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  • Thorns In The Rose Garden
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    The Bush administration is out of gas and nobody can afford it, so the President is priming the pump with the same anti-gay fuel that always runs the GOP’s engine: Same-sex marriage. But will the parlor trick work again for an administration clunking by on fumes?
    According to the conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, Bush will hold a press conference in the Rose Garden on June 5 to reaffirm his support for a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting gay people from (…)

  • Zogby Poll Finds Over 70 Million Voting Age Americans Support New 9/11 Investigation
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW ZOGBY POLL REVEALS OVER 70 MILLION VOTING AGE AMERICANS DISTRUST OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY AND SUPPORT NEW INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE US GOVERNMENT ROLE IN THE ATTACKS.*
    – 911Truth.org urges 2006 reform candidates to recognize a powerful new constituency.
    (Utica, NY) - Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Phillips
    US antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan denounced the Australian government for its participation in the Iraq war and called for the release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay and the closure of the notorious US military prison camp at a demonstration in Melbourne last Friday.
    Sheehan rejected US and Australian government claims that Guantánamo inmates “did not deserve civil rights” because they were “illegal enemy combatants”. The four-and-a-half-year incarceration of (…)

  • Globalization’s Watchdogs
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Engler
    When Bolivian President Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize his country’s oil and natural gas resources in early May, he did more than lay out a promising path for development. He also provided an ideal opportunity to illustrate how large segments of the U.S. and British press have adopted roles as watchdogs for corporate globalization. Since Bolivia’s energy exports go to Brazil and Argentina rather than the United States, and since the nationalization is unlikely to (…)

  • The President Who Wants to Be King
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American democracy that was once exemplary to the world is now under siege by a power-hungry president with an insatiable lust for global dominance. For more than five years, George W. Bush has continuously violated the law of the land by ignoring the Constitution, by rewriting laws passed by Congress with his signing statements, and by issuing more than 200 executive orders as new directives for fine-tuning the government to suit his policies. The United States is now facing a regime (…)

  • TEN LITTLE INDIANS...Poor Bush!
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (with profound apologies to Agatha Christie. No offense to Native Americans OR East Indians)
    Ten little Indians, standing in a line
    Delay is indicted and then there are nine.
    Nine little Indians having a debate
    McClellan gives up his job and then there are eight.
    Eight little Indians talkin’ ’bout Heaven
    Santorum flips his lid, and then there are seven.
    Seven little Indians, nothing can they fix
    Abramoff rats out his pals and then there are six.
    Six little Indians drinkin’ in a (…)

  • At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted since the start of the Iraq war, the BBC has learned.
    Figures for those still missing are 86 from 2001, 118 from 2002, 134 from 2003, 229 from 2004, 377 from 2005, and 189 for this year so far.
    The news comes as Parliament debates a law that will forbid military personnel from refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country.
    The MoD insists "absent without leave" figures have remained constant.
    A Ministry of (…)

  • USED THE PHONE LATELY? WORRIED?
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Anticipating that the U.S. federal government would invoke the so-called "state secrets" privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government’s biggest spy agency, a major civil rights group has embarked on an alternate course.
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed complaints in more than 20 individual states demanding that their utility commissions and (…)

  • Meanwhile, back at the White House ...
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Commentary Meanwhile, back at the White House ...
    David Rossie Commentary
    "Oh, dear, George, they convicted Ken."
    "Ken who?"
    "Ken Lay. It’s all over today’s papers."
    "You know I don’t read newspapers."
    "I know, but Ken was your friend. You used to call him Kenny Boy, remember?
    "Never heard of him."
    "What do you mean you never heard of him? He raised all that money for you when you were running for governor and in 2000 when you ran for president. And he flew us to (…)

  • GUARD DUTY FOR DEMOCRACY
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How many laws must Bush break until someone steps up to the plate? Oh sure, we have had many good speakers on the subject-Russ Feinstein, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha, Al Gore and others in command of the truth, as well as American gumption.
    We have protestors; thousands of them show up in Washington D.C. before the war, and again Sept 24, 2006. There were millions protesting worldwide all of them protesting the war in Iraq. Unprecedented numbers of military families are protesting this (…)