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  • Mother tips the balance against Bush
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside the President’s ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match. Paul Harris reports
    Candles were lit all across America last week in one of the largest single anti-war protests in recent US history. At more than 1,600 vigils tens of thousands of protesters gathered in solidarity with the woman who has been the catalyst for the rebirth of the anti-war movement: Cindy Sheehan.
    Her remarkable one-woman stand outside (…)

  • Pittsburgh Police Arrest Five Anti-War Protesters, Two Injured, in March
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joe Mandak
    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Police charged four people protesting the war in Iraq, two of whom suffered minor injuries from the police response, when 60 people disrupted traffic by marching the wrong way down a busy one-way street toward an Army recruiting station.
    The Pittsburgh Organizing Group planned the Saturday morning demonstration. A spokesman for that group, David Meieran, accused police of responding with "inappropriate and excessive force."
    Meieran claimed some (…)

  • Utah Station Refuses to Air Anti-War Ad
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son’s death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch.
    The ad began airing on other area stations Saturday, two days before Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake City to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
    However, a national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that (…)

  • Former Head Of Pentagon’s Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying ...
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Head Of Pentagon’s Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying From Illegal DU Use And Military’s Failure To Admit Responsibility After Maj. Doug Rokke went public in 1997 exposing the military’s flawed DU program, his life has been threatened but he still continues to search for solutions in order to save the lives of those afflicted.
    By Greg Szymanski
    Army Major Doug Rokke has been shot at, run off the road, threatened, harassed, black-balled, (…)

  • The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANK RICH
    CINDY SHEEHAN couldn’t have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" by going fishing. On this Aug. 6 the president was no less determined to shrug off bad news. Though 14 marine reservists had been killed days earlier by a roadside bomb in Haditha, (…)

  • Wanted: Substitute Soldiers
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro-war lobby rally at Bush ranch
    by Jennifer Monroe
    CRAWFORD, TX — (OfficialWire) — 08/22/05 — Supporters of the illegal war in Iraq and it’s aftermath, began arriving over the weekend in Crawford, Texas. About 350 members of the Texas chapter of FreeRepublic-passionate apologists of George W. Bush and the Bush administration-rolled past a large group of peace activists who have been camped-out near the president’s ranch for more than two weeks.
    Not surprisingly though, none of these (…)

  • KARL ROVE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KARL ROVE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
    A Satirical Rant
    By Peter Fredson
    August 21, 2005
    I just finished a long compilation of reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, using several hundred files from the past 5 years. There were many reasons alleged, some of them humorous, and others reaching the edge of criminality. The reasons seemed to shift and multiply as the administration gradually realizes things are not going as well as it had hoped. Then a fellow blogger asked me to identify the reason I (…)

  • War in Afghanistan has intensified
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KABUL, Aug 20 (SANA): The Bush administration declared more than two years ago that major combat in Afghanistan was over, but despite this claim for the past four months, the U.S. paratroopers and other American units have been fighting a war thousands of feet up in the sun-blasted peaks and boulder-strewn defiles of one of history’s most grueling battlefields.
    They’re facing guerrillas who were born here, hardened by poverty and backwardness, and steeped in a centuries-old tradition of (…)

  • Dead Wrong: CNN Offers An Excuse
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush administration’s deception presented as ’honest error’
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/21/05 — Watching CNN’s program "Dead Wrong-Inside an Intelligence Meltdown", one is left with the impression that the Bush administration and the U.S. intelligence community were merely wrong; CNN called it a "meltdown" and referred to "mistakes", but throughout their hour-long PR-piece viewers are steered away from what really happened and encouraged to believe it [the (…)

  • Habitual lies to promote a war against the guiltless are pretty telling...
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I still say that this statement is ludicrous and just plain nuts.
    I am of the belief we go after those who not only attack us as a nation, but also personally. I am not of the belief of excusing horrific behavior and actions by terrorists or mere criminals in this country.
    If you are guilty of a terrorist attack or any crime is that you do the time and are prepared for the consequences of your actions.
    * I am however against going after the wrong people and blaming (…)