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  • Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considing impeachment
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeachment; ImpeachPAC is Launched to Support Pro-Impeachment Candidates
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    “Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends” Former Attorney General, John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where “defendants gave financial support to umbrella (…)

  • Vermont Passes Resolution to Secede from the USA
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by GREG SZYMANSKI
    An historic Vermont meeting in the state capital has passed a resolution to secede from the United States. Members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. The plan to secede from the U.S. is gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state.
    The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of (…)

  • 2nd Circuit judges appear wary of Patriot Act secrecy rules
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK - A federal appeals panel yesterday suggested it might require the government to permit entities ranging from major corporations to libraries to challenge FBI demands for records under the Patriot Act.
    Judges on a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals commented as they questioned lawyers on both sides in two cases from Connecticut and New York in which lower court judges ruled that the government’s secrecy requirements went too far.
    Judges Barrington D. (…)

  • Lies my government told me or How to sell an illegal war.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ChrisSal
    Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
    No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002
    The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. George W. Bush, Nov. 23, (…)

  • Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act The Senate will sit today to pass legislation the Federal Government says could help authorities deal with a specific threat of terrorism.
    The Government says the new laws are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat.
    The Government says the new laws broadening the definition of a terrorist act are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat of terrorism in the last few days.
    It says the legislation will (…)

  • Shots fired as French riots escalate
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rioters shot at police and fire fighter crews in the worst night of a week of violence in poor suburbs that ring Paris, as France’s conservative government struggled to quell the unrest.
    Youths who rampaged on Wednesday night left a trail of burnt cars, buses and shops in nine suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society.
    "It’s a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we (…)

  • The Watergate Parallel
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tom Hayden A 1974 headline - "THE WATERGATE CRISIS, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE..."
    "The Watergate crisis represents a conflict in the American establishment brought on by the Indochina War, giving the peace movement its best chance yet to finally end U.S. involvement..."
    So concluded "A Strategy To End the War", a working paper of the Indochina Peace Campaign, in 1974. The IPC was a network in key states which carried out public education and pressured Congress from the grass roots (…)

  • What the ’Shield’ Covered Up
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E. J. Dionne Jr.
    Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked?
    In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
    Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was reelected, and October 2005, after the president was reelected. Those dates make (…)

  • Bush to face mass Argentine protest over ’imperialism’ during his visit
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Adam Thomson
    Anti-US protesters are planning a mass demonstration against President George W. Bush’s visit to Argentina this week for the Summit of the Americas in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata.
    Luis D’Elía, who heads one of the country’s so-called piquetero movements - leftwing groups of disaffected unemployed - said the protest would bring together up to 100,000 people and would include popular figures such as Diego Maradona, the former Argentine soccer star.
    "The idea is to (…)