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Nonviolence: The Future of the Human Family

Published on May 21, 2007 in Israel, Middle East, Palestine and Video. 0 Comments

“Nonviolence: The Future of the Human Family,” was delivered by Mairead Corrigan Maguire on April 18, 2007. Maguire is Northern Irish social worker who, with Betty Williams, founded the Community of Peace People, also known as the Peace People Organization, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and Protestant citizens dedicated to ending the sectarian strife in Ulster. For their work the two women shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace. More recently, Maguire has been an active advocate for the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli anti-nuclear whistleblower. Maguire gave this address as the keynote speech for the 2nd Bil’in International Nonviolence Conference on 18 April 2007. That same week, in a demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in, Maguire was badly tear-gassed and shot with a rubber bullet.

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The Lies That Led To War

Published on May 21, 2007 in US and Video. 0 Comments

Since the US-led invasion four years ago, CBC’s The Fifth Estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle – the military, media, intelligence, politics – revealing aspects of the story that you didn’t find anywhere else. Now, as the White House warns about the latest threat in the region, this time from Iran, it’s worthwhile looking back to examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies, that convinced the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein.

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Donde Estas… Ashcroft?

Published on May 21, 2007 in Humour, Politics, US and Video. 0 Comments

Looking at the growing scandal surrounding the Bush administration and Justice Department, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart showed testimony delivered this week by former Justice Department official James Comey recounting an effort to pressurize former Attorney General John Ashcroft. Comey, who served as acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was hospitalized for surgery, recalled current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales arriving to Ashcroft’s hospital bed hoping to see him approve the administration’s warrant-less wiretapping program. Responding to the testimony, New York Senator Charles Schumer said that “It makes you almost gulp.”

“Almost gulp?!” Exclaimed Stewart. “Almost gulp? What is it going to take to make you actually gulp? Do these guys have to sodomize the declaration of independence in front of you?”

By the way, here’s an interesting fact about Republican John Ashcroft, he got the Attorney General job as a prize for losing his Senate seat to a dead guy.

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