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  • Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Climate change: On the edge Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag by: Jim Hansen on: 17th Feb, 06 A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dramatic. Yet, a few weeks ago, when I - a Nasa climate scientist - tried to talk to (…)

  • Harvard study blasts Bush education policy
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason SzepTue
    President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed on Tuesday.
    Political compromises forged between some states and the federal government have allowed schools in some predominantly white districts to dodge penalties faced by regions with larger ethnic minority populations, the study said.
    Bush’s 2001 No Child Left (…)

  • Freedom Rider Halliburton Detention Centers
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Margaret Kimberley
    Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country and become unapologetically paranoid. Paranoia should now be the normal state of mind for thinking people. Sneers and dismissive remarks about "conspiracy theorists" must be ignored. We don’t want to end up like the proverbial frog who boils to death because the heat was turned up slowly.
    The Bush administration is becoming ever more brazen in its effort to snoop on the American people. The (…)

  • Rollins Criminalized for Reading
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Henry Rollins, “nominated as a possible threat” for reading a book about militant Islam (Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia) on a recent flight from Auckland, had the right idea when he told the government of Australia and the National Security office to “go f... themselves.” As well, he would do good to never visit Australia again and urge his family, friends, and fans of his music and stand-up comedy routine to do likewise. If more people did this, the fascist state of (…)

  • Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    · 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse · 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse · 660 images of adult pornography · 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees · 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts
    Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Friday February 17, 2006 The Guardian
    Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked (…)

  • Impeaching Bush Is ’Cause Worth Fighting for,’ Actor Says
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor February 17, 2006
    (CNSNews.com) - Richard Dreyfuss, the actor who starred in movies ranging from "Jaws" to "Mr. Holland’s Opus," told an audience in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that "there are causes worth fighting for," and one of those is the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
    "There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose," Dreyfuss said during a speech at the National Press Club. "Unless you are willing (…)

  • NEWS: Army advises US military to steer clear of Turkish anti-American film
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEWS: Army advises US military to steer clear of Turkish anti-American film Written by Fran Lucientes Thursday, 09 February 2006
    A newly released Turkish film entitled "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq," portrays U.S. soldiers in a bad light, and American military serving in Europe have been warned to stay away from cinemas showing it and not to discuss it "with anybody they do not know," NTV MSNBC reported Wednesday.[1] — (The movie is a film adaptation of Turkey’s most popular (…)

  • 10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay — found innocent after two years of detainment
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From: Eric Smith> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:10:46 +0900 To:
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    You’re kidding, right? That’s it?
    After holding Brits in our extralegal dungeons for two years, one day we just let ’em go?
    We’ve still got more than 600 people imprisoned in our Halliburton-built prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where for more than two years we’ve been interrogating them, denying them lawyers, denying them any kind of judicial review, hinting quite bluntly that they could (…)

  • Making America work for the working poor
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Edwards and John Wilhelm
    IT USED TO BE that poverty was invisible in America. When Michael Harrington published ’’The Other America" in 1960, he wrote about the unseen millions living in inner-city housing projects, in Appalachia, in rural America. The poor were stuck in isolated ghettos, dying towns, and industries that Harrington called the economic underworld of American life. As the rest of the country went to work and prospered, the poor were bypassed.
    Our nation launched a (…)

  • Did the Pro-Choice Movement Save America?
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    AlterNet speaks with Cristina Page, the author of a controversial new book about the state of sex, morality and abortion rights in America.
    By Rachel Fudge
    In her new book, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex (Basic Books), Cristina Page boldly declares that the pro-choice movement is "doing a better job at what the public understands to be the pro-life agenda than the pro-lifers are": that is, not only dramatically reducing the number of (…)