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Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and it’s not all about Bush
by Kristen Lombardi Cindy Sheehan, the rising star of the anti-war movement, remembers when people used to think of her as one of those crazy activists, speaking out for a cause, inconveniencing all who stumbled onto her path. She remembers, from her days camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, how some drivers would shout out at her, “Get a job!”
Her (…)

Iraqis have accused British special forces of planning a terrorist attack on Basra.
Sheikh Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesperson for rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, told Socialist Worker that the two undercover soldiers seized by Iraqi police last Monday were armed with explosives and a remote control detonator.
The soldiers were disguised as members of Sadr’s militia, the Mehdi Army. The arrests sparked protests after British troops backed by tanks attempted to free the soldiers from an (…)

Saturday 17 September 2005, 8:12 Makka Time, 5:12 GMT Al-Kalesi said al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq’s Kurdish region
Al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric says in an interview.
Sheikh Jawad al-Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kadhimiyah mosque in Baghdad, told France’s Le Monde newspaper on Friday: "I don’t think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exists as such. He’s (…)

On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of ’Dome City.’ Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrested that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)
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Josh discusses the poor treatment of people evacuated to the (…)

By Lynn Landes
Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina’s death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?
Along that line, other things don’t add up. For instance, why did FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did (…)

Mississippi Delta Disaster: The Absence of a Viable Opposition in America No Direction Home
September 10, 2005 Moscow Times
Let’s be clear about one thing. Nothing that happened last week — the mass destruction in the Mississippi Delta, the obliteration of the city of New Orleans, the murderous abandonment of thousands of people to death, chaos and disease — will change the Bush Administration or American politics at all. Not one whit. President George W. Bush will not reverse his brutal (…)

Former 9-11 commissioner Timothy Roemer avoided answering questions, running like a scared rabbit when confronted by William Rodriguez, the WTC custodian who wanted to know why his dissenting testimony was omitted in the final report, during a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
“The 9-11 truth will be told. Bush and Cheney will be indicted for treason and murder. And immediately . . .the killing and illegal war in Iraq [will be stopped].”
These were the strong (…)

..."She’s Got A Tremendous Amount Of Experience In Money Laundering... Who The Hell Is Going To Enforce The Immigration Laws?"...
The Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Spencer S. Hsu | Posted September 20, 2005 07:49 AM
From washingtonpost.com
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration (…)

Recently I was studying some television news video which was broadcast in May 2004, after the beheading of Nick Berg. Greta Van Susterin of Fox News asked a good question when she wondered why Berg, who had attended Ivy League schools, would decide to enroll at the less distinguished University of Oklahoma. She was interviewing William Brunch, who did not have much of an answer. He described Berg as an "idealistic" and "eccentric" young man who "wanted to travel." He concluded, "We’re not (…)

September 20, 2005
(Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in the United States think George W. Bush has not formulated an explicit strategy for bringing an end to the coalition effort in Iraq, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 72 per cent of respondents believe their president has not developed a clear plan for getting American troops out of Iraq.
The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 1,899 American soldiers have (…)