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  • 19 yr old that Wanted Out of the Marines, Drowns at Boot Camp
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this image taken from WIS-TV, video, taken Feb. 7, 2005, on Parris Island, S.C., an unidentified Marine Corps drill instructor, far-left, back to camera, grabs Jason Tharp, far left, facing camera, by the collar, near a swimming pool. Tharp of Sutton, W.Va., drowned the next day, Feb. 8. at Parris Island while participating in a 25-meter swim that was part of a water-survival course. His family wants answers from the Marine Corps on the circumstances surrounding their son’s drowning (…)

  • How America’s response to 9/11 unleashed an obscene nightmare
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official complicity in the abuse. Five days after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney emerged from the fortified burrow in which he’d been awaiting Armageddon and - glowering as blackly as the oil he no doubt dreams of - explained how the (…)

  • Iran, Beware of the Attack Dog
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong."
    It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now.
    Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.
    This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were (…)

  • I’m a registered Republican and I can’t stand the idea of cheating to win
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the majority of the media and the American public have moved on, Bernard Ellis says there are less-visible throngs of people who are still trying to make sense of last November’s presidential election.
    "I’m convinced that a host of laws were broken - both small and large laws - in the 2004 elections," Ellis says.
    Ellis, a Tennessee public health epidemiologist with 30 years experience in the field, will speak 7-9 p.m. Monday at Austin Peay State University’s Morgan University (…)

  • Soldiers with Flu-Like symptoms Dying ’Mysteriously’
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments, according to a report by affiliate station WRAL.
    Sgt. Clay Garton was a flight medic at Fort Bragg. He spent 16 months in Iraq and returned home in July. Then, he got sick.
    His family said he had symptoms like the flu. He fought it for three weeks, but his fever soared to 106 degrees. The day after Christmas, he died. (…)

  • The Evolution of Revolution: Part II of III: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Part I - Part III
    Imagine
    Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today...
    Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace...
    Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...
    You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the (…)

  • Regaining My Humanity - Conscientious Objector released from prison
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. But the US (…)

  • Oil brokers trade blows with eco-warriors
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Sturke
    Greenpeace campaigners, not a group of people unaccustomed to flying in the face of danger, were forced into a tactical retreat yesterday after feeling the wrath of angry oil traders.
    On the day the Kyoto Protocol came into force, 35 eco-warriors stormed the Interna- tional Petroleum Exchange [IPE] in the City. Armed with fog horns, rape alarms and whistles they tried to stall business by creating a deafening noise that made it impossible for the traders to work. But the (…)

  • Another Reservist Refuses to go: ’I won’t fight for profit’
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Carl Webb is very clear about what he is doing: "I’m refusing to go to war because I do not believe the U.S. is on the right track. I think this war is not about liberating people, it’s about oppressing them. It’s a war that’s being fought for profit."
    Webb is a 38-year-old African Amer ican antiwar activist from Austin, Texas. He is also a fugitive with a federal warrant out for his arrest—for refusing to participate in the war against the people of Iraq.
    Webb, who is active with Austin (…)

  • Intelligence whistleblower shows pretext for Iraq invasion totally fabricated
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The justification to War In Iraq was totally fabricated.
    Secrets and Lies
    by Liz Jackson
    Broadcast: ABC TV (Australia) 14/02/2005
    He lives quietly in Canberra’s outer suburbs. He comes and goes a lot. When he is home he may be seen tending his roses in the front yard.
    This unobtrusive, quietly spoken man has been privilege to some of the world’s best-kept secrets for two decades. He knows from long personal experience how intelligence agencies and big defence bureaucracies operate. (…)