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Signs of the Times for Tue, 28 Nov 2006

20,000 Americans Demonstrate Against Their Government - Mainstream Media Is Silent

PhillyIMC.org
27/11/2006

While thousands were battling over the purchase of an expensive toy all over the US of A, more than 22,000 people gathered in memory of all those tortured and killed by the School of Assassins in Fort Benning, Georgia, and to celebrate, as well, the legacy of their sacrifice.

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MSNBC Poll: 94% believe Bush misled (lied to) the nation over Iraq

Signs of the Times
28/11/2006

This is the latest in a series of polls that make it very clear that the vast majority of American citizens despise the Bush cabal and all that they have wrought, not only in the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, but in sullying beyond repair the decent reputation that America once had on the world stage.

What happened to democracy? What happened to the 'will of the people'? If the will of a large majority of the American people were to be exercised today, dozens of US politicians would be facing criminal charges tomorrow.

Why isn't it happening? Is the truth that today's 300 million American citizens live in what amounts to a covert but very real dictatorship? A system of government which denies them the most important right of all: to elect responsible "public servants" who will respond to the will of the people?

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No One Heard Malachi

Reuters
26/11/2006

Malachi Ritscher holds up a sign during an antiwar protest in Chicago in this photo from April 2003.

He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web site, the 52-year-old experimental musician even penned his obituary.

At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.

Aglow for the crush of morning commuters, his flaming body was supposed to be a call to the nation, a symbol of his rage and discontent with the U.S. war in Iraq.

"Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country," he wrote in his suicide note. "... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country."

There was only one problem: No one was listening.

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Israel Between Rhetoric And Reality Over Iran

By Abid Mustafa
28 November, 2006
Countercurrents.org

The recent American overtures to induct Iran in any political settlement over Iraq have immensely troubled the Israel. So perturbed has been the government in Tel Aviv that she has mounted a concerted campaign in America to keep alive the notion that Iran poses a grave danger to the US and must be thwarted at any cost. On 12/11/2006 The Jerusalem Post reported that an Israeli Self-Defence Force (IDF) spokesperson told the newspaper that "Only a military strike by the U.S. and its allies will stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons." While Israeli Defence Minister Ephraim Sneth was more blunt about attacking Iran. He said, "I am not advocating an Israeli pre-emptive military action against Iran and I am aware of its possible repercussions. I consider it a last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort." The Israeli Prime Minister on his visit to Washington earlier this month said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. "I know that America will not allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons because this is a danger to the whole Western world."

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