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  • UFPJ: End war, bring troops home now!

    UFPJ: End war, bring troops home now!

    February 25, 2005

    ST. LOUIS — “Bring the troops home now!” was the urgent demand to the Bush administration from representatives of hundreds of peace and justice organizations who gathered here for the United for Peace and Justice National...

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  • 1,000 new pages document widespread torture

    1,000 new pages document widespread torture

    February 25, 2005

    WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union released new Pentagon documents Feb. 18 exposing an even wider pattern of torture and abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among this new batch of 1,000 pages obtained...

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  • John Negropontes bloody baggage

    John Negropontes bloody baggage

    February 25, 2005

    John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has been nominated by President Bush to head the new super-spy agency set up by last year’s intelligence reform legislation. Negroponte’s baggage contains a shocking amount of dirt and...

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  • Seniors, students make Santorum sweat

    Seniors, students make Santorum sweat

    February 25, 2005

    PITTSBURGH — The third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Sen. Rick Santorum, took to the stump selling the privatization of Social Security Feb. 21, but he stumbled and slipped at a well-informed town hall meeting organized...

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  • Drugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres?

    Drugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres?

    February 25, 2005 By Susan Webb

    Army Specialist Juan Torres had his whole life ahead of him. At 25, Torres (known as John to most of his family and friends) had an accounting degree from the University of Houston and a good...

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