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  • Letter to Bush from Santa
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A letter from Santa
    By David Martin
    G.W. Bush
    The White House
    Washington, D.C.
    Dear Georgie,
    I’m glad to hear you have been a good boy this year. I got a lot of letters from other children who said you had been naughty. They were sure you were moving back to Texas soon or someplace even hotter. But apparently they were mistaken because your address hasn’t changed.
    I see that the top thing on your Christmas list is 50,000 GI Joes. That’s a lot of soldiers, Georgie. I don’t think (…)

  • Have Yourself a “Moral” Little Christmas!
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    by Leslie Sheridan
    Dear Fellow Humans:
    At this time of year, more than any other, we are reminded of some of the better characteristics associated with being human: acceptance, charity, compassion, love, selflessness, etc. This year, we have been especially reminded of “morality” and “family values.” However, “morality” and “family values” it seems, have been hijacked from what I remember them being as a kid.
    Webster’s defines “moral” as: ethical, right behavior, sanctioned or (…)

  • EUROPE: EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM FAILS TO MAP OUT STRATEGY FOR STRUGGLE
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joy
    An "Extraordinary" Assembly of the European Social Forum (ESF) took place in Paris, on 18-19 December 2004. Over 300 people from social movements, trade unions and political parties from at least 16 countries participated in the weekend. Whatever hopes might have been entertained for this meeting, in no sense was it extraordinary, either in its procedure or in its results. In fact, it went in exactly the same way as all the other ESF preparatory meetings - undemocratically - and (…)

  • General strike in U.S.
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    11 comments

    by John Kalmus
    I wonder what anyone else out there thinks about using general strikes in the U.S. as one way of many to end the utter insanity of the current administration in Washington D.C. Where do I begin listing the lives and liberties damaged and lost, the care for children and adolescents with disabilities’ lack of receiving medical and educational services, the sacred legal system we have used for centuries overturned, or the attacks perpetrated on U.S. people of color, (…)

  • Sharper watch on nuclear trains
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    After a nuclear waste train ran over and killed the French activist Sébastien Briat nearly seven weeks ago, such trains are under sharper observation, writes the leftwing newspaper, Neues Deutschland. Many environment campaigners are asking themselves whether such an accident could also happen in Germany and what sort of inhibition threshold there might be for careless and inconsiderate driving of such trains.
    The paper, which was the official mouthpiece of the communist (…)

  • Ukrainians Show Americans How to Reject Election Fraud
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Ukrainians Show Americans How to Reject Election Fraud Can We Emulate Their Courage & Determination?
    By Michael Bleyzer (from Kyiv, Ukraine)
    (Copy of the letter of a young Ukrainian. A nice, timely report from someone on the spot....)
    As you likely know from the news, we are in the middle of the Orange Revolution here in Kyiv. I can tell you that this is one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life to be here during this time. We have been spending a lot of time on the (…)

  • Will John Kerry come forward and challenge the theft of his own election?
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    23 comments

    Interview with Harvey Wasserman on Democracy Now
    AMY GOODMAN: Harvey Wasserman is our guest, Senior Editor at the Free Press, based in Ohio. Welcome to Democracy Now!
    HARVEY WASSERMAN: Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
    AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Can you talk about the whole controversy?
    HARVEY WASSERMAN: I live in Columbus. I’m a registered voter in Columbus. They tried to deprive me of my absentee ballot. But we have followed this thing. I write for (…)

  • Hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    We must hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    By Angie Pratt
    You want to know why when news of prisoner torture percolated up the channels of the government nothing was done? The answer is quite simple. They condoned the actions. In fact, we now know that they were following an executive order from George W. Bush. This isn’t based on hearsay. This isn’t a figment of some Massachusetts liberal’s imagination. This allegation is based on an internal FBI document (…)

  • War Crimes
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Washingtonpost
    THANKS TO a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign detainees by the U.S. military and the CIA — truths the Bush administration implacably has refused to acknowledge.
    Since the publication of photographs of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in the spring the administration’s whitewashers — led by Defense (…)

  • Rumsfeld and Myers are lying about the attack in Mosul Iraq- It was not a suicide bomber
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Insurgents have fired mortars at the chow hall more than 30 times this year. One round killed a female soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in the summer as she scrambled for cover in one of the concrete bomb shelters. Workers are building a new steel and concrete chow hall for the soldiers just down the dusty dirt road.
    Reporter Provides Account of Mosul Attack
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: December 21, 2004
    Filed at 11:25 a.m. ET
    FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAREZ, (…)