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  • 14 US troops killed
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq bomb attack kills 14 marines
    Pacifying western Iraq is a priority for US-led forces
    Fourteen marines and their civilian translator have been killed in a roadside bombing in north-western Iraq, the US military says.
    It is one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since the 2003 invasion.
    It happened near the city of Haditha, in the same area as an incident on Monday in which six US marines were killed by hostile fire, the army said.
    The city is near the Syrian border in an area (…)

  • IF THE U.N. SHOULD HAPPEN TO ASK MY OPINION
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IF THE UN ASKED MY OPINION
    By Peter Fredson
    August 3, 2005
    It is a possibility, as remote as my being invited to go along on a space walk, that people at the UN would ever ask my opinion on any subject. However, if that should occur, here is what I might say:
    In the U.S. we have a President who is shallow, callow, petulant, impatient, querulous, secretive, vengeful, impulsive and who believes that aggressivity, preemption, lying and disregard of rules makes for a good democracy. It (…)

  • The Bolton Embarrassment
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Nichols
    When the United States sought to be a true world leader, as opposed to a petulant global bully, this country’s seat at the United Nations was occupied by great men and women. Consider just some of the amazing figures who have served as U.S. ambassadors to the international body: former Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, (…)

  • 14 Marines, Interpreter Killed in Iraq
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fourteen U.S. Marines and a civilian interpreter were killed Wednesday in western Iraq, the U.S. command said.
    The Marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action early Wednesday when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the military said. One Marine was also wounded in the attack.
    The incident occurred during combat operations just outside Haditha, which is 140 miles northwest of (…)

  • The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by James Petras
    The US labor confederation, the AFL-CIO, is in a deep crisis. Following a recent split, it lost over 3 million members, reducing it to a mere 9% of the labor force and 7% of the private sector.
    The crisis of the AFL-CIO is the result of politics, including the politics of collaboration with employers and opposition to militant “grass-root” organizing. Over the past 50 years the AFL-CIO trade union bureaucrats have intervened against militant local unions, surrendered past (…)

  • ’Universal Democracy’ Is the Goal As Congress Eyes New Legislation
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - When senators return to Washington this September, they will be set to consider new legislation that would commit America to ending tyranny the world over.
    Tucked inside the House version of a bill that authorizes spending on foreign aid is the language of what is known as the ADVANCE Democracy Act. The act instructs American ambassadors and embassy staffs to draw up democracy transition plans for unfree regimes, with input from nonviolent opposition movements in the various (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela protests the NED at AFL-CIO Convention
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David May
    Activists of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign, joining over 90 trade unionists, members of Chicago and Cincinnati Bolivarian Circles and Latin American Solidarity Center supporters, marched to demand suspension of AFL-CIO financial support for the NED during the first day of the trade union federation’s national convention in Chicago Sunday. The occasion also marked the introduction of the US Trade Union Appeal for the HOV campaign, which collected 73 signatures from trade (…)

  • WHY ALL THAT SECRECY?
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHY ALL THE SECRECY?
    By Peter Fredson
    August 2, 2005
    We all know that secrecy is one of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration. We know that unusual steps are taken to prevent the public from finding out what decisions were made, how they were influenced, what actions were taken and who profited by them. We know that records are sealed so that inquiring minds cannot, for years, find out what stupidities have been perpetrated.
    We suspect that this is done to prevent the (…)

  • EXPLANATIONS STILL NEEDED
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FULL AND HONEST EXPLANATIONS NEEDED
    By Peter Fredson
    August 2, 2005
    As I reviewed events of the past five years, it struck me that many still lacked full, honest, candid and open explanations. We have had several congressional investigation committee reports, but they are strangely lacking in forthright assessments of some basic problems. We have had hundreds of daily made-to-order White House “explanations” which somehow lack the crystalline ring of truth.
    We have had several Press (…)

  • Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
    By Dafna Linzer
    A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
    The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, (…)