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Reinventing the Criminal Justice System Cory Turner 2006-08-10 9:07 PM
The New Orleans area is in a unique position to improve the local criminal justice system. With this in mind, we do not need to rebuild our local criminal justice structure; we need to completely reinvent it. Readers are encouraged to contact Cory Turner, at coturner1@aol.com, to form a group and organize with the goal of advocating for positive changes to effectively and equitably reduce crime. (text/plain + 4 comments)

MI-5 in ludicrous Heathrow terror stunt WEbster Tarpley 2006-08-10 3:08 PM
"Late-night television viewers in the US eastern time zone were tonight bemused to hear wild and unsubstantiated allegations, broadcast on cable television at about 2 AM eastern time, alleging that the intrepid paladins of British intelligence had foiled a new and nefarious conspiracy to blow up at least twenty (20) passenger airliners, in a plot which would have eclipsed even the legendary 9/11. Heathrow Airport was the purported locus of this latest terror stunt. (text/plain)

How the Arab/Islamic States vote in the United Nations: reposted 2006-08-10 12:57 PM
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records: (text/plain)

US Press Hushes Cuban 5 Case César Vallejo 2006-08-10 11:59 AM
Havana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon denounced in this capital the US mass media campaign of silence over the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in that nation for fighting terrorism. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Operation Apocalypse: "888" Results Captain Eric H. May 2006-08-10 11:05 AM
A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer continues his examination of End-Times Christians, and how they have been duped into becoming a suicide cult, with an analysis of four predictions in his August 1 essay, "Operation Apocalypse." The results are shocking and disturbing, and invite new questions, even as they answer old ones. (text/plain)

Benicio del Toro calls for respect for Cuban sovereignty César Vallejo 2006-08-10 10:52 AM

Hollywood actor, Benicio del Toro, winner of an Oscar for best supporting actor in Traffic, by Steven Soderbergh, has called for respect for Cuban sovereignty. Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Leticia Spiller, María Rojo, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna and Santiago García can also be found in this sizeable group. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

BTL:Progressive Jewish Group Pushes for... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2006-08-10 10:06 AM
...Just Settlement of Middle East Conflicts ~ Interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Collateral Damage is Murder populist 2006-08-10 1:58 AM
...there is probably no term that is more repugnant and immoral than the one that discards the importance of other people's lives are mere collateral damage; especially when their deaths become incidental to the conquest of some military or political objective. As collateral damage, these people suffer the same outcome as fat discarded by a butcher... (text/html)

Petition: International Criminal Tribunal for Israel Kathy 2006-08-10 12:22 AM
We, the undersigned, demand that The United Nations General Assembly immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a ‘subsidiary organ’ under U.N. Charter Article 22 to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and Israel’s other top generals and war criminals for their infliction of international war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine. (text/plain)

Neocons’ Middle East Scheme Is Backfiring William Hughes 2006-08-09 11:41 PM

Back in 1996, a clique of Neocons, led by Richard Perle, concocted a scheme for Israel to “destabilize” the Middle East. The Palestinians were to be crushed and Iraq and Lebanon balkanized. The U.S. and UK were conned into doing the Neocons’ dirty work in Iraq. Now, Hezbollah fighters have tossed a huge wrench into the not-so-clever plot. Instead of Israel becoming “safer,” the Neocons have put its citizens at risk and its army in danger of defeat. (image/jpeg)

Americans Are Being Terrorized By Amricans At Home Starfishgirl 2006-08-09 10:43 PM

Terrorist Gang Stalking is a tool employed by fascists who seek to quash freedom of speech along many other Constitutional rights. Please join us in the fight to expose and stop this insidious crime. (image/jpeg)

Statement from the Permanent Commission for International Relations of the National Assemb César Vallejo 2006-08-09 3:24 PM
Israel military sources have confirmed the arrest of the Chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Mr. Abdel Aziz Duwaik, while he was resting at his home in the city of Ramala. This action by the Israel government is a grave violation of the most basic standards of International Law and an unacceptable offense to the parliaments and parliamentarians of the entire world, stunned by the attitude of absolute disrespect for a parliament that was duly elected by its people. (text/plain)

Five Jailing Unjustified César Vallejo 2006-08-09 2:51 PM
A year after the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously annulled the rigged trial that condemned them in Miami and reversed their sentences, the Five are still in prison. Lawyer Roberto Gonzalez Sehwerert, brother of Rene, one of the Cuban Five, said they are hostages of a hostile policy against the island. (text/plain)

ONE YEAR SINCE THE ATLANTA DECISION ON THE FIVE César Vallejo 2006-08-09 9:56 AM
Last year's decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturning a Miami court ruling against the Cuban Five was "historic" and "necessary," commented California Lawyer Ian Thompson who represented the US National Lawyers Guild at the oral hearing of the case in March 2004. (text/plain)

America's Attack Dog Gary Sudborough 2006-08-08 7:12 PM
An alternative view of the war in Lebanon (text/plain)

On The Zionist Israeli Nazi Liar J. Wizard 2006-08-08 4:44 PM
No democracy or religion is going to vote in rights inferior to the supreme nazi zionist enemy. A "Jewish State" is a State where all GODLY people are treated equally with respect and honor. As according to Hillel. That is not the practiced tyrannies of the zionist Israeli liar, therefore Israel is not a Jewish State. John has spoken in our own image, while Israel continues to victimize the innocent unjustly. (text/plain)

La soberanía de Cuba debe ser respetada César Vallejo 2006-08-08 4:03 PM

The sovereignty of Cuba must be César Vallejo 2006-08-08 12:22 PM
As a result of the communication of Fidel Castro on his state of health and the provisional delegation of his responsibilities, high ranking U.S officials have formulated more and more explicit declarations about the immediate future of Cuba. The Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez said that “this is the moment for a true transition towards a true democracy” and the spokesman of the White House Tony Snow said that his government is “ready and eager to grant humanitarian and economic assistance and of any other nature to the people of Cuba”, which has been already being stated by President Bush. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Play Earth Ball - Not War Earth Ball Staff 2006-08-08 11:28 AM

PLAY Earth Ball - NOT WAR (image/jpeg)

COMMENTS ON HELEN CALDICOTT'S NEW BOOK NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ANSWER Stephen Lendman 2006-08-08 8:25 AM
A powerful indictment of commercial nuclear power and why its use must end. (text/plain)

Camp Democracy Protest: Sept. 5 to Sept. 21, 2006 Camp Democracy 2006-08-08 12:16 AM
Camp Casey will move from Crawford, Texas, to Washington to create a larger camp focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress. (text/plain)

IVAW and Arabi Wrecking Krewe at Stachmo Fest Gordon Soderberg 2006-08-07 5:19 PM
Kelly Dougherty Interviews Sheik Richardson of the Arabi Wrecking Krewe at Satchmo Fest. (video/quicktime)

Arabi Wrecking Krewe a Satchmo Gordon Soderberg 2006-08-07 4:55 PM
Kelly Dougherty Interviews Sheik Richardson at Satchmo Fest. (video/quicktime + 1 comment)

500 Women Take Over TV Station in Bloodless Coup Against State/Corporate Media reposted 2006-08-07 4:09 PM
author: The women of Oaxaca Rock! (text/plain + 1 comment)

Gentrifying the Crescent City Darwin BondGraham 2006-08-07 12:41 PM

The post-Katrina cityscape is rapidly being reshaped by developers and real estate speculators in ways that favor affluent homebuyers, the tourist industry, and downtown property owners. (image/jpeg + 8 comments)

Regarding Harris Poll. Repugs are likely loading the poll via subscription. Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-07 7:27 AM
In the recent (non scientific by subscription) Harris Poll with 14% of the people suddenly forgeting there were no WMDs in Iraq (text/plain)

Fed admits US recession on cards Heather Stewart 2006-08-07 2:07 AM
The United States faces almost a 40 per cent chance of slipping into recession in the next 12 months, according to the Federal Reserve's own market model. As Fed chairman Ben Bernanke prepares to decide whether to raise American interest rates for the 18th time on Tuesday, bond prices and the high level of borrowing costs are now showing a 38 per cent chance of recession, according to a model published by Fed economist Jonathan Wright earlier this year. (text/plain)

9/11/2006 Proclaimed: National Patriot Holiday Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-06 10:32 PM
The five year anniversary of the planned, 9/11/2001, attack on freedom will occur in 5 weeks. Five years of increasing secrecy, lies, spying, torture, imprisonment, fiscal impropriety, media propaganda, media omissions of fact, election fraud, tyranny, war and destruction of our Constitution with the assistance of almost all of our representatives with completely inadequate responses by our representatives. (text/plain)

Another Battle of Baghdad Cover Up -- It's Time for Truth Captain May 2006-08-06 3:39 PM
Summary: Former Army intelligence and public affairs officer Captain May argues that the Bush League infowar to hide the truth of Iraq's strategic and tactical blunders has sunk us into Middle Eastern quicksand -- and that the time for getting out is running out. (text/plain)

LOSING A FREE-SCHOOL LEGACY IN NE0-COLONIAL ORLEANS M.B.Black & Jose Torres Tama 2006-08-06 3:34 PM

(intro-M. Black/essay-Jose Torres Tama) After a year of brazen wheelin’-n-’dealin’ by Government, Corporate and non-Profiteers, New Orleans harbors a grief that continues to compound and reverberate through the soul of this fragile metropolis. With the majority of the city’s former housing still uninhabitable, triple rents and increased utilities on what is left, and the drastic reduction or outright elimination of public services, including hospitals, schools, public housing, legal services for the poor & public transportation, New Orleans runs the risk of becoming an architectural minstral to one of the richest treasures of the United States’ own culturally complex cities. >>>>As those of us here fight for a place called home and to redefine community in shadowy abscenses of the once familiar, commonplace, and beloved, the fact is, the majority of residents simply cannot return. And in these abscences, a litany of loss continues to flood the city beneath the shiny devolopment plans of Ivy League urban planning experts and their corporate development counterparts. These losses are losses to the entire country - We are losing the opportunity to celebrate and see in our complex and conflicted pasts examples of freedom, compassion and resistence that could guide us into a future in which tolerance and courage are celebrated instead of fear and conformity. Now it looks like condos are on the way in the property of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisiana that was, until last month, home to Bishop Perry Middle School, one of the oldest schools for children of color in the entire country, founded by a free woman of color of African descent. >>>>The following commentary is reprinted with permission by long-time resident of the New Orleans cultural resistence, the shamanistic street performer, revolutionary artist and committed educator Jose Torres-Tama. For more multi-lingual intersections of magic and political resistence, go to Jose’s site, www.torrestama.com -M.B.Black (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

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