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  • Worst Coverage Ever? Reporting on the UN Oil-For-Food Program
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Worst Coverage Ever? Reporting on the UN Oil-For-Food Program is Rife With Conservative Talking Points and Glaring Omissions
    by Joshua Holland
    If you don’t read the conservative press, you may not have heard of the UN oil-for-food scandal. ’Oil-for-food’ was a United Nations-administered program that allowed Saddam Hussein to sell oil despite the sanctions against him. The proceeds of the sales were for humanitarian relief, but Hussein and his cronies also manipulated (…)

  • Don’t Believe the Hype: Terrorist Warnings Just Another Way Bush Will Steal Election
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    It’s official. I’m a conspiracy theorist.
    I’m probably one of thousands-maybe tens of thousands-who believe President George W. Bush will do anything to retain control of the White House. It’s not safe to have a healthy dose of skepticism like this these days. But this has to be said. I don’t believe the country is going to be attacked by al-Qaeda anytime soon. I don’t care how specific the so-called threat is. I don’t care how many targets have been identified. I don’t (…)

  • Key Iraqi oil pipeline blown up
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kirkuk
    A major attack on the main pipeline connecting the oilfields of Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Jihan has halted limited exports from northern Iraq, a Northern Oil Company official said.
    "An improvised explosive device was placed close to a network of pipelines at the level of al-Fatiha, west of Kirkuk, causing a big explosion and huge fires that damaged the main pipeline running to Jihan and stopped exports," said Nasir Qasim, a logistics and security official with the (…)

  • U.S. Soldiers Abused Iraqis ’For Fun,’ Court Told
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Loney
    Fort Bragg - U.S. troops who abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison did it "just for fun," a military investigator testified on Tuesday at a hearing for a female soldier photographed holding a naked Iraqi on a leash.
    A military court at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, began the hearing to decide whether Pfc. Lynndie England will be tried for the prisoner abuse that outraged the Arab world and embarrassed the Bush administration as it sought to stabilize Iraq. (…)

  • US terror plot intelligence ’old’
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US administration admits that new warnings of attacks on American cities were based on information gathered by al-Qaeda up to four years ago.
    Security was tightened around US financial institutions earlier this week after raids in Pakistan recovered documents reportedly naming them.
    Homeland security adviser Frances Townsend said some of the information recovered was collected in 2000/2001.
    But she said some may have been updated "as recently as January of this year."
    On Sunday, (…)

  • The Secret File of Abu Ghraib
    3 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON
    New classified documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners
    It has been months since the now-infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib revealed that American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners — yet the Bush administration has failed to get to the bottom of the abuses."There are some serious unanswered questions," says Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican on the Armed Services Committee. The Pentagon is stalling on several investigations, and (…)

  • Turkish hostage’s ’killing’ shown
    3 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by BBC
    Footage of what appears to be a Turkish hostage in Iraq being shot dead has appeared on the internet.
    The videotape shows a group of masked men standing over a figure, who is then shot in the head three times.
    The man identified himself as Murat Yuce, an employee of Turkish company Bilimtur. The company has confirmed it had an employee by that name.
    It is not clear when or where he was kidnapped, or when the apparent killing took place.
    Following the tape’s release, a (…)

  • Doha Round Enters Stage of Convalescence
    2 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gustavo Capdevila
    The World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreed on a series of guidelines to breathe new life into the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks that could put an end to agricultural export subsidies, a form of trade protectionism that mainly hurts the developing world.
    The World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreed on a series of guidelines to breathe new life into the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks that could put an end to agricultural export subsidies, a form of trade (…)

  • ’Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?’
    2 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The war is a fraud. I’m not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa’ida which didn’t exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I’m talking about the new lies.
    For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America’s puppet government in Baghdad but we are (…)

  • The ’Global Economy’ Threat Moves to France
    2 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    It was, as French trade unions have said in no uncertain terms, blackmail. In mid-July the 820 workers at the Robert Bosch plant voted to accept a new contract that increases their work week by one hour - with no increase in pay - cuts bonuses and freezes their salaries for three years. The company, Bosch France, a subsidiary of the German Bosch parent, had placed an ultimatum to the employees: accept the proposal or a slated new production line will be relocated in the (…)