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  • Vote NO on Bush’s $82 billion Supplemental Budget Request to fund the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $82 billion to fund the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps as early as Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Every day the U.S. spends over $200 million of working peoples’ money to fund war and occupation in Iraq. 100,000 Iraqis have died. More than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded. There should not be one more dime spent on Bush’s criminal wars, occupations (…)

  • Alaskan wildlife refuge must be saved
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by CHRISTINE FIORDALIS
    Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is again on the table in Congress, this time in the budget bill. How many times must Americans say it? Leave our wilderness alone!
    Human beings need wilderness and open space. Some years ago, a friend teaching at a rural Michigan campus invited high schoolers from Detroit to study ecology. At first, the students were frightened and hesitant but the woods slowly drew them out. They found things, camped out, (…)

  • World’s Women Stand Together for Equality
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Niko Kyriakou
    The Fifth World Conference on Women drew to a close with a reaffirmation by ministers, government delegates, first ladies and non-governmental representatives from around the world that ’’women’s rights are human rights’’. But for many who attended the two-week conference, ’’reaffirmation’’ was not enough.
    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - The Fifth World Conference on Women drew to a close Friday with a reaffirmation by the 80 ministers, 1,800 government delegates, (…)

  • March 19: Momentum Builds Across the Country
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, New York City, Chicago, New Paltz, your city!
    San Francisco
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will march.
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has called “stop work meetings” to shut down Bay Area and other West Coast ports in solidarity with the International Day of Protests. Labor will be sponsoring a pre-march rally (…)

  • Hazardous assignment
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By H.D.S. Greenway
    ON ONE thing the Italian government and the White House agree. The killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and the wounding of journalist Giuliana Sgrena by American soliders was a ’’horrific accident." But beyond that there is little agreement as to what happened.
    The Americans say the car the Italians were traveling in was going 60 miles an hour. The Italians say it was going 25. The Americans say they gave hand signals, flashed lights, and fired warning (…)

  • Agent Orange lawsuit: an unjust, immoral verdict
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anh Hieu
    US Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s dismissal on Thursday of the compensation lawsuit by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was unjust, immoral and an irresponsible denial of the US’s war crimes in Viet Nam.
    And, it signals a new uphill battle for justice for Viet Nam despite the solid body of evidence against the toxin’s devastating effects on the land and generation-after-generation of Vietnamese people.
    Judge Weinstein claimed the documents presented in the New York Court were not (…)

  • Help Senator Stevens Retire : Fax Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Natural Resources Defense Council is organizing to Tell Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    Stevens says it may be his last try at ANWR
    Washington, D.C. - A Senate vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next week could have more than just an effect on energy development or conservation efforts. What happens next week may affect the political future of Alaska’s senior senator, Ted Stevens.
    He’s been nicknamed “senator for (…)

  • Kucinich Demands Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion- Instead We Get An Investigation of Steroid Use
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
    Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq. One letter will be sent to (…)

  • America’s False Memories
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    by Anna Salleh
    Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
    Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing (…)

  • Halliburton Whistleblowers Highlight Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spoils of War
    By MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
    Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company’s profits of war
    This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
    Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning contracts, (…)