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  • Woolsey Calls for Hearings: Support Troops by Bringing Them Home
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — February 9 — U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today called for the House International Relations Committee to have hearings on her resolution, H.Con.Res. 35, for President Bush to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Rep. Woolsey led 27
    Members of Congress in sponsoring the resolution. Earlier this month, Woolsey led 15 Members of Congress in sending a letter to President Bush requesting the return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
    Rep. Woolsey’s (…)

  • The Battle of the (Bush) Bulge: Why Did the ’NYT’ Kill Its Story?
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK "It’s just as important a story after the election, and they’ve dropped it," says freelance writer David Lindorff, referring to the alleged bulge under President Bush’s suit jacket during the first presidential debate late fall. Lindorff’s take on how, and why, The New York Times killed a story on the controversy just before the November election gained wide attention this week after it was published in Extra!, a magazine produced by the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy (…)

  • CNN executive admits twelve journalists targeted and killed by American troops in Iraq
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The head of CNN’s news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet firestorm last week when he told a panel at a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that the American military had targeted journalists during operations in Iraq.
    Mr. Jordan, speaking in a panel discussion titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" said "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank, a (…)

  • The Dean Decision
    9 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    I haven’t written much about the Democratic Party since Election Day, because I never aspired to be an obituary writer. But up from the Democratic dead floats the political poltergeist Howard Dean, who has risen to the helm of the graveyard known as the Democratic National Committee.
    As one of the foremost critics of Howard Dean during his ill-fated presidential campaign, it might surprise some people to know I applaud his resurrection as good for Democrats, gay people and (…)

  • RNC sends threatening letter to news media about social security ads
    9 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SOUTH BEND — At least part of the Social Security debate focused on the 2nd Congressional District again Friday, as the Republican National Committee sent letters to local television stations asking them not to air what it calls a "false TV ad" promoted by MoveOn.org.
    Washington, D.C.-based MoveOn.org immediately issued a statement defending the accuracy of its ad, which began airing on local stations Tuesday and which is critical of the president’s plan to revamp Social Security.
    The (…)

  • Fixing America’s Broken Elections
    9 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rep. John Conyers
    The election debacles in Florida’s 2000 presidential election and Ohio’s 2004 election clearly demonstrate that our nation still has a long way to go in the continuing fight for electoral justice. Our nation cannot withstand deficiencies in machines and procedures that foster legitimate questions about the validity of the election outcome. Our democracy is at risk, and the time is now to move forward with election reform legislation.
    Because of unprecedented (…)

  • Bush Pays Halliburton For Services Never Rendered- Shouldn’t congress hold them accountable?
    8 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As of June 2004, the Government Accounting Office estimated that more than $1 billion in taxpayer money had been wasted due to illegal overcharges by contractors in Iraq, since the onset of the war. Furthermore, experts say that once the total is calculated correctly, the losses could very well add up to billions more.
    According to GAO Comptroller General, David Walker, the $1 billion represents about 2% of the $60 billion spent in Iraq between March 2003 and June 2004. To no one’s (…)

  • Examples of How Innocent Iraqis are Killed
    8 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by : Dionne Searcey, Newsday, MOSUL
    The shootings rarely make news outside the towns where they occur. The military does not make a practice of publicizing cases of "collateral damage" unless by chance reporters are embedded with units and write about the events they witness. And no one at the Pentagon nor at the U.S. Central Command keeps a comprehensive tally of the incidents, according to senior officials in both locations, who say that all operations in general are periodically (…)

  • Conscientious Objector Launches Web Site
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WINTHROP, Maine - A 22-year-old veteran from Peaks Island, Maine who was granted conscientious objector status from the Army last November is taking to the Internet to share what he learned with others. Perry O’Brien, who served a tour in Afghanistan as an airborne medic before he was honorably discharged, on Saturday launched his online guide - http://www.peace-out.com - at a Winthrop Area People for Peace breakfast at the Winthrop Congregational Church.
    "The Army doesn’t make this (…)

  • Paranoia Grips The US Capital
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Paranoia Grips The US Capital Eric Margolis-Contributing Foreign Editor Sunday, February 06, 2005
    The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro."
    Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian (…)