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  • Burn in hell, Mr. President
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by DOUG THOMPSON
    My first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage.
    How dare he, I thought. Not even the lowest, scum-sucking son of a bitch in politics would stoop to using a day to honor those who served their country would stoop to using that day to promote his lies-based, illegal, immoral exercise in mass murder called the invasion of Iraq.
    Yes he would. George W. Bush is a pathetic, pitiless (…)

  • Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Topeka, Kansas, USA) Across the plains of Kansas the destroyed, radioactive 140,000 lb Abrams Tanks perched on railroad flat cars and rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting Death Mask. RADIOACTIVE The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium." The Abrams Tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big Tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster (…)

  • Why isn’t Tony Blair behind bars?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair knew full well before he went to war that he could face criminal charges for ‘waging a war of aggression’, which is is not only illegal in international law but it is the most serious criminal offence known to mankind. 100,000 deaths later and he still isn’t behind bars.
    by Chris Coverdale
    When the Prime Minister and the Attorney General announced that the war with Iraq would be legal, they betrayed the trust of the British people.
    Waging a war of aggression is not only (…)

  • Why are they not in front of their cameras calling Bush a butcher?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I first want to thank Mark Parent and LiveJournal.com for bringing this video feed to the attention of many (English Version from Italian TV): US Chemical Weapons Attack on Iraqi Civilians.
    But before you watch this video which is 27 minutes in length, I want to strongly caution you that what you are about to see is so horrific and if you have children, under no circumstances are they to view this feed.
    While I have seen graphic photos of the “Bush War” in Iraq, I (…)

  • Opera downsizes as Italy’s divas go on hunger strike
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Singers and staff take drastic action in protest at budget cuts
    by Barbara McMahon in Rome
    Opera lovers in Italy this season may notice something different about the performers. Many of them are looking distinctly svelte after going on hunger strike to protest about proposed cuts to the country’s arts budget. Living on only water, fruit juice and coffee, singers’ weights have shrunk.
    Barbara Vignudelli, a soprano at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, has had no solid food for two (…)

  • Nothing to Lose
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not that the world beyond America’s shores could give two hoots about the U.S.’ internal squabbles anymore: after years of hoping for some inkling of resistance from the home front, the global community has likely had quite enough. But is there a stirring in the Belly of the Beast? Writer Daniel Patrick Welch, while skeptical, takes pleasure in the growing travails of the Bush cabal and hints that the heretofore neutered opposition may have grown some new appendages.
    By Daniel Patrick (…)

  • ROSA PARKS: WHY ONE PERSON MATTERS
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Ask any non-American to name three leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and chances are they’ll stop after one: Martin Luther King.
    But in fact the movement had many leaders.
    Malcolm X went from being a street-wise Boston hoodlum to one of America’s most influential black nationalist leaders, advocating black pride, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He was assassinated in New York City in 1965.
    Stokely Carmichael saw nonviolence as (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • Wake Up America
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    Wake up, America... stop believing in the illusion
    Americans blindly move through the fog, running from themselves, believing in saviors who will pull them above the fray just before they go over the edge. We don’t face anything head-on. When the going gets tough, Americans go drinking. We have Prozac, Zyprexa, Ambien, Xanex - and a world of chemicals to thicken the fog. There’s the building on the hill where we gather to pray for forgiveness from our sins and (…)

  • Flashback: Senate told Saddam had WMDs and a fleet of UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Ben Nelson
    I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction—specifically chemical and biological—but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs (…)