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  • The Resounding Silence Continues. How Much is Enough for the Media to Cover Votergate 2004?
    21 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Resounding Silence Continues. How Much is Enough for the Media to Cover Votergate 2004?
    By Anthony Wade
    Silence. That is all we continue to hear from our media. There was a time in America when the media would actually practice journalism. They would investigate. They would corroborate. They would scrutinize. In modern day America , this must be proving to be too daunting for our faux media. It seems to be easier to create news, based on what is fed to them. It must be far simpler (…)

  • U.N.: Afghanistan Sees Increase in Opium
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL GEITNER
    Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a U.N. report Thursday that called on U.S. and NATO-led forces get more involved in fighting drug traffickers.
    "Fighting narcotics is equivalent to fighting terrorism," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It would be an historical error to abandon Afghanistan to opium, right after we reclaimed it (…)

  • BELLACIAO EN ESPAÑOL
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bellaciao ouvre son site en Espagnol !
    Bellaciao apre suo sito in Spagnolo!
    Opening of the Bellaciao Spanish site!
    ¡Bienvenidos!

  • Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Hell is this Thing Called War
    To be in war is to be in hell on Earth, captured by lunacy and bewilderment, panic, fear and unmatched levels of stress invading your body. Bullets whizzing by, helicopters flying low, machine gunning anything that moves, fighter jets roaring overhead, explosions everywhere, 500 pound bombs flattening entire city blocks, cluster bombs maiming and killing, the tremors of the ground rattling your conscious, concrete flying everywhere, (…)

  • Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There have been 1,363 coalition deaths, 1,217 Americans, 74 Britons, seven Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 13 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and nine Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of November 18, 2004. (Graphical breakdown of casualties).
    The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country’s (…)

  • Should Canada indict Bush?
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by THOMAS WALKOM
    When U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa - probably later this year - should he be welcomed? Or should he be charged with war crimes?
    It’s an interesting question. On the face of it, Bush seems a perfect candidate for prosecution under Canada’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
    This act was passed in 2000 to bring Canada’s ineffectual laws in line with the rules of the new International Criminal Court. While never tested, it lays out sweeping (…)

  • Purge at the CIA You will follow the (neocon) party line, comrade
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Like another empire founded on ideological hubris, and stained with the bloodof countless victims, this one engages in periodic political purges: when one faction is vanquished, mass firings occur in the upper echelons of the bureaucracy. We don’t send them to the gulag - at least, not yet - instead we set them up for public pillorying, firings, and, in some cases, show trials. Such is the fate of the CIA in the post-election triumph of the Bushies.
    The news that (…)

  • Margaret Hassan’s suspected execution will be seen as ’proof’ of evil
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    Beirut - Who killed Margaret Hassan?
    After the grief, the astonishment, heartbreak, anger and fury over the apparent murder of such a good and saintly woman, that is the question her friends - and, quite possibly, the Iraqi insurgents - will be asking.
    This Anglo-Irish woman held an Iraqi passport. She had lived in Iraq for 30 years, she had dedicated her life to the welfare of Iraqis in need.
    She hated the United Nations sanctions and opposed the Anglo-American (…)

  • In Mourning for Margaret Hassan and for the dead of Fallujah
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tony Kevin
    I never knew Margaret Hassan. But her decency shines through every photograph I have ever seen of her. Her Iraqi husband’s love and admiration for her was manifest. I grieve for her, her family and her friends.
    She was the kind of rare person the world cannot afford to lose: the bridge-builders between cultures and religions, the people who live to break down barriers, the people who believe life is about helping others less lucky than ourselves.
    I have known many people (…)

  • Death, Delusion and Democracy
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    So the death of Yasser Arafat is a great new opportunity for the Palestinians, is it? The man who personified the Palestinian struggle - "Mr Palestine" - is dead. So things can only get better for the Palestinians. Death means democracy. Death means statehood. That the final demise of the corrupt old guerrilla leader should be a sign of optimism demonstrates just how catastrophic the conflict in the Middle East has now become. It’s a bit like Fallujah. The more we destroy (…)