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  • Final Final Word: British Intelligence Inside Operation
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by: Steve Watson
    With the major stories of torture/rendition and spying on US citizens, one important revelation has slipped away virtually unnoticed - the fact that the Blair Government and the British Intelligence services had prior knowledge of the London bombings on July 7th of this year.
    The London Times reported last weekend that MI5 and MI6 had specifically warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed (…)

  • Impeach Bush over NSA spying order
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Editor: I would like to express my support for Sen. Russ Feingold’s filibuster against renewal of the Patriot Act. Feingold’s filibuster is an important, long overdue effort to preserve endangered civil liberties in the United States.
    Although it comes as no surprise that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, I am nonetheless outraged. It’s heartening to this impeachment supporter that many other Americans oppose such illegal surveillance. According to a Dec. (…)

  • Bush’s Impeachable Offense
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What’s missing is the political will to impeach him.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin (…)

  • Fixing the Torture Fix
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH
    Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus—the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union calls these provisions "horrific precedents" that are "counterproductive and against the rule of law." Michael Ratner, head of the Center for (…)

  • FBI admits conducting surveillance operations on Catholic Workers,Greenpeace,PETA
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show.
    President Bush said at a news conference Monday that a "two-minute phone conversation" could lead "to the loss of thousands of lives."
    F.B.I. officials said Monday that their investigators (…)

  • A TIME TO IMPEACH
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote the following for the forthcoming issue of L.A. Weekly:
    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution-shredding provisions of that iniquitous law — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National SecBush_dark_mood_1urity Agency — the N.S.A, so (…)

  • The Making of the Enemy [Part Two]
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PART I : The Making of the Enemy [ Part One of Two]
    The Myth of the Superhuman Enemy
    There is purpose behind having enemies, for their existence is the backbone of the corporatists. Indeed, there is a method behind their madness. Having enemies means having control both of fear and hatred of the people, as well as having control of the masses along with their animalistic emotions. Psychology can be manipulated at the push of a few buttons; an entire nation can be mobilized toward war in (…)

  • Bush Attempted to Talk New York Times Out of Running Illegal Spying Story
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate-he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda-but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham (…)

  • Osama, Saddam? What’s in a name?
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
    With a slip of the tongue, U.S. President George W. Bush briefly turned Osama bin Laden into Saddam Hussein on Monday.
    Bush momentarily switched the names of his two greatest nemeses in a news conference at the White House where he was defending his decision to authorize eavesdropping on Americans suspected of links with al Qaeda and other organizations in the U.S. war on terrorism.
    "In the late 1990s, our government was following Osama bin Laden because he was (…)

  • The Making of the Enemy [ Part One of Two]
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Only in America
    The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. The level of control over the masses and power over the nation in the years after 9/11 by corporatists intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing success, thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the horrific events of (…)