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  • Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.
    The surging crowd, shouting “Bush out now” and “Peace now,” marched in front of the White House and then toward the Washington Monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent.
    They were young people with green hair, nuns (…)

  • Country is hurtling towards disintegration, Saudis warn
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
    The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
    Saudi fears of a break-up were voiced by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, in an interview with Associated Press published yesterday, and at a meeting on (…)

  • Blackwater Down
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeremy Scahill
    The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another devastated Gulf. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces "join[ing] the hurricane relief effort." But its men on the (…)

  • Public Pressure Mounts for Bush to Curtail Iraq War After Katrina Disaster
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Beth Gorham WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush says he can wage war in Iraq and still pay most of the huge bill for rebuilding the hurricane-lashed Gulf Coast. Most Americans don’t agree with him. And for the first time, Bush is facing a serious revolt in his own party over how to pay for hurricane relief.
    Republicans already edgy about the estimated $200-billion US price tag to clean up after Katrina were bracing for more damage by week’s end as hurricane Rita hurtled toward Texas (…)

  • Pattern of Abuse
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A decorated Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the military ignore his charges?
    By ADAM ZAGORIN
    he U.S. Army has launched a criminal investigation into new allegations of serious prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan made by a decorated former Captain in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an Army spokesman has confirmed to TIME. The claims of the Captain, who has not been named, are in part corroborated by statements of two (…)

  • A Movement Gathers Power on the Sorrow Plateau
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why We Must Resolve that a Better Faith is Possible
    by Greg Moses
    The movement for peace and justice in the USA has been transformed during the past two months. But what is the nature of the change, and how will it help to move us forward? The short answer, I think, is that we have been enriched by sorrow; we gather upon a sorrow plateau. Because of this place we have come to, we have new opportunities to broaden the scope of our power to sustain lasting change for freedom.
    Sorrow is (…)

  • Cinderella in Rafah
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For the last week Palestinians in Rafah were reminded of what was, what could be and what is, writes Graham Usher in Rafah
    For seven days Palestinians in Gaza experienced life without borders, and borders without fear: that is, without Israel. Thousands streamed back and forth through the punctured walls, earthworks and fences that separate Egypt from Gaza or "Rafah Sinai" from "Rafah sumud," the most lethal front-line of the Intifada.
    How the fortresses were breached depends on who you (…)

  • Revolt American Style: Take Back the Country from Criminals: Troops Speak Out
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pass On * Repost * Worldwide * Hit Reply, Copy/Paste Soldier’s Open Letter to George W. Bush
    by Michelle J. d’Entremont 2LT, US Army Reserves Engineer Corps
    If you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention.
    George Bush is going to go down in history as the President Who Destroyed America.
    Oh sure, there were problems before he ever took office. Every nation has problems. But in the year 2000, the USA was at a fairly high point. The economy was growing. Science was moving (…)

  • President George W. Bush is now Impeachable
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W. Bush is now impeachable
    by Joseph Hillier
    June 21, 2005
    GlobalResearch.ca
    Brothers and sisters for peace, I had thought my years of political and anti-war activism were over. I am quite old now and dying of cancer, but events of the recent past require I at least try to offer some useful advice on how to achieve the glorious goals of those opposed to war and militarism. The cruel grasping hand of capitalism has never before been so effectively poised to place (…)

  • An Open Letter To Cindy Sheehan
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Mrs. Cindy Sheehan
    I am writing to you to express my sympathy for the loss of your son. As a father of couples of children, I know very well what it means to a mother to lose a son, and if that loss is for the welfare and benefits of humanity or not. Mr. Bush has raised war against Iraq for no legitimate reasons, since it was not backed by UN at its start. In the months that followed March 2003, it became clear to the world that the issue of weapons of mass destruction and relation (…)