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Forum Post Pauchet: Re: the failure of cuban agriculture

Forum Post, January, 22 2011 Christian Pauchet
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Dear Hans, You can't see the world in black and white, there are a million shades of colors in life and everything that surrounds it. I simply couldn't believe my eyes when I read your comments on Castro's note and comparing Cuba'...

Forum Post Jager: the failure of cuban agriculture

Forum Post, January, 21 2011 Hans Jager
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after 50 years of revolution the cuban government failed to produce agricultural products to feed the people. if i am not mistaken they produce only 30% of the food needed and if i am not mistaken again the dominican republic is selfsufficient in ...

Forum Post Herman: Reply to the Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Forum Post, January, 01 2011 Edward Herman
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The Campaign for Peace and Democracy's reply to our "Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System: How the Left Climbed Aboard the Establishment's Bandwagon" (ZCommunications, December 15, 2010) left out everything relevant to o...

Forum Post Herman: Reply to Stephen Zunes

Forum Post, December, 30 2010 Edward Herman
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Stephen Zunes does make a credible case that he has directed the bulk of his work to the critical analysis of U.S. and U.S. client-state abuses and that it is unfair to accuse him of focusing only on governments that are U.S. targets.[1] ...

Forum Post Shalom: They're at it again...

Forum Post, December, 28 2010 Stephen Shalom
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Herman and Peterson are at it again, accusing leftists with whom they disagree of being U.S. government toadies. In explaining why the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) has not organized a campaign around the Honduras coup, Herman and Pet...

Forum Post Rbluhm44: Kool-Aid

Forum Post, December, 27 2010 Richard Rbluhm44
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A glance at the sky over the Denver Metro area yesterday shortly after noon showed a crisscross of perhaps thirty contrails that formed X & O as well as circular patterns.  Some of the contrails extended from horizon to horizon.  I&#...

Forum Post Emersberger: Chomsky on Morgenthau

Forum Post, December, 26 2010 Joe Emersberger
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In "Hopes and Prospects" Chomsky says that Hans Morgenthau had a kind of religious faith in noble intentions of US elites. Chomsky says Morgenthau was "an unusually honorable person and independent thinker" ...

Forum Post Greeman: Thanks for this commentary

Forum Post, December, 26 2010 Richard Greeman
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Dear Francis Boyle, Thanks for this somewhat chilling commentary. Alas, recent developments in the US-provoked crisis over N. Korea seem to confirm your and Morganthaus's pessimism about the prospects for peace, as I explain in my bulletins po...

Forum Post Emersberger: Here is some encouraging news

Forum Post, December, 22 2010 Joe Emersberger
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UN looking into WikiLeaks suspect's treatment HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The United Nations' top anti-torture envoy is  looking into a complaint that the Army private suspected of giving classified  documents to WikiLeaks ...

Forum Post Emersberger: Re: Re: And yet the big human rights groups do not defend Bradley Manning

Forum Post, December, 22 2010 Joe Emersberger
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Hi James, Very glad you contacted HRW. It will take a lot of pressure from many people for them to do anything decent. See my recent exchange with Dinah Bokemper – HRW’s general counsel http://www.zcommunications.org/exchange-with-...

Forum Post Green: Re: And yet the big human rights groups do not defend Bradley Manning

Forum Post, December, 22 2010 James Green
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Thanks for mentioning this Joe.  I`m also concerned about this question, and your post pushed me to send a similar letter to Jamie Fellner who works for the US Prison Project at Human Rights Watch.  While HRW did put out a statement aga...

Forum Post Emersberger: And yet the big human rights groups do not defend Bradley Manning

Forum Post, December, 21 2010 Joe Emersberger
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Amnesty International should have named Bradley Manning a "prisoner of conscience" by now. Similarly, Huamn Rights Watch has not made any statement in his defence. Both organizations will have to be pressured or they will hide un...

Forum Post Zunes: Herman distorts the facts

Forum Post, December, 19 2010 Stephen Zunes
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First of all, Herman knows damn well that I am NOT part  First of all, Herman knows damn well that I am NOT part of a “clique [which] only takes an interest in the ‘democratic’ potential of countries when the ‘U.S....

Forum Post R.: Re: But

Forum Post, December, 19 2010 Andrius R.
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I like your last point. In a way all our problems come from public's ignorance. But it's not a nice thing to say when you are trying to wake them up. Imagine a progressive politician who loses hope and says, "you are a bunch of hopele...

Forum Post Sjömark: Who is this "right wing politician"?

Forum Post, December, 17 2010 Peter Sjömark
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I´m swedish and I have obviously read some of the reporting on the case. The whole case is surely quite strange but Pilger claims that: "It was only the intervention of this right-wing politician in Sweden that reactivated this whole c...

Forum Post Lane: WikiLeaks Did Nothing Illegal

Forum Post, December, 16 2010 David Lane
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Mr.Hayden, You wrote that "[i]t is clearly illegal to release and distribute the 15,652 documents stamped as 'secret.'" Under what theory is publishing (i.e., releasing and distributing) classified information illegal, much les...

Forum Post Howe: But

Forum Post, December, 14 2010 Ken Howe
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Perhaps. But there were good, easily accessible sources showing that the Iraq war push was a fabrication. Hans Blix answered Colin Powell when Powell addressed the UN. Scott Ritter's reports were easy to get. The famous "yellow cake"...

Forum Post Cooper: Fighting Fire with Fire?

Forum Post, December, 13 2010 Curtis Cooper
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Many people in the United States are strongly suspicious of the massive and sophisticated governmental surveillance apparatus.  Assange and Wikileaks operate according to principals; but many people here do not doubt the excesses of our ow...

Forum Post Addison: why surprising?

Forum Post, December, 13 2010 Michael Addison
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Mr. Hayden, if both "liberal" and "conservative" politicians basically agree on issues of US foreign policy, then what is surprising about "liberal" and "conservative" MSM voices speaking in similar ways abo...

Forum Post Peterson: Suppression of Information.

Forum Post, December, 08 2010 Michelle Peterson
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I have to admit that I am a huge admirer of Noam Chomsky.  I don't think I have ever disagreed with anything he has said or written.  I am glad that Amy Goodman has him on Democracy Now regularly.  Chomsky and, I hate to say it,...

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