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  • Exclusive Interview with Cindy Sheehan After Mother’s Stroke: "I Want to Get Back As Soon As Possible"
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Crawford Vigil Is Not Over
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    Cindy Sheehan had to leave Crawford temporarily after her mother suffered a stroke. She spoke with Democracy Now! in the airport on her way to Los Angeles. She said that also she left her vigil without meeting with President Bush, she said, "This Camp Casey movement is bigger than me. It’s growing, it’s bigger than any of us."
    Cindy Sheehan went on, "I believe that it is (…)

  • For Cindy: There is no Glory in Dying
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    From Sgt. Kevin Benderman - Prisoner of Conscience for objecting to war:
    “I have come to the conclusion that the Creator does not want us to fight wars or to leave our brothers to die in hunger or disease. We have been given the things we need to provide all men on the planet with what they need to get by in this world. Why should I not help another human being that needs what I can help them with? I have ignored that for far too long. I have turned my head when the (…)

  • Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN CITY — Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
    The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope’s lawyers in (…)

  • AIR FORCE ACADEMY (AGAIN)
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    A retired Army major general is throwing fuel on the hot issue of religious discrimination at the U.S. Air Force Academy by writing to commanders there to urge their backing a Christian evangelical rally for military personnel sponsored by Rev. Billy Graham’s ministry ? and signing his letters “Your Partner in the Gospel”.
    The academy, which has been dogged by allegations of harassment against non-Christian cadets, charged that Bob Dees has sent promotional literature (…)

  • Anti-war protester Sheehan leaving camp because of mother’s stroke
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - The grieving mother who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush’s ranch nearly two weeks ago said Thursday she was leaving because her mother had a stroke.
    Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and would rush to her 74-year-old mother’s side. Her mother lives in the Los Angeles area.
    "I’ll be back as soon as possible if it’s possible," Sheehan said. After hugging some of her supporters, she got in a van and left.
    Sheehan, of (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11 - 12)
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 12); Vigils
    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
    Our candlelight vigil at Camp Casey was beautiful tonight. There were hundreds of people here and we are hearing that hundreds of people were involved in vigils around the country. We at Camp Casey are so amazed and gratified that there were almost 1700 vigils around the country.
    CNN followed me around for the morning to do a ’Day in the Life’ of Cindy Sheehan. I kept asking them if they were falling (…)

  • Cindy, the Peace Train, and the Little Ditch that Could
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Greg Moses
    Two months ago while exhausted from a Summer Soulstice peace festival, and while looking with dismay into a long hot summer of war, Louisiana attorney Buddy Spell, his spouse Annie, and their guest of honor Cindy Sheehan decided they needed to do something, but not something too high energy. So they browsed through the train schedule and designated an Amtrak Crescent as their Peace Train. Come September they’d board the train in New Orleans and put out word to folks along the (…)

  • Niger: Reasons for a Disaster
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nathalie Funès
    "The world was deaf."
    A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
    The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)

  • Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad’s body count
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

  • Police under pressure over Menezes leak
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Tempest and Simon Jeffery
    Family representatives and campaigners for the Brazilian man shot dead on a London tube train are demanding to know how Scotland Yard allowed misleading information to circulate about his killing.
    In the wake of a leak last night from the independent report, which revealed eyewitnesses seeing Jean Charles de Menezes being held by police in his seat before being shot in the head, attention has now turned to the initial accounts of his death. These (…)