Today our nation marks five years of war in Iraq. It was five years ago President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements about the national security threat posed by Saddam [...]
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Last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States because the intention of ExxonMobil to freeze assets of state-owned Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as part of a US government backed “economic war” against his government.
On his weekly TV show ‘Alo Presidente,’ President Chávez described ExxonMobil:
“Más [...]
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What is on your Christmas list? In a recent ABC News poll in which they asked people, “If you could have your choice, what one present would you most like to have for Christmas?” the answers provided gives great insight to the American psyche. Forget peace and happiness because most Americans wanted either a car [...]
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Serj Tankian of System of a Down finished working on his first solo album Elect the Dead, which will be released, Tuesday, October 23, 2007. “Empty Walls” is the first single and first track off the album. Here is a summary of the video from Wikipedia. (h/t to Voto Latino)
The video shows young children playing [...]
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The US military says it has met its recruitment goals for 2007. However, signing new soldiers is getting more difficult. New figures reveal there has been a 40 percent drop in African-Americans signing up for the army.
Watch the lies they are telling our kids. As one of the put it, “there is peer pressure and [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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