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05/12/06 "Information Clearing House" — — Let no man claim that the United States is not a representative government. There is no greater representative government on earth. The trouble is that the U.S. represents the interests of wealthy Plutocrats and multinational corporations, rather than the people. The vast majority of the citizens are essentially without representation. The government has fallen so completely under the spell of the corporations that it is virtually indistinguishable (…)

WASHINGTON, May 13 (XINHUA) — Mothers, whose militant pacifist Cindy Sheehan, gathered Saturday in front of the White House to call the day before the Mother’s Day, at the end of the war in Iraq and to be opposed to a possible attack against Iran.
(Photographs: Xinhua)
This gathering was organized by the movement “Women for peace” and the mothers and their families gathered in front of the White House starting from 15H00 (19H00 GMT) and planned to remain there all the night until the (…)

Last Saturday, former Bush administration official Morgan Reynolds drew an enthusiastic capacity crowd to the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium. It is probably the first time in Historical Society history that a political talk has drawn a full house on a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of final exams.
Reynolds, the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and the ex-top economist for George W. Bush’s Labor Department, charged the (…)

Times’ Frank Rich: Any ’witch hunt’ for traitors should begin in the White House
RAW STORY Published: Saturday May 13, 2006
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Defending journalists who have been castigated as traitors for exposing government blunders, New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes that any "witch hunt" for traitors should begin in the White House, RAW STORY has found.
"What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal (…)

VIC Conference marks fourth anniversary of defeat of coup against President Chavez The Venezuela Information Centre (VIC) held a conference on Saturday 8 April 2006, in Bolivar Hall, London to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the coup that briefly ousted democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez on 11-14 April 2002.
The conference was opened by Keith Sonnet, UNISON Deputy General Secretary and Chair of the Venezuela Information Centre, began by informing the meeting about (…)

Dear President Bush:
In this, your most distressing hour, with poll numbers down to rock bottom, I am writing to let you know that you’ve still got fans out here in the American hinterlands.
I been told you’ve had a bad rap in the press and by those weasley Democrats who only wish you ill. Various pundits are saying you were an idiot way back when 9/11 happened and you just sat there reading My Pet Goat. I just think you were focused and enjoying yourself. Anyone can do that.
I loved (…)

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May 12, 2006
Defence witnesses in Saddam Hussein’s trial will start their testimonies in Monday’s session, a member of the defence team told Aljazeera.net.
Najib al-Nuaimi, a former Qatari justice minister and member of the defence team, said 30 people, including former government members, would take the stand for the defence.
Iraq’s former president has been on trial since August 2005 for approving death sentences against 148 Shia villagers from al-Dujail village north (…)

Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=33205 Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:41 GMT
LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency?
Julio Godoy
VIENNA, May 11 (IPS) - The EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit, to take place Friday in the Austrian capital, will be marked by the contradictions that pervade relations between the two regions. While the governments tout cooperation, civil society organisations complain that it often merely serves to strengthen ties (…)

Video Evidence of the Twin Towers and Building 7 Collapses :
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/videos/index.html

Live audio and video streaming of the Meeting with the Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
Date: 13th May
http://www.alternativas.at/English/indexenglish.htm