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This Month's Featured Articles

Tortured ConfessionsLiberiaDepleted Uranium as a Global Justice Issue

Additional contents of this month's Shout:

Conspiracy CornerDomestic WatchDepleted Uranium UpdateEditorials
  Environmental Watch
InterAct's 5 MinutesIRAQOn a Positive Note
 President's CommentsTruth vs. TruthUpdatesWar of Distraction

 

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of
honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the
goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

 

The object of persecution is persecution.  The object of torture is torture.  The object of power is power.

George Orwell

Tortured Confessions

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Is it acceptable to torture suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda members to prevent future attacks?

by Lila Schow

Take Action to prevent the torture!

DU is a low-level radioactive waste, and, therefore, must be disposed in a licensed repository.

Army Environmental Policy Institute

Depleted Uranium Update:

 InterAct has been working with Senator Allard's office to introduce a bill Suspending the Sale and Use of Depleted Uranium in Munitions.  Our medical research will be ready for presentation by September 1, 2003.

Learn more about this bill and Depleted Uranium.

 

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.


Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference

A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE

Not In Our Name 

 

International Boycott of Coca Cola

CokeWatch.org

Go to CorpWatch Homepage

Stop Unaccountable Voting Computerized Systems

Take Action to Stop Bush From Dismantling Head Start

Restore International Family Planning Funds

Tell Congress Member to Co-Sponsor Push for Investigations into Bush's WMD lies

A White House prayer meeting
By John Brand, D.Min., J.D.

Jerry Falwell: Mighty and Gracious God, Omnipotent and Omniscient Lord of All. We give Thee thanks that in this time of great national need, this time of homosexual terrorism, this time of abortionist evildoers, this time of narrow-minded destructive atheists, Thou hast ordained George Bush to implement Thy Holy Word contained in Thy infallibly, eternally true Bible.

George Bush: Almighty Father, how grateful I am that you have opened my eyes to Thy revealed word. Be rest assured that we shall act as Thy faithful and loving servants to fulfill what Thou hast written. Thank you for delivering me from my early youthful indiscretions so that now I can devote myself with a clear head, a pure mind, and a saved soul to the work of destroying the evil ones who would seek to harm Thy blessed nation.

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Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy  

Security vs. freedom: the false choice By Jeff Milchen

 

Denial and Deception By Paul Krugman

 

Bush in Africa: Compassionate Protectionism By Mark Weisbrot

All the way with FTA? By Sean Healy

Support Billy Nessen By Peter Bohmer

When Major Powers Stage a Bloodless Coup by Randall Robinson

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

William Allen White

 

On A Positive Note

 

Food companies go GE-Free in China Chinese consumers turn their backs on GE food. Greenpeace Food Safety Roadshow visit to Huaying green community in Guangzhou.

Rainbow Warrior in full sail off Honolulu, Hawaii.

Rainbow Warrior Free

House Votes, 400-21, to Block Media Rule by the F.C.C

 

They are lying to you. First, Britain's prime minister, standing before the united states congress, will tell a big fat fib and then our president, standing with him at the white house, will stutter, sputter and then lie in your face.

 

Greg Palast

Truth vs. Truth

Top Saudi Arabian Official to Meet With Bush. . . Bush Refuses to Declassify Saudi Section of 9-11 Report

The United States leads the world in fighting disease ... Only 10% of the world's health budget is invested in tropical illnesses, despite the fact that such diseases account for 90% of the global disease burden.

Gates Aims Billions to Attack Illnesses of World's Neediest . . .  Bill Gates’:  Killing Africans for Profit and PR

The United States supported the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...Until it began its war on terror.

US peacekeeper in Bosnia

Africans welcomed Bush and his life-saving contributions... Bush's contribution to the HIV/malaria crisis will be less than promised, plus his hidden agenda will kill.

WATCH AND LISTEN
 
The BBC's Matt Prodger
"The ICC was set up to try those accused of genocide"

Environment Watch

A unique Antarctic community of giant worms and other seabed curiosities may not survive climate change, scientists believe.

TV Misleader Ad

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-CT, September 4, 2002

Read more of who said what and when.

 

 Domestic Watch

Seeking Truth From Justice: PATRIOT Propaganda - The Justice Department's Campaign to Mislead The Public About the USA PATRIOT Act

N.J. Judge Unseals Transcript In Controversial Terror Case: Lawyer Says Unraveled Charges Show Peril of Secret Evidence


Depleted Uranium as a Global Justice Issue
 

by Jodie Hemerda

 

A Bit of a Rant and an Act of Charity

 

by Jodie Hemerda

 

Liberia

by Jodie Hemerda

The White House's handling of the yellowcake-uranium-from-Niger deception has been atrocious, and its attempts to spin the aftershocks have been even worse. The White House just doesn't seem to grasp the concept that, when you're sending American soldiers to die, the reasons given – all of the reasons – should be true.

Arianna Huffington

UPDATES

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DENNIS KUCINICH: THE PROGRESSIVE CHOICE

Enron/WorldCom: updates in blue-

Turkey passes a controversial bill granting Kurdish militants conditional amnesty.

The United States suspects Cuba is using a rogue signal to block its satellite broadcasts into Iran.

Guantanamo:

 US Plans Death Camp

Urge the USA to guarantee fair trials for all

Ex-Guantanamo inmate to sue US

Asia/Southeast Asia:

Deadly floods hit eastern China. Heavy floods in eastern China kill 13 people and leave more than a million stranded, local media reports.

Laos reporters 'may soon be free.' Two reporters and a pastor jailed this week in Laos could soon be free, the country's foreign minister says.

PNAC:

The Official White House's National Security Strategy for the United States (look familiar?)

Democratic Republic of Congo/Great Lakes Region:

Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns for Congo (Dem. Rep. of)

Congo Settling into Peaceful Routine, Hope Beginning to Rise

Rwanda Is Said to Seek New Prosecutor for War Crimes Court

Uganda rebels 'drown children,' More than 45 children abducted by rebels drown after being forced into a flooded river, the army says.

Can We Trust the Media?

Army 'error' led to Lynch capture

WATCH AND LISTEN
Their Silence is Patriotism

Israel/Palestine:

Summer 2003 Delegation to Palestine
 

Indonesia:

Timor’s Tutorial in Oil Politics
 

War of Distraction

What your politicians do when you’re not looking:

PhRMA Wins Big After Spending More Than a Half Billion on Contributions, Lobbying and Ad Campaigns : New Report Details Spending, Contributions of Major Drug Companies

F.C.C. Media Rule Blocked in House in a 400-to-21 Vote

Officials Debate Whether to Seek a Bigger Military

Bush Seeks Big Changes in Head Start, Drawing Criticism From Program's Supporters


IRAQ

The War’s Stimulating Effect on the Economy:

Jobless Rate Hits 6.4, Highest Level in 9 Years

Keep Going Up (55k)

The (occupation) authorities are not entitled to name the members of the assembly charged with drafting the constitution

Ayatollah Ali Sistani

After We CRUSH Them

Occupation Forces Halt Elections Throughout Iraq

Iraq cleric condemns US plans. US plans to appoint a body to draft Iraq's new constitution are ruled "unacceptable" by the top Shia cleric.

Iran discovers a new oilfield, underscoring the Middle East's importance for future global petroleum stocks.

I want my husband home. I am so on edge. When they first left, I thought yeah, this will be bad, but war is what they trained for. But they are not fighting a war. They are not doing what they trained for. They have become police, in a place they're not welcome.

LUISA LEIJA, whose husband is a soldier in Iraq

Fallout

Peaceful Warrior 

US troops voice anger at Pentagon

Pentagon May Punish GIs Who Spoke Out on TV

War on terror 'hurts poor'

Protesters fear for HK freedom. Tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against a new anti-subversion law.

Iraq Diaries

The tragic failure of the Administration's efforts to build international support before launching its impatient rush towards war against Iraq is now bearing its bitter, bitter fruit.  The difficulty in finding just 20,000 peacekeepers to patrol Iraq is evidence that White House efforts to assemble 49 nations into a "coalition of the willing" was merely an exercise in rhetoric, meant to cover the lack of significant military or financial contributions from dozens of nations, save for those of Britain, Australia, and Poland.

Senator Byrd

Who Really Won This War

US offers $25m for Saddam capture

WATCH AND LISTEN
The BBC's Ben Brown reports from Baghdad
"Saddam is still casting a long shadow here"

 

It is seldom that any freedom is lost all at once.

David Hume

Conspiracy Corner

10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq
   

FOR FUN: Go to http://www.google.com then type in: weapons of mass destruction Don't press Search!! Click the "I'm feeling lucky" button - then read the error message carefully.

 

 

   'The Pain of Neglect
' by Kevin Moore (49k)
 

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