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  • Labor’s Foreign Policy Heads in a New Direction
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tim Shorrock
    Lost amidst the publicity about the breakup of the AFL-CIO at its convention last month were two events that, in their own ways, could point to a radically new foreign policy for American unions and workers. The first was the convention’s passage of a resolution placing organized labor squarely behind a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq-the first time that the AFL-CIO has ever taken a public stance against an ongoing U.S. war. The significance of the resolution was (…)

  • An article of hope for Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan a concerned parent waiting in the Texas sun for accountability from the President for going to war is not alone. The revolutionary council of concerned citizens (RCCC) is an attempt to focus the national debate on Informed Consent. The manifest for the revolution is a PowerPoint presentation commissioned by the Department of Defense (DOD) and prepared by three physicians, defining Informed Consent. Although Informed Consent is usually considered an individual contract it also (…)

  • Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad’s body count
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

  • Newt’s Resurrection
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    It is never easy being the second smartest person in the class. To be number two means that you get seductively close to the prize, before you inevitably plummet. This is what happened to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who consistently got outfoxed by President Bill Clinton.
    In 1995, for example, Gingrich forced an unpopular government shutdown, which played right into Clinton’s hands. Frustrated by the cunning of his wily nemesis, a petulant Gingrich threw a defining (…)

  • Help Support Cindy Sheehan, whose son was kill
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salutations,
    Please forward widely
    Cindy Sheehan’s son, Casey was killed in the Iraq War. She is turning her tragic loss into a relentless anti-war campaign that has brought her to Crawford, Texas to occupy a space outside G.W. Bush’s ranch until he agrees to speak with her. As I write this, supporters in Crawford have been harassed by the police, gone on huner strike and are in need of your support. Rumsfeld and Rice are expected to arrive at Crawford tomorrow to meet with G.W. Bush so (…)

  • Would You Sign This?
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. military enlistment form should raise many serious questions
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/17/05 — Reading a current U.S. military enlistment form recently, I was surprised to discover that once enlisted and in the event of war, such as a war declared against a relative intangible such as ’terror’, an enlistee might never actually get out of the military.
    Forget the fact that enlistees are required to serve a total of eight (8) years; combined active and (…)

  • Michael Wright’s Improved Antiwar Chant
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael Wright —
    Norman, Oklahoma USA
    mpwright9@aol.com
    Not long ago I posted this as a suggested chant for antiwar demonstrations:
    "Excuse me, GWB
    How many coffins will there be?"
    It needs to be modified to this:
    "Excuse me, GWB
    How many coffins will we see?"
    The reason is that, in the original version, B in the first line had the same sound as "be" in the second line; therefore there was no rhyme.
    Now it rhymes !
    See the summary of my 9/11 investigation: (…)

  • In Defense of Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Drink-soaked Trotskyite popinjay slimes antiwar Mom
    by Justin Raimondo
    All the usual suspects are lining up to slime Cindy Sheehan: Mr. Smarm, AKA James Taranto; the pretentious twits over at Powerline blog; and of course Matt Drudge, who ought to make his role as a sounding board for the Republican National Committee official. Yet none of these worthies were really up to the task. Drudge took Sheehan’s statement after her first meeting with Bush out of context and was contradicted by (…)

  • Where Is Laura Bush?
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    With President Bush’s approval ratings in the dumpster the polling numbers reflect his ineffectiveness to lead this country in the right direction. You would think he would do something to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of Americans to gain back their trust. But this corrupt Polly Anna president of ours goes on day to day as if nothing is wrong.
    There is something very wrong when this president when a mom of a fallen soldier camps outside his Crawford home pleading (…)

  • Senate Intelligence chairman quietly ’fixed’ intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush issued an order to the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, and his cabinet members that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress.
    "The only Members of Congress whom you or your expressly designated officers may brief regarding classified or sensitive law (…)