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9-11: Controlling the Message
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The Nazis who were sitting in the dock in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 21, 1945, heard the following charge when US Chief of Counsel Robert H. Jackson addressed the International Military Tribunal:
“We have also accused as criminal organizations the High Command and the General Staff of the German Armed Forces. We recognize that to plan warfare is the business of professional soldiers in all countries. But it is one thing to plan strategic moves in the event war comes, and it is another (…)

The workers’ movement of Great Britain is an example for the world By National Radio of Venezuela Wednesday, 17 May 2006
During the opening speech given to representatives of the British trade unions, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias reiterated that the main reason for his visit to London was to give thanks for the gestures of solidarity that have been organised by the different social organisations in Britain, the TUC prominent amongst (…)

www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1970
Venezuela Considers Selling Oil in Euros
Friday, May 19, 2006 By: Michael Fox - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, Venezuela, May 18, 2006-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on Tuesday that Venezuela would consider putting the sale of its oil in Euros. His comments come after Iran had announced that it too is contemplating switching to the European currency.
“That was an interesting proposal made by the president of Iran,” Chavez (…)

BY NAVIL GARCIA ALFONSO-Granma International staff writer-
AGING with health is the maxim of the 4th International Conference on Satisfactory Longevity: an Integral Vision, which took place in Cuba’s Hotel Nacional, sponsored by the Caribbean Medical Association and the 120 Years Club.
Doctor Eugenio Selman-Houssein Abdo highlighted the conditions developed in Cuba to maintain good quality of life conditions, including nutrition, health, physical activity, culture, motivation and the (…)

• Experiences accumulated over the last five years are described as useful, when after several large-scale hurricanes, more than 7 million people were evacuated on the island, with total safety guaranteed
THE Meteoro 2006 exercise, which has the objective of preparing the population and leadership bodies at all levels for dealing with disaster situations, will take place May 20-21, a few days before the start of the hurricane season, during which 15 tropical organisms are expected to form, (…)

www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1732
State Department Looking for a Fight in which it Might get a Black Eye
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
By: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In yet another blow to the credibility of one of its annually released “certification” reports on the performance of other nations on some broad social or political issue - this time on the degree of cooperation in the anti-terrorism struggle - the State Department in its 2006 compilation included Cuba as a (…)

by Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Two new films which expose unpleasant truths about Guantanamo and the battle for Iraq are coming under pressure from censors in the United States.
The Motion Pictures Association of America has censored a poster advertising a film about the Tipton three, called The Road to Guantanamo, that showed a hooded and blindfolded man hanging by his shackled wrists. Also, the makers of Baghdad ER, a documentary about a US military combat hospital, told the (…)

by Wayne Besen
Like her father’s misbegotten war in Iraq, Mary Cheney’s book is backfiring. Just as Dick thought the Iraqis would throw flowers at our troops and greet them as liberators, Mary imagined her tome would liberate her from being perceived as a lesbian lackey. But instead of roses, people are roiled and "Now It’s My Turn" makes Mary appear more sycophantic than sympathetic.
Time and again, Mary is confronted with opportunities to educate America and voice her opposition to (…)

“The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government...” - James Madison
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday afternoon, May 18, 2006, over a hundred protesters, led by Cindy Sheehan, exercised a right older than the U.S. Constitution itself: the “Right of Petition.” The Right of Petition existed at Common Law and was re-declared in the “Assemble and Petition Clauses” of our First Amendment. Nevertheless, when the activists attempted to (…)