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  • Falluja facing humanitarian crisis
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq have said.
    In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdus al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, told Reuters on Wednesday.
    In another case, a young boy died from a snake bite that would normally have been (…)

  • Bush’s ’Incredible’ Vote Tallies
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush’s vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable.
    by Sam Parry
    While it’s extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party’s registration in any voting jurisdiction - because of non-voters - Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans (…)

  • Piranha In The Fish Tank
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Religion and politics used to be two issues polite company did not discuss at the dinner table. But as the ill-mannered Neo-Puritan Right belches and bellows victoriously over their bread, it is clear that they have changed the rules of American civility in the most unappetizing ways. A Crucifix now dangerously adorns the body politic and threatens to crucify anyone who doesn’t pander to the pious.
    At its best, religion is a deeply personal tool to build a better life, (…)

  • The Worst Is Yet to Come. Be afraid. Be very afraid....
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Those "moral values" Republicans - you know, the ones who supposedly tipped the election in favor of the War Party - really are a hoot. Forget the Iraq war - killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians for no clear reason isn’t a moral question as far as these folks are concerned. What they’re really up in arms about is gay marriage and Hollywood’s moral depravity (or do I repeat myself?). But what about this kind of depravity?
    "The Iraq war, [Norman Podhoretz] (…)

  • Yasser Arafat "Abu Ammar" dead at 75
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people’s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75.
    He was, to the end, a man of many mysteries and paradoxes - terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.
    Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died. The Palestinian leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris.
    Tayeb (…)

  • Arma-geddon Sick of You : World to US as Americans prepare to level Fallujah
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Valid Outrage
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Bush’s Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world’s revulsion continues to grow.
    True, Americans do have elections, and candidates often take (…)

  • American Resistance (by Manuel Valenzuela)
    10 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Valid Outrage
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    If you are still upset at the resounding defeat of humanity that occurred on November 2, 2004 you have every right to be. On that day billions of us lost a most important battle through both the vote of the ignorant, unenlightened among us and the systemic fraudulent manipulation of electronic-voting machines which, it is becoming more and more apparent, helped steal victory, for the second time in four years, for George W. Bush and the (…)

  • Fallujah, the sequel : preparing for Butchery
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
    The war drums are being beaten once again in Fallujah. After the siege in April this year, the city will again be the scene of an onslaught, probably bigger than last time. Life has almost come to a standstill as thousands of people are fleeing their houses. During the last weeks, the US forces stepped up their daily air raids while at the same time applying heavy psychological warfare tactics. Threatening to crush the resistance, US imperialism is now actually (…)

  • Yasser Arafat : a Man and his People
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    Wherever he may be buried when he passes away, the day will come when his remains will be reinterred by a free Palestinian government in the holy shrines in Jerusalem.
    Yasser Arafat is one of the generation of great leaders who arose after World War II.
    The stature of a leader is not simply determined by the size of his achievements, but also by the size of the obstacles he had to overcome. In this respect, Arafat has no competitor in the world: no leader of our (…)

  • Open letter to Senator John Kerry
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Donna LoCicero
    Dear Senator Kerry,
    I’ve figured out that the reason this feels so awful, so surreal isn’t just because we lost. This isn’t loss. Every Democrat knows what loss feels like. This is something worse. This is theft - theft of our sacred right of voting and thereby, the hijacking of our country.
    I want you to know that even though the mainstream media isn’t reporting much of this, a growing army of people believes this. We are determined to unravel this crime... and I can (…)