A Time to Break Silence

Charge Him or Release Him

Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 295 Days

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A Time to Break Silence

For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

By Rev. Martin Luther King

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."

Listen to this speech in full
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

http://snipurl.com/a0hu

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Militant Group Kills Three Arab Drivers in Iraq:

The Army of Ansar al-Sunna shot dead three Arab drivers in Iraq and posted an Internet videotape of the killings on Tuesday.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=622127

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US admits killing Arab journalists in Iraq:

The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier this month.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8396.htm

http://snipurl.com/dq2z

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US soldier faces 20 years in jail for killing Iraqi driver :

A US soldier went on trial in Germany yesterday accused of killing a critically injured Iraqi man.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1447213,00.html

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U.S. Soldiers Accused Of Raping Iraqi Women Escape Prosecution:

The soldiers were from the same military unit whose troops fired on the car carrying freed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8399.htm

http://snipurl.com/dq31

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"I can't go back to Iraq": says Anderson.

"You can't have a normal life after killing innocent people."
http://dominionpaper.ca/accounts/2005/03/28/i_cant_go_.html

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Sunni Leader Insists on Timetable for U.S. Withdrawal:

Mr. Dari made clear that he would continue to view the armed resistance as legitimate until the American military offered a clear timetable for its withdrawal - a condition very unlikely to be met.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8400.htm

http://snipurl.com/dq32

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Radical Iraqi Cleric's Follower Calls for Million-Strong Anti-US Demo:

A follower of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for a million-strong demonstration in Iraq to demand a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.
http://snipurl.com/dq33

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Iraqi parliament in uproar over stalemate :

Iraq's parliament erupted in acrimony at its second sitting on Tuesday and journalists were thrown out after lawmakers berated leaders for failing to agree on a new government, two months after historic elections.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1112097963493B262

http://snipurl.com/dq34

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Iraqi Parliament Adjourns in Disarray :

Government Fails to Form Two Months After Elections
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8401.htm

http://snipurl.com/dq38

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Journalists kicked out of Iraqi parliament:

Prime Minister Iyad Allawi walked out of a meeting of Iraq’s parliament on Tuesday after angry scenes erupted, with assembly members berating Shiite and Kurdish leaders for failing to agree on a government. The speaker of parliament ordered journalists to leave and declared the meeting would be held in secret
http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=166637

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A Life Changed by War:

In surgery, his carotid artery burst, leading to a massive stroke. An infection caused swelling, and doctors were forced to remove the right side of his brain.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/06/ln/ln05p.html

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Report Assails C.I.A. for Failure on Iraq Weapons:

The report particularly ridicules the conclusion that Mr. Hussein's fleet of "unmanned aerial vehicles," which had very limited flying range, posed a major threat. All of those assertions were repeated by Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other senior officials in the prelude to the war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8397.htm

http://snipurl.com/dq39

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Fight To Survive :

This site is the mouthpiece for a group of soldiers who are fighting in a war they oppose for a president they didn't elect while the petrochemical complex turns the blood of their fallen comrades into oil
http://ftssoldier.blogspot.com/2004/11/holiday-in-falluja_19.html

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Iraq Veterans Against the War:

We, the veterans of the war, now know all of these reasons for invading the sovereign country of Iraq were false, and we have paid a heavy price for these lies.
http://www.ivaw.net/

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Approaching Spiritual Death : Martin Luther King, Jr. foresaw Americas spiritual death.

Dr. King was right about a lot of things, including his prophecy that America was losing its soul. Violence of all types in epidemic, especially the violence of poverty. Gun violence, from homicide to suicide, is all too common.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8405.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6phng

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Iraq War Is Top Problem For Americans :

According to a poll by CBS News. 26 per cent of respondents say the military operation is the most important problem facing the country today.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6525

http://tinyurl.com/63lz7

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Romanians Kidnapped in Iraq Sent Desperate Message
http://tinyurl.com/6943y

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Romanians Want Soldiers Withdrawn From Iraq :

Many Romanians believe their country’s participation in the Iraq war must come to an end, according to a poll by the Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology. 55 per cent of respondents believe Romania should not have a military presence in Iraq.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6533

http://tinyurl.com/5gjzt

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U.S. confirms officials met with exiled Syrian dissidents :

The State Department has confirmed that U.S. officials met with exiled Syrian dissidents here last week but denied that the talks had focused on prospects for replacing the Damascus regime.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/29/news/oppose.html

http://tinyurl.com/6rbte

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Lebanon PM Expected to Resign in Two Days:

Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister is expected to step down this week after he failed to persuade opposition figures to join a government that could run the country until elections in May.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8024703

http://tinyurl.com/4rndk

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Rice Alarms Reformist Arabs with Stability Remarks:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has alarmed many reformist Arabs with comments suggesting a new U.S. approach that promotes rapid political change without regard for internal stability.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=8022839&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

http://tinyurl.com/6e4jc

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US draws up list of unstable countries:

US intelligence services are drawing up a secret watch-list of 25 countries in which instability might lead to US intervention
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8395.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6ag7g

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US scatters bases to control Eurasia :

The United States is beefing up its military presence in Afghanistan, at the same time encircling Iran. Washington will set up nine new bases in Afghanistan in the provinces of Helmand, Herat, Nimrouz, Balkh, Khost and Paktia.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GC30Ag01.html

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Our new nightmare: the United States of America:

Australians are as just as concerned about United States foreign policy as Islamic extremism and regard the US as more dangerous than a rising China, according to a new poll.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8398.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3kvu3

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Military Pollution:The Quintessential Universal Soldier:

As children, we were taught that the military protected us in times of war. We learned about soldiers being killed and wounded by 'the enemy', and how people died if they got shot or if a bomb landed on them. Sometimes innocent people got killed during a war, but the fact that most victims were civilians was carefully hidden from us by our elders
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8394.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3j7ag

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59 American Ex-Diplomats Oppose Bolton:

Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=620746

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Netanyahu slams pullout, urges formalized control of W. Bank :

Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticized the disengagement plan Tuesday, saying it set a precedent for withdrawing without receiving anything in return, and advocated a formalization of Israeli control over the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/558385.html

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Israel: Their best defence :

Israel has no choice but to withdraw from the West Bank - not to indulge the Palestinians but to save itself
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8403.htm

http://tinyurl.com/4qb95

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Israel maintaining 'strangulation' policy in Gaza Strip :

The report, titled "One Big Prison," documents what the organization says are Israel's violations of human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/558349.html

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177 Palestinian Prisoners Killed Since 1967:

Planning and Statistics Department of the Ministry said in ,a statistical report, 69 Palestinian prisoners (39%) were killed due to being liable to severe torture whilst 37 prisoners (20.9%) died due to the lack of medical health care.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=3554

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Absolute monarchy to absolute democracy :

King Gyanendra has taken the people of Nepal on a disastrous course, using the excuse of fighting an insurgency to compromise democracy.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC30Df06.html

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Gunmen ambush police in Haiti’s capital, killing two officers and a driver:

The charred remains of one officer sat inside the car, while the bullet-riddled bodies of another officer, his pants burned off his body, and the driver lay on the ground nearby.
http://www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3499

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Chilean leader calls for more flexible OAS:

Chile's socialist president has called for a radical overhaul of the Organisation of American States, saying the most important regional organisation in the Americas must be “faster, more responsive and more flexible”.
http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5353

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Brazil: “No longer to subordinate to IMF”:

Brazil announced Monday that it will not renew the stand-by credit agreement it signed with the IMF in September 2002 because the good shape of the national economy makes it superfluous
http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5351

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Report: No proof Annan knew of deal bid:

Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq said Tuesday there was not enough evidence to show that Secretary-General Kofi Annan knew of a contract bid by his son's employer.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/11258153.htm

http://tinyurl.com/59otk

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A weak man who bends to power, not political vision :

Tony Blair is psychologically incapable of building a fairer society
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1447014,00.html

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UK trebles military exports to China :

THE value of UK arms exports to China has more than trebled to more than £100m in the past three years alone, it emerged last night.
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=323812005

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Paul Krigman: What's Going On?:

We can't count on restraint from people like Mr. DeLay, who believes that he's on a mission to bring a "biblical worldview" to American politics, and that God brought him a brain-damaged patient to help him with that mission.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8402.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6sggl

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In case you missed it:

Playing God :

Given the vehemence with which he has been fighting to prolong Terri's life, it is a little surprising to learn that Robert decided to turn off the life-support system for his mother.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1077219,00.html

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US court mulls death row Mexicans :

The US Supreme Court is hearing a case that could decide the fate of 51 Mexicans on death row who say that their rights were denied.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4388419.stm

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Spying on citizens:

The American tradition of free speech is under attack across the country, as law enforcement agencies -- under the guise of the war on terror -- intimidate ordinary citizens into silence.
http://tinyurl.com/4ak7e

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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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