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  • Members of Congress Ask Bush to Stop Undercounting U.S. Casualties
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    December 7, 2005
    The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500
    Dear Mr. President:
    We are concerned that the Department of Defense has been under-reporting casualties in Iraq by only reporting non-fatal casualties incurred in combat. We write today to request that you provide the American people with a full accounting of the American casualties in Iraq since the March 19, 2003 invasion, (…)

  • Shiite, Sunni groups sign pact for US withdrawal timetable
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baghdad, Dec. 9 (AP): A group of Shiite and Sunni parties has signed a declaration condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalise relations with Israel.
    The parties to the "code of honour" included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.
    The code also (…)

  • RHETORICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT CONDI
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rhetorical Questions about Lies and Torture
    By Peter Fredson
    December 11, 2005
    Today a news headline stated:
    “NATO CHIEF: RICE ’CLEARED THE AIR’ ON DETAINEE CHARGES”
    The main story was a simple assertion: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has briefed NATO and European Union colleagues on the Bush administration response to allegations the CIA has abused terrorism suspects and had secret detention sites in Europe. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says Ms. Rice’s (…)

  • Flashback: Judge Halts Mandatory Anthrax Shots- Troops shouldn’t be "Guinea Pigs"
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - A federal judge yesterday ordered the Pentagon to stop administering an anthrax vaccine to service members without their consent, ruling that defense officials cannot require troops to "serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs."
    In blocking mandatory anthrax inoculations until a full trial can be held on the matter, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan agreed with the contention by six unnamed Defense Department plaintiffs. They say the anthrax vaccine is an experimental (…)

  • The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    Sometimes sports mirrors politics with such morbid accuracy you don’t know whether to laugh, cry or hide in the basement. Just as the Bush Administration shows its commitment to democracy by operating secret offshore gulags and buying favorable news coverage in Iraq, the New York Mets have made it clear to new player Carlos Delgado that freedom of speech stops once the blue and orange uniform—their brand—is affixed to his body.
    For the last two years, Delgado chose to (…)

  • Dinner with Condi & the Fate of Gaza
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Conn Hallinan
    There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg’s New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior’s former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration’s combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice tells Scowcroft that the ’good news’ from the Middle East is that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pulling out of Gaza, the first step toward resolving the issue of a Palestinian state.
    According (…)

  • ’60s Freedom Riders celebrated at LMU
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By R. W. Dellinger
    "The greatness of our nation was the persistent, steady struggle of people, many unnoticed and invisible, who laid the foundation by which we live today. And the struggle of the ’50s and ’60s was one of the great movements," declared Rev. James Lawson at a Nov. 11 luncheon hosted by Loyola Marymount University to honor civil rights activists.
    The pastor emeritus of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement, reported (…)

  • Awakenings
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hollywood may have been slow to reflect the post-Katrina reality of America, but it’s catching up fast with films like Syriana and Homecoming, says John Patterson
    For the past year the bald, ugly facts of the world we now live in have finally begun bubbling out from under the crust of officially sponsored bullshit that until recently constituted reality for many Americans. However, since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and Hurricane Cindy Sheehan hit Crawford, Texas, Pandora’s box has (…)

  • Kucinich wants Iraqi vote on withdrawal
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, wants the Iraqis to decide whether the United States military should be withdrawn from Iraq.
    "Congressman Kucinich believes that Iraq, as a free nation and a blossoming democracy, should have the right of self determination," said his spokesman Doug Gordon.
    Kucinich is working on a resolution to be introduced on the floor of Congress "soon" that would make it the sense of Congress that the United States would support an Iraqi (…)

  • Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.
    Bush officials informed organizers of their intention to pull out of (…)