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Message Received in Africa

Message Received in Africa

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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 181: 04 NOVEMBER 2004A Weekly Electronic Forum For Social Justice In Africa EDITORIAL COMMENT: George W. Bush’s re-election to the White House is bad for the world and bad for Africa. It’s not that the election of Democratic senator John Kerry would have resulted in a groundswell of change. But Bush took his country into a war that, as revealed by research conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and published this week in the…

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100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq

100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq

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Here is the full press release and link to the study. October 28, 2004 Iraqi Civilian Deaths Increase Dramatically After Invasion Civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country was invaded in March 2003, according to a survey conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The researchers found that the majority of deaths were attributed to violence, which were primarily the result of…

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Enlightenment Values Gone?

Enlightenment Values Gone?

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Snippets from “The Day the Enlightenment Went Out” by Gary Wills in the NY Times today. “Mr. Rove understands what surveys have shown, that many more Americans believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin’s theory of evolution.” “America, the first real democracy in history, was a product of Enlightenment values – critical intelligence, tolerance, respect for evidence, a regard for the secular sciences. Though the founders differed on many things, they shared these values of what was then modernity….

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Misleading amendment ballot

Misleading amendment ballot

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Georgia’s voters supported the anti-gay marriage amendment 3 to 1. The amendment to the state Constitution passed with 77 percent of the vote, or 2,195,960 votes, as compared to 667,730, or 23 percent of Georgians who voted against the amendment. Misleading amendment ballot: Banning Gay Marriage According to Georgia law, a constitutional amendment is only supposed to apply to one issue; this amendment dealt with at least four. The ballot only addressed the legal definition of marriage, yet did not…

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What is WRONG with this Country?

What is WRONG with this Country?

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Ok, I admit it. I’m a wienie. I started crying last night at about 11 and didn’t really stop until after Kerry’s concession speech, which I watched from a tv next to my husband as he got his second round of chemo. Kerry was dignified, courageous, kind. Someone shouted out, “We’ve still got your back.” He broadcasted hope and faith in the future. I don’t know how he did it. I have some serious questions about why Republicans, with a…

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