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  • The Gonzales Indictment
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marjorie Cohn
    Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States. He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, the War Crimes Act.
    COUNT I: Application of Geneva Conventions; Definition of Torture
    On or about January 25, 2002 through January 16, 2005, Defendant ALBERTO GONZALES, Counsel to George W. Bush, the President of the (…)

  • Rule Bratannia
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RULE BRATANNIA Jan 20 2005
    See their disgust for democracy
    TONIGHT America exports a sight more obscene, costly and unnecessary than Jackie Stallone’s face.
    The lavish $40million presidential coronation of a thick little rich kid is guaranteed to trawl the depths of bad taste, giving us cynical Brits another chance to look down on an emotionally-deficient nation celebrating the re-election of a mentally-deficient primate.
    Well laugh until you fall off your high horses, folks, (…)

  • Group to protest voter fraud during inauguration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W. Bush will receive a bitter inauguration welcome on the Ithaca Commons this Thursday. A protest rally with speakers, music and an open mike is being held Jan. 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
    "The umbrella reason we are doing this," organizer Fay Gougakis said,"is so we will unite people and point out the voting irregularities that happened in this election. I’m tired of the phrase ’conspiracy theory.’ There is legitimate concern that Bush (…)

  • Homeless Vietnam veteran freezes under bridge- This is how we honor our heroes?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Vietnam veteran who froze to death alone beneath a railroad bridge on Christmas Eve is remembered in Covington. Joe Young died in single-digit cold a few blocks from a shelter where he had previously stayed and a few days before he was to move into an apartment that had been arranged for him. The Reverend Gregg Anderson of Highland Heights says friends and strangers contributed a total of $2,100 to make sure Young had a decent burial. Joe Young was 57-years old.
    It is more than (…)

  • What Is the US Trying to Hide in Fallujah?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening.
    Speaking on condition of anonymity, he continued, "In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?"
    According to him, this was also done in the Nazal, Mualmeen, (…)

  • Where Is our Anti-Vote Fraud Resolution?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted to the re-worked kucinich For President forum at http://www.kucinich.us , was the below post. This is now known as the Volunteers For Change forum and is still well-trafficked. "Several Progressive Democratic groups that I know of supported a calling campaign to ring the Dem senators phones off the hook on January 5th-6th. One of the people from PDA-IL was on Capitol Hill on the 5th, and reported that many of the Dem Senate office staffers were exhausted and some even in tears (…)

  • Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
    But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

  • "Dear John’s" reply to Sheila Samples
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Sheila,
    When I wrote to you concerning a position you took in one of your columns (Last Man To Concede ) and questioned you about your reasons for that stance, I must confess I had no idea of the depth of your Democratic fealty or passion, nor any understanding as to how you could defend the Democratic Party, especially given what they have become in recent years: cumulatively-servile and Republican-dominated toadies.
    Sheila, I believe I ‘get it’, and with this increased (…)

  • Two celebrations, two Americas: MLK Day and Bush’s Inauguration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Derrick O’Keefe
    This week features two major celebrations in the United States, and the contrasts between the figures being feted couldn’t be starker. Thursday’s second inauguration for George W. Bush comes only three days after Martin Luther King Day was celebrated on Monday, January 17. The two celebrations couldn’t be more opposed, revealing the chasm between the ‘two Americas.’ Gay and lesbian rights, and peace and justice issues were raised in a series of marches celebrating the (…)

  • Virginia on the Move
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Wayne Besen
    In their gratuitous zeal to undermine same-sex families, Virginia lawmakers are showing about as much wisdom as Prince Harry in a costume shop. In the opening week of Virginia’s general assembly, four separate constitutional bans on the freedom to marry were introduced. This continuous drive to marginalize and stigmatize gay families may gravely damage the reputation of Virginia and cause a gradual brain drain that will hurt business interests.
    Virginia is not alone in its (…)