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  • Frontal Assault on Freedom of the Press
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is the first in history to launch a direct assault on journalists for violating the Espionage Act by releasing or publishing leaks of classified information. Although Congress originally passed the Espionage Act to prosecute government employees who divulge classified information to a foreign nation, it is now extended to reporters for doing their job - informing the public of our government wrongdoing, including breaking the law.
    In times of war or anticipated war, (…)

  • Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive."
    The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most useful citizen"
    He was recently voted the world’s number one intellectual in a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines.
    We’re talking about Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy. Professor Chomsky has just released a new book titled "Failed States: The Abuse of (…)

  • GEORGE MASON V. THE JELLYFISH
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The George Mason Patriots have stunned the world of college basketball by advancing to the Final Four NCAA basketball men’s basketball championship semifinals.... Who was George Mason ? He is frequently known in the history books as the "Father of the Bill of Rights", the first ten ammendments of the United States Constitution ..... Those ammendments specifically enumerated those inviolable rights guarenteed each citizen of this Republic .... Owing to the efforts of those two crude (…)

  • What Next?In case of total collapse, is there an alternative?
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone seems to think they have the solution, yet no alternative plans have been announced and no details emerge as to what this agenda they have is, however there is a plan known as PNAC that most of these neoconservatives (in want for a better definition, I will use my own, unethical stance that they are only right, with their trust us, have we ever let you down easy yet; cavalier, elitist, arrogant unmanly ballistic mayhem of _delusional doublespeak., (yet I regress.)) subscribe to, and (…)

  • Anti-Empire Notes The Cuban Punching Bag By WILLIAM BLUM (COUNTERPUNCH)
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 22, 2006
    The Committee to Protect Journalists, located in New York, calls itself "An Independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide". In December it issued a report that said that "China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are the world’s leading jailers of journalists in 2005".
    On January 7 I sent them the following email:
    "Dear People,
    "I have a question concerning your report on imprisoned journalists. You write that you consider journalists (…)

  • Ex-UN chief: America has ’lost its moral compass’
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States has lost its moral compass and fallen out of step with the rest of the world in the wake of September 11, the former United Nations human rights commissioner warned tonight.
    Mary Robinson expressed sadness and regret at America’s erosion of human rights as part of its "War on Terror".
    In a speech in central London, Mrs Robinson praised the British courts for taking a global lead on interpreting international human rights laws.
    Highlighting the US’s opposition last (…)

  • The Bolton archipelago By Ian Williams
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A UN General Assembly vote on establishing the new Human Rights Council is a fairly devastating comment on current US global prestige as well as the effectiveness of diplomacy as practiced by US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton.
    The vote to replace the largely discredited Commission on Human Rights with the new council was 170-4, with the United States,
    Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau voting against the resolution and with three abstentions.
    While the US has said much about the (…)

  • A REAL TERRORIST WHO OPPOSES DEMOCRACY;Bush Signs Bill That Didn’t Pass Congress
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Signs Bill That Didn’t Pass Congress Wilfully violates Constitution and places himself above the law again
    Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 18 2006
    In an amazing development that has received almost no media attention, mainstream or alternative, President Bush again placed himself above the law and wilfully violated the Constitution by signing into law a bill that didn’t pass both Houses of Congress.
    According to representative Henry Waxman, Bush signed into law a (…)

  • 4 August 1998 British newspaper warns of "grave threat" to democratic rights in US
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    original link British newspaper warns of "grave threat" to democratic rights in US Observer details right-wing conspiracy behind Starr investigation By Editorial Board 4 August 1998 The August 2 Observer, the Sunday paper published by the daily Guardian, one of the most prestigious newspapers in Britain, carries a detailed exposé of the ultra-right elements who have conspired to (…)

  • Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Senator Frank Church chaired the Senate Hearings on the FBI’s Cointelpro operation, which spied upon & attempted to INFILTRATE, DISRUPT & DISCREDIT the peace movement, even Martin Luther King Jr.
    if a dictator ever took over, the NSA “could enable [him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
    From James Bamford’s NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother, Senator Church:
    “That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and (…)