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  • Howard Zinn: US trying to bludgeon Iraq into submission
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ultimately we are going to have to get out of Iraq. It is only a question of how many people are going to die.
    excerpts from an interview on cspan which can be viewed here
    There are serious problems in this country and there is no money to solve them. There is no money for education, no money for health, no money for child care. While these problems are going on here, 40 million without health care, we are spending huge sums of money trying to conquer another country. Let’s face it, (…)

  • Homeless Vietnam veteran freezes under bridge- This is how we honor our heroes?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Vietnam veteran who froze to death alone beneath a railroad bridge on Christmas Eve is remembered in Covington. Joe Young died in single-digit cold a few blocks from a shelter where he had previously stayed and a few days before he was to move into an apartment that had been arranged for him. The Reverend Gregg Anderson of Highland Heights says friends and strangers contributed a total of $2,100 to make sure Young had a decent burial. Joe Young was 57-years old.
    It is more than (…)

  • What Is the US Trying to Hide in Fallujah?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening.
    Speaking on condition of anonymity, he continued, "In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?"
    According to him, this was also done in the Nazal, Mualmeen, (…)

  • Two celebrations, two Americas: MLK Day and Bush’s Inauguration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Derrick O’Keefe
    This week features two major celebrations in the United States, and the contrasts between the figures being feted couldn’t be starker. Thursday’s second inauguration for George W. Bush comes only three days after Martin Luther King Day was celebrated on Monday, January 17. The two celebrations couldn’t be more opposed, revealing the chasm between the ‘two Americas.’ Gay and lesbian rights, and peace and justice issues were raised in a series of marches celebrating the (…)

  • The Scapegoat : Abu Ghraib - a policy, not an aberration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Justin Raimondo
    The show trial of U.S. Army reservist Charles Graner had something for everyone: tragedy, comedy, pathos, and propaganda. The tragic aspect was dominant, with the photos of the disgusting abuse illustrating the theme of senseless arbitrary violence, but there was also comedy, of a sort, with Guy Womack, Graner’s lawyer, making an argument that was unusual, to say the least:
    "Graner’s attorney said piling naked prisoners into pyramids and leading them by a leash were (…)

  • Justice for Abu Ghraib? U.S. on Trial
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The conviction of Specialist Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is a first step toward accountability for the detainee abuse scandal, but it must not be the end of the process.
    Each passing day brings new evidence that the mistreatment of Muslim prisoners - far from being an isolated incident at Abu Ghraib - was widespread in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Detainees in Afghanistan were frequently beaten, held naked and deprived of sleep for (…)

  • US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil Mark Turner in New York January 19 2005 The Clinton and Bush administrations not only knew but told the US Congress that Iraq was smuggling oil to Turkey and Jordan, and in both cases recommended continuing military and financial aid to countries seen as important allies. Recent revelations that Saddam Hussein was able to raise billions of dollars in illicit revenue in defiance of international sanctions have prompted savage criticism of (…)

  • Majority of Americans disapprove Bush’s Iraq policy— Where is his mandate?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Despite President George W. Bush’s belief that by reelecting him Americans expressed support for the war on Iraq, two opinion polls published Tuesday showed the opposite: the majority think the war was a mistake and disapprove of the way he is handling things in Iraq.
    Shortly before Bush’s inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC (…)

  • The Other, Man Made Tsunami
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE OTHER, MAN-MADE TSUNAMI
    The west’s crusaders, the United States and Britain, are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth bomber or a week’s bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for George Bush’s coming inauguration party would rebuild much of the coastline of Sri Lanka. Bush and Blair increased their first driblets of "aid" only when it became clear that people all over the world were spontaneously giving millions and a public relations problem beckoned. The (…)

  • No Evidence WMDs Were Moved From Iraq: Officials
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No Evidence WMDs Were Moved From Iraq: Officials January 17, 2005
    WASHINGTON (AP) - As the hunt for weapons of mass destruction dragged on unsuccessfully in Iraq, top U.S. administration officials speculated publicly that the banned armaments may have been smuggled out of the country before the war started.
    Whether Saddam Hussein moved deadly chemical, biological or radiological arms is one of the unresolved issues that the final U.S. intelligence report on Iraq’s programs is expected to (…)