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admin @ January 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So for your enjoyment in the meantime, please peruse some of the photos that John took from the ground level of the Mall. His Ianuguration Day randon photos can be viewed by clicking HERE .
admin @ January 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United
States was an emotionally charged event for me and the people I met
today.
I met people from all over the country since I arrived Sunday night
and they all spoke of our new President as a poltican that will engage
the country and bring us together as a people.
Today was a huge celebration of our democracy.
admin @ January 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Everything is essentially on the ball for the Jan 15 relaunch - we have some fantastic content just bursting to get out - one example being new contribitor John H McManus’ experience working for the Obama Campaign in PA…
But in the meantime, can I please direct your attention to another story and organization we’ll be covering?
Have a peek at Brian Conley’s www.AliveInBaghdad.Org, follow him at www.twitter.com/baghdadbrian and please note the new project they have underway at www.AliveInGaza.Org…
admin @ December 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For years since the United States invaded Iraq, I’ve witnessed countless photo and video images of innocent civilians - men, women, teens and children - being rudely and aggressively
threatened by hired uniformed militants (mostly men), wielding guns. I’ve seen these images from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti, Palestine, and more. Whether they be armed American military threatening Iraqis, armed Israeli soldiers threatening Palestinians, or armed Ethiopian troops threatening Somalis, the images have always disturbed me. There’s an inherent injustice to such blatant imbalance of power. An injustice I suffered recently myself.
admin @ December 17, 2008 # One Comment
Christiane Amanpour’s CNN special tonight “Scream Bloody Murder” on genocide was quite timely after this week’s Munk Debate on Humanitarian Intervention. Both events posed the question of whether the international community has an obligation to intervene in situations of genocide and other man-made crises when a country is unable to protect itself? The most obvious example that comes to mind is that of Rwanda in the early 1990s…
admin @ December 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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admin @ December 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Reporter Stephen Dohnberg and Sgt. Chiroux, along with Iraq Vets Against the War members Sgt Matthis Chiroux (Army) and Sgt Adam Kokesh (Marines), will be guests on CFRB 1010’s ‘Sunday Nights With Liana and Steven Kerzner’ on Sun. Dec.7, 8PM-9PM and will take calls.”
admin @ November 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We continue with some good news in a story we broke internationally: Nassau County D.A. has Dismissed Charges Against Hemsptead 15, while their civil case still makes it’s way through the courts. Sgt Chiroux still faces prosecution for his refusal to redeploy and that case continues to develop as well.
admin @ November 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In an effort to establish peaceful diplomacy with the government and people of Iran, and to model for the new Obama administration the power of cooperative good will, three highly regarded American peace makers have ventured to Iran. CODEPINK cofounders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, along with former Army Colonel and decorated Foreign Service Diplomat Ann Wright, are visiting Iran on visas personally granted them by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
admin @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a follow up to the arrest of the Iraq Vets protest at the final Presidential Debate,reporter Stephen Dohnberg talks with member Sgt Chiroux about the charges faced,support they are receiving,tactics of the Nassau County Police, and Sgt Morgan’s injury.
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