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  • New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells
    As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff’s department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said today.
    Inmates in Templeman III, one of several buildings in the Orleans Parish Prison compound, reported that as of Monday, August 29, there were no correctional officers in the building, which held more than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who were (…)

  • Hart Viges: ’You can’t wash your hands when they’re covered in blood’
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.
    So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn’t need to jump into Baghdad airport.
    As we drove into Samawa to secure their supplies my (…)

  • Imagine one hundred thousand people marching on New Orleans
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    One hundred thousand people. I read the news from Washington DC that one hundred thousand protestors are marching on the capital, sharing a flood of outrage on our faltering King George, who frankly, doesn’t care if one hundred million demonstrated. I look at the pictures from the day and I see marches with multitudes of people, smiles and laughter, and creative props, costumes and actions. I’m sure the people who are participating feel empowered and alive.
    Hundreds of thousands of people (…)

  • We Don’t Exist
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    Last weekend, Karl Rove said that I was a clown and the anti-war movement was "non-existent." I wonder if the hundreds of thousands of people who showed up today to protest this war and George’s failed policies know that they don’t exist. It is also so incredible to me that Karl thinks that he can wish us away by saying we aren’t real. Well, Karl and Co., we are real, we do exist and we are not going away until this illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq is over and you (…)

  • Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Zirin
    1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and asked the question, “Can they take my title without me being whupped?” It was the year Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics became champions once again, yet the player-coach saw his house vandalized by bigots. This led Russell to call the city (…)

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
    Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians.
    The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the military in suppressing the Palestinian intifada. The investigations (…)

  • Estimated a crowd of about 200,000. Antiwar Protests Commence in Washington
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Miranda S. Spivack and Petula Dvorak
    Thousands of protesters against the war in Iraq rallied today in Washington and other U.S. and European cities to demand the return of U.S. troops in what organizers hope will be the largest gathering since the war began more than two years ago.
    Protest organizers estimated a crowd of about 200,000 rallied at the Ellipse, then marched around the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue. Police downgraded the count to about 150,000. The crowd (…)

  • Rita : bus fire kills 20 people
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bus fire ’kills 20’ Rita evacuees
    A bus carrying elderly evacuees from Hurricane Rita has caught fire on a gridlocked motorway, killing up to 20 people, a police spokesman says.
    The bus was engulfed in flames, causing a 17-mile (27-km) tailback on the Interstate 45 highway, the main route north from the Gulf Coast to Dallas.
    Oxygen used by the elderly people could have contributed to the blaze, a police spokesman told AP news agency.
    He said early indications were that the cause of (…)

  • FBI AND DHS SCHIZOPHRENIA
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing left 168 people dead, one U.S. national security agency believes the domestic radical right does not pose a substantial threat to Americans while another labels white supremacists as “terrorists” ? along with anti-war groups, affirmmative action organizations and animal rights activists.
    The apparent inconsistencies arise from documents recently made public from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of (…)

  • CIA Intelligence Reports Seven Months Before 9/11 said Iraq Posed No Threat to U.S., Containment Was Working
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    CIA Director George Tenet testified before Congress in February 2001 that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East.
    But immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9-11, which the Bush administration has said Iraq is partially responsible for, the President and his advisers were already making a case for war against Iraq without so much as providing a shred of evidence to back up their allegations that Iraq and its (…)