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  • $9 Billion Stolen from Iraqis, Congress investigates Steroids in Baseball
    18 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is real and verifiable corruption in Washington DC. These facts are all public knowledge, but the media refuses to put it all together. The only conspiracy here is that of the media to keep this story buried.
    Last year whistleblowers exposed fraudulent practices by Dick Cheney’s (433,000 stock options, $1 million annual paycheck) Halliburton. Our government gave Halliburton a no-bid contract valid for 5 years. The top army official recommended an open-bid 1 yr deal, she was (…)

  • "Hypocrite Nation"
    18 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Hypocrite Nation" Rev. John Dear March, 2005 Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Christian college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage. “Now let me get this straight,” I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to (…)

  • Filling the Congressional Cop-Out Gap
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Filling the Congressional Cop-Out Gap. An Idea for Local Peace Groups and Local Peace Activists
    by Ralph Nader
    Dear Member of Congress (Representative and two Senators):
    According to a Harris poll last month, 59 percent of Americans want US troops brought home within the next year. We are among them. You are not listening to us. Here is what we propose: To meet with you in a public auditorium with the media invited on [insert date]_ when you say you will back in your state (district). (…)

  • We Won’t Forget Rachel Corrie. Uprising on the Anniversary of a Death
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ALISON WEIR
    There is a quiet battle going on for the memory of a young woman who could have been my daughter, or perhaps yours.
    On one side are those who would like to erase her from history her actions, her beliefs, her murder. If they are unsuccessful at that, they will settle for posthumous slurs on her character, falsifications of her death.
    On the other side are those who feel her shining principles should be praised, her courage honored, her death grieved. On this side are (…)

  • Out-of-control Spending in Iraq is an insult to US taxpayers: 162 dems vote to give Bush $82B more
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), a leader in the House of Representatives against the war in Iraq, issued the following statement today on the $82 billion Supplemental Appropriations Bill:
    "Before we issue another $82 billion for operations in Iraq, to continue a failed policy in Iraq, we must address the greater picture: The Administration has been morally corrupt in its handling of every aspect of the Iraq war, from the very beginning to the present.
    "Moreover, it (…)

  • Remembering Rachel Corrie- Still Searching For Justice
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rachel’s parents file lawsuits against Caterpillar and Israel
    The. Family of Rachel Corrie Charges Bulldozer Manufacturer Knowingly Sold Machines Used to Violate Human Rights
    March 15, 2005, New York, NY partnering law firms today filed a Federal lawsuit against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American peace activist and student who was run over and killed by a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer on March 16, 2003.
    The suit, filed in the (…)

  • KBR spent 27.5 million getting $82,100 worth of fuel into Iraq
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shipping was extra - a lot extra
    WASHINGTON - Iraq needed fuel. Halliburton Co. was ordered to get it there - quick. So the Houston-based contractor charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel.
    In the latest revelation about the company’s oft-criticized performance in Iraq, a Pentagon audit report disclosed Monday showed Halliburton subsidiary KBR spent $82,100 to buy liquefied petroleum gas, better-known as LPG, in Kuwait and then 335 times that (…)

  • US Response Has Worsened Terror Risk: CSIS Official
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Response Has Worsened Terror Risk: CSIS Official Canadian Press March 14, 2005 Toronto - The U.S.-led war on terrorism has made al-Qaeda an even more dangerous organization, a senior Canadian intelligence official said Monday. The blunt assessment of the group’s increased “lethal effectiveness” came during a bail hearing for an Egyptian national detained as a threat to Canada’s national security.
    U.S. action in Afghanistan that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks “significantly (…)

  • U.S. Representatives to Vote Against $81 Billion to Continue War in Iraq
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Jim McDermott (D-WA), John Conyers (D-MI), and Danny Davis (D-IL) today announced that they will vote against President Bush’s request for $81 Billion to continue war in Iraq. The war in Iraq has not made America safer, the supplemental request lacks accountability and the President has failed to plan for the return of U.S. troops. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on President Bush’s (…)

  • Italy to pull troops out of Iraq! Coalition Crumbling
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Owen and Michael Evans
    BOWING to popular pressure, the Italian Government said last night that it would start pulling its more than 3,000 troops out of Iraq in September.
    The surprise announcement by Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, came less than two weeks after US troops shot dead Nicola Calipari, Italy’s top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety.
    Italy has 3,200 troops and Carabinieri paramilitary police in al-Nasiriyah, a (…)