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  • Deptford woman, 89, heads to jail
    22 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quaker was arrested at anti-war protest
    By RICHARD PEARSALL
    Lillian Willoughby, a Deptford Quaker who will turn 90 in January, went to jail Wednesday to protest the war in Iraq.
    Shortly before noon, Willoughby rose from her wheelchair, gave her husband of 64 years, George, a hug and a kiss, and disappeared into the federal detention center at Seventh and Arch streets here.
    Reporting with her were five other peace activists, including a young couple from Camden, Cassie Haw, 22, and (…)

  • GM, Opel hit as thousands take to the streets in Europe-wide protests
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    FRANKFURT : Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support
    elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General
    Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close
    a plant.
    Police estimated that about 20,000 people demonstrated in the northwestern town
    of Bochum, home to one of four factories belonging to GM’s German unit Opel and
    currently the centre of the wave of protests .../...
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  • Terrifying Tyranny
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert Thompson
    As I have done in previous essays, I feel it appropriate to preface my remarks by making it clear that I write as a committed practising Catholic Christian, and by stressing that I am always shocked and upset by the misuse of religion as a cover for, or in pursuit of, material and/or political gain.
    On Tuesday night, my wife and I watched with growing fear and horror a television report on "Arte" (the Franco-German channel) on the religiosity of Mr George W. Bush. If the (…)

  • 21 AIDS Advocates Arrested Outside Bush-Cheney Headquarters
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Election 2004 : 21 AIDS Advocates Arrested Outside Bush-Cheney Headquarters for Protesting Administration’s Domestic, Global AIDS Policies
    Police in Arlington, Va., on Monday arrested 21 AIDS advocates who had chained themselves to the front door of the Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters and to each other inside the building during a protest against the administration’s domestic and global AIDS policies, the Washington Post reports. Approximately 120 advocates took part in the (…)

  • The Enemy Within: How U.S. Corporations Profit From The Deaths Of U.S. Soldiers
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael A. Schiller
    There are numerous reasons why the war in Iraq has dragged out as long as it has. One of the most likely reasons has been overlooked by both lawmakers and the media. Throughout history, many corporations have exploited wars for profit. There is extensive documentation available to the public on the internet, and in libraries, which proves this. Most people know about the companies which benefit from rebuilding contracts and defense spending. Those companies are usually (…)

  • Israeli deputy PM in South Africa for controversial visit
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Demonstrators call for isolation of ’apartheid Israel’
    JOHANNESBURG: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality embraced by President Thabo Mbeki’s government
    Olmert, who is also trade and industry minister, is the most senior Israeli official to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
    He was due to sign an investment protection (…)

  • The situation with Margaret Hassan`s kidnapping is unclear
    20 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Gunmen seized the head of CARE International’s operations in Iraq a woman who has worked on behalf of Iraqis for three decades as the British government on Tuesday weighed a politically volatile American request to transfer soldiers to dangerous areas near the capital.
    Elsewhere Tuesday, a mortar attack killed at least four Iraqi National Guard soldiers and wounded 80 at a base north of Baghdad. An American contractor also died when mortar shells crashed onto a U.S. base in the Iraqi (…)

  • Bush Receives Endorsement From Iran
    20 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ALI AKBAR DAREINI
    TEHRAN, Iran - The head of Iran’s security council said Tuesday that the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran’s best interests, despite the administration’s axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
    Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s top security decision-making body. (…)

  • The ‘Catastrophic’ Success of the Republican Party
    20 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Third World’ Election
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    As much as America and the world wish to believe Florida will not be rigged with electoral fraud this November, the sad truth is that all the mechanisms needed to steal the state in favor of George Bush are already firmly entrenched. Thanks to Jeb Bush, Jim Crow manipulator of mandates, corrupt fraudster, decimator of democracy and brother of the president, and the Republican Party, which in essence controls the logistics of and the keys to (…)

  • Sinclair Broadcasting’s Long History of Journalistic and Corporate Deception
    20 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Sinclair Broadcasting Group has tried to influence the outcome of elections long before the media company became a lightning rod for criticism due to its decision to air a controversial documentary ten days before the Nov. 2 election critical of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry’s activities during the Vietnam War.
    Two years ago, Duncan Smith, vice president of Sinclair, gave then Maryland GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich extensive use of a luxury (…)