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in her own words: We already know that McKinney sent a letter
to Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected a $10 million
donation from the prince because the prince laid part of the blame for the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on U.S. policy. But what did McKinney
say? Some pretty good stuff, actually:
I was disappointed that Mayor Rudy Giuliani chose to decline your generous
offer and instead criticize you for your observations of events in the Middle
East. Whether he agreed with you or not I think he should have recognized
your right to speak and make observations about a part of the world which
you know so well.
I think Mayor
Giuliani would do well to listen to the words of one of our greatest Americans,
former Sen. Robert Kennedy. In 1968 he said that America "is a great nation
and a strong people. Any who seek to comfort rather than to speak plainly,
reassure rather than instruct, promise satisfaction rather than reveal frustration
--- they deny that greatness and drain that strength. For today as it was
in the beginning, it is the truth that makes us free." I believe Kennedy's
remarks remain as inspirational and true today as when he first spoke them
over 30 years ago.
What's to disagree with there? Does that sound crazy to you? I mean, I think
all Prince Alwaleed said was that the U.S. should do more to try to bring
an end to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Right now U.S. Secretary
of State Colin Powell has been in the Middle East for days trying to do just
that. So who is crazy here? 7:24:49 AM 
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Cynthia McKinney update: Will the truth ever "out"? Alternet puts
a slightly different
spin on the story of Representative McKinney's call for an investigation
into what the Bush Admin. knew about the 9-11 attacks. The story concludes
with a quesion that reverberates far beyond the McKinney story:
There's no harm in questioning
our leaders. After all, we elected them. Didn't we? 7:20:19 AM
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more than meets the eye in venezuela: If you've been getting your
news from the U.S. you might not have the whole story about the recent coup
and re-coup in Venezuela. According to Alternet, the
U.S. media is only telling what the U.S. gov't wants us to hear. The truth
might be that when a military-backed businessman overthrew the popularly-elected
Hugo Chavez,
What was potentially
in store for Venezuela was the sort of U.S.-backed terror that plagued the
continent through the Cold War; huge crowds of people would have none of it.
They also explicitly rejected imperialism in its 21st Century guise, a form
that exercises control as often through corporations as through generals,
by returning to power a man who is (outside of the isolated Castro) the hemisphere's
fiercest critic of FTAA and neoliberal trade policies.
Could the U.S. have been involved in trying to ignore the votes of
citizens in a democracy? Nah, Bush would never let that happen... 7:20:00 AM
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