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  • Deserters Are Heroes
    14 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Harley Sorensen
    Today let us take the sad, sordid case of one George W. Bush. Our president. Love him or hate him, it was he and he alone who decided that our mighty armies should travel to Iraq and kill tens of thousands of people, most of whom were guilty of nothing more than being there.
    Like egomaniacal rulers forever, dating back to the cave, Mr. Bush demonized the people he wanted to kill. They have "weapons of mass destruction," he asserted. Yeah, like we don’t. Like India (…)

  • German industry pushing for nuclear waste dump
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    German industry pushing for final nuclear waste dump
    by Diet Simon
    The German government, industry and anti-nuclear activists are arguing publicly again about final storage of nuclear waste.
    Industry wants a salt deposit experts condemn as unsafe. The activists want it scrapped altogether. And the environment minister is promising examination of three new sites but hasn’t moved on that in six years.
    The president of the federation of industry, BDI, Michael Rogowski, has criticised (…)

  • Berlusconi ally found guilty of Mafia collusion
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tony Barber
    The ghosts of Italy’s mafia-infested political history returned to centre stage this weekend after a business associate and political ally of Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, was convicted of collusion with the Sicilian Mafia.
    Marcello Dell’Utri, 63, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Saturday by a court in Palermo, Sicily’s capital, after a trial in which the main evidence came from crime bosses who testified for the prosecution.
    "This is a sentence that will (…)

  • Kerry lawyer seeks Ohio ballots
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Williams
    US Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said.
    The request is one of 11 the Kerry campaign made in a letter sent over the weekend to Ohio’s 88 county boards of election, which will begin recounting presidential ballots this week.
    "We’re trying to increase the transparency of the election process," Donald McTigue, the lawyer (…)

  • Congressman accuses Ohio of stonewalling, obstructing state’s recount
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    House Democrat accuses Ohio of stonewalling recount
    by John Byrne
    Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich) accused Ohio election officials of efforts to “stonewall” and “obstruct” the recount in the state in a press release Sunday.
    The release, which was first reported by The Brad Blog, was confirmed to RAW STORY Sunday evening by House Judiciary spokesperson Dena Graziano.
    Conyers suggests that the top elections official, Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell (who was also (…)

  • Rebellion in the Ranks. Facing down Rummy
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    It was a Maalox moment for Donald Rumsfeld. At a forum held with U.S. troops in Kuwait who are headed to Iraq, the barrage of friendly fire soon scored a direct hit when a scout with the Tennessee National Guard, one Specialist Thomas Wilson, rose, and, his voice confident and clear but with an undertone of bafflement, asked:
    "We’ve had troops in Iraq for coming up on three years and we’ve always staged here out of Kuwait. Now why do we soldiers have to dig through (…)

  • Ohio Election Investigation Thwarted by Surprise Blackwell Order
    12 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Friday December 10 two certified volunteers for the Ohio Recount team assigned to Greene County were in process recording voting information from minority precincts in Greene County, and were stopped mid-count by a surprise order from Secretary of State Blackwell’s office. The Director Board of Elections stated that “all voter records for the state of Ohio were “locked-down,” and now they are not considered public records.”
    The volunteers were working with voter printouts received (…)

  • One billion children in extreme poverty: a holocaust on a world-scale
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
    UNICEF has just released its annual report, which reveals most shocking figures. Almost one billion children all over the world are denied at least one of seven commodities deemed essential: shelter, water, sanitation, schooling, information, healthcare and food. At least 640 million children lack adequate shelter, while 140 million have never been to school. Safe water is something that 400 million children are denied while 500 million live without basic (…)

  • "Because We Are Jews"
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rabbi Mordechi Weberman
    There are those who ask us why we march with the Palestinians. Why do we raise the Palestinian flag? Why do we support the Palestinian cause?
    “You are Jews!” they tell us. "What are you doing?"
    And our response is very simple:
    It is precisely because we are Jews that we march with the Palestinians and raise their flag!
    It is precisely because we are Jews that we demand that the Palestinian peoples be returned to their homes and properties!
    Yes, in our (…)

  • Israeli soldiers ’shoot boy for fun’
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Khalid Amayreh
    A group of Israeli soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip have reportedly admitted killing a 15-year-old Palestinian in Khan Yunus for sport.
    According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, the incident took place in March when a group of newly graduated soldiers were on a hike near the town of Khan Yunus.
    According to the report, an undisclosed number of Givati brigade soldiers shot and killed Khalid Sulaiman Mahdi while he was working with his father on their farm. (…)