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Debbie Roath’s husband is an Army reservist who spent 15 months in Iraq fighting a war that neither of them believed in. Roath, a pastor at a small church in Slater, Missouri, is now leading the effort to bring more information about the military to students at her daughter’s high school in the nearby town of Marshall. “I feel my husband and many, many other soldiers were used for the financial gain of those in power,” says the 41-year-old mother of five “I find a lot of scriptural support (…)

"Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out," he told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. "The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he’s there."
An American pullout could endanger the United States in any of three ways, Dean said: by leaving a Shiite theocracy worse than that in Iran, which he called a more (…)

Backing Democrats has pulled the antiwar movement to the right Why “inside-outside” is getting nowhere
ELIZABETH SCHULTE explains why the antiwar movement has to remain independent from the Democratic Party.
FOR OPPONENTS of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there was a big question hanging in the air in the wake of the 2004 election. How could George Bush—the man behind the war that so many people protested—be re-elected?
Unfortunately, many on the left have offered answers that are less (…)

From Rob Maguire of Project Communis, we learn that "Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of former dictator Pol Pot’s political enemies were killed, handing it over to a Japanese company to run as a memorial" ("’Killing Fields’ Gravesite Privatized in Cambodia," CBC News 4 Apr. 2005).
Some Japanese, like some Americans, often cluelessly ask, "Why do they hate us?" Most of "them" probably don’t hate the Japanese people (nor the American people), but many have a very good (…)

By Diana Lee
We don’t need to ask experts to know that our planet is slipping into a deep crisis. We see daily news of people dying from increasing natural disasters all over the world - floods, hurricanes, storms, droughts, heat waves, and earthquakes. We feel the weather in each approaching season getting extreme - hotter, colder, dryer, or wetter. We hear reports of an alarming rate of animal, insect, and plant species on the brink of extinction. And we fear the spread of deadly (…)

In 2004 the US-based scientist Dr Les Roberts led a survey into deaths caused by the invasion of Iraq. His results showed that approximately 100,000 Iraqis had been killed after the invasion. He spoke to Joseph Choonara about his survey
Your research on mortality in Iraq, published in the prestigious Lancet journal, made headlines across the globe last November. What motivated you to conduct the survey?
This is about the ninth “hot war” I’ve worked in. In most wars people are killed more (…)

Apr 20 - A series of e-mail messages between Army interrogators and intelligence officers in Iraq during 2003 — in which soldiers advocated the use of brutal interrogation techniques such as low voltage electric shock and beatings with phone books — appears to have helped spawn the widespread torture and abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces.
The Washington Post reports that an August 2003 e-mail sent to US interrogators by Captain William Ponce, an officer at Army headquarters in Baghdad, (…)

THE 9/11 "MISSILE HITS THE PENTAGON" HOAX.
There has been a concerted effort to convince those that disbelieve the official 9/11 fable, to believe another, even stranger, fable. Namely, that the damage to the Pentagon was caused by a missile strike. Why the perpetrators of 9/11 want to spread this missile myth is not at all clear, as even a cursory investigation of the facts, makes it clear that it was not hit by a missile. Maybe the reason they are doing this is to tar the disbelievers (…)

David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.
Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.
A retired Christian theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30 (…)

Iraqi deputies have demanded an official apology from Washington over the manhandling by US soldiers of an MP at a Baghdad checkpoint.
Deputies suspended their session on Tuesday for an hour in protest against the incident involving Fatah al-Shaikh, a follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and member of the dominant United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) bloc, Aljazeera reported.
They then voted unanimously on a motion demanding an official apology from the US embassy and Washington, and the (…)