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  • Cindy Sheehan urges Hawaii to Unite to Stop the War in Iraq and Impeach Bush
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Peace activist Cindy Sheehan urged a standing-room-only crowd at the Church of the Crossroads last night to unite to stop the war in Iraq, impeach President Bush and "see justice" for those killed since the war started in 2003.
    "If you don’t want the war machine to invade your island, don’t let it happen," said Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son died in Iraq and who gained international attention for staging an anti-war demonstration outside Bush’s ranch in Texas.
    "Anybody can do what I do. (…)

  • How is socialism bad when it helps those who need it most?
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen There are times where the good news coming from Venezuela is overshadowed by those closely monitoring what weapons have been purchased by the Chavez administration, or how he will interact with Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales.
    In my opinion both are treated by those who oppose President Chavez as if the sky were falling in.
    The opposition, both in America and in Venezuela, should sit down and take a deep breath.
    Some are alarmed at President Chavez’ (…)

  • New "Patriot" Act Creates American Gestapo
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hitler had the brownshirts- his Gestapo that went around the country taking out dissenters. The New "Patriot" Act creates a new American Gestapo: (Section 605)
    There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security...
    The new USSSUD will be in DC, but also everywhere Bush travels, or former Presidents, or heads of state, or even at events (…)

  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Commit War Crimes
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "You’re like an ambassador for peace," a Spanish journalist told me as we finished one of the dozens of interviews I gave in Europe. I did this interview right before I went to urge the Spanish Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs to oppose the war more strenuously.
    In reality, I did feel like an ambassador for peace as I traveled around Europe for 16 days in December.
    The Mayor of London held a reception in honor of our peace efforts at the new and very modern City Hall, near the (…)

  • Bush Impeachment in Inquiry Has 8 House CoSponsors
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Impeachment Inquiry Has 8 House Co-Sponsors
    By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News (January 01, 2006)
    A total of eight US House members have co-sponsored Resolution 635 to create a select committee to investigate the grounds for impeaching President Bush, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    The co-sponsors are Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), (…)

  • BUSH AT YEAR-END
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    My editors, as well as many friends around the world, have been urging me to write something about how I think about George W. Bush as 2005 ends and a new year begins.
    I was reluctant because I have been reading dozens of year-enders on this subject, and wondering if I had anything to add.
    What I have to add is not exactly new. Many others have expressed similar views. To which I will now add my own perspective.
    As I thought about our president, I wondered: Do I (…)

  • Mary MacElveen: With Hitler is was the Reichstag and with Bush it was 9/11
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In answering the terrorists back who attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001, George W. Bush was quoted as saying: "They (the terrorists) hate us for our freedoms."
    Well, those freedoms can be found in the United States Constitution.
    Contained within the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the very laws that separate us from those we have always abhorred. By enacting the Patriot Act, we told Osama bin Laden and others just like him, that they won. (…)

  • The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government:
    "Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, officials said on Friday.
    His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad, as words spread that Iraq’s largest oil refinery had (…)

  • ImpeachPAC Forms Citizens Impeachment Commission
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ImpeachPAC today announced the formation of a Citizens Impeachment Commission to make 2006 the "Year of Impeachment." "We are honored by the broad support for impeachment from this distinguished group of true American patriots," said Bob Fertik, President of ImpeachPAC. "Impeachment is not a ’fringe’ position, as the Bush Administration would like Americans to believe. With a recent Zogby poll showing Americans support impeachment hearings by a solid majority of 53%-42%, there is far more (…)

  • End the Death and Destruction: Impeach Bush and Cheney As Soon As Possible
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - January 3 - Citing a litany of alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, abuses of power, and violations of the U.S. Constitution, Green Party leaders urged Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney as soon as possible.
    "The evidence that President Bush has abused his office and betrayed the trust of the American people is now so overwhelming that failure to undertake impeachment would make Congress even more complicit (…)