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By Jeremy Hudson
jehudson@clarionledger.com
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops’ relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq - north of Baghdad - because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
Sgt. McCook, a deputy (…)

by Jane Stillwater
According to James Howard Kunstler in a new video entitled, "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream," when the world’s oil supply runs out, American suburbs are doomed. Without gas, suburbs will become "the slums of the future."
That’s a dreary thought.
Bush is always telling us that Al Qaeda is about to jump our bones.
Now this futurist is telling us that suburbia is doomed.
Where is the good news?
Who in corporate America is (…)

by Frederick Sweet
Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases. According to an officer, their living conditions were so unacceptable for injured soldiers he said they "were being treated like dogs." Then the Pentagon underreported the number wounded.
The Bush administration, referring to veterans of the war in Iraq, told a House panel that they would avoid last year’s "mistakes" of leaving sick and injured troops (…)

Robert Acosta lost his arm when his Humvee was attacked in Iraq. (NYT Photo/Ruth Fremson)
WASHINGTON - A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush’s case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.
First aired hours before the last presidential debate between Republican Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the ad shows a U.S. Iraq war veteran talking about the (…)

Pentagon uses depleted uranium shells in its raid against Iraq
Increased radioactivity was found in destroyed and abandoned Iraqi tanks. The radiation level may testify to the fact that the US army used uranium-cored projectiles in the raids. Japan’s Kyodo News agency reported from Baghdad, a group of specialists had found several radioactive tanks in the area of the Iraqi town of Samawa, where the Japanese contingent was stationed.
The abandoned military hardware is dangerous to (…)

The scandal of George Bush’s earpiece debate cheating device continues to grow.
I just got a look at the full Fox tape of President Bush’s May ’04 joint news conference with French President Jaques Chirac. In that tape, as in several other tapes I’ve seen, Bush can be heard seemingly getting prompting from another voice. About 12 seconds into the piece, the leading voice says, "And I look forward to working to" Bush comes in with "And I look workin’And I look forward to workin’ to" The (…)

by TIM ELFRINK
Thousands of anti-war and anti-globalization activists marched through central London and filled Trafalgar Square on Sunday to protest the U.S.-led coalition’s presence in Iraq.
The march marked the culmination of the third European Social Forum - three days of speeches, workshops and debates largely dominated by Iraq and the U.S. presidential election.
Marchers carried signs reading World’s No. 1 Terrorist’’ over a picture of President Bush. British Prime Minister Tony (…)

’It’s important to stay in the fight’
by RON MENCHACA
A young Marine stares confidently at the camera, partially committed to a smile, brown eyes frozen in the mental dance common among ambitious young people plotting a course in life.
Charleston native James Campbell peers down at the picture, taken in 1944 shortly after he was drafted for World War II, and shakes his head.
Now 79, bearded and gray, the lifelong educator and labor and civil rights activist can’t help but reflect on (…)

Was President Bush wired during the debates? This ’conspiracy theory’ gained traction on the net due to the now infamous picture of a rectangular bulge under Bush’s jacket. But the story doesn’t end with the bulge, there is much more evidence that Bush is using an earpiece than just the picture. Here’s what we know so far:
John Reynolds noticed that Bush said, "let me finish" to nobody in particular 60 seconds into a 90 second answer. And it’s _the way_ he says it, sort of a mutter under (…)

Since 1993, AC! (Act together against unemployment and precarity) has been developing solidarity, social self-defence practices, self-training, and collective action for an alternative national and international wealth redistribution. The AC! network links the workers and the unemployed, or those in further education, those with unfixed contracts or the precarious, pensioners, trade unionists and solidarity organisations fighting against the precarisation of society. The AC! collectives have (…)