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  • Cheney + Pakistan = Iran
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program showed how the country’s top nuclear scientist was secretly selling Iran and North Korea, the so-called “Axis of Evil,” blueprints for building an atomic bomb were uncovered last year, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see how President Bush would punish Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaff.
    Bush has, after all, spent his entire two terms in office talking tough about countries and dictators that conceal (…)

  • Documenting a Lie by the 9/11 Commission
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma mpwright9@aol.com
    One of my goals is to contribute to the assembling of firm grounds for a new and honest official 9/11 investigation. Readers are invited to see an email from me, sent to the Commission in September 2003. > http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7465
    Just focus in on one aspect of it, for right now. I informed them that Zacarias Moussaoui had a meeting with Mohammed Atta, in Oklahoma City. See the second page of the (…)

  • Why I cannot be part of this divisive war
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an extract from Robin Cook’s resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.
    by Robin Cook
    This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here.
    I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international (…)

  • Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother’s Loss Becomes a Problem for the President
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan paces on a road Sunday near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. She vows to wait until he talks to her or leaves the ranch.
    By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
    CRAWFORD, Tex - President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch here this weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all Americans troops out of Iraq now.
    Ms. (…)

  • Depleted Uranium, Anthrax Vaccine & The Gulf War Syndrome, Part 1
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dr. James Howenstine
    More and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S. government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms. Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in the first Gulf War were disabled within less than 10 years. (…)

  • Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Cuban Singer in ’Buena Vista Social Club,’ Dies
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BEN RATLIFF
    Ibrahim Ferrer, the Cuban singer whose life included one of popular music’s most triumphant second acts, died on Saturday in Havana. He was 78.
    The cause was multiple organ failure, his manager, Carmen Romero, announced.
    Mr. Ferrer was at the center of the Buena Vista Social Club, a phenomenon that brought long-delayed international fame to a group of older Cuban musicians thanks to a Grammy-winning 1997 album produced by Ry Cooder and a subsequent film by Wim Wenders, (…)

  • Articles of impeachment and indictment for high crimes and misdemeanors
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman legal Editor of Pravda.Ru
    During the build-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, some, particularly in the foreign media, accused Bush of wanting war simply for the sake of war
    Prologue
    As I was researching and preparing notes for this article, the bombings in London occurred. In the wake of these tragic events, I became outraged by the number of right-wing warmongers in America who callously exploited these attacks in a vacuous attempt to justify the Bush (…)

  • Galloway says Blair and Bush ’have blood on their hands’
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair and George Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today.
    Mr Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green, said that the attacks on the capital by Islamic extremists could not be separated from the invasion of Iraq and Britain’s treatment of the Muslim world.
    He said that the "al-Qaida phenomenon" had arisen directly as a result of western policies in the Middle East.
    Mr Galloway had already (…)

  • Bush Refuses To Meet With Sheehan
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Aides say ’Bush really cares’ [about avoiding her]
    CRAWFORD, TX - Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, met with two Bush administration aides Saturday after president George W. Bush refused to come out to meet her.
    Sheehan, 48 (shown here), traveled to the president’s Crawford ranch after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a ’noble cause’ and that the mission must be completed.
    "I want to ask the president, ’Why did you kill my (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan at the Veterans for Peace National Convention
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Veterans for Peace National Convention wraps up today at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.
    Thursday and Friday saw the vets check-in, and attend workshops that varied from Stan Goff’s ‘Gender & Militarism’ to ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ which featured Ann Wright, Coleen Rowley, and Jesselyn Radack.
    Friday night featured keynote speakers and entertainers at Lynch Hall, on campus. They all had great things to say, and Cindy Sheehan was no exception.
    Here is what she had to (…)