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  • What an Odd Bird that Elie Wiesel Is!
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Saints should always be judged guilty before they are proved innocent...” - George Orwell
    On March 18, 1991, not long after 88,500 tons of lethal cluster bombs, guided missile, BLU-82s, and smart bombs had stopped falling on the Iraqi people in the first Persian Gulf War, a surreal ceremony took place inside the White House. Elie Wiesel, the celebrity Jewish Holocaust survivor, was there. He presented an award to Dubya’s daddy, George H.W. Bush, aka "Bush I." The prize acclaimed the (…)

  • Cheney laid out Iran War plan Aug ’05: terror attack here then bomb Iran
    3 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and (…)

  • Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be Empowered to Investigate the President’s Role
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    petition here
    Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be Empowered to Investigate the President’s Role in Manipulating Intelligence on Iraq Now that the White House has acknowledged that it was President Bush who ordered the selective leaking of classified intelligence in order to justify his invasion of Iraq, will he be held accountable for what he has said and done?
    Please join me in demanding that Attorney General Gonzales expand the special prosecutor’s mandate on (…)

  • Psyops Prelude to Nukes on Iran (laughs included)
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before we bomb Iran with nuclear weapons, a short inventory of the mentality that made it possible...
    War on Terror’s Hit Parade An Islamophobia Retrospective by Trish Schuh, USA
    It was the potshot heard round the world that touched off a counter-crusade. Packaged in western free speech cliches, and marketed as innocent satire, the newspaper Jylland-Posten’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist/suicide bomber with a ticking bomb for a turban was "provocation-entrapment" (…)

  • ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home (4/27/2006)
    ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture > Complete Report (PDF) > Executive Summary (French, Spanish PDFs) > Contents (with Audio Commentary) > Audio Commentary > F.A.Q. - Committee Against Torture > Statement - Anthony D. Romero > Press Statement
    LEARN MORE > Government Torture and Abuse
    TAKE ACTION > Sign Our Petition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org ACLU Submits Report to U.N. (…)

  • New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal 05/02/2006 @ 1:20 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    BREAKING HARD — FROM AN ACLU RELEASE TO RAW
    New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu (…)

  • IRAN : Stop the war on Iran before it starts! SIGN THE PETITION !
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Sign online : http://www.stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml
    It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war—this time against the people of Iran.
    The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
    In the lead up to the (…)

  • HUGE DEMO IN NYC : Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on May 1, 2006, Printed on May 1, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35663/
    It’s the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no reason at all, though my own hopes are not high for New York’s latest antiwar demonstration. I haven’t received a single email about it. Many people I know hadn’t realized it was happening. I fear the outreach has been minimal (…)

  • U.S.: More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two years ago, revelations about the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked people across the world. In response, U.S. government officials condemned the conduct as illegal and assured the world that perpetrators would be held accountable.
    Two years later, it has become clear that the problem of torture and other abuse by U.S. personnel abroad was far more pervasive than the Abu Ghraib photos revealed-extending to numerous U.S. detention facilities in (…)

  • 350,000 March for Peace, Justice, Justice and Democracy in New York City
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    United for Peace and Justice
    Largest antiwar labor turnout in US history.
    Oscar Winners Susan Sarandon, Mercedes Ruehl and Jonathan Demme, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Hurricane Survivors, Iraq War Veterans, Military Families, Immigrant Rights Activists, Religious Leaders and Labor Unions Join Together to Call for New Priorities
    29 April 2006, New York, New York: The streets of New York City echoed today with the chants, songs and shouts of at least 350,000 (…)