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  • 51% Is Not A Mandate Especially When All The Votes Were Not Counted
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    51% Is Not A Mandate Especially When All The Votes Were Not Counted Rep. John Conyers, Jr. May 05, 2005 The mainstream media seems to be waking up to the idea that all of the post-election talk about a mandate was just that: talk. Under the understated headline, "Doubts About Mandate for Bush, GOP," the Washington Post reports that the President’s poll numbers are plummeting, his social security privatization plan and cuts are unpopular, and Congressional Republicans are abusing their (…)

  • FBI Protects Osama bin Laden’s "Right To Privacy" In Document Release
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Protects Osama bin Laden’s "Right To Privacy" In Document Release Judicial Watch Investigation Uncovers FBI Documents Concerning Bin Laden Family and Post-9/11 Flights April 20, 2005 (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda (…)

  • The Quagmire. As The Iraq War Drags On, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Vietnam
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    The Quagmire As The Iraq War Drags On, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Vietnam Robert Dreyfuss May 05, 2005 The news from Iraq is bad and getting worse with each passing day. Iraqi insurgents are stepping up the pace of their attacks, unleashing eleven deadly bombings on April 29th alone. Many of the 150,000 Iraqi police and soldiers hastily trained by U.S. troops have deserted or joined the insurgents. The cost of the war now tops $192 billion, rising by $1 billion a week, and the (…)

  • Mistrial for Lyndie England: Graner says was following orders, photos intended for training manual !
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A military judge threw out a guilty plea by Lynndie England, a key figure in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, after new evidence in her trial indicated she considered herself innocent.
    The decision by Judge Colonel James Pohl yesterday throws into doubt the fate of the 22-year-old reservist private, made infamous by photos showing her pointing at a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners and holding one naked inmate on a dog-leash.
    The turning point was testimony by Private Charles Graner (…)

  • 32 days left before war with Iran
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • Breast cancer activism in the USA
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Laura Corradi, Ph.D. Amazons
    In the empire of wealth cancer hits one every three adults - while billion of dollars are spent in research, scientists are divided over causes of this illness and strategies of prevention. Two competing systems of explanation contend the cancer arena: the genetic-behavioristic paradigm (dominant) and the environmental-social paradigm (emergent).
    In this context, a cancer activism comes into sight as a new social movement against corporate polluters, and (…)

  • "Facts Were Fixed." Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
    A BUZZFLASH GUEST NEWS ANALYSIS by Greg Palast
    Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
    The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WDM. (…)

  • U.S. report of attack on Giuliana based largely on the soldiers’ testimony "clearly a lie"
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: The US report should have included the eyewitness testimony of Giuliana Sgrena who stated that the shooting was not even at a checkpoint at all, it was an ambush from behind on a secure road.
    Giuliana Sgrena Blasts U.S. Cover Up- Confirms she was shot at from behind-not in self defense ROME (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had a "long and friendly" telephone conversation on Wednesday as both countries moved to end a (…)

  • US War Crimes and the Legal Case for Military Resistance
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Whensoever the general Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." Thomas Jefferson
    May 10th is a national day of action for GI resisters. A newly formed group, Courage-To-Resist, is organizing veterans, military families, and community activists in a campaign to support military objectors. Demonstrations to support sailor Pablo Paredes, who faces a court martial in San Diego May 11th, are in the making.
    On December 6, 2004, Navy Petty (…)

  • Fascism: Are We There Yet?
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fascism: Are We There Yet? Margaret Kimberley April 21, 2005 Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so an advertising slogan is in order.
    “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.”
    The United States government is now proposing that the roach treatment be meted out to American humans who want to visit Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda. These countries currently do not require (…)