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  • Sunday on the National Mall about 400 people in the DC pro-war rally
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELISABETH GOODRIDGE
    Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after a massive protest against the war in Iraq.
    "No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand (…)

  • An Open letter to Howard Dean.
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This letter is in response to one sent by the DNC regarding the Roberts confirmation for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (original letter posted below my response.)
    Dear Mr. Dean,
    Although the Roberts confirmation is indeed an important issue, I think a much more important issue is voter fraud. What went down in Ohio on Nov 3, 2004 and after, is a frontal assault on our cherished Democracy. Why did Kerry concede and why did only 47 house reps led by John Conyers, and one Senator, (…)

  • Comments on the so-called incapability of the Bush administration to restore the Iraqi State
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Traduction française du commentaire du commentaire ci-dessous. An interesting comment taken from the New York Times. The title already points to what was one of the essential products of the 9/11 operation: a Forever War, justified by the presence of a theoretical enemy, "the terrorists", the mythic Al Qaida, which would keep the Western World in a permanent state of emergency, justifying the sacking of civil liberties that were obtained by the citizens through 150 years of democratic (…)

  • Press Release ’BUSH LIES’ tour
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Michael Callis and I have been on tour painting ’Bush Lies’ in watercolors. The tour began this past Sept. 11 at the site of the World Trade Center also known as the Twin Towers, ( see Liberty Rings on 9-11, Bellaciao ). This was followed with a painting on location of NH’s ’Old Man of the Mountain’, ( see ’From the "Old Man of the Mountain" Bush Lies’, Bellaciao ). This Press release is about recent paintings from location on the summit of Mt. Washington and the White House (…)

  • 5 killed as US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Five people were killed as a US army
    helicopter crashed in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan Sunday.
    "A US military CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed southwest of Deh
    Chopan today killing all five crew members onboard," said a press
    release of the military.
    "The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. There are no
    indications of hostile fire involved at this time. An investigation has
    been initiated into the cause of the crash," it said.
    "US military (…)

  • We Don’t Exist
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    Last weekend, Karl Rove said that I was a clown and the anti-war movement was "non-existent." I wonder if the hundreds of thousands of people who showed up today to protest this war and George’s failed policies know that they don’t exist. It is also so incredible to me that Karl thinks that he can wish us away by saying we aren’t real. Well, Karl and Co., we are real, we do exist and we are not going away until this illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq is over and you (…)

  • Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets : Demonstration Is Largest in Capital Since U.S. Military Invaded Iraq
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Petula Dvorak
    Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the White House in the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation’s capital since the conflict in Iraq began.
    The demonstration drew grandmothers in wheelchairs and babies in strollers, military veterans in fatigues and protest veterans in tie-dye. It was the first time in a decade that protest groups had a permit to march in front of the executive mansion, and, even though President (…)

  • Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Zirin
    1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and asked the question, “Can they take my title without me being whupped?” It was the year Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics became champions once again, yet the player-coach saw his house vandalized by bigots. This led Russell to call the city (…)

  • U.S. immigration officials refused to allow Robert Fisk to board a plane from Toronto to Denver
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lannan speaker delayed in Canada
    U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.
    According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.
    Davis made last-minute (…)

  • Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Geoffrey Lean and Christopher Silvester
    Tony Blair has admitted that he is changing his views on combating global warming to mirror those of President Bush - and oppose negotiating international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol.
    His admission, which has outraged environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic, flies in the face of his promises made in the past two years and undermines the agreement he masterminded at this summer’s Gleneagles Summit. And it endangers talks that (…)