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Military Families to Join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
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Military Families to Join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905Q.shtml
More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August. T r u t h o u t will be sending William Rivers Pitt to Crawford to cover this expanding story. Stay tuned for updates.
Drug Researchers Leak Secrets to Wall Street
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905R.shtml
Doctors testing new drugs are sworn to keep their research secret until drug companies announce the final results. But elite Wall Street firms - looking to make quick profits - have found a way to harvest these secrets: They pay doctors to divulge the details early.
Amanda Griscom Little | Selling Out the Environment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EA.shtml
Four years, two failed conference attempts and one filibuster after the Republican leadership first introduced the Bush-backed energy bill into Congress, the controversial legislation was signed into law Monday by the president, yielding a major victory for the White House - and exposing the continued inability of Democrats to rally around a unified vision and stay on message.
Court: Tongass Log Plan Flawed
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EB.shtml
In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has tossed out a management plan for the Tongass National Forest, saying the government erroneously doubled the amount of old growth timber that could be logged from the huge Southeast Alaska forest.
US Court Rejects Effort to Block Rules on Mercury Pollution
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EC.shtml
An effort by environmental groups to block the President George W. Bush's administration from implementing its new regulations on mercury pollution power plants was rejected by a federal appeals court. Without comment, Judges David Sentelle and Janice Rogers Brown of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a motion for an immediate halt to the regulations, adopted in March by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905HA.shtml
The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other major cancer. But why the numbers are increasing is a contentious subject, so touchy that one dermatologist called it "the third rail of dermatology."
West Nile Virus Season Arrives
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905HB.shtml
Public health officials in Arlington County last week reported finding mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus in two traps in the county's northern region. "Finding these [infected] mosquito pools is important because we know the virus is active now," said Aftab Hussain, vector control supervisor at the Arlington County Environmental Health Bureau. This means the chance that people will get bitten by infected mosquitoes has increased, he said.
Wal-Mart Fights to Split Sex Bias Suit
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905LA.shtml
Wal-Mart tried Monday to derail the nation's largest-ever discrimination suit, arguing that a single trial on the claims of 1.6 million women would be neither fair nor manageable. But the retailing giant got little apparent sympathy from a three-member federal appeals court. At issue is whether Wal-Mart must defend against lawsuits by six individual plaintiffs or against a single, colossal class action on behalf of nearly every woman who has worked at one of its 3,400 stores nationwide since December 26, 1998.
Iraqi Women Urge Limited Sharia in New Constitution
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905WA.shtml
At a meeting of prominent Iraqi women concerned that Islam will be enshrined in Iraq's constitution, one of the things they asked for provided a surprising glimpse of just where Iraq's winds of political change are heading. While they demanded equal rights and an express ban on violence against women, it was a joint statement by the 16 women that raised eyebrows: "The Islamic sharia should be one of the sources of law."
Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
===================================
Four in 9/11 Plot Are Tied to Qaeda in '00
By DOUGLAS JEHL
More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9714.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwv
===
A Look Into the Mirror
Whether we like it or not, the nation’s capital is the mirror image of the rest of the country
By Manuel Valenzuela
Washington, like ancient Rome before it, has become, through the course of years breathing the airs of moral degeneration, corruption and greed, the monument for all that is wrong with the nation it represents, a new symbol of debauchery and immorality, a decadent city on a hill whose once noble foundations are now cracking under the weight of unscrupulous entities and malfeasant activities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9713.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwx
===
Globalization And Its Discontents
By Saul Landau
In my America, shopping is the universal spiritual value. Maybe add flag waving and barbecues! But globalization means spreading a culture of corporate brand names and 24/7 sales pitches. Rogue States who refuse to embrace this order are targets of regime change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9711.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwz
===
It Has No Other Name: Neo-racism
By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Humanity has paid a high price fighting racism and discrimination over centuries; how could we loose the battle today to similar ideologies covered up in the cloaks of "freedom" and "democracy?"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9710.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx0
===
Counting The Dead:
BAGHDAD: 10 Iraqi policemen were shot dead in five separate attacks in Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Three Iraqis were killed by a suicide car bomb. BAQUBA - Three pilgrims were killed and eight injured when gunmen sprayed their minivan with gunfire. ABU KHAMIS - Two people were burned to death when insurgents stopped their truck and set fire to it . LATIFIYAH - Two Iraqi civilians were killed and a third critically wounded when gunmen fired on their car. HILLA - Gunmen killed a former officer in Saddam Hussein's Baath party. BAGHDAD - One police commando was killed and another injured by an explosion. BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed when gunmen attacked their shop.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU946822.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx1
===
Suicide Blast Kills 7 Including U.S. Soldier: :
A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy near a crowded square in Baghdad, killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldie. A U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Division also was killed Monday in action by small arms fire in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0805/250429.html
http://snipurl.com/gtx2
===
Four Iraqi soldiers killed Tuesday morning in a bomb explosion in Samarra
http://snipurl.com/gtx4
===
Analysis: Iraq statistics tell grim story:
If the US Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9712.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx5
====
Baghdad mayor 'ousted by gunmen' :
Baghdad's mayor has been sacked by the Iraqi government, in circumstances that he has described as "dangerous" and "undemocratic".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4135060.stm
http://snipurl.com/gtx6
===
Iraqi soldiers fear leaving training base:
"We're all afraid. I can't go outside the base wearing these military clothes," says Sergeant Abbas, listing colleagues who have fallen victim to relentless insurgent attacks in the dusty towns and highways north of Baghdad.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1432950.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx7
===
Killings of civilians by U.S. troops angers Iraqi government :
"The reason they shot us is just because the Americans are reckless," the general said from his hospital bed hours after the July 6 shooting, his head wrapped in a white bandage. "Nobody punishes them or blames them."
http://snipurl.com/gtx8
===
U.S. and Iraqi forces prevent Syrian trucks from crossing border:
Iraqi and U.S. forces stopped more than 700 Syrian trucks from returning to Syria after unloaded produce and other merchandise in Iraq
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=17479
http://snipurl.com/gtx9
===
U.S. reportedly planning to boost troop levels to 160,000 in Iraq
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=345817
http://snipurl.com/gtxa
===
Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow:
The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9721.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxb
===
Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Bush Is A Liar:
A Gallup survey last week found that a majority of Americans - 51 percent - now believe that Bush "deliberately misled the people when he asserted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
http://snipurl.com/gtxc
===
Cindy Sheehan's diary: Camp Casey Day 3-
The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9718.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxd
===
Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine:
It's truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi's Salt March to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win -- when truth and justice is on his or her side.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html
http://snipurl.com/gtxe
===
King George wouldn't see us:
A Report from the Vigil in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9716.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxf
===
Sheehan Draws Tears of Support:
When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.”
http://peacefile.org/wordpress/?p=222
===
To All Conscious Americans:
Get Thy Ass to CRAWFORD !!!
http://benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=329
http://snipurl.com/gtxg
===
Tragic price of war: Who pays?:
Dr. Reinhardt said the majority of Americans are insulated from the human pain and financial cost, thus it’s easy for them to back the war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9719.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxh
===
In case you missed it:
Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?:
Should anyone be surprised by this national resolve, given that these wars visit no sacrifice of any sort -- neither blood nor angst nor taxes -- on well over 95 percent of the American people?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9720.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxj
===
Depleted uranium is WMD:
I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium
is very, very, very nasty stuff:
http://snipurl.com/fqi6
===
Cruel Confinement of ‘Enemy Combatant’ in United States:
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/08/usdom11612.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxl
===
Army Whistleblower Draws Fire :
She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right in this staggeringly profitable business.
http://snipurl.com/gtxm
===
Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/08/05:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/gtxn
===
Bombings survivor hits out at political rhetoric:
An Australian who survived last month's bombings in London has criticised the political rhetoric that has followed them
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433926.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxp
===
Secret courts for terror cases :
Security-cleared judges would decide how long suspects could be held
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1545404,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/gtxq
===
Radical cleric flees Britain after threat of treason trial :
Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the Islamic extremists who faced possible treason charges over support for the London bombers, has fled to Lebanon
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article304734.ece
http://snipurl.com/gtxs
===
George Monbiot: The new chauvinism :
I'm not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other
http://snipurl.com/gtxu
===
17 Taliban, US soldier die in ambush:
At least 17 Afghan fighters and one US soldier were killed in a fierce clash in southern Afghanistan near the troubled Pakistan border, the US military said on Tuesday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433926.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxp
===
War Pimp Alert:
Rumsfeld says Iranian weapons found in Iraq :
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that weapons "unambiguously from Iran" have been found in Iraq, and said it was "unhelpful" of Teheran to allow such weapons to cross the border.
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=050809173710.fd38mnjq.php
http://snipurl.com/gtxx
===
Bush Suspicious of Iran's Nuke Ambitions
Bush said that if Iran does not cooperate, United Nations sanctions are ``a potential consequence.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5200345,00.html
http://snipurl.com/gtyq
===
Russia urges Iran to act prudently :
"The only power generating unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been fully supplied with Russian fuel. We have all the necessary agreements."
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050809/41124170.html
http://snipurl.com/gtyn
===
CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims :
The CIA asked the Netherlands not to detain Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan for stealing nuclear secrets from a Dutch facility, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers has claimed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9717.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxy
===
Robert Dreyfuss: The Israeli Spy Affair: Bigger Than AIPAC:
Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9715.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxz
===
Why AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Rove :
The Franklin indictment is a sign that Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050808/cm_thenation/311020
http://snipurl.com/gty1
===
The silence of the Jewish leaders :
An indictment was issued aga
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905Q.shtml
More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August. T r u t h o u t will be sending William Rivers Pitt to Crawford to cover this expanding story. Stay tuned for updates.
Drug Researchers Leak Secrets to Wall Street
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905R.shtml
Doctors testing new drugs are sworn to keep their research secret until drug companies announce the final results. But elite Wall Street firms - looking to make quick profits - have found a way to harvest these secrets: They pay doctors to divulge the details early.
Amanda Griscom Little | Selling Out the Environment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EA.shtml
Four years, two failed conference attempts and one filibuster after the Republican leadership first introduced the Bush-backed energy bill into Congress, the controversial legislation was signed into law Monday by the president, yielding a major victory for the White House - and exposing the continued inability of Democrats to rally around a unified vision and stay on message.
Court: Tongass Log Plan Flawed
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EB.shtml
In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has tossed out a management plan for the Tongass National Forest, saying the government erroneously doubled the amount of old growth timber that could be logged from the huge Southeast Alaska forest.
US Court Rejects Effort to Block Rules on Mercury Pollution
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EC.shtml
An effort by environmental groups to block the President George W. Bush's administration from implementing its new regulations on mercury pollution power plants was rejected by a federal appeals court. Without comment, Judges David Sentelle and Janice Rogers Brown of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a motion for an immediate halt to the regulations, adopted in March by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905HA.shtml
The nation is in the grip of what looks like a terrifying melanoma epidemic: melanoma is being diagnosed at more than double the rate it was in 1986, increasing faster than any other major cancer. But why the numbers are increasing is a contentious subject, so touchy that one dermatologist called it "the third rail of dermatology."
West Nile Virus Season Arrives
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905HB.shtml
Public health officials in Arlington County last week reported finding mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus in two traps in the county's northern region. "Finding these [infected] mosquito pools is important because we know the virus is active now," said Aftab Hussain, vector control supervisor at the Arlington County Environmental Health Bureau. This means the chance that people will get bitten by infected mosquitoes has increased, he said.
Wal-Mart Fights to Split Sex Bias Suit
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905LA.shtml
Wal-Mart tried Monday to derail the nation's largest-ever discrimination suit, arguing that a single trial on the claims of 1.6 million women would be neither fair nor manageable. But the retailing giant got little apparent sympathy from a three-member federal appeals court. At issue is whether Wal-Mart must defend against lawsuits by six individual plaintiffs or against a single, colossal class action on behalf of nearly every woman who has worked at one of its 3,400 stores nationwide since December 26, 1998.
Iraqi Women Urge Limited Sharia in New Constitution
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905WA.shtml
At a meeting of prominent Iraqi women concerned that Islam will be enshrined in Iraq's constitution, one of the things they asked for provided a surprising glimpse of just where Iraq's winds of political change are heading. While they demanded equal rights and an express ban on violence against women, it was a joint statement by the 16 women that raised eyebrows: "The Islamic sharia should be one of the sources of law."
Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues.shtml
===================================
Four in 9/11 Plot Are Tied to Qaeda in '00
By DOUGLAS JEHL
More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9714.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwv
===
A Look Into the Mirror
Whether we like it or not, the nation’s capital is the mirror image of the rest of the country
By Manuel Valenzuela
Washington, like ancient Rome before it, has become, through the course of years breathing the airs of moral degeneration, corruption and greed, the monument for all that is wrong with the nation it represents, a new symbol of debauchery and immorality, a decadent city on a hill whose once noble foundations are now cracking under the weight of unscrupulous entities and malfeasant activities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9713.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwx
===
Globalization And Its Discontents
By Saul Landau
In my America, shopping is the universal spiritual value. Maybe add flag waving and barbecues! But globalization means spreading a culture of corporate brand names and 24/7 sales pitches. Rogue States who refuse to embrace this order are targets of regime change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9711.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtwz
===
It Has No Other Name: Neo-racism
By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Humanity has paid a high price fighting racism and discrimination over centuries; how could we loose the battle today to similar ideologies covered up in the cloaks of "freedom" and "democracy?"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9710.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx0
===
Counting The Dead:
BAGHDAD: 10 Iraqi policemen were shot dead in five separate attacks in Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Three Iraqis were killed by a suicide car bomb. BAQUBA - Three pilgrims were killed and eight injured when gunmen sprayed their minivan with gunfire. ABU KHAMIS - Two people were burned to death when insurgents stopped their truck and set fire to it . LATIFIYAH - Two Iraqi civilians were killed and a third critically wounded when gunmen fired on their car. HILLA - Gunmen killed a former officer in Saddam Hussein's Baath party. BAGHDAD - One police commando was killed and another injured by an explosion. BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed when gunmen attacked their shop.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU946822.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx1
===
Suicide Blast Kills 7 Including U.S. Soldier: :
A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy near a crowded square in Baghdad, killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldie. A U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Division also was killed Monday in action by small arms fire in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0805/250429.html
http://snipurl.com/gtx2
===
Four Iraqi soldiers killed Tuesday morning in a bomb explosion in Samarra
http://snipurl.com/gtx4
===
Analysis: Iraq statistics tell grim story:
If the US Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9712.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx5
====
Baghdad mayor 'ousted by gunmen' :
Baghdad's mayor has been sacked by the Iraqi government, in circumstances that he has described as "dangerous" and "undemocratic".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4135060.stm
http://snipurl.com/gtx6
===
Iraqi soldiers fear leaving training base:
"We're all afraid. I can't go outside the base wearing these military clothes," says Sergeant Abbas, listing colleagues who have fallen victim to relentless insurgent attacks in the dusty towns and highways north of Baghdad.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1432950.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtx7
===
Killings of civilians by U.S. troops angers Iraqi government :
"The reason they shot us is just because the Americans are reckless," the general said from his hospital bed hours after the July 6 shooting, his head wrapped in a white bandage. "Nobody punishes them or blames them."
http://snipurl.com/gtx8
===
U.S. and Iraqi forces prevent Syrian trucks from crossing border:
Iraqi and U.S. forces stopped more than 700 Syrian trucks from returning to Syria after unloaded produce and other merchandise in Iraq
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=17479
http://snipurl.com/gtx9
===
U.S. reportedly planning to boost troop levels to 160,000 in Iraq
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=345817
http://snipurl.com/gtxa
===
Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow:
The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9721.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxb
===
Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Bush Is A Liar:
A Gallup survey last week found that a majority of Americans - 51 percent - now believe that Bush "deliberately misled the people when he asserted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
http://snipurl.com/gtxc
===
Cindy Sheehan's diary: Camp Casey Day 3-
The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9718.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxd
===
Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine:
It's truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi's Salt March to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win -- when truth and justice is on his or her side.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html
http://snipurl.com/gtxe
===
King George wouldn't see us:
A Report from the Vigil in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9716.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxf
===
Sheehan Draws Tears of Support:
When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.”
http://peacefile.org/wordpress/?p=222
===
To All Conscious Americans:
Get Thy Ass to CRAWFORD !!!
http://benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=329
http://snipurl.com/gtxg
===
Tragic price of war: Who pays?:
Dr. Reinhardt said the majority of Americans are insulated from the human pain and financial cost, thus it’s easy for them to back the war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9719.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxh
===
In case you missed it:
Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?:
Should anyone be surprised by this national resolve, given that these wars visit no sacrifice of any sort -- neither blood nor angst nor taxes -- on well over 95 percent of the American people?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9720.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxj
===
Depleted uranium is WMD:
I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium
is very, very, very nasty stuff:
http://snipurl.com/fqi6
===
Cruel Confinement of ‘Enemy Combatant’ in United States:
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/08/usdom11612.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxl
===
Army Whistleblower Draws Fire :
She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right in this staggeringly profitable business.
http://snipurl.com/gtxm
===
Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/08/05:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/gtxn
===
Bombings survivor hits out at political rhetoric:
An Australian who survived last month's bombings in London has criticised the political rhetoric that has followed them
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433926.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxp
===
Secret courts for terror cases :
Security-cleared judges would decide how long suspects could be held
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1545404,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/gtxq
===
Radical cleric flees Britain after threat of treason trial :
Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the Islamic extremists who faced possible treason charges over support for the London bombers, has fled to Lebanon
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article304734.ece
http://snipurl.com/gtxs
===
George Monbiot: The new chauvinism :
I'm not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other
http://snipurl.com/gtxu
===
17 Taliban, US soldier die in ambush:
At least 17 Afghan fighters and one US soldier were killed in a fierce clash in southern Afghanistan near the troubled Pakistan border, the US military said on Tuesday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433926.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxp
===
War Pimp Alert:
Rumsfeld says Iranian weapons found in Iraq :
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that weapons "unambiguously from Iran" have been found in Iraq, and said it was "unhelpful" of Teheran to allow such weapons to cross the border.
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=050809173710.fd38mnjq.php
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Bush Suspicious of Iran's Nuke Ambitions
Bush said that if Iran does not cooperate, United Nations sanctions are ``a potential consequence.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5200345,00.html
http://snipurl.com/gtyq
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Russia urges Iran to act prudently :
"The only power generating unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been fully supplied with Russian fuel. We have all the necessary agreements."
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050809/41124170.html
http://snipurl.com/gtyn
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CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims :
The CIA asked the Netherlands not to detain Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan for stealing nuclear secrets from a Dutch facility, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers has claimed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9717.htm
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Robert Dreyfuss: The Israeli Spy Affair: Bigger Than AIPAC:
Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9715.htm
http://snipurl.com/gtxz
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Why AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Rove :
The Franklin indictment is a sign that Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050808/cm_thenation/311020
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The silence of the Jewish leaders :
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