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  • French Filmmaker Takes Own Stab at Bush
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Shiraz Sidhva
    When "Fahrenheit 9/11" was selected for the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), another documentary about George W. Bush was waiting in the wings in case Michael Moore (news)’s film wasn’t ready in time.
    "The organizers were keen to include our film in the Official Selection but felt it was politically incorrect to have two anti-Bush documentaries at Cannes," says Jean-Francois Lepetit, whose Flach Film produced "Le Monde Selon Bush" (The World According to Bush). (…)

  • 80% of US believe Bush of Iraq disinformation
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq doubts keep Bush’s popularity on the slide
    by Julian Borger
    George Bush’s popularity fell to a new low yesterday in a poll which suggests that there is an increasing level of scepticism about the motives for the Iraq invasion and rising concern about its consequences.
    Nearly 80% of the Americans questioned in the poll for the New York Times and CBS news thought he had been either "hiding something" or "mostly lying" in his statements on Iraq.
    Only 18% believed that he had (…)

  • The multibillion robbery the US calls reconstruction
    1 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The shameless corporate feeding frenzy in Iraq is fuelling the resistance
    by Naomi Klein
    Good news out of Baghdad: the Program Management Office, which oversees the $18.4bn in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. Sure, electricity is below pre-war levels, the streets are rivers of sewage and more Iraqis have been fired than hired. But now the PMO has contracted the British mercenary firm Aegis to protect its employees from "assassination, kidnapping, injury and" - (…)

  • EU-US Summit: End the EU’s embarrassing silence on US torture
    25 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Amnesty International
    In an Open Letter released on the eve of the EU-US summit in Ireland, Amnesty International calls on the Irish Presidency of the European Union to end the EU’s embarrassing silence in the face of the United States’ ongoing breaches of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law principles in the pursuit of its "war on terror" and in Iraq.
    The Open Letter says President George W. Bush should not leave Ireland without a clear message from the EU: that torture and (…)

  • U.S.: Released Documents on Torture Not Sufficient
    25 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Human Rights Watch
    Documents released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Defense on interrogation procedures at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, raise more questions than they answer, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for a 9/11-style independent commission to probe the issue of detainee abuse.
    The released documents stop in April 2003 and do not cover practices at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said. Even so, they show that in December, (…)

  • ACTION ALERT: Fox News Spins 9/11 Commission Report
    24 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by FAIR
    The Bush administration’s long-running attempts to link Iraq and Al Qaeda were dealt a serious blow when the September 11 commission’s June 16 interim report indicated that there did not appear to be a "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Osama bin Laden, and that there was no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11 attacks.
    But if you were watching the Fox News Channel, you saw something very different, as the conservative cable network eagerly defended the (…)

  • IRAQI CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES
    24 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Raed Jarrar, Director of Iraq Survey http://civilians.info/iraq/
    a note from the director of the survey
    I was the country director of the first (and maybe only) door-to-door civilian casualties survey. Marla Ruzika was my American partner, the fund raiser, and the general director of CIVIC. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the chance to publish the final results until now.
    I decided to publish my copy of the final results of the Iraqi civilian casualties in Baghdad and the south of (…)

  • Thirst : The New Blue Gold
    24 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The rush to privatize water is underway across the world. In the new documentary Thirst , filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow set out to explore the consequences.
    There are untold profits to be made from controlling the simplest and most vital ingredient of our survival: water.
    The only question, from a profit standpoint, is why it has taken this long.
    "You can’t do anything without water," says Alan Snitow, co-producer and co-director of Thirst, a groundbreaking and provocative (…)

  • Militants decapitate hostage
    24 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A SOUTH Korean hostage in Iraq was killed and his body was found between Baghdad and Fallujah, west of the capital, South Korea said today. The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed a report on the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera station that Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old man whose captors had threatened to behead him, was dead.
    Kim’s body was found by the US military between Baghdad and Fallujah at 10.20pm Tuesday Korea time (5.20pm Iraq time, 23.20 AEST), said Shin Bong-kil, spokesman for the (…)

  • Sexual Humiliation, Gender Confusion and the Horrors at Abu Ghraib
    24 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Zillah Eisenstein
    The New York Times reports that there have been new releases of prisoners formerly held at Abu Ghraib. The photo shows a young man, age 17, being embraced by his mother and sisters. His body completely slumps into their protective arms. He is two years younger than my daughter. I am heartsick wondering if he will ever recover from his horror.
    Muslim men are described as sexually humiliated at Abu Ghraib. And white women of the working class are used to "pussy whip" (…)