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Former Head Of Pentagon’s Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying From Illegal DU Use And Military’s Failure To Admit Responsibility After Maj. Doug Rokke went public in 1997 exposing the military’s flawed DU program, his life has been threatened but he still continues to search for solutions in order to save the lives of those afflicted.
By Greg Szymanski
Army Major Doug Rokke has been shot at, run off the road, threatened, harassed, black-balled, (…)

By FRANK RICH
CINDY SHEEHAN couldn’t have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" by going fishing. On this Aug. 6 the president was no less determined to shrug off bad news. Though 14 marine reservists had been killed days earlier by a roadside bomb in Haditha, (…)

Pro-war lobby rally at Bush ranch
by Jennifer Monroe
CRAWFORD, TX — (OfficialWire) — 08/22/05 — Supporters of the illegal war in Iraq and it’s aftermath, began arriving over the weekend in Crawford, Texas. About 350 members of the Texas chapter of FreeRepublic-passionate apologists of George W. Bush and the Bush administration-rolled past a large group of peace activists who have been camped-out near the president’s ranch for more than two weeks.
Not surprisingly though, none of these (…)

"Camp Casey is not a democratically run site out of sheer necessity. There has to be some control on the overall message coming out of Crawford." Socialists arrested for selling Howard Zinn Books, but they let PETA set up a tent, and the media loves it.
Camp Casey is being squashed by a flood of "fake left" leaders. If we want to save America, we need to analyze every statement and action by every "progressive" leader. Note to Cindy: many of your ’friends’ may be working for the wrong (…)

KARL ROVE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
A Satirical Rant
By Peter Fredson
August 21, 2005
I just finished a long compilation of reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, using several hundred files from the past 5 years. There were many reasons alleged, some of them humorous, and others reaching the edge of criminality. The reasons seemed to shift and multiply as the administration gradually realizes things are not going as well as it had hoped. Then a fellow blogger asked me to identify the reason I (…)

KABUL, Aug 20 (SANA): The Bush administration declared more than two years ago that major combat in Afghanistan was over, but despite this claim for the past four months, the U.S. paratroopers and other American units have been fighting a war thousands of feet up in the sun-blasted peaks and boulder-strewn defiles of one of history’s most grueling battlefields.
They’re facing guerrillas who were born here, hardened by poverty and backwardness, and steeped in a centuries-old tradition of (…)

The parents of the Brazilian man killed mistakenly by British anti-terror police in south London have reportedly turned down a compensation offer of 1 million pounds (1.8 million US dollars).
Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, parents of 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, have reportedly rejected the offer as an insult, Sky news reported on Saturday.
"We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced. This is not about money, this is about justice," they told the Daily Mail newspaper. (…)

By Victor Grossman, Berlin
One big hurdle has been overcome; the election officials in all 16 German states have ruled that the new party "The Left" (or the "Left.PDS") is entitled to a place on the ballot in the key September 16th election. Some opponents of the new party had raised constitutional objections and even plan to go to court if necessary - but their chances are now much slimmer.
The new party is a temporary sort of alliance - "sort of" because electoral alliances of two (…)

By Richard Rapaport
TO MICK, Keith, Charlie, and Ron: Many California fans who really Miss You have been Shattered by news that California Governor Schwarzenegger is Slipping Away to Spend the Night Together with you on Sunday at your opening show in Boston.
Don’t Start Me Up, but maybe you haven’t heard about Big Arnold’s scam to drag the Wild Horses of conservatism to your concert. They’ll be there to pony up beaucoup Brown Sugar because they believe California progressivism is (…)

Bush administration’s deception presented as ’honest error’
by Greg Lloyd Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/21/05 — Watching CNN’s program "Dead Wrong-Inside an Intelligence Meltdown", one is left with the impression that the Bush administration and the U.S. intelligence community were merely wrong; CNN called it a "meltdown" and referred to "mistakes", but throughout their hour-long PR-piece viewers are steered away from what really happened and encouraged to believe it [the (…)