Now for the wrath of the oppressed
By Paul McGeough June 29, 2004
Its legitimacy is in doubt, its sovereignty is qualified and security is the most daunting issue it faces.
Peace Process Often Ignores Female Ex-Soldiers
By Nicole Itano
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo -Under a fierce
midday sun, Nicole Ibrehim clutches her semi-automatic rifle, cracked
purple fingernail polish glinting in the light and a red beret perched
over pierced ears. She waves her gun towards a group of nervous boy
soldiers standing nearby and shouts an order in a low, booming voice,
sending the boys scuttling.
Writing the History of the Future: The Killing Game
June 27, 2004
By Gerard Greenfield
How will the history of the US-led military aggression against Iraq be
told? In many ways this question for tomorrow was answered yesterday:
it's done. The history that glorifies military aggression, racism and
state violence has been written. It is being taught, absorbed and
institutionalized in various ways as historical fact. Not only is this
history taught, but it is experienced.
The US-led CPA is leaving a legacy of muddled accounting
By Khatoun Haidar
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Real sovereignty in Iraq includes holding the CPA accountable for $20 billion in reconstruction contracts. Handing
over sovereignty to the new Iraqi interim government means that the
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) ceased to exist. Many fear that
the US and UN commissioned audits checking for waste and fraud in Iraq
reconstruction contracts will simply disappear and accountability will
be lost.
Embarrassment for US military
captured men aren’t Taliban commanders
By Rahimullah Yusufza<>i
PESHAWAR: The US military in Afghanistan is confronted with an embarrassing situation following the realisation that the two men in its custody were Afghan government officials from Helmand province rather than top Taliban commanders as claimed by it earlier.
PESHAWAR: The US military in Afghanistan is confronted with an embarrassing situation following the realisation that the two men in its custody were Afghan government officials from Helmand province rather than top Taliban commanders as claimed by it earlier.
By Kari Lydersen
July 2, 2004
As a new officer in the Air Force who trusted the institution and the men she worked with, Dorothy Mackey didn't think she would ever be sexually assaulted by her fellow servicemen. She was wrong.
Suarez, Free from Prison, Pushes for Law Reform
By Sandy Kobrin
Maria Suarez is finally out of jail.
The horror and isolation of being wrongly imprisoned for the past 22 years, however, still haunts the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant. At 16, Suarez was sold as a sex slave to Anselmo Covarrubias, a 62-year-old brujo, or witch doctor, in Azusa, Calif. After walking in on Covarrubias being beaten to death by a neighbor, Suarez was told to wash the weapon and hide it under the house. She did as she was told. Convicted of first degree murder, Suarez was sentenced to 25 years to life.
By Nat Parryuly 6, 2004
For the past year, the Bush administration has argued that Iraq is not another Vietnam, which in some ways was true. In South Vietnam, the U.S. was propping up the Saigon government, but the regime was regarded as "sovereign." In Iraq, until June 28, the U.S. was simply occupying Iraq after eliminating the old government.
NOW with Bill Moyers
Transcript, June 18, 2004The true human cost of the war in Iraq.
Are we getting the whole story from the Pentagon?
by SASHA ABRAMSKY
If you want to win a political race in the little south-central Arizona town of Florence, look for work in the area or just hear the local gossip, chances are pretty high that you'll find your way to Gibby's Bar. All day long, behind its old saloon doors, along its dim interior, that's where the town drinks. Surrounded by slightly absurd-looking saguaro cacti and harsh scrub-desert, along with a smattering of cotton fields and pecan farms, Florence is a raw town whose men and women drink hard and talk a talk from which more delicately constituted big-city dwellers might recoil in horror. The copper miners--the few who are left after decades of downsizing--come here after a day's work in their union jobs in the surrounding red-rock mountains. And so do the prison guards.
Neglected Too Long
Under The Tenure Of Commissioner Migliaro, The State Veterans Home Became A Decayed, Rundown Facility. Officials Are Now Trying To Rectify Matters.By ANN MARIE SOMMA
July 4 2004
T -- he elevator in the I wing is broken. A sign on the door reads "temporarily out of service for routine maintenance." Paul Gatter knows better. The elevator broke two years ago, maybe three. He can't be certain. So many things at the Veterans Home and Hospital in Rocky Hill don't work anymore.
Are they dead? Are they alive?by Nat Hentoff
Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?
In a front-page article December 26, 2002, The Washington Post revealed that prisoners at a CIA interrogation center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan were being subjected to abuses that veered on torture:
"The picture that emerges is of a brass-knuckled quest for information . . . in which the traditional lines between right and wrong, legal and inhumane, are evolving and blurred."
The unanimous Declaration of the Insurgency.
Veterans Missing Out On Benefits
July 3, 2004
The frostbite and gangrene Joseph Hallemann contracted nearly 60 years ago after wading through an icy French harbor still trouble the former World War II Army scout.
He has significant nerve damage, and his legs are purple, black and brown. "I can't feel anything," said Hallemann, 78.
Yet Hallemann didn't learn for decades that he was eligible for compensation for his injuries -- not until the state of Missouri noticed how few of its veterans were getting federal disability benefits and established a program to find them.
"I think it's a dang disgrace on the country," said Missouri Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell. "We've asked men and women to serve and pay a horrible price, and then to abandon them when they come home. These are not handouts; these are earned benefits."
Disabled vet says Iraq war a tragic error
By DAVID HO
But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.
By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER
The report repeatedly blasts departing CIA Director Tenet, accusing him of skewing advice to top policy-makers with the CIA's view and elbowing out dissenting views from other intelligence agencies overseen by the State or Defense departments. It faulted Tenet for not personally reviewing Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, which contained since-discredited references to Iraq's attempts to purchase uranium in Africa.
Bringing the Nation Back on Track
by Chisun Lee
July 6th, 2004 9:45 AM
"At stake in this case is nothing less than the essence of a free society."
Issue of wall now moves to UN Security Council.
Ex-Army reservist sues to avoid recall
By TIM WHITMIRE"My feet. I'm not 33 anymore and they're going to have me out until I can hardly take a step."
Christ was talking about the start of the political campaigning when the Republicans trying to stay in office have started dragging Christ everywhere, and they will have him out there on the road right up to Election Day.
FOOTING THE GOP’S HEAVY HANDEDNESS by Jimmy Breslin
Thank You, Your Honors
In a carefully reasoned but unequivocal decision, the International Court of Justice in the Hague did the expected: It found that Israel's construction of its security wall inside Palestinian territory is illegal according to international law.
By GREG MYRE
JERUSALEM, July 8 - Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians, most of them militants, during intense gun battles early on Thursday in the northern Gaza Strip, where soldiers have been trying to halt Palestinian rocket fire.
The grieving parents who might yet bring Bush down
The families of dead American soldiers have overcome censorship and fear
07/12/04 "ICH" -- We, the People, have a Moment of Choice in one hundred and twenty days. On November 2, 2004, Election Day in the United States, We, the People, have the Obligation and Right to stand for our Country and Constitution. We, the People, have the opportunity to cast our votes and have our voices heard around the World because of the humanity and integrity of Our Forefathers, who wrote the Constitution. BY BRIDGET GIBSON
Washington D.C., July 4, 2004 - George Washington University's National Security Archive, the leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, today released its annual Freedom of Information Act birthday posting, 38 years to the day after President Johnson was dragged kicking and screaming to sign the U.S. FOIA into law on July 4, 1966.
Edited by Meredith Fuchs, Barbara Elias, Daniel López and
Thomas Blanton
and the Bush administration
AUSTIN (AP) — Two military service members who recently returned from Iraq spoke out against the war Wednesday during a rally at the Capitol, telling a small but boisterous crowd that the Bush administration misled America about the threat of terrorism there.
Revolving Door for Troops
By Nathaniel FrankJuly 12, 2004
In a move some are calling a "backdoor draft," the Pentagon has announced it will issue mandatory recalls to more than 5,600 Army troops for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. The use of these soldiers from the Individual Ready Reserve is the latest step military leaders are taking to maintain adequate troop strength for our continuing battles in the Middle East. Thousands of service members have had their tours of duty extended beyond the terms of their contracts. "Stop-loss" orders were issued to delay scheduled discharges. And Congress recently approved increasing the size of the Army by 20,000 recruits.