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  • Cindy Sheehan to protest at State of the Union January 31
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 The Year The Chickenhawks will go home to roost by Cindy Sheehan Wed Dec 28, 2005 at 02:07:09 PM PDT
    Since hot, hot Camp Casey in August, some amazing grass roots actions have taken place all over the country. People are starting to speak up and Congress has begun to take action against the criminal and neo-Fascist regime that tried to take over America.
    * CindySheehan’s diary
    From Camp Casey to Katrina to use of chemical weaponry and extraordinary rendition to illegally spying (…)

  • Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Lasseter
    KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
    Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and (…)

  • IN TRUTH
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kevin and Monica Benderman
    “”George W. Bush
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States? Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad? I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can (…)

  • Bush Administration Refuses to Comply With FOIA Request on Pre-War Intelligence
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff members report that the White House and the Departments of State and Defense have for six months refused to comply with a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act by 52 Congress Members - a request seeking information on the Bush Administration’s reasons for going to war.
    On June 30th of this year, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (Dem., Mich.) and 51 other Congress Members submitted a FOIA request (…)

  • The War on Christmas
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    Merry Christmas and a happy new year I got coal in my sack and a half shaven beard I’m going down my list And I have a few bones to pick With some of the bad kids running today’s politics
    You see Santa’s a humanitarian And brings cheer through the night Even to the third world, so you better be nice War is not is not fun and killing is not merry The architects of Iraq better be wary
    Thousands of children Were left dead in Iraq Because little boy Bush Was on the wrong (…)

  • The Best of 2005
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    This past year, my weekly column has opined on key issues affecting the American people. Heroes have been lauded, hypocrites exposed and crucial gay issues brought to the fore. Here is a snapshot of the tantalizing topics discussed in 2005:
    Adultery in the Military: It is time the military bring back adults who care more about winning wars than declaring a self-righteous war on adultery. We might be doing better in Iraq if the Pentagon started paying more attention to the (…)

  • Who Made America Right?
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    War — Guns, tanks, chemical weapons, killing, devastation, inhumanity.
    Why do we go to war? Why does anyone pursue another to the point of war?
    Forget who instigated it. At war - both sides kill. Soldiers are told their side is right - they are given guns and ordered to kill as many on the other side as possible because the “other side” is wrong.
    WHO exactly tells us we are right?
    Who is it that has decided that our side is right?
    Some blame a president. (…)

  • Dishonest Brokers
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    The European Union (EU) should be ashamed of itself. It has thrown aside the principals of democracy for partisan politics and hypocrisy. In the run up to the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the EU has addressed Palestinian politics and made threats in the process.
    On December 19, the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana stated, “All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by (…)

  • PDA Report on International Peace Conference in London
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    London, England, December 10, 2005—Fellow PDA National Board Member Steve Cobble and I participated in an historic international peace conference in London on December 10 and in various related events the same week. We met with several Members of Parliament and will be working to facilitate teamwork and future events with them and members of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus.
    The conference, hosted by the Stop the War Coalition, was a great success. About 1,500 (…)

  • The Root Causes of Tragedy : The Ethical and Legal Challenges Facing Palestine
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By OREN BEN-DOR
    Today we hear a lot about legal challenges mounted against the wall in the West Bank. I would like to reflect upon a different wall, a metaphorical wall, the wall which remains ethically and legally unchallenged and whose foundations are actually, albeit unwittingly, being fortified by many of the very people who legally challenge the real, physical wall. The heart of the matter is what we might call the "wall within", the psychic wall of unquestioned identification and (…)