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  • Why can’t we have America back? Why is that so hard to do, Lady Liberty?"
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Mary MacElveen
    A small boy visits the Statue of Liberty while on a class trip. The weather is perfect with not a cloud in the sky. This child looks up to Lady Liberty in awe knowing how many passed her by in order to become citizens of this grand republic. He has the image in his mind of how many of our country’s ancestors came to our shores only to be welcomed by Lady Liberty ... he feels the spirit of freedom as he gazes upon her.
    At one point, the boy feels a drop of water fall (…)

  • DEPORTEES’ SUIT
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de William Fisher
    Four Muslim men who were detained without charge for months in the weeks after September 11, 2001, eventually cleared of any connection to terrorism, but then deported to Egypt, have been allowed to return to the U.S. to pursue their class action civil lawsuit against the U.S. government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse on behalf of 1,200 other Muslim and South Asian men rounded up and jailed following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
    Yasser (…)

  • State of the Union Subterfuge: Going to Hell on a War Train
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    State of the Union Subterfuge 2006 A User’s Guide to the War Train subterfuge \SUB-tur-fyooj\, noun: A deceptive device or stratagem.
    Going to Hell on a War Train: Stank of the Nation 2006 Ozone and fear smell sharp like blood an acrid undercurrent of inevitability as the wheels squeal and brakes burn crashing in a slow-motion tumble
    Dangers pile up in deadly drifts as the train plows blindly into night following the flow of neon and pavement toward the rim of a Grand Canyon
    Speeding (…)

  • George W. Bush & His "God" on Trial in the United States
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What is on trial in the United States is not just George Bush, but also his "God" By Lee Salisbury Jan 24, 2006
    A recent Zogby poll found that 52% of Americans believe President Bush should be impeached if he violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) using warrant-less wiretaps. Of those surveyed in this poll, 25% identified themselves as “very conservative.” A Republican Congress is unlikely to consider an impeachment trial. Nevertheless, a significant number of (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: “Bush’s Presidency Is Illegitimate!”
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, D.C. - Cindy Sheehan is back in town! I’m sure that big bully in the White House, President George W. Bush, will be shaking in his cowboy boots when he hears that news. When Sheehan, the popular anti-Iraq War activist, showed up at Crawford, Texas, last summer, Bush refused to meet with her. He seemed cowed by her mere presence at a vigil (a/k/a “Camp Casey”) so close to his once-secluded ranch. Sheehan was then demanding a face-to-face meeting with the Spymaster Bush, whose (…)

  • THE LEGACY OF G. W. BUSH part 3
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Legacy of G. W. Bush 3
    By Peter Fredson January 31, 2006 Part Three: GEORGE W. BUSH: SAINT OR SINNER?
    G. W. Bush has a large base of Christian fundamentalists including many thousands of trained influential evangelists, parsons, ministers, priests, faith-healers, etc. who are expert in dealing with emotive issues, fantasy scenarios, and persistent indoctrination. They have an absolutist view of their ideology which allows them to show disdain for all other beliefs, dogma, practices (…)

  • SEAN’S INANITY: MORE YELLOWCAKE JOURNALISM , WMD IN SYRIA
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The news network that that only George Orwell and George W. Bush would describe as "fair and balanced" is back to their old tricks. Having pawned earlier tales from the script , remember "Saddam’s Bombmaker" and Joe Aziz , FOX is backing hawking "Saddam’s Secrets" a bok authored by former Vice Air Marshall of Saddam Hussein’s late air force - a man named Georges Sada.
    Did they tell you that General Sada was the former spokesmen for MI6 flunky Iyad Allawi ? Allawi’s Iraqi (…)

  • Ghost of Osama bin Laden Sending Tapes
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since December 22, 2001, U.S.-backed Hamid Karzai became the head of Afghanistan (first as the “interim” leader and later as the President), Osama bin Laden’s videos and audiotapes have mysteriously surfaced from time to time, sending the world reeling in fear and confusion. Headline news stories have continuously hyped the CIA’s claims that these recorded bin Laden appearances and voices were indeed from the most-wanted-man in the world, despite the odds against their authenticity.
    Death (…)

  • Corruption Scandals Cast Shadow on GOP Leadership Race
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jonathan Weisman
    In eight concise paragraphs, two moderate and two conservative House Republicans put into writing last week what they say many of their colleagues quietly fear: the GOP’s plunging poll numbers, rising public support for a Congress controlled by Democrats and the increasing belief among voters that the Republican Party is corrupt.
    House Republicans will gather Thursday to elect a successor to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) as majority leader, and the perceptions of (…)

  • Spies, Lies and Wiretaps
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Editorial
    A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation, contemptuous dismissals of civil liberties concerns, cynical attempts to paint dissents as anti-American and pro-terrorist, and a couple of big, dangerous lies.
    The first was that the (…)