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Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan
RAW STORY
Eighty-eight members of Congress have signed a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) calling on President Bush to answer questions about a secret U.S.-UK agreement to attack Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.
In a letter, Conyers and other members say they are (…)

A recent poll discovered that half of Americans know that the government intentionally lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. The actual figure is probably a lot higher since there is a large percentage of Americans still willing to let their neighbors’ children die than ever admit they were wrong to support the war in the first place. So, the majority of Americans know the government lied to create a war.
A majority of Americans now know there were no weapons of mass destruction (…)

You’d never know it by watching network and cable news, but we’re still involved in two wars that are, for all practical purposes, going down the crapper. Thank God "The Runaway Bride" is still planning on exchanging marital vows, because now a few hundred more armchair shrinks are free to gas-bag about her mental state 24/7, thus keeping her at the top of the vaudeville review sometimes called the news. And if the wedding goes bust? Well, we still have Michael Jackson’s circus to entertain (…)

by Wayne Besen
"The blood is in the water."
With these Soprano-like words, the right wing’s most fearsome sharks circled Magellan Health Services. Like Microsoft, only a week earlier, the ruthless killing machines quickly devoured the nation’s leading behavioral health company. Magellan was easy prey and surrendered to the savage attack so quickly, the Jaws music barely hit its first note.
Let me explain.
In March, Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who recently produced a video on ex-gays (…)

Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta
For the first time, an army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses at Guantánamo
Paul Harris in New York Sunday May 8, 2005 The Observer
An American soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.
Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing (…)

At least nine Iraqi journalists who worked for major Western news organizations have disappeared into the network of concentration camps in which the US military is holding an estimated 17,000 citizens of the occupied country, the French news agency AFP reported May 5 .../...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m07.shtml

In the latest South Florida election mishap, workers in 35 percent of Miami-Dade County’s 749 polling places last November filed counts of voter signatures that differed from the number of ballots cast on the touch-screen voting machines, a new analysis has found.
On Nov. 2, election workers in 260 polling places submitted data to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections office that did not match up with the total number of touch-screen ballots reported by the canvassing board, according to (…)

Success in Bethnal Green and Bow and a strong showing in other areas is only the begining of Respect’s political challenge, says Respect MP George Galloway
As the sun came up over Brick Lane on Friday a new dawn had truly broken over the East End of London - and over British politics.
The impact of Respect’s victory in Bethnal Green & Bow and our spectacular results elsewhere will only fully become apparent in the weeks and months to come.
But already we have some of the measure of (…)

Dear Qasim Salimi
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my e-mail. I write to you as a party member of 20 year’s standing. I campaigned, leafleted, door-stepped and generally assisted the Labour party at both local and national elections throughout the 1980s through to the mid-90s (when I left the UK to work overseas).
Having assiduously replied to each campaign e-mail emanating from your team, I was beginning to wonder if anyone really was taking the time to feel the pulse of the (…)

Congratulations to George Galloway of the Respect Party.Running on an Anti-Iraq War campaign,Mr.Galloway has won a sensational victory in the British general elections.This result is a bitter defeat for one of Tony Blair’prime supporters.