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  • Stuff to Do to Stop the War
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stuff to Do to Stop the War STAN GOFF, CounterPunch
    June 18, 2005
    The war in Iraq is degenerating ... a lot. For American troops, Iraqi police, and Iraqi civilians, the last two months have been filled with dread, death, and disfigurement. In spite of around-the-clock spin by the administration and show-dog obedience by the bouzhie-press, the reality of the war is filtering into the public’s consciousness. Certain phrases are haunting us: "weapons of mass destruction"... "yellow-cake (…)

  • Walkin’ to New Orleans Veterans’ and Survivors’ March from Mobile to New Orleans
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 19, 2006, is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
    Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans
    Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for
    Peace, and hurricane survivors’ organizations are organizing a five-day
    march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our
    troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human
    priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, (…)

  • Letter from Iraq by PFC Moe Lyse
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Ma
    I cannot believe the progress our soldiers are making here in Iraq. I am sitting at a small table in downtown Baghdad (Ali’s),sipping a cool spiced tea and joking with local businessmen. They tell me things couldn’ be better now that George Bush has introduced democracy in their once stife-torn country.
    I have heard reports that the electricity is now up and running 24/7 in almost all parts of Iraq, and there are new schools and hospitals being constructed every day. Those (…)

  • Chavez and the good people of Venezuela have only the best of intentions for USA
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    There are times when I read an article that borders on comedy ... where I actually sit there laughing, as well as shaking my head, knowing that an ill-informed public will actually believe it.
    I first want to state to my readers around the globe and especially here within the United States, that if you think that Venezuela is a threat to you ... you really do need to get a life.
    The piece I am referring to is Pentagon document mentions Venezuela as a concern and I (…)

  • U.S. Initiates Legal Processes Against Christian Group that Marched to Guantánamo
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The group of twenty-four U.S. Christians marched over 60 miles to the Naval Base in an attempt to practice the Christian act of prisoner visitation. The group camped and fasted for four days at the gate of the militarized zone while awaiting access (…)

  • Four Presidents and a Raucous Funeral for a King
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria Speakers seized on the presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S. civil rights movement.
    Jimmy Carter, one of four presidents to speak, took a jab at Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program during six hours of sermons, speeches and song for the late widow of Nobel peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968.
    The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph (…)

  • Jose Bove : French Activist Detained at JFK, Deported
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.
    Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.
    Bove was not eligible to enter the U.S. under a (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan honored here Anti-war activist among 4 hailed at synagogue
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By REGINA MEDINA
    LAST TUESDAY, peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested, handcuffed and removed from the U.S. House gallery shortly before President Bush’s State of the Union Address.
    She was wearing a T-shirt alluding to her anti-war sentiments - "2245 Dead. How many more?"
    Yesterday, Sheehan had the same basic message, but wore a long black dress with a large photo of her fallen son, Army Spec. Casey A. Sheehan, hanging from a ribbon around her neck.
    This time, her 250-strong (…)

  • Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Lakshmi Chaudhry
    We have no interest in being anti-establishment,” says Matt Stoller, a blogger at the popular Web site MyDD.com. “We’re going to be the establishment.”
    That kind of flamboyant confidence has become the hallmark of blog evangelists who believe that blogs promise nothing less than a populist revolution in American politics. In 2006, at least some of that rhetoric is becoming reality. Blogs may not have replaced the Democratic Party establishment, but they are certainly (…)

  • A homecoming
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By James Carroll
    AMERICA HAS had a difficult time reckoning with its racist past. Slavery was a defining part of the cultures and economies out of which the nation grew, and for most of its first century the ownership of humans by other humans was taken for granted. A pseudo-Darwinian ranking by ’’race" justified that order, which stood on pillars of skin color and ethnic origin. When that blatant structure of denigration was overthrown by the Civil War, implicit assumptions of white (…)