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War, 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...
Read moreLawmakers 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 moreMounting uproar over secret CIA prisons and torture
November 11, 2005News Analysis Shakespeare’s line, “When troubles come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions,” may well apply to the Bush administration. On top of Iraq and New Orleans and the debacle of Harriet Miers, comes what could be a huge international scandal affecting the United States and its relationship with allies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Dana Priest of the Washington Post reported Nov. 2 that the Central...
Read moreHundreds gather at counter-recruiting conference
November 04, 2005BERKELEY, Calif. — As the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq neared the 2,000 mark, nearly 500 university and high school students, military resisters, veterans and peace activists gathered on the UC Berkeley campus Oct. 22-23 for “On the Frontlines: Options for Youth in Times of War.” While most participants were from California, some came from as far away as New York state. The conference, co-sponsored by Military Out...
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October 07, 2005Time has long since come The American nation is plummeting into an abysmal crevasse of political, social and economic deterioration as a result of the Bush administration’s ineptitude and the American people’s submission to it. Time and again, our president has defiled the credibility of the U.S. as well as casting us into financial mire — from 9/11, his ridiculous claims of weapons of mass destruction, the Abu Ghraib prison...
Read moreEditorial: Torture authorized at the top
October 07, 2005A collective sigh of relief must have rippled through the Pentagon and the White House Sept. 26 when 22-year old Army Private Lynndie England was convicted and sentenced for her despicable torture of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Her superiors, including the commander in chief, were off the hook. It would seem the embarrassing episode of U.S. Army personnel who were photographed humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners has slid...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Second superpower is back
September 23, 2005On Feb. 15, 2003, 11 million people around the world marched and rallied against Bush’s plans to unleash a pre-emptive, unilateral war. This huge outpouring was described as “the second global superpower.” The antiwar movement ebbed when the U.S. invasion began. Yet over the following months, Bush’s lies were exposed, torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo shocked the world, and Iraq was plunged into a nightmare of chaos and death....
Read moreSpeech given at the official function commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assault on the Monc
July 29, 2005Dear people of Havana who, by your selfless, tenacious efforts and in hard-fought competition with the inhabitants of Villa Clara, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Camagüey and Granma, won the right to hold this official function here in the capital: I congratulate you all. Fighters of yesterday and today: Distinguished guests: Dearest fellow Cubans: I thank our generous and heroic people for the privilege of commemorating this anniversary of the assault on the...
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July 29, 2005LAS CRUCES, N.M.: Hundreds defend immigrant workers Chants of “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Minutemen have got to go,” rang through the downtown here, July 23, as hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators marched to evict the “Minuteman Civil Defense Corps,” which announced that it will patrol the Mexican border in October. Elected officials from Texas and New Mexico, including state Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, the Democratic majority whip in the New Mexico...
Read moreStorm erupts over Patriot Act
June 17, 2005WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was so enraged by a witness from Amnesty International USA, who linked the Patriot Act to torture at secret U.S. detention facilities around the world, that he gaveled a June 10 hearing to an end. He ordered microphones turned off and stormed out of the hearing room. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) blasted Sensenbrenner for being “rude” and House Minority Leader Nancy...
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