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  • $9 Billion is ’Missing’, and Republicans Refuse to Investigate
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
    What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
    A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (…)

  • Soldier’s Letter to Senator re: Lack of health care for Vets
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Senator Cornyn,
    I have been a member of the U.S. military since I was 17 years old, both as an enlisted soldier and now as an officer. I deployed to Iraq with Army Civil Affairs from April 2003 to March 2004, where I served in the Sadr City.
    Since my return to Dallas, I have concluded that the health care systems for the military and veterans are utterly broken. Additionally, our leadership is ignoring the psychological and physical problems faced by returning veterans.
    The (…)

  • "Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Related: Democratic Senators reportedly getting cold feet on investigating Gannon/Plame link.
    "Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats by Carol Rawle, Unknown News
    Over the weekend, while pursuing information that might lead to uncovering connections between the Bush White House and the ’non-reporter’ Jeff Gannon, aka James Guckert, a blogger may have stumbled onto information that could begin to uncover a possible alliance between the (…)

  • Media Held Guilty of Deception at World Tribunal
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.*
    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq made its pronouncement Sunday after a three- day meeting. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.
    The Rome session of the WTI followed (…)

  • A Corrupted Election: Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/
    Recall the Election Day exit polls that suggested John Kerry had won a convincing victory? The media readily dismissed those polls and little has been heard about them since.
    Many Americans, however, were suspicious. Although President Bush prevailed by 3 million votes in the official, tallied vote count, exit polls had projected a margin of victory of 5 million votes for Kerry. This unexplained 8 million vote discrepancy between the (…)

  • Whistleblowers Detail Corruption and Fraud at Halliburton during Senate Hearing
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Byron Dorgan convened a hearing to shed light on the recent revelations of contractor corruption in Iraq. Democratic Senators were fired up about the blatant fraud and theft from the American taxpayers. And since Bush’s new budget cuts education again, it is truly a theft from our children. No Republicans attended the hearing.
    Senator Dorgan: "To see this kind of waste and this kind of corporate culture say, ’What the hell, it’s just the American taxpayer- stick it to ’em...’ Shame (…)

  • Voices of freedom are kept prisoner in Baghdad
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Giuliana Sgrena is an Italian journalist, working for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto. She was kidnapped in Baghdad on the 4th of February, in front of the Al-Mustafah mosque, where she had interviewed a number of families forced by US bombing to fly from Fallujah. She is still a captive.
    Florence Aubenas, French journalist of Liberation, disappeared more than one month ago in similar circumstances.
    Giuliana has visited Iraq many times, documenting with great honesty the dire sufferings (…)

  • Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Only a Temporary Setback
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Center for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
    Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…)

  • Sorry George, but Iraq has given you the purple finger
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The party likely to win the election opposes the US presence and policies
    by Naomi Klein
    ’The Iraqi people gave America the biggest thank you in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother.
    Half blind and a menace behind the wheel of her Chevrolet, she adamantly refused to surrender her car keys. She was convinced that everywhere she drove (…)

  • The Evolution of Revolution: Part I of III: The Human Animal
    11 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Part II - Part III
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    "Information Clearing House" - - As long as humankind has walked the plains of Earth, from our origins in the jungles of Africa to our great Diaspora out of savannas and into all corners of the globe, we have had to wage ceaseless battle with the demons living inside the human condition. Embedded in our psyche, ingrained in our being, passed down generation after generation like a torch of eternal damnation lighting the way through the deep caverns (…)