by Christopher Getzan
The News Standard http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=488
Jun 8 - When thousands of demonstrators converged in Miami last November to protest the latest round of negotiations over a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), city authorities dreaded a repeat of the failed police response that allowed activists to hobble the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial in Seattle.
Before the activists arrived in Miami last year, police warned (…)
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Infamous ‘Miami Model’ of Protest Clampdown, Coming to a Town Near You
9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Down Goes Tenet
5 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By William Rivers Pitt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060404A.shtml
The news over the last week or so has been grim for the White House. Ahmad Chalabi, Bush’s favorite Iraqi, has been accused of passing high-level intelligence secrets to Iran. Questions as to who could have coughed up those secrets have been auguring towards Defense Department officials Douglas Feith and William Luti, the two men who ran the secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP).
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Bush Faces Italian Anger Over Iraq on Rome Visit
4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
ROME (Reuters) - Italians greeted American soldiers as liberators when they marched into Rome 60 years ago but President Bush faces deep anger on his visit on Friday over the actions of a new generation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Authorities fear violent demonstrations during Bush’s two days in Rome, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, worried by the prospect of clashes in the streets, urged Italians to show "maturity and understanding of history."
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2004 Racism Watch Calls for Action to End Use of Anti-Arab Books by the U.S. Government
4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398 Manning Marable, Director of African American Studies at Columbia University, today called for immediate action to be taken to end use by the U.S. military of a book, "The Arab Mind," by Raphael Patai. In the words of Brian Whitaker, Middle East correspondent for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the book presents "an overwhelmingly negative picture of the Arabs." "It is outrageous that a book full of racially charged stereotypes and generalizations would be a major (…)
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Other things Iraq war funding can pay for
3 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentCongress and President Bush have so far provided $119.4 billion for the war in Iraq. Here are examples of what else that money could buy. It could send 748,495 people, nearly everyone in Jacksonville, Fla., to Harvard University for four years. Based on Harvard’s 2004-05 school year costing $39,880 for tuition, fees, room and board, multiplied by four. Or send 2,806,506 people — almost all the residents of Chicago — to the average-priced public university for four years, based on The (…)
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UFPJ condemns "State of Emergency" declared by Georgia Governor
31 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) condemns an executive order issued by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declaring a “state of emergency” throughout six coastal counties in Georgia. Perdue issued the highly unusual declaration to spread fear and interfere with fundamental constitutional rights to protest at an upcoming summit of international leaders. A private island of the coast of Georgia, Sea Island, will be the site for a Group of Eight (G-8) meeting June 8-10. The island is (…)
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The Bush orthodoxy is in shreds
29 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A series of investigations has shattered neocon self-belief
By Sidney Blumenthal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1225600,00.html
The Guardian (UK)
At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about (…) -
An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism
8 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsby Robert Fisk
First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi. Take a close look at the leather strap, the pain on the prisoner’s face. No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash. (…) -
Abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Psychodynamics of Occupation
3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Stephen Soldz
May 2, 2004 "ICH" — This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes II published the now infamous pictures of abuse and torture by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq (some of the pictures can be viewed on the New Yorker web site at http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison
Seymour Hersh has documented in the May 10, 2004 New Yorker (Torture at Abu Ghraib: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article6124.htm ) that the abuse shown in these photos (…) -
What Colin Powell saw but didn’t say
25 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The rush to war in Iraq echoes Reagan’s Iran- contra scandal
Sidney Blumenthal
"History? We won’t know," George Bush tells Bob Woodward. "We’ll all be dead." But in his book, Plan of Attack, Woodward’s facts move the past from the shadows, adding significant new documentation to the story of the rush to war in Iraq.
The serious constitutional issues and governmental abuses, the methods and even the continuity of some personnel that Woodward catalogues evoke memories of the Reagan (…)