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  • Cook’s contribution will be missed
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Assinder
    The death of Robin Cook not only deprives the Labour Party of one of its greatest figures, it will also diminish the House of Commons.
    The former foreign secretary was one of the very few MPs - on either the back or front benches - who demanded attention when he spoke in the chamber.
    His piercing intellect and ability to go to the very core of an issue, combined with a devastating ability to take his enemies to pieces was never better displayed than during the debate (…)

  • UPDATES ON CINDY SHEEHAN VISIT TO CRAWFORD
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Lone Star Iconoclast is covering Saturday’s journey to Crawford by several groups, including Veterans For Peace, Military Family Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Code Pink, Crawford Peace House, and others.
    Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, is seeking a meeting with President Bush, who is vacationing in Crawford, to have some of her questions answered about the war. Several busloads of interested individuals are expected in Crawford to support (…)

  • Dining with the Crawford Posse
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Brief Dispatch from the 20th Annual Veterans for Peace Convention
    How one Vietnam vet from North Texas is looking forward to Saturday, when he will join Cindy Sheehan’s protest visit to Crawford.
    “That’s Cindy Sheehan,” points the Vietnam War veteran from his seat at the table. “She lost her son Casey in Iraq. And I’m going to follow her to Crawford. You coming?”
    Looking up from my plate, I take the vet’s direction and turn to see Sheehan standing on the grass, stage left, mixing (…)

  • The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.
    by Anthony Wade
    August 6, 2005
    The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed been made. There are rumblings of indictments from the Valerie Plame incident, that may exceed Karl Rove. With each passing death in Iraq a nation begins to realize that this is just not worth it, despite the bravado of Bush, a man who knows nothing about sacrifice. The Downing Street Memos are still out there, waiting (…)

  • BUSH RANTS AGAIN
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH RANTS ABOUT IRAQ By Peter Fredson August 7, 2005
    NEWS ITEM: “COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT MEETS BUSH
    “U.S. President Bush met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez at the Bush ranch near Crawford, Texas on Thursday, August 4, 2005.”
    After a talk about democracy in Colombia, Bush was asked about the status of his Iraq war. For dramatic effect the President’s standard ranting is capitalized, while my comments are not.
    REPORTER Q: THANKS, SIR. AL QAEDA’S NUMBER TWO, DR. AL-ZAWAHIRI, (…)

  • Hiroshima : Peace Declaration Aug. 6, 2005
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Friends,
    Following is the text of the official Hiroshima Declaration, read by Mayor Akiba shortly before 8:15 in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
    Copies of my speech at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs and Hibakusha testimonies can be found at www.afsc.org/pes.htm.
    Work for nuclear weapons abolition, peace and justice, Joseph Gerson American Friends committee
    This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than (…)

  • The Danger of Nuclear War & The Imperative of Abolition
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mayors Campaign Hiroshi TAKA(Japan)
    Dear friends,
    Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Let me take this opportunity to extend my warmest greetings of solidarity to the movements for peace and justice in the USA. Your courageous actions for peace and against war, prior to and in the midst of the outrageous US military attack on Iraq, showed us that there was another face of the United States, which represents gentle, peace-loving USA. It has greatly helped to build a sense of global (…)

  • Thousands Demand: ’No Nuclear Weapons!’
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On 60th Anniversary of US A-Bomb Attacks on Japan, Major Events Planned
    WASHINGTON - August 5 - Sixty years after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Peace Action members will participate in actions at four U.S. nuclear weapons facilities and organize events nationwide to observe the anniversary of this tragedy on August 6th and 9th.
    Hibakusha-survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-will visit nuclear weapons research and production sites to deliver their message: “No More (…)

  • No More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis! Events
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. We’re asking people to join at four central US nuclear weapons sites in major actions calling for an end to the development and production of nuclear warheads. Activities will recognize the devastation caused by nuclear weapons and memorialize the many victims of bomb production at every step - from uranium mining to design, to production, to testing and use.
    In Japanese (…)

  • The Hiroshima cover-up
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
    ASTORY THAT the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller’s firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
    On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima; three days (…)