Thousands Protest Bush, Iraq War in Salt Lake City

Thousands Protest Bush, Iraq War in Salt Lake City
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2,000 gathered to protest Bush administration policies and the war in Iraq while three blocks away, Bush spoke to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Iraqis Postpone Voting on Constitution
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People who have viewed the document said it includes vague language weakening Iraq's strong central government, enshrining a federalist system, and addressing how oil revenue is to be split between Baghdad and the provinces.

John Pilger | The Rise of the Democratic Police State
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Friedman's latest bark is about free speech, which his country's constitution is said to safeguard. According to John Pilger, Friedman wants the State Department to draw up a blacklist of those who make "wrong" political statements. He is referring not only to those who advocate violence, but those who believe American actions are the root cause of the current terrorism. The latter group, which he describes as "just one notch less despicable than the terrorists," includes most Americans and Britons, according to the latest polls.

James J. Zogby | Needed: Arab Leadership and Vision
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The Arab world is facing critical challenges in Iraq and Palestine. James Zogby states that passivity will not do, nor will merely blaming others, even if they justly deserve blame for having created these crises in the first place. It is past time for demonstrations of leadership and vision.

Thomas Pauken | Could It Be Bush's Watergate?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082305M.shtml
Karl Rove's favorite president is Richard Nixon. Thomas Pauken wonders what a twist of fate it would be if Rove were driven from power as Nixon was over what both men would consider trivial matters - the leaking of a CIA employee's name to reporters by Rove in 2004, and the Watergate break-in of the Democratic headquarters at the instigation of Nixon campaign officials in 1972.

No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program
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Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of US government experts and other international scientists has determined.

Iraq: The Unseen War
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This is a war the Bush administration does not want Americans to see. From the beginning, the US government has attempted to censor information about the Iraq war, prohibiting photographs of the coffins of US troops returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the number of Iraqis who have been killed. President Bush has yet to attend a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.

Robertson Urges the Assassination of Venezuela's President
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Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

New Abu Ghraib Images Far Worse than Originals
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There's a new batch of photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and these are reportedly far worse than the sickening originals. Naturally, the Pentagon is trying to block their release.