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Dear Editor,
Please ask your news teams covering the opening of the mass
graves of victims of Saddam Hussein's regime to discover (and
explain to the world) why the relatives of the victims are using
mechanical excavators to destroy all the evidence needed by the
international criminal authorities to present to an appropriate tribunal?
Are these perhaps NOT relatives of the victims but of the murderers?
John Gibson
I am a Muslim fundamentalist but not a terrorist, says Dr M Ahmad A. Talib in Tokyo New Straits Times June 6, 2003 http://www.emedia.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/20030606083053/Article/
Funeral for police-shooting victim Ousmane Zongo By MIKE WEISSENTEIN Newsday June 6, 2003 http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny-- policeshooting-fu0606jun06,0,6395169.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
THE NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST: TWIN TOWERS OF ZIONISM'S LIES AND DEATH TO GENTILES. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0606-03.htm
Friedman: We did it ''because we could'' New York Times covers up for lies on Iraq war By Bill Vann World Socialist Web Site June 6, 2003 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/frie-j06.shtml
Muslims Sue CBS Over Defamatory Report Islam Online June 6, 2003 http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-06/06/article07.shtml
Saudi Arabia withdraws from $15 billion deal with Exxon Mobil RAWYA RAGEH Associated Press Friday, June 6, 2003 http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/6029919.htm
U.S. Trying To Improve Smeared Image: Experts By Ahmad El-Sheikh Islam Online June 7, 2003 http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-06/07/article12.shtml photo: http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-06/07/images/pic12.jpg Djerejian will recommend new ideas and policy initiatives for dealing with Arabs and Muslims
Neo-cons ARE pro-choice: I don't understand. First the neo-cons tell us that delayed gratification is a bad thing -- that we gotta place our grandchildren in debt up to their necks and endanger their little cherubic selves with fallout and nuclear war. Okay. Sure. Better us than them. We want it now! AT THE SAME TIME, the neo-cons just passed a partial birth abortion law which tells us that if our pregnant daughters are dying, we MUST let them die in order to save the fetus (no matter how much we have grown to like said daughters or how much they look to us with their sad, dying eyes). Okay. Sure. Better the fetus than the daughter. We want it later! Now or later? Now or later? Which is it going to be? Neo-cons, please make up your minds! Otherwise Americans might jump to the conclusion that it's not about values with you -- it's about mind control. Best regards, Jane Stillwater, Berkeley, CA "Imagine a world where EVERY child is wanted, nurtured, protected and loved: World Peace in one generation!" Plus the need for abortions will be greatly reduced. Increased volume of internet chatter: From Concerned Women of America: 40 million abortions have been performed since Roe v. Wade. [Yet the neo-cons have systematically eliminated the healthcare, education, social services, housing, daycare and jobs for parents necessary to support another 40 million children. The neo-cons, however, have many programs to abort the little darlings once they are born -- such as poverty, war, lack of healthcare, pollution, radiation, foster care programs in Florida, the WTO and NAFTA. From Nuc News: Every nuclear power plant in the US produces 250 barrels of nuclear waste PER DAY. [Let's protect fetuses by eliminating nuclear proliferation!] From Concerned Women of America: The House of Representatives is expected to vote late tomorrow on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban (H.R. 760). Since this legislation has already been passed by the Senate, passage in the House will enable President Bush to fulfill his promise to sign it into law.While final passage of the bill is expected, only one significant hurdle remains. Reps. Jim Greenwood (R-Pennsylvania) and Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) will offer a ''substitute'' that permits a partial birth abortion to be committed whenever the abortionist considers it in the interest of the mother's health -- which means whenever the abortionist chooses! From NARAL: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association, among many others, oppose [the "partial birth" abortion] ban. From me: Abortion is a terrible thing. The US invasion of Vietnam and the resultant deaths of 2 million people were also terrible things. Why do the same people who decry abortion turn around and glorify killing? Hypocrisy. I hate hypocrisy. You don't like abortion? Keep your pecker in your pants. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Iraqi birth defects blamed on US depleted uranium http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/iraq2002/95178_du12.shtml Bible quote from Roz: Yet we read in Genesis that “life” (spirit/inspiration) begins when the breath/spirit is taken in through the nostrils. Fetuses may or may not be persons but corporations are DEFINITELY not people. Want proof? How many corporations have been executed for murder in the State of Texas? How many corporations have gotten a divorce? How many corporations have BECOME PREGNANT? From Truthout: NY Times, Paul Krugman: Duped and betrayed http://truthout.org/docs_03/060703G.shtml From young Jessica: If they kill the mom to save the fetus, will 14-year-old mothers die? And what will happen to the motherless fetus? Speaking of Jessicas: Rumor has it that Jessica Lynch is now a POW at Walter Reed army hospital -- being held against her will until she can "remember" the neo-con version of her so-called rescue. Maybe we can get Delta Force to go in and save her! And while we're at it, maybe we can also rescue President Gore.
Split verdict in Detroit terror trial exposes government frame-up By Patrick Martin World Socialist Web Site June 7, 2003 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/detr-j07.shtml
Guantanamo Detainee death chamber studied By Matthew Hay Brown | San Juan Bureau Orlando Sentinel June 6, 2003 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-asecdeathrow06060603 jun06,0,2247743.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
Russia’s Gazprom May Bid for National Gas Initiative Contracts P.K. Abdul Ghafour Arab News Saturday, 7, June, 2003 (07, Rabi` ath-Thani, 1424) http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=27096&d=7&m=6&y=2003
Detainees use report to back a US civil rights suit By TOM HAYS Associated Press via Newsday June 6, 2003 http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--attacks- detainees0606jun06,0,5322429.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
INTRODUCING DENNIS KUCINICH For those of you who do not know who Dennis is, let me tell you some good news. This is an honest man, not controlled by the corporate power structure, who is running a courageous grass-root campaign for president. No fat cats have given him any money. The media ignores him. And the corrupt power structure is not feeling too easy with him around. Dennis Kucinich is not your gray Republicrat. He did not bow down to the dictator in Washington like the rest of the despicable Democrats did. Along with Senator Robert Byrd, they did everything in their power to prevent the war. He did not vote for the Patriot act. He had the courage to speak up when his Democratic collages laid down and went along with the program. Dennis is definitely on the Administration's hit list because he represents something very threatening to them. Freedom, truth, Justice and democracy. He's the one brave man telling the real truth among all the candidate hopefuls. And Dennis is no innocent; he knows what is really happening. He knows about the secret "chem-trail" spraying in our skies. He knows that 911 was an inside job with the cooperation of the highest levels of the "intelligence community". He knows an un-elected President sits in the White House like a dictator preparing to make the next war. He knows that the next presidential election may be called off if it's looking bad for Bush. He knows he could die in an unfortunate plane crash like so many other of our heroes have. But this man has courage to stand up to the corporate criminals that have taken over our country. Dennis is a brave man, running in a party that often wins. For those of you who remember John F Kennedy and the glory he brought to America, Dennis is of that same caliber. He can make America truly proud once more and loved by the world like it once was. Dennis is the only one who can bring down this un-elected Regime -- despite their corporate control of our airwaves and press. (A lot of men walking around in suits now will be in stripes behind bars if we get our country back!) What you do will decide the outcome. Dennis Kucinich is the one! *** "This administration has become more powerful while Americans become more fearful," Kucinich said. "That's not a democracy." KUCINICH DEMANDS RELEASE OF INTELLIGENCE THAT LED TO WAR Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, leader of the opposition to the Iraq war in the U.S. House, is announcing at a noon news conference on Wednesday that he will use a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the release of the intelligence that led to the war in Iraq, and to Administration claims that Iraq had tons of biological and chemical weapons, delivery systems, and a 'reconstituted' nuclear program. "This Administration led this nation into war based on lies," said Kucinich. "I think that this Congress, and the American people, have a right to know what information this Administration had, and how they justify their public comments. Now is the time for truth-telling." A Resolution of Inquiry is a rarely used House procedure that Kucinich used successfully in March to get the Administration to release the 12,000 page weapons report that Iraq had submitted to the UN. *** Congressman Dennis Kucinich is running a grassroots campaign for president, allied with the peace and justice movement. He is the one presidential candidate who had the courage to vote against the misnamed "USA Patriot Act." Unlike the corporate-connected candidates, Kucinich relies on you in the grassroots to spread the word about his campaign http://www.kucinich.us and to keep the campaign funded: https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php. *** Attached is a John Nichols column from today's Capital Times, "Kucinich Draws Crowd, but Not Media," which points out that no other candidate attracts the audiences that Dennis does, and yet, big national media -- like they did with McGovern in '71 and Carter in '75 -- may be missing the story. "If the grass roots still count for anything," writes Nichols, "then the Kucinich people have earned some bragging rights. Drawing a thousand people on a Saturday night in Madison, and being compared with Michael Moore in the Des Moines Register could yet prove to be more meaningful than flattering mentions in the New York Times." http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/nichols/50097.php *** To read Congressman Kucinich's full letter to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld (covered by AP today) seeking facts that would resolve the controversy surrounding the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq, go here: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16055 KUCINICH CAMPAIGN GAINING GROUND AMONG GRASSROOTS At a huge gathering of progressive leaders and activists in Washington D.C. yesterday, Dennis Kucinich stole the show. Speaking to more than 1200 movers and shakers for civil rights, labor, feminism, peace and the environment at the "Take Back America" conference (sponsored by Campaign for America's future), Kucinich "electrified" the crowd with a "spell-binding speech." To give you a flavor, here's a description from Salon, whose headline reported that "Kucinich's Bush roasting gets the biggest cheers": "The most impassioned applause of the day was reserved for Kucinich. Introduced by Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, as 'the only vegan in Congress,' Kucinich took the stage to John Lennon's 'Imagine' and proceeded to conjure the heyday of American progressivism by promising a new version of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. 'We're gonna rebuild America's cities and we're gonna do it with America's steel'... Medicare for all, money pulled out of the Pentagon budget to pay for schools and other domestic programs, and 'total nuclear disarmament.' He spoke to the crowd's fury over the war in Iraq, getting a screaming standing ovation when he cried: 'This war was wrong! This war was fraudulent! We must expose this administration.' "When he was finished it was clear there was no point in having anyone else follow him. 'Dennis Kucinich has barbecued George Bush,' said the emcee. 'How about we have a barbecue right now?'" The crowd adjourned to a party, according to Salon, partly because conference organizers took pity on Dick Gephardt and delayed his video message, scheduled to follow Kucinich, which "would have played like a parody of establishment banality." *** The Kucinich for President Campaign is gaining ground among key activists. Dennis has been all over TV in recent days for his effort to get answers from the Bush administration on the misleading claims that led our country to war. One way for you to connect with other peace and justice activists is to join the organizing and strategizing of the grassroots group, MoveOn.org (if not yet involved, go to http://www.moveon.org/keepmeposted/). *** Spread the word about the Kucinich campaign <http://www.kucinich.us> Send a few dollars to the Kucinich campaign <https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php *** PS. While there was no doubt to those in attendance yesterday at the "Take Back America" conference that Dennis Kucinich had won the event, some journalists seem so blinded by their preconceived notions of who is a "frontrunner" or "contender" or "leading candidate," that they have difficulty reporting objectively on what happens in front of their eyes. In the Los Angeles Times account, which acknowledged that Kucinich's speech was "repeatedly interrupted by standing ovations," Dennis is reduced to little more than a footnote. What's striking about some of the mainstream coverage of our insurgent campaign is how similar it is to the dismissive coverage of Jerry Brown in '91 and Jesse Jackson in '87 -- while prominence and tens of thousands of words were lavished on well-funded "contenders" who barely made it past the first New Hamphire primary, and whose campaigns are no longer even remembered.
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