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This deliberate manipulation of our news is more than outrageous - it’s a frontal assault on our democracy and is totally disrespectful of the American people.
You’re used to hearing television reporters give their signature tag lines: "In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting." "This is Jennifer Morrow reporting." "I’m Pat O’Leary reporting."
But these days, you can’t know if your news presenter is a reporter ... or a ringer. Karen Ryan, for example, is a veteran of the government’s (…)

After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different. "This is not a dictatorship," announced Senate minority leader Harry Reid. The new head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, declared, "The President neither has the mandate he thinks he has nor a majority to make policy." But three months of watching the Democrats’ stumbling, (…)

Diving Into falluja To Hell and Back with S.B. Documentary-Maker Mark Manning story by Nick welsh - images by mark manning
deep sea diver turned documentary filmmaker Mark Manning asked if I had six minutes to spare - a strange request, considering we’d already spent two hours talking about Manning’s recent trip to Falluja, the heart of Iraqâ??s bloody Sunni triangle. Six minutes more was nothing, so Manning queued up a short video of footage heâ??s shot in Iraq and hit play. (…)

Follow The Money Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
’Fraud-free zone’: Willis, center, in Iraq with two CPA colleagues, preparing to pay a contractor in 2003
NewsweekApril 4 issue - By many accounts, Custer Battles was a nightmare contractor in Iraq. The company’s two principals, Mike Battles and Scott Custer, overcharged occupation authorities by millions of dollars, according to a complaint from (…)

Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness--- the children, the age, the unprotected— be guarded by beneficial celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood The Prayer of Saint Francis (…)

The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI) this week found both Bush and Tony Blair guilty of a series of charges, and found they deserve life sentences for war crimes and genocide in Iraq.
The tribunal found Bush guilty on 13 counts, Blair guilty of eight crimes, Koizumi guilty on four counts and Arroyo guilty of aiding and abetting the other defendants of crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity, Abe said.
Bush is guilty of genocide for the use of "devastating" (…)

War crimes in IRAQ
I am writing to you calling for some efforts to stop the war going on in Iraq.
This war has caused the loss of more than 100,000 Iraqis ( according to a study published by the LANCET medical journal ( www.thelancet.com ) ) and more than 1528 Americans. Large violations of human rights have been committed against civilians in various towns of Iraq,( see for example the report " Beyond Torture ", www.cser.com ) . Those who were the cause for these losses and violations (…)

Does violence bring other than violence
The escalation of violence in Iraq has resulted in large numbers death among civilians. According to a study, published by the Lancet medical journal, the chance of violent death has increased by 58 folds after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The reasons for that escalation can be concluded from the following facts:
Prior to March 2003, large percentage of the Iraqis started to believe in the promises given by USA and (…)

Three weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. We speak with independent journalist Naomi Klein, who just returned from meeting with Sgrena in Rome. In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car (…)

There is growing agreement among antiwar activists that the Bush administration’s two main political vulnerabilities on Iraq are personnel issues and the cost of the war. To the extent that we agree on this, we need to devise strategies and tactics that aim at those vulnerabilities.
There is much good organizing on the first issue to celebrate, strengthen, and continue:
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Growing counter-recruitment work and conscientious objector support; *
Highlighting the (…)