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  • NYT calls US aid for tsunami "stingy"
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK: The New York Times said Thursday that the United States has been stingy in its response to the Asian tsunami disaster and in giving aid in general.
    The newspaper highlighted in an editorial that the 15 million dollars initially offered by Washington was less than the figure the ruling Republican Party would spend on President George W Bush’s inauguration in January.
    Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have given indignant reactions to a comment by UN chief disaster relief (…)

  • Newly found faith lands Marine in jail
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE SAGINAW NEWS
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — U.S. Marine Cpl. Joel D. Klimkewicz says he’s willing to clear land mines and risk his life for his country.
    He’s just not willing to pick up a gun.
    Because of his new-found religious faith, the Birch Run native is spending his holidays behind bars as a conscientious objector, convicted by military superiors who see him as a disobedient soldier.
    "I couldn’t see Jesus Christ taking human life," said Klimkewicz in a phone interview from the Camp (…)

  • Pollsters, Media Implicated in Vote Fraud
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While Congress has yet to decide if there will be a formal inquiry into the U.S. election of 2004, its preliminary investigation is exposing the most serious flaws in the system. But don’t expect to hear about it in the mainstream media-it’s part of the problem.
    Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is investigating the possibility of computer vote fraud being perpetrated through remote access to the vote tabulators. He is also looking (…)

  • Open Letter to Congress: History Will Judge You on Jan 6
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Honorable Senators and Represenatives of Congress,
    History will judge you by your actions, or lack of action on January 6th, 2005...
    On that fateful day, I and millions of other patriotic Americans urge you to stand up and do the right thing.
    Stand up for Democracy for all parties and for all voters, each of us citizens of this great country. It is our Constitutional Right to Vote, and to have our vote count. And it became your sworn duty to uphold and insure that right, when you took (…)

  • Republicans Abandon Bush and the Far Right
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Life-long Republicans are abandoning Bush, and the pseudo-religious far right in reaction to "what is happening to our beloved country". They are saddened and horrified by the "insidious and deliberate overthrow of Democracy by this administration, the media, and their supporters." These loyal Republicans are standing up and saying, "NO MORE!"
    Here is a sampling of three Republicans who are speaking out against the Bush administration, their supporters, and the media collusion that makes (…)

  • With up to 400,000 dead in Asia, why keep killing people in Iraq?
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    With the dead of Asia spread out before us like some nightmare Van Helsing movie come to life, it seems a bit presumptuous to me for George Bush to continue to play God and go on killing and killing and killing in Iraq.
    Would it finally come into perspective for Americans to know that Bush is spending the same amount of money in aid for the millions of tsunami victims in Asia as he spends in just FOUR HOURS on killing people in Iraq?
    Thousands of Americans were (…)

  • Election fraud: Ignored by everyone — even Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    While I was on vacation, I talked with people from all over America. "I have here in my hand," I told them, "absolute proof that George Bush stole the 2004 election."
    No one wanted to see my proof.
    No one even cared.
    If I had made this outrageous statement to George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, they would have ripped the documents right out of my hand in their haste to get to the truth. "What do you mean — election fraud? That’s a serious accusation. Can you (…)

  • The System: Capitalism and its Role in American Society’s Plunge into the Abyss
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
    Breaths of Freedom
    For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in our lives we can claim (…)

  • The System: Capitalism and its Role in American Society’s Plunge into the Abyss. Parts I, II and III
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Breaths of Freedom
    For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in (…)

  • Susan Sontag, writer, political activist and anti-Bush campaigner, dies at 71
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andrew Buncombe
    Susan Sontag, the writer and activist who loudly criticised US foreign policy and military action in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, died yesterday morning in New York. She was 71 and had been suffering for some time from leukaemia.
    "I can confirm she passed away this morning," said a spokeswoman at the city’s Sloan Kettering hospital, declining to give more details.
    Sontag, the daughter of a fur trader, wrote 17 books, including the influential 1964 study (…)