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  • It Takes Real Courage to Desert Your Post and Then Attack a Wounded Vet
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It Takes Real Courage to Desert Your Post and Then Attack a Wounded Vet
    by Michael Moore
    Dear Mr. Bush,
    I know you and I have had our differences in the past, and I realize I am the one who started this whole mess about "who did what" during Vietnam when I brought up that "deserter" nonsense back in January. But I have to hand it to you on what you have uncovered about John Kerry and his record in Vietnam. Kerry has tried to pass himself off as a war hero, but thanks to you and your (…)

  • Major protest planned during the Republican convention
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    SUNDAY: The largest planned demonstration, with an expected crowd of up to 250,000, is to march uptown past Madison Square Garden and then back downtown to protest the Iraq war. Some are expected to gather later in Central Park, although they were denied a permit to do so. Later, as delegates arrive for special Broadway show performances, activists plan to swarm streets outside theaters.
    MONDAY: A coalition of New York-based community groups called Still We Rise plans to march from Union (…)

  • Depleted Uranium - The Real Dirty Bombs
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Christopher Bollyn
    Lost in the media circus about the Iraq war, supposedly being fought to prevent
    a tyrant from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, is the salient fact that
    the United States and Britain are actively waging chemical and nuclear warfare
    in Iraq - using depleted uranium munitions .../...

  • First Large Protest Kicks Off Week of Expected Anti-GOP Rallies
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A protestor identified as Terra Lawson-Remer (upper right) lowers herself to a waiting police officer after she helped unfurl a banner on the facade of the Plaza Hotel in New York on August 26, 2004. The 60-foot banner reads ’Truth’ and ’Bush’ with arrows pointing in opposite directions. Two members of a protest group called Operation Sibyl rappelled down the facade to unfurl the banner. Photo by Peter Morgan/Reuters by Chaka Ferguson (…)

  • Israel Must Rethink Prisoner Policy
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    "For all I care, they can starve to death!" announced Tzahi Hanegbi, after Palestinian prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike against prison conditions. Thus the Minister for Internal Security added another memorable phrase to the lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    Hanegbi became famous (or infamous) for the first time when, as a student activist, he was caught on camera with his friends hunting Arab students with bicycle chains. At the time I published a (…)

  • Ranks of Poor, Uninsured Rose in 2003
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Americans Living in Poverty and Without Health Insurance in 2003, Census Bureau Reports
    Democrats took aim at President Bush’s economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.
    The president’s surrogates came to his defense, noting that the numbers failed to reflect more recent economic gains, such as the addition of 1.5 million jobs over the past 12 (…)

  • It’s time to bring Najaf back home
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Americans have one last chance to show their opposition to this war
    by Naomi Klein
    I’ve been here a week now, watching the city prepare for the Republican national convention and the accompanying protests. Much is predictable: tabloid hysteria about an anarchist siege; cops showing off their new crowd-control toys; fierce debates about whether the demonstrations will hurt the Republicans or inadvertently help them.
    What surprises me is what isn’t here: Najaf. It’s nowhere to be found. (…)

  • Journalist From Italy Killed in Iraq by Captors
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOHN F. BURNS
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news channel Al Jazeera reported early Friday that it had received a videotape from a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq showing the killing of an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, who disappeared last week while traveling to Najaf. Italy’s Ansa news agency quoted Italian officials in Iraq as confirming the Al Jazeera report.
    A spokesman for Al Jazeera, Jihad Ballout, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that the satellite (…)

  • Pinochet loses immunity
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Louise Egan
    SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile’s Supreme Court has stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution in a notorious human rights case, raising hopes of victims that he may finally face trial for abuses during his 17-year regime.
    The 9-8 ruling on Thursday upheld a lower court decision in May that removed the immunity granted Pinochet as a former head of state.
    The lower court said the retired general, 88, could be charged in connection with the (…)

  • 60 years of memory: Paris of myth, Paris of reality
    25 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mary Blume
    Was it really possible to be that happy and to believe you would be that happy again and again? In Paris, on the 25th day of a pleasantly hot August 60 years ago, the answer was an exuberant yes: the Germans were gone and the city was again free. "Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!" General Charles de Gaulle proclaimed that evening in the Hôtel de Ville.
    Everyone was in the streets, laughing, shouting, crying, embracing, plunging to the ground (…)