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  • Galloway’s frankness invigorates, shocks Americans
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Nichols
    Americans who are familiar only with the almost always empty words - and often empty heads - of this country’s political leaders can be a little shocked by George Galloway’s pronouncements.
    The British parliamentarian, who came of age in the brawling political landscape of his native Scotland, where a quick wit and a savage debating style are prerequisites for electoral success, does not mince words in the manner that most American pols do.
    Consider Galloway’s statement (…)

  • Global warming ’past the point of no return’
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Steve Connor, Science Editor
    A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.
    They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the (…)

  • Galloway 10 x Hitchens 0
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, the long-awaited “Grapple in the Big Apple,” as the Guardian dubbed it, has taken place. Here is the link Hitchens, that "drink-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay," as MP George Galloway of the Respect Coalition party in Great Britain so memorably put it, apparently was on another planet. The event took place on September 14 in the Mason Hall at the Baruch College performing arts center in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan. Baruch College is one of ten senior colleges of the (…)

  • A Bright Spot in Bush World
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
    by Cindy Sheehan
    It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)

  • It’s not so much that the government is not responding in NOLA, they are obsructing the response
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Archer
    It’s not so much that the government is not responding [with storm relief], they are obstructing the response. They are telling us we can’t bring people the basic necessities of life because that would give them hope. It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid. That is the revolution. - Jesse, an organizer with MayDay DC volunteering in the Common Ground Wellness Center, Algiers, NOLA
    A MODEL FOR GETTING IT TOGETHER
    The locally-led, mutually based community relief (…)

  • Michael Moore helps provide real relief for the people of New Orleans
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Friends,
    Last week I closed my New York production office and sent my staff down to New Orleans to set up our own relief effort. I asked all of you to help me by sending food, materials and cash to the emergency relief center we helped set up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with the Veterans for Peace. We did this when the government was doing nothing and the Red Cross was still trying to get it together. Every day, every minute was critical. People were dying, poor (…)

  • HECK OF A JOB GEORGE
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We are so glad that you recognized that race and poverty are part of your enduring legacy. You certainly deserve a lot of the credit for accelerating them. For a while we were not sure that you recognized that the U.S. actually had homeless people.
    We had the impression that you thought they lived above hot-air grates and around dumpsters by choice. We realize that you may not actually LIKE blacks and bums, but now we know that you are at least aware that they exist and (…)

  • Bush: Katrina Failure = gimme more power
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by benfrank
    Bush says he may need more power in disasters
    He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.
    Props to SpeakSpeak
    Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.
    Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.
    Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on (…)

  • Many Iraqis believe ’suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. "I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth." Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.... many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman (…)

  • LET’S INVADE VENEZUELA
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    The insolence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toward U.S. President George Bush cannot be tolerated any longer by the neoconservatives of the U.S. Bush must not allow any inferior nation or race or person to challenge the U.S. bid for world domination. Bush, the darling of his God, the love of his remolded Republican Party, the Messiah of corporations, the apocalyptic leader of American Taliban Fundamentalists, has been insulted beyond any possible bounds of taste, (…)