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  • Statement to the Human Rights Conference on Torture
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings, IHRI (International Human Rights Initiative) conference!
    First I want to congratulate the keynote speaker, the Honorable Congresswoman Sister Cynthia McKinney, on her triumphant return to Congress. But more so I want to personally thank her as being the only Congressional official who had courage or concern enough to make a determined effort toward my release when I was rounded up on Sept. 11, 2001, and held incommunicado from my family, my attorneys and the entire outside (…)

  • Hugo Chavez: U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezulean leader: U.S. citizens oppressed Hugo Chavez in Havana for trade talks
    HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Saying that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.
    Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an international gathering of activists here that before an earlier trip to Cuba, a U.S. State Department undersecretary he did not identify warned (…)

  • Dying Democracy.
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I live in Canada where the government is about to collapse because of corruption.
    I see in Britain that it is almost certain that Blair lied about Iraq.
    I look to Washington and am revolted.
    Is democracy dying?If not,from where will the leadership with World vision come?

  • Election Fraud leads to Revolution in Kyrgyzstan
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Revolution takes hold in Kyrgyzstan
    A pro-democracy movement sweeping across the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan secured its first political concession from the country’s president yesterday when he ordered a review of results in recent disputed elections.
    As protests hailed by opposition supporters as a "tulip revolution" took hold in big cities, President Askar Akayev showed his first signs of weakening in the face of the protests, calling for talks. Jalal-abad police station (…)

  • Largest Investors in Electronic Voting Companies are Defense Contractors
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy Fails: Corporations Win
    Democracy in the United States is only a shadow in a corporate media cave of deceit, lies and incomplete information. We stand ignorant of what the powerful are doing in our name and how the corporate media ignores key issues affecting us all.
    A young professional couple from San Diego stated the weekend before the election, "we don’t think voting will make any difference so why bother?" Over 80 million eligible voters joined them by refusing to (…)

  • George Bush Is Freedom’s Biggest Supporter Abroad, But Is Actively Eroding Our Freedoms Here At Home
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friend Abroad, Enemy At Home George Bush Is Freedom’s Biggest Supporter Abroad, But He Is Actively Eroding Our Freedoms Here At Home Michael Coblenz March 11, 2005 On his recent European trip, President George Bush took every opportunity to praise liberty, democracy and “freedom.” He frequently mentioned that the United States and most European nations share common traditions of democracy and freedom. Bush even lectured Russian President Vladimir Putin on freedom and democracy. (And no (…)

  • Save Democracy, Shut Off Chris Matthews
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D
    Sound the alarm! America, the land of the free, is now under attack, not by Al Qaeda, not by Iraqi "insurgents," not by an enemy confronted on foreign soil; not even by one that homeland security could ever stop. It is an insidious, invisible assailant, more hidden than a terrorist cell. It is one that invades virtually every American household on a daily basis without leaving a trace of its deceitful, dangerous nature. Its whores, draped in dignified apparel, sit (…)

  • Reflections on Orwell 2005
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it. — George Orwell, in 1984
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    Robert Kane Pappas is the director of the mass media-critiquing documentary, beloved by BuzzFlash readers, "Orwell Rolls in His Grave." This week he agreed to revisit George Orwell’s prophetic anti-utopian novel, 1984, and to reflect on recent events in terms (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R. : Actions in solidarity with Haiti in NYC, SF & LA
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urges participation in actions in New York & San Francisco & Los Angeles and elsewhere in solidarity with the Haitian people on the first anniversary of the US coup and kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    IN NEW YORK Indoor Rally in Brooklyn to Premiere New Video of Haiti Coup
    On the 1st anniversary of Haiti’s latest coup d’état and for the first time in New York, the Haiti Support Network (HSN) and the (…)

  • When Democracy Failed - 2005 : The Warnings of History
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Thom Hartmann
    This weekend - February 27th - is the 72nd anniversary, but the corporate media most likely won’t cover it. The generation that experienced this history firsthand is now largely dead, and only a few of us dare hear their ghosts.
    It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small (…)