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Thursday 22 September 2005

 

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UN Human Rights Body to Scrutinize US Abuses

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205A.shtml

The UN Human Rights Committee, scheduled to meet in Geneva next month,

has written to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) calling for any

available evidence of human rights abuses by the United States -

particularly in the aftermath of its global war on terrorism.

 

 

Dynamic NOW President Molly Yard Dies at 93

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205B.shtml

Molly Yard, 93, a former president of the National Organization for

Women who fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, legal access to

contraception and abortions and revitalization of the feminist

movement, died

Sept. 21 at Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Pittsburgh, where she lived.

 

 

US Lectures China on Power and Responsibly

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205C.shtml

US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told China on Wednesday it

should take concrete steps to assure the world it will use its power

responsibly and said Beijing's approach to Iran would prove its

seriousness on combating nuclear proliferation.

 

 

Bush's Words on Iraq Echo LBJ in 1967

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205D.shtml

Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq might look

anything like Vietnam. Yet just as today's anti-war protests recall

memories of yesteryear, President Bush's own words echo those of

President

Johnson in 1967, a pivotal year for the US in Vietnam.

 

 

Michael Schwartz | Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205E.shtml

Despite the plausible logic that an immediate withdrawal in Iraq will

cause outbreaks such a catastrophic civil conflict, Michael Schwartz

argues that US presence, doesn't deter, but contributes to, a thickening

civil-war-like atmosphere in Iraq. The longer the US stays the more

likely that scenarios involving an authentic civil war will prove

accurate,

he warns.

 

 

Anti-War Momentum | Peace by Pieces

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205F.shtml

Critics cannot easily dismiss this incarnation of anti-war enthusiasm

as a fringe passion of anarchists, communists and freaks. Recent polls

say a majority of Americans - as many as 59 percent - think the war in

Iraq is a " mistake " and the troops should be brought home. " People are

angry, but they're focused, " says Karen Bradley. " It's not blind rage.

People are sober, and very determined. "

 

 

Bob Herbert | Voters' Remorse on Bush

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205G.shtml

Bob Herbert: Maybe, just maybe, the public is beginning to see through

the toxic fog of fantasy, propaganda and deliberate misrepresentation

that has been such a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration,

which is in danger of being judged by history as one of the worst of all

time.

 

 

Dacca Threatened by Fascists of the Koran

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205H.shtml

The only common ground among the Islamist extremists' diverse little

groups is the idea of constructing their deadly utopia on chaos, of using

all modern means (cell phones, Internet, media) to destroy modernity.

Today, they are no longer embarrassed about defying the government.

 

 

William Rivers Pitt | Running on the Right to Vote

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205I.shtml

William Rivers Pitt tells us there are two kinds of people in American

politics today: those who know our basic right to vote and have every

vote counted is imperiled, and those who have no idea such a basic right

is at risk.

 

 

Disaster, Take Two

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205J.shtml

The White House would like to think it's ready for Rita. But the

president's aides also thought they were ready for Katrina, even after it

passed through New Orleans. Knowing when you're overwhelmed is a far

harder call, especially when there's been little time to study the

lessons

of the last disaster.

 

 

Norman Solomon | The Occasional Media Ritual of Lamenting the Habitual

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205K.shtml

When a network TV correspondent makes noises that indicate a possible

break with the corporate media establishment, Norman Solomon says he

thinks of something that Mark Twain said: " It's easy to quit smoking.

I've

done it hundreds of times. "

 

 

Anger Grows in Basra after British Raid

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205L.shtml

Waving pistols and assault rifles, Iraqi police officers led an angry

anti-British demonstration in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday,

and the provincial council voted unanimously to stop cooperating with

British forces in the area until Britain apologized for storming a police

station to free two of its soldiers.

 

 

David S. Broder | Waiting for Action

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205M.shtml

Conservative columnist, David S. Broder tells us that even now, when

the president is saying all the right things about the problems of

poverty highlighted by the plight of Hurricane Katrina victims, his

administration is dragging its feet on practical steps to help meet

their needs.

 

 

Jonathan Kozol: Apartheid America

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205N.shtml

Jonathan Kozol rails against a public school system that, 50 years

after Brown v. Board of Education, is still deeply - and shamefully -

segregated.

 

 

Sidney Blumenthal | From Gulf to Shining Gulf

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205O.shtml

Bush's responses to the crisis in Iraq and the aftermath of Katrina are

jarringly repetitive. Sidney Blumenthal wonders if his speechwriters

are using a computer's copy-and-paste function?

 

 

National Archives Indian Records Discarded

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205P.shtml

Federal officials are investigating how National Archives documents of

interest to Indians suing the Interior Department were found discarded

in a trash bin and a wastebasket.

 

 

Now | Katrina: Paying for Reconstruction

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Q.shtml

Should your tax dollars pay for rebuilding on coastlines vulnerable to

natural disasters? NOW explores these questions and more.

 

 

Democrats Cave on Roberts

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Y.shtml

The Senate Judiciary Committee strongly endorsed Judge John G. Roberts

Jr. today to be the next chief justice of the United States, sending

the nomination to the full Senate for confirmation next week. The 13-to-5

vote, with 3 Democrats joining the 10 Republicans on the committee.

 

 

Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Z.shtml

Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war crusade to Washington, DC, on

Wednesday, arriving with a caravan of three RVs and several cars ferrying

about three dozen military families and Iraq War veterans on the final

leg

of their 21-day Bring Them Home Now tour.

 

 

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