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  • Chavez calls for final poll push
    10 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on hundreds of thousands of supporters who marched on the capital of the oil-rich nation to prepare for a "final attack" on the recall referendum his opponents have put up to remove him from office.
    Huge crowds gathered on Bolivar Avenue in downtown Caracas, where the left-wing leader called on them to "stay alert" ahead of Sunday’s vote.
    "We start today the final attack, a popular offensive from all directions, with much intelligence and (…)

  • Iraqi police chief seized as curfew imposed
    10 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Baghdad
    Aljazeera has aired a videotape showing a group of masked armed men belonging to a Shia Muslim resistance group holding an Iraqi police officer captive in Baghdad.
    According to the captors, who belong to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army, the captive is Brigadier Raad Muhammad Khidr - the former director of Baghdad’s al-Rusafa police department.
    In the videotape, the masked men read a statement calling on the Iraqi interior minister to release all al-Mahdi Army (…)

  • The Day Nixon Was Gone In Memory of Deep Throat
    10 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by RON JACOBS
    Little had changed overnight. The war continued in Vietnam. Another southern Vietnamese town had been taken over by the popular forces over the weekend. I left work at 2 in the morning on August 8, 1974 and headed home to sleep. After waking around 10 the same morning, I hitchhiked into Washington, DC. Something big was in the air. The Congressional committees involved in deciding whether or not to impeach Richard Nixon had been meeting all summer. The noose was tightening (…)

  • 4 die, 7 injured in Japan’s nuclear leakage accident
    10 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by TOKYO
    Four workers died and seven were injured after steam leaked from one of the reactors of Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in west Japan’s Fukui Prefecture.
    No external radioactive leak is believed to have taken place, said the Kansai Electric Power Co. that owns the plant.
    The steam leak took place at a facility housing the turbines for the No. 3 reactor of the plant, located in the town of Mihama,at around 3:30 p.m.(0630 GMT).
    According to the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency (…)

  • 30 years later, Nixon’s resignation still evokes memories of the Watergate scandal
    8 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerome
    Bernard
    WASHINGTON-Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which sparked a crisis in US government .../...
    – http://www.manilatimes.net/national...

  • Beatings in Baghdad: ordered to just walk away
    8 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by MIKE FRANCIS
    BAGHDAD - The national guardsman peering through the long-range scope of his rifle was startled by what he saw unfolding in the walled compound below.
    From his post several stories above ground level, he watched as men in plainclothes beat blind folded and bound prisoners in the enclosed grounds of the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
    He immediately radioed for help. Soon after, a team of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers swept into the yard and found dozens of Iraqi (…)

  • Iraq is the new Vietnam as pop protest returns to the airwaves
    8 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rock’s conscience awakens for the first time in 30 years and Bush is the alarm clock
    By Torcuil Crichton
    For the first time since the Vietnam war the protest song is back. But this time it’s personal. Whereas protest songs of the Vietnam era were broadly anti-war in their message, the new batch of political tunes rising up the American Billboard chart are focused directly on Iraq and aimed at getting George Bush out of office.
    "For better or worse, Bush has stirred up a lot of vitriol (…)

  • Australia: eminent Aussies call for truth in govt
    8 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Forty-three eminent former defence chiefs and diplomats called for more honesty in government, saying they were concerned Australia joined the war on Iraq on the basis of false assumptions and deceptions.
    In a public statement released Sunday, they said Australians must be able to believe they were being told the truth on matters as grave as sending troops to war.
    But Prime Minister John Howard rejected suggestions that Australia went to war on the basis of lies.
    "I’ve always (…)

  • Aljazeera vows to cover Iraq despite closure
    8 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Aljazeera has vowed to continue its Iraq coverage despite the one-month closure of its Baghdad office announced by the Iraqi interim government on Saturday.
    In a statement Aljazeera expressed regret for the unjustified move, and said it was contrary to pledges made by the Iraqi Government to start a new era of free speech and openness.
    Aljazeera made it clear in the statement they hold the Iraqi authorities responsible for the safety of Aljazeera staff in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. (…)

  • Humiliation and Destabilisation or concerted plans
    7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    We are all reeling from the shock of seeing on our television screens the horrific and inhuman ritual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners who have had the ill fortune to find themselves in an establishment run by the armed forces of the U.S.A. Immediately following on from this we have seen re-runs of the sight of a swaggering Mr George W. Bush on 1st May 2003, after he had landed on an aircraft-carrier under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished", somewhat prematurely (…)