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U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (IPS) - U.S. lawmakers have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a review of their accounts has revealed.
Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to U.S. armed forces, say nonpartisan watchdog groups.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 18 April 2008 )
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MediaLens: Chavez and RCTV |
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Saturday, 01 December 2007 |
June 13, 2007 CHAVEZ AND RCTV - TILTING THE BALANCE AGAINST 'THE BAD GUY'
As we have previously reported* Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has long been demonised by the Western media as a "leftist firebrand" (The Independent), “Venezuela's demagogue” (Washington Post), and as a “militaristic strongman“ (Financial Times).
No surprise, then, that Chavez’s decision not to renew the licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) has elicited outrage across Britain and America. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 December 2007 )
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Thom Hartmann - Ann Coulter and Justice Antonin Scalia to Synagogue |
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
Ann Coulter and Justice Antonin Scalia to Synagogue - Jews Are Safer with Christians in Charge by Thom Hartmann The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) called on media to stop inviting Ann Coulter as a guest commentator and strongly condemned her comments that Jews should be "perfected" by accepting the New Testament and that America would be better off if Judaism were "thrown away" and all Americans were Christian. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 November 2007 )
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John Berger - Undefeated despair |
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Palestine-Israel
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
Undefeated despair Created 2006-01-13 00:00 1 How is it I am still alive? I’ll tell you I’m alive because there’s a temporary shortage of death. This is said with a grin, which is on the far side of a longing for normalcy, for an ordinary life. Everywhere one goes in Palestine - even in rural areas - one finds oneself amongst rubble, picking a way through, round and over it. At a checkpoint, around some greenhouses which lorries can no longer reach, along any street, going to any rendezvous. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 23 November 2007 )
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Naomi Wolf - Are You on the Government's 'No-Fly' List? |
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Police State
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Written by Pat Leahan
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
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http://www.alternet.org/rights/62407/?page=entire
Are You on the Government's 'No Fly' List?
By Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing. Posted September 13, 2007.
A new book reveals how thousands of Americans who do not fit a terrorist profile are routinely harassed and detained at the airport.
The following excerpt is from Naomi Wolf's latest book, End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007) and is used by permission of the publisher. In this timely call to arms, Wolf compels us to face the way our freedoms are under assault, and that each of the ten classic steps used by dictators to close down open societies are underway in the United States today. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 December 2007 )
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Hartmann - Repeal Military Commissions Act |
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Police State
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Sunday, 11 February 2007 |
Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human Right
by Thom Hartmann "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." -- Winston Churchill The oldest human right defined in the history of English-speaking civilization is the right to challenge governmental power of arrest and detention through the use of habeas corpus laws. Habeas corpus is roughly Latin for "hold the body," and is used in law to mean that a government must either charge a person with a crime and allow them due process, or let them go free. |
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