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  • Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in U.S. & around the world
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate in Cities Across the Country and Around the World on 2nd Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
    More than 25,000 March in San Francisco, 20,000 in Los Angeles, tens of thousands more in 700 cities from New York to Fayetteville, NC to Seattle
    Send in a report on the demonstration in your area
    In more than 1000 cities across the country and around the world, demonstrations today protested on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In San Francisco, (…)

  • New American Progressive Community Seeks Feedback From the World
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is an invitation for progressive people from around the world to help the American left understand what issues are important to you, and help us craft a new alternative to Bush’s War on Terror, my way or the highway approach.
    If you have something to say about America and it relates to you and your country come publish your thoughts at http://www.boomantribune.com .
    Thank you.
    BooMan

  • Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like (…)

  • Blank Check for Bush: Congress fails to serve as check and balance
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Most members of Congress have ceased to function as serious legislators. They simply walk through the motions, collect their checks and then vote as the White House tells them they must.
    This is not a complaint merely about most Republicans in the House and Senate - whose unwavering allegiance to even their president’s maddest schemes mirrors that of Sancho Panza to Don Quixote. The Democrats are just about as bad, as was illustrated by their support this week of the administration’s (…)

  • Peaceful Revolution- Solidarity from Venezuela
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings to all the peace marchers and US citizens from the people of Venezuela on this important day!
    We congratulate you on your commitment to stopping the war in Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. The great majority of the Venezuelan people are also in complete disagreement with the use of US military force to dominate the peoples of the Middle East and other countries, classified arbitrarily as the "Axis of Evil". This march is vital to pressure the current Administration from (…)

  • Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today begins year three of the US intervention in Iraq, with its tragic consequences for both the Iraqi and American people continuing to multiply.
    The Iraqi dead-incinerated by US air strikes, shot to death at roadblocks, or killed in merciless sieges like the one mounted last November against Fallujah-number in the many tens of thousands.
    US casualties have risen to over 1,520 dead, with more than 11,200 troops wounded and as many as 100,000 in need of mental health care as a result of (…)

  • Worldwide Protest Pictures/ Empires fall when the people rise up
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this treacherous system the media manipulates Spreadin misinformation, through all 50 states
    Innovate past hate, kick back contemplate metal minds manufacture a fractured debate see my enemies’ enemy Is still my enemy But fools blunt their own vision television Hennessey can’t see what’s comin, too lost in the spectacle But a child is more then a bullets receptacle
    While we’re “nonviolent” in the streets screaming peace Bush is bombing babies throughout the middle east Soon as Sadaam (…)

  • ‘Bring the troops home now!’
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the brutal occupation of Iraq grinds on after two years of death and destruction, its toll on working-class youth and the growing impoverishment of already oppressed communities is reshaping the anti-war movement in the United States.
    A demonstration here on March 19, the anniversary of the day two years ago when the Pentagon began its "shock and awe" campaign, reflected this change when it began in Harlem, the historic cultural center for African Americans.
    "Why Harlem?" asked emcee (…)

  • Iraq insurgency has worsened: US intelligence
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Though US President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been giving the impression that the insurgency situation in Iraq is improving, the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), which monitors the situation daily, says it has worsened.
    "The insurgency in Iraq has grown in size and complexity over the past year. Attacks numbered approximately 25 per day one year ago," DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington. (…)

  • San Francisco port workers shutting down docks to protest war
    19 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There’s a rising tide of workers’ anger against the war in Iraq and the cuts in government programs to pay for it — in enforcement of worker- safety laws, health care, Social Security, education and jobs. The recent victory of the nurses’ union over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to deny adequate staffing ratios in hospitals shows that labor can turn the tide.
    Last year, the Port of Oakland — the fourth largest port in the United States, ratcheting Northern California higher up on (…)