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  • Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie. "Terror Is Glamour"
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie "Terror Is Glamour" By Erich Follath August 28, 2006, 04:20 PM Salman Rushdie, 59, has spent many years thinking and writing about terrorism. He spoke with SPIEGEL about why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion, and whether the US has turned into an authoritarian state.
    SPIEGEL: Mr. Rushdie, as an expert on terrorism you ...
    Rushdie: What gives me that honor? I don’t see myself as such at all.
    SPIEGEL: Your book (…)

  • Why Are We In Iraq?
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why Are We In Iraq? By Michael S. Rozeff August 30, 2006 Defeat In Iraq
    Have the President and his men accomplished their objectives in Iraq? Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to Saudi Arabia or the region. However, since he was contained before the war, little has been gained on that score. Oil is no more secure than before. In fact, Iran threatens to disrupt supply. Oil prices have risen sharply. The U.S. has not yet restored Iraq’s oil production, and issues relating to restoring (…)

  • You Break It, You Own It
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    You Break It, You Own It By Munir Daair, Yemen Times August 24 - 27 Issue In his book ‘Plan of Attack’, Bob Woodward wrote that Colin Powel warned George Bush of the consequences of occupying Iraq. Powell called it the pottery barn rule, ‘you break it, you own it’. But then, military generals advising politicians is anathema, especially draft dodging politicians. One wonders how General John Abuzaid manages around Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Especially with American laser bombs falling on (…)

  • Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer Marian Wilkinson August 31, 2006 A DAMNING six-page letter on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, according to a former senior diplomat.
    Dr John Gee, a world-renowned expert on chemical weapons, worked with the US-led weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group, after the war and wrote the critical letter when he decided to resign.
    In it he warned the Australian Government the hunt was (…)

  • The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism CNN.com August 30, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.
    Bush used the term earlier this month in talking about the arrest of suspected terrorists in Britain, and spoke of "Islamic fascists" in a later speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Spokesman Tony (…)

  • Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up Warwick McFadyen August 25, 2006 "WE’RE not leaving, so long as I’m the President." There in nine words is the exit strategy for the United States involvement in Iraq. Depending on your viewpoint, it’s either a commitment or an admission of defeat.
    George Bush has another 26 months to run on his presidency, which means that by November 2008, the US will have been in Iraq for almost six years. In a couple of months, America (…)

  • Olbermann Our New Murrow
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Olbermann Our New Murrow By Larry C Johnson Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 22:43 If you missed Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Donald Rumsfeld’s accusation that Americans who criticize the Bush Policy in Iraq are basically traitors, then you missed a chance to witness history. Olbermann’s courage and genius should be celebrated and cherished. God bless him. The man has a set of stones.
    The following is posted at Keith’s blog. If you don’t want to read it, check out the video posted at (…)

  • Blind Faith in Bad Leaders is Not Patriotism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salt Lake City Rally Protests Bush Admin and Congress
    Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson
    Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah August 30, 2006
    A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.
    Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation - and for our world?
    And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth?
    Let’s hear it: "Give us the (…)

  • 9/11 Newsmedia Failure
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11 Newsmedia Failure Noel Gibeson Thursday, August 31, 2006 Investigative reporting used to be a respected business and an American art form, but now it seems that the traditional newsmedia is either part of an active cover-up of 9/11, or they have just become too simple to be taken seriously at all. In either case, the American newsmedia has abrogated its responsibility in a dreadful way. Have they really become so incompetent, or do they answer to some corporate master who has (…)

  • Our Lesson From Rummy (transcript?)
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday, Aug 30th 2006, Donald Rumsfeld delivered an erudite and foreceful speech to the Republican Veterans of War (membership 16 men). Here is a transcript:
    Good Evening:
    Today we are fighting a new kind of war. We went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq to strike back at those who attacked us on 9/11,and to find and destroy WMDs, which we know are still to be located beneath the burning sands. These monsters in turbans, these Neo-Nazi Muslim extremist Islamo-Fascists use terrible (…)