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  • Break Up Cheney’s Cabal
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
    Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq by nearly two to one, according to a new Gallop poll. A majority want US troops withdrawn from Iraq within twelve months—a higher proportion than wanted to withdraw from Vietnam in the summer of 1970. Catering to public sentiment, on November 15 the Senate voted 79 to 19 for a Republican resolution saying 2006 should be a year of "significant transition" for US withdrawal (…)

  • Kucinich Calls For Congressional Hearings On Vice President Cheney’s False Statements On The War
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - November 21 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich sent the following letter to Tom Davis, Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee:
    Dear Chairman Davis:
    I am requesting that the Government Reform Committee hold a hearing on the war in Iraq and specifically the role that Vice President Richard Cheney, and his staff, played in leading this nation to war.
    We now know that the Vice President, and his aides, were at the forefront of the Administration planning and execution (…)

  • Murtha Speaks Truth To Bush’s Lies
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Murtha Speaks Truth To Bush’s Lies By Bill Gallagher November 22, 2005 Detroit - Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our courageous leader that the boo-boos he gets on his head will get better and those bad boys criticizing his war are just meanies who don’t like him. Vice President Dick (…)

  • The failing of small towns across America is a canary in the coal mine.
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jobs are disappearing everywhere across the country. We can no longer sit silent while Washington denudes the U.S. of its farms, ranches, factories, defenses, and wealth. Make no mistake - this country is being gutted like a corporate takeover. The people are being left with nothing.
    Our military is being wasted in Iraq to enrich defense contractors. Oil is just a small part of that picture.
    And when there are no factories left to manufacture a defense, when we are importing everything, (…)

  • Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The arrest this week of a private contractor and a former US government official in connection with a multimillion-dollar contract-rigging and bribery scandal has exposed a piece of the corruption and criminality that is pervasive in America’s continuing military occupation of Iraq. It has likewise offered a glimpse of the layer of con men and profiteers who have flooded into the country in the name of reconstruction and democracy.
    Formally charged on Thursday were Philip H. Bloom, a US (…)

  • WHEN LEADERS ARE MURDEROUS
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MURDEROUS LEADERS
    By Peter Fredson
    November 21, 2005
    History has long passages referring to the murderous inclinations of politicians. Just read the HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN WARS by Herodotus if you wish to get a feeling of revulsion at the senseless murders of many thousands of people because of the whims of leaders seeking power.
    Perhaps you have heard of a leader of Haiti who marched a troop of soldiers over a cliff just to demonstrate to a visitor their absolute loyalty to him? (…)

  • Former soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
    Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
    He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
    A war (…)

  • Neo-con wants to cut friendly ties with Saudi Arabia
    20 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Former Department of Defense adviser Richard Perle, the immensely influential godfather of the neo-conservative movement, launched a public broadside against the alleged corruption of the Saudi Arabian government Thursday, and called on the United States to cease its friendly relations with Riyadh. Perle claimed Saudi Arabia was no ally of the United States and that the Saudi royal family had allowed terrorist ideology to flourish within its borders and beyond. He (…)

  • McKinney: Republicans seek to silence dissent on Iraq war
    20 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Republicans in this House have done a heinous thing: they have insulted one of the deans of this House in an unthinkable and unconscionable way.
    They took his words and contorted them; they took his heartfelt sentiments and spun them. They took his resolution and deformed it: in a cheap effort to silence dissent in the House of Representatives.
    The Republicans should be roundly criticized for this reprehensible act. They have perpetrated a fraud on the House of Representatives (…)

  • Kucinich: Republican Iraq “Withdrawal” Resolution Is A Fraud
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: Republican Iraq “Withdrawal” Resolution Is A Fraud The American People Are Fed Up With Politicians Who Say One Thing And Do Another
    Washington, Nov 19 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech tonight on the House floor on the House Republican Leadership’s plan to play politics with the war in Iraq and present a phony “withdrawal” bill:
    “I have spent three years making the case against the war in Iraq, trying to convince Congress to avoid war, working (…)