraqi descent, was wearing a T-shirt that read “We Will Not Be Silent”
“I grew up and spent all my life living under authoritarian regimes. And I know that these things happen. But I’m shocked that they happened to me here, in the U.S. Especially that I moved from Iraq because of the war that was waged in Iraq under titles like democracy and freedom,” said Iraqi-born architect Raed Jarrar.
Jarrar, an (…)

Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.
It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources. [1]
There is strong evidence that the US (…)