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  • Filling the Congressional Cop-Out Gap
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Filling the Congressional Cop-Out Gap. An Idea for Local Peace Groups and Local Peace Activists
    by Ralph Nader
    Dear Member of Congress (Representative and two Senators):
    According to a Harris poll last month, 59 percent of Americans want US troops brought home within the next year. We are among them. You are not listening to us. Here is what we propose: To meet with you in a public auditorium with the media invited on [insert date]_ when you say you will back in your state (district). (…)

  • We Won’t Forget Rachel Corrie. Uprising on the Anniversary of a Death
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ALISON WEIR
    There is a quiet battle going on for the memory of a young woman who could have been my daughter, or perhaps yours.
    On one side are those who would like to erase her from history her actions, her beliefs, her murder. If they are unsuccessful at that, they will settle for posthumous slurs on her character, falsifications of her death.
    On the other side are those who feel her shining principles should be praised, her courage honored, her death grieved. On this side are (…)

  • Out-of-control Spending in Iraq is an insult to US taxpayers: 162 dems vote to give Bush $82B more
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), a leader in the House of Representatives against the war in Iraq, issued the following statement today on the $82 billion Supplemental Appropriations Bill:
    "Before we issue another $82 billion for operations in Iraq, to continue a failed policy in Iraq, we must address the greater picture: The Administration has been morally corrupt in its handling of every aspect of the Iraq war, from the very beginning to the present.
    "Moreover, it (…)

  • Remembering Rachel Corrie- Still Searching For Justice
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rachel’s parents file lawsuits against Caterpillar and Israel
    The. Family of Rachel Corrie Charges Bulldozer Manufacturer Knowingly Sold Machines Used to Violate Human Rights
    March 15, 2005, New York, NY partnering law firms today filed a Federal lawsuit against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American peace activist and student who was run over and killed by a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer on March 16, 2003.
    The suit, filed in the (…)

  • "The Military," He Said, "Is A Bunch Of Lies."
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AWOL and desertion are chronic problems; all any Army can hope for is to keep them at manageable levels, not to lose soldiers needlessly. The Army admits that youth, lack of a high-school diploma, coming from "broken homes," and having early scrapes with the law make a soldier only "relatively more likely" to go AWOL or to desert. In fact, the Army is careful to note, "the vast majority of soldiers who fit this profile are not going to desert."
    Yet the Army used that very same profile to (…)

  • U.S. Representatives to Vote Against $81 Billion to Continue War in Iraq
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Jim McDermott (D-WA), John Conyers (D-MI), and Danny Davis (D-IL) today announced that they will vote against President Bush’s request for $81 Billion to continue war in Iraq. The war in Iraq has not made America safer, the supplemental request lacks accountability and the President has failed to plan for the return of U.S. troops. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on President Bush’s (…)

  • Italy to pull troops out of Iraq! Coalition Crumbling
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Owen and Michael Evans
    BOWING to popular pressure, the Italian Government said last night that it would start pulling its more than 3,000 troops out of Iraq in September.
    The surprise announcement by Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, came less than two weeks after US troops shot dead Nicola Calipari, Italy’s top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety.
    Italy has 3,200 troops and Carabinieri paramilitary police in al-Nasiriyah, a (…)

  • Bush Continues To Alienate World
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Continues To Alienate World Bill Gallagher March 15, 2005 DETROIT - President George W. Bush has created an atmosphere of unparalleled distrust toward the United States as people from places around the globe now shudder when he makes increasingly frequent declarations about his "vision" for the world. From avowed enemies to longtime allies and even our closest neighbors, open hostility toward the United States is epidemic.
    People who once looked toward America with admiration and (…)

  • U.S. May End Up Scrutinized at UN Human Rights Meet
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Waddington
    GENEVA - The United States, usually a finger-pointer on human rights, could end up in the dock itself over reports of torture and abuse in its war on terror when the United Nations begins a worldwide scrutiny this week.
    Activists, such as the New York-based Human Rights Watch, are urging members of the Commission on Human Rights to condemn Washington for mistreatment of prisoners detained abroad.
    If any such move emerges during the commission’s annual session, (…)

  • Vote NO on Bush’s $82 billion Supplemental Budget Request to fund the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan
    15 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $82 billion to fund the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps as early as Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Every day the U.S. spends over $200 million of working peoples’ money to fund war and occupation in Iraq. 100,000 Iraqis have died. More than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded. There should not be one more dime spent on Bush’s criminal wars, occupations (…)