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Bruce Dixon: I Remember Fred Hampton
Fred was a big man whose inexhaustible energy, keen insight and passionate commitment to the struggle made him seem even larger still. We called him Chairman Fred. Chairman Fred was murdered by the FBI and Chicago Police Department in the pre-dawn hours of December 4, 1969. He was just 21 years old. Continue reading
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Nuclear weapons use more likely in future: US intelligence
The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, US intelligence predicted Thursday in a report on global trends that forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war. Continue reading
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Bush will NEVER be able to set foot outside the U.S.! Jeremy Scahill & Naomi Klein
15 November, 2008 C-SPAN FIRST 3:40 SECONDS CROWD SHOT! SORRY! Live coverage from the 2008 Miami Book Fair International featured book talks by authors, interviews with authors this segment includes Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1773845 more… Continue reading
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Nikita Petrov: US Wants To Resume Nuke Testing To Retain Bomb Making Skills
The arguments the Pentagon chief used to justify the resumption of tests are not new and are slightly cunning. He said the country ceased developing nuclear weapons in the 1980s and stopped producing nuclear munitions in the 1990s. With weapons developers and engineers gone, he said, the United States suffered a brain drain. Continue reading
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10 Surprising Stories About Election ‘08
FairVote’s Election Analyses & Prescriptions for the Future Dear Friend of Fair Elections, We thought we’d share our view of this historic election through ten surprising stories about Election ’08. They are: Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting The 2008 Spoiler Effect – Key Non-Majority Winners (and… Continue reading
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Message to the Media on Obama and McCain – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
COHA has been compiling and sorting out a good deal of information and analyses on the policies and personalities likely to be embraced in the eventuality of either a McCain or Obama victory in tomorrow’s presidential contest. Among the themes being assessed, and assuming an Obama victory, there follows a cluster of issues that COHA’s… Continue reading
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Sarah Palin gets pranked by a comedy team
Global Research have made transcription available. The True Face of Sarah Palin The Prank: The “Fake Sarkozy”- Sarah Palin Telephone Conversation By Michel Chossudovsky Continue reading
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Kevin Zeese: Messy Elections: Can We Trust The Results?
For a country that considers itself the ‘greatest democracy on Earth,’ the U.S. sure does run messy elections. This year about one-third the public is voting early (something Marylanders will be voting on in a referendum on Election Day), as a result we are seeing election meltdowns in slow motion. Here is a sample of… Continue reading
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CMD’s Election Protection Wiki in the NY Times
With only eight days to go, many people are concerned about the upcoming election — not just about who will win, but about whose votes may be suppressed, which votes may not be counted because of faulty machines or ballot shortages, and a variety of other election problems. Continue reading
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HAS THE US ELECTION ALREADY BEEN STOLEN??? JOE THE PLUMBER?
Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls. Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge – ten times the average state’s rate of removal. Continue reading
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Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans By Bill Quigley
In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and sunglasses sit a few feet away in their cars. Moms and grandmas sit with… Continue reading
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This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression By Seumas Milne
The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice-president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that “Russian aggression must not… Continue reading
