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9/11: WTC Planehugger Therapy -Top 30 FAQ http://www.911closeup.com/nico/FAQ_planehuggers.html
By Nico Haupt April 7, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planehugger http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/planehuggers/message/4536
Definition of a planehugger Definition of Planehuggers as submitted to the Planehuggers Yahoo Group (and as was at least twice deleted by Wikipedia) provided by Ray Antoky
Planehuggers is a recent political neologism that has been used on the World Wide Web (…)

ThinkProgress.com
Wednesday 05 April 2006
President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence.
Paul Wolfowitz
Role in Going to War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money for pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be (…)

Israel controversy threatens free speech By Amitabh Pal April 5, 2006
Two academics who recently discussed the power of the so-called Israel lobby have come under intense fire. This episode threatens free speech-and not just on campuses.
Harvard Professor and Academic Dean (no less) Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer co-wrote a paper (republished in a shorter version in the London Review of Books ) that expressed concern over the influence of the pro-Israel (…)

• IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY
Thursday, 06 April 2006 Challenges Facing the Anti-War Movement As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowerment. The administration’s most useful tool - fear - remains a factor in U.S. politics, but it is now much more concentrated in congress, less so in the (…)

Thursday, 06 April 2006
Being a so-called anti-war movement leader (at least to the MSM), brings much responsibility and so much love for the people and the groups who are working hard to end this insane occupation, but is this enough?
Recently, a blog written by an aquaintance, Scott Ritter, on AlterNet was called to my attention, where Scott, who is a self-proclaimed Republican, conservative who courageously opposed this war from the beginning, is predicting the eminent demise of the (…)

Behind the collapse of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” By Niall Green 6 April 2006
Ukraine’s March 25 parliamentary elections and the subsequent back-room deals between the main political actors have exposed the fraudulent nature of the so-called “Orange Revolution” of November and December 2004.
The Our Ukraine party of President Viktor Yushchenko, proclaimed the “hero” of the Orange Revolution by the Western media, suffered an electoral debacle, ending in third place with 15 percent of (…)

World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
By Justus Leicht 6 April 2006
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During the past week, violent protests and demonstrations have taken place in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey, particularly in the regional metropolis of Diyarbakir. On Monday, 12 demonstrators were shot dead by security forces, including three children. More than 300 people were injured, including over 100 policemen. Several hundred (…)

World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq By James Cogan 6 April 2006
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There are indications of growing discontent in the predominantly Kurdish-populated provinces of northern Iraq. Lack of essential services, social inequality and the suppression of political opposition are all fueling disaffection with the two nationalist parties-the Kurdish Democratic (…)

ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
Race, class, and "whiteness theory"
By SHARON SMITH
http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/whiteness.shtml
Adapted from Sharon Smith’s new book, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Haymarket Books, April 2006). Sharon Smith is also the author of Women and Socialism: Essays on Women’s Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2005). Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the ISR.
GIVEN THE depths of (…)

ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
TOM LEWIS reporting from Bolivia
WINNING THE presidential election in Bolivia last December with an impressive 54 percent of the vote, Evo Morales joined Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Tabaré Vásquez (Uruguay), Alejandro Toledo (Peru), and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) as part of Latin America’s electoral backlash against neoliberalism.1 Morales, an Aymara (…)