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  • March 19: Momentum Builds Across the Country
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, New York City, Chicago, New Paltz, your city!
    San Francisco
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will march.
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has called “stop work meetings” to shut down Bay Area and other West Coast ports in solidarity with the International Day of Protests. Labor will be sponsoring a pre-march rally (…)

  • Hazardous assignment
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By H.D.S. Greenway
    ON ONE thing the Italian government and the White House agree. The killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and the wounding of journalist Giuliana Sgrena by American soliders was a ’’horrific accident." But beyond that there is little agreement as to what happened.
    The Americans say the car the Italians were traveling in was going 60 miles an hour. The Italians say it was going 25. The Americans say they gave hand signals, flashed lights, and fired warning (…)

  • Agent Orange lawsuit: an unjust, immoral verdict
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anh Hieu
    US Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s dismissal on Thursday of the compensation lawsuit by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was unjust, immoral and an irresponsible denial of the US’s war crimes in Viet Nam.
    And, it signals a new uphill battle for justice for Viet Nam despite the solid body of evidence against the toxin’s devastating effects on the land and generation-after-generation of Vietnamese people.
    Judge Weinstein claimed the documents presented in the New York Court were not (…)

  • 400 Disabled Veterans Raise Hell At Congressional Hearings On VA Budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
    WASHINGTON - Hundreds of disabled veterans booed and jeered Republican House members on Tuesday for their budget proposal for veterans’ health care, which critics call inadequate to deal with the future needs of current troops.
    Following testimony before a pair of congressional committees by officials from the Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, the crowd of more than 400 wounded and disabled veterans cheered House members who criticized the (…)

  • Kucinich Demands Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion- Instead We Get An Investigation of Steroid Use
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
    Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq. One letter will be sent to (…)

  • America’s False Memories
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    by Anna Salleh
    Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
    Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing (…)

  • Halliburton Whistleblowers Highlight Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spoils of War
    By MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
    Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company’s profits of war
    This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
    Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning contracts, (…)

  • An interview with the mother and widow of a former contractor in Iraq
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Kelly
    Tim Eysselinck worked for RONCO Consulting Corp. in Iraq between August 2003 and February 2004. He headed a de-mining team that was responsible for the clearance of land mines, cluster bombs and other ordinance.
    Tim developed post-traumatic stress disorder, and his experiences in Iraq left him disillusioned with the war that he had previously supported. On April 21, 2004, he committed suicide at his home in Windhoek, Namibia, two months after he had resigned from RONCO. He (…)

  • Protest against an international NATO conference in Sweden
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    An international NATO conference with all its members and its partners will be held in the north of Sweden on May the 24-25. Among other participants we can see the USA foreign minister Condoleezza Rice and UKs Jack Straw.
    It will be held in the part of the country there we act and we and a big number of organisations in Sweden will cooperate to protest loudly against any participation of Sweden in this partnership. We are living in a democratic country and can’t accept an organisation (…)

  • War Crimes: Bush Indicted on 13 Counts: US Corp. Media Shields Disgrace
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sheila Samples: Butt Prints In The Sand
    Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When we must rise and take a stand, Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
    author unknown
    It’s time.
    Before this obscene, gaping hole gets any deeper, it’s time we convinced the media to stop digging. As someone once said...and said...and said — time is not on our side. Storm clouds are gathering on the dashboard of our democracy. We must act, sooner rather than (…)