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Hello, I have been thinking and talking a lot today about a child far away…

Tonight, I ran across this poem in a free Margaret Mead book I found, -Blackberry Winter: my earlier years-…

I am comforted even in such hard times to be glad for giving the freedom needed for my child to become all she [...]

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Dissent Is Patriotic

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee’s e-mail newsletter

July 2005, Vol. 4, No. 5

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In this issue:

USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Votes New Resources: Guantánamo Play, Joint Terrorism Task Force FAQs, and more Patriot Days of Action In Congress: [...]

Media Monitors Network

by John Chuckman

(Monday July 25 2005)

“The talk of American Neo-cons is more tempered, but it comes from exactly the same moral and intellectual root stock. Social Darwinism and worship of force are conspicuously on display in Washington. Rather than hating Christianity, the Neo-cons have harnessed it, at least a substantial American portion of [...]

LA Times

Innocent civilians, including people who are considered vital to building democracy, are increasingly being killed by U.S. troops.

By Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer

BAGHDAD — Three men in an unmarked sedan pulled up near the headquarters of the national police major crimes unit. The two passengers, wearing traditional Arab dishdasha gowns, stepped from the [...]

The Independent, UK

As he completes another tour of duty in the chaos of Iraq, award-winning reporter Patrick Cockburn charts how Bush and Blair’s ‘winnable war’ turned into a mess that is inspiring a worldwide insurgency

Published: 24 July 2005

The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: “Great nations [...]

Watching the Watchers.org

Data is emerging, no matter how the administration attempts to hide it, that the new photos and video of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison include the torture of children.

Norway’s Prime Minister’s office says it plans to address the situation with the U.S. “in a very severe and direct way.”

Could this mean losing yet [...]