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  • Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo.
    4 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOE MOWREY
    Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo...
    Name That Candidate
    This week came exciting news. Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yippie! The blogosphere is all atwitter. Our guy has worked hard, taken solid positions on all the most important progressive issues and managed to convince the exalted Mr. Powell to throw his support our way. Celebrations are in order. We’re one step (…)

  • A Single Lifetime
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Surviving to over age 50 is no major accomplishment, in and of itself. It’s only a chance to see things and experience things, and sadly, most of it for the worse. As a child, playing in the sun was not seen as a danger; the polar ice caps weren’t melting, or at least we didn’t know about it yet. Gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and seat belts were a novelty only required in the front seat.
    But I started life on a wholly segregated, post-World War II street, in a (…)

  • Pakistan Earthquake Response
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    With now over 300 reported deaths, 500 injured and thousands rendered homeless as a result of the October 29 earthquake that struck Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan a new need for humanitarian assistance presents itself. Many in the area have left their homes because of fear that their homes will collapse due to structural damage from the initial earthquake or the numerous aftershocks that continue to occur.
    UNICEF reports that over 70,00o people, 30,000 of them (…)

  • Abortion: Government’s Choice?
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William John Cox
    Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).
    The pregnant woman is forcibly strapped to a Gurney and wheeled into the treatment room where her fetus is aborted and her fallopian tubes are tied. Why? A test has shown that the fetus has Down syndrome and she already has one living child. Where? (…)

  • A message to all Australians, are you out of your fuckin’ minds? - Australia’s Internet censorship
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chycho
    A few days ago I came across the news that the Australian government was implementing plans for a no opt-out censored Internet. This will be a multi-million dollar project and will be “mandatory for all Australians”, which means that “Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government’s pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist.”
    If Australians allow this scheme to be implemented, then it means that they will be (…)

  • CHANGE, OR MORE OF THE SAME?
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David R. Hoffman
    In a recent article for the Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts discussed two “still-classified” government memos that not only revealed how the United States government, under George W. Bush, authorized and engaged in the use of torture, but also how Bush himself blatantly lied to the American people about this reality.
    The memos, written in 2003 and 2004, were designed to alleviate the concerns of then-CIA director George Tenet that agents (…)

  • MacCain: War Hero or War Criminal?
    23 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert RICHTER
    October 14, 2008 CounterPunch McCain and Rolling Thunder
    As character assassination attacks on Sen. Barack Obama have now taken over Sen. John McCain’s campaign, and because McCain cites his military experience as of prime importance, now is the time to focus closer attention on a facet of the Arizona Senator’s own character. This is related to his 23 combat missions for Operation Rolling Thunder - the Pentagon’s name for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
    Source: (…)

  • FRENCH ELITE ON TRIAL: The Sordid Tale of ’Angolagate’
    19 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stefan Simons in Paris
    Corruption, arms sales and a civil war in Africa: France’s biggest ever bribery scandal sees 42 leading figures of the French business and political world on trial. They are accused of being involved in a murky network said to have facilitated the illegal transport of arms to Angola in the 1990s.
    The story, the actors and the exclusive scenery are the stuff of movies. The cast includes former cabinet ministers, billionaires, financial experts and glamorous (…)

  • You Think I’m Rich, Don’t You?
    17 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Poor Joe the plumber, plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national limelight, his life has now become an open book. After all, all he did was ask a question about tax policy. Little did he know the McCain campaign and Fox News would seize upon him and try to make him an icon.
    I wondered about Joe even before the stories started to come out about the tax lien against him or his lack of plumbing license. For years I worked for a man that made well over $250,000 a (…)

  • Head of Taser distributor in France arrested
    16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andrew Johnson
    French police arrested the head of a company that distributes stun guns in France for Scottsdale-based Taser International Inc. on Tuesday, according to foreign news reports.
    Authorities detained Antoine Di Zazzo and nine other people, including police officers and private detectives, on suspicion that they spied on Olivier Besancenot, a former presidential candidate in France who publicly questioned the safety of Taser’s devices, reports stated.
    Di Zazzo runs SMP (…)