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  • Dennis Kucinich’s Showdown With the Democratic Leadership
    8 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editor’s note: In an interview with Truthdig research editor Joshua Scheer*, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) criticizes the leadership of his own party for announcing Tuesday that it would support a massive increase in spending for the Iraq war.
    Truthdig: What was the upshot of [Tuesday’s] Democratic caucus meeting?
    Kucinich: At this point the Democratic leadership-the speaker and the majority leader and Rahm Emanuel-are all recommending that the Democrats support the appropriation that is (…)

  • Breakfast with Dennis Kucinich
    8 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Cindy Sheehan
    Little did I know, as Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) and I were driving through the streets of a Cleveland, Ohio, another American city that looks like it is preparing for the onslaught of a very cold winter on that gray morning, that he would be presenting me with a clear, reasonable, and obvious plan for bringing American troops out what is rapidly becoming total anarchy in Iraq.
    The previous evening, Dennis and I, both spoke at the (…)

  • CONGRESS CAN ONLY STOP THE IRAQ OCCUPATION BY CUTTING OFF THE FUNDS
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the 1968 presidential campaign Richard Nixon promised to end the war in Vietnam, but would not tell anyone exactly he would do it. In as many words this came to be known as his "secret plan." Yet, after his election the war still dragged on for another five years with 20,000 more American deaths and 100,000 wounded. Now along comes the Iraq Study Group supposedly with a plan for extricating ourselves from the strategic disaster in Iraq, if not the moral one. And let us (…)

  • Democratic Party Denies Democracy “We will not cut off funding for the troops”
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is generally understood that the recent overthrow of Republican control of congress was a direct result of the war in Iraq. As if ‘ taking Impeachment off the table wasn’t enough’, now Democratic ‘leaders’ are promising to stay the course in Iraq. Americans are tired of destroying an innocent nation, killing hundreds of thousands and poisoning possibly millions with Depleted Uranium just so Halliburton can continue it’s looting.
    The problem however, is that the Democratic leadership (…)

  • Protesting Colin Powell’s Deception
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “No American should ever have to give one drop of blood for a lie-ever!” - Elizabeth Holtzman (1)
    Baltimore, MD - Despite the temperature hovering in the low 20s, over thirty activists showed up, on Dec. 5, 2006, at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, only blocks from Penn Station, to protest Colin Powell’s appearance. The former Secretary of State in the ultra-hawkish Bush-Cheney administration (2001-04) was in town to give a talk at the facility as part of a speaker’s series, which has (…)

  • There is Only One Way to End The War in Iraq, Part II
    4 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Click here for Part I of this series.
    II.
    Democrats have hinted at an ambitious domestic agenda by their choices for the first 100 hours of the new Congress. This "down payment" will consist of an increase in the minimum wage, a reduction in college tuition, among other things.
    The Democratic majority is upbeat about establishing a domestic agenda including additional funds for health care and education. But, the unassailable fact is that the war is devouring the hopes for any (…)

  • BARACK : BEWARE MEDIA O-BASM !
    4 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As predicted , the US media has gone agag over their latest darling , Sen. Barack Obama ........ He has zero experience , a palpable lack of expertise , ties to fundraiser Tony Rezko but , facts be damned , lets’ just all try to get along’ and vote for this loser ..... Take Obama on the fateful issue of Iraq - you take him I don’t wan’t anything to do with him ..... To win the Illlinois Senate Democratic Primary in 2004 , Barack declared his opposition to the war .... Once nominated he (…)

  • Who Took Us To War?
    3 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHO TOOK US TO WAR?
    By Peter Fredson
    December 3, 2006
    Who started the war with Iraq? No, not with Afghanistan, but with Iraq. Did Bush start it, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, or a combination of Leo Straussian collegian chicken hawks, corporate billionaires, and televangelists?
    Certainly it took some sort of concerted Neocon effort that decided that invading Iraq was good for our country. After Bush was selected as President he did almost nothing but go on vacation. But we know that the (…)

  • William Fletcher: “Israel is a Rabid State!”
    3 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “’Imprisonment Wall’ is more descriptive than ‘Security Fence.’” - Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, in writing about Israel’s notorious Apartheid Wall. (1)
    Washington, D.C. - "The logic of both Israel and Apartheid-era South Africa can be found in their common origins as settler states," said Professor William Fletcher. On Dec. 1, 2006, he gave a talk at the Palestine Center, entitled, "Two Walled Cities: Jerusalem and Johannesburg, Apartheid and Palestine." Fletcher emphasized: "In (…)

  • There is Only One Way to End The War in Iraq, Part I
    3 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 7, 2006, the American public voted for a New Direction for our Iraq policy. That direction is—out. As Democrats prepare to take the majority for the first time in twelve years, Democrats now have the responsibility to act on the overwhelming mandate issued by the American public.
    Will that new direction mean an exit from Iraq? Because, if not, America will be held hostage by the skyrocketing cost of the war in Iraq even as President Bush leaves office at 11:59 am on January (…)