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  • If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As we enter another Easter Season, it’s become all too obvious that if Christ returns, those who hate in Jesus’s name will have him slimed, then killed.
    Christ was a long-haired peace activist who would have hated the war in Iraq. "Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus said in his defining Sermon on the Mount. "Turn the other cheek...Love thy neighbor."
    Such hippie-radical ideals are the "Christian" right wing’s worst nightmare. The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus (…)

  • Bush War Still Stinks Two Years On
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush War Still Stinks Two Years On Bill Gallagher March 22, 2005 "My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." — President George W. Bush, March 19, 2003.
    DETROIT — We need reminding just how great the gap is between what President George W. Bush promised us his war in Iraq would bring and the reality of the mess the aggression has created. We (…)

  • War crime claims- Marine recruiter turned peacenik
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the U.S. went to war in Iraq, Jimmy Massey was a staff sergeant with a marine unit that had the job of setting up checkpoints to protect american forces. In a short period of time, Massey claims, he and his men had killed 30 Iraqi civilians. He says he and the others are guilty of war crimes.
    “I brought these series of events up through the chain of command. Each time I was told they were terrorists, or they were insurgents. My question to the marine corps at that point became, how (…)

  • Abuse taped at Guantanamo, as ’explosive’ as Abu Ghraib
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VIDEO footage of US military treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will reveal many cases of substantial abuse as "explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib", a lawyer said today. Adelaide lawyer Stephen Kenny, who represented Australian David Hicks during the early part of his detention at the military prison in Cuba, told a law conference today that 500 hours of videotape of prisoners at the US base existed.
    The full story of abuse at Guantanamo Bay would not be told until the tapes were (…)

  • March 19th 2005: Anti-war actions in two places in Iceland
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There were 50-60 people on a meeting in the small town of Akureyri in the
    northern part of Iceland.
    In Reykjavik, the capital, some 800 people were in the demonstration. First
    there was a meeting were the people got a peace of paper with the name of a
    victim of the war, in all 730 names, one for each day since the invasion,
    and then they nailed it on a black banner that was brought to the government
    building (Iceland is one of the willing states) were some young people had
    an (…)

  • ...for peace, not war!
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday I spent some quality time with a group of beautiful people, right in the middle of downtown Columbus Ohio. It was the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. About 400 people gathered to protest the war and rally instead for peace. It was a friendly and diverse crowd spanning several age groups, languages and cultures, as evidenced by their attire. Nevertheless, they were united in their desire to bring about peace. I could feel the energy which coaxed the tears right out of my (…)

  • Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in U.S. & around the world
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate in Cities Across the Country and Around the World on 2nd Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
    More than 25,000 March in San Francisco, 20,000 in Los Angeles, tens of thousands more in 700 cities from New York to Fayetteville, NC to Seattle
    Send in a report on the demonstration in your area
    In more than 1000 cities across the country and around the world, demonstrations today protested on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In San Francisco, (…)

  • Protesters reiterate opposition to Iraq war
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australians across the country have held rallies to demonstrate their continued opposition to the Iraq war, which began two years ago.
    Protesters called for all Australian troops serving in the US-led coalition in Iraq to be brought home immediately.
    But Prime Minister John Howard says he remains proud of Australia’s involvement in Iraq over the past couple of years.
    Mr Howard says he is pleased to see Australia has played a part in helping Iraqis embrace democracy.
    "The rallies (…)

  • Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like (…)

  • Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today begins year three of the US intervention in Iraq, with its tragic consequences for both the Iraqi and American people continuing to multiply.
    The Iraqi dead-incinerated by US air strikes, shot to death at roadblocks, or killed in merciless sieges like the one mounted last November against Fallujah-number in the many tens of thousands.
    US casualties have risen to over 1,520 dead, with more than 11,200 troops wounded and as many as 100,000 in need of mental health care as a result of (…)