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  • Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now The war has destabilized the Mideast and created a potential Vietnam, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel says. Other lawmakers express frustration.
    By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to hit the road this week to bolster public support for his policies in Iraq, a senior Republican senator said Sunday that the United States needed to craft an exit strategy because its continued presence had created a (…)

  • Radical cleric’s call for assassins
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A radical cleric has called on his flock to assassinate a South American President recently elected in a democratic election that did not conflict with exit polls.
    Pat Robertson acting as the holy see for evangelical extremist associated with his 700 club is promoting the use of assassination to defend Americas oil supply in South America.
    The Radical cleric has a long history of support for Bush and his neocon allies, his threat should not be taken as idle talk.
    The world will be (…)

  • On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
    by Doug Linder
    Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly divided a nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. As the end drew near, in August (…)

  • Terms of the Divorce : California unions try to maintain cohesion even as their movement comes unstuck
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by HAROLD MEYERSON
    Breaking up is hard to do. And for an American labor movement currently splitting in two, nowhere more so than in California.
    The impact of the secession of three of the AFL-CIO’s four largest unions is particularly acute in California because the departed three - the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the Teamsters - constitute a far greater share of the labor movement out here than they do elsewhere, and (…)

  • Sometimes I Wonder If There Will Be A Moment When Reality And Myth, Truth And Lies, Will Collide
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides
    by Robert Fisk
    It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their guns on all of us if we approach within 50 metres.
    In the weird, space-ship isolation of Saddam’s old republican palace, the Kurds and the Shia have been (…)

  • The Trillion-Dollar War
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LINDA BILMES
    Cambridge, Mass.
    THE human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting is over.
    The cost goes well beyond the more than $250 billion already spent on military operations and reconstruction. Basic running costs of the current (…)

  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey to hold hearing on strategy for disengagement from Iraq September 15
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Statesmanship, Less Salesmanship, Please . . . by Rep. Lynn Woolsey The war in Iraq, now entering its 30th month, seemingly brings a new atrocity or source of shame every day. The American death toll is approaching 2,000, with August on track to be one of the war’s deadliest months.
    And let’s not forget the wounded, the victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians senselessly killed so that their nation could be ‘liberated’.
    Throughout (…)

  • Baez Is Back! Folk Singer Icon Joan Baez Takes Camp Casey II By Storm
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gene Ellis
    CRAWFORD - Shortly after Joan Baez arrived Sunday afternoon at Camp Casey II, she gave a press conference with the Gold Star Families, all of whom have lost loved ones in the war. She talked with them, and she cried with them.
    Ms. Baez returned to the trailer to prepare for her performance, speaking only in whispers when it was necessary to speak at all, saving her voice.
    She gave a moving performance, peppered with energy, emotion, humor, and humanity. She even showed (…)

  • COINTEL operative discourages going to Crawford-admits Peace House paid off mortgage with Donations
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy has asked that as many as possible join her in Crawford, and as the momentum and numbers are growing COINTELPRO operatives swarm the internet trying to discourage people from going. Just like the organizers at the protest, they are actively trying to lesson the numbers. What is interesting is that the operative supports giving even more money to the Crawford Peace House. Althought the Crawford Peace House has denied paying off their mortgage with donations meant for Cindy...it is (…)

  • Military used on US soil! to shut down Utah Rave- attack innocent civilians, photographers, kids
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sean Liddell
    The Military is used to shut down a rave. The military is used on US soil. Anyone else have a problem with that? This is crossing the line into full on fascism- hired thugs that will go anywhere, brutalize anyone, even teenagers, no questions asked. Demand the mainstream media show this footage.
    These are first-hand accounts as posted at
    I was standing behind the second stage watching a friend of mine play records. Everyone on the dance floor was talking or dancing to (…)