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  • Congressman Charles Rangel at Saint Luke’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, NYC 3/12/05
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A transcription of the first twenty-five minutes of the Congressman’s speech given on Saturday March 12, 2005, 2:30 p.m. at St. Luke’s AME Church, located on 1872 Amsterdam Ave., NYC.
    Mr. Rangel is a gifted orator. The audience was receptive and engaged. During the question and answer phase, there were no questions regarding the West Side Stadium for which the Congressman is now on record as supporting.
    Vin -
    (audience applause)
    Thank you pastor. I don’t normally get this close to (…)

  • U.S. Representatives to Vote Against $81 Billion to Continue War in Iraq
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Jim McDermott (D-WA), John Conyers (D-MI), and Danny Davis (D-IL) today announced that they will vote against President Bush’s request for $81 Billion to continue war in Iraq. The war in Iraq has not made America safer, the supplemental request lacks accountability and the President has failed to plan for the return of U.S. troops. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on President Bush’s (…)

  • Italy to pull troops out of Iraq! Coalition Crumbling
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Owen and Michael Evans
    BOWING to popular pressure, the Italian Government said last night that it would start pulling its more than 3,000 troops out of Iraq in September.
    The surprise announcement by Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, came less than two weeks after US troops shot dead Nicola Calipari, Italy’s top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety.
    Italy has 3,200 troops and Carabinieri paramilitary police in al-Nasiriyah, a (…)

  • U.S. May End Up Scrutinized at UN Human Rights Meet
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Waddington
    GENEVA - The United States, usually a finger-pointer on human rights, could end up in the dock itself over reports of torture and abuse in its war on terror when the United Nations begins a worldwide scrutiny this week.
    Activists, such as the New York-based Human Rights Watch, are urging members of the Commission on Human Rights to condemn Washington for mistreatment of prisoners detained abroad.
    If any such move emerges during the commission’s annual session, (…)

  • Alaskan wildlife refuge must be saved
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by CHRISTINE FIORDALIS
    Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is again on the table in Congress, this time in the budget bill. How many times must Americans say it? Leave our wilderness alone!
    Human beings need wilderness and open space. Some years ago, a friend teaching at a rural Michigan campus invited high schoolers from Detroit to study ecology. At first, the students were frightened and hesitant but the woods slowly drew them out. They found things, camped out, (…)

  • Agent Orange lawsuit: an unjust, immoral verdict
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anh Hieu
    US Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s dismissal on Thursday of the compensation lawsuit by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was unjust, immoral and an irresponsible denial of the US’s war crimes in Viet Nam.
    And, it signals a new uphill battle for justice for Viet Nam despite the solid body of evidence against the toxin’s devastating effects on the land and generation-after-generation of Vietnamese people.
    Judge Weinstein claimed the documents presented in the New York Court were not (…)

  • Save Democracy, Shut Off Chris Matthews
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D
    Sound the alarm! America, the land of the free, is now under attack, not by Al Qaeda, not by Iraqi "insurgents," not by an enemy confronted on foreign soil; not even by one that homeland security could ever stop. It is an insidious, invisible assailant, more hidden than a terrorist cell. It is one that invades virtually every American household on a daily basis without leaving a trace of its deceitful, dangerous nature. Its whores, draped in dignified apparel, sit (…)

  • Help Senator Stevens Retire : Fax Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Natural Resources Defense Council is organizing to Tell Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    Stevens says it may be his last try at ANWR
    Washington, D.C. - A Senate vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next week could have more than just an effect on energy development or conservation efforts. What happens next week may affect the political future of Alaska’s senior senator, Ted Stevens.
    He’s been nicknamed “senator for (…)

  • 400 Disabled Veterans Raise Hell At Congressional Hearings On VA Budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
    WASHINGTON - Hundreds of disabled veterans booed and jeered Republican House members on Tuesday for their budget proposal for veterans’ health care, which critics call inadequate to deal with the future needs of current troops.
    Following testimony before a pair of congressional committees by officials from the Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, the crowd of more than 400 wounded and disabled veterans cheered House members who criticized the (…)

  • Kucinich Demands Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion- Instead We Get An Investigation of Steroid Use
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
    Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq. One letter will be sent to (…)