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By Nathalie Funès
"The world was deaf."
A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)

Cindy Sheehan a concerned parent waiting in the Texas sun for accountability from the President for going to war is not alone. The revolutionary council of concerned citizens (RCCC) is an attempt to focus the national debate on Informed Consent. The manifest for the revolution is a PowerPoint presentation commissioned by the Department of Defense (DOD) and prepared by three physicians, defining Informed Consent. Although Informed Consent is usually considered an individual contract it also (…)

By Robert Fisk
The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

by Wayne Besen
It is never easy being the second smartest person in the class. To be number two means that you get seductively close to the prize, before you inevitably plummet. This is what happened to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who consistently got outfoxed by President Bill Clinton.
In 1995, for example, Gingrich forced an unpopular government shutdown, which played right into Clinton’s hands. Frustrated by the cunning of his wily nemesis, a petulant Gingrich threw a defining (…)

By Miriam Martin Hands Off Venezuela Vancouver, Canada
It has been one year since the majority of Venezuelans voted in favour of President Chavez in the opposition-led recall referendum. The Vancouver Internationalist Bolivarian Circle “Bob Everton” teamed up with Hands Off Venezuela to throw a Victory Fiesta on Saturday August 13th to celebrate this important anniversary. Eighty people attended the celebration, representing a good number of Vancouver’s Latin American solidarity groups, (…)

Salutations,
Please forward widely
Cindy Sheehan’s son, Casey was killed in the Iraq War. She is turning her tragic loss into a relentless anti-war campaign that has brought her to Crawford, Texas to occupy a space outside G.W. Bush’s ranch until he agrees to speak with her. As I write this, supporters in Crawford have been harassed by the police, gone on huner strike and are in need of your support. Rumsfeld and Rice are expected to arrive at Crawford tomorrow to meet with G.W. Bush so (…)

U.S. military enlistment form should raise many serious questions
by Brian Richards
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/17/05 — Reading a current U.S. military enlistment form recently, I was surprised to discover that once enlisted and in the event of war, such as a war declared against a relative intangible such as ’terror’, an enlistee might never actually get out of the military.
Forget the fact that enlistees are required to serve a total of eight (8) years; combined active and (…)

Michael Wright —
Norman, Oklahoma USA
mpwright9@aol.com
Not long ago I posted this as a suggested chant for antiwar demonstrations:
"Excuse me, GWB
How many coffins will there be?"
It needs to be modified to this:
"Excuse me, GWB
How many coffins will we see?"
The reason is that, in the original version, B in the first line had the same sound as "be" in the second line; therefore there was no rhyme.
Now it rhymes !
See the summary of my 9/11 investigation: (…)

Drink-soaked Trotskyite popinjay slimes antiwar Mom
by Justin Raimondo
All the usual suspects are lining up to slime Cindy Sheehan: Mr. Smarm, AKA James Taranto; the pretentious twits over at Powerline blog; and of course Matt Drudge, who ought to make his role as a sounding board for the Republican National Committee official. Yet none of these worthies were really up to the task. Drudge took Sheehan’s statement after her first meeting with Bush out of context and was contradicted by (…)

by Mary MacElveen
With President Bush’s approval ratings in the dumpster the polling numbers reflect his ineffectiveness to lead this country in the right direction. You would think he would do something to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of Americans to gain back their trust. But this corrupt Polly Anna president of ours goes on day to day as if nothing is wrong.
There is something very wrong when this president when a mom of a fallen soldier camps outside his Crawford home pleading (…)