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  • AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy and Pat Sheehan along with myself "Auntie", Jane and Jim Bright, Celeste Zappala, Bill Mitchell, Lila Lipscomb and Sue Neiderer have formed Gold Star Families for Peace Our group is open to any family member who have suffered the loss of a loved one in a war. Our goal is to assist those families in whatever way possible.GSFP is an affiliate of Military Families Speak Out For more information about GSFP visit our website at: www.gsfp.org Dear George,
    You don’t mind if I call you (…)

  • Bush: Victory Means Exit Strategy
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President must explain why he changed his mind
    by Jennifer Monroe
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/18/05 — In 1999, George W. Bush criticized then-President Bill Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo, and yet he refuses to apply the same standard to his administration’s illegal war.
    "Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." —George W. Bush, Houston Chronicle April 9, 1999
    "If we (…)

  • Niger: Reasons for a Disaster
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nathalie Funès
    "The world was deaf."
    A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
    The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)

  • An article of hope for Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan a concerned parent waiting in the Texas sun for accountability from the President for going to war is not alone. The revolutionary council of concerned citizens (RCCC) is an attempt to focus the national debate on Informed Consent. The manifest for the revolution is a PowerPoint presentation commissioned by the Department of Defense (DOD) and prepared by three physicians, defining Informed Consent. Although Informed Consent is usually considered an individual contract it also (…)

  • Newt’s Resurrection
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    It is never easy being the second smartest person in the class. To be number two means that you get seductively close to the prize, before you inevitably plummet. This is what happened to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who consistently got outfoxed by President Bill Clinton.
    In 1995, for example, Gingrich forced an unpopular government shutdown, which played right into Clinton’s hands. Frustrated by the cunning of his wily nemesis, a petulant Gingrich threw a defining (…)

  • Vancouver Celebrates the Anniversary of the Referendum Victory in Venezuela
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Miriam Martin Hands Off Venezuela Vancouver, Canada
    It has been one year since the majority of Venezuelans voted in favour of President Chavez in the opposition-led recall referendum. The Vancouver Internationalist Bolivarian Circle “Bob Everton” teamed up with Hands Off Venezuela to throw a Victory Fiesta on Saturday August 13th to celebrate this important anniversary. Eighty people attended the celebration, representing a good number of Vancouver’s Latin American solidarity groups, (…)

  • Where Is Laura Bush?
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    With President Bush’s approval ratings in the dumpster the polling numbers reflect his ineffectiveness to lead this country in the right direction. You would think he would do something to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of Americans to gain back their trust. But this corrupt Polly Anna president of ours goes on day to day as if nothing is wrong.
    There is something very wrong when this president when a mom of a fallen soldier camps outside his Crawford home pleading (…)

  • 77 year old harassed by police for calling Bush a Liar on Radio
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
    by Greg Szymanski
    Although Doug Stout, 77, won’t pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don’t smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then (…)

  • Why is George Bush Afraid to Face Cindy Sheehan?
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is clear from the amount of time passed by that George Bush is afraid to face the mother of one of the young men he ordered into battle to die.
    If his case on Iraq is so air tight, why is he unable to explain it in clear and simple terms to the mother of one of his dead soldiers? He’s on vacation, so he certainly must have the time.
    Cindy Sheehan sacrificed her son for goals that appear to have shifted like the sand Casey died on. First it was WMD, then it was Saddam’s purported links (…)

  • The Emperor is Naked! The Empire is a Lie!
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan has been able to demonstrate just how naked the Emperor is, and thus demonstrate the lie of Empire.
    No one else could, because everyone else was afraid. Howard Dean said "we broke it, we own it." John Kerry supported it and couldn’t back away from it.
    This is how Democrats felt forced to respond, because they’d been stuck into a political wilderness for a generation by Vietnam. They were afraid to equate Iraq with Vietnam, fearing that political wilderness, and its chains, (…)