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  • Newly found faith lands Marine in jail
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE SAGINAW NEWS
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — U.S. Marine Cpl. Joel D. Klimkewicz says he’s willing to clear land mines and risk his life for his country.
    He’s just not willing to pick up a gun.
    Because of his new-found religious faith, the Birch Run native is spending his holidays behind bars as a conscientious objector, convicted by military superiors who see him as a disobedient soldier.
    "I couldn’t see Jesus Christ taking human life," said Klimkewicz in a phone interview from the Camp (…)

  • Happy New Year 2005 : IMAGINE
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de John Lennon Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today...
    Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...
    You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one
    Imagine no possessions I wonder if you (…)

  • With up to 400,000 dead in Asia, why keep killing people in Iraq?
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    With the dead of Asia spread out before us like some nightmare Van Helsing movie come to life, it seems a bit presumptuous to me for George Bush to continue to play God and go on killing and killing and killing in Iraq.
    Would it finally come into perspective for Americans to know that Bush is spending the same amount of money in aid for the millions of tsunami victims in Asia as he spends in just FOUR HOURS on killing people in Iraq?
    Thousands of Americans were (…)

  • Ukraine to pull contingent out of Iraq: minister
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ukraine will withdraw its 1,400-strong military contingent from Iraq by the end of next year, Defence Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
    "Next April we will be sending only a reinforced battalion rather than a brigade and by the end of 2005 we will complete our pullout of the contingent," Mr Kuzmuk’s press service quoted him as saying.
    The statement said a battalion would be made up of about 500 servicemen.
    Ukraine’s original contingent sent to Iraq was made (…)

  • The Buck Never Stops at the Top
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    The FBI has blown the whistle on the Defense Department’s military investigators by accusing them of abusive treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    The FBI was especially outraged that the interrogators of suspected terrorists had posed as FBI agents.
    Administration officials usually are pretty clubby folks who close ranks in times of trouble. But apparently, the FBI was not ready to take the fall for the Pentagon’s atrocious treatment of some (…)

  • 700 Civilian Bodies Recovered From Fallujah; 504 Women And Children
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Free Arab Voice | December 28 2004
    Emergency teams from the Fallujah Hospital have recovered 700 bodies of Iraqis from the ruins of houses destroyed in the US offensive on the city. Among the 700 bodies were 504 bodies of women and children; the rest elderly and middle aged men.
    Dr. Tamir Salih al-‘Ani, who is in charge of the morgue in Fallujah General Hospital has reported that emergency teams from the Fallujah Hospital have recovered 700 bodies of Iraqis from the ruins of houses (…)

  • Saudi Government Daily Accuses U.S. Army of Harvesting Organs of Iraqis
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, a n article from Brussels written by Fakhriya Ahmad charges that, based on alleged secret European military reports, the U.S. military in Iraq is harvesting and selling human organs. The following day, the story was also published in the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Islami, [1] as well as the Syrian daily Teshreen. [2] The following are excerpts from the article: [3] "Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the (…)

  • Anti-War Actions in Washington, DC, January 20, 2005
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) has called for a permitted anti-war rally and march, and it has called separately for nonviolent civil disobedience die-ins to draw attention to the dead at the hands of the Bush Administration. These actions have been called for January 20, 2005. We invite the entire world to participate in these events, which have been endorsed by Unite for Peace and Justice
    DAWN has applications and has general assurances from the authorities for permits for march and (…)

  • Denver : Martin Luther King rally, Monday, January 17. Rally at 9 am, march at 10 am City Park
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling silently under our violence,
    I cannot be silent." Martin Luther King Jr.
    Speak Out, Bring the troops Home
    Billed as the largest Martin Luther King Jr. march in the United States, this
    annual event draws upward of 30,000 participants, gathering at City Park and
    proceeding to Civic Center Park for a rally.

  • Letter to Bush from Santa
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A letter from Santa
    By David Martin
    G.W. Bush
    The White House
    Washington, D.C.
    Dear Georgie,
    I’m glad to hear you have been a good boy this year. I got a lot of letters from other children who said you had been naughty. They were sure you were moving back to Texas soon or someplace even hotter. But apparently they were mistaken because your address hasn’t changed.
    I see that the top thing on your Christmas list is 50,000 GI Joes. That’s a lot of soldiers, Georgie. I don’t think (…)