Month: November 2006

Letter to the Judge Who Sentenced My Husband to Federal Prison for Protesting Nuclear Weapons by Michele Naar-Obed. Michele is married to Greg Boertje-Obed who was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison in November 2006 for hammering on the concrete lid covering the missile silo which houses the Minuteman III nuclear… Continue reading Letter to plowshares judge

A true giving of thanks for people of conscience by Silvia Brandon Pérez On the eve of the celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States, and while thousands across the land battled each other for yet another nonsensical and highly expensive toy, I have returned from what I may characterize as one of the most… Continue reading SOA Watch uplifting

Want to End the War? Ask for Investigations! By David Swanson Public awareness of the lies that led to the war and the crimes committed during the war helps build public demand for the troops to come home. Not every committee in Congress can work fulltime on simply ending the war: a legislative process that… Continue reading Ask for Investigations on Iraq

Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison: Weapons of Mass Destruction Protected By Bill Quigley. Three men protesting the presence of weapons of mass destruction in North Dakota were sentenced to federal prison terms of over three years and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution by a federal judge in Bismarck.   The three dressed as clowns… Continue reading Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison:

The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War By Norman Solomon The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are secondary. The heaviest firepower is now coming from… Continue reading The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War

IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL LOOKS FAR OFF – Bush/Cheney appear benched by Baker/Daddy Bush “Coup”. – What can we expect from the Baker Iraq Study Group? – New plans for taming resistance likely to be very bloody. By Nick Mottern, Director, Consumers for Peace The removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense is being described… Continue reading IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL LOOKS FAR OFF

Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate and Government Looting of the Gulf Coast By Bill Quigley. Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He can be reached at Quigley@loyno.edu. If you want to know more, check out www.justiceforneworleans.org and look at the CorpWatch report, “Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering… Continue reading Corporate Plundering of US Gulf Coast