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  • Why I’ll Refuse to Fight in this Immoral War
    22 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every individual soldier has the moral right to decide whether he will put his life on the line
    By George Solomou
    Earlier this week, I came out publicly against the war in Iraq. I’m not the only member of the Labour Party to be opposed to our military participation in this American-led adventure, nor am I the only soldier. In fact, there growing vocal minority within the Territorial Army that is against the war. Nonetheless I am the first one to make it clear, in public, that if called (…)

  • 4 More Years and Countless Tears
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    Today President George W. Bush was sworn in, while the rest of us were just plain swearing.
    "No! This can’t F^*%*#^ be happening!"
    Yes, it did happen. The snow you saw in Washington was Hell freezing over. A president who squandered the surplus, ran up the deficit, damaged our international standing and launched a pointless war over weapons that did not exist was reelected.
    It was really pointless listening to his speech today. He has distorted reality so much that it (…)

  • Iraqi Freedom: Mother and Father Shot in front of children
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was a routine foot patrol. As we made our way up a broad boulevard, in the distance I could see a car making its way toward us. As a defence against potential car bombs, it is now standard practice for foot patrols to stop oncoming vehicles, particularly after dark.
    "We have a car coming," someone called out, as we entered an intersection. We could see the car about 100 metres away. It kept coming; I could hear its engine now, a high whine that sounded more like acceleration than (…)

  • Coronation of Corruption : celebration of Exploitation
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    At the apex of the highest mountain stand the facilitators of human corruption, in proud self-adulation, glorification and ego-driven debasement readying themselves with a forty million dollar celebration of pomp and circumstance, enjoying the comforts of luxury and unfettered power spun by the web of exploitation, for victorious do they see each other, this power-addicted and profit-hungry cabal of corporatist and elitist vermin, extolling both the virtues of (…)

  • Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
    But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

  • Virginia on the Move
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Wayne Besen
    In their gratuitous zeal to undermine same-sex families, Virginia lawmakers are showing about as much wisdom as Prince Harry in a costume shop. In the opening week of Virginia’s general assembly, four separate constitutional bans on the freedom to marry were introduced. This continuous drive to marginalize and stigmatize gay families may gravely damage the reputation of Virginia and cause a gradual brain drain that will hurt business interests.
    Virginia is not alone in its (…)

  • The Scapegoat : Abu Ghraib - a policy, not an aberration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Justin Raimondo
    The show trial of U.S. Army reservist Charles Graner had something for everyone: tragedy, comedy, pathos, and propaganda. The tragic aspect was dominant, with the photos of the disgusting abuse illustrating the theme of senseless arbitrary violence, but there was also comedy, of a sort, with Guy Womack, Graner’s lawyer, making an argument that was unusual, to say the least:
    "Graner’s attorney said piling naked prisoners into pyramids and leading them by a leash were (…)

  • US Official Confirms Allawi Shot Six Dead
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.
    The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week’s issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad correspondent for The New Yorker.
    Writing about his research in (…)

  • Either You are With Us or Against Us: A Discourse on Terrorism
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    Without justice, there can be no peace. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.... Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter... Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love... Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.... The ultimate weakness of (…)

  • Majority of Americans disapprove Bush’s Iraq policy— Where is his mandate?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Despite President George W. Bush’s belief that by reelecting him Americans expressed support for the war on Iraq, two opinion polls published Tuesday showed the opposite: the majority think the war was a mistake and disapprove of the way he is handling things in Iraq.
    Shortly before Bush’s inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC (…)