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  • The Next World War Starts in Iran
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Whitney
    "We consider that it would be counter-productive and dangerous to use force, the serious consequences of which would be barely predictable." warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry to the Bush Administration about prospective plans to attack Iran
    There’s only one thing that Americans need to remember when the read about the standoff between the Bush administration and Iran. There is no evidence whatsoever that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. But, don’t take my (…)

  • Two fingers to America
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    He’s a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House
    Thursday August 25, 2005 The Guardian
    Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, is a genial fellow with a good sense of humour and a (…)

  • Bush and Death
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I fault this president (George W. Bush) for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our twenty-one year olds who wanted to be what they could be.
    On the eve of D-day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.
    But this president does not know what (…)

  • Letter from a Soldier in Iraq to his Senator
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From: B K
    To: J C Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:29:57 -0400 Subject: Re: HMMWVs
    J C Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff U.S. Senator Olympia Snow 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510
    Dear Mr. C
    We have not received all the 1114 HMMWV’s that are required for our mission.
    I still head out of the gate in a 1025 Humvee that doesn’t have floor armor, basically all you have is armored windows and sub par armored doors. As evident by the bullet holes and shrapnel (…)

  • Chavez Offers Cheap Gas to Poor in U.S.
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AVANA, Cuba - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
    "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba.
    Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan returns to war protest, plans bus tour
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan plans on taking her anti-war vigil on the road.
    Once President Bush leaves his Texas ranch late this month, Sheehan says she’ll begin a bus tour from her camp nearby. She says it’ll last more than three weeks, wrapping up September 24th in Washington — followed by a 24-hour vigil.
    Sheehan’s son died in Iraq. She began camping out near the ranch earlier this month, vowing to stay until Bush met with her. She recently left for a few days to tend to her ill (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 18)
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas
    I got up really early today to head back to Camp Casey. On the way, I had some amazing conversations with people. In one of those conversations, I was talking to Tyler who was sitting next to me on one of the planes. We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: "Wow that’s where I am going and that’s where I have been all month." He said: "I know I own a (…)

  • University of Oklahoma Confirms Assignment of CIA Agent Edger to Campus
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
    In my article summarizing my comprehensive 9/11 investigation, online at BellaCiao, I mention the fact that University of Oklahoma president David Boren, mentor of George Tenet, brought CIA agent David Edger to that campus during the summer of 2001. Edger had been director of both military and civilian intelligence activities in Germany for the US. This gave him responsibility for surveillance over the Hamburg Al Qaeda cell and (…)

  • Ask Sen. John Kerry to sign to continue the lawsuit to make sure future elections
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rep. Conyers helped introduce Cindy and the vital work she is doing to save lives
    by inviting her to testify in his Downing Street Minutes adhoc Hearing that was covered by C-Span and there were other Gold Star Famlies for Peace who had lost loved ones to Bushco’ Pack of Lies who gave heartbreaking testimony and in the questions and answers, Conyers was surprised by all the other family members who wanted to talk about and show photos of their loved ones and Conyers took the time to allow (…)

  • Connecticut challenges No Child Left Behind
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    HARTFORD, Conn. - The state of Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging President Bush’s No Child Left Behind school reform law, arguing it is illegal because it requires expensive testing and programs it doesn’t pay for.
    The lawsuit, which officials said was the first of its kind to be brought by a state government, asks a federal judge to declare that the federal government cannot require state and local money be used to meet federal testing goals.
    “The goals of the No (…)