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By George Nishiyama
HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms.
The anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing comes as regional powers continue talks in Beijing to urge North Korea to give up its nuclear programme, seen by Tokyo as a threat and one of the reasons behind rising calls in Japan to strengthen its (…)

By Jason Leopold
Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials’ oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from (…)

As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, “We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq.”
Just a two hour drive away in Dallas, at the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas, I’m sitting with a (…)

Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
Readers are invited to review my earlier post about the Oklahoma City television station suppressing its broadcast reporting that an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker was purchased from a University of Oklahoma (OU) library computer terminal. Before the news report, a librarian there had told me that the purchaser was a temporary library employee and not a hijacker. He was a white American male. The fact that he was never (…)

BUSH GETS A LECTURE FROM URIBE By Peter Fredson August 5, 2005 NEWS ITEM: “COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT MEETS BUSH
“U.S. President Bush met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez at the Bush ranch near Crawford, Texas on Thursday, August 4, 2005.”
“President Uribe expressed appreciation for U.S. support in fighting drug trafficking and insurgency in his country. He said he hopes the two countries will soon conclude talks aimed at creating a bilateral free trade agreement to bolster growth (…)

George Bush said speaking about the dreadful loss of life in Iraq in August: (08/03/05): "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause."
In reaction to these two assinine and hurtful statements, members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George’s vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements.
1) We want our (…)

IRAQ WAR: WHEN WILL THE KILLING STOP? By Congressman Charles Rangel
With the deaths of 21 Marines in two days this week, the body count of U.S. troops killed in Iraq rose dramatically to 1,815 and counting. Even as newspapers and TV stations broadcast the death toll, we were still counting on the churches, synagogues and mosques to show that they recognize the inhumanity of this immoral war.
Aren’t there passages in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah which command that killing for a (…)

By Nehemia Strasler
Israel is a corrupt country, at least according to the accepted norms of the Western world, the latest World Bank report released this week concluded. On every count, we ranked worse than the average in the West. Israel is regarded as a state with an unstable regime, bloated bureaucracy, high levels of corruption in government, and a low rate of law enforcement.
Israeli bureaucracy is notorious worldwide. International investors are prevented from investing here (…)

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The State Prosecutor’s office has received a police file which alleges that PM Sharon’s family improperly received more than one million shekels from the Israel Land and Development (ILD) firm.
Police investigators completed their probe and transferred the findings to the State Prosecution on Tuesday. The file contains suspicions that PM Ariel Sharon’s Sycamore Ranch illegally received $325,000 in 1999 from ILD, headed by Ya’akov Nimrodi, in return for options to (…)

Editor’s Note: As of August 4, 2005, 1,821 American troops and between 22,500 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the war in Iraq. Domestically, the bill for the war has reached $204.6 billion.
This is the first in a continued series of profiles of some of the tens of thousands of Iraq War veterans who have come home bearing the scars of battle — emotional and physical wounds that may never heal unless the nation pays them the attention and care that they deserve. We at (…)