Helen Zia

By Debbie Boen | February 22, 2007 |

On February 19th I was contacted by Helen Zia on her way here to do a story for The Women’s Media Center about the 101st soldier being prosecuted for the rape and murder of a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murder of her family. See Helen’s article at:

WMC Iraq Series Exclusive by Helen Zia http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/022207.html

Polly Coe and I met with Helen briefly while she was here. She is a very kind and strong person, and she repeated what a great job we are doing here in Clarksville to be connected, aware and active in civil liberties. It was very nice to have someone of such magnitude interested in us and what we are doing. I could see through her eyes that we really are on the front lines so to speak. Anything we do here is a bold new step.

Helen asked me what the group I started; the Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and Civil Liberties is doing next. I said we are evolving into this website to be connected, informed and entertained. «Read the rest of this article»

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Invading Iran?

By Bill Larson | February 22, 2007 |

We all know the next target in George Bush’s drive to trigger the Biblical Apocalypse is to invade Iran. Never mind the fact that we still haven’t won in Afghanistan. Never mind that we are slowly but surely being driven from Iraq by sheer attrition. The British have already announced plans to remove many of their troops from combat in Iraq by the end of 2007.

So is this the next thing in military recruiting?

Faux news: They report, You decide. LOL

But seriously if Bush launches an invasion of Iran the only choice they will have is to re-institute the draft. Once again the children of the poor will be sent to fight and die for our country while the children of the rich and powerful will be given deferments or cushy appointments to the national guard which they can proceed to go awol from. Yes if your family is rich enough and has the right connections, you too can be a deserter. Just like our current commander in chief was during Vietnam.

We know about the lack of proper body armor, the fact that they are putting troops in unarmored Humvee’s, and now they are not even providing enough rifles, night vision googles, mortars, and howitzers. «Read the rest of this article»

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