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  • Ukraine vote yields important lessons for U.S. democracy; Exit polls indicate vote fraud
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lance deHaven-Smith
    Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election offers important lessons for American democracy. U.S. election laws and national opinion have yet to catch up with recent developments in election technology and administration. In particular, they are blind to what the Ukraine Supreme Court referred to as ’’massive fraud,’’ where the integrity of an election is subverted by many small problems that are mutually reinforcing.
    When the Ukraine Supreme Court invalidated Ukraine’s (…)

  • Soldiers Speak Out: Words from the front-lines
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by US & UK Soldiers
    “The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.” - Lance Corporal Devin Kelly, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
    “We’re basically proving out that the government is wrong. We’re catching them in a lie.” - Lance Corporal Alexander Jones, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
    “We don’t give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?” - Corporal Brandon (…)

  • Never to Forget- The War Crimes of George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Paul Rockwell
    Robert Fisk, the British journalist who witnessed U.S. air raids from streets, markets, and hotels of Iraq, wrote: "Three days ago, an entire family of nine was wiped out in their home. Pilots fire through computer-aligned co-ordinates. Of course the pilot who killed the innocents could not see his victims."
    Fisk’s insight about the insularity of industrial warfare recalls the writing of George Orwell, who survived another blitzkrieg, the air war over London in 1941. (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Synopsis
    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Triumph and tragedy for Iraq
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Low level of Sunni participation tarnishes success of large poll turnout
    By Robert Fisk
    Baghdad - Even as the explosions thundered over Baghdad, they came in their hundreds, and then in their thousands. Entire families, crippled old men supported by their sons, children beside them, babies in the arms of their mothers.
    The Shi’ite Muslims of Baghdad yesterday walked quietly to polling stations, to the Martyr Mohamed Bakr Hakim School in Jadriya, without talking, through the car-less (…)

  • CARTOON CONSERVATIVES
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Earlier today, a spokestoon for SpongeBob SquarePants announced he is breaking up with gay puppet icon Tinky Winky. Irreconcilable differences were cited, such as they were physically incompatible as neither one had private parts. The spokestoon also charged that Tinky had been chronically depressed after not getting cast for a part in the Broadway musical Avenue Q.
    Hey, if Focus on the Family leader James Dobson can create a surreal gay plot with SpongeBob SquarePants, (…)

  • What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of “democracy” have subsided to a dull roar.
    After a day which left 50 people dead in Iraq, both civilians and soldiers, the death toll was hailed as a figure that was “lower than expected.” Thus...acceptable, by Bush Administration/ corporate media standards. After all, only of them was an American, the rest were Iraqis civilians and British soldiers.
    The gamble of (…)

  • The Vietnam Election Turnout was good as well
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No amount of spin can conceal Iraqis’ hostility to US occupation
    By Sami Ramadani
    On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign (…)

  • Neocons Drive The Nation Toward Ruin, Iraqi Guerrillas Kill Our Soldiers, Veterans Are Ignored, and Americans fall asleep
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Stewart Nusbaumer For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.
    We fought a war so we understand the horror of war — horror is not always easy to remember, especially, when in youth, videogames were one’s greatest threat. We fought a war so we know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought (…)

  • The Antiwar Movement Awakening
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Manuel Valenzuela
    The Iraq war is this generation’s anti-war and peace movements’ Vietnam. To this reality we must awaken, for in tragedy can an enormous opportunity be seen. The awakening is already taking shape, yet for it to triumph it must continue growing, waking from the doldrums of decades of complacency, dusting off the cobwebs of resistance and evolving to new times and means. It is up to us, millions strong, some more vocal than others, some more courageous than most, each (…)