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Today's
Stories
March 22, 2005
William Blum
Anti-Empire
Report: Democracy--or is it the US Military--on the March
Greg Moses
A Palm Sunday Chat with Sis Levin
John Farley
Bush's Culture of Life: Let the
Insurance Companies Pull the Plug When the Sick Cost Too Much
Ron Jacobs
Halt
the Anniversary Rallies and Stop the Damn War
Rep. Cynthia
McKinney
An
Immoral and Illegal War: Destroying Iraq Isn't Enough for Them
Dave Lindorff
"Saving" Schiavo; Killing the News
James Petras
Fateful
Quadrangle: Cuba and Venezuela Face Off Against the US and Colombia
March 21, 2005
John Walsh
In
the Bars on the Road to Fayettevile: War Support Paper Thin
Werther
The
Legacy of George Kennan, Chief Architect of the Cold War
Mike Stark
Where is the "Culture of Life" in Maryland? Time is
Running Out for Vernon Evans
David Swanson
Feeding
Tubes for the Third World: Put the Hungry into Comas, Then Feed
Them!
James T. Phillips
Happy Meals: Behind the Grill at a Baltimore Diner
Mike Ferner
Serving,
Refusing, Impeaching
Robert Jensen
The World Waits for an Answer
Paul Craig
Roberts
A
Threat Greater Than Terrorism
Stew Albert
Vegetable Nation
Website of
the Day
American Press Blotter: Jacko, Terry and Steroids vs. the World
March 19, 2005
Alexander Cockburn
Three-Card
Monte and the One-Party State
Tom Reeves
Exposing the Coming Draft: a Draft by Any Other Name is Still
Wrong
Saul Landau
The Grandchildren of Roy Cohn: the Politics of the Repressed
Alan Maass
Making Bankruptcy a Life Sentence
Ron Jacobs
Submit or Else: the Nuclear Demon that Won't Go Awayy
David Green
The Holocaust Industry Comes to the University of Illinois
John Blair
Hey, Dick! I'm Still Free: a Blow for Freedom of Speech in Indiana
Steve Greenfield
The Decline of the Green Party: the Numbers are In
Ben Tripp
Nature isn't Real
Mike Roselle
A History of White People in the Conservation Movement
Joshua Frank
Hope in Red State America: Lessons from the Big Sky Country
Mark Weisbrot
The World Bank: a Bigger Problem Than Wolfowitz
Dave Lindorff
Congress on Steroids
Sarah Schaffer
Lula's Nukes: Bush Bullies Iran, Ignores Brazil's Nuclear Ambitions
Warren Hastings
Why the Queen Should Chop Off Tony Blair's Head for Treason
Poets' Basement
Lodge, Albert. Landau, Engel, Davies, Capaccio
March 18, 2005
Dave Zirin
The
Congressional Urine Testers: Baseball's Theater of the Absurd
Richard Thieme
The
Church Committee Candidate: I was a Victim of the KGB
John Walsh
Misdirecting the Anti-War Movement
David Swanson
Hunger
Striking for a Living Wage at Georgetown
Ben Terrall
In
the Spirit of Rachel Corrie: Confronting Caterpillar in San Leandro
David Boyle
Just Say "No" to Harvard
Dorreen Yellow Bird
Coping with Teen Suicide on the Standing Rock Reservation
Mokhiber /
Weissman
Global Bully Goes to Guatemala
Greg Moses
They
Don't Shoot Donkeys...Do They?
Website of
the Day
800
Protests: Find One Near You
March 17, 2005
Christopher
Brauchli
Rendered
Unto Caesar: the Etymology of Torture
Bill Quigley
The St. Patrick's Four and the Resistance to the War in Iraq
Brian Cloughley
Bush's
Herds: Willing to Kick Anyone in the Face
Gary Bass / Adam Hughes
Inside the Bush Budget: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Dave Lindorff
The Incredible Shrinking Coalition
Jude Wanniski
Wolfowitz at the World Bank: a Perfect Fit
Alexander Billet
Irish Republicanism at the Crossroads
John Ross
Wal-Mart
Invades Mexico
Website of the Day
Campus Resistance
March 16, 2005
Ralph Nader
Filling
the Congressional Cop-Out Gap: an Idea for Local Peace Activists
William Cook
Resurrecting the Neo-Con Failures
Kevin Zeese
Two
Years of Occupation: Both US and Iraq are Worse Off
Jackie Corr
Why is Dick Cheney Laughing? The New Tax Cut Patriotism
Alan Maass
Bush's Class War Budget
David R. Kolker
Jailed Without Charges in Haiti
Cindy Ellen
Hill
Speculative Policing in Northern Ireland
Paul Craig
Roberts
America's
Has-Been Economy
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March 22, 2005
Destroying Iraq Isn't Enough for Bush
An
Immoral and Illegal War
By
Rep. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
Remarks
at Chicago Anti-War Rally, March 19, 2005
Two years ago we gathered all across
America to say no to war.
We were joined by people all
over the planet who know that there is an alternative to war.
But war is about the only option
available when the real motive is to steal natural resources
that belong to someone else.
Or to restack the deck in the
Middle East with today's generation of coups and assassinations,
following the likes of the US 1949 ouster of Syria's elected
government, the US 1953 ouster of Iran's elected government;
US 1958 landing of Marines in Lebanon; and its 1963 support for
a coup in Iraq after an assassination attempt against its leader
failed.
The militarism we see today
is nothing new.
Even though some 14 countries
have withdrawn their troops since March 2003, Bush tells the
American people that he has no idea when US troops can expect
to come home.
Sadly, many of them are being
forced to take matters into their own hands. With filings for
conscientious objector status, forced pregnancies, disappearances,
seeking asylum in Canada, and leading rallies like this today
all over America.
The American people, and our
children over there fighting, still haven't been told the real
reason the US is at war with the Iraqi people.
And against the people the
US war machine has turned.
Thousands of Iraqis, especially
children, have been killed by our sanctions and our bombs.
This is an immoral and illegal
war and we need to bring our troops home now.
Instead, they lay the groundwork
to expand the war and destabilize Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.
Destroying Iraq isn't enough
for them.
Nor are the million men and
women in our Armed Services enough for them.
The George Bush war machine
wants you, too. And your children.
Everywhere you turn the Pentagon
is denying it wants a draft while at the same time lamenting
that recruitment is way down.
Mercenaries will increasingly
be used to fight their wars with your tax dollars.
While reinstating the draft
only feeds the war machine.
In fact, we need to get the
military recruiters out of our high schools; they need to stop
harassing our children, and the 1 billion dollars they spend
on slick radio and tv spots and friendly neighborhood offices,
ought to be put in the education budget so our kids can go to
college without having to go to war first.
They tell us we're at war for
democracy.
But that's a joke; George Bush
came to power by stopping democracy at home--denying the opportunity
to vote to blacks and Latinos in Florida.
They built on that fine record
last year with hackable voting machines that don't accurately
tally our votes.
And in countries like Haiti
where democracy was thriving, they arrested President Aristide
at gunpoint and forced him out of his own country.
While they purport to cherish
democracy, they really have a disdain for it.
Democracy in Venezuela, India,
Spain, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay has produced proud
people willing to stand up to US imperialism, coup attempts,
and destabilization of their countries. And the good news is
that this resistance will spread.
The worse they are, the stronger
we become.
And worse they will become
because they've aimed their sights on Russia and China after
they've balkanized the Middle East.
But one thing I guarantee to
you and to them: we won't be fooled!
We know the truth. And we won't
stop.
Stay strong, my brothers and
sisters, we have a lot of work to do.
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