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By Ghali Hassan
Under the cover of "war on terror", the US and its "coalition" of lackeys are conducting a war of injustice, abuse of human rights and atrocities of enormous magnitude against defenceless people, and in violation of international laws and norms of civilized nations. The war on terror is not really a war on terrorism per se, because you cannot wage war on few criminals. To bring criminals to justice, you use the law and due process. The American "war on terror" is a (…)

Dennis, I am truly wondering, how are we supposed to have hope now? John Kerry has promised to continue this illegal immoral war and did not provide the much needed checks and balances to prevent the war. Did you happen to see how many innocent Iraqis died yesterday as you gave John Kerry a pass?
If you were the candidate, this election would over by now. The only thing lending Bush credibility is John Kerry’s utter lack of ability to take a stand on what is the most important (…)

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
The smell of the dead pours into the street through the air-conditioning ducts. Hot, sweet, overwhelming. Inside the Baghdad morgue, there are so many corpses that the fridges are overflowing. The dead are on the floor. Dozens of them. Outside, in the 46C (114F) heat, Qadum Ganawi tells me how his brother Hassan was murdered.
"He was bringing supper home for our family in Palestine Street but he never reached our home. Then we got a phone call saying we could (…)

by Dave Stratman
It used to be said during the Cold War that, "If the Communist threat did not exist, the US would have to invent it." The threat of nuclear war and the notion of a Communist (or capitalist) under every bed provided American and Soviet ruling elites excellent means to frighten and control their own citizens, justify enormous arms expenditures, and legitimize power projection abroad in the name of saving the world from Communism (or capitalism).
The same thing can be said (…)

BAGHDAD
* Iraqi driver freed
* Group sends videotape to Al Jazeera
A militant group holding two Pakistani contractors hostage said on Wednesday it had killed the men, but freed their Iraqi driver, according to the Pan-Arab television station Al Jazeera.
The group, calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq, announced in a video recording on Monday that it had kidnapped two Pakistanis working for US forces and had sentenced them to death because their country was discussing sending (…)

By Greg Moses July 28, 2004 Like environmentalists looking back on James Watt, or peace activists looking back on the draft, lefty organizers realize they will lose something if they lose Bush in November. Question is: will electing Kerry be worth the cost? While many leftists answer with a resounding no, Andy Stern this week, in a pair of reports clipped and distributed by the Portside list, answers no, and yes. On the no side, Stern tells David Broder that a Bush defeat will leave (…)

by Tom Barry Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center
(IRC) www.americaspolicy.org Can we look forward to a "New Community of the Americas," as candidate John Kerry has promised, in a Kerry-Edwards administration? Unlikely. Will U.S.-Latin American relations improve under a Democrat administration? Very likely, given how badly relations have deteriorated under the current Republican administration. When outlining his own policy agenda for Latin America and the (…)

Marilyn Clement The Campaign For A National Healthcare Program Now!
CNHPnow.org What would you say to a health care system that provides for primary care physicians, specialists, prescription drugs, mental health care, drug treatment, long term care, and optical and dental care for everybody? That would be the Conyers bill H.R. 676. And it will cost most 95% of us less money than we are now paying. Who would pay more? The answer is easy—the guys who got the big Bush tax breaks. Come (…)

By FOX BUTTERFIELD The number of Americans under the control of the criminal justice system grew by 130,700 last year to reach a new high of nearly 6.9 million, according to a Justice Department report released today. The total includes people in jail and prison as well as those on probation and parole. This is about 3.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, the report said. The growth in what the report termed the "correctional population" comes at a time when the (…)

By Andrew Cawthorne
Laughing British soldiers tortured Iraqi detainees by beating and kicking them, pouring freezing water on their heads and forcing them to recite names of English and Dutch football stars, a court heard on Wednesday.
The accusations — which throw the spotlight back on troop behavior in the U.S.-led occupation — came from an Iraqi witness at London’s High Court where families of six dead civilians have launched a test case against UK soldiers.
"The soldiers appeared (…)