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  • American Imperialism vs. Native Hawaiian Sovereignty
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American Imperialism vs. the Restoration of a Kingdom
    by B.Z. Bywydd (GNN) August 11, 2005
    Lately I see Native Hawaiian sovereignty compared with Naziism, dismissed as a failed dream, belittled, feared and misrepresented, all by people who seem to have no historical or cultural understanding of Native issues. They speak of "losing the Aloha" and warn Native Hawaiians of this end and that, as if they alone hold the keys to the future.
    Most Americans cannot step out of our circle of (…)

  • Bush refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, The refusal of Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, in spite of the pain of families who have lost their sons in the war is today highlighted by U.S. media.
    Confronting the increased casualties and a fall of support for the war, Bush said that it was too soon to talk of withdrawal, The New York Times reported.
    CNN for its part, reported Friday after an analysis of the situation that the Iraqi crisis is weighing heavily in the minds of United States citizens regarding the 2006 (…)

  • A Gay Israel?
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    In 2004, a group of gay activists took over Cato Island, a small sand bar in the Coral Sea off the northeast coast of Australia. They planted a rainbow flag on the beach and declared it the world’s first gay kingdom in protest of anti-gay legislation in Australia. When I originally read this news story I got a good laugh while I drank my morning coffee.
    After a recent spasm of anti-gay violence in several countries, I’m no longer chuckling. The merits of founding a nation (…)

  • Uri Avnery : A Miracle of Rare Device
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    A picture engraved in memory: Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. Around him the storm is raging. The Members rush about, shouts ring out from all sides. The Member on the podium waves his arms, denounces and curses him. Sharon sitting at the government table. Alone. Immovable. Massive and passive. No muscle in his face is moving. Not even the nervous tic of his nose, that was once his trade-mark (and that many people considered a kind of lie-detector). A rock in the raging sea. (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: Rosa Parks or Jane Fonda?
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Freeman Is Cindy Sheehan the Rosa Parks or the Jane Fonda of the War in Iraq? Is she the lonely sentinel, standing righteously against injustice? Or a self-centered publicity seeker, endangering American soldiers in the War?
    The question is something of a political Rorschach test, telling us more about ourselves and our appraisal of America’s wars than about Sheehan. But asking it and understanding the issues behind the question might help us find a solution to the illegitimate (…)

  • Poll: Many now saying war has left U.S. no safer
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dick Polman
    Bedeviled by the mounting casualties in Iraq and increasingly confused by the mixed messages emanating from war leaders, Americans in large numbers are losing confidence in the mission.
    New polls report that, for the first time, a majority of Americans reject President Bush’s contention that the war over there is making us safer over here. Indeed, barring major immediate progress in Iraq, 2005 may well be remembered as the year when public opinion went south and never came (…)

  • Tehran Warns US Against Military Action Over Nuclear Program
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Stephanie Ho
    Iran is warning the United States that any military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would backfire. At the same time, Tehran says it will not suspend conversion of uranium ore, days after the International Atomic Energy Agency appealed for the country to halt all nuclear activities.
    In a news conference in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said any U.S. military action to stop Tehran’s nuclear program would be a mistake.
    Mr. Asefi said, if (…)

  • Tomgram: Cindy Sheehan’s War
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy, Don, and George On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road
    By Tom Engelhardt
    Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time Magazine: "The Army’s wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable strategic peril. It’s because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, I cannot retreat from my position."
    Cindy Sheehan testifying at Rep. John Conyers public hearings on the Downing Street Memo: "My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was (…)

  • Bush’s economic invasion of Iraq
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. corporations march into Baghdad, at the expense of self-determination.
    By Antonia Juhasz, ANTONIA JUHASZ is a scholar with the think tank Foreign Policy In Focus. Her book "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time" will be published by Regan Books in 2006.
    ON MONDAY, Iraq’s National Assembly will release a draft constitution to be voted on by the people in two months. Since February, vital issues have been debated and discussed by the drafting committee: the role (…)

  • Schroeder plays the Iran card
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ray Furlong
    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has told an election campaign rally that the military option for resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme should be "taken off the table".
    "We’re all concerned about the developments in Iran," he said.
    "We don’t want nuclear weapons to proliferate further."
    But Mr Schroeder said diplomacy was the answer.
    "I’ve read that military options are also on the table," he said.
    "My answer to that is: ’Dear friends in Europe and (…)