News :: Military
Abu Ghraib: Double Standard Continues
13 May 2005
by
Mr. J. David Galland
J. David Galland describes how senior Army Officers are not being held accountable as are enlisted soldiers for their involvement in the Abu Ghraib debacle, thus further perpetuating the criminal cover-up and lack of placing the blame where blame truly lies.
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Nuclear weapons and humans cannot coexist: A Japanese survivor speaks out
13 May 2005
by
Taniguchi Sumiteru/People's Weekly World
When 60 years ago the United States became the first (and since then the only) country to use atomic weapons by dropping them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Those at the hypercenter, or ground zero, were the “lucky” ones — they were instantly vaporized. Others died, but not instantly, living their last moments in pain and misery. Their flesh melting off, many perished while looking for water to ease their suffering.
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More money down the drain: War cost bleeds states, cities
13 May 2005
by
Susan Webb/People's Weekly World
As U.S. casualties in Iraq topped 1,600, the U.S. Congress approved another $82 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related spending, with the bulk going to the Iraq occupation.
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News :: Activism
IMPEACHMENT TIME - Palast
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
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News :: Environment
AB 405: California Decides Whether to Ban Use of Experimental Pesticides in Schools
12 May 2005
by
Robina Suwol
"Kids & Teachers are not Lab Rats!"
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"'NEVER AGAIN' OVER AGAIN" — on Holocaust Remembrance Day
12 May 2005
by
Joseph Anderson
I thought that “Never again!” meant never again for all humanity — not just never again for European Jews.
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