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  • GIs calling out for help and speaking the truth
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Steve Morse’s hands are rough from years working in sheet metal, and his voice is soft and a little hoarse, as if he were still teaching math to fifth graders from 7 a.m. to sundown, and then volunteering a few hours a week on the G.I. Rights Hotline. Now, he coordinates the Hotline for CCCO, which means part of his job is to say, over and over, to the press: "Last year we got 32,000 calls." Except, as he said Monday night, that number only counts the calls coming over (…)

  • Blair Faces US Probe Over Secret Iraq Invasion Plan
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blair Faces US Probe Over Secret Iraq Invasion Plan Tony Allen-Mills and Tom Pattinson May 22, 2005 SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.
    Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.
    A group of 89 (…)

  • Information Education is the Key to Social Justics and Peace
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If one is to observe our commercial culture from the perspective ot education and information exchange it can be seen clearly that a social world agenda exists and it is not one of world peace.
    From toy stores filled with action figures all ready to attack the "bad guys", movies filled with the acceptance of social violence, and politcial leaders being financially motivated to invade terrorist nations it can be seen that "war" and "social conflict" is part of the accepted and sponsered (…)

  • Not-So Endearing Enduring U.S. Military Bases In Iraq
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not easy writing about something about which I know very little, but I’m going to try anyway. (Hey, you, in the back. I heard that. It has too stopped me before.)
    What I think I’m talking about are the fourteen permanent U.S. military bases currently under construction in Iraq. Yes, that Iraq, the country from which we will militarily withdraw just as soon as we get the word from the completely-free-of-U.S.-influence Iraqi government telling us to go. (Look for snow in Baghdad that (…)

  • War Crimes: the Iraq Living Conditions Survey
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deluded right-wingers refuse to believe the Lancet survey ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T 1B-4DV11P2-13&_user=1496926&_coverDate=11%2F26%2F2004&_alid= ... )indicating more than 100,000 Iraqis died from violence in 2003, most of that violence dished out by yahoo American soldiers with trigger fingers who apparently believe they are doing the Iraqis a big favor by destroying their country and killing them. From my perspective here in a (…)

  • Debate intensifies over weapons in space
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington — Reports that the Bush administration plans to adopt a new policy that would more explicitly spell out the military’s commitment to placing offensive and defensive weapons in space are sparking an increasing debate.
    Proponents say such weapons are needed to protect the U.S. homeland and satellites in space that provide such crucial military and civilian services as targeting for weapons, global positioning data and satellite TV and radio. They also point out that space has been (…)

  • Red, White, and Without a Clue
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America naively asked in its stunned stupor, "Why do they hate us?" In consoling us, our fearless leaders appealed to our collective sense of superiority and self-righteousness by explaining that the Muslim world (a.k.a. "they") hate us because of what we stand for: freedom, democracy, Mom, baseball, and apple pie. Comforted, we patted ourselves on our collective back for being so gosh-darn wonderful and condemned the savage heathens who wanted nothing (…)

  • ARMY RECRUITING VALUES
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ARMY RECRUITING VALUES
    By Peter Fredsib
    May 21, 2005
    Today I listened to C-Span featuring a Major General in charge of recruiting for the U.S. Army. He was very cogent and knowledgeable. He explained the training that recruiting N.C.O.s must go through and what level of competence is expected of them. He talked about the many difficulties recruitment has faced, such as discrimination because of gender, sex, education, economics and other factors such as homosexuality. He was (…)

  • Patriots Need Reality Check: ’We the people’ must stand up for the truth about our country’s actions
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Patriots Need a Reality Check ’We the people’ must stand up for the truth about our country’s actions by Byron Williams There are moments when a democratic society must compare the utopian ideals it committed to on paper versus the reality of its praxis. In the 229 years since declaring itself a sovereign nation, America has had several such reality checks.
    Women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights Movement are examples of America being challenged to authentically live up to the ideals (…)

  • Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington John Nichols May 17, 2005 Norm Coleman is a fool.
    Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot — just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.
    The Minnesota Republican senator who took Paul Wellstone’s seat after one of the most disreputable campaigns in American political history has been trying over the past year to make a name for himself by blowing the controversy surrounding the United Nations Oil-for-Food program (…)