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  • Update on Time magazines Person of the Year 2003
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Newest crop of homeless U.S. vets By Nicole Colson | Janury 7, 2005 |
    Time magazine proudly announced the US soldier as Person of the Year last year. FAMILIAR IMAGES of homeless veterans, scarred by war, may become even more common in the coming months and years. That’s because, according to recent reports, there’s a new crop of homeless veterans starting to appear on the streets—veterans from the Afghanistan and current Iraq war.
    Nearly 300,000 veterans are homeless on any given (…)

  • Evidence of Fraud in US Election-House Judiciary Committee Report
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml
    Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
    Wednesday 05 January 2005
    Executive Summary
    Representative John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Democratic staff to conduct an investigation into irregularities reported in the Ohio presidential election and to prepare a Status Report concerning the same prior to the Joint (…)

  • Army Sergeant may refuse return to Iraq: Last time I was orderded to shoot at children
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ft. Stewart Georgia, “Rock of the Marne” — This morning Sergeant Kevin Benderman, U.S. Army awoke to face what will probably be one of the most important decisions of his life: whether or not to accept or refuse re-deployment to Iraq to participate in a war that has been increasingly questioned by the American public, and the world. A war that has been ruled illegal by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and has come under increasing fire from both Republicans and Democrats alike who (…)

  • Extra Armor for Troops Still in Storage, now Pentagon refuses to use it- worried about liability
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OCALA, Fla. — One of the big complaints from troops in Iraq is lack of armor for their vehicles, but a campaign to collect armor in Central Florida was apparently a wasted effort.
    Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean and other sheriffs around the state of Florida started gathering old bullet-proof vests last February to send to American troops, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
    The vests were meant to provide yet another layer of armor for Humvees and other vehicles vulnerable to roadside (…)

  • Incident at Manhattan’s LGBT Center!
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday, November 23, 2004 was a cold, cloudy autumn day in Manhattan. The meeting I was going to at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on 208 W. 13th Street, was scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. I left my house in New Jersey at a quarter to four in the afternoon in order to have ample time to get into the city and to find parking.
    Getting through the Lincoln Tunnel, at rush hour, can be challenging. Not everyone is considerate, or merges in an orderly fashion. In (…)

  • Everywhere But Nowhere
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    It seems a little discordant that the issue of gay people marrying is ubiquitous when gay couples are virtually invisible in society. In today’s America, you have a better chance of seeing a couple of polar bears sunbathing on Main Street than you do a same-sex couple holding hands.
    If you take a look around, the only place you are likely to see affectionate gay spouses are on the gayest streets in the gayest of gay ghettos. There are really only three possible (…)

  • Senator Aces
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senators:
    Which of you senators will stand up and defend this Ohio Electoral Vote Count tomorrow? If you are experiencing hesitancy, just imagine if the situation were reversed and you needed to sign and swear that this election was remarkable in its uneventfulness. Would you? Could you?
    Please share your evidence that we all can take confidence in what did not happen in the Buckeye State? You must have something that refutes the video-taped repression, exit polling aberrations, Warren (…)

  • Blackwell boasts of helping “deliver” Ohio- plans to run for Governor
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell boasted of helping “deliver” Ohio for President Bush and said he was “truly pleased” to announce Bush had won Ohio even before all of the state’s votes had been counted in his own fundraising letter, RAW STORY has discovered.
    The letter, which was received by a Butler County resident Dec. 31, is a plea to support Blackwell’s campaign for governor. The resident has asked to remain anonymous.
    In apparent disregard for his nonpartisan (…)

  • Iraq is Lost: Bush and Blair are Deluding Themselves
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The American project for democracy or whatever its real purposes were, for oil, economic expansion, Middle East fit for Israel, whatever it may have been, that project is finished. It is hopeless. It cannot succeed. The insurgency in Iraq is so great now that American troops, however enormous their technology, cannot control it."
    "Not only do our leaders suffer from this mania of deluding themselves, but the press by their silence or by their complicity, assist in this process of (…)

  • George Bush and the return of Little Black Sambo
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    Remember Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney — and the Civil Rights Summer of 1964? How brave we all were back then as we worked hand in hand for a new world of hope and justice and harmony where "colored people" would be allowed to vote.
    It’s 40 years later and "colored people" are still being systematically deprived of their right to vote — only this time on such a grand scale that it would cause even Martin Luther King’s jaw to drop.
    I marched in Montgomery.
    I was at (…)