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  • Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by IAN GREGOR
    LOS ANGELES - Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96.
    Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, Austria, according to Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
    "I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In (…)

  • A True American Hero
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Ellen DeGeneres strode up to the stage as this year’s Emmy host with the Herculean task of brightening the nation’s somber mood following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
    "New Orleans is my hometown, and I have family in Mississippi," Ellen said, striking the right note at the awards ceremony. "It’s times like this we really, really need laughter."
    Ellen could just have easily been talking about her career, which was derailed by the storm of controversy that (…)

  • Storm Rescuers Overwhelmed by Toxic Waste & A Miraculous Molecular Solution
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes By MARJORIE HERNANDEZ Scripps Howard News Service
    NEW ORLEANS - The putrid smell of toxic, mud-caked debris baking in the humid Southern heat wafted almost 200 feet above the ground.
    Trees that were once green and lush are now brown and in pieces, many bending to the awesome power of a Category 4 hurricane that pounced on this city and its surrounding parishes more than two weeks ago. Murky water as black as tar in some places and dull (…)

  • BASRA : British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and free two soldiers held in Iraq prison
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alaa Habib
    BASRA, Iraq - British forces freed two undercover soldiers from jail in Basra late on Monday after a day of rioting in the southern city sparked when the soldiers fired on an Iraqi police patrol.
    An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and that dozens of Iraqi prisoners escaped during the raid. But the Ministry of Defence said the release of the two soldiers was negotiated and it did not believe the prison had been stormed. (…)

  • NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried
    by Sarah Ferguson
    Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.
    The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq.
    "We get up every morning, and (…)

  • Police Fortify Numbers for War Protests. Demonstration Will Be the First Since the District Passed Arrest Law
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Del Quentin Wilber
    D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.
    Saturday’s rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Miriam Raftery
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.
    Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco (…)

  • All Chao’s Children
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)
    by Don Snowden
    Manu Chao may be an anomalous ripple breaking the surface of the Anglo music world, but the Energizer Bunny skankster is riding the crest of a wave that’s been developing for more than a decade in southern Europe-not that anyone outside the Mediterranean rim really got a chance to hear it grow. What goes on musically in France, Spain, and Italy passes undetected on the radar screen of the dominant U.S.-Anglo pop world, (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela at the Fête de l’Humanité
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We were there. Bellaciao
    By Greg Oxley
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in the Paris area last weekend. Overall, more than 400 people heard Jorge Martin speak at the Fête.
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in (…)

  • CLEANING UP THE BUSH MESS
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Peter Fredson
    Katrina has come and gone and has left both the Gulf Coast and George Bush’s reputation soiled, in tatters, dirtied and in need of a lot of urgent repair. Bush’s credibility is close to zero in many reporters’ estimation; any statement he makes is self-serving and must be scanned carefully for deceit, misinformation and outright lies. His “dry-drunk” attitude, irritability and religious fervor is detrimental to his image of himself.
    His entire administration has (…)