Tag: anniversary
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5 years later: rachel corrie’s case for justice
from counterpunch: As their plane touches down in Tel Aviv this week, Cindy and Craig Corrie will mark five years since their daughter’s death. On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death beneath an armored Israeli bulldozer. The Corries are a short distance from Gaza, where Rachel was killed, and where in…
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worldwide protests mark 5th anniversary of iraq war
1000s attend antiwar protests in london & glasgowfrom wikinews: Yesterday, thousands of people attended anti-war protests in London and Glasgow organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The event marks nearly five years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq which begun the Iraq War. The main themes were “Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan”, “Don’t…
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‘we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators’
from thinkprogress: This Sunday will mark the fifth anniversary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s disastrous and uninformed prediction that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq: CHENEY: Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted…
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75th anniversary of the (other) reichstag fire
from 9/11 blogger: 75 years ago today Hitler and the Nazis blamed the burning of the Reichstag (parliament building in Berlin) on (communist) terrorists, despite the lack of evidence, and less than a month later the Enabling Act was passed, giving Hitler dictatorial powers. It didn’t take much longer after 9/11 for the Bush gang…
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15yrs ago: fbi had foreknowledge of 1st wtc attack
“After the bombing, Salem claimed that the FBI knew about the bombing plot, and agreed to foil it by supplying fake explosives to him. Salem taped his telephone conversations with FBI agents.” update: 1993 world trade center bomber seeks supreme court hearingfrom iht: Fifteen years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a Palestinian sentenced…
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West Virginia Town Remembers Silver Bridge Disaster
Exactly thirteen months later, to the day, the sightings abruptly stopped. Everyone in Point Pleasant remembers the date – December 15, 1967 – because that is also the date of the Silver Bridge disaster, the worst bridge disaster in American history.
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44th anniversary of a coup d’etat
from oregon truth alliance: On November 22, 1963, the United States of America had a military coup d’etat – an event that most people chose not to see (a society of “not see’s”). President Kennedy was removed after changing his mind on the Cold War. He refused to invade Cuba during the Bay of Pigs…
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jfk buff takes potshots at other assassination theories
from home news tribune: Just as the date Sept. 11 will jar memories between now and the end of the 21st century, the date Nov. 22 still stirs memories for a generation old enough to have watched Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles, Walter Cronkite give up on Vietnam and Nixon swear he was not a…
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christine ebersole stands up for 9/11 truth
from urWURLDnow: Christine Ebersole – star of stage and screen, as well as responsible for introducing 9/11 Truth to Rosie O’Donnell and The View – takes hold of a bullhorn at Ground Zero on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 to declare truth: “Truth is authority; authority is not truth.”
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world trade center, july 1999
i shot this photo from the empire state building while living in new york city during the summer of 1999. i am posting it up in honor of those we lost six years ago today & all that we have lost since then…
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9/11 families slam government over anniversary
from steve watson: The decision to hold Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony to the Congress on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 has been condemned by families of the victims of the attacks as another crude attempt by government officials to link the event to the war in Iraq despite the fact prior intelligence…
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kucinich votes against 9/11 anniversary resolution
from cleveland plain dealer: Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich was the only member of Congress on Monday night to vote against a symbolic resolution to recognize September 11 as a day of remembrance, extend sympathies to those who lost their lives and their families and honor emergency workers and the U.S. armed forces. Kucinich issued…
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anniversary
as i wrote on this day last year, it’s no accident that today marks the two year anniversary of media monarchy. the site has grown by leaps & bounds over the last year. and once again i’d like to thank all of you who take the time read this blog & let you know how…
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Alex Jones Arrested In New York
From Paul Joseph Watson: Media activist Alex Jones was arrested by New York Police Department officers while filming a documentary about the sixth anniversary of September 11th and joining the protest against the official version of what happened on 9/11. According to Infowars sources Jones was singled out by police from the head of a…
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neo-cons enlist bin laden’s help to counter 9/11 truth
Discredited Pentagon-affiliated IntelCenter to release another dubious tape right when Bush needs it most, Osama pops up hours after new Zogby poll shows Americans want new 9/11 investigation for second time running from paul joseph watson: The U.S. government, via its closely affiliated IntelCenter front, is to release a new tape of Osama Bin Laden…