contributions

by Don Williams
This is what we’re up against.
If an unpleasant possibility rears its head in the real world-one that runs counter to pet policies of ideologues—they simply decree it isn’t so and move on. That’s how ideologues so often operate. Take these lines from a column that ran in newspapers, including this one Sept. 9. Charles Krauthammer wrote: “This kind of stupidity merits no attention whatsoever, but I’ll give it a paragraph. There is no relationship between global warming and (…)

For the last week Palestinians in Rafah were reminded of what was, what could be and what is, writes Graham Usher in Rafah
For seven days Palestinians in Gaza experienced life without borders, and borders without fear: that is, without Israel. Thousands streamed back and forth through the punctured walls, earthworks and fences that separate Egypt from Gaza or "Rafah Sinai" from "Rafah sumud," the most lethal front-line of the Intifada.
How the fortresses were breached depends on who you (…)

By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 24, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Faced with accusations that the Bush administration is stocking the government with unqualified cronies, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding up the nomination of a lawyer with little background in immigration or customs to head the law enforcement agency in charge of those issues.
Democrats have seized on the political fury (…)

Pass On * Repost * Worldwide * Hit Reply, Copy/Paste Soldier’s Open Letter to George W. Bush
by Michelle J. d’Entremont 2LT, US Army Reserves Engineer Corps
If you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention.
George Bush is going to go down in history as the President Who Destroyed America.
Oh sure, there were problems before he ever took office. Every nation has problems. But in the year 2000, the USA was at a fairly high point. The economy was growing. Science was moving (…)

Posted: Friday, Sep 23, 2005 - 12:05:19 pm PDT By JONATHAN M. KATZ
WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family.
In a statement released Friday, the Nashville-based company said federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York issued a subpoena for documents HCA believes are related to the sale of its (…)

President George W. Bush is now impeachable
by Joseph Hillier
June 21, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca
Brothers and sisters for peace, I had thought my years of political and anti-war activism were over. I am quite old now and dying of cancer, but events of the recent past require I at least try to offer some useful advice on how to achieve the glorious goals of those opposed to war and militarism. The cruel grasping hand of capitalism has never before been so effectively poised to place (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com The annual yearbook of the University of Oklahoma, located in Norman, is called Sooner. OU’s president is former U.S. Senator David Boren. The 2003 volume of Sooner devotes two pages to Ken Levit, currenty president of the OU campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sooner reports that Levit left his hometown of Tulsa in 1998 to work for CIA director George Tenet. In 2000 he returned to Tulsa, and was recruited by Boren for the OU (…)

Entire Text of President Chavez’ speech at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005 (in Spanish and English) By President Hugo Chavez Frias Sep 16, 2005, 20:52
Spanish Text from Agencia Bolivaria de Noticias followed by English Translation from VHeadline
English Translated at in the middle of the page Discurso del Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, en la Sexagésima Asamblea General de la Organización de Naciones Unidas ABN /2005
Enrique (…)

Dear Mrs. Cindy Sheehan
I am writing to you to express my sympathy for the loss of your son. As a father of couples of children, I know very well what it means to a mother to lose a son, and if that loss is for the welfare and benefits of humanity or not. Mr. Bush has raised war against Iraq for no legitimate reasons, since it was not backed by UN at its start. In the months that followed March 2003, it became clear to the world that the issue of weapons of mass destruction and relation (…)

Dear sirs, I am writing to you to draw your attention to the tens of Iraqis that are being killed every day by the air raids performed by USA troops in the Tal-Afar town west of Mosul. This town has around 300,000 inhabitant and about 90 Km from the border with Syria. These series of barbaric raids, which started few weeks ago, have been escalated recently. In the last two weeks 157 civilians have been killed and more than 680 were arrested according to military sources. However, actual (…)