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  • RIGHTS: U.S. Vets Join Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Elisabeth Schreinemacher
    UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.
    They say an estimated 50,000 deformed children have been born to parents who were directly sprayed with Agent Orange or exposed through contaminated food and (…)

  • Impeach the Liar-in-Chief
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The generation of American leaders who fought the American Revolution and crafted the United States Constitution examined the most important issues of government. They considered (1) war and peace, (2 ) the limits to government power vs. individual liberties, (3) how officeholders should be controlled by the citizenry and (4) the raising and management of public money. That generation devised impeachment to remove tyrants and corrupt officeholders from positions of public power based on (…)

  • Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Nichols
    Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
    Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report (…)

  • New Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flashback from Nov 4
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2. (…)

  • Britain’s secret torture centre : The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German spa became a forbidden village where Gestapo-like techniques were used
    by Ian Cobain
    Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was," he reported, "one of the most disgusting sights of my life."
    Curled up on a bed in a hospital in Rotenburg, near Bremen, was a cadaverous shadow of a human being. "The man literally had no flesh on him, (…)

  • Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torture
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law, RAW STORY has learned.
    The resolutions were quietly introduced Sunday evening along with a third resolution (HR 635) to create a Select Committee to investigate the (…)

  • Report | The Constitution in Crisis
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By House Judiciary Committee Minority Staff
    The Downing Street minutes and deception, manipulation, torture, retribution, and coverups in the Iraq war.
    Full Report: www.truthout.org/3.122005ConRes.pdf
    Executive Summary
    This Minority Report has been produced at the request of Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. He made this request in the wake of the President’s failure to respond to a letter submitted by 122 Members of (…)

  • The Pied Piper
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    SOME 721 YEARS ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was suffering from a plague of rats. A citizen called Bunting offered to get rid of them for an agreed fee. When he played on his flute, the entranced rats came out of their holes and followed him to the river where they drowned. But when the piper presented his bill to the town fathers, they wouldn’t pay him.
    The piper wrought a terrible revenge. He played his pipe once again, and this time all the children of the town (…)

  • A Ten-Step Program
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jane Smiley
    Is Bush in a bubble? Is Bush a dry drunk? Is Bush a drunk drunk? Is Bush a narcissist? Is Bush an idiot? Is Bush a madman? Does Bush have an “Authority Problem”? Theories abound about why Bush does the things he does, but most of them assume that he is making mistakes that he could or would correct if he understood how misguided he was.
    On Monday, there was an editorial in the New York Times lamenting the apparent indifference of the Bush administration to the rebuilding (…)

  • The Decline of the American Empire
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defeated in Iraq, Bankrupt at Home, Despised Around the Globe (And That’s Just the Good News)
    By GABRIEL KOLKO
    The dilemma the US has had for a half-century is that the priorities it must impose on its budget and its imperial plans have never guided its actual behavior and action. It has always believed, as well it should, that Europe and its control would determine the future of world power. But it has fought in Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq—the so-called "Third World" in general—where (…)