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News :: Human Rights : International : Media : Politics : War and Militarism |
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The Empire Tastes an Unprecedented Moral Defeat |
by posted by F Espinoza
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23 Aug 2007
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 GERARDO, Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind bars in the United States, three of them in maximum security prisons, and all of them subjected to the hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made them the target of reprisals against the Cuban Revolution. |
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News :: War and Militarism |
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Wanted Criminal Flew U.S. Supply Missions in Iraq |
by blogs.abcnews.com
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22 Aug 2007
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Bout didn't just walk away with millions of taxpayer dollars, the authors found. The military issued Bout's pilots supply cards allowing them to gas up their planes for free when landing in Iraq. A Defense Department spokesman confirmed to the authors that Bout's fleet made off with nearly 500,000 gallons of fuel from the Baghdad airport courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. |
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News :: Globalization |
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a jury of clowns |
by x
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22 Aug 2007
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Keep this one as an analysis of a major step in the destruction of
civil liberties and the institution of a police state. Frightening, isn't
it.
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Cindy Sheehan: "Inshallah" |
by Cindy
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22 Aug 2007
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...for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love... |
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News :: Media |
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History Channel 9/11 Special: Dirty Tricks, Malicious Lies & Journalistic Fraud |
by Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
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21 Aug 2007
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Joseph Goebbels would be proud of Der History Channel |
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News :: Human Rights : International : Labor : Politics : War and Militarism |
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Philippine Democracy Under Arroyo’s Petty Tyranny |
by Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP)
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21 Aug 2007
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 The rampant human rights violation under the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government and her penchant for issuing policies that have curtailed the freedom of speech and assembly have been likened to the tyranny that reigned over our country during the time of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. |
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America Before a New "New Deal" |
by Frank Unger
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
21 Aug 2007
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The laissez-faire capitalism as practiced in the US turned out to be a flop. The New Deal and the welfare state built by Roosevelt and his direct successors marked by a relative income leveling was slandered, delegitimated and then destroyed. |
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Should Journalists be Certified? |
by King James II
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20 Aug 2007
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Reasonable people here in the U.S. appreciate, and also assume, that our culture’s news industry of executives, editors and journalists be held to high standards of professional conduct. A democratic republic needs, as well as expects, truth in reporting, and adequate, if not comprehensive, coverage on “all” important issues. To refocus the question of media fraud to one of whether journalists ought to be certified, or accredited by some kind of professional board, in order to be recognized as “professional” journalists, is, to say the least, shortsighted. |
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