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  • For Cindy: There is no Glory in Dying
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    From Sgt. Kevin Benderman - Prisoner of Conscience for objecting to war:
    “I have come to the conclusion that the Creator does not want us to fight wars or to leave our brothers to die in hunger or disease. We have been given the things we need to provide all men on the planet with what they need to get by in this world. Why should I not help another human being that needs what I can help them with? I have ignored that for far too long. I have turned my head when the (…)

  • Vietnam, Reloaded
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Steven LaTulippe
    Scanning the news these past few weeks has been somewhat of a surreal experience. Our cowboy president has been holed up in his Texas ranch trying to put a positive spin on his seemingly endless military conflict in the East. Jane Fonda has been taking flak for her planned antiwar bus excursion, and the Rolling Stones are kicking off a huge summer concert tour.
    It’s like we’re all living inside an episode of a new tragic sitcom called That 60s Show. One could even (…)

  • Camp Casey Music Lineup: Marcia Ball Friday, Joan Baez Sunday-Rumors of Steve Earle, James McMurtry
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marcia Ball: Report from Camp Casey
    Dear friends,
    This is a note which I hope you will pass along about Cindy Sheehan’s vigil in Crawford. As most of you know, Cindy had to leave yesterday because her mother had a stroke. Still, most of the people who had gathered around her there are continuing the demonstration.
    There are Gold Star Mothers, Military Families Speak Out, Code Pink and many individuals who have lost family members in the war in Iraq or who have people serving there now. (…)

  • Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN CITY — Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
    The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope’s lawyers in (…)

  • Statement about a joint rally and joint march for September 24
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The two major antiwar coalitions that have initiated and organized for a massive antiwar March on Washington for September 24 have agreed to organize a joint rally followed by a joint march.
    Both coalitions will organize under their own banners, slogans and with their own literature for the September 24 demonstration.
    The joint rally will begin at 11:30 am at the Ellipse in the front of the White House.
    We urge everyone around the country to unite and come out for the largest possible (…)

  • Nick Berg Enjoyed Favored Treatment from the Norman City Court
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    In the spring of 2000, Nick Berg was arrested twice by University of Oklahoma police and accused of trespass because he was sleeping on OU couches. He was not an OU student at the time. Why was this young man from a comfortable suburb in Pennsylvania appearing to be a homeless vagrant in Norman, Oklahoma?
    If my suspicions are correct that he was infiltrating Al Qaeda under CIA supervision, then the appearance of being a vagrant (…)

  • AIR FORCE ACADEMY (AGAIN)
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    A retired Army major general is throwing fuel on the hot issue of religious discrimination at the U.S. Air Force Academy by writing to commanders there to urge their backing a Christian evangelical rally for military personnel sponsored by Rev. Billy Graham’s ministry ? and signing his letters “Your Partner in the Gospel”.
    The academy, which has been dogged by allegations of harassment against non-Christian cadets, charged that Bob Dees has sent promotional literature (…)

  • AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy and Pat Sheehan along with myself "Auntie", Jane and Jim Bright, Celeste Zappala, Bill Mitchell, Lila Lipscomb and Sue Neiderer have formed Gold Star Families for Peace Our group is open to any family member who have suffered the loss of a loved one in a war. Our goal is to assist those families in whatever way possible.GSFP is an affiliate of Military Families Speak Out For more information about GSFP visit our website at: www.gsfp.org Dear George,
    You don’t mind if I call you (…)

  • Anti-war protester Sheehan leaving camp because of mother’s stroke
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - The grieving mother who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush’s ranch nearly two weeks ago said Thursday she was leaving because her mother had a stroke.
    Cindy Sheehan told reporters she had just received the phone call and would rush to her 74-year-old mother’s side. Her mother lives in the Los Angeles area.
    "I’ll be back as soon as possible if it’s possible," Sheehan said. After hugging some of her supporters, she got in a van and left.
    Sheehan, of (…)

  • FBI Tells Enormous Lie About Nick Berg
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    In a letter sent to me in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tells an enormous lie. They don’t admit to having ever investigated Nick Berg. Strictly speaking, they say that their "central record" files located no records at "headquarters" to indicate that Berg has ever been of "investigatory interest to the FBI." Then they invite me to check with their various field (…)