Cindy Sheehan interviews Temir Porras, Venezuela’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

by Cindy Sheehan
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March 28, 2010

Updated: June 26, 2011: Here’s the transcript: Transcript: USA: 5+; VENEZUELA: 0, VENEZUELA WINS

(SOAPBOX #55)

Cindy welcomes Temir Porras, Venezuela’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the Middle East and Asia.  In today’s world, Venezuela and its popularly beloved President, Hugo Chavez, are tarred as a “communist dictatorship” because of robber-class fears that his good example could give others ideas, too.  (Where would the world be if we let people realize that Hugo Chavez is beloved precisely BECAUSE he takes good care of all his people – not just the wealthy and powerful few.)  

Helen Thomas on White House Press Corps

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Thomas: Most press rolled over and played dead during Bush years, press was gung-ho to go to war

Helen Thomas is an American news reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and author She was the first female officer of the National Press Club and the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association. Her latest book, co-authored with Craig Crawford is Listen Up, Mr President: Everything you Always Wanted Your President To Know and Do.

As Obama Talks Of Arms Control, Russians View U.S. As Global Aggressor by Rick Rozoff

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Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
March 28, 2010

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U.S. and NATO military expansion along Russia’s western and southern flanks diminishes the need for Cold War era nuclear arsenals and long-range delivery systems appreciably. Washington can well afford to reduce the number of its nuclear weapons and still maintain decisive worldwide strategic superiority, especially with the deployment of an international interceptor missile system, unilateral militarization of space, and super stealth strategic bombers and the Pentagon’s Prompt Global Strike plans for conventional warheads with the velocity and range of intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy other nations’ nuclear forces with non-nuclear attacks.
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On March 26th U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev reached an agreement on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1) of 1991.

The American Taliban by Bruce Gagnon (Jesus Camp – 2006) (no longer available)

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by Bruce Gagnon
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Organizing Notes
March 27, 2010

A French documentary about the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who are preparing to wage war on behalf of Jesus.

Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (2004; must-see; transcript)

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by Chris Hedges
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11/1/2004

59 minutes

Veteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on his best selling book that argues life is lived most intensely in times of war, often with tragic consequences. (#9109)

NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is real and growing

Propaganda Alert

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27 March 2010

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The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground for Afghanistan by Michel Chossudovsky

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by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, March 28, 2010

A Recent report in Star and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conversely, Haiti is also being used as a military training ground for forces without in-theater combat experience.

According to the Star and Stripes report (March 14, 2010): “Marines deployed to Haiti to render emergency aid following January’s devastating earthquake are already training for the fight in Afghanistan.”

NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanistan After Killing Pregnant Women by Derrick Crowe

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by Derrick Crowe
Rethink Afghanistan War Blog
March 26th, 2010

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This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Helen Thomas on her one question for Obama

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March 27, 2010

White House Press Corps longest-serving member says Obama lost credibility when he dodged her question on Israeli nukes.

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Bill Moyers Journal: John Nichols and Terry O’Neill + Gretchen Morgenson + What is Reform?

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Bill Moyers Journal
March 26, 2010

John Nichols and Terry O’Neill

Bill Moyers takes a closer look at the newly signed health bill and explores the future of health care reform with THE NATION’s John Nichols and National Organization for Women president Terry O’Neill.

Rachel Maddow: What’s Happening In Iraq And How It Affects Americans

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Kucinich sends Origami cranes to Obama + A new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

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by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington, Mar 26, 2010

Kucinich Sends Message of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament to President Obama on Behalf of Japanese Students

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent 1000 paper cranes to President Obama, which he received from students visiting his office from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, to highlight the importance of nuclear disarmament. The students told the Congressman that they folded 23,000 cranes to represent the number of nuclear weapons estimated to exist in the world today.

“(The students’) visit was of particular significance as your Administration negotiates a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. The successful ratification of such a treaty is vital in advancing support for a broader international nuclear nonproliferation initiative,” wrote Kucinich in a note to President Obama.

NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds

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by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
26 March, 2010

Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publicly debate on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act and the current bill proposed by the Senate (S. 372).Despite two invitations Mr. Eisen declined to participate in this crucial debate.

U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups And Death Squads by Rick Rozoff

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March 26, 2010

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March 24th of this year was the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop of El Salvador.

His killing drew attention to the murderous rampages of death squads in that nation and throughout Central America as no other slaying had, although hundreds of thousands of civilians were slaughtered in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras before and during the 1980s by paramilitary formations usually led by graduates of the U.S.’s School of the Americas and covertly funded by the same nation’s Central Intelligence Agency.

Graduates of the Pentagon’s School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia (now the equally euphemistic Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) include the man responsible for ordering Romero’s killing, the late Roberto D’Aubuisson; Efrain Rios Montt, head of the military junta in Guatemala in 1982-1983 which perpetrated some of the worst atrocities in the nation’s bloodstained history; and Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, who was dismissed as chief of the Honduran military on June 25 of last year and led the coup against President Manuel Zelaya three days later.

“The evil scourge of terrorism”: Reality, construction, remedy by Noam Chomsky

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by Noam Chomsky
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March 26, 2010