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  • Support Our Oops?
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fayetteville Ripples Spread Across America
    Bring Them Home Now!
    The more than 3000 veterans, military family members and supporters from around the South and around the country who marched in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last weekend had one simple message: Bring Them Home Now! Now they are taking the message from this inspiring demonstration back home with them. Below are some of the voices who are carrying that message.
    First, the truthout website has posted a live news report from (…)

  • Diving Into falluja: To Hell and Back with S.B. Documentary-Maker Mark Manning
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Diving Into falluja To Hell and Back with S.B. Documentary-Maker Mark Manning story by Nick welsh - images by mark manning
    deep sea diver turned documentary filmmaker Mark Manning asked if I had six minutes to spare - a strange request, considering we’d already spent two hours talking about Manning’s recent trip to Falluja, the heart of Iraqâ??s bloody Sunni triangle. Six minutes more was nothing, so Manning queued up a short video of footage heâ??s shot in Iraq and hit play. (…)

  • Prayers for Peace
    27 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Buddhist Prayer for Peace
    May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness--- the children, the age, the unprotected— be guarded by beneficial celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood The Prayer of Saint Francis (…)

  • More than enough evidence to send Bush Administration to the Hague
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI) this week found both Bush and Tony Blair guilty of a series of charges, and found they deserve life sentences for war crimes and genocide in Iraq.
    The tribunal found Bush guilty on 13 counts, Blair guilty of eight crimes, Koizumi guilty on four counts and Arroyo guilty of aiding and abetting the other defendants of crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity, Abe said.
    Bush is guilty of genocide for the use of "devastating" (…)

  • War crimes in IRAQ
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War crimes in IRAQ
    I am writing to you calling for some efforts to stop the war going on in Iraq.
    This war has caused the loss of more than 100,000 Iraqis ( according to a study published by the LANCET medical journal ( www.thelancet.com ) ) and more than 1528 Americans. Large violations of human rights have been committed against civilians in various towns of Iraq,( see for example the report " Beyond Torture ", www.cser.com ) . Those who were the cause for these losses and violations (…)

  • The escalation of Violence In IRAQ
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does violence bring other than violence
    The escalation of violence in Iraq has resulted in large numbers death among civilians. According to a study, published by the Lancet medical journal, the chance of violent death has increased by 58 folds after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The reasons for that escalation can be concluded from the following facts:
    Prior to March 2003, large percentage of the Iraqis started to believe in the promises given by USA and (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena was shot in the Green Zone, by a tank as they drove away from it!
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. We speak with independent journalist Naomi Klein, who just returned from meeting with Sgrena in Rome. In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car (…)

  • Making Congress Listen: A new focus for the antiwar movement
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration’s two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those vulnerabilities.
    There is much good organizing on the first issue to celebrate, strengthen, and continue:
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    Growing counter-recruitment work and conscientious objector support; *
    Highlighting the (…)

  • Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that...
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that the people either support mass murder or really don’t care enough to change it"
    From an exchange between two Blog sites, Fountainhead and Another Day in the Empire:
    An email received yesterday:
    "You expect to sell your art work to Americans while you publish the most incredible lies. I just bet you are an American too. Re: your article about Fallujah published in Anwaar Hussain?s hate blog.
    How do you know that (…)

  • OUR SONS WERE SACRIFICED FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by : Military Families Against the War
    No government minister has been available to explain the apparent change in the legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith in March 2003 regarding war with Iraq. Not only was the resignation letter from Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, censored but the government continues to refuse to release Lord Goldsmith’s full legal advice.
    This situation should not go on. On the ’Today’ programme this morning former defence (…)