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  • Downing Street Memos Verify Death of Journalism Ethics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Carmen Yarrusso
    The preamble to the Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists eloquently declares: “...journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues...”
    Yeah, right!
    Mainstream media’s dismal failure to enlighten the public to the dire implications of the Downing Street (…)

  • CHAVEZ WARNS BUSH AGAINST INVASION OF VENEZUELA TO SEIZE OIL RESERVES
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHAVEZ OFFERS GUARANTEED SUPPLY OF OIL FOR 150 YEARS
    FREE FUEL TO US POOR DURING THE KATRINA CRISIS
    CHAVEZ CONTROLS 300 BILLION BARREL RESERVE TO US 20 BILLION BARRELS
    By Darryl Mason
    In an interview with US network ABC, on September 16, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez claimed he had proof the Bush administration were ready to invade his country in an attempt to seize control of some 300 billion barrels of oil.
    He warned the Bush administration to retreat from such aggression and (…)

  • Police forcibly break up Cindy Sheehan rally
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Pete Dolack
    The New York City Police Department forcibly broke up this afternoon’s rally for Cindy Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at about 3 p.m. in Union Square.
    Keywords: Government, War & Peace, Local, Activism, The New York City Police Department forcibly broke up this afternoon’s rally for Cindy Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at about 3 p.m. in Union Square. The rally had been underway for about an hour, and was about to conclude as Cindy spoke following (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan vs. Mayor Bloomberg
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ask
    I am seething with anger. So much that I am still trembling and having trouble formulating a basic sentence.
    Just back from Camp Casey, New York which is at Union Square. Took an extended lunch break, as I had seen that Cindy Sheehan would make a speech there this afternoon at 2pm. A nice little crowd, Cindy was delayed - but there were plenty of people with issues on their minds in the mean time.
    Then comes Cindy and within two minutes the police interrupts. They had been (…)

  • NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried
    by Sarah Ferguson
    Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.
    The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq.
    "We get up every morning, and (…)

  • Mother Who Lost Son in Iraq Continues Fight Against War
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MARC SANTORA
    Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.
    Speaking in front of more than 500 supporters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Ms. Sheehan, speaking of Senator Clinton, said, "She knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."
    Then, as the crowd (…)

  • Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jerry Isaacs
    Over the last several years the top corporate executives at Northwest and Delta airlines negotiated retirement packages guaranteeing them millions in the event the companies declared bankruptcy and defaulted on their pension payments to employees. Both companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Wednesday, in large measure to escape their pension obligations and seek the bankruptcy court’s backing for sweeping cuts in airline workers’ jobs, wages and benefits. (…)

  • Too Much of a Mystery
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times | Editorial
    John Roberts failed to live up to the worst fears of his critics in his confirmation hearings last week. But in many important areas where senators wanted to be reassured that he would be a careful guardian of Americans’ rights, he refused to give any solid indication of his legal approach. That makes it difficult to decide whether he should be confirmed. Weighing the pluses and minuses and the many, many unanswered questions, and considering some of the (…)

  • New Orleans as Potemkin Village One Big Sham
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Three cheers for Maureen Dowd for exposing the sham of President’ Bush’s Jackson Square speech to the nation announcing his "recovery plan" for New Orleans, and a big fat raspberry for the electronic media-and for Dowd’s own New York Times-for failing to mention it in their "hard-news" coverage of the speech.
    For those who missed it, Bush, dressed in a pressed, blue, open-collar dress shirt (not "badly tailored" this time), was backed by a beautifully blue-lit St. Louis (…)

  • Is the Wartime President a Military Deserter?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that most Americans recognize the war in Iraq was initiated with lies, it’s important to reconsider President Bush’s military record.
    By Phil Vargas
    I know, I know, it’s all been said before. But maybe it hasn’t. And it may be worthwhile to revisit our President’s military record in view of the deaths and maiming of thousands of Americans and the billions we have paid and are paying for his war in Iraq.
    It is nearly two and a half years since our military invaded and occupied a (…)