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Mr. President, There's Someone Waiting, and Waiting, to See You

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Mr. President, There's Someone Waiting, and Waiting, to See You

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805A.shtml

Mrs. Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Mr Bush agrees to

see her, even if it means spending all August under a broiling sun

beside a dusty road.

 

Iran Resumes Nuclear Work, a Step That May Lead to Sanctions

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805B.shtml

Iran started work today at its uranium conversion plant in Isfahan,

where raw uranium can be converted into gas, according to Iranian

officials.

 

William O. Beeman | Dynamic Urumqi Confounds the West in Many Ways

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805D.shtml

The city looks like lower Manhattan, with skyscrapers rising almost in

front of one's eyes. But, surprise! William O. Beeman tells us this is

Urumqi [ooroomCHI], capital of China's western Xinjiang [shinJANG]

autonomous region.

 

Norman Solomon | Big Star-Spangled Lies for War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805E.shtml

Norman Soloman states that a lot of people want to believe that the

current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration - a radical departure from

the previous baseline of US foreign policy. That's a comforting

illusion.

 

US Scientists Find Flexible Stem Cells in Placenta

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805F.shtml

Scientists looking for easier and less-controversial alternatives to

stem cells from human embryos said on Friday they found a potential

source in placentas saved during childbirth.

 

Tom Engelhardt | The Bush Administration's Not-So-Silly Season

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805G.shtml

Tom Engelhardt asks that we give this much to our commanders, one

upbeat prediction after another about " turned corners " and " tipping

points, "

has proven wrong -- in fact, it would hardly be an exaggeration to say

that not a single positive Bush administration prediction about Iraq

has proven accurate, and yet that stops no one.

 

Failure of Nuclear Discussions with North Korea

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805H.shtml

No one expected a miracle from the six-sided (China, United States,

Japan, Russia, North and South Korea) negotiations in Beijing on the

North

Korean nuclear issue; there wasn't one.

 

William Rivers Pitt | Every Mother's Son

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805I.shtml

George W. Bush hauled stakes for Texas and a vacation a few days ago.

Cindy Sheehan followed. She got off a bus Saturday afternoon and started

walking to the Crawford ranch. She wanted some answers and was going to

get them.

 

Peter Jennings Dies of Lung Cancer

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805J.shtml

Nearly four months to the day since he announced in a hoarse voice on

his evening newscast that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer,

longtime ABC " World News Tonight " anchor Peter Jennings died Sunday.

He was

67.

 

Bush Still Stonewalling 9/11 Commissioners

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805K.shtml

The White House has failed to turn over any of the information

requested by the 10 members of the disbanded Sept. 11 commission in their

renewed, unofficial investigation into whether the government is doing

enough to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil, commission members

said.

 

Roberts' Senate Hearing to Raise Many Questions

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805L.shtml

US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will be grilled on matters from

abortion to civil rights when his Senate confirmation hearing opens, but

a key issue is how much the 50-year-old conservative will answer.

 

Fight over Alaska Oil Drilling Continues

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805M.shtml

Conspicuous by its absence in the sweeping energy bill that President

Bush has championed and will sign Monday is his top energy priority:

opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling.

 

Inquiry into Lobbyist Sputters after Demotion

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805N.shtml

A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial

lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush

removed

the supervising federal prosecutor and the inquiry ended soon after.

 

Families Learn of Recruiters' Lists - And How to Opt Out

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805O.shtml

As the military struggles to meet recruitment goals, activists are

intensifying efforts to educate parents about how they can delete their

teenagers' names from directories that schools are required to provide

recruiters under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

 

Oversight Conflict Looming in Plame Case

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805Y.shtml

The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has

accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a

question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative

Valerie Plame. Comey was the only official overseeing special counsel

Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation.

 

Knee Strikes Taught at Bagram to Gain Prisoner Compliance

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805Z.shtml

In a small courtroom at this vast Army training base, military

prosecutors have been moving briskly to dispense with the cases they

have filed

in the brutal deaths in 2002 of two Afghan prisoners at the American

military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan.

 

 

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