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  • Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife Refuge!
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter www.washingtonpost.com
    Congress is about to make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly.
    Congress had its Pyrrhic energy victory this summer, with a new energy (…)

  • BUSH ARROGANCE AND BARBARISM
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We wonder by what right American soldiers are walking around in Iraq with weapons in hand, far from Brooklyn or Crawford, Texas, shooting at the inhabitants of Iraq, destroying their homes, knocking down their businesses, destroying their infrastructure, lobbing grenades into rooms, pointing automatic weapons ceaselessly at people? We know they didn’t go to Iraq as tourists to look at one of the earliest civilizations in the world.
    We know they were commanded, as (…)

  • Iraq denounces British rescue in Basra: Why did undercover agents have anti-tank missle?
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Alaa Habib
    Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over a dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.
    British troops used an armored fighting vehicle on Monday to burst into an Iraqi jail in search of soldiers held by police in Basra. The British commander said he learned they had been handed to militia and ordered their rescue from a nearby house.
    "It is a very unfortunate development that the British (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and it’s not all about Bush
    by Kristen Lombardi Cindy Sheehan, the rising star of the anti-war movement, remembers when people used to think of her as one of those crazy activists, speaking out for a cause, inconveniencing all who stumbled onto her path. She remembers, from her days camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, how some drivers would shout out at her, “Get a job!”
    Her (…)

  • Interview from ’Dome City’ with Josh from New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of ’Dome City.’ Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrested that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)
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    Josh discusses the poor treatment of people evacuated to the (…)

  • 75,000 Body Bags Purchased For New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lynn Landes
    Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina’s death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?
    Along that line, other things don’t add up. For instance, why did FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did (…)

  • Senate’s Kabuki Dance With Roberts
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher After three days of hearings on the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts to be the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States, what the public has learned is that the nominee appears to be as much Talmudic scholar as jurist. In the relatively few questions he did not duck altogether by saying they related to issues likely to come before the Court, or by claiming the views he wrote were those of the administrations he has worked for in the past, Roberts responded (…)

  • A patchwork of help—Greenhouse School’s unique approach to Katrina relief
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    The Hurricane Katrina disaster is bringing out an instinct to help from schools, churches and groups all over the world. However, students at The Greenhouse School are taking a unique approach to helping victims of Katrina—and one that is familiar at the same time. “We wanted to do something, like a lot of people, but we wanted it to be special and in line with how we work,” said Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde, the school’s assistant director.
    She and her colleague, (…)

  • Division of Funeral Corp. Charged With Desecrating Corpses Hired to Collect Deceased Victims of Hurricane Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.
    Moreover, the company paid $200,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that sought to expose (…)

  • If Corporations Could Laugh
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ralph Nader If only corporations could laugh. If only corporations could laugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Judge John Roberts’ nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, they would head for the nearest champagne closet in their executive suites.
    What a triumph for the most dominant powers in and around our nation. Judge Roberts got away without having important questions asked regarding the interface between corporations, the Constitution, the election (…)