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  • Democrats Fail to Serve as Opposition Party
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different. "This is not a dictatorship," announced Senate minority leader Harry Reid. The new head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, declared, "The President neither has the mandate he thinks he has nor a majority to make policy." But three months of watching the Democrats’ stumbling, (…)

  • Follow The Money: Corruption in Iraq is out of control. Will the U.S. clamp down on it?
    27 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Follow The Money Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
    ’Fraud-free zone’: Willis, center, in Iraq with two CPA colleagues, preparing to pay a contractor in 2003
    NewsweekApril 4 issue - By many accounts, Custer Battles was a nightmare contractor in Iraq. The company’s two principals, Mike Battles and Scott Custer, overcharged occupation authorities by millions of dollars, according to a complaint from (…)

  • More than enough evidence to send Bush Administration to the Hague
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI) this week found both Bush and Tony Blair guilty of a series of charges, and found they deserve life sentences for war crimes and genocide in Iraq.
    The tribunal found Bush guilty on 13 counts, Blair guilty of eight crimes, Koizumi guilty on four counts and Arroyo guilty of aiding and abetting the other defendants of crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity, Abe said.
    Bush is guilty of genocide for the use of "devastating" (…)

  • War crimes in IRAQ
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War crimes in IRAQ
    I am writing to you calling for some efforts to stop the war going on in Iraq.
    This war has caused the loss of more than 100,000 Iraqis ( according to a study published by the LANCET medical journal ( www.thelancet.com ) ) and more than 1528 Americans. Large violations of human rights have been committed against civilians in various towns of Iraq,( see for example the report " Beyond Torture ", www.cser.com ) . Those who were the cause for these losses and violations (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena was shot in the Green Zone, by a tank as they drove away from it!
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. We speak with independent journalist Naomi Klein, who just returned from meeting with Sgrena in Rome. In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car (…)

  • Making Congress Listen: A new focus for the antiwar movement
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration’s two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those vulnerabilities.
    There is much good organizing on the first issue to celebrate, strengthen, and continue:
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    Growing counter-recruitment work and conscientious objector support; *
    Highlighting the (…)

  • Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Undoing of America
    For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of making America’s leaders look like good guys at every turn. The saga has unfolded in two ways: through Vidal’s series of seven historical novels, beginning with Washington DC in 1967 and concluding with The Golden Age in 2000; and (…)

  • Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that...
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that the people either support mass murder or really don’t care enough to change it"
    From an exchange between two Blog sites, Fountainhead and Another Day in the Empire:
    An email received yesterday:
    "You expect to sell your art work to Americans while you publish the most incredible lies. I just bet you are an American too. Re: your article about Fallujah published in Anwaar Hussain?s hate blog.
    How do you know that (…)

  • OUR SONS WERE SACRIFICED FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by : Military Families Against the War
    No government minister has been available to explain the apparent change in the legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith in March 2003 regarding war with Iraq. Not only was the resignation letter from Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, censored but the government continues to refuse to release Lord Goldsmith’s full legal advice.
    This situation should not go on. On the ’Today’ programme this morning former defence (…)

  • NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert Fake name. Fake reporter. Fake news agency. And now this ...
    Fake Marine.
    First, we went to the Military Personnel Records of the National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis, Missouri, the supposed repository of all military records.
    No record showed, but the official letter hemmed and hawed and scraped its military-booted feet so much, kinda sorta explaining that they’re often ... well ... ummm ... screwed up ... and that we should check (…)