You wont find this in Main stream media or even here on Indymedia but this will further prove vice President Cheney is a criminal and shows that Us Treasury Secretary Paulson is one too. Enjoy

Green Seniors have always existed. They are the people who, regardless of age, fight for what they believe. They are the people who see the way that our natural environment is changing for the worse and want to do something about it. They are the people who are a pain in the neck of authority, in fact of anyone and anything that operates in a way that degrades the environment for no good reason.

RECON 7 1943

During WW2 many secret missions ment to confuse the Germens were sent behind their lines, to confuse the Nazi high comand. Some of them are still classified even today. The true storyod Recon 7 Down declasifed after over 60 years.

Radical radio show 29 mins stereo

"It's an utterly shameless act of collaboration of the Arroyo regime
and the U.S. government."

This was the statement of Myrla Baldonado, spokesperson of Task Force
Subic Rape (TFSR) on the stealthy transfer of custody of Daniel Smith
from the Makati City Jail to the U.S. Embassy.

Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese.

Gerald Ford was part of a rolling crime wave that has gotten worse each time.

Saddam's execution by hanging on Saturday was denounced virtually across Italy's political spectrum, with former premier and conservative opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi calling the killing a political error and centre-left leader Prodi expressing worry that the execution will fuel more violence in Iraq.

Happy New Year 2007! Get Ready for the New Immigrant Movements 2007!

Where is Haiti going? Towards the beautiful future offered by 1000 sweatshops and the HERO Act recently offered by Congress, or a deep slide towards hell.

Sarah Olson and Dahr Jamail speak out against the Army's efforts to force journalists to testify on behalf of the military.

The abortion ban failed last election but whether or or not abortion is legal in South Dakota is purely symbolic; women barely have access. In order to defend a woman's right to control her own body and to support women lacking resources and access, a new collective has formed within South Dakota: the Uterus Liberation Front (ULF).

The Bush Justice Dept. and FBI refuse to prosecute crimes against the civil rights of U.S. citizens, yet, Bush claims to be spreading rights and liberties abroad while he supports terrorist civil rights atrocities against the people of the United States.

Eighteen families are facing homelessness as a result of a November 29, 2006 agreement with Johnson Properties Group that gave over 100 Woodlands families just over a month to find new homes. Since the brief stay of eviction, over 100 families have been working seven days a week with Common Ground's Woodlands Housing Assistance Team in search of new affordable housing. These families face a market where rents have increased between 70 and 300 percent since Katrina, providing few options for these residents. Many families have left their homes to sleep on the floors of friends or family members homes. Eighteen of the families still have no prospects.

"We can determine that there have been other reports about the illegal and degrading wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the complicity of the AFP in the Bali bombing in 2002, and now the fire sale of Australian military hardware, including a rocket launcher found on a tip. After the rocket launchers that went missing from the Australia War Force just recently and that's part of the inquiries that we are making," They said.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, China, and Russia.

John Howard the rocket launcher and his AFP now lay the blame of lost rocket launchers on a scapegoat in custody. Typical propaganda to make himself look good. Again! But now there is a specific target and I strongly suggest it's John Howard's war on terror and how much of a boost he can give to his fear factor so he can continue war mongering!

U.S. Iran Tensions Arise as Second American Aircraft Carrier Heads to Persian Gulf

Interview with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian- American Council, conducted by Scott Harris

After months of tense negotiations, the United Nations' Security Council voted unanimously Dec. 23rd to impose limited economic sanctions against Iran for that nation's refusal to halt its uranium enrichment operation. The council voted to block all countries from selling technology and equipment that could assist Iran in developing its nuclear research and missile capabilities. In addition, the U.N. froze the assets of 10 Iranian corporations and 12 individuals linked to its nuclear and missile programs. Iranian officials responded defiantly, vowing to continue their enrichment of uranium and warning of future changes in their relationship with the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency.

With the Bush administration's decision to dispatch a second aircraft carrier group to the waters off the Iranian coast and the recent arrest by U.S. soldiers of four Iranian diplomats inside Iraq, tension between the U.S. and Iran appeared to be on the rise as the new year began. At the same time that Bush rejected the Iraq Study group's recommendation for opening talks with Iran over the situation in Iraq, the rushed execution of Saddam Hussein threatened to escalate violence between the majority Shiite and minority Sunni population.

Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian- American Council, who looks at the increasing tension between the U.S. and Iran in the context of the continuing American occupation of Iraq.

Contact the National Iranian- American Council at (202) 719-8071 or visit their website at :www.NIAcouncil.org

Related links:

"The Bush Agenda for War in Iraq and Iran," speech in audio CD and DVD, by former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Sept. 17, 2005, recorded by Squeaky Wheel Productions

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DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN? IF NOT WHY NOT! WAKE UP AUSTRALIA GET THE MESSAGE OUT IT IS TIME TO TAKE JOHN HOWARD OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE AS A FRAUD! BEFORE HE TOTALLY DESTROYES THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY.

Here are several new radio essays by black death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, including this first one about the new US Congress. Abu-Jamal's case it at a critical juncture with oral arguments expected any month. After these, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether or not to grant Mumia a new trial.

National Grassroots Media Reform Movement to Gather in Memphis, Tenn.

Interview with Craig Aaron, communications director with Free Press, conducted by Scott Harris

Over the last several years, discontent with the U.S. media system has been building. Sweeping plans for deregulation of broadcast outlet ownership put forward by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell in 2002 ignited a nationwide campaign to oppose the rules change, and succeeded in blocking the measure temporarily. The grassroots movement that rose up to oppose deregulation is also critical of the programming choices available to citizens, leading them to strongly advocate for an increase in diversity of viewpoints on the airwaves.

The group Free Press has been one of the key organizations coordinating this media mobilization. They are now making plans to hold their third annual National Conference for Media Reform, which will be held Jan. 12 through 14 in Memphis, Tenn. The conference will feature dozens of panels and workshops on a wide range of issues including federal broadcast regulatory reform, media literacy, independent media, civil rights and social justice.

Among the speakers who will be addressing the conference are: FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps; Ben Bagdikian, author of the seminal book, "The Media Monopoly;" documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald; Free Press co-founder Bill Moyers; the Rev. Jesse Jackson and actress and activist Jane Fonda. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Craig Aaron, communications director with Free Press who talks about the important media issues that will be discussed at this year's conference.

Contact Free Press to learn more about the National Conference on Media Reform by calling 1-877-888-1533 or visit their website at www.freepress.net

Related links:


FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: www.fair.org

Media Channel: www.mediachannel.org

Professor Robert McChesney, author of the book "Rich Media, Poor Democracy": www.robertmcchesney.com

Media Matters for America: www.Mediamatters.com

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Awesome CNN Spoof set in London...check it out

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVJEedrPN0

“The blacks from the low income areas are less likely to convict. There's a resentment for law enforcement and a resentment for authority....you don't want those people on your jury, let's face it.”

In Shay Salomon's newly published book, with a foreward by Francis Moore Lappe, Little House on a Small Planet ( www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com)

Canadian foreign policy used to be based on hypocrisy. Canada's leaders have always seen themselves, and presented themselves, as men of the West, involved in the wars the West was involved in, including colonial wars. But Canada has also tried to present itself as a country without a colonial history, an honest broker and peacekeeper that has, and deserves, the trust of the world....In 1993, the Canadian Airborne Regiment was sent to Somalia. Here, too, Canada went with the US. The US was there to "Restore Hope", and killed several hundred (or was it several thousand) Somalis in the process, before leaving ignominiously. Canada went along to support the mission. The story was familiar. Somalia was a "failed state". Canada had a "responsibility to protect" the people from evil. So Canada set up a base in a town called Belet Huen. The armed forces set up a well-supplied base in the middle of a miserably poor country,...

Howard’s sudden expressions of concern about the length of Hicks’s detention without trial are animated by cynical electoral considerations. With a federal election due later this year, Howard clearly recognises that his government is isolated on the issue and is seeking to squirm out of its sordid record in the ongoing and illegal imprisonment of Hicks.

A laid back show reflecting the political holy daze - 29:45 mins stereo

The Zionist Extremists' plot to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, without justification, renders US aid illegal (see last item). Contact your representatives and remind them of these laws. Imagine the good that could be done with the BILLIONS in your tax dollars the Government sends to Israel, in order to fund their war to wipe Palestine off the map!!

Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa are not names familiar to most Americans.
The longest-serving political prisoners in the United States, these two
former Black Panthers have spent more than 35 years behind bars for a crime they did not commit -- the 1970 murder of Omaha, Nebraska, police officer Larry Minard.

Waving the flags and talking about we’re all one didn’t change any of that. That agenda of the destruction of the black community is still in place by those operatives that they represent. And so I know what my struggle is. It’s against a system of white supremacy and domination that they symbolize. Now unfortunately you got the symbols and the manifestations on both sides of the political arena, Democrats and Republicans....Waving the flags and talking about we’re all one didn’t change any of that. That agenda of the destruction of the black community is still in place by those operatives that they represent. And so I know what my struggle is. It’s against a system of white supremacy and domination that they symbolize. Now unfortunately you got the symbols and the manifestations on both sides of the political arena, Democrats and Republicans....

A photo essay about congenital deformities resuting from the US use of uranium munitions in Afghanistan

Just 6 days left to bid.

The objective of US - Venezuela Bolivarian Exchange is to build bridges between the Bolivarian movement in Venezuela and the social justice movement in the United States, facilitating exchanges of delegations between community-based organizations from each nation.

Complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, in STRASBOURG, FRANCE, against the French state for refusing an “independent”, “impartial” and “fair” court (Article 6 of the European Convention) owing to the fact that there exists within the French judicial machinery a Zionist faction who is instructed with repressing the exposing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Zionists and is thus an accessory to the said genocide.

* El Libertario, the voice of the Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas of Venezuela, analyzes the how and the why of the increasing state repression against the growing social discontent that belies the pseudo-revolutionary discourse of the Chavez regime.

Police Entrapment in Terror Case? NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Says He Was Set Up By Paid NYPD Informant

March on the Pentagon on the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war and the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 march on the Pentagon. Over 1,000 endorsers already! Buses will be coming from across the country. Assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens, 21st St. & Constitution Ave NW) at 12 noon in Washington DC and march to the Pentagon. Get involved today!

Civil Rights Defence

Working people must reject the official consensus of defending the interests of American imperialism, organize mass demonstrations against the war and for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, and demand the criminal prosecution of those responsible for launching and continuing this war of aggression.

The public hanging of Saddam Hussein proves the point nicely. Bush intended to escalate violence so he could stay the course, splice and dice while stealing Iraq's resources.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.

The Roadblock Roadshow will be going along the proposed route of Interstate 69, the NAFTA Superhighway. Topics of the roadshow will be I-69, Plan Puebla Panama, Infrastructure and Globalization, and the general impact of road building.

The prime minister is able to get away with this only because of the pro-war stance of the Australian media and the opposition Labor Party. Every newspaper, ranging from the Murdoch press to the “liberal” Sydney Morning Herald and Age, today published editorials supporting Bush’s plan, albeit with certain tactical concerns.

Bush Escalates Iraq War with 20,000 More Troops; Threatens Iran, Syria with Military Action

Peace Movement Vows to Resist Bush Escalation of Iraq War

Interview with Gordon Clark, communications director with Peace Action, conducted by Scott Harris

After months of listening to recommendations on how to overhaul his Iraq War policy, President Bush unveiled a new strategy in a prime time address on Jan. 10th that is expected to include: an increase in troop levels of up to 20,000 more U.S. soldiers; setting benchmarks for Iraq's government on political and military goals and funding a new jobs program to stimulate Iraq's failing economy.

Even before specifics of the President's plan were announced, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid advised Mr. Bush against a troop surge and said Democrats would not write a blank check to wage war in Iraq. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy introduced legislation on January 9th requiring congressional approval of White House plans for an escalation of the Iraq war.

Peace organizations, already gearing up for a major protest in Washington on Jan. 27th, launched a wave of local demonstrations in response to the President's new Iraq policy. A public opinion poll conducted in the days immediately before the president's speech found that only 36 percent of Americans support an increase in U.S. troops while 61 percent oppose the idea. The survey also shows that 54 percent back a complete withdrawal within the next year. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Gordon Clark, communications director with the group Peace Action. He assesses the role of Congress and the peace movement in responding to the President's escalation of the war.

Contact Peace Action by calling (301) 565-4050 or visit their website at www.peace-action.org. Get details on the Jan. 27th national protest in Washington, D.C. at www.unitedforpeace.org

Related links:

"Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," by Frederick W. Kagan

"Iraq Study Group Report"

Bring Them Home Now at www.bringthemhomenow.org

Military Families Speak Out at www.mfso.org

International Answer at www.Internationalanswer.org

United for Peace and Justice at www.unitedforpeace.org

War Resisters League at warresisters.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War at www.ivaw.org

American Friends Service Committee at www.afsc.org

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9 Anti-War Protesters were arrested Thursday evening in Greensboro as they occupied a central downtown intersection during rush hour in an act of civil disobedience. The demonstrators stepped up tactics in response to Bush's announcement that 21,500 more troops would be deployed in Iraq.

PHILIPPINES: Smith's Illegal Transfer to the US Embassy: A Case of Multiple Rape

White House Moves to Build New Generation of Nuclear Weapons

Interview with Lisbeth Gronlund, co-director and senior scientist, with the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

The Bush administration is preparing to propose production of the nation's first new nuclear warheads in almost 20 years. It would replace, not add to, the number of the aging warheads already in the US arsenal, at a cost of more than $100 billion. Called the Reliable Replacement Warhead, perhaps its most unique feature is that it would combine an older, tested design with a new design that has not yet undergone testing.

Advocates of the project at the Department of Energy, or DOE, say the new design will produce warheads that are more reliable and more secure from accidental detonation or access by terrorists. Opponents say the U.S. may have to end its moratorium on underground testing to insure the new warhead is operational. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Lisbeth Gronlund, co-director and senior scientist with the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She believes there is no need for a new generation of nuclear warheads and maintains that the existing weapons are still potent, and have adequate security.

Contact the Union of Concerned Scientists at (617) 547-5552 or visit their www.ucsusa.org

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35th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Canberra & Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, 26th January 2007, Canberra. "Aboriginal Peoples must unite and assert our Sovereign Custodianship of our Lands. We must commence coming together as a united front, many nations one voice under the longest serving Sovereign, political protest site in the country. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The Land must go back to the Peoples. Land Rights is Human Rights. Land Rights is a Sovereign Right."

Statement of the 2nd ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC II)

10-12 December 2006

Cebu City, Philippines

For the last 4 days I have not been able to access sbindymedia.org. I've run searches to find out what might have gone wrong, but have only found old news regarding prior Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Can someone please tell me what is going on.

About 50 riot policemen and some other state-control institutions occupied for about 1 hour some rooms and the yard of KÖPI - cultural-autonomous center in Berlin. It was second police-ride on the house in 10 days. Police focused amoung others on gathering of the anti-g8 related materials. Since some weeks the "Anti-G8-Soli-Cafe" takes place in KÖPI on weekly basis...

About 50 riot policemen and some other state-control institutions occupied for about 1 hour some rooms and the yard of KÖPI - cultural-autonomous center in Berlin. It was second police-ride on the house in 10 days.

Human Rights Groups Demand Closure of U.S. Guantanamo Detention Center on Prison's Fifth Anniversary

Interview with Jennifer Daskal, U.S. advocacy director with Human Rights Watch, conducted by Scott Harris

Jan. 11th marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration's detention center at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nearly 400 prisoners are being held there without charge or the ability to challenge their detention in federal court. Many of the men in Guantanamo were turned over to the U.S. by rival clan members or bounty hunters in Afghanistan who received payment for their captives. Three prisoners committed suicide at the facility last June and at least 40 others have tried to take their lives.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that these so-called enemy combatants could challenge their detention in U.S. courts, President Bush worked with the GOP-controlled Congress to pass legislation in 2006 that revoked that right and prohibited the prisoners from seeking redress regarding maltreatment and torture.

Now with the Democrats in control of the House and U.S. Senate, human rights groups are calling on legislators to restore these prisoner's basic right to habeas corpus and receive due process under law. A delegation of the group Code Pink Women for Peace, including the mother of a slain U.S. soldier, Cindy Sheehan, former prisoners and family members of detainees, traveled to Cuba to hold a protest at the gates of Guantanamo. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke Jennifer Daskal, U.S. advocacy director with Human Rights Watch, who explains why her group is demanding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Contact Human Rights Watch at (212) 290-4700 or visit their website at www.hrw.org.

Related links:

Code Pink Women for Peace at www.codepink4peace.org

Amnesty International at www.amnesty.org

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January 15, 2007 - Aussie mufti Sheik Taj al-Din Hilali's recent comments during an Egyptian TV interview have triggered more Islamaphobic outrage in Australia, with a number of politicians, including Federal Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone, laughing him off as an "irrelevance" or demanding he "stay in his native Egypt if did not like Australia."

Greece: Anarchists take over the Polytechnic University of Athens in solidarity to the May 6 prisoners -2 of them are on hunger strike for 46 and 28 days respectively-

The state secrets privilege as defined in United States v. Reynolds does not bear the weight that the current U.S. administration is attempting to place on it.

New website by Georges Labica

With a world premiere performance and cross country tour of the play, The Gift of Peace, celebrities, activists, and a documentary film crew come together to educate people nationwide about the non-partisan bill to create a US Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

Global Research Feature Article: The Harper Government and Canada's 'War-on-Terror' Immigration Policy

half hour radical radio show

In Big Sky, Montana, some residents are trying to keep the Big Sky Resort from housing employees in the same motel where some guests will also be staying. This essay talks about that in terms of the larger "company town" atmosphere that prevails in Greater Yellowstone. We can only hope that the fears of lower property values offered by the very rich of Big Sky come to pass.

State attorney (prosecutor) for four counties in Florida successfully seals all records related to the independent grand jury investigation of his activities. The prosecutor has not faith in the system he works in every day. The traditional media in Florida have not filed a single complaint about these and other public records violations by this prosecutor, violations that cause harm to the peoples' right to know.

Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial."

How political corruption and ineptitude affects everyone.

A top Pentagon official last week urged U.S. corporations to boycott law firms whose attorneys represent detainees at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a radio interview last week, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles “Cully” Stimson said companies might wish to shun firms that represent “the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001.” Stimson apologized after his remarks were condemned by the American Bar Association and deans from more than 130 law schools. We speak with the co-author of the law school petition and a corporate lawyer representing six Guantanamo prisoners

Big media switches over to super race hate campaigns again no doubt to cover up for John Howard, while he gets a buzz in Broome WA on holidays? Or is this what we're going to get until their big media and political establishment can once again shrug off their responsibilities and complicity in their wide spread lies and hate at home and their killing in Iraq, which includes torture, and rendition. Once again this is about what someone is alleged to have said, all ears open. But what about corruption who's going to deal with that? Hey Howard? What about you Dud? No not big media! If it's left up to big media all we're going to get is islamophobia because it suits them, is divisive and is a great way to cover-up for their lack of responsibility. Thanks!

The billions of dollars in public funds being poured into the military represent a massive social misappropriation. While funding for public health and education, social infrastructure, and welfare and social services have all been gutted by successive state and federal governments, “defence” spending has skyrocketed. Australia is now the eleventh largest military spender in the world and ranks ahead of countries such as Israel, Turkey, Brazil, and Iran.

Lawyers Representing Guantamano Detainees Lash Back at Bush Administration Critics

Interview with Tom Wilner, attorney with Shearman and Sterling, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

Demonstrations in the U.S. and around the world marked Jan. 11, the fifth anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A growing number of members of Congress have joined the protesters call for the closure of the prison. But on Jan. 13, a high-level member of the Bush administration criticized -- not the denial of human rights and civil liberties at the prison -- but the attorneys from prestigious law firms who are representing the detainees pro bono. Charles D. Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, suggested that those firms' corporate clients should consider taking their business elsewhere. An editorial in the Wall Street Journal made the same point, "that corporate CEO's seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." The information on which law firms are representing the detainees was requested by a conservative talk show host and made available through the Freedom of Information Act.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Tom Wilner of the Washington, D.C.-based firm, Shearman & Sterling. His firm was the first to take on pro-bono cases of Guantanamo detainees, with as many as ten attorneys involved. For several years they represented 12 Kuwaiti prisoners, eight of whom have now been released. The Kuwaitis insisted on paying for their representation, but Wilner says his firm donated all the monies to 9/11-based charities. His firm, Shearman & Sterling, is no longer directly representing the remaining Kuwaitis, but instead has taken on a coordinating role on the rule of law issue for all detainees.

For more information on the status of the cases of the Guantanamo detainees, contact the Center for Constitutional Rights at (212) 614-6464 or visit their website at www.ccr-ny.org

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Children are also increasingly vulnerable, with many having lost multiple family members. Some desperate parents engage in trafficking of their children outside Iraq to work as sex slaves or child laborers, or offer them for unlawful adoption.

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The Israeli government has effectively frozen visitation and re-entry of foreign nationals of Palestinian origin to the West Bank and Gaza. We go to Ramallah to speak with two coordinators of the “Campaign for the Right of Entry and Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” We’re also joined by a leading Israeli human rights attorney and a Palestinian-American filmmaker recently detained by Israeli officials and deported.

Hugo Chavez Deepens Venezuela's Social and Economic Transformation

Interview with Steve Ellner, professor of economic history at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, conducted by Scott Harris

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was sworn into office on Jan. 10 after winning a landslide, re-election victory by more than 62 percent on Dec. 3. As he began his third term, Chavez announced the nationalization of the country's electricity and telecommunication industries and his intention to seek greater state control over energy projects. He also asked for a constitutional amendment to eliminate the Central Bank's autonomy and increased power to legislate by presidential decree. In December, Chavez called for the merger of various political parties that have supported him to form a new United Socialist Party of Venezuela in order to "construct socialism from below."

In 2004, Chavez and Fidel Castro proposed the formation of a new Latin American economic bloc, called the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, as a counterweight to Washington's proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Newly-elected Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and Bolivian President Evo Morales signed onto the pact with Venezuela and Cuba in January, strengthening Hugo Chavez's influence around the hemisphere.

The Bush administration's support for, and likely involvement in a failed military coup against Chavez in 2002, escalated hostility between the two nations. After his declaration on nationalization, U.S. politicians and commentators have increased their condemnation of the popular Venezuelan leader, some comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Steve Ellner, professor of economic history at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. He discusses Chavez' new policy pronouncements and his oil rich nation's role in influencing Latin American politics.

Steve Ellner is co-editor of the new book, "Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy," published by Rowman and Littlefield.

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Bush's Iraq War Escalation Provokes Growing Opposition

Interview with Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, conducted by Scott Harris

In a Jan. 10th address to the nation, President Bush detailed his open-ended plan to escalate the Iraq war with an additional 21,500 U.S troops. Bush also called on the Iraqi government to increase its own forces by 8,000 in Baghdad; enact a law to share oil revenues among Iraq's ethnic groups; and launch an Iraqi financed $10 billion jobs and reconstruction program. Provocatively, Bush accused the Iranian government of "providing material support for attacks on American troops" and threatened to "seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies." This comes as Bush dispatched a second aircraft carrier group to the coast off Iran and deployed Patriot anti-missile defense systems to Gulf states.

Reacting to Bush's plan, Democratic Party leaders said they would schedule votes in both the House and Senate on measures that symbolically reject Bush's Iraq strategy. A growing number of Republicans have opposed the administration's escalation of the Iraq war. Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, labeled Bush's proposed troop increase "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam."

An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted after the president's address found 61 percent of Americans surveyed oppose the president's escalation plan, while only 36 percent support it. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, who assesses the likely outcome of the president's plan on the ground in Iraq and growing domestic opposition to the war.

Chris Toensing is editor of Middle East Report. Contact Middle East Report by calling (202) 223-3677 or visit their website at www.merip.org

Related links:
Details on the Jan. 27 national anti Iraq-war protest in Washington United for Peace and Justice at www.unitedforpeace.orgPeace Action at www.peace-action.org. www.mfso.org"Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," by Frederick W. Kagan

"Iraq Study Group Report"

Bring Them Home Now at www.bringthemhomenow.org

Military Families Speak Out at www.mfso.org

International Answer at www.Internationalanswer.org

War Resisters League at warresisters.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War at www.ivaw.org

American Friends Service Committee at www.afsc.org

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With a world premiere performance and cross country tour of the play, The Gift of Peace, celebrities, activists, and a documentary film crew come together to educate people nationwide about the non-partisan bill to create a US Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

Before he knew what happened, Juan Molina was pulled from his truck to the ground and put in handcuffs for talking to a day laborer in Spanish. He was only let free after apologizing to Jefferson Parish Police. Molina’s crime? He called out “what’s up?” to a man that he mistook for a friend. Police cursed at Molina, presuming him to be an illegal immigrant due to his brown skin color. In fact, he is a naturalized citizen that has lived in the United States for thirteen years; a successful businessman and married to a native Louisianan.

Statement of the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International 22 January 2007

Sen. Bernie Sanders: If You Are Concerned About Health Care, Iraq, the Economy, Global Warming You Must Be Concerned About Corporate Control of the Media

Last year I posted a few stories on my fight with bed bugs...

Media Criticism - the bed bug story
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350785.shtml

The behavior of starving bed bugs
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350712.shtml

Bed bug bed protector
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350670.shtml

Experiments with bed bugs
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350599.shtml

Sleep tight - don't let the bed bugs bite
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/349886.shtml

Exterminating bed bugs (an novel idea)
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350951.shtml



As I mentioned in my story regarding the change in bed bug behavior, I have been starving a nest of bed bugs for about three months now. I have not allowed those things to bite me, and as I knew would happen, they moved out. I have also been killing quite a few bed bugs, trapping them in glue traps, drowning them in stainless steel bowls of water with disinfectant at the bottom of my bed posts. I have taken all my stuff outside and left it in weather where the wind chill factor brought the temperature down to minus 50 below zero, and froze all the bed bugs to death, thus allowing me to have access to my possessions once again. (Before this, I had every thing sealed and wrapped and was waiting for one and half years to pass before the bed bugs finally dropped dead for sure, since that is how long it takes, but as it worked out, I only had to wait about three days - one would probably have been enough, but I kept everything out in the deep freeze for three days, just to make sure). So then I have been trapping, drowning, freezing and most of all, I have been starving bed bugs, and now finally my place is bed bug free.

I can report therefore that it takes about three months to kick the bed bugs out of your place. I know this because two weeks ago, I still had bed bugs, because I slept out in the open for a couple of hours and got bit about half a dozen times. I slept out in the open yesterday for five hours and did not get bit once. My glue traps have become free of bed bugs. I no longer see bed bugs running around the place. I killed quite a few of them and the rest moved out.

I live in a high rise, and when you live in a high rise you are part of a community of people, and so therefore you are not completely free to make your own decisions. Therefore my place was sprayed for bed bugs last year. I have spent over a month sleeping in a tent on my living room floor because it was impossible to really ventilate the bed room when it was fifty below zero, while the living room vents out into the hall way, which made the living room more livable and the bedroom unlivable. As I told my land lord the spray was ineffective against those bed bugs, since they were pesticide resistant. I then went about trapping, drowning and freezing them to death, since that does work. Just this week I was ready to go back into my bedroom because finally that pesticide stink is gone, but now I have to get my place sprayed again. You see the neighbors are spraying those bed bugs again, which means that this week I am getting sprayed again. I tried to explain to the land lord that spraying bed bugs over and over again is an indication that it is a pesticide resistant bed bug, but everyone in this building is in denial, probably because they cannot deal with that idea, and they insist on spraying over and over and over again.

Meanwhile, I am the only person in the building who actually got rid of his bed bugs, which should be encouraging news to anyone else who gets bed bugs and wants to get rid of them. Even if a bed bug is pesticide resistant, that is no reason to get despondent. Just kick the little red buggers out. Don't let them bite you. It takes about three months. Better yet, be pro-active, and don't let them bite you in the first place. They won't even start a nest in your place, thus saving you three months, which is about how long it takes to kick them out once you have allowed a bed bug to bite you and the thing then decide to shack up with you.

Now that I have gotten rid of those bed bugs, I will remain on guard, because they have been in the building for a year and half, and the neighbors have them, and they are bug bombing them, which does not work, and at the same time they are being blood donors, which is the surest way of spreading bed bugs, since you cannot have a plague of bed bugs, pesticide resistant or not, without a steady supply of willing blood donors who will allow those nuisance bugs to bite. All of this is just simple common sense, while repeatedly spraying a pesticide resistant bed bug is not common sense, and neither is being a blood donor for those little vampires.

• THE Luis Posada Carriles case, currently the subject of proceedings before a court in El Paso and two Grand Juries, could cost millions of dollars not just for the former CIA agent himself, but also for his self-confessed accomplices in Miami and the U.S. government itself, if various civil law suits currently in the hands of California jurists materialize.

But it was released on You Tube on 25 November 2006, but it can wait to be released by the Mess Media, save for the eve of Invasion Day 2007 right? Well thank your lucky stars?

Livermore Lab has continuously contaminated the region for decades. San Francisco residents are reporting the presence of cancer causing uranium in hair samples.

A Libertarian response to President Bush' State of the Union address to Congress 1/23/07

March with CAN, SDS, WCW and other students to demand Troops Out Now! in D.C., J27

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California has sent a letter to every other member of the House urging them to participate in Saturday’s anti-war protest in Washington. She joins us to talk about her call and her resolution to withdraw US troops from Iraq.

 http://www.worldnewstrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=865&Itemid=1

White House Reversal on Domestic Spying Program Shouldn't Derail Congressional Investigation

Interview with Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, conducted by Scott Harris

In a letter to Congress on Jan. 17, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez announced that the Bush administration had reversed its position and would now place its domestic National Security Agency spying program under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as mandated by a 1978 federal law. Since October of 2001, President Bush had secretly bypassed the FISA court and ordered the warrantless wiretapping of American's phone and electronic communication where there was suspicion of a connection to terrorist activity.

While the Justice Department stated it had negotiated a "creative" new process for court review of surveillance with one of the eleven FISA Court judges, critics are suspicious that the agreement may still violate federal law. Adding to the skepticism was the fact that although the presiding FISA court judge did not object to releasing details of the new process to Congress, Gonzales opposes disseminating operational details to lawmakers.

The timing of the announcement came just after Democrats took control of Congress and two weeks before a federal court was to hear the government's appeal of an earlier ruling declaring the president's surveillance operation illegal and unconstitutional. Through all this, the White House still maintains that their warrantless spy program is legal. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Shayana Kadidal, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights -- which along with the ACLU-- have filed lawsuits challenging the legality of the NSA spy program. Kadidal examines the administration's ambiguous reversal and explains why he is pressing for judicial review and congressional investigations into past abuses.

Contact the Center by calling (212) 614-6464 or visit the group's website at www.ccr-ny.org Related links:


American Civil Liberties Union at www.aclu.org

"Bush Warrantless Domestic Spying Program Ruled Unconstitutional," Interview with Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending Sept. 1, 2006

"NSA Domestic Surveillance Tests Constitution," Interview with Chrisopher Pyle, former intelligence officer and professor constitutional law, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending May 25, 2006

"Momentum Builds for Congressional Investigation of Bush's Warrantless Surveillance,"Interview with Matthew Rothschild, editor of the Progressive Magazine, conducted by Scott Harris, Between The Lines Week Ending Jan. 1, 2006

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Unfortunately the media reports were not quoted accurately and we must thank the participating media for wasting everybody's time including the Prime Minister John Howard, Premier Morris Iemma, NSW RSL President Don Rowe, Keysar Trad (a confidant of the Mufti Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly) and Burt Lane of the Australian National Flag Association...

A list of potentially college-bound high school students will cost the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point nearly $58,000 to obtain, a move that will enable the institution to target-market certain kids based on personally identifiable information gleaned from that list.

1. Instalación de un cable submarino de comunicaciones entre Cuba y Venezuela.
Se constituye un Grupo Multidisciplinario para los estudios y puesta en marcha de un sistema internacional de telecomunicaciones entre Venezuela y Cuba, que estará formado por un cable submarino de fibra óptica a construir entre la Guaira, Estado Vargas en Venezuela, y la localidad de Siboney, Provincia de Santiago de Cuba, en Cuba. El mismo contará con dos bifurcaciones submarinas, una próxima a Cuba que permitirá la conexión con estaciones de terceros países y la otra bifurcación, próxima a Venezuela, facilitando la conexión con otros puntos de interés para CVG TELECOM.

“It is time for the 50,000 members of the profession—from High Court judges to articled clerks—to have the courage to withdraw their services for a day to make it clear to John Howard and Philip Ruddock that we are ashamed of them. Both of them obtained law degrees predicated on the belief in the presumption of innocence. They are a blight on the profession,” Birrell wrote.

 http://www.blackmesais.org

Navajo Nation again under assault from John McCain.

Author and radio host Deepa Fernandes joins us to talk about her new book, “Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration.” Fernandes documents the hidden human struggles behind the immigration debate and exposes how big business has been a driving force in setting immigration policy.

The case of the imprisoned Cuban Five, which has held space for eight years in World Social Forums, was again defended also by solidarity organizations at the seventh WSF in Nairobi, Kenya. A motion entitled "Release for the five Cubans imprisoned in United States" was part of the map of proposals and actions passed by participants in the 7th WSF.

Democrats' First 100-Hour Agenda Doesn't Address America's Racial, Economic Divide

Interview with Emma Dixon, executive director of the Creation of Wealth Project, conducted by Scott Harris

As America and the world celebrated the life and work the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the civil right's leader's January birthday, an alarming number of conservative commentators view the civil rights struggle as a relic of the past. The widespread belief, particularly among politicians, that the battle against racial prejudice has already been won, is contradicted by the bigotry in employment, education, housing and healthcare that persists in America today. A new report published by the group United For a Fair Economy takes a hard look at the continuing gaps in the economic status of American citizens along the color line. The report, titled, "State of the Dream 2007: Voting Blue, Staying in the Red," finds that "while people of color support Democrats in the voting booth, they are still waiting for policies that close the economic divide between them and whites." Despite the results of the 2006 election, giving Democrats control of Congress, the report argues that their first 100 hours legislative agenda did little to effectively address the economic disparity between the races.

Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Emma Dixon, executive director of the Creation of Wealth Project and co-author of the "State of the Dream" report. She reviews the Democrats' agenda and explains how more focused and aggressive initiatives could succeed in reducing poverty for blacks and Latinos who disproportionately find themselves on the lower rungs of America's economic ladder.

Obtain a copy of the report titled, "State of the Dream 2007: Voting Blue, Staying in the Red," by visiting the website of the group United for a Fair Economy at www.faireconomy.org or call them at (617) 423-2148.

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Activists Opposing Iraq War Campaign to Enlist City, State Governments

Interview with Joel Barkin, executive director of the Progressive States Network, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

According to public opinion polls, the American people are by a margin of 2 to 1 opposed to the Iraq war. They also line up 3 to 1 against President Bush's plan to escalate the war by sending more than 21,000 additional troops there. A majority of Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress are now opposed to the war, although whether they'll take meaningful action to end the U.S. occupation by cutting funding, remains to be seen. Although they have no direct say in U.S. foreign policy and no control over military funding, some American cities and state governments have passed resolutions condemning the war. The clearest link they have with the issue is that residents of cities and states pay federal taxes, where an ever-increasing share is going to fund the war, thus reducing resources for social programs.

Now the Progressive States Network has initiated an organized effort to urge the legislatures of at least 20 states to go on record opposing Mr. Bush's escalation of the Iraq war. In many cases the resolutions also oppose the war in general and call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Joel Barkin, executive director of the Progressive States Network, who discusses the campaign, which states have taken up the fight, and why.

Contact the Progressive States Network. by calling (212) 680-3116 or visit the group's website at www.progressivestates.org .

For a breakdown on U.S. spending on the war by state, visit the website of the National Priorities Project at www.nationalpriorities.org

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En la localidad de Gral. Mosconi, Salta, Argentina, el día 23 de enero aproximadamente a las 23 hs. un peligroso ex convicto acusado de homicidio intentó asesinar a balazos al dirigente de la UTD Mosconi ,Pepino Fernández frente a numerosos testigos

Sixteen Human Rights Activists are scheduled to appear in court on Monday January 29 for peacefully tresspassing onto the Ft. Benning Military Reservation, home of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a training facility for Latin American military and security personnel. The SOA is known throughout Latin America as the "School of Assasins", since it's creation in 1946 it has trained over 60,000 soldiers many of which have been involved in military coups, death squads, paramilitaries, targeted assassinations and torture.

In the case of BR-376 the situation is still more serious. Because it is intended to give to private exploration a federal highway that was constructed with money of the people of Paraná State.

I have learned a few new things about bed bugs this weekend that give me reason to retract and clarify some things I have written about bed bugs in the past month or so...

Monsanto's new Vistive GE Soy bean not worth the risk!

Imagine: you are making breakfast in your quaint Yellowstone area home and you look out the window above your sink. You see a man about a hundred yards away stalking something and he is armed with two high powered rifles. He walks just a few feet outside your property line, squats down and takes three shots. His target is one of the last truly wild American bison left, one of about three thousand that can't get an endangered species listing because of centuries-old politics that originated with a blatant effort to wipe out the very way of life of America's original inhabitants.

The largest protest in Austin, TX, a city of 450,000 people, since the war began in 2003.

National Irish Freedom Committee Free Forum Video Discussion Series

Torture in the United States continues by Remote means and Victims should contact their political representatives and organizations that oppose torture.

Info about HIMC's films this week

Schedule:

Mar 6, 8pm, San Francisco, Station 40
Mar 8, 6:30pm, Berkeley, Long Haul
Mar 9, 6:30pm, Santa Rosa, Free Mind Media
Mar 9, Fresno Cafe Fresno
Mar 10, 6-8pm, Willits, Methodist Church
Mar 12, Sacramento, CA, Sac State, Mariposa 1000 Indybay
Mar 14, Ashland, OR? (help needed)
Mar 15, Eugene, OR
Mar 16, Salem, OR? (help needed)
Mar 16, Eureka, CA, Placebo
Mar 20, Portland, OR, Reed College
Mar 21, Portland, Lewis and Clark
Mar 22, Portland, Liberty Hall
Mar 23, Portland, PSU
Mar 26, Olympia, 4-6pm, Traditions Cafe, 5th Ave. SW, 7-9pm, 610 Columbia Oly Free School
Mar 27, 7-9pm, Seattle, Left Bank Collective
Mar 29, 7:00pm Boston, Boston College
Mar 30, 6:00pm Boston, Spontaneous Celebrations
Mar 31 New Haven, CT, Clash Collective
Apr 1 Penn State, PN
Apr 2 Philadelphia, A-Space, A-space
Apr 3 Baltimore, Red Emma's
Apr 4 DC, Brian Mackenzie Infoshop
Apr 5, 8pm, NYC, Times Up! Times-Up
Apr 5 Duke, NC
Apr 6 UNC, Chapel Hill
Apr 7 Asheville, NC
Apr 8 Greensboro, NC
Apr 9 Asheville, NC
Apr 11 Atlanta, GA
Apr 13 New Orleans, LA
Apr 14 Houston, TX
Apr 15 Austin, TX


ABOUT Dissent! G8 Infotour

Once a year the leaders of the 8 richest nations meet behind closed doors in secret with no publicized agenda or published minutes, to discuss the fate of the world. They’ve been making empty promises for decades about improving the environment, poverty in Africa, and lots more, but the fact is that the G8 is not the solution to these ills, it is the problem! We are preparing in Germany for large scale protests against the G8 meeting this June 6-8, 2007, and plan to come tell you about what is going on here. We have done over 200 presentations in 25+ countries since November 2005, and are now coming to your town!

In case you haven't had a chance to check out the big number of anti-G8 web-sites we have over here in Germany (or got lost on a German language site looking around for more English), we've attached an overview below of what our normal "foreign" presentation consists of. There are also many links below.

As you can see, there is generally a first part that talks about the History of the G8, including going over German protest experience in Munich '92 and Cologne '99 (20,000-30,000 or more protestors each time.)

The second part is all about the latest going on over here now. If you download any of our English language power points, you might see that some are a few months old. They will be totally updated for the USA infotour, and there will be a lot of English information available about the German mobilization. Discussions will take place with local hosts to determine likely audiences, and whether people already expect to come to Germany for the protests, or whether it is a more general audience that could benefit from other knowledge such as about the G8 in general, or about how such activist mobilizations function in Germany/Europe.

The latest plan for the Infotour on the West Coast of USA is March/April, with a stopover on the East Coast as well the first week in April 2007. Ask us to send you a draft itinerary. Judging from experience, we expect quite big audiences to attend our presentations.
v Hope to see you soon!
Jason + Marie
details below:

Presentation about G8, we can alter presentations/films for any audience.
from Dissent! Network Wiki: almost all infos downloadable here:
http://gipfelsoli.org/Tools

1. Block on Background of the G8 (circa 40 Minutes)

* Film "Why Close the G8?" (Mobilization film for G8 2005, Scotland; 14. min., Download with most other films and power points at http://gipfelsoli.org/Tools)
* Background on the History of the G8-Summit and protests against it, (lecture with Power-Point-Presentation, ca. 15 min.
* A summary of resistance to the G8, with the possible showing of short films.

We also like to tell about the effects of the G8 from those not from the "Global North". Therefore we often show short films from the "Raised Voices" project made up of short Videoclips with Interviews from people from Africa or South America regarding the politics of the G8. We generally show one or two 3 minute film clips.

2. Block: Heiligendamm, G8 2007 (circa 40 Minutes)

* The political and geographic situation of the immediate region of Rostock, Bad Doberan and Heiligendamm using a Power-Point-Presentation
* Explaination of the main relevant local groups, (Fundus-Gruppe, Kempinski, a Local Citizens initiative, the Left Party, Residents, City and Regional parlaments etc.)
* The situation of various groups mobilising against the G8, their activities and next meetings:

Grassroots + Left + radical groups + political parties…

* The International Mobilisation Camp in August 2006
* Left Network/Linkes Bündnis, BUKO
* No Deportations/No Borders-Network
* Attac
* NGO'S + Pop Concerts
* Militant Actions related to G8 2007
* Social Forum
* Green Party + Left Party (PDS/Linkspartei)
* 4 Bicycle Caravans, coming from N, S, E, and W
* Black Blocs
* Rhythms of Resistance/Samba Bands, Clown Army
* Queer, Women, Lesbian, Transgender-Resistance, etc.

At the close we like to start an open public discussion. Possible topics include:

* Pro and Contra regarding large Summit Mobilisations
* Would the resources for such a big mobilation not be better used for local projects?
* Working together with other groups
* Concrete action plans and ideas
* Possibilities to work together
* How to build/support local structures (in the local place we are)

More web-links:

Dissent! Network, Direct Action against G8: www.dissentnetwork.org
Reclaim the Commons, USA: http://rtc.revolt.org
For signing up to anti-G8 USA email list:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/g8-usa
For signing up to anti-G8 International email list:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/g8-int
Local (near G8) Action Conference web-site: www.heiligendamm2007.de
Peoples Global Action: www.agp.org
Hamburg Infopoint: https://hamburg.dissentnetzwerk.org
Interventionist Left: http://g8-2007.de
German NGO Platform: http://www.g8-germany.info
Basic info about G8: www.g7.utoronto.ca

Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto, Bob Watada & Others Call for End to Iraq War at Anti-War Rally in Washington

Such a mean old man, such a dirty old man...

It is not about defending D Hicks, it is about OUR rights of protection from powerful individuals and state - radical radio 30 mins stereo

Message of “Impeach Bush” fills the streets around Congress
Next Step: March on the Pentagon Saturday, March 17th

Award winning artist Don Iarussi MFA is fed up with USA Dollars going to china to support exploitation of the Tibertans, the chinese workers and undercutting hard working USA Business and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and other organizations that a re being driven out of business by china dumping their goods on the USA market.


There was a time when everybody supported usa workers and the unions.
How can someone call themselves a democrat, republican conservative, etc while wearing chinese made goods?

How is this helping America?

Radioactive Explosions inside the United States are affecting America's health. This poison gas is the same used on the "enemy" in the Middle East.

In flagrent contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.

Today European, international, and U.S. legal and human rights groups issued an open letter warning of the illegality of any offensive military action by the United States against Iran.