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  • WORLD AIDS DAY: How Many Millions More Will Die?
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Haider Rizvi
    UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1 (IPS) - Millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in poor parts of the world could lose their lives in the next few years if governments fail to keep their promises to fight the deadly pandemic, warn U.N. officials and health advocacy groups.
    In the absence of treatment, as many as 74 million people could die from HIV/AIDS-related causes by 2015, according to the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation (ILO), which notes that young workers are (…)

  • Up in the Air: Where Is the Iraq War Headed Next?
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year. The Administration’s best-case scenario is that the parliamentary election scheduled for December 15th will produce a coalition government that will join the Administration in calling for a withdrawal to begin in the spring. By then, the White House (…)

  • Help Keep the Pressure on Congress
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by United for Peace and Justice
    The week before the Thanksgiving break events in Congress were dazzling! For the first time since the war in Iraq began, major divisions in Congress have come to the surface - and that means significant new opportunities for our work. Below is a quick re-cap of what happened. While none of the initiatives totally articulates our position, they are all important developments. Now, more than ever before, there are openings in the Congressional work. We are (…)

  • The Press: The Enemy Within
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Massing
    The past few months have witnessed a striking change in the fortunes of two well-known journalists: Anderson Cooper and Judith Miller. CNN’s Cooper, the one-time host of the entertainment show The Mole, who was known mostly for his pin-up good looks, hip outfits, and showy sentimentality, suddenly emerged during Hurricane Katrina as a tribune for the dispossessed and a scourge of do-nothing officials. He sought out poor blacks who were stranded in New Orleans, expressed (…)

  • 9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration by Dr. David Ray Griffin December 2, 2005 911Truth.org
    The 9/11 Commission understood that its mandate, as we have seen, was to provide "the fullest possible account" of the "facts and circumstances" surrounding 9/11. Included in those facts and circumstances are ones that, according to some critics of the official account of 9/11, provide evidence that the Bush administration intentionally allowed the attacks of 9/11. Some critics have (…)

  • Two Earthquakes
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    A POLITICAL earthquake is itself a rare event. When two major political earthquakes follow each other in quick succession, this is almost unheard of.
    One such earthquake was the election of Amir Peretz as leader of the Labor Party. The other is Sharon’s leaving the Likud and forming a new party.
    Suddenly, the political landscape has changed beyond recognition. Previously, there were two mountains. Now there are three - and none of them stands where either of the two was (…)

  • The Lies and theTruth About the U.S. War on Iraq
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Facing growing criticism about the Iraq war from high-level politicians as well as from the public (a just-released Zogby poll found that 53 percent of people surveyed favored impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq), the Bush regime has been snarling back. Vice President Cheney said that the charge that the Bush administration "purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this (…)

  • Three Who See the War Clearly Reps. McKinney, Serrano and Wexler
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
    Only three Democrats voted on the issue of the Iraq war, last Friday. The rest followed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s directives, a continuation of her "strategy" of insulating the pro-war wing of the party, centered in the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), from the wrath of the party’s base, which is now overwhelmingly anti-war. For the DLC’s sake, Pelosi smothers the party’s progressive wing - of which she was once a proud member. Thus, (…)

  • Cheney’s Trouble with Truth
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Scheer
    You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state.
    In speeches Friday and Monday, the vice president, who has long insisted Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were allies, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, we would be greeted as liberators in Baghdad, and that the Iraqi insurgency is in its ’’last (…)

  • Women find no shelter from violence at home: WHO
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent action is needed to tackle domestic violence against women, which is widespread, deep-rooted and largely hidden in a wide range of societies, a study by the UN health agency said.
    The study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 10 countries found that between 15 percent (Japan) and 71 percent (Ethiopia) of the women interviewed had been subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime.
    From about one-fifth of women in (…)