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  • Forget D.C.—the Battle is in the States
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nathan Newman and David Sirota
    Speaking to a packed room of 2,000 state legislators and business lobbyists gathered in Grapevine, Texas, last fall, George W. Bush thanked the crowd for its work on behalf of the conservative agenda. He wasn’t talking about work they’d done on Capitol Hill, but about their collaboration to push the corporate agenda forward in statehouses across the country. The meeting was the 32nd annual gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a (…)

  • Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    "It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in on the floor.
    A flyer passed around showed where the $39.99 paid for a UVA sweatshirt goes ($2.40 in royalties to the university, $0.20 in pay to the workers who made it).
    But that familiar story wasn’t all that Hernandez Ponce (…)

  • Nuclear panic
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan Power
    LONDON Proliferation Lost somewhere in the mists of history is the knowledge that it was the pro-American Shah of Iran who initiated Iran’s quest to build a nuclear bomb. And it was the anti-American revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini that initially suspended work on the bomb.
    Fanning the panic of proliferation has been a mainstay of the Bush administration, supported in the wings by the British government and more recently France’s president, Jacques Chirac. It is (…)

  • Democrats may unite on plan to pull troops
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Klein
    WASHINGTON — After months of trying unsuccessfully to develop a common message on the war in Iraq, Democratic Party leaders are beginning to coalesce around a broad plan to begin a quick withdrawal of US troops and install them elsewhere in the region, where they could respond to emergencies in Iraq and help fight terrorism in other countries.
    The concept, dubbed ’’strategic redeployment," is outlined in a slim, nine-page report coauthored by a former Reagan administration (…)

  • Female Muralists Dip Brushes in Women’s History
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Eleanor Bader
    A colorful mural of 90 female activists puts a splash of militant sass on the side of an otherwise drab wall in Brooklyn, N.Y. Produced by an all-female team of artists it leaves its chief creator dreaming of more public tributes to women.
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WOMENSENEWS)—It is a cold, blustery Saturday and in the hours before a blizzard is set to begin, people in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn are moving quickly. Most carry heavy bags and seem to be rushed. (…)

  • Meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd, NYC - March 15, 2006
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd, NYC - March 15, 2006 1. The recent ‘reporting’ of Iran to the UN Security Council follows three years of political and economic pressure by the US on the EU-3, other Board members of the IAEA, and China and Russia in particular.
    2. The resolution has no legal basis: it preempted the March 6th final report of the IAEA investigation and thus tried to influence and frame the final decision improperly.
    3. It has no technical basis: it has (…)

  • DOES IRAN GAIN FROM CIVIL WAR ?
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://son-of-a-bush.blogspot.com With an allied government preparing to assume control , why would Iran blow up the central governing authority ? When the US installs a puppet regime , they move heaven and Earth to butress the legitimacy of that government , not seek to destroy it. All countries seeking the role as hegemon over a region ( or the world) reward allies and subvert foes ...

  • THE BUSH SHIP OF FOOLS : A TITANIC DISASTER
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you read the commentary of Bush’s Middle East foreign policy advisors , it is not hard to understand how "Amurka" reached this parlous state ..... Michael Ledeen supports "Total War" ... "Creative Destruction".... He wants earnestly to spread the "creativity" to Iran... "Faster.. please ! " . ..... Bush advisor Daniel Pipes thinks civil war in Iraq would be a "humanitarian disaster" but a "strategic victory" All those AYE- RABS killing each other off ... Yummy-Yum.... In (…)

  • The End of Civilization
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The End of Civilization
    Introduction
    I had a mild epiphany the other day: it’s not President Bush who’s living in a fantasy world, it’s most of his critics who are. I’m no apologist for Bush - I neither like nor dislike him. He’s no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning.
    People look at Bush’s invasion of Iraq and see a miserable failure. But a failure to do what? Democratize Iraq? Eliminate Iraq’s WMD arsenal? Reduce (…)

  • Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Written by Benjamin Dangl
    Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the US military is conducting secretive operations. Five hundred US troops arrived in the country on Jul. 1, 2005 with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometres from its border with Bolivia and may be utilized by the US military. Officials in Paraguay claim the military operations are routine humanitarian efforts and deny that (…)