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Teach In on Capitol Hill: What Congress Must Do to End U.S. Wars and Help Secure a Peaceful Middle East
DESCRIPTION: Educational briefing on the U. S. agenda in the Middle East, its consequences and development of a strategy/plan to withdraw. Emphasis will be on constructive, interactive dialogue among panelists and attendees.
MODERATOR: Representative Dennis J. Kucinich (D - Ohio)
PANELISTS: Chris Hedges, Jeremy Scahill, David Swanson, Ann Wright
DATE: Thursday, April 29, 2010
TIME: 1:45 PM – 4:00 PM
PLACE: Gold Room (2168), Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Ave and C Street SW, Washington, D.C.
REFRESHMENTS: Beverages
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public, the media, members of Congress, and staff
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. He left the Times after being issued a formal reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. He has written nine books, including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle," and "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning."
Jeremy Scahill is the author of the international best-seller "Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army." He is a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now! He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill has won numerous awards for his reporting, including the prestigious George Polk Award, which he won twice. While a correspondent for Democracy Now!, Scahill reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He has appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS’s The NewsHour, Bill Moyers Journal and is a frequent guest on other radio and TV programs nationwide.
David Swanson is the author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org, and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, Voters for Peace, and the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and chair of the Robert Jackson Steering Committee. AfterDowningStreet was named Most Valuable Progressive by the Nation Magazine in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Ann Wright spent thirteen years in the U.S. Army and sixteen additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel. In 1987, she joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since Saigon. She was on the first State Department team to go to Afghanistan and helped reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be a disaster. She is a member of Veterans for Peace and is the co-author of "Dissent: Voices of Conscience."
SPONSORS: EndUSWars.org, AfterDowningStreet.org, Code Pink: Women for Peace, Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America, the Nation, Gray Panthers of Metro Washington, Washington Peace Center, United for Peace and Justice, Office & Professional Employees International Union Local 2, U.S. Labor Against the War, Civilain Soldier Alliance,
CONTACT: Herb Hoffman, 207-646-5431 or pala at maine.rr.com
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Lesson #1 - Expose 9-11 Truth!!! . . . ;-)
Hey kidz!!! Check out how our "Special Friends", while attacking the 9-11 TRUTH MOVEMENT, just stepped in it BIG TIME!!! . . . ;-)
Here's the set-up . . . Zionist 5th Columnist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro of Rupert "War Criminal" Murdoch's Fox News wrote this article attacking former Governor Jesse Ventura . . .
(clipped headline and article from FOX NEWS)
"Shame On Jesse Ventura! - The former Minnesota governor has discredited himself, and dishonored and defamed his country by promoting the mistaken view that our government was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Jesse Ventura should be ashamed of himself and embarrassed.
The former Minnesota governor recently lent his political credentials to the discredited 9/11 'Truther' movement by alleging that the Sept. 11 attacks were either planned or permitted by the United States government."
(full story)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/21/jeffrey-scott-shapiro-jesse-ve...
How's that for "objective" journalism, kidz? . .. ;-)
Anyway, it gets better . . . as brothers Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson point out . . .
(clipped headline and article from Prison Planet)
"Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11 - Fox News hit piece against 9/11 truth and Jesse Ventura inadvertently reveals a shocking truth; WTC leaseholder was 'on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building'"
(full story)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-silverstein-wanted-to-demolish-bui...
Here is my favorite quote from our "Special Friend", Mr. Shapiro . . .
(begin clipped text from above article)
"Writing for Fox News, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro states, 'I was working as a journalist for Gannett News at Ground Zero that day, and I remember very clearly what I saw and heard.'
'Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building – since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.'"
(end clipped text)
Of course, up until 9-11 not a single steel frame building had EVER collapsed due to fire . . . nor has one since . . .
. . . but Lucky Larry "Pull It And Give Me My Insurance Money" Silverstein was "Large and In Charge" . . . ;-)
(link to video clip - approx. 2 minutes)
"Pull It? Larry Silverstein and WTC-7"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNEoiOP76QQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Cui bono? Who benefitted from the complete destruction of WTC-7 at that particular point in history . ..
. . . besides Israel and PNAC getting their schmucks to fight their "Clean Break: Securing the Realm"/"Full Spectrum Dominance" wars of aggression for them, of course??? . . . ;-)
(clipped article from 29Sept06 Online Journal)
"Tower 7 also contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud corporate, including Enron’s), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions."
(full story)
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml
How convenient for the Zionist 2nd division of "Financial Terrorists", eh?
Not to mention, that besides destroying all the evidence of these "White Collar Crimes" . . . all the FBI resource was immediately diverted away from this arena to fight the "War On Terror" . . .
. . . looking for a dead guy and a bunch of "Fake al Qaeda" MOSSAD/CIA/M15 agents/actors . . . performing their "booga booga" act for the Zionist controlled Main Stream Media Monopoly . . . to an emotionally manipulated American audience . . .;-)
"Fake Al Qaeda"
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fakealqaeda.html
Lesson #1 - Extra credit . . .
"Larry Silverstein, WTC 7, and the 9/11 Demolition"
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/cutter.html
This ol' fool thinks, based on this current wave of very shrill and "over the top" hit pieces from the Zionist 5th Columnists like the ADL, the SPLC, etc. and this latest Fox News hit piece on former Governor Jesse Ventura by Mr. Shapiro . . .
. . . that these evil Zio-clowns are starting to panic . . .
So expect lots of desparate and urgent noise and hoopla from our "Special Lobby" . . . aI-PAC . . . ;-)
(link to video clip - Part 1 - approx. 8 minutes)
"AIPAC: The Voice of America — The Orange and the Pea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZZ5zGAWKE
(begin clipped text on the above video discription)
"Although I have heard AIPAC pronounced in two distinct ways, one of which is A-PAC, I have chosen to pronounce the acronym with the same initial sound as in the word 'aisle'. To me, this pronunciation is more appropriate, because the use of the A for America sound is subtly misleading. The organization has nothing to do with A for America, it is all about I for Israel. - Anthony Lawson"
(end clipped text)
Meanwhile, stay in school, kidz!!! And spread the TRUTH far and wide!!! . . . ;-)
"Would they drop the bomb on us
While we made love on the beach?
We were the class they couldn't teach
'Cause we knew better . . .
Then we lost our faith and prayed to the TV
Oh we should've known better"
- "Born In The 50s" by The Police
peace.