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AIDS activists disrupt Karl Rove's speech at black tie College Republican soirée

Rove's White House lies about global AIDS funding and access to generic medicines, while millions die

(Washington, D.C.) Chanting and holding signs reading "Dying for AIDS drugs? Karl says drop dead" and "Bush's lies kill, generic medicines now!", angry AIDS activists staged a noisy disruption of an appearance by top White House advisor Karl Rove at the National Conference of the College Republican National Committee, at the Washington Hilton.

"President Bush is breaking his promise to fully fund a $3 billion global AIDS bill signed into law in June. Bush is breaking his promise that countries can put access to medicines and public health ahead of the patent rights of greedy drug companies. The deadly global AIDS fraud perpetrated by this White House has gone far enough," said Sean Barry, a protester.

"Rove pulls the strings in this Administration, and Rove has the blood of people with HIV on his hands."

Two days ago, lawmakers in the House of Representatives, under the direction of Rove's White House, opposed efforts to fully fund the bill President Bush signed into law in June that would provide $3

Take Action on Bush in Weaponsgate!

The Bush Administration is desperately trying to contain the brewing controversy about its false statements regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. They lied to drive us into a war against a country that posed no threat, a war which has so far killed over 6000 Iraqi civilians (www.iraqbodycount.net) and over 200 American soldiers. Speak out now! Help keep this issue in the public spotlight.

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CALL YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. Contact your Senators and Representatives and urge them to push for an independent investigation into whether the Bush Administration misled the public with claims that Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S. and its neighbors. Tell them the American public deserves answers to the tough questions. We want open, thorough, timely televised public hearings and an investigation with a broad mandate. We need the truth. Both Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) have

Time is running out

I taught for sixteen years and consider myself an educated, sophisticated man.  However calm reason doesn't work with the republicans or their supporters.  These bastards are sending three nuns off to prison for an act of bravery second to none!!  "Dangerously irresponsible," Blackburn called them.  THOSE GODDAMNED MISSLES BELONG TO ME AND THE PEOPLE OFTHIS COUNTRY, NOT THE US GOVERNMENT!!!, and frankly, I don' t give a damn about em as long as the nuns are ok.  They are political prisoners, no less than in China, or the DPRK, or the former USSR.  This rogue group of terrorists, the Bush Cartel MUST BE STOPPED SOMEHOW!!!  They are MURDERING what is left in the US that is good and caring!!  Every word they utter murders some part of the world.  How many more must die before these black guards are brought down!?  I'm convinced due to and unlimited body of data, factual and evidential, that goes back at least a century, that republicans can not be reasoned with, and absolutely will not stop until they are DESTROYED.  Just as any rabid animal would be.

Wasserman: Ayatollah Robertson's Supreme fatwah and Bush's desperate attack on America

I have read your article with interest, as one of your northern neighbours the actions of your government from time to time affect us up here in varying degrees. I would prefer a neighbouring people vigourous in the defense of their constitution and their rights and with few exceptions it isn't happening, at least from my limited view point.. Your president is just the tip of the iceberg it seems to me for I think the republican party has corralled in the business interests which includes the media, with Congress a republican sea and the old cry of "the business of America is business" a neofacist regime is being brought into being. I predict with tongue in cheek that before the 2004 election either a red alert will be brought in and martial law declared and that will be the end of free elections or the voting will be done by electronic means with no paper trail and guess who gets in.. I don't look to the democrats to turn back the tide as they to some extent suffer from the same need for large lumps of money.

Action update on House amendments

Greetings, patriots!  Many thanks to all of you who contacted your representatives in support of the Sanders-Otter-Conyers Amendment that would have restored legal standards and warrant procedures for investigations of libraries and bookstores which were in place before passage of the USA PATRIOT Act.  Unfortunately, due to a highly unusual procedural maneuver the amendment was excluded from consideration.  For more information on what happened, go to http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103%257E9054%257E1530442,00....  

Letter from Peggy Gish, CPT Iraq

Dear Friends and Family,

Greetings in this mid-summer time. It is nice to be able to communicate more frequently now by e-mail, and feel more connected with you.

This past week we have spent time looking at apartments and homes to rent, and today settled on an apartment in the Karrada area, not far from the Al Dar Hotel where I lived much of the winter in Baghdad. So, when we move on Sun. it will be like coming back home for me. It is more of a residential neighborhood, and we already know many families and shopkeepers in the area. It is also considered a safer area, and people are freer in walking along the streets and shops are open in the evenings. Another big advantage is that we will be reducing the rent we pay by two thirds the price, which will help a lot. We will have less electricity (they only have a back up generator for limited times of the day).

We are expecting two more men to come and join the team in the next three weeks, so that will expand possibilities for our work.

Sun. we witnessed the launching of the new Governing Council in Iraq, 25

CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat

A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on the so-called Iraqi threat and then delivered it to top White House officials who used it to win support for a war in Iraq.

The former CIA agents were asked to examine prewar intelligence last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and CIA Director George Tenet. The former agents will present a final report on their findings to the Pentagon, the CIA and possibly the Senate and/or Congress later this year.

More than a dozen calls to the White House, the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon for comment were not returned.

The ad-hoc committee, called the Office of Special Plans, headed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and other Pentagon hawks, described the worst-case scenarios in terms of Iraq's alleged stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and claimed

Ayatollah Robertson's supreme fatwah and Bush's desperate attack on America: Is the Superpower of Peace turning the corner?

Ayatollah Pat Robertson is praying for the departure of at least three Justices of the United States Supreme Court. And the Bush Junta continues its relentless attack on the foundations of American democracy. The "shock and awe" of this ever-escalating blitzkreig has been the root of Bush's strength, keeping the opposition off balance and on the defensive.

But cracks are showing in a totalitarian assault that needs total victory. The regime has grossly overreached its minority non-mandate. Its procession of Big Lies, such as Saddam's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, are generating just the kind of blowback that can shatter a tyranny, even one in control of the mass media.

Have we turned a corner?

Robertson's "prayer" for the "removal" of three Supreme Court Justices reeks of a "fatwah"---a call to murder. Islamic Ayatollahs issued a similar death threat against Salman Rushdie, whose "Satanic Verses" they deemed blasphemous. In fact, he merely lampooned the Ayatollahs. Against all odds, Rushdie still lives.

Green Party taking the plunge in 2004

     For the 2004 presidential race, the Green dye is cast.

     “The Green Party emerged from a national meeting ... increasingly certain that it will run a presidential candidate in next year’s election, all but settling a debate within the group over how it should approach the 2004 contest,” the Washington Post reported on July 21. The Green Party promptly put out a news release declaring that Greens “affirmed the party’s intention to run candidates for president and vice president of the United States in 2004.”

     That release quoted a national party co-chair. “This meeting produced a clear mandate for a strong Green Party presidential ticket in 2004,” he said, adding that “we chose the path of growth and establishing ourselves as the true opposition party.” But other voices, less public, are more equivocal.

     Days later, national party co-chair Anita Rios told me that she’s “ambivalent” about the prospect of a Green presidential race next year. Another co-chair, Jo Chamberlain, mentioned “mixed feelings about it.” Theoretically, delegates to the national convention next June could

Kister on talk radio shows throughout the country

Local environmental activist Chad Kister has been busy giving live and taped interviews for talk radio shows around the country about his book, Arctic Quest: Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness.

Kister has been on Alaska Public Radio for an hour-long interview and for long interviews in Detroit, Northern California, Fresno California, Dallas, Texas, Colorado, New Jersey and many more.

Kister's publisher, Common Courage Press hired a publicist who set up the interviews. This is after Kister finished a 30-day, 12,000 mile speaking and book signing tour throughout the United States and Canada by train from mid-June to mid-July. Trains get ten times better fuel efficiency per passenger mile than cars or planes.

On December 12, Kister delivered an award to Senator Michael Dewine for his efforts and votes to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on behalf of the Alaska Coalition.

The Alaska National Public radio presentation accepted phone calls. Several were from oil

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