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If you haven't had a chance to hear or read the transcript of Hugo Chavez's address to the UN Assembly, do yourself a favor and check it out here: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=67379 If you listen to the US corporate-controlled media, all you have heard is the "devil" remarks, and there are so many more substantive comments made in this wonderful, gutsy speech! The uproar caused by these remarks is really quite interesting. The condemnations in the media have been virtually universal, ranging from liberal Democrats like Congressman Charles Rangle of New York who said "You don't come into my country; you don't come into my congre

Five years after 9/11, as things increasingly sour in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush's public appearances get increasingly more pathetic. During Bush's recent news conference a persistent reporter wouldn't let him get away with his claim that Iraq is the central front on the so-called war on terror. "What did Iraq have to do with 9/11?" reporter Ken Herman asked. "Nothing," Bush said in a highly uncharacteristic moment of candor. The look on his face was priceless. In a flash, the president realized he had finally admitted — before America and the world — what war opponents have said right along: there was no connection bet

In systematically failing to distinguish between Hezbollah fighters and civilian population in its three-and-a-half-week-old military campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have committed war crimes, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch http://hrw.org/reports/2006/lebanon0806/. The 50-page report, "Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," detailed nearly two dozen cases of IDF attacks in which a total of 153 civilians, including 63 children, were killed in homes or motor vehicles. In none of the cases did HRW researchers find evidence that there was a significant enough mil