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  • NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert Fake name. Fake reporter. Fake news agency. And now this ...
    Fake Marine.
    First, we went to the Military Personnel Records of the National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis, Missouri, the supposed repository of all military records.
    No record showed, but the official letter hemmed and hawed and scraped its military-booted feet so much, kinda sorta explaining that they’re often ... well ... ummm ... screwed up ... and that we should check (…)

  • Howard Dean Moves On—The Selling (Out) of the Antiwar Movement
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JOSHUA FRANK
    It was just over two years ago that I learned a little-known "antiwar" Democrat from Vermont was planning to run for President. At a rally on the eve of Bush’s Iraq invasion, a fellow protestor handed me a leaflet touting the now infamous Howard Dean, hoping that the propaganda would entice me to support his forthcoming candidacy.
    Of course, I was intrigued. Few other Democrats were speaking out against the imminent war on Iraq. Luckily, I ended up not taking the bait. (…)

  • Frankly, My Dear, I Do Give A Damn
    24 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Doug Thompson "What," a reader wanted to know, "turned you into such a Bush-hater?"
    Nothing.
    I’m not a Bush-hater. I don’t know the man well enough to hate him. Hate is a personal emotion. I don’t get personal.
    I am, however, very angry over what Bush and his minions have done to the country I love.
    I’m angry over his disregard for the more than 1,500 Americans he has sent to their death in his lies-based war.
    I’m angry about the lies he told to try and justify that senseless (…)

  • Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever. Why The Left Was Right After All
    24 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever Why The Left Was Right After All Ted Rall March 22, 2005 NEW YORK-Liberals have their faults, but no one can accuse them of being pigheaded. Two years after left-of-Bush Americans marched against the invasion of Iraq and a year after the Administration admitted it had lied about Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, the sprouting of a few protodemocratic weeds in the microscopically-cracked cement of Arab (…)

  • The Amazing Hypocrites
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    This past weekend was the two year anniversary of the beginning of ’shock and awe’ of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never know.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events ’barely a ripple’. I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there were right around 4000 people. 4000 people full of energy and committed to the task of peace and justice and (…)

  • Vanunu cause to be raised at Holyrood
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The issue of the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, is to be raised in the Scottish Parliament.
    Last week Mr Vanunu was charged with violating the terms of his release from prison three days after giving an interview in Jerusalem to The Herald. Mr Vanunu was sent to prison for 18 years after revealing to the world that Israel was developing nuclear weapons.
    He was freed last April, but is forbidden to speak to foreign reporters and cannot leave east (…)

  • Hiding Our War Dead. Italy Publicly Honors Its War Dead, America Hides Its Dead
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is That Respecting Our Soldiers?
    by Gail Vida Hamburg The state funeral in Rome last month for Nicola Calipari - the Italian intelligence officer who rescued a kidnapped journalist from Iraqi captors, only to be gunned down by jittery American soldiers at a checkpoint in Baghdad - was a national event that united all Italians, merging their raw sorrow with the singular grief of his widow and children. It was the second time Italy pulled out all the stops for its Iraq War dead. In (…)

  • An Immoral And Illegal War
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Destroying Iraq Isn’t Enough for Bush An Immoral and Illegal War
    By Rep. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
    Remarks at Chicago Anti-War Rally, March 19, 2005
    Two years ago we gathered all across America to say no to war.
    We were joined by people all over the planet who know that there is an alternative to war.
    But war is about the only option available when the real motive is to steal natural resources that belong to someone else.
    Or to restack the deck in the Middle East with today’s generation (…)

  • ’O.C. Register’ First Major Paper to Call for U.S. Pullout in Iraq
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK In a Sunday editorial marking the second anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, The Orange County (Ca.) Register called for a U.S. pullout from that country, becoming perhaps the first newspaper in a Top 25 market to do so. The Register’s daily circulation is around 300,000.
    "We opposed this war from the beginning and we believe the United States should withdraw its troops sooner rather than later, under a sensible exit strategy," the editorial declared. "While some argue (…)

  • Mike Ferner, Veteran For Peace: Remarks at the Ohio Statehouse March 19, 2005
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mike Ferner served as a corpsman at a navy hospital and aboard an aircraft carrier. He was discharged as a conscientious objector. He spoke to us at the Peace Rally as a member of Veterans for Peace, and challenged us as American citizens to a higher level of morality that I’ve heard from anywhere in the current administration. I’ll say no more. Today you want to spend time with Mike’s words. - Pat Denino
    As we gather here this afternoon, our colleagues in Toledo are debuting “Arlington at (…)