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  • US Soldier Deaths have more than Doubled over 2004
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    In the first two months of 2005 US casualties in Iraq have more than doubled over the first two months of 2004.
    If this pattern continues, more than 100 US troops will die next month, and more than 200 will die in April.
    The Question of the Day is:
    Why does the United States continue to send young Americans and billions of dollars to Iraq? Are US soldiers really ’spreading freedom’ ... or is this about oil and strategic positioning via the 14 ’enduring bases’ the US is (…)

  • The Man Who Fought for the Forgotten
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Peter Benenson 1921-2005 Founder of Amnesty International
    by Antony Barnett
    There are not many newspaper articles that can genuinely claim to have changed the world for the better. But on Sunday, 28 May 1961, The Observer published a campaigning piece on the front of its Weekend Review section.
    The article was entitled ’The Forgotten Prisoners’ and it was by Peter Benenson, a 33-year old Eton-educated London lawyer.
    Benenson had been angered after learning about two Portuguese (…)

  • Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed for Sec of Veterans Affairs departure
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Project Censored Award Winner
    Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
    Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special (…)

  • Top Former CIA Agent Condemns New Terror War
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Davud Pratt, Foreign Editor A running joke in Washington late last year held that Langley, the CIA’s home in Virginia, was changing its name to Fallujah after the restive Iraqi town then held by insurgents. Like Fallujah, Langley - according to some White House wags - was full of rebels that needed to be cleared out. This would inevitably lead to lots of casualties along the way. But putting the jokes and bravado aside, many at the CIA’s longtime base already knew that the winds of (…)

  • In Vermont, A Town-Meeting Revolt Over Iraq War
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sara B. Miller HUNTINGTON, VT. - This is a town with no diners, one church, two general stores, and 1,800 people. When the kindergarten teacher’s son returned from Iraq after 10 months, the potluck church dinner in his honor was so packed no one had room to sit. Only a handful of the more than 200,000 men and women who have been deployed to Iraq come from this sleepy whistle-stop. But everyone seems to know someone who has served, even died, there: a friend’s husband, a neighbor, the (…)

  • Halliburton Wins in Iraq
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton Could Get $1.5bn More Iraq Work
    Halliburton, under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, would receive an extra $1.5 billion as part of the Bush administration’s additional war spending proposal for fiscal 2005, a senior US Army budget official said.
    Halliburton, once led by Vice-President Dick Cheney, is the largest corporate contractor in Iraq and has drawn fire for its no-bid contracts there, with auditors charging its Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) unit overcharged for some (…)

  • For many Vermonters, Iraq is on the ballot
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Towns to vote on antiwar resolution
    By Sarah Schweitzer
    Vermont’s town meetings next week will offer the nation one of the first popular referendums on the Iraq war.
    In one-fifth of the state’s 251 towns, residents on Tuesday will be asked to vote on a resolution that calls upon President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq and urges the state’s elected leaders to reconsider the use of Vermont’s National Guard in the war.
    The state has borne a heavy burden from the Iraq conflict. (…)

  • Each day about 13,500 people worldwide die from smoking-related diseases.
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Smoking gets own ’Kyoto treaty’
    By Nick Triggle
    By 2020 the mortality rate will have doubled - the equivalent of 10 million a year.
    To tackle the rise, which is expected to be felt hardest in developing countries, the World Health Organization’s tobacco control treaty comes into force on Sunday.
    It is regarded as smoking’s answer to the Kyoto agreement - only with teeth.
    Ratified by 57 countries, including the UK, the document sets out a programme to reduce the number of people (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R. : Actions in solidarity with Haiti in NYC, SF & LA
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urges participation in actions in New York & San Francisco & Los Angeles and elsewhere in solidarity with the Haitian people on the first anniversary of the US coup and kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    IN NEW YORK Indoor Rally in Brooklyn to Premiere New Video of Haiti Coup
    On the 1st anniversary of Haiti’s latest coup d’état and for the first time in New York, the Haiti Support Network (HSN) and the (…)

  • When Democracy Failed - 2005 : The Warnings of History
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Thom Hartmann
    This weekend - February 27th - is the 72nd anniversary, but the corporate media most likely won’t cover it. The generation that experienced this history firsthand is now largely dead, and only a few of us dare hear their ghosts.
    It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small (…)