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A North American United Nations? by Congressman Ron Paul - R - TX Ron Paul 2006-09-04 9:10 PM
Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous. (text/plain)

Voters are anti-incumbent and angry, new poll finds Washington CNN 2006-09-04 8:37 PM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most Americans are angry about "something" when it comes to how the country is run, and they are more likely than in previous years to vote for a challenger this November, a new poll suggests. (text/plain)

Aron Russo's "America from Freedom to Fascism" is now available on bittorrent: PB 2006-09-04 5:15 PM
Aron Russo's "America from Freedom to Fascism" is now available on bittorrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3519240 (text/plain)

The Perma-Revolution Spring To Action 2006-09-04 3:09 PM
Article from a new anarchist collective "The decline of the anti-globalization movement in the US and the amazing surge of support by anarchists after the devastation of hurricane Katrina suggests a new political and tactical alignment is possible in North America." (text/plain)

Only Two Gang Members Caught in The Great American "Hold Up" Ed Ward, MD 2006-09-03 9:19 PM
On August 16, 2006, the report of the disappearance of SB 2590 was published in relative obscurity. As usual, the article dealing with the unconstitutional schemes of our government representatives received little notice from our mainstream corporate media. It did, however, catch the eye of at least one blogger. At that point, the ever expanding investigation of the "secret senator" with the "secret hold" rapidly progressed to multiple blogs and many more self appointed private investigators. The reports of the investigation of the culling of the "usual suspects" were an intriguing read for the next two weeks as each individual senator was removed from the senate secrecy suspects list. (text/plain)

LABOR SCORECARD-2006 MARKIN 2006-09-03 12:00 PM
TOUGH TIMES FOR THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT-AND THA AINT NO LIE (text/plain)

LABOR SCORECARD-2006 MARKIN 2006-09-03 11:59 AM
TOUGH TIMES FOR THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT-AND THA AINT NO LIE (text/plain)

US education fails again... tj 2006-09-02 11:57 PM

students are severely uneducated when it comes to matters of draft and counter recruitment related issues. 6+ min video (image/png)

Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (Repost) By Xochitl Bervera 2006-09-02 11:33 PM
If there was ever any doubt that the criminal justice system would be used to keep Black New Orleanians from returning, the last few months have eliminated the last of it. With 300 National Guardsman called in to patrol (with M-16s which are “locked and loaded”) the empty streets of the neighborhoods where the lack of infrastructure has slowed efforts to rebuild, the NOPD has been able to turn its attention to “protecting” the neighborhoods that have been rebuilt. By consistently profiling, harassing and arresting poor people of color, NOPD are now making over 140 arrests per week. The vast majority of these arrests are for minor violations, including spitting on a sidewalk. The kinds of charges being put on people – resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, battery on a police officer - speak more to the tension between NOPD and community than to public safety. The rise in NOPD arrests occurs at a moment when the Orleans Parish Prison is becoming made increasingly dangerous by its overcrowding and lack of adequate health care. Harsh criticism from national media and lawyers of Sheriff Gusman’s operation of OPP has not stopped him from opening new “temporary” beds at breakneck speed and sending hundreds of prisoners up to the state penitentiary in Angola to try and keep up with the new arrests. (text/plain + 3 comments)

Israel: Beyond Good and Evil? Justin Raimondo 2006-09-02 2:45 PM
Ehud Olmert's Nietzschean foreign policy (text/plain + 4 comments)

Day 337 -- Inspiration Brian Denzer 2006-09-02 12:03 PM
New Orleans bloggers are making an impact on their community. The new edition of The Nation recognizes the contribution of New Orleans bloggers as "a crucial link in the effort to rebuild New Orleans and its communities." On the occasion of the Hurricane Katrina one-year anniversary, New Orleans bloggers, who now number over a hundred, celebrated and discussed the role of citizen journalism and activism at the Rising Tide conference. Together, New Orleans bloggers represent what might be the best example to date of how bloggers can enrich media coverage of the world, and to enhance mainstream press coverage with much more. Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans bloggers have created a remarkable community of storytelling, mutual support, news and information, humor and opinion about Katrina and Rita recovery in Louisiana. Maitri Venkat Ramani writes about New Orleans at Vatulblog. Her posts range from broad personal reflections on life in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the minute political machinations of the city's recovery planning process. Maitri's inspiring writing, and a photo of residents waiting to attend a citywide Unified New Orleans Plan meeting, inspired a response by Valerie Savoie about the special fortitude displayed by New Orleans residents as they try to rebuild their homes and their neighborhoods. 21:46, 10.5 mb, 64 kbps. (audio/mpeg)

BTL:FDA Approves OTC Sale of Morning-After Pill Decision excludes women under18 Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2006-09-02 8:03 AM
Interview with Ted Miller, communications director for NARAL ProChoice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Oaxaca City SlideShow: Un Pueblo Unido Avanza Sin Partidos ~Bradley 2006-09-01 3:24 PM

SlideShow of photos taken in Oaxaca City during the last week of August 2006 with compiled audio from the 2006 “El Enemigo Común” tour. (9:34 minutes / 15 MB) (image/jpeg)

Condenó EE.UU a cubano por vigilar a terrorista kaiser 2006-09-01 11:23 AM
Vigilar las acciones del terrorista Orlando Bosch, encartado en el sabotaje a un avión cubano en Barbados, constituía la misión de Fernando González, condenado a 19 años en Estados Unidos. (text/plain)

BTL:One Year After Katrina, Reconstruction Efforts in New Orleans... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-09-01 8:02 AM
...Gulf Coast Neglects Millions~Interview with Chris Kromm, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

A tale of two crises Lebanon rebuilds, New Orleans waits Ytzhak 2006-08-31 7:22 PM
In the Middle East, after a month of Israeli bombing, the people of Lebanon are digging themselves out from the rubble and struggling to return to their homes. In the United States, a full year after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans are still fighting to do the same thing: return home. It might seem odd to compare the two. After all, Lebanon is recovering from war, and New Orleans from a natural disaster and broken levees. But this is only the superficial story. A look at the New Orleans relief effort and its aftermath shows that poor people’s right to return home has become just as much a battle there as it is in Lebanon. In the United States, the New Orleans relief effort was spearheaded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington’s disaster relief arm. In Lebanon it is being organized by Hezbollah, the grassroots Lebanese resistance movement that George W. Bush calls “terrorist.” (audio/mpeg)

The LRA: The Road to Hell Elizabeth Cook 2006-08-31 3:55 PM
The LRA pays lip service to publicly funded recovery, and serves the agenda for the Bush administration, for the privatization of recovery. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Yes Men's Prank far from "Cruel" Hoax Darwin BondGraham 2006-08-31 1:16 PM
Speaking with residents who were involved in the Yes Men’s hoax, as well as with residents who were fooled like the rest of us communicates something far different from what the media spin doctors at HUD, HANO, and Fox News are trying to say. Rather than condemning the prank or feeling hurt from false hopes, many residents are cheering the Yes Men for their critical intervention into their ongoing struggle with HUD and HANO to reopen their homes. Check out the audio file of my interview with Patricia Thomas, the Lafitte resident who helped the Yes Men expose HUD's cruel policies. (audio/x-wav)

One Year After Gordon Soderberg 2006-08-31 1:14 PM
The people gathered to remeber those who were lost to Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levees and the government to protect them. (video/quicktime)

CTFF: CT Film Festival Selects Judges For Shorts, Features CTFF PR Liz Morgan (liz@lizmorganpr.com) 2006-08-31 11:30 AM

Organizers of the upcoming Connecticut Film Festival recently announced that they've tapped some of the Northeast's most acclaimed industry professionals as judges for the event. The debut of the Connecticut Film Festival will be held in multiple cities across the state October 3-8, 2006. (image/jpeg)

BTL:US Peace Activists, Iraqi Parlimentarians Promote Timetable to... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-08-31 9:50 AM
...End America's Occupation of Iraq~Interview with Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink Women for Peace & Global Exchange, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit Gregory Elich 2006-08-30 8:58 PM
U.S. foreign policy as seen by those on the receiving end (text/plain)

New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Democracy Now (reposted) 2006-08-30 4:19 PM
New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Citing Breakdown in Criminal Justice System Tuesday Aug 29th, 2006 8:20 AM (text/plain + 1 comment)

FULL-PAGE AD IN NEW YORK TIMES CALLS FOR OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS TO DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME World Can't Wait 2006-08-30 4:11 PM
Today, for the second time this month, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for massive protests across the country on OCTOBER 5. The ad reads: 'ENDLESS WARS! TORTURE! KATRINA! THEOCRACY! BRING THIS TO A HALT! We must act now-- The world's future is in our hands." (text/plain)

New! Stop the War lawn signs! VotersForPeace.us 2006-08-30 3:14 PM

Inform your friends and neighbors about the growing voting block for peace with this colorful lawn sign from VotersForPeace.us (image/jpeg)

La traición enquistada en la Argentina por Alberto Robredo Alberto Robredo 2006-08-30 1:27 PM
Caotica situación intitucional en Argentina. Informe de Oscar Portela (text/plain + 1 comment)

COURAGE AND RESISTANCE IN OAXACA AND MEXICO CITY Stephen Lendman 2006-08-30 3:29 AM
THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE IN MEXICO TODAY (text/plain)

Rev. Yearwood endorses Voters Pledge For Peace Posted by David Havelka 2006-08-30 1:59 AM
Rev. Yearwoods' message: It is time for decent folks who care about the people of the Gulf Coast to come together and become Voters for Peace. Tell the politicans to bring the troops and resources home to the Gulf Coast where they are desperately needed. (text/html)

The Long Shadow of Hurricane Katrina Solidarity 2006-08-30 12:07 AM
ugust 29th marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's destructive landfall in New Orleans. For five endless days the nation watched while 100,000 people, trapped by the floodwaters, struggled to survive. "They just left us here to die"� remarked one woman in the Superdome. Her words captured the sentiment of many survivors -- that those too poor, too old, or too Black were just abandoned by the government. Rarely have the savage inequalities of race and class in America been on such painful display. But faced with the biggest natural disaster in living memory, Bush and his crew responded by suspending prevailing wage laws, jettisoning affirmative action programs for federal contracting, and doling out billions to their political allies through no-bid contracts. State and local officials were just as bad. For example, shortly after New Orleans was evacuated mayor Ray Nagin spirited off to Dallas to meet with “the forty thieves” – white business leaders pushing a corporate-led plan for reconstruction, with little room for the poor, Black folks who suffered so mightily during the storm. One year later, rage and despair are still in plentiful supply. Once the floodwaters receded, New Orleans quickly fell out of the national spotlight. The city remains a war zone – with most of its infrastructure in shambles and the bulk of its population still scattered throughout the Diaspora. Plans for real reconstruction are being smothered by corporate interests and white racism, and many social justice activists outside of the city think the “Katrina moment” has passed. We think not. To mark the one-year anniversary, we have assembled this collection of articles by Solidarity members and friends to help us all understand the significance of Hurricane Katrina. It remains to be seen if this disaster can be a catalyst for lasting social change, but as socialist-activists we know our role is to help build movements that make this a real possibility. (application/pdf)

Army Retaliation against Sgt. Donald Buswell, the 911 NCO Captain Eric H. May 2006-08-29 6:11 PM
The US Army has done the only thing it could do in its attempt to undermine the "911 NCO," Sergeant Donald Buswell, who has become a central figure in the 911 Truth Movement by calling for a new 911 investigation -- and being attacked for it. Sergeant Buswell, it turns out, has powerful comrades in the State Department who present a big problem for a military bent on defaming him for his position of principle and his mission of conscience. (text/plain)

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