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  • American War Criminal Made to Answer for Crime
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Fri, Apr. 01, 2005
    Hearing delayed for sergeant charged in Kuwait grenade attack WILLIAM L. HOLMES Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An Army sergeant charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack in Kuwait two years ago is competent to stand trial, a military judge ruled Friday.
    Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 33, is scheduled to undergo a court-martial this month in a March 2003 attack on fellow members of the 101st Airborne Division days after the start of the U.S. invasion (…)

  • Stupid Is As Stupid Does
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Doug Thompson You only need to spend a few seconds with Mel Martinez to realize the Florida Republican Senator is a few beers short of a six pack, but his lame-brained excuse for how a memo outlining the GOP’s plan to turn the Terri Schiavo tragedy into a political opportunity fell into Democratic hands sends political intelligence to subterranean levels. Martinez claims he gave the memo to Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin because he thought they were only “talking points” and says he never (…)

  • Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush Norman (Otis) Richmond April 07, 2005
    Canadians are no better or no worse than any other people. They have been on the right and wrong sides of history. Like every other nation Canada has produced revolutionaries, working class heroes, buffoons and idiots.
    Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin was forced to take the correct position on missile defense by refusing to back U.S. President George W. Bush. At the same time Canada has come up short on the (…)

  • New Revelations About Racism In The Military. Army Reservist Witnesses War Crimes
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Revelations About Racism In The Military Army Reservist Witnesses War Crimes Paul Rockwell April 07, 2005 Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1st , 2003 through April 1st, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad.
    The handsome 23-year-old mechanic was a witness to widespread, almost daily, U.S. war crimes in Iraq. (…)

  • Who’s Better Off?
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before the US House of Representatives, April 6, 2005.
    Whenever the administration is challenged regarding the success of the Iraq war, or regarding the false information used to justify the war, the retort is: “Aren’t the people of Iraq better off?” The insinuation is that anyone who expresses any reservations about supporting the war is an apologist for Saddam Hussein and every ruthless act he ever committed. The short answer to the question of whether the Iraqis are better off is that (…)

  • Yushchenko hailed as hero by hypocrites; Asks bankrupt nation for economic aid
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Congress cheers Ukraine leader
    Mr Yushchenko - who has been hailed as a hero throughout a four-day visit to the US - received a rapturous welcome on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
    Members of Congress cheered and chanted his name as he walked to the platform.
    The Ukrainian president - who was elected in December in a re-run of a disputed election - said US support had been "clear and unambiguous".
    "The US condemned fraud and upheld Ukrainians’ right to freely elect their government," (…)

  • Wal-Mart Sells the Marine Corps
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Marine Corps is now on sale at Wal-Mart:
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recently approved the airing of two Marine Corps public service announcements, "Family Photos" and "For Country." . . .
    Bill G. Harmon Watches the Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ PSA "Bill G. Harmon, a Virginia native, stops to watch the U. S. Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ public service announcement at Wal-Mart’s home theater section in Stafford, Va. The commercial features the original footage of the (…)

  • Uruknet: 32 more US troops die on Wednesday, April 6
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Original:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 6 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Wednesday, 6 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province. Ar-Ramadi.
    Resistance bomb kills five US troops Wednesday morning in ar-Ramadi.
    An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol as it passed through the as-Sufiyah area north of ar-Ramadi at 10am Wednesday. A source in the local police told (…)

  • How Big Business Buys the Politicians
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Corporate America makes a windfall off “investment” in Washington How big business buys the politicians By Eric Ruder |
    IF YOU run a big corporation, you don’t just get what you pay for from Washington. You get much, much more than you pay for.
    In exchange for political contributions that amount to petty cash for them, some of America’s largest companies are reaping a bumper crop this year—in looser environmental regulations, limitations on consumer lawsuits against them, bankruptcy (…)

  • NIST blames fireproofing for WTC collapse
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Philip Green
    Fireproofing has been blamed for the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings collapse after the two airplanes - American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175 - struck the north and the south tower within minutes of each other killing 2,749 people, including those on the two jets.
    The 10,000-page report prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), out of which 3,400 pages were made public Tuesday, stated that the hijacked airplanes had struck the (…)