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  • Iraq’s election result: a divided nation
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn
    Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
    Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
    The Shia religious coalition has won a total victory in Baghdad and the south of Iraq. The Sunni Arab parties who openly or covertly support armed resistance to the US (…)

  • RIGHTS: U.S. Vets Join Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Elisabeth Schreinemacher
    UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.
    They say an estimated 50,000 deformed children have been born to parents who were directly sprayed with Agent Orange or exposed through contaminated food and (…)

  • Major demonstrations protest Iraq elections
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
    Meanwhile, a lawyer for Saddam Hussein said he saw evidence his client had been beaten.
    Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week’s elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition allege that the (…)

  • New Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flashback from Nov 4
    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 highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2. (…)

  • Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torture
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law, RAW STORY has learned.
    The resolutions were quietly introduced Sunday evening along with a third resolution (HR 635) to create a Select Committee to investigate the (…)

  • Report | The Constitution in Crisis
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By House Judiciary Committee Minority Staff
    The Downing Street minutes and deception, manipulation, torture, retribution, and coverups in the Iraq war.
    Full Report: www.truthout.org/3.122005ConRes.pdf
    Executive Summary
    This Minority Report has been produced at the request of Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. He made this request in the wake of the President’s failure to respond to a letter submitted by 122 Members of (…)

  • The Pied Piper
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    SOME 721 YEARS ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was suffering from a plague of rats. A citizen called Bunting offered to get rid of them for an agreed fee. When he played on his flute, the entranced rats came out of their holes and followed him to the river where they drowned. But when the piper presented his bill to the town fathers, they wouldn’t pay him.
    The piper wrought a terrible revenge. He played his pipe once again, and this time all the children of the town (…)

  • Coca-Cola Faces Mounting Pressure over Abusive Practices at Plants Worldwide
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, (OneWorld) - Coca-Cola, the multinational soft drink giant, is facing the wrath of rights advocacy groups here in the United States and abroad for refusing to take responsibility for abusive practices at its bottling plants.
    While a number of universities and colleges in the United States have already banned the sale of Coke products on their campuses, mounting pressure from student bodies throughout Europe is pushing hundreds of schools to terminate their (…)

  • Major Demos Planned for Third Anniversary of War
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    International Antiwar Movement Builds at UK Conference
    By KEVIN ZEESE
    Andrew Murray the Chair of the Stop the War Coalition opened the conference describing it as an "historic event" that brings together peace activists from around the world. Indeed, I was part of a sizable delegation of activists from throughout the United States. And the conference also included delegates from across Britain, Iraq, Iran, as well as from Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Canada, Poland, Greece, Italy, (…)

  • No elections will be credible while occupation continues
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s current political process will not solve the crisis. Only a US and British pullout and a UN sponsored poll can do that
    by Harith al-Dari
    Iraq has a long history of civilisation that has contributed both knowledge and wisdom to humanity. For many centuries, Islam also immunised Iraq against religious or sectarian strife and protected its population from the oppression that peoples of the ancient world had been subjected to. Generation after generation of Iraqis succeeded in (…)