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  • 77 year old harassed by police for calling Bush a Liar on Radio
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
    by Greg Szymanski
    Although Doug Stout, 77, won’t pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don’t smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then (…)

  • The Mother of all Battles
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan has almost single-handedly launched an American antiwar movement. And in the process, she’s exposed a president’s feet of clay.
    by Joan Walsh The smearing may continue, but it’s already too late: Cindy Sheehan has launched an American antiwar movement. Maybe, as Matt Drudge blared over the weekend, she’s said controversial things about Israel. Maybe the IRS will chase her for tax evasion, since she’s reportedly announced that she won’t pay taxes for 2004, the year her son (…)

  • Roberts authored memo on tribute for fetuses Nominee wrote that memorial would draw attention to ‘abortion tragedy’
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group’s memorial service for aborted fetuses was “an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.”
    Roberts wrote the advice in an October 1985 memo after he was asked to review a proposed telegram from President Reagan to the memorial service promoted by the California Pro Life Medical Association.
    “The president’s position is that the fetuses were (…)

  • Confronting Bush in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan’s challenge
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CINDY BERINGER and ERIC RUDER report from Cindy Sheehan’s antiwar vigil outside George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.
    WHEN CINDY Sheehan boarded the Veterans for Peace Impeachment Tour bus August 6 and headed for Crawford, Texas, she had no idea that the vigil she had begun planning a few days before would turn her into a national symbol of the growing discontent with the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
    Today, her face is on the front pages of newspapers across the country and the world. (…)

  • The grieving mother who took on George Bush
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s soldier son Casey was killed near Baghdad. Now her one-woman protest at the gates of the US president’s Texas ranch has become a metaphor for a nation’s increasing unease about involvement in an unwinnable conflict.
    By Rupert Cornwell
    Something strange is taking place deep in the heart of Texas, where the President of the United States is holed up at his Prairie Chapel ranch, a few miles from the town of Crawford. There, in the space of a few days, a middle-aged (…)

  • New Homeland Security Work Rules Blocked
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Employee, Union Rights Not Protected, Judge Says
    By Stephen Barr
    The Department of Homeland Security, after more than two years of work on new workplace rules, may have to scrap the plan after a federal judge questioned whether it protects union and employee rights.
    The rules were scheduled to begin today but were blocked by U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer in a ruling released Friday night. A spokesman for the department, Larry Orluskie, said officials are to meet today and (…)

  • March permits in front of the White House secured for Sept. 24
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    March permits obtained formass march on September 24directly in front of the White Houseon Pennsylvania Ave. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has secured a permit from the Metropolitan Police Department for the mass march on September 24 that will take the demonstration directly in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. This is the first time in many years that a march permit has been secured allowing people to exercise their First Amendment right for a mass assembly march and protest on (…)

  • AFL-CIO draws plan to let breakaway unions’ locals stay involved
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY FRANCINE KNOWLES Business Reporter
    The AFL-CIO, which following the disaffiliations of several big unions last month sharply limited the work they could do with its local labor councils, changed its stance Thursday —a move welcomed by key groups here, but blasted by dissidents.
    The national body said locals of the disaffiliated national unions can apply to be part of AFL-CIO central labor councils or state federations under proposed new solidarity charters. But it will cost them more. (…)

  • How Those Big Bucks End Up in Big Oil’s Pockets
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steven Mufson
    When oil prices spiked — and oil profits soared — 26 years ago, virtually every newspaper intern in America (including me) was dispatched to gasoline stations to collect quotes from irate motorists. Big Oil was viewed as public enemy number one: Congress convened hearings to skewer oil industry execs, regulatory agencies investigated pricing, and some news organizations rented helicopters to scour the waters (in vain) for signs of oil tankers floating offshore just waiting (…)

  • Tomgram: Cindy Sheehan’s War
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy, Don, and George. On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road
    By Tom Engelhardt
    Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time Magazine: "The Army’s wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable strategic peril. It’s because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, I cannot retreat from my position."
    Cindy Sheehan testifying at Rep. John Conyers public hearings on the Downing Street Memo: "My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was (…)