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  • Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like (…)

  • Peaceful Revolution- Solidarity from Venezuela
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings to all the peace marchers and US citizens from the people of Venezuela on this important day!
    We congratulate you on your commitment to stopping the war in Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. The great majority of the Venezuelan people are also in complete disagreement with the use of US military force to dominate the peoples of the Middle East and other countries, classified arbitrarily as the "Axis of Evil". This march is vital to pressure the current Administration from (…)

  • Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today begins year three of the US intervention in Iraq, with its tragic consequences for both the Iraqi and American people continuing to multiply.
    The Iraqi dead-incinerated by US air strikes, shot to death at roadblocks, or killed in merciless sieges like the one mounted last November against Fallujah-number in the many tens of thousands.
    US casualties have risen to over 1,520 dead, with more than 11,200 troops wounded and as many as 100,000 in need of mental health care as a result of (…)

  • Worldwide Protest Pictures/ Empires fall when the people rise up
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this treacherous system the media manipulates Spreadin misinformation, through all 50 states
    Innovate past hate, kick back contemplate metal minds manufacture a fractured debate see my enemies’ enemy Is still my enemy But fools blunt their own vision television Hennessey can’t see what’s comin, too lost in the spectacle But a child is more then a bullets receptacle
    While we’re “nonviolent” in the streets screaming peace Bush is bombing babies throughout the middle east Soon as Sadaam (…)

  • ‘Bring the troops home now!’
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the brutal occupation of Iraq grinds on after two years of death and destruction, its toll on working-class youth and the growing impoverishment of already oppressed communities is reshaping the anti-war movement in the United States.
    A demonstration here on March 19, the anniversary of the day two years ago when the Pentagon began its "shock and awe" campaign, reflected this change when it began in Harlem, the historic cultural center for African Americans.
    "Why Harlem?" asked emcee (…)

  • Iraq insurgency has worsened: US intelligence
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Though US President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been giving the impression that the insurgency situation in Iraq is improving, the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), which monitors the situation daily, says it has worsened.
    "The insurgency in Iraq has grown in size and complexity over the past year. Attacks numbered approximately 25 per day one year ago," DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington. (…)

  • San Francisco port workers shutting down docks to protest war
    19 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There’s a rising tide of workers’ anger against the war in Iraq and the cuts in government programs to pay for it — in enforcement of worker- safety laws, health care, Social Security, education and jobs. The recent victory of the nurses’ union over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to deny adequate staffing ratios in hospitals shows that labor can turn the tide.
    Last year, the Port of Oakland — the fourth largest port in the United States, ratcheting Northern California higher up on (…)

  • Congress on Steroids! See No-Nonsense Representatives Get Tough on Witnesses!
    19 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the baseball steroid hearings, we saw aggressive questioning by representatives, but when it involves anything important, like war funding or CIA torture, members of this Congress are nothing but yes-men and neutered pussycats.
    If you watched or read about the Congressional hearings yesterday conducted by the House Government Reform Committee, you’d have thought Congress was a real legislature, with bulldog representatives willing to stop at nothing to get at the truth.
    There was Rep. (…)

  • To Rachel Corrie with love
    18 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Would your death, dear Rachel, wake the dead World who watches our death sleeping in its bed ? Would the world remain silent and continue to be mislead And with lies, hypocrisy and ignorance continue to be fed ?
    Would your death, sweet Rachel, be another number Added to the long list of martyrs and freedom fighters ? No shame, no decency in the faces of those who govern No humanity, no courage in the hearts of the occupiers
    Would your death, humane Rachel, beautiful flower Be transformed (…)

  • 5500 US deserters: We won’t fight in Iraq
    18 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Doug Lorimer
    On February 25, US Army officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, announced that Sergeant Kevin Benderman, a 40-year-old army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty, will be court-martialed on desertion charges. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.
    After having spent 10 years in the US military, Benderman missed his unit’s deployment flight to Iraq on January 7. Ten days earlier, he had given his commanders notice that he planned to seek (…)