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  • We Can’t Let It Happen Here
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What is beyond the looking glass?
    "And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room."
    Over a year ago, the comfort of my world severely diminished as I took my journey through the looking glass and discerned the ugly truths about the nation of my birth, the United States of America. “Logic and proportion” certainly seemed to have “fallen softly dead” (…)

  • Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Dombey
    President Bush’s principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and (…)

  • Rwandan : World Day Against the Death Penalty
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Paul Kagame
    This letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
    World Day Against the Death Penalty
    Dear...,
    We are pleased and honoured to address you and the Rwandan people. We want to assure you that we are in solidarity with the efforts of all Rwandan citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights after a long period of terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a spirit of deep friendship and humility that we request that you do your best to achieve, as soon as (…)

  • RUMOR: 22 Indictments in Plame Case — Rove is a Target
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Edwards
    The D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case. The last time the wires buzzed this loud - that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House - the scuttlebutters got it right.
    Can it be a coincidence that the White House appears to be distancing President Bush from embattled aide Karl Rove? “He’s been missing in action at more than one major (…)

  • Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is disturbing to see our daughter played on stage, but it drives home the impact she has had since her killing in Gaza
    by Cindy and Craig Corrie
    When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organisation, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her (…)

  • Binding the Hands of Torturers
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the Senate voted this week to bring America’s chain of military prison camps under the rule of law, President Bush threatened a veto. The White House explained his objections by saying the measure would bind the government’s hands. Yes, exactly. The rules would finally bind military prisons to democratic values and the standards of behavior recognized by every other civilized nation. They would bind the government to a code of conduct that will help protect those in the nation’s (…)

  • Pietro Ingrao and Haidi Giuliani : we support Bertinotti’s candidature in the primaries
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Pietro Ingrao and Haidi Giuliani
    Beat Berlusconi! Defeat the centre-right policies which have been wrecking our country for the last four years. Set up an alternative way of governing which will also bring about a real renewal in Italian politics, culture and democracy. These are now the priorities we agree on, despite the diversity of our history and opinions. This is why we are committed to a Union victory in the 2006 elections: an alliance unprecedented in the history of Italy - one (…)

  • Political Leaders Announce Support for Re-Election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich were joined by actors, historians and others in sending their support to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, just days before he faces a historic vote on the future of his administration.
    Noting the accomplishments of the Chavez administration to improve the lives of Venezuela’s impoverished majority, the joint letter expressed the signers’ "hope and expectation that, on August 15, you will once again win an electoral mandate from the Venezuelan people to be (…)

  • George Bush: ’God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace
    Ewen MacAskill Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian
    George Bush believes he is on a mission from God, according to the politician Nabil Shaath. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
    George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the (…)

  • Posse and Harriet: The real reason that Bush picked Miers
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We have no idea whether the Senate is going to confirm Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. For once, it may actually be up to the Democrats, who right now are too busy watching and laughing at conservatives and their cat fights to be bothered with taking a stand. And that may take a while, considering that it’s still three years and counting for any type of Democratic position on Iraq.
    We do know that’s there’s a lot of head fakes going on right now. Miers is a conservative...but wait, (…)