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  • Army moves to recruit more high school dropouts
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Mon, Oct. 03, 2005
    By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
    Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Noel Harvey and vice chief of staff Gen. Richard Cody said Monday that the Army was using looser Defense Department rules that permitted it to sign up more high school dropouts and people who score lower on mental-qualification tests, but they denied that this meant it was lowering standards.
    Until Army recruiters began having trouble signing up enough recruits earlier this year, (…)

  • HOW MANY MORE FOR BUSH’S WAR?
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
    Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq.
    Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon (…)

  • Sir! No Sir! : A Film about the GI Movement against the War in Vietnam
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.sirnosir.com/
    Trailer: Cable/DSL
    http://www.sirnosir.com/film/trailer/largertrailer_480_360.mov

  • We Will Not Be Intimidated
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Will Not Be Intimidated
    First they came for the communists,
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a communist.
    When they came for the social democrats,
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a social democrat.
    When they came for the trade unionists
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a trade unionist.
    When they came for the Jews
    I did not speak out
    because I was not a Jew;
    And when they came for me,
    there was no one left to speak out.
    (poem by Pastor Martin (…)

  • 21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:
    Karl Rove I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Condoleezza Rice Stephen Hadley Andrew Card Alberto Gonzales Mary Matalin Ari Fleischer Susan Ralston Israel Hernandez John Hannah Scott McClellan Dan Bartlett Claire Buchan Catherine Martin Colin Powell Karen Hughes Adam Levine Bob Joseph Vice President Dick Cheney President George W. Bush
    (Comment on this page here.)
    Karl Rove Senior Advisor to (…)

  • Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    In the high stakes game of Supreme Court Hold ’Em, Dubya has made a decisive and bold, yet defensive move. Has has gone "all in" and nominated his former personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court. What better way to avoid jail for war crimes, profiteering and conspiracy. Appoint your own lawyer to the bench. A truly brilliant maneouver even if Alberto’s really disappointed. Bush’s cronies can stop sweating now.
    ABC News: Who Is Harriet Miers? (…)

  • History of the War Machine
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This presentation comes from a wealth of sources, but I want to acknowledge the outstanding contribution by David Callahan, author of Dangerous Capabilities. For the sake of audio recordings, some of what I say will undoubtedly paraphrase his work, and-lest there be any misunderstanding-whatever overlap occurs between his work and my notes is to his credit and not mine.
    Today’s presentation provides information surrounding the co-opting of Cold War policies by post-Cold War (…)

  • CNBC’s Ron Insana Propaganda Exposed on Live Radio
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anyone listening to Ron Insana’s radio program today heard Ron, with his 2 guests, US Generals Francona and Downing, field callers questions about the situation in Iraq.
    I called in and asked 3 quick questions. To paraphrase the questions:
    1. On Supporting the Troops: I noted that the Generals expressed the need for more money to be allocated by Congress to the occupation, and I asked how can we give them more money when much of it goes missing. I asked about Halliburton and the missing (…)

  • Why I No Longer Support The Military! They Have Betrayed Us!
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I can no longer support the military and let me tell you why. By “military” I mean the higher echelon, the generals, - the commanders, - those who are using our enlisted troops as fodder. Our enlisted men and women are the pawns sent to bleed and die in the Bush wars, and have become the fall guys who take the blame for the horrors in this illegal and immoral war.
    I have spent every day of my life for the past 3 years fighting for my nation and fighting for our troops. Yes, I have fought (…)

  • Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Bacon
    On April 9, 2003, U.S. tanks pulled up to Basra’s huge, dilapidated oil refinery. “We were coming out early, at the end of our shift, and there was the American army,” recalls Faraj Arbat, one of the plant’s firemen. The soldiers trained their guns on the oil workers. The head of the fire department made the mistake of questioning the troops, and he was ordered to lie facedown on the ground.
    “He did as he was ordered,” Arbat recalls. “But then an American put his foot on (…)