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  • Giving Democracy The Bird: Bush Asks Congress for Martial Law
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldiers brandishing automatic weapons, a defining characteristic of life in Third World dictatorships, have become commonplace at airports, bus and train stations, government offices and highway checkpoints since 9/11. Now troops are becoming our first responders to situations, such as natural disasters and flu outbreaks, which normally fall under civilian jurisdiction.
    Everything’s gone topsy-turvy: The National Guard, charged with keeping order here at home and legally under the control (…)

  • Venezuela Warns: Bush Is the True Atomic Threat
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan authorities denied with indignation an accusation by US Rev. Pat Robertson that Venezuela is preparing a nuclear attack against the United States.
    Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel asserted Venezuela is willing to launch "love, affection, and appreciation" to the US people, but the true atomic bomb threatening the United States is President George W. Bush.
    Speaking at Monday’s celebration of Venezuelan Soldier’s Day, Rangel said the significance of the new (…)

  • When Torture becomes Policy
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence, July4, 1776
    President Bush has made it clear that he will veto the $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the war on terror. The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was (…)

  • How To End The War-Boot Out Bush or Pay Dearly in Blood and Money
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Paul Craig Roberts
    George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."
    Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and (…)

  • Poll: Americans Want Bush Impeached
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
    By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached 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 Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. (…)

  • No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Frank
    These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (…)

  • Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Dombey
    President Bush’s principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and (…)

  • Free speech - A thing of the past!!
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just became aware of these incidences and felt an obligation to let others see it in case they too had missed them. Just as "they" treated Cindy Sheehan with all the disrepect and disruption and plain nastiness available to the "powers that be", now it is all coming to rest on college campuses. Free speech will soon be a thing of the past!!!
    We Will Not Be Intimidated by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field October 03, 2005 The antiwar movement is back. The quarter-million marching past the (…)

  • Corporations Seeking Domination of Global Social Interactions Through Fear based Mind Control
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To all People,
    In order to complete the NeoCon-Corporate take over of the World by the psychologically ill and mentally depraved Military Industrial Complex an attack of a particular nature, type, and geographical structure will be carried out with a simultaneous attack in possible Northern Ireland and Europe to paralyze any social political opposition to military take over and the creation of a world military slave system run by corporations making children into worker slaves with no (…)

  • Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is disturbing to see our daughter played on stage, but it drives home the impact she has had since her killing in Gaza
    by Cindy and Craig Corrie
    When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organisation, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her (…)