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  • Are Bush & Co. War Criminals?
    10 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some lawyers claim the U.S. is guilty of crimes against humanity
    by Charlie Smith
    Serving tea in her kitchen in her home on Vancouver’s West Side, Gail Davidson seems more like a friendly neighbour than a wild-eyed revolutionary. Davidson, a grandmother, laughs easily, enjoys gardening, and speaks with a remarkable absence of egotism. In this setting, it’s hard to comprehend that she is a key figure in an international campaign to hold U.S. President George W. Bush accountable for (…)

  • At Least 30,000 Overseas Votes Not Counted In Presidential Election
    10 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Lisa Hoffman The votes of at least 1 in 4 U.S. soldiers and overseas voters in last fall’s election never were counted. That’s the conclusion of a recent report by the National Defense Committee, a private, pro-military organization that surveyed local election offices across the country about the number of absentee votes cast and counted in the Nov. 3 election.
    In all, more than 30,000 of the 131,000 absentee ballots sent by troops and expatriates to 760 local elections offices (…)

  • All We Want Is The TRUTH
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All We Want Is The TRUTH Ward Reilly March 30, 2005 "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -Samuel Adams
    "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -Patrick Henry
    "It is the duty of the patriot (…)

  • Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s Der Spiegel April 08, 2005 Rome: It was a historic moment: George W. Bush was the first president of the U.S. to participate in burying a Pope - despite his controversy with the Pontiff over the Iraq War. When his image flashed on a huge outdooor TV screen, the multitude gathered for the funeral of Pope John Paul II had a pointedly unpleasant message to communicate to the U.S. president. Loud booing was heard, when on a large television (…)

  • Of Intelligence Failure And Trained Apes
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Of Intelligence Failure And Trained Apes Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) April 07, 2005 It is said that truth is the first casualty in war. The report of the "Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding WMD" has established that truth is a casualty long before a war is embarked upon.
    The two points that Donald Rumsfeld stressed upon vigorously many times when it came to the question of Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction was that, "lack of (…)

  • Massive "End the Occupation" Protest in Baghdad Dwarfs the "Saddam Toppled" rally: Photos
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chanting "No! No to terrorism!" and "No! No to America," thousands of supporters of a radical Shiite cleric who once led uprisings against U.S. troops called Saturday for American forces to withdraw from Iraq, staging a massive protest at the same square where - two years ago to the day - protesters pulled down a towering statue of ousted Saddam Hussein.
    Compare the protests- which one looks like the ’voice of the people’ to you?
    The protest reflected frustration with the U.S. (…)

  • Sunni and Shiites converge on Baghdad to call for end to occupation
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-US protests in Baghdad
    April 9, 2005
    TENS of thousands of Shiites converged on the centre of Baghdad for an anti-US protest to mark two years since the city fell to coalition troops.
    Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: “No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation.”
    Radical preachers had called on their congregations to rally in (…)

  • URUKNET: Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa’im
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 7 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Thursday, 7 April 2005. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im.
    Iraqi Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa’im on the Syrian border.
    The Iraqi Resistance issued several communiqués on Thursday morning announcing that the city of al-Qa’im on the Iraqi-Syrian border, had fallen militarily from the (…)

  • Buck Doesn’t Stop at This President’s Desk
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush was "pleased" with the latest investigation that blames CIA analysts for the false information that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
    That’s the reason Bush invaded Iraq, remember? Once again it’s those low-level bureaucrats who took us into war. And once again a panel of "don’t rock the boat" establishment figures has let the commander in chief off the hook.
    I asked McClellan if the president was upset (…)

  • The real oil-for-food scandal: The humanitarian cover for the brutal embargo of Iraq
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ANTHONY ARNOVE
    ANTHONY ARNOVE edited the book Iraq Under Siege and is coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Here, he examines the controversy over the United Nations (UN) oil-for-food program in Iraq, following the release of the findings of a corruption investigation.
    A COMMISSION investigating allegations of corruption in a UN humanitarian assistance program in Iraq during the 1990s cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing. Annan (…)