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  • Charges, but No Penalty, for a Chief’s Role in a Convention Arrest
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JIM DWYER
    In a rare review of actions by the city’s top police commanders, the Civilian Complaint Review Board has charged a deputy chief with abuse of authority for ordering the arrest of a woman during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
    The deputy chief, Stephen Paragallo, ordered the arrest of a 56-year-old Brooklyn woman near Herald Square on the night of Aug. 31. The board found that there was no probable cause to arrest her, and that the chief had acted "without due and (…)

  • SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at ’illegal’ American tactics in Iraq
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sean Rayment
    An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces.
    After three months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to fight alongside American forces.
    He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" - the Nazi term for races regarded as sub-human.
    The decision marks the (…)

  • Who Are the War Criminals? Naming Names Behind every war criminal is a criminal idea
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    December 19, 2005 Who Are the War Criminals? Naming Names Behind every war criminal is a criminal idea by Justin Raimondo Editorial note: What follows is the text of a speech delivered on Dec. 16, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the 2005 Perdana Peace Forum.
    The theme for this part of the program is "Crimes Against Peace, Crimes Against Humanity." We are discussing here the question of defining and dealing with war crimes. In any such discussion, however, we must start out by (…)

  • MUKA MUKA: The Japanese have a phrase for it
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Japanese, "Muka Muka" means "I’m so angry that I could throw up!"
    Today George Bush (no doubt on the advice of Karl Rove),went before the Press Corps and took questions from all quarters, including Helen Thomas (who he has diss’d for 3 years!). Helen asked him "After thousands have died in Iraq because of a series of reasons given by this Administration which have been proven untrue, can you explain why you went to war?"
    Bush’s response to this question was only among the first of a (…)

  • Ex-UN chief: America has ’lost its moral compass’
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States has lost its moral compass and fallen out of step with the rest of the world in the wake of September 11, the former United Nations human rights commissioner warned tonight.
    Mary Robinson expressed sadness and regret at America’s erosion of human rights as part of its "War on Terror".
    In a speech in central London, Mrs Robinson praised the British courts for taking a global lead on interpreting international human rights laws.
    Highlighting the US’s opposition last (…)

  • It is Not Time to Investigate or Censure; It is Time for Impeachment!
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 18, 2006
    The recommendations continue regarding investigating grounds for impeaching George W. Bush as well as censure. Periodically we also read and hear about petition efforts to attack Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld.
    The time for such actions has long passed. The term "arrogance of power" that was reiterated so often in analyzing the actions of President Richard M. Nixon three decades ago has been carried to new meaning through the ruthless exercise of power by an unelected ruling (…)

  • US LAUNCHES DIRTY WAR : WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ?
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There can be no doubt what malign force is behind the massive spike in sectarian violence in Iraq ...The Pentagon ... Why ? They openly flouted the so called ’ Salvador Option’ 13 months ago ... From Newsweek of 1/14/05 : The Salvador Option ’ : " one pentagon proposal would send special forces to advise ,support, and possibly train Iraqi squads , most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathisers.... Why ? (…)

  • SEN . TED KENNEDY : IMPEACHMENT MIA
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Frequently referred to as the "Senate’s leading liberal" , Sen. Ted Kennedy is strangely mute on the subject of the potential censure and/or impeachment of Unitary Executive Bush..... Back in the mid-70’s Teddy was remarkably active in bringing to an end the of reign of the mad King , Richard of Milhouse .... Today he huffs and puffs about Bush’s "incompetence" as commander in chief . In that regard he is echoing talking points first issued by his colleague , Sen. Dianne Feinstein of (…)

  • Iran: Time To Leak
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Katherine Gun was a translator at the Britain’s communications spy agency, General Communications Headquarters. In 2002, she leaked a top-secret memo to a British newspaper, revealing the U.S. was spying on U.N. Security Council members before their vote on the Iraq war.
    Where are the whistleblowers about Iran?
    It is exactly three years since the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq, and a little over three years since Martin Bright and his colleagues at the London Observer (…)

  • Pentagon Gets Coffin, While Protesters Get Arrested!
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The concept of a ’preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church." - Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
    The Pentagon - It’s the nerve center of the U.S. Department of Defense’s War, Death and Spending Machine. It’s a virtual city undo itself, located in the state of Virginia, with over 25,000 employees. Situated not far from the southern banks of the Potomac River, it rises directly opposite Washington, D.C. It may be the largest office building in the world, (…)