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  • Iran, Beware of the Attack Dog
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong."
    It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now.
    Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.
    This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were (…)

  • I’m a registered Republican and I can’t stand the idea of cheating to win
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the majority of the media and the American public have moved on, Bernard Ellis says there are less-visible throngs of people who are still trying to make sense of last November’s presidential election.
    "I’m convinced that a host of laws were broken - both small and large laws - in the 2004 elections," Ellis says.
    Ellis, a Tennessee public health epidemiologist with 30 years experience in the field, will speak 7-9 p.m. Monday at Austin Peay State University’s Morgan University (…)

  • Soldiers with Flu-Like symptoms Dying ’Mysteriously’
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments, according to a report by affiliate station WRAL.
    Sgt. Clay Garton was a flight medic at Fort Bragg. He spent 16 months in Iraq and returned home in July. Then, he got sick.
    His family said he had symptoms like the flu. He fought it for three weeks, but his fever soared to 106 degrees. The day after Christmas, he died. (…)

  • Excerpts from Lynne Stewart’s Speech!
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Excerpts/Highlights from Lynne Stewarts Speech, February 17th, at the Community Church of New York (Hall of Worship) at 40 East 35th Street.
    (Lynne enters to a standing ovation, wild cheers, and applause--- audience chants, “No justice, no peace!”)
    ...I came down from Harlem where I spoke at a rally. I spoke on the radio this morning to Portland, and on our own WBAI.
    (cheering)
    Tuesday night we were on the way home. We were at the drugstore, and who comes on the radio, but my friend (…)

  • Regaining My Humanity - Conscientious Objector released from prison
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. But the US (…)

  • Censorship of the Media Creating Insidious Chill on Free Expression on our Airwaves
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by US Rep. Bernie Sanders
    The following is a 2/16/2005 floor statement by Rep. Bernard Sanders in opposition to The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act 2005:
    Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this legislation.
    Mr. Speaker, I think we can all agree that we do not want our children exposed to obscenity on the public airwaves. That goes without saying.
    As someone who last year voted in favor of similar legislation, I am increasingly alarmed by the culture of censorship that seems to be (…)

  • NOT WHILE I’M PRESIDENT!
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even though we have George Bush’s pledge that, "We’re not going to have a draft, period," the draft-age men of his home state, Texas, are apparently not so confident that he’ll keep his word if the statistics compiled by the Selective Service System (SSS) are to be believed. Since 1999, the SSS has been issuing a state-by-state report card on selective service registration compliance that shows the Lone Star state’s compliance has been consistently below the national average.
    In 1999, (…)

  • Another Reservist Refuses to go: ’I won’t fight for profit’
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Carl Webb is very clear about what he is doing: "I’m refusing to go to war because I do not believe the U.S. is on the right track. I think this war is not about liberating people, it’s about oppressing them. It’s a war that’s being fought for profit."
    Webb is a 38-year-old African Amer ican antiwar activist from Austin, Texas. He is also a fugitive with a federal warrant out for his arrest—for refusing to participate in the war against the people of Iraq.
    Webb, who is active with Austin (…)

  • George W. Bush, The "ACTIVIST PRESIDENT"
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m going to make this one short and sweet so I don’t confuse the pollyannas out there. Last time out, we took a look at the corporate recruiting arm of the US military(one of them), AKA Blockbuster Video. What’s behind door number 2? Step right up as I pull back the curtain to give you a "behind the scenes" look at conservative hypocricy, nothing like pouring salt on a wound to get you going.
    You might not expect the Critical Bastard to have once belonged to what is now known as the (…)

  • Intelligence whistleblower shows pretext for Iraq invasion totally fabricated
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The justification to War In Iraq was totally fabricated.
    Secrets and Lies
    by Liz Jackson
    Broadcast: ABC TV (Australia) 14/02/2005
    He lives quietly in Canberra’s outer suburbs. He comes and goes a lot. When he is home he may be seen tending his roses in the front yard.
    This unobtrusive, quietly spoken man has been privilege to some of the world’s best-kept secrets for two decades. He knows from long personal experience how intelligence agencies and big defence bureaucracies operate. (…)