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U.S. companies loot Iraq & U.S. taxpayers

January 9, 2004 By Susan Webb

As Americans at home returned to post-holiday routines, the news from Iraq continued a familiar pattern – U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians killed and wounded daily. But sharing the spotlight is the looting of Iraq by...

Willie comes through for peace

January 9, 2004

DALLAS – Texas peace activists are celebrating because our national hero, singer Willie Nelson, has released a new single that asks, “What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth?” Americans have noticed that the war in Iraq...

As Iraq death toll rises, so do war profits

December 19, 2003 By Tim Wheeler

WASHINGTON – As the roster of dead and wounded in Iraq grows longer, George W. Bush is pleading that the people of this country stay the course despite admissions by his administration that the occupation has...

Cubans denied family visits

December 19, 2003

Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez won’t be able to see their husbands this holiday season. For the third time, the U.S. government refused to issue visas for Salanueva and Pérez to visit their husbands.

Renewed calls to bring troops home

December 19, 2003

WASHINGTON – George W. Bush has been strutting like a rooster since the capture of Saddam Hussein but several Democratic presidential candidates renewed calls to bring the United Nations into Iraq and bring our troops home....