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  • US blocking international deal on fighting Aids
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Britain distances itself from Bush administration Negotiators try to salvage package at UN summit
    by Ewen MacAskill
    The Bush administration, heavily influence by the Christian right, is blocking key proposals for a new United Nations package to combat Aids worldwide over the next five years because of its opposition to the distribution of condoms and needle exchanges and references to prostitutes, drug addicts and homosexuals.
    The United States is being supported by many Muslim (…)

  • Absalom, O Absalom: ’Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history’
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Saltz
    The irony couldn’t be sharper, the justice more poetic: What America calls "the Vietnam War," Vietnam calls "the American War." Perhaps the Iraq war will be one day be called "the American War" as well. For his powerful, almost anonymous outing at White Columns, Portland-based Harrell Fletcher, a quiet strong point in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with his video project of a group of mechanics and their customers reading snippets of James Joyce’s Ulysses, has installed 90 images (…)

  • When AWOL Is the Only Way Out
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around ’like a soccer ball’ made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.
    By Peter Laufer
    The following text is an excerpt from Peter Laufer’s new book, "Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq" (Chelsea Green, 2006).
    "We was going along the Euphrates River," says Joshua Key, a 27-year-old former U.S. soldier from Oklahoma, detailing a recurring nightmare — a scene (…)

  • Liberators as Murderers. The Way Americans Like Their War
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    By ROBERT FISK
    Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave?
    The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of the United States’ army of the slums go further?
    I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city’s senior medical officials, an old friend, told me (…)

  • If Iran is ready to talk, the US must do so unconditionally
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    It is absurd to demand that Tehran should have made concessions before sitting down with the Americans
    by Jonathan Steele
    It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof of aggressive Soviet intent.
    Doves who pointed out that the full quotation gave a less threatening message were drowned (…)

  • Dixie Chicks are No. 1
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Nichols
    Cultural conservatives, who have been busy of late trying to claim that the rebellious songs of The Who are other rock groups are really right-wing anthems, have misread America’s tastes in a major way when it comes to the Dixie Chicks.
    Conservative politicians, pundits and political writers — from Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston to Media Research Council president L. Brent Bozell and bloggers by the dozen — couldn’t wait to trash Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and (…)

  • Kevin Zeese: “Both Parties Selling Country to Highest Bidder!”
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baltimore, MD - On Sunday afternoon, June 4, 2006, a Forum, which dealt with the topic of “Iraq, Iran and Militarism,” was held at the Cork Gallery. It is located near the historic Greenmount Cemetery. (1) The event was sponsored by the “Generations for Peace and Democracy,” a progressive group. The speaker at the affair was the popular anti-war activist, Kevin Zeese.
    Zeese said, “We know that both parties are selling the country to the highest bidder. So, in a historical context, where (…)

  • Teamsters: Changing to Win?
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by WILLIAM JOHNSON
    Chances are you haven’t heard of Silver Capital, a small, now-defunct Chicago-based company that used to manufacture mirrors, frames and glass-cutting boards.
    Silver Capital’s workers were mostly Mexican immigrants, working for substandard wages and zero benefits—no healthcare, no pensions, no sick days. And no matter what the auto companies tell you, manufacturing work is not fun. Silver Capital workers suffered severe injuries (fingers chopped off, limbs gouged) and (…)

  • 800 Ford retirees formally object to deal that requires paying health premiums, deductibles
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ford, UAW retirees spar in court over health insurance cuts
    by Bryce G. Hoffman
    DETROIT — Dozens of Ford Motor Co. union retirees were in federal court Wednesday to ask a judge to reject an agreement between the automaker and the United Auto Workers that would cut their health benefits to help ease Ford’s financial troubles.
    The retirees argued that they were denied a say in the deal, which could cost them hundreds of dollars a year in higher health care costs.
    Larry Bronson, a (…)

  • The Rockies Pitch Religion
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dave Zirin
    In Colorado, there stands a holy shrine called Coors Field. On this site, named for the holiest of beers, a team plays that has been chosen by Jesus Christ himself to play .500 baseball in the National League West. And if you don’t believe me, just ask the manager, the general manager and the team’s owner.
    In a remarkable article from Wednesday’s USA Today, the Colorado Rockies went public with the news that the organization has been explicitly looking for players with (…)