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Police Suppress Sept. 15 Anti-War Press Conference Across From White House |
| Three anti-war activists were arrested in front of the White House today after the U.S. Park Police moved to suppress a press conference called to protest the fines and threats against the ANSWER Coalition for putting up anti-war posters promoting the September 15 March and Die-In in Washington DC....Full Story |
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WASHINGTON DC ANTI-WAR PROTEST “MARCH ON THE PENTAGON” |
| The fourth anniversary of the War in Iraq began with a multi-day demonstration beginning March 17th, 2007. The "March on the Pentagon" took place in spite of the bad weather. Thousands of people braved the cold to express their disatisfaction with the administrations war of choice in Iraq....Full Story |
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SPEAKERS AT MASSIVE JAN. 27th ANTIWAR PROTEST ANNOUNCED |
| WASHINGTON, DC - On Saturday, January 27th, people from every corner of the country will gather in massive numbers in Washington, DC, to protest the war in Iraq. Organized by United for Peace and Justice, the rally and march will call on Congress to listen to the voters, not Bush, and use its power to end the war now....Full Story |
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Jan 27: National Peace March to Flood DC Streets |
| NEW YORK, NY -- Americans angered by Bush’s plans to escalate the Iraq war will flood the streets of Washington on Saturday, January 27, in a massive national peace march organized by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)....Full Story |
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President Bush to Sacrifice More Troops, Worsen Terrorist Threat with Plan to Escalate War in Iraq |
| The Question is How Will Congress Respond? Washington, D.C. – The nation’s largest grassroots peace organization decried President Bush’s plan to escalate the war in Iraq by sending more troops, which according to news reports he will announce in a nationally televised speech this Wednesday....Full Story |
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NATIONWIDE EVENTS COMMEMORATE 3,000 U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ |
Vigils Planned in More than 200 Communities Across the U.S.
Under the banner "Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar," more than 200 communities across the U.S. will hold war memorial events on the day following the sad announcement that the 3,000th U.S. serviceperson has died....Full Story |
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Peace Movement Leaders Kick Off Civil Disobedience Actions Against Iraq Occupation at White House |
| Declaration of Peace Initiative Includes More Than 350 Events Nationwide
Campaign comes as Bush Administration reaffirms plans to maintain troop levels in Iraq, defends policy at United Nations Washington, D.C....Full Story |
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With or Without Permit, Antiwar March Planned While Bush at UN |
| Antiwar Protests Set for Sept. 19th
When Bush Speaks at U.N. At a press conference today, Sept. 14th, United for Peace and Justice will announce plans for both a permitted rally and a march -- with or without a permit -- on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 19th....Full Story |
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Groups protest indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Israel's actions, US policy |
| Over 120 coalitions and organizations, representing thousands of people throughout the United States, signed a letter of solidarity with people in the Middle East suffering from the impact of US and Israeli actions.The Open Letter was organized by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a nationwide coalition of over 200 member groups....Full Story |
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NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT RELEASES
TAXPAYER COST OF THE IRAQ WAR BY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT |
| NORTHAMPTON, MA - The National Priorities Project today released the taxpayer cost of the Iraq War for every congressional district in the country, available at: http://database.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoff....Full Story |
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Ned Lamont’s Victory in Connecticut Senate Primary is Leading Edge of “Peace Voter” Campaign |
| The victory of insurgent candidate Ned Lamont over staunchly pro-war Sen. Joe Lieberman in yesterday’s Connecticut primary demonstrates the intense voter dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq – and the power of the pro-peace vote in this year’s mid-term elections....Full Story |
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August 12th National March on Washington: Buses from around the country coming to DC |
| Permits have been obtained for Lafayette Park directly in front of the White House for the opening rally of a mass demonstration in Washington DC on August 12. The rally is scheduled to begin at 12 noon with the march afterwards. There has been a remarkable response to the call for a “national emergency action to protest the U....Full Story |
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Lebanon: the other Palestinians |
Lebanon: the other Palestinians
As the world focuses its attention on the grave crisis in Lebanon and Gaza (see “A long week in Gaza City”), which risks being transformed into a regional conflict, it is time to listen to the Palestinians in Lebanon - in particular those still living in the refugee camps....Full Story |
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Worldwide Vigils to be held Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Lebanon/Israel Conflict |
| WASHINGTON - August 4 - In response to the escalating violence and deaths of civilians in the Lebanon and Israel conflict, Amnesty International will hold vigils Monday, Aug. 7 to call for an immediate ceasefire, demand all governments stop the supply of arms and stand in solidarity with the victims and survivors from both sides....Full Story |
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'No Hezbollah Rockets Fired from Qana' |
| QANA, Aug 1 (IPS) - Red Cross workers and residents of Qana, where Israeli bombing killed at least 60 civilians, have told IPS that no Hezbollah rockets were launched from the city before the Israeli air strike....Full Story |
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Military Action Against Iran? |
| The Bush administration is moving toward military action against Iran, despite its current public support for multilateral diplomacy. Surprisingly, that eventual outcome may also comport with the interests of the Iranian government. The real losers in this arms-length conspiracy between the two hostile governments will be the American and Iranian peoples....Full Story |
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Rice Miscasts Policy on Torture |
| Remarks at Start of Europe Visit Leave Concerns Unanswered (New York, December 6, 2005) – In remarks at the start of a five-day trip to Europe, the U.S. Secretary of State mischaracterized the U.S. government’s “rendition” of terrorist suspects to make it appear lawful, Human Rights Watch said today....Full Story |
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Kucinich On The Sad Milestone Of 2,000 US Troops Killed In Iraq |
| WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement today after news reports indicated that over 2,000 American service men and women have been killed in Iraq: "Today marks yet another sad and tragic milestone in the war in Iraq....Full Story |
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2,000th U.S. Troop Death in Iraq announced. Gold Star, Military Families Mourn and Speak Out |
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Critics on Iraq Policy Come Out of the Woodwork Too Late |
| With the continued quagmire in Iraq and the likely indictments of senior Bush administration officials for trying to shore up the shaky rationale for the invasion, one would think that things couldn’t get much worse for the administration. But where success has a thousand architects, failure leads to much finger pointing....Full Story |
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LARGEST PROTEST IN WASHINGTON D.C. SINCE IRAQ WAR BEGAN |
| More protestors than there are troops in Iraq marched on DC demanding “Bring the Troops Home Now, spend money on human needs - not war and occupation” 150,000 to as many as 300,000 peaceably marched in a light rain from the Ellipse, around the White House and down Pennsylvania Ave....Full Story |
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Iraq: Amnesty International calls for an investigation into death in custody of nine men |
| 14 July 2005 - Amnesty International has written to Iraq’s Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr Solagh, to call for a full investigation into the alleged torture of a group of men detained by Iraqi police on 10 July and the circumstances in which nine of them were suffocated to death after being confined in a police van or container....Full Story |
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Iraq: targeting of diplomats by armed groups - a worrying new trend, says Amnesty International
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| Amnesty International today condemned abduction of Egypt’s ambassador to Iraq on Saturday and this morning’s attempted assassination of Bahrain’s envoy and the attack on Pakistan ambassador’s convoy, as an intensely worrying new trend in abuses by armed groups....Full Story |
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Afghanistan: Bring War Criminals to Justice
Special Court Needed For Past Atrocities
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| Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s current government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in the early 1990s, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....Full Story |
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Disturbing Testimony on Iraq War |
| Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi-born novelist and former political prisoner. She
went back to Iraq for the first time in 2004, after 25 years of exile. She
had been imprisoned in Abu Ghraib by the Ba’athist regime and tortured. She
said today at the World Tribunal on Iraq underway in Istanbul, Turkey: "The
U....Full Story |
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Downing Street Memo: Deception and Cover-Up |
| On Thursday June 16, 2005, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room HC-9 of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and other members of Congress will hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of White House efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence....Full Story |
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First Presidential Mandate: Protect the US from Nuclear Terrorism and Proliferation |
| The primary mandate of President George W. Bush is to protect US citizens. In fact, Republicans and Democrats alike agree that nuclear proliferation and terrorism are THE greatest threats facing the US....Full Story |
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Call to Presidential Candidates to Commit to Ending Torture |
| The two main candidates in the US presidential election should commit to working to prevent any torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in US custody....Full Story |
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WAR LIES ARE PILING UP |
| Even though a mound of evidence keeps accumulating that the Bush administration exaggerated the threat to fulfill its obsession to invade Iraq, administration officials keep standing by—in Goebbels-like repetition of the “big lie”—the need for war....Full Story |
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THOUSANDS MARCH IN WORLDWIDE ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
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| The March 20 demonstration in New York City far exceeded the expectations of the march organizers. Chanting "Occupation is a crime from Iraq to Palestine" and "Bring the troops home now," more than 100,000 people marched. Starting at 23rd and Madison, the march filled 45 blocks through midtown Manhattan, north on 6th Avenue to 40th Street and back to the original rally site....Full Story |
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The $87.5 Billion Dollar Question -- Where Did All the Soldiers Go? |
| It was a concern of some military analysts before the current Iraq-US conflict that the Iraqi soldiers might vanish into the civilian population and launch covert attacks. The unfortunate and difficult truth seems to be that they were always lurking there....Full Story |
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America is embroiled in a "well-planned" strategic urban guerrilla war being tactically implemented. |
| America is facing an intensifying urban guerrilla war in both Afghanistan and Iraq. That it is coordinated and has leadership and organization is being debated so as to not admit the obvious: That this was the strategy of both the Taliban and the Saddam''s Republican Guard of Iraq. They number in the tens of thousands. Craig B Hulet has argued in numerous interviews and several white papers and in his latest book the following: to defeat an entrenched enemy that will fight a guerrilla war, the attacking force must have at least a ten to one ratio in favor of the attackers. That we are hopelessly outnumbered in both countries means quite literally we cannot defeat these guerrilla forces. We will likely lose....Full Story |
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