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  • The High Price Of American Gullibility. Watch Us, Wiretap Us, Search Us, Jail Us ...
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The High Price Of American Gullibility Watch Us, Wiretap Us, Search Us, Jail Us ... By Paul Craig Roberts July 2, 2006 What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran, North Korea and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way? Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and to (…)

  • The Bush War On Liberty Intensifies
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush War On Liberty Intensifies By Chris Floyd June 29, 2006
    Glenn Greenwald has the goods on the all-out war that the Bush Regime and its bootlicking sycophants throughout the right-wing media are waging against the free press. The recent "controversy" over the New York Times report on the Regime’s surveillance of bank records is, as Greenwald astutely notes, based entirely on outright falsehoods. It is also being deliberately stoked by the White House, whose lies about the (…)

  • CrytoCracy is Killing Our Humanity
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Throughout history it has been through the establishment of secrets in the areas of knowledge, ideas, news of events and many other types of social information that has provided the need cover to rule over humanity through lies and the subversion of information. This wholesale destruction of TRUTH and openness is thus then the primary means to enslave and mind control the mass of humanity through out the epoch of time.
    Humans are message processing creatures that after acquiring basic (…)

  • Classic Right Wing Responses
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Someone (it wasn’t Elvis) once said "There are none so blind as those who will not see"
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    I have a really good Conservative friend who has a good mind except when it comes to politics, and then his mind tends to freeze, his eyes glaze and all reasoning goes out the window. Here, in nutshells,are some of his typical responses to assertions made by me againt the Bush administration.
    Cheney is a war profiteer and has a terrible voting record in the Senate. (…)

  • Reality is NOT optional!
    16 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The latest scheme of mind control and social domination is called \"Terrorism\" and is built on the pretext that an enemy viewed by a military intelligence organisation \"decides in secret\" what, whom and what the target \"TERRORIST\" is; which could be anybody from a school child to and old person in a wheel chair, or MORE LIKELY the ACTUAL TERRORISM COMES from corrupt politicians, greedy bankers, the military industrial complex using the \"PRETEXT\" of \"SECRET\" information to CONTROL (…)

  • Focused only on building workers’ rights
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Han Dongfang
    On April 25, 1989, Deng Xiaoping made a speech to Communist Party leaders urging an immediate government crackdown on any sign of an upsurge in the democratic movement. Party leaders "should learn from the experience of Poland’s Solidarity trade union", and "must not be soft-handed" in dealing with the democratic movement in China, he said. Then on June 4, 1989, the government launched its bloody crackdown on the movement by students and workers. The latter was (…)

  • SAUDI COSMETICS?
    7 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher As human rights organizations expressed skepticism that detainees recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabian custody could receive fair trials and escape torture - and a new study charged that the country’s textbooks continue to promote intolerance of other religions - the oil-rich Kingdom put the finishing touches on its new Human Rights Commission. The new commission - which the government characterizes as an independent rights watchdog — came into (…)

  • Will Louisiana lead the nation?
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rob Richie
    Last year Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded Louisiana with a horrible one-two punch of destruction. This year, it’s just possible that Louisiana will send forth its own hurricane: a political hurricane to create a more representative democracy in America.
    On May 10, a Louisiana house committee approved the National Popular Vote plan for presidential elections. If signed into law, it would make Louisiana the first of what promises to be dozens of states entering into an (…)

  • Political Invisibles
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sasha Abramsky
    What does it mean when a democracy removes the vote from several million adults? How is the political process affected when certain groups — racial minorities and low-income whites, in particular — bear the brunt of this disenfranchisement?
    These are not abstract questions intended to tax the minds of students in a poli-sci class. Rather, they are questions about a massive contraction of the franchise that is occurring, today, largely in the shadows, in the United (…)

  • Block the Vote
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In a country that spends so much time extolling the glories of democracy, it’s amazing how many elected officials go out of their way to discourage voting. States are adopting rules that make it hard, and financially perilous, for nonpartisan groups to register new voters. They have adopted new rules for maintaining voter rolls that are likely to throw off many eligible voters, and they are imposing unnecessarily tough ID requirements.
    Florida recently reached a new low when it actually (…)