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  • Hiroshima Mayor Calls for Emergency Campaign Around the World
    7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tadatoshi Akiba Mayor The City of Hiroshima
    PEACE DECLARATION
    "Nothing will grow for 75 years." Fifty-nine years have passed since the August sixth when Hiroshima was so thoroughly obliterated that many succumbed to such doom. Dozens of corpses still bearing the agony of that day, souls torn abruptly from their loved ones and their hopes for the future, have recently re-surfaced on Ninoshima Island, warning us to beware the utter inhumanity of the atomic bombing and the gruesome horror (…)

  • Najaf toll: US claims 300, fighters say 36
    7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    US marines say they have killed an estimated 300 Mahdi Army fighters in Najaf in the past two days, but a Muqtada al-Sadr spokesman says most of those killed were civilians.
    The spokesman claimed only 36 fighters had been killed in several Iraqi cities after clashes that have fuelled fears of a new rebellion among Iraqi Shias.
    The fresh fighting, which still raged on Friday, marks a major challenge for the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Alawi and appears to have destroyed a (…)

  • Iraq war: good for Business, bad for the People
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    It’s funny. I’d seen all this stuff before-I mean it isn’t as if there was anything really new here for anyone who’s been paying attention for the past few years. And yet, I cried. Maybe it’s the deprogramming of having at least some of what we’ve seen replayed with any decent focus for One Brief Shining Moment, beyond the self-imposed straitjacket of a docile and dangerously inept US press. Maybe it’s just the oxygen given to all those impulses so many of us have (…)

  • Hiroshima mayor lashes out at U.S. on 59th anniversary of atomic bombing
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Shinya Ajima
    HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima on Friday morning marked the 59th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city. An estimated 40,000 people attended the ceremony that started at 8 a.m. at the Peace Memorial Park in the downtown part of the western Japan city that was devastated in the world’s first nuclear attack Aug 6, 1945, three days before the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
    In his peace declaration, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba voiced serious concern over the (…)

  • Saddam’s cameraman is still haunted by images of war
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    "I vomited," Mouffak Fathi Daoud says, and you have to understand why. Three young soldiers were brought to the trees on the hills outside Sulimaniyah. They had been retreating from the great battle against the Iranians on Jebel Maout. Saddam had ordered that all deserters should be shot. Daoud was one of the Iraqi army’s top newsreel cameramen. He didn’t have to watch. But he was a witness.
    "They were between 20 and 26 years old. All of them said the same thing, ’Our (…)

  • Chords for Change
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
    A nation’s artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over the years I’ve tried to think long and hard about what it means to be American: about the distinctive identity and position we have in the world, and how that position is best carried. I’ve tried to write songs that speak to our pride and criticize our failures.
    These questions are at the heart of this election: who we are, what we stand for, why we fight. Personally, for (…)

  • 1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by BBC
    Screen icon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home.
    The 36-year-old actress’ body was discovered in the early hours of this morning by two doctors who were called to her Brentwood home by a concerned housekeeper.
    The doctors were forced to break into Miss Monroe’s bedroom after being unable to open the door. She was found lying naked in her bed with an empty bottle of Nembutal sleeping pills by her side.
    The local coroner, who visited the scene (…)

  • Being Max Cleland
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Charles Bowden
    The day always begins with the left arm. The clock reads 5:30 or 6:00 A.M. The plaque next to the bed always whispers the same thing: I WAS GIVEN LIFE, THAT I MIGHT ENJOY ALL THINGS. That is it, the glowing numbers announcing the time, the velvet darkness, and then, with the light switched on, the line whispering off the plaque. The body sits up and—this is the hard part to state, because here the words fail—the left arm of the body grabs the left arm of the waiting (…)

  • Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III Violence and Virtual Violence
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite a well-documented picture of under-reported sexualized violence, the major media has not shown any interest in pursuing cases of rape or abuse of Iraqi women by the US military. Instead, two stories about hoaxes or more accurately apparent hoaxes made the rounds earlier this year. They’re worth looking at to better understand what’s behind the seemingly artless way in which hoaxes and allegations of hoaxes creep into the factual history of abuse in Iraq.
    On May 4, 2004, just when (…)

  • Ditch the Distraction in Chief
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was "Bush in a Box" that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave my father on his sixty-sixth birthday. Bush in a Box is a cardboard cutout of President 43 with a set of adhesive speech balloons featuring the usual Bushisms: "Is our children learning?" "They misunderestimated me"—standard-issue Bush-bashing schlock, on sale at Wal-Mart, made in Malaysia.
    Yet Bush in a Box filled me with despair. It’s not (…)