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June 11, 2004The truth about Reagan The media cannot wash away the truth about Ronald Reagan even with a torrent of sickening sentimentality since his death. On Aug. 6, 1981, Reagan fired 12,000 PATCO air traffic controllers for daring to strike to protect their own health and the safety of airline passengers. It marked him forever as a union-buster and labor-baiter. Actually, Reagan got his start in politics as an FBI informer...
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June 11, 2004BRUNSWICK, Ga.: Protesters ‘unwelcome’ G-8 Summit Caravans of military Humvees patrolled the cobblestone streets in this coastal town starting June 5. Legions of Secret Service agents and an estimated 10,000-20,000 federal, state and local police roamed the area. The mechanical beat of helicopter blades drowned out the soothing surf. Concrete barriers, wire mesh fencing and military checkpoints replaced magnolias. This was the state of emergency declared by Gov. ‘Sonny’ Perdue....
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June 11, 2004Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is sitting in an Army brig at Ft. Sill, Okla., because he rejected the torture and brutality carried out by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq. Mejia served eight years in the Army National Guard and eight months in Iraq before refusing to go back to his unit there.
Read moreWhat America stands for
June 04, 2004Opinion “That isn’t what America stands for” has been the refrain of Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al., as the horrifying Abu Ghraib prison atrocities hit the eyes of the world. Maybe it isn’t what America should stand for, but it is very often standard practice in the U.S. prison system to deny human rights to its “own” prisoners. Capitalists are unable to control struggling human beings without the tools of...
Read moreEmpty boots send a plea: End Iraq war
June 04, 2004WASHINGTON – George W. Bush praised the “fierce courage” of U.S. soldiers as he laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day. The same weekend, he dedicated the World War II memorial, posing as the “war president” in his bid for a second term. But a Quaker vigil on Capitol Hill, May 25-27, featured hundreds of pairs of black combat boots symbolizing the 813 GIs...
Read moreStop the torture! Fire Rumsfeld! Dump Bush!
May 28, 2004The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on May 23. The torture by U.S. military intelligence of Iraqi detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has ignited outrage at home and abroad.
Read moreBush Iraq speech defends the indefensible
May 28, 2004Longtime Philadelphia labor activist Jim Moran had little use for George W. Bush’s May 24 Iraq policy speech. “It didn’t score any points with me,” Moran said.
Read moreA brutal prison culture
May 21, 2004Opinion We have all seen the Abu Ghraib pictures, and steeled ourselves for worse to come. The brass are trying to fob this off as an aberration created by a few sadistic guards. Is this so? Control over the prisoners was placed in the hands of a shadowy mix of military intelligence, “civilian contractors” and the CIA. The CIA has never been called to account for decades of mayhem and...
Read moreHundreds of thousands demand: Rumsfeld must go!
May 21, 2004WASHINGTON – The Rev. Graylan Hagler, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church here and a leader of United for Peace and Justice, says it is time for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to go. He is one voice in a growing chorus so outraged by the Abu Ghraib atrocities that they are demanding Rumsfeld’s ouster. Hagler told the World he was horrified when he first saw the photos of grinning U.S. military...
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May 14, 2004Bush and Hussein George W. Bush says he was justified to invade Iraq and overthrow the villainous dictator Saddam Hussein. Bush claims he was justified regardless of the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. According to Bush and his warmonger associates the war in Iraq is justified because Saddam murdered and tortured those who opposed him, he denied his people basic rights such as freedom of...
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