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  • Cindy Sheehan returns to war protest, plans bus tour
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan plans on taking her anti-war vigil on the road.
    Once President Bush leaves his Texas ranch late this month, Sheehan says she’ll begin a bus tour from her camp nearby. She says it’ll last more than three weeks, wrapping up September 24th in Washington — followed by a 24-hour vigil.
    Sheehan’s son died in Iraq. She began camping out near the ranch earlier this month, vowing to stay until Bush met with her. She recently left for a few days to tend to her ill (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 18)
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas
    I got up really early today to head back to Camp Casey. On the way, I had some amazing conversations with people. In one of those conversations, I was talking to Tyler who was sitting next to me on one of the planes. We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: "Wow that’s where I am going and that’s where I have been all month." He said: "I know I own a (…)

  • IT IS NO MORE THAN A REDEPLOYMENT
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ibrahim Ebeid
    In order to keep the Zionist settlements around Gaza "Israel" needed over 50,000 soldiers equipped with the most sophisticated weapons to do the job. The Gazans who were equipped with faith and strong will, were able to lead a war of attrition that forced the Zionist enemy to withdraw these settlers to another part of Palestine.
    The withdrawal was not a voluntary one, nor had a good intention to achieve peace, as the Western media and the US Administration portrayed to (…)

  • Privatizing the Truth; Bush’s war on information
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 25, 2005
    ’’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality". Bush aide; Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine 10-17-04
    A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush’s inability to tell the truth. In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not. What is meaningful however is that deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the state. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of (…)

  • How Can Some in the Democratic Party Support Death and Destruction?
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    Excuse me for once again coming down hard on my party’s leaders when it comes to the “Bush War” in Iraq, but I along with many others are becoming increasingly angry that the Democratic Party is NOT showing a sign of force, but complicity when it comes to this war. That is not to say that all of our Democratic leaders are supportive of this president, but when you have Mike McCurry a former Clinton White House press secretary stating this in a Washington Post article, (…)

  • VIDEO: Mr. President, Leave My Child Alone!
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan (mother of a soldier slain in Iraq), Jim Massey (ex-Marine recruiter) and others reveal the true impact of No Child Left Behind’s military recruitment in our high schools. With no end in sight to the increasingly lethal American occupation in Iraq, this is the single-most important film for concerned parents and citizens to see. Watch the 11-minute film and then take action to "opt our kids out" at LeaveMyChildAlone.org.
    Created by Mainstreet Moms and Working Assets
    Watch (…)

  • Relatives of some troops killed in Iraq seek hearings on Downing Street memo
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, June 17, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Several parents of soldiers killed in Iraq visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask for congressional hearings on the Downing Street memo, which one mother called President Bush’s “Watergate.”
    Critics say the document, which contains minutes from a meeting in July 2002 between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and top aides, shows that Bush was determined to go to war with Iraq and ignored evidence (…)

  • Labor Day Weekend: The Great American Campout at Camp Casey
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ben Frank
    Monday 22 August 2005
    Ann Wright announced tonight that Caravans will be leaving Camp Casey in different directions August 31st heading to Washington, stopping all over the country to organize for the March on Washington on September 24th.
    Why?
    Labor Day is a huge travel holiday... why not advertise Crawford, Texas as the site of the Great American Campout this Labor Day Weekend. I don’t know for sure, but in all likelihood our vacationing President will stay thru the (…)

  • The mood in America is shifting against the Iraq war, but it has found inadequate expression in Congress
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaderless on the left
    by Gary Younge
    The myth of Rosa Parks is well known. The tired seamstress who boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white man has become one of the most enduring legends of the civil rights era. Her subsequent arrest started the bus boycott that launched the civil rights movement. It transformed the apartheid of America’s southern states from a local idiosyncrasy to an international scandal and turned a (…)

  • British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESS RELEASE: Galloway Tour
    British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States to Speak Against War in Iraq
    George Galloway is Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London. He recently electrified the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings intoa condemnation of the war in Iraq.
    CNN’s Wolf Blitzer described Galloway’s speech in the Senate as "a blistering (…)