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  • Making Congress Listen: A new focus for the antiwar movement
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration’s two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those vulnerabilities.
    There is much good organizing on the first issue to celebrate, strengthen, and continue:
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    Growing counter-recruitment work and conscientious objector support; *
    Highlighting the (…)

  • Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that...
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that the people either support mass murder or really don’t care enough to change it"
    From an exchange between two Blog sites, Fountainhead and Another Day in the Empire:
    An email received yesterday:
    "You expect to sell your art work to Americans while you publish the most incredible lies. I just bet you are an American too. Re: your article about Fallujah published in Anwaar Hussain?s hate blog.
    How do you know that (…)

  • OUR SONS WERE SACRIFICED FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by : Military Families Against the War
    No government minister has been available to explain the apparent change in the legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith in March 2003 regarding war with Iraq. Not only was the resignation letter from Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, censored but the government continues to refuse to release Lord Goldsmith’s full legal advice.
    This situation should not go on. On the ’Today’ programme this morning former defence (…)

  • Howard Dean Moves On—The Selling (Out) of the Antiwar Movement
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JOSHUA FRANK
    It was just over two years ago that I learned a little-known "antiwar" Democrat from Vermont was planning to run for President. At a rally on the eve of Bush’s Iraq invasion, a fellow protestor handed me a leaflet touting the now infamous Howard Dean, hoping that the propaganda would entice me to support his forthcoming candidacy.
    Of course, I was intrigued. Few other Democrats were speaking out against the imminent war on Iraq. Luckily, I ended up not taking the bait. (…)

  • Frankly, My Dear, I Do Give A Damn
    24 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Doug Thompson "What," a reader wanted to know, "turned you into such a Bush-hater?"
    Nothing.
    I’m not a Bush-hater. I don’t know the man well enough to hate him. Hate is a personal emotion. I don’t get personal.
    I am, however, very angry over what Bush and his minions have done to the country I love.
    I’m angry over his disregard for the more than 1,500 Americans he has sent to their death in his lies-based war.
    I’m angry about the lies he told to try and justify that senseless (…)

  • Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever. Why The Left Was Right After All
    24 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever Why The Left Was Right After All Ted Rall March 22, 2005 NEW YORK-Liberals have their faults, but no one can accuse them of being pigheaded. Two years after left-of-Bush Americans marched against the invasion of Iraq and a year after the Administration admitted it had lied about Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, the sprouting of a few protodemocratic weeds in the microscopically-cracked cement of Arab (…)

  • The Amazing Hypocrites
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    This past weekend was the two year anniversary of the beginning of ’shock and awe’ of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never know.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events ’barely a ripple’. I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there were right around 4000 people. 4000 people full of energy and committed to the task of peace and justice and (…)

  • Bush, Cheney Lied About Bin Laden Escape From Tora Bora
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush, Cheney Lied About Bin Laden Escape From Tora Bora Staff And Wire Reports March 23, 2005 Both President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lied during the 2004 Presidential campaign when he claimed U.S. forces did not miss a chance to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.
    A U.S. government document shows a terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a commander for bin Laden during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and helped the al-Qaida (…)

  • Vanunu cause to be raised at Holyrood
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The issue of the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is to be raised in the Scottish Parliament.
    Last week Mr Vanunu was charged with violating the terms of his release from prison three days after giving an interview in Jerusalem to The Herald. Mr Vanunu was sent to prison for 18 years after revealing to the world that Israel was developing nuclear weapons.
    He was freed last April, but is forbidden to speak to foreign reporters and cannot leave east (…)

  • Hiding Our War Dead. Italy Publicly Honors Its War Dead, America Hides Its Dead
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is That Respecting Our Soldiers?
    by Gail Vida Hamburg The state funeral in Rome last month for Nicola Calipari - the Italian intelligence officer who rescued a kidnapped journalist from Iraqi captors, only to be gunned down by jittery American soldiers at a checkpoint in Baghdad - was a national event that united all Italians, merging their raw sorrow with the singular grief of his widow and children. It was the second time Italy pulled out all the stops for its Iraq War dead. In (…)