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  • GOP Marching Off a Cliff
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    The Achilles heal of the modern GOP is that it is a movement rather than a traditional political party. While this arrangement serves as a campaign advantage because it instills message discipline, it leads to habitual overreaching when the Republican Party assumes the mantle of power. Political pragmatism is a strong check on unfettered power, while movements are designed by nature to simply want more.
    A chest-thumping Republican Party seems intent on following Newt (…)

  • Women worldwide face effects of Bush’s gag rule
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dian Harrison
    Tuesday is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of women’s fight for equality and human rights. In light of this commemoration, it is especially disappointing that the Bush administration is working so hard to restrict women’s rights.
    Ten years ago, a landmark U.N. conference in Beijing adopted a platform seeking to establish global equality for women. Along with recommendations on issues such as domestic violence and education, the platform states women (…)

  • The Passion of Giuliana Sgrena
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Danny Schechter
    NEW YORK - Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. Her plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.
    In response, Italy dispatched an intelligence agent to find her and negotiate her release. Miraculously, he did, but as fate would have it, was killed by US soldier suspicious of his car, which raced through, they say, a (…)

  • Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower : the Next Crusades
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By URI AVNERY
    Many years ago, I read a book called "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene. Its central character is a high-minded, naive young American operative in Vietnam. He has no idea about the complexities of that country but is determined to right its wrongs and create order. The results are disastrous.
    I have the feeling that this is happening now in Lebanon. The Americans are not so high-minded and no so naive. Far from it. But they are quite prepared to go into a foreign (…)

  • Report by House Democrats Alleges GOP Abuse of Power
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Allen
    Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and other revolutionaries used accusations of arrogant and heavy-handed tactics to stir a populist revolt against 40 years of Democratic domination of Congress before the GOP takeover of 1994.
    Now, after 10 years of Republican control, House Democrats are making strikingly similar charges against today’s Republicans.
    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) plans to lash out at the chamber’s Republican leaders today with a report accusing (…)

  • Forget Gannon: 52 Warnings yet Condi thought, ’’What a Terrible Accident’’
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    Stunning new information regarding 9/11 has emerged recently, yet the mainstream media buried it and ’progressive’ bloggers focused on Gannongate.
    This news is worthy of discussion by all Americans, especially the media.
    In the 105 days before 9/11, the FAA issued 52 warnings that mentioned Osama Bin Laden. One of the warnings was a CD-ROM that discussed suicide hijackers.
    President Bush decided to take a vacation for the month of August.
    On August 6th Bush received (…)

  • American Hitler
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A cancer infects this country, spreading like wildfire, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power.
    This cancer has a name: George W. Bush. Yeah, yeah. Call me a Bush-basher if you want. I don’t give a damn. If you still support this madman check yourslef into the nearest psychiatric hospital for shock therapy. Somebody has to stand up against this American (…)

  • US Officer: "Why I Disagree With Bush’s War For Oil"
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pip Hinman
    Brayden joined the US army not thinking he’d ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn’t entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
    He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004. Originally part of an Air Defence Artillary combat unit based in Germany, Brayden was sent to Iraq in May 2003 and spent 14 months there.
    His company of 125 soldiers, one of six that made up the 1st Armored Division’s Main Support (…)

  • March 19 Global Day of Action
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quote of the Week from George Bush on the incompatability of foreign occupation and the holding of free and democratic elections: Bush insisted in his March 5 Radio Address: "that Lebanon’s sovereignty be respected and that all foreign forces be withdrawn, and that free and fair elections be conducted without foreign influence."
    Seven weeks ago tens of thousands of people demonstrated on the very first day of Bush’s second term of office. The Counter Inaugural protests in Washington D.C., (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena : my Truth
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Giuliana Sgrena I’m still in the dark. Friday was the most dramatic day of my life. I had been in captivity for many days. I had just spoken with my captors. It had been days they were telling me I would be released. I was living in waiting for this moment. They were speaking about things that only later I would have understood the importance of. They were speaking about problems "related to transfers."
    I learned to understand what was going on by the behavior of my two guards, the (…)