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  • In Cleveland as in Kiev
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004
    In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation’s concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed.
    Ohio is this election year’s Florida. The vote in Ohio decided the presidential race, but it was marred (…)

  • Germany-France nuclear waste train Wednesday
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    German anti-nuclear activists say another train carrying highly radioactive waste is to roll through densely populated North-Rhine Westphalia state to the French plutonium factory at La Hague during the night of December 14 to 15.
    The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and mostly likely also Grohnde on the Weser (…)

  • United by common cause and cramped shelter, activists find love in Kyiv tent camp
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Vasyl Fylosov and Sofiya Kirichenko came to Kyiv from different regions to join round-the-clock protests in support of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
    Result: two golden rings and a bride’s veil in the opposition’s signature colour, orange.
    Freezing temperatures, close quarters and the lack of basic amenities such as hot water and clean bathrooms have helped create a unique romantic atmosphere for thousands of young people who settled in the (…)

  • The Ukrainian Revolution- This is what democracy looks like
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Shift in Global Consciousness Begins
    The following is a very inspiring article by a young Ukrainian.
    Nice, timely report from someone on the spot....
    As you likely know from the news, we are in the middle of the Orange Revolution here in Kyiv. I can tell you that this is one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life to be here during this time.
    We have been spending a lot of time on the streets and on the main square - Maidan Nezalezhnosti Independence Square.
    It is (…)

  • The New Cold War
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We’re in a "war of civilizations" - and not just against Islam
    by Justin Raimondo
    The U.S. effort to export "democracy" to Ukraine has some skeptics of interventionism baffled and confused. A seeming throwback to the Soviet era, Leonid Kuchma, and his chosen heir, ward-heeler Viktor Yanukovich, were widely perceived as having stolen the election, and the Ukrainian Supreme Court, supposedly a tool of the regime, agreed. While one may argue about which side engaged in election fraud, and (…)

  • As Ukraine celebrates democracy, it’s being denied in Ohio
    5 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Harvey Wasserman
    As demonstrators cheer the restoration of democracy to their beleaguered country, Ohio officials continue to deny it.
    In the face of obvious fraud, Ukraine’s Supreme Court has thrown out an apparent coup for the incumbent and ordered a new election. That’s what needs to happen here.
    But despite growing national pressure and a major demonstration scheduled for tomorrow, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell continues to stonewall a true recount in (…)

  • Middle class backs Orange Revolution
    4 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marina Denysenko
    Expensive cars festooned in orange; orange-clad demonstrators queuing at McDonalds; ladies dressed in fur coats with orange ribbons - these are all signs that Ukraine’s "orange revolution" has enormous support from its newly emerging middle class.
    The majority of protesters rallying in Kiev’s Independence Square hold mobile phones. They keep their families and friends up-to-date with events in the capital and exchange text messages with an opposition logo.
    Orange is (…)

  • How one woman sparked the revolution (Ukraine)
    3 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Silent protester is a powerful voice against official ‘lies’ From Jeremy Page in Kiev NATALYA DMITRUK’s silent protest was perhaps the least obvious of all the demonstrations in support of Viktor Yushchenko. But it was one of the most courageous.
    For three years, the sign- language interpreter had dutifully translated the news twice daily on UT-1, the state-run television channel that is the mouthpiece for Viktor Yanukovych, the Prime Minister.
    But when Tatyana Krav-chenko, UT-1’s (…)

  • German Defense Minister Joins Abuse Investigation
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany’s top military official meets with military officials on Wednesday to discuss the allegations of abuse at training camps which are threatening to engulf the armed forces in a damaging scandal.
    The investigation into the alleged abuse of young soldiers at Bundeswehr military training camps takes its first official step on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Peter Struck meets army chiefs to discuss the deepening scandal.
    Struck, who announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the (…)

  • Commissar Aaronovitch : Ex-commie takes aim at Antiwar.com - and misses
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Justin Raimondo
    They don’t have neocons in Britain: over there, they’re called Blairites, or New Labourites. But it’s essentially the same thing: they love the State, they love themselves, and, most of all, they love war - in the name of idealism, you understand, which, in Blairite circles, amounts to what passes these days for "humanitarian" internvetionism. In any case, I suppose it was inevitable that the British wing of the species would one day deign to notice Antiwar.com’s (…)