March 2008

The “Iranian Crisis”: Danger and Opportunity

March 31, 2008 by Staff

By William R. Polk / Informed Consent Cassandra and Yogi Berra are an unlikely pair, but I hear both of their voices today. Cassandra, like some of us, was cursed to be always disbelieved as she correctly predicted the future while baseballer Yogi Berra will be remembered for his penetrating insight into the flow of […]

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Russia & Saudi Arabia Expect the U.S. to Attack Iran

March 31, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

by Paul Craig Roberts / OpEdNews.com 3/31/08 The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps […]

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6 arrested for disrupting Chicago Easter Mass charged with felony

March 31, 2008 by Staff

The six antiwar protesters who disrupted an Easter mass at a Chicago church and then who were arrested, were charged with a felony and two misdemeanors. The Chicago police announced that the six young people arrested at the Holy Name Cathedral die-in have been charged with one count of felony criminal damage to property and […]

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80 year old protester arrested at NY mall for refusing to take off antiwar T-shirt

March 31, 2008 by Staff

LONG ISLAND, NY. An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as […]

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A View From the Right: “the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters”

March 30, 2008 by Staff

(Ed.: I found this article fascinating, not for its rightwing perspective, but for its chronicle of antiwar and civil disobedient actions. The article’s accuracy has not been independently verified, however. But I have yet to see any such chronicling by the peace movement.) by Michelle Malkin Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past […]

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Eva Golinger’s “Bush v. Chavez, The Coming War on Venezuela” (book review)

March 29, 2008 by Staff

by George Ciccariello-Maher / 24 March 2008 More than a year ago, I attended the official book release for the Venezuelan edition of Eva Golinger’s Bush Versus Chávez, published by Monte Avila, and the book had previously been printed in Cuba by Editorial José Martí. I recount this to make the following point: long before […]

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FULL REMARKS: Obama’s Speech on Race & Religion

March 29, 2008 by Staff

Barack Obama Addresses Race & Religion in Wake of Controversy March 18, 2008 The following remarks were provided to ABC News by the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and are as prepared for delivery. The speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union”, was given by Obama on March 18, 2008, at the National Constitution Center […]

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Cedar Fire Survivor Running for County Supervisor

March 28, 2008 by Marc Snelling

Rudy Reyes Is Dismayed With Lack of Progress On Fire Issues by Marc Snelling San Diego County native Rudy Reyes is a study in perseverance. The 2003 survivor of the Cedar wildfires has a powerful story to tell. Rudy came to be known as a hero to many locals after the worst wildfire in California’s […]

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Dirty DeMaio

March 28, 2008 by Staff

from San Diego Politico, March 26, 2008 San Diego needs real leadership – not more mismanagement and dirty politics. We need leaders who look beyond their own personal gain and work for all San Diegans. What we don’t need is more dirty politicians – but that’s exactly what we would get with Carl DeMaio. When […]

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March 28th : Anniversary of the Infamous Collier Park Riot in Ocean Beach, 1971

March 28, 2008 by Staff

OCEAN BEACH, CA. Today marks the 37th anniversary of the infamous Collier Park Riot, a clash between San Diego Police and anti-Viet Nam war protesters and Ocean Beach residents. Over 50 were arrested, a number injured, after police attacked a peaceful gathering of hundreds in what was to become Collier Park West, the hilly, grassy […]

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232 Americans Arrested During Week of Antiwar Protests

March 27, 2008 by Staff

By our search of reports of antiwar protests and demonstrations during the week of March 15 to March 20, OB RAG has now determined that 232 Americans were arrested for their activities during protests of the Iraq war and occupation by US forces. This is a conservative number, and only represents the arrests reported in […]

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Off-Duty Cop Who Fired 5 Shots – Wounding Unarmed Woman and Her 8 Year Old Son – Should Be Jailed for Attempted Murder

March 27, 2008 by Staff

Wounding Rachel Silva & Son, Officer Frank White Is Still Free – Which Shows That There Is a Two-Tiered Justice System: One for Cops and the Other for the Rest of Us By Joe Frustrated. SAN DIEGO, CA. Today, Rachel Silva told her side of the story. With Gene Iredale, her lawyer, by her side, […]

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Thousands in Baghdad Protest Basra Assault While Iraqi Government Fails to Take It for 3rd Day

March 27, 2008 by Staff

Update: American-trained Iraqi security forces failed for a third straight day to oust Shiite militias from the southern city of Basra on Thursday, even as President Bush hailed the operation as a sign of the growing strength of Iraq’s federal government. By James Glanz and Graham Bowley / The New York Times Thursday 27 March […]

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George’s N’er-Do-Well Son

March 27, 2008 by Staff

It’s been brought to our attention that ole Ronny didn’t say this, but we’re still chucklin’ over it. So this is our retraction… consider it an early April Fools joke! From an email this morning, “Too bad he didn’t get the job” “A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his n’er-do-well son around this morning […]

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Five Years of Iraq Lies

March 26, 2008 by Staff

How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplished. by Juan Cole Each year of George W. Bush’s war in Iraq has been represented by a thematic falsehood. That Iraq is now calm or more stable is only the latest in a series of […]

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Sadrist-organized Sunni-Shia conference in Baghdad demands US withdrawal while “cease-fire” unravels

March 25, 2008 by Staff

300 Sunni & Shia Tribal Leaders Demand Scheduled Withdrawal of Occupation Forces Missing Links, March 24, 2008 This is about a meeting that took place in the NW Baghdad district of Kadhamiya. Voices of Iraq says the meeting, organized by the Sadr organization, included 300 tribal leaders, Shia and Sunni, from throughout Iraq, but the […]

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Reuters/Zogby Poll: Three in four now believe U.S. is in a recession

March 25, 2008 by Staff

Approval ratings for President Bush are just 26% for March UTICA, New York – With U.S. recession fears hitting new highs, the overall mood of Americans has taken a sharp turn for the worse, a new Reuters/Zogby poll shows. The Reuters/Zogby Index, which measures American confidence, has fallen to a new low of 87.7 from […]

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Why Is the Left So Boring?

March 25, 2008 by Staff

If I Can’t Dance …. By DAVID ROVICS (posted on CounterPunch 3/24/08 Last weekend I sang at an antiwar protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, on the fifth anniversary of the ongoing slaughter in Iraq. In both its good and bad aspects, the event downtown was not unusual. Hard-working, unpaid activists from various organizations and networks […]

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… continuing reports of last week’s antiwar protests…

March 25, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

by Frank Gormlie Posted on March 25th, 2008 (I originally posted this during today, but due to a later technical glitch I lost most of all the links. I will attempt to replace them as I can.) Since the corporate media is not doing it, we will. We are here continually posting reports of antiwar […]

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Survey of Antiwar Protesters Yields Interesting Results – 1/4 Are New

March 25, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

A couple of English leftists have surveyed antiwar demonstrators at recent protests in London and another city. Their survey of over 400 people has yielded some very interesting results. About 22 percent of the marchers we surveyed at these demonstrations were on their first anti-war demonstration since 9/11. This shows that even five years on […]

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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (book review)

March 25, 2008 by Richard Nadeau

Those who say “it is the economy” and “not the war” forget that the war has had a negative impact on the economy. When the US went to war in Iraq in March of 2003, the American people were told it was going to cost $50 billion. Just recently, the Bush administration has asked for […]

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Daniel Ellsberg to the Die-In Participants: We as a People Have the Power

March 25, 2008 by Staff

by Daniel Ellsberg These were my remarks to several hundred activists and supporters participating in a die-in in downtown San Francisco at noon, March 19, 2008, on the fifth anniversary of the launching of shock and awe in Iraq. All those blocking traffic – surprisingly, for a couple of hours, before we were all arrested […]

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So Wrong for So Long: Greg Mitchell on How the Press, the Pundits-and the President-Failed on Iraq

March 25, 2008 by Staff

Amy Goodman Interviews Greg Mitchell on Democracy Now As the Iraq war passes its fifth anniversary, Amy Goodman interviewed Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher, who has just written a new book chronicling the media’s failing on covering Iraq titled, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits-and the President-Failed on Iraq. […]

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Progressives For Obama

March 25, 2008 by Staff

By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Danny Glover All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country. We believe that the movement today supporting Barack Obama continues this great tradition of grass-roots participation drawing […]

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Why We Said No: Three Diplomats’ Duty

March 25, 2008 by Staff

by Ann Wright, John Brown and Brady Kiesling Five years ago this month, the three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats bound by our oath of loyalty to the US Constitution. Our job was to build effective relationships […]

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So? … A Note from Michael Moore

March 25, 2008 by Staff

Friends, it would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn’t it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America these days. Is anyone surprised? 4,000 dead. Unofficial estimates are that there […]

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San Diego Holds Vigil: 4,000 American Deaths In Iraq Comes On the 5th Anniversary

March 24, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

SAN DIEGO, CA. It had come to that day. The day when American military deaths in Iraq reached 4,000. Peace activists had planned the vigil weeks in advance, for they knew this day had to come. The administration in Washington has been saying for months that the deaths of our countrymen and women has slowed, […]

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Protests Continue as U.S. War Deaths Reach 4,000

March 24, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

4,000 US servicewomen and men. This number of deaths was reached Sunday, March 23rd. Protests against the Iraq war and occupation continue across this country and internationally. We will continue to publish reports and accounts of these demonstrations as well as do updates about the protests from this past weekend, March 19th and March 15th. […]

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Saturday Mar. 22nd Downtown San Diego: 100 Protesters Stage Die-In Against the War

March 22, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Peaceful Protest Ends Week-Long Series of Antiwar Demonstrations SAN DIEGO, CA. They assembled in a downtown park at First and Island Avenue today, Mar. 22nd at roughly 2pm. As they waited for the word to move out to the “die-in” site, most had their white T-shirts stenciled with the number “15703” representing the number of […]

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Critics Question ‘New Protest Strategy’ of Peace Movement

March 20, 2008 by Staff

by Elizabeth Gibson / Mar 19, 2008 WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people were dancing in the street around a stereo in a wagon – teenagers cutting class, senior citizens in pink and glitter, a duo dressed as polar bears, young adults rushing around writing anti-war slogans with chalk, and parents toting children clutching protest signs.”I […]

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