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  • ’O.C. Register’ First Major Paper to Call for U.S. Pullout in Iraq
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK In a Sunday editorial marking the second anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, The Orange County (Ca.) Register called for a U.S. pullout from that country, becoming perhaps the first newspaper in a Top 25 market to do so. The Register’s daily circulation is around 300,000.
    "We opposed this war from the beginning and we believe the United States should withdraw its troops sooner rather than later, under a sensible exit strategy," the editorial declared. "While some argue (…)

  • Mike Ferner, Veteran For Peace: Remarks at the Ohio Statehouse March 19, 2005
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mike Ferner served as a corpsman at a navy hospital and aboard an aircraft carrier. He was discharged as a conscientious objector. He spoke to us at the Peace Rally as a member of Veterans for Peace, and challenged us as American citizens to a higher level of morality that I’ve heard from anywhere in the current administration. I’ll say no more. Today you want to spend time with Mike’s words. - Pat Denino
    As we gather here this afternoon, our colleagues in Toledo are debuting “Arlington at (…)

  • Media Blackout on Congressional Report "Death of Deliberative Democracy"
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yes, Scott Peterson is going to meet his maker and Robert Blake is going to party hardy, and the president continues to lose more ground in his quest to destroy Social Security every time he speaks on behalf of his own program, but any number of stories of import continue to slip through the cracks of a media that have ceased to take their public educational role seriously. One such story can be found, rather surprisingly one must admit, in the release of a fascinating and insightful new (…)

  • Delay Hypocrisy: The GOP Using The Schiavo Case For Political Gain
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a story of two people who could not be more different, while at the same time, be so alike. More importantly, it is a story about a whore of a politician who genuinely does not care about either, but shows it in completely different ways. This is a story about hypocrisy and how Tom Delay and the Republican Party embody that principle.
    The first person in this sad story is named Terry Schiavo. Most people have heard about Mrs. Schiavo because she has been in the headlines on (…)

  • Blackwell To Testify On Ohio Elections Before Committee
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state’s chief elections official has a message for those who say Ohio’s Nov. 2 election was fraught with unpreparedness, mistakes and fraud: Take a closer look.
    Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell was scheduled to testify at a field hearing of the U.S. House Administration Committee on Monday, more than a month after failing to appear at the panel’s first post-election hearing in Washington.
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  • If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As we enter another Easter Season, it’s become all too obvious that if Christ returns, those who hate in Jesus’s name will have him slimed, then killed.
    Christ was a long-haired peace activist who would have hated the war in Iraq. "Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus said in his defining Sermon on the Mount. "Turn the other cheek...Love thy neighbor."
    Such hippie-radical ideals are the "Christian" right wing’s worst nightmare. The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus (…)

  • Bush War Still Stinks Two Years On
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush War Still Stinks Two Years On Bill Gallagher March 22, 2005 "My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." — President George W. Bush, March 19, 2003.
    DETROIT — We need reminding just how great the gap is between what President George W. Bush promised us his war in Iraq would bring and the reality of the mess the aggression has created. We (…)

  • War crime claims- Marine recruiter turned peacenik
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the U.S. went to war in Iraq, Jimmy Massey was a staff sergeant with a marine unit that had the job of setting up checkpoints to protect american forces. In a short period of time, Massey claims, he and his men had killed 30 Iraqi civilians. He says he and the others are guilty of war crimes.
    “I brought these series of events up through the chain of command. Each time I was told they were terrorists, or they were insurgents. My question to the marine corps at that point became, how (…)

  • Abuse taped at Guantanamo, as ’explosive’ as Abu Ghraib
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VIDEO footage of US military treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will reveal many cases of substantial abuse as "explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib", a lawyer said today. Adelaide lawyer Stephen Kenny, who represented Australian David Hicks during the early part of his detention at the military prison in Cuba, told a law conference today that 500 hours of videotape of prisoners at the US base existed.
    The full story of abuse at Guantanamo Bay would not be told until the tapes were (…)

  • ...for peace, not war!
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday I spent some quality time with a group of beautiful people, right in the middle of downtown Columbus Ohio. It was the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. About 400 people gathered to protest the war and rally instead for peace. It was a friendly and diverse crowd spanning several age groups, languages and cultures, as evidenced by their attire. Nevertheless, they were united in their desire to bring about peace. I could feel the energy which coaxed the tears right out of my (…)