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Dear Friend:
As we gear up for the next phase of the struggle against the war in Iraq, we urge you to help us with the publication of an important book, We Wont Go: A Guide to Counter-Recruiting and Draft Resistance. What you do now can help make a big difference in the choices facing our youth and it can help to bring an end to the war.
Despite all of the the Pentagon’s high-tech equipment, the fact remains that they cannot fight their war without soldiers on the ground. This is (…)

Iraq: Bush’s Vietnam. We are coming together to build real unity in mass protest on September 24
The "Vietnam Syndrome" - that strange malady in which the people of the U.S. turn decisively against a U.S. war of aggression in a far away third-world country - is coming back, and the White House knows it. The warmakers today will learn, as they did during Vietnam, that it is impossible to sustain such a war as the people of the U.S. turn the issue of the war into an unending "domestic (…)

by PeopleJudgeBush
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
Luis Posada Carriles is a convicted international terrorist; yet the Bush Administration is protecting him and refusing to extradite him to Venezuela to stand trial for his crimes. In the meantime the US routinely violates international law: killing Iraqi civilians in an illegal war, imprisoning and torturing thousands of innocent people, acts which Amnesty International has condemned, as well as other crimes too numerous to (…)

by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA
There is a new threat to freedom in America. This threat does not come from any foreign government classified as an “enemy,” nor from any terrorist group or organization.
This threat comes from the Congress of the United States.
In 1989, in the case of TEXAS vs. JOHNSON, the United States Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag was a constitutionally protected form of protest under the First Amendment’s “freedom of speech” clause, (…)

HALLIDAY: ’’TO TOP OFF THE U.S./BRITISH LIES WAS THE CHARGE OF ATTACK ON THOSE TWIN TOWERS OF CAPITALISTIC GREED IN NEW YORK CITY’’
ISTANBUL, June 26 - Denis Halliday, who served between 1994-98 as Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, and was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the post of UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, said on Saturday, ’’to top off the U.S./British lies and rubbish was the charge of a close Iraqi linkage to ’al Qaeda’ and the attack on those Twin (…)

by John Prados
John Prados is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. He is author of Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War (The New Press).
The now-notorious Downing Street memos make it necessary to reframe the story of the aerial operations that took place before the war, with significant new conclusions emerging. It now appears that the United States, dragging a reluctant Great Britain behind it, executed a deliberate, purposeful (…)

Bush’s Credibility Takes a Direct Hit From Friendly Fire
For months, President Bush has struggled to maintain public support for the war in Iraq in the face of periodic setbacks on the battlefield. Now he faces a second front in the battle for public opinion: charges that the administration is not telling the truth about how the war is going.
Bush and his aides have delivered a positive, if carefully calibrated, message. The war is not yet won, they acknowledge, but steady progress is (…)

A new kind of Nuclear War
While we were brushing our teeth this morning, or staring into the refrigerator to decide what to have for breakfast, contemplating whether to get a new ring tone for the phone, and going about yet another uneventful day in our mundane, but hopefully pleasant, existance spare a thought for what was going on during those very moments of domestic routine in a land far away both geographically and mentally.
A nuclear war is being waged - not your typical nuclear (…)

’’IRAQ IS NOW WORSE THAN IT WAS UNDER SADDAM,’’
Iraqi Witness at the World Tribunal on Iraq
Istanbul, 26th June 2005 - Witnesses of the ongoing atrocities in Iraq testified before the Jury of Conscience at the World Tribunal on Iraq on the second day of the Tribunal. Their exposure of the impact of this war on Iraqis revealed a country that is facing worse conditions than under Saddam Hussein. In the words of Amal Sawadi, an Iraqi lawyer working for the defenceless in Iraq, ’ (…)

A few weeks ago, Dr. Taddy Blecher visited his favorite place: Jefferson County, Iowa.
Voted South Africa’s best speaker, Taddy has met with presidents (like Bill Clinton) of many countries, and inspired a large donation to his school from finance guru Suze Orman.
A leading business magazine: "Blecher is 35, going on 15. He is animated and entertaining, and in an interview, is more interested in helping his interviewer to improve his or her life than talking about himself. "Journalists (…)