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  • Everything Old is New Again: Our generation’s Gulf of Tonkin is about to drag us further into endles
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everything Old is New Again: Our generation’s Gulf of Tonkin is about to drag us further into endless war
    Synopsis—US writer Daniel Patrick Welch reports on the war fever now being whipped up for an attack on Iran, and fears unimaginable consequences if the war is not stopped—if it is not already too late.
    from http://danielpwelch.com translations pending—visit website to volunteer
    I’m putting my mother into bed and the high-pitched urgency of MSNBC’s ’this just in’ crisis (…)

  • Dr. Makdisi Urges a One State Solution for Palestinians
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “They [the Israeli Zionists] are imposing a system...of Apartheid on the Muslim and Christian citizens of the Occupied Territories.” - Ex-President Jimmy Carter (1)
    Washington, D.C. “I think it is long past the time for the Palestinians to...[abandon] the Israelis’ ‘Master Narrative,’ [a two state solution under Israeli domination], and in a unified voice present to the world their “own narrative” for a one state solution, said Dr. Saree Makdisi, a distinguished author, U. of California (…)

  • America Rising Up in Historic Protest: "What Part of ’Bush Lied’ Don’t You Understand?" PHOTOLOG
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Celebrities, Troops, Families Protest War Flag-Covered Coffins Symbolized War Dead
    AP January 27, 2007
    WASHINGTON — Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
    Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their (…)

  • Top GOP senator snubs Bush as experts tell Committee Congress can end Iraq war
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    01/30/2007 Filed by Brian Beutler
    At a Senate Judiciary hearing today to examine Congress’s power to terminate a war, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)—who chaired that committee until the Democrats took power this month—lashed out at President Bush for what he characterized as Bush’s inflated sense of his own power:
    "I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider," said Specter, lampooning a recent gaffe by the president. "The decider is a shared and joint (…)

  • Bush Is About To Attack Iran - Why Can’t Americans See It?
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is About To Attack Iran - Why Can’t Americans See It? By Paul Craig Roberts 1-27-7
    The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq. This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue ­ the Bush Regime’s looming attack on Iran. (…)

  • March on the Pentagon SATURDAY March 17 2007
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    March on the Pentagon Saturday, March 17, 2007
    40th anniversary of the historic 1967 march on the Pentagon
    _ 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war
    On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The (…)

  • California : Thousands protest Iraq War on Oct. 28
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands protest Iraq War on Oct. 28
    On Oct. 28, thousands of people in the United States protested the Iraq War in a day of action initiated by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). Militant protests happened in numerous cities and towns across the country with more than 5,000 people demonstrating in Los Angeles, 2,500 in San Francisco, 1,000 in Seattle, many hundreds in Minneapolis, and hundreds more in Chicago, New York, New Haven, Conn., New Paltz, N.Y., Miami, (…)

  • Lebanon Crisis Fails Mediation, Plays into Israeli Hands
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    The crisis in Lebanon is rapidly accumulating the potential to plunge the country in a second civil war, while Israel is closely watching on the sidelines for the right moment to exploit the ensuing security vulnerability and finish the Lebanese divide off by intervening militarily to conclude what it officially describes as the “inconclusive” war last summer. Meanwhile, the most influential external potential mediators, regional and international, are more or less part (…)

  • Corporate Media Downplays Washington Anti-War Rally
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wayne Madsen – Wayne Madsen Report January 28, 2007
    Corporate media and DC law enforcement collude once again in shaving anti-war march numbers. On a postcard perfect weather day in Washington, in excess of 150,000 people gathered on the Washington Mall, west of the US Capitol, to hear members of Congress and Hollywood celebrities call for the Bush administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. However, as with past anti-war demonstrations in Washington, the corporate media, largely (…)

  • ALL ABOARD!!!!
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    This one is moving and inspiring. Stop Bush before he kills again.
    http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
    Peace,
    Justice Suffram