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Lawmakers push for Iraq exit in 2006
November 11, 2005With George W. Bush increasingly isolated, the antiwar movement this week demanded that Congress act to bring the troops home or face ouster in next year’s congressional elections. Scott Lynch, a spokesman for Peace Action, cited President Bush’s assertion in Panama that his administration “does not torture” detainees. “It tore away the last shred of credibility from this administration,” Lynch said. “Nobody actually believes that. There are volumes of evidence...
Read moreWar, budget cuts ignite voter rebellion
November 18, 2005WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s smear tactics failed to silence his growing opposition as the peace movement and defenders of the poor stepped up their fight against the Iraq war and a Republican proposal to cut $50 billion from federal programs for low-income Americans. Antiwar forces vowed to step up their efforts to bring the troops home while the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) hailed its recent victory in...
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War crimes on the Northern Plains: #NoDAPL
October 28, 2016There are reports of demonstrators being hooded; waterboarding; young Native females arrested and strip searched.
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Chelsea Manning is free at last
May 18, 2017While Manning is “fortunate” enough to have received a commutation of her crushing 35-year jail sentence, she has still spent seven long years behind bars.
Read moreInterview with Robert Meeropol: Bush and his cronies are so dangerous
June 25, 2004Robert Meeropol is the founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC). Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In 1953, when he was 6 years old, the United States government framed up and executed his parents for “conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb” despite a worldwide campaign to spare their lives. The Rosenbergs were victims of the anti-communist hysteria of...
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The attack on Documenta 15: Whys and wherefores
October 03, 2022Documenta 15 has been unceasingly attacked by Western critics as being anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli.
Read moreRep. Murtha calls for change in direction
November 19, 2005The following is the transcript of the news conference Thursday by Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, as provided by Federal News Service. REP. MURTHA: I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war. And I started out by saying the war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of the members...
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Rumsfeld’s death won’t stop those who seek world domination
July 07, 2021Thus far they have only destroyed six of the seven countries he wanted to wipe out.
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Fall global series review: From Black radicalism to British royals in space
October 04, 2021Most serious serial TV has moved online where there is no traditional “Fall TV Season,” that being a thing of the past - what did your parents used to call it? oh yeah, network TV.
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Terror and torture: The spiral of endless war
November 21, 2016The contradiction of "the war on terror": the means used to fight it are effective recruiting devices for terrorists themselves.
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