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  • Sheehan Strategy
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Fresia
    The strategy employed by Cindy Sheehan to hold President Bush accountable needs to be examined for its effectiveness. I believe her effectiveness is rooted in something that Martin Luther King pointed to as an essential feature of any effective non-violent action and that is the use of "confrontation" to make "the invisible visible."
    Recall, first, the Birmingham campaign of 1963. The campaign itself was dubbed Project Confrontation. "Instead of submitting to (…)

  • HOW HORROR CAME TO US
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Political Satire
    By Peter Fredson
    One day there lived a spoiled, impetuous, impatient, shallow, reckless, irresponsible lad that was somehow given religion, promised he would become rich and powerful, and that he could help kleptocrats and True Believers rule the world.
    Several hundred of them got together, thinking the young lad was pliable, gullible and sufficiently dumb to serve as their poster-boy. They also knew he had a rich and powerful daddy and had lots of “right” ideas for (…)

  • THE OPEN PORTAL OF BUSH’S MIND...
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Saturday (Aug 13), writer Peter Fredson posted an intriguing piece on this site, wherein he admits he shares the same problem with George Bush that most thinking people have — there is no doubt that Bush is a shallow, unlearned, idiotic bully; yet he maintains an eerie control over the entire government.
    Fredson writes:
    ’We must give them credit for manufacturing pretexts to take an entire nation to war, to fool an entire Congress, and most of the media, although the public seems (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan : the Amazing Hypocrites
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    Wednesday 22 March 2005 - This past weekend was the two-year anniversary of the beginning of "shock and awe" of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never have known.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events "barely a ripple." I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there (…)

  • Bush and Blair in the Land of Make Believe - Iraq: the Unwinnable War
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.
    The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have (…)

  • War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S. Domestic Effort Is Big Shift for Military
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bradley Graham
    COLORADO SPRINGS — The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
    The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 (…)

  • Bush defends refusal to meet Cindy Sheehan "I think it’s important for me to go on with my life"
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it’s also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.
    Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.
    "But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there’s somebody who has got something to say to the president, (…)

  • Camp Casey Day 8- WOW!!!
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    It is not often that, I, Cindy Sheehan is at a loss for words. I will try and describe today, though. It was the most incredible, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, powerful, miraculous event I have ever been apart of. I was so humbled and honored at the outpouring of love and support that arrived in Camp Casey today.
    It was a busy morning of interviews and problem solving. I had interviews with some network shows and a photo shoot for the Vanity Fair article. Almost all of (…)

  • Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by FRANK RICH
    LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
    A president can’t stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won’t stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in (…)

  • Psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz on Torture at Abu Ghraib
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Welcome to Talk Nation Radio produced in New England at WHUS Storrs.
    Talk Nation.org for news and discussion on politics, human rights, and the environment.
    I’m Dori Smith
    Our guest today is
    Stephen Soldz of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
    He describes himself as a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and social activist, and while teaching at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis he also finds time to write and perform research duties on a web page he (…)