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Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Féin administrator who had admitted being a British agent for 20 years, was yesterday found shot dead inside the isolated cottage to which he had retreated in Co Donegal. Reports last night suggested his body had been mutilated and his right hand almost severed.
Suspicions that he had been murdered by dissident republicans cast a shadow over the government’s hopes of reviving the stalled political process. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime (…)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Video
Sometimes, a good documentary is all about being in the right place at the right time. It does not get much better for Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain, who, in late 2001 began filming a documentary about Hugo Chavez, the controversial President of Venezuela. As they worked on their documentary, events in Venezuela reached a fever pitch and the duo was able to capture on film a coup from the perspective of the Chavez government. The footage is (…)

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The national Democratic Party has shat upon it’s base yet expects it’s strongest supporters to form a mighty host on Election Day 2006.... Such insufferable arrogance is the result of placing IDF volunteer Rahm Emanuel and his loopy pro-Blair , DLC confederates in charge of plotting strategy in the forthcoming canvass.... Our country needs an opposition party, now more than ever.... Many conservatives privately acknowledge that to be the case.... The national Democratic Party is (…)

He is the warmonger’s war-monger.... He makes Bush look like Gandhi .... The prospect of President John McCain should scare the hell out of you . It probably doesn’t scare you because his bitches in the MSM refuse to inform you of his volcanic temper and irrational lust for war..... What hypocricy we see on display... The African-American congresswomen Cynthia McKinney is facing an arrest warrant and possible indictment because those Jim-Crow KKK Capitol Hill police thugs goated her (…)

04/01/06 "ICH" — — The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!
Of course, as I tell my students.. the history of the world is (…)

It’s high time to recognize that we as a nation are engaged in a life-or-death struggle of competing ideologies with those who promote war as an American value and virtue.
04/01/06 "Alternet" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12592.htm
In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition, and for three years since, I have spent many hours speaking to numerous anti-war forums across the country and around the world. I have always been struck by the (…)

So what exactly is it about cannabis that frightens governments so much? Now isn’t that a question that great swathes of the world’s population would like an answer to? Let’s face it, many, many people turn to cannabis at one point or another in their lives. We all know that just about ever pop musician in the world has a relationship with this plant, that’s not mention at least one member of the Royal Family in Britain and people on probably every street in the nation not to mention in many (…)

Published Apr 2, 2006 5:51 PM http://www.workers.org/2006/world/dominican-republic-0406/
The United States hoped sending a heavily armed brigade of several thousand troops to Barahona, a small city on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic 50 miles from the Haitian border, would go unnoticed.
But the progressive movement in the Dominican Republic held a series of demonstrations in late February exposing this potential threat to Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, to the elections (…)

Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
By Meirion Jones Producer, BBC Newsnight
04/03/02 "BBC" — — In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Greg Palast, Mr Chavez - who is due to host the Opec meeting on 1 June in Caracas - said he would ask the oil cartel to set $50 a barrel as the long term level.
During the 1990s the price of oil had hovered around the $20 mark falling as low as $10 a barrel in early 1999.
"We’re trying to find an equilibrium. The price of oil could remain at the low (…)