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  • Sheehan Draws Tears of Support
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.” At the Sam’s Club of all places, says Robert, he nearly broke down crying while he was shopping Monday morning thinking about what Sheehan was doing in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq last April.
    “She’s a strong woman,” says Robert via cell phone as he drives back home Monday night. “She feels she (…)

  • Subcomandante Marcos leaves four years’ hiding to speak out
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    Zapatistas quit the jungle for soapbox
    by Giles Tremlett
    The masked revolutionary icon of Latin America, Subcomandante Marcos, emerged from the Mexican jungle for the first time for four years over the weekend as his Zapatista movement rebranded itself as a non-violent proponent of alternative politics.
    Wearing his trademark military fatigues and sweat-provoking black ski mask, the rebel appeared to be kick-starting a recently declared shift towards political engagement by the (…)

  • Cheney + Pakistan = Iran
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    By Jason Leopold
    When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program showed how the country’s top nuclear scientist was secretly selling Iran and North Korea, the so-called “Axis of Evil,” blueprints for building an atomic bomb were uncovered last year, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see how President Bush would punish Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaff.
    Bush has, after all, spent his entire two terms in office talking tough about countries and dictators that conceal (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Deserves Answers: Cindy’s Speech at the Downing Street Memo Hearing
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    My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearing By Cindy Sheehan
    Congressman Conyers and all, it is an honor to be here to testify about the effect that the revelations of the Downing Street Memo has had on me and my family. It is an honor that I wish never had to happen. I believe that not any of us should be gathered here today for this reason: as the result of an invasion/occupation that never should have occured.
    My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was KIA in Sadr City Baghdad on (…)

  • Why I cannot be part of this divisive war
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an extract from Robin Cook’s resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.
    by Robin Cook
    This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here.
    I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international (…)

  • Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother’s Loss Becomes a Problem for the President
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    Cindy Sheehan paces on a road Sunday near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. She vows to wait until he talks to her or leaves the ranch.
    By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
    CRAWFORD, Tex - President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch here this weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all Americans troops out of Iraq now.
    Ms. (…)

  • POLITICS: Groups Urge Iraq to Join ICC
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    by Haider Rizvi
    UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When the Iraqi interim government declared its intention to endorse the treaty on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the news came as a happy surprise to many European nations and international civil society groups.
    But their excitement did not last long, as the transitional administration in Baghdad reversed its decision within a few days, presumably under tremendous pressure from Washington, which continues to oppose the first-ever world (…)

  • Bizarro Iraq : a war of "liberation" brings only slavery - and death
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Cindy Sheehan is on a mission. The death of her son in combat in Iraq has sent her on her own personal odyssey, a quest for the answer to the question: Why? The latest stop in that journey: Crawford, Texas, right outside the presidential ranch, where she and a few intrepid antiwar protesters marched in the triple-digit heat, determined to confront the author of this war. Bush didn’t come out to meet her, but, surprisingly, she was met by two of his top aides - national (…)

  • Every Mother’s Son
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. - Stephen King
    George W. Bush hauled stakes for Texas and a vacation a few days ago. Cindy Sheehan followed. She got off a bus Saturday afternoon and started walking to the Crawford ranch. She wanted some answers and was going to get them.
    Sheehan had met Mr. Bush once before. On April 4, 2004, just shy of a year after Bush stood on an aircraft carrier beneath a banner that read "Mission (…)

  • Depleted Uranium, Anthrax Vaccine & The Gulf War Syndrome, Part 1
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dr. James Howenstine
    More and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S. government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms. Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in the first Gulf War were disabled within less than 10 years. (…)