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  • US drops bomb on wrong house killing 14 and injuring 6- AP lies in headline to coverup atrocity
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why does AP lie in their headlines?
    U.S. Says Airstrike on Iraq House Kills 5
    By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States military acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. But the man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people - including seven children.
    The strike in the town of Aitha, 30 miles south of Mosul, came hours before a senior U.S. Embassy official (…)

  • Grassroots Internet Activists Move Mountains to Expose Vote Fraud
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
    Together, grassroots/Internet activists have just moved three major American mountains.
    On January 6, we forced an angry Republican-dominated Congress into an unprecedented confrontation with the Truth about Ohio’s stolen election, about dubious vote counts nationwide, and ultimately about an electoral process worthy of zero public trust.
    America’s progressive grassroots further showed it could prompt the "democratic wing" of the (…)

  • Memo reveals Bush authorized torture
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Wheeler
    WASHINGTON During confirmation hearings on Alberto Gonzales nomination as Attorney General, senators should question him about a recently uncovered memo that George W. Bush ordered the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other military prisons around the world, several human rights groups suggested last month.
    The groups, who joined in an ACLU Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit, which won release of the memo and other incriminating documents, are (…)

  • Yes, you must pull out - but also pay for the damage
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US isn’t protecting or feeding Iraqis, it’s stoking violence and hardship
    by Naomi Klein
    Colin Powell invoked it before the invasion, telling aides that if the US went into Iraq "you’re going to be owning this place". John Kerry pledged his allegiance to it during the first presidential debate, saying: "Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It’s the wrong thing to do. But you own it."
    It’s the so-called Pottery Barn rule: "You break it, you own it." Pottery Barn, a chain of (…)

  • Dem lays out case against Bush’s Ohio win
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Malia Rulon
    WASHINGTON — The senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee protested President Bush’s re-election Wednesday with a new report claiming serious election irregularities and "significant disenfranchisement" of voters in Ohio.
    The report by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan says Congress should challenge the Electoral College vote when it is tallied Thursday in the House of Representatives and investigate all claims of voter problems in Ohio.
    "We have found numerous, (…)

  • Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
    As if to burst the bubble of human grandeur, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again thundered powerful vibrations onto her once pristine surface, in a sudden instant of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and laying waste to vast coastlines throughout Asiatic lands bordering the Indian Ocean. In one brief moment the fantasies of Hollywood fictions fused with (…)

  • Army Sergeant may refuse return to Iraq: Last time I was orderded to shoot at children
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ft. Stewart Georgia, “Rock of the Marne” — This morning Sergeant Kevin Benderman, U.S. Army awoke to face what will probably be one of the most important decisions of his life: whether or not to accept or refuse re-deployment to Iraq to participate in a war that has been increasingly questioned by the American public, and the world. A war that has been ruled illegal by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and has come under increasing fire from both Republicans and Democrats alike who (…)

  • Extra Armor for Troops Still in Storage, now Pentagon refuses to use it- worried about liability
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OCALA, Fla. — One of the big complaints from troops in Iraq is lack of armor for their vehicles, but a campaign to collect armor in Central Florida was apparently a wasted effort.
    Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean and other sheriffs around the state of Florida started gathering old bullet-proof vests last February to send to American troops, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
    The vests were meant to provide yet another layer of armor for Humvees and other vehicles vulnerable to roadside (…)

  • Everywhere But Nowhere
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    It seems a little discordant that the issue of gay people marrying is ubiquitous when gay couples are virtually invisible in society. In today’s America, you have a better chance of seeing a couple of polar bears sunbathing on Main Street than you do a same-sex couple holding hands.
    If you take a look around, the only place you are likely to see affectionate gay spouses are on the gayest streets in the gayest of gay ghettos. There are really only three possible (…)

  • Gaps in French Briat death report
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    The French anti-nuclear movement Réseau Sortir du nucléaire charges that there are serious gaps in the state attorney’s report on how a young activist was killed in November by a nuclear waste train.
    Twenty-two-year-old Sébastien Briat died on 7 November near Avricourt in Lorraine when he tried to stop a train taking waste from a French plutonium plant for storage in Germany, where it had originated.
    He was one of a group of eight. Contrary to first reports, it is now (…)