With the tragedy that has struck Fort Hood, with the swirling talk of ethnicity, religion, and the mission of defending democracy and freedom it might be an opportune time to consider a new more appropriate name for the fort.

In 1942, in the midst of a war with the avowedly racist Hitler regime, the American government set up a new military base in Texas and named it Fort Hood after an avowed racist and a military failure. His ideology was reactionary and he was no strategic thinker, so you have to believe some pretty dull bulbs made the decision. General John Bell Hood of the Confederate Army lost an arm (Gettysburgh) and a leg (Chickamauga) fighting against the American government of Abraham Lincoln. Gen. Hood wrote a letter to U.S. General Sherman that ended: "...you mak...
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In Gaza the people voted in a free and fair election for Hamas. And how did the American heartland of freedom and democracy react? It snorted contempt and refused both the electoral outcome and recognition of the Hamas organization.

Of course there was also an election in the backyard, that is to say Haiti. Aristide was an overwhelming winner. The U.S. administration glared and complained and then with able assistance of Canada removed Aristide from power and from his country...after offering him the option of being executed.

And yet the media, the sound system of a deeply paranoid and violent U.S. state, is all atwitter that the people of Iran have been robbed in an election. Evidence. "We don't need no stinking evidence", we (big NATO brother and us) know,...
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On October the 8th, 2008 the Rwandese government announced its decision to convert the family residence of the late President Habyarimana, assassinated on April the 6th of 1994 in a terrorist attack against the presidential jet plane, into a museum in commemoration of the Rwandese genocide, the Rwandese culture and the Second Republic. The family residence of the late President Habyarimana is located in Kanombe, a suburb to the capital city Kigali, close to the airport where the presidential jet plane was shot down during its landing procedure to finally crash against the enclosure of the family property in question.

We, the family of the late Rwandese President Habyarimana whose brutal assassination was followed by the violent massacres of 1994, denounce the hypocritical, ...
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ARUSHA TZ – 18/12: Today’s ICTR judgments in the Military-I trial completely rejected the Prosecution theory of long-term planning and conspiracy to commit genocide by members of the former Rwandan military leadership. All four defendants were found “not guilty” of all counts charging conspiracy to commit genocide, based on the Chambers ruling that their actions prior to April 6, 1994 were based on war-time conditions, not planning to kill civilians or to carry out a genocide against Tutsi Rwandans.

Gen. Gratien Kabiligi was found not guilty of all remaining charges because of the Prosecution’s failure to prove his command authority over Rwandan troops, and was ordered released immediately.

The three other defendants were convicted of responsibility for pa...
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If Lincoln heard of the corruption and naughty words of Blagojevich he would "turn over in his grave" said federal prosecutor Fitzgerald, and the kept press all nodded sagely. Baloney!

Mary Todd Lincoln accepted money in the White House from people seeking favors and Abe Lincoln specialized in off-color jokes. Had Fitzgerald been around at the time he would have busted the President's wife (who also consorted with Confederate sympathizers) and Honest Abe would have been forced to resign, no doubt to be replaced by a Copperhead who would have ended the war and the South would have kept their slaves!

As for Fitzgerald's pose as the angel of righteousness, Lincoln would have seen through him. Abe was once offered a good amount of money to assist in the prosecut...
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