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  • ‘Something is wrong in America’- An interview with Greg Palast
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Strumpf
    Interviewing Greg Palast is a bit like rummaging through your mother’s nightstand-you’re bound to learn some things you’ll wish you hadn’t. As an investigative journalist seen on the BBC’s Newsnight and England’s most influential newspaper, The Guardian, Palast is most famous for exposing racist scheming behind the 2000 Florida election scandal nearly a year before the mainstream American media got around to it.
    If you’ve never heard of Palast, an American himself, it’s (…)

  • "Machuca" an Andrés Wood’s film
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Another masterpiece of Latin American cinema
    The director André Wood signs one of the most beautiful Chilean film, I do not hesitate to say it, "Machuca" is one of the masterpiece of Latin American cinema, I just hesitate to say "of Latin American cinema"!
    Striking actors, fabulous images, formidable music, deeply moving scenario, the words are missing and we get lost in cliché to qualify this film.
    The coolness and the spontaneity of the first part of the film, contrast with the pain (…)

  • Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
    President Bush said the public’s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
    "We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made (…)

  • US To Try 20 More Troops For Iraq Abuse
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Suzanne Goldenberg
    The Pentagon plans to put at least 20 more US troops before military courts for abuse of detainees in the wake of last week’s high profile trial of the ringleader in the Abu Ghraib scandal, military spokesmen said yesterday.
    The various prosecutions of soldiers accused of mistreating and, in some cases, murdering detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay have been in the works for months, but have been largely overshadowed by the trial of the man who became (…)

  • US Ignored Warning On Iraqi Oil Smuggling
    16 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Claudio Gatti For months, the US Congress has been investigating activities that violated the United Nations oil-for-food programme and helped Saddam Hussein build secret funds to acquire arms and buy influence. President George W. Bush has linked future US funding of the international body to a clear account of what went on under the multi-billion dollar programme. But a joint investigation by the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily, shows that the single (…)

  • A letter to President Bush
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 20, 2004 To: George W. Bush From: SGT Kevin M. Benderman
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States?
    Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad?
    I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in (…)

  • This is an Unjust, Evil and Futile War
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech on Vietnam- every word is true today, only the names have changed. Audio mp3s of this speech linked below. I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves (…)

  • Big media has lost credibility- Americans turn to internet for truth on stolen election
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Don Williams
    Last Friday I addressed a group of Democrats in a Blount County cafeteria, and standing there amid some 50 or so finishing their coffee and iced tea and apple pie, I satisfied my curiosity about something: "How many of you believe Bush stole the 2004 election?" I asked.
    I was surprised when at least two-thirds immediately raised their hands. Ask the same question to a room full of Republicans, and you’ll get hooted off the floor. It’s a sign of the times. These days what (…)

  • Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales should be prosecuted for war crimes
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
    Human Rights Watch Wants War Crimes Prosecution of Bush Administration
    19 Corporate Crime Reporter 3(3), January 13, 2005
    Human Rights Watch today called for a war crimes prosecution of high-ranking officials in the Bush administration.
    Kenneth Roth, the group’s executive director, called on the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any U.S. officials who participated in, ordered, or had command responsibility for torture or (…)

  • Jan 6th Election Challenge: Maxine Waters vs Tom Delay
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Frank
    Waters: Look at all this proof, it is clear Ohio has failed to run a fair election.
    Delay: There was no disenfranchisment, there is no evidence... this is "an assault against the institutions of our representative democracy."
    Video proof of disenfranchisment = video proof that Tom Delay lied on the floor of the House
    Maxine Waters vs. Tom Delay
    These two speeches highlight the key points in the
    Democrat vs. Republican ’Debate’ during the Jan 6th Election (…)