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  • CAFTA: Democracy Sold Out
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Deborah James
    At 12:03 a.m. on July 28, the House of Representatives approved CAFTA, the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement.
    The bill, which would expand NAFTA to Central America and the Dominican Republic, would devastate farmers, privatize essential public services, and accelerate the race to the bottom on wages in the U.S. and all over Central America.
    At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time, the count was 180 to 175 against CAFTA, (…)

  • TV Anchors; field-marshals in the Information-war
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Television news is the frontlines in the war on terror. That’s where the symbols of national pride merge with the logic of war and thrust the nation towards aggression. The same was true with Iraq. The anti-war voices were excluded, the pro-war advocates were celebrated, and the drumbeat was sounded from every corner of the country. The pre-war strategy for marshalling popular support was the most flawlessly executed public relations scheme in modern times; the thunderous music echoing in (…)

  • KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS
    29 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [Corrected version to INCLUDE GRAPHICS]
    KARL ROVE and VARIOUS SPIES HE IS LINKED TO
    Karl Rove’s only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson’s CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done (…)

  • Angry Afghans confront US forces
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least 1,000 protesters have staged a demonstration outside the main US base of Bagram in Afghanistan.
    The demonstrators, chanting "Die America", were angry at the arrest of a number of villagers on Monday night. Some threw stones at military vehicles.
    Piles of tyres were burned on the main road near the base, sending clouds of black smoke billowing over the area.
    Eyewitness say US troops fired warning shots at the demonstrators. The US military are denying this .../... (…)

  • Jane Fonda To Tour In Antiwar, Vegetable Oil-Fueled Bus
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Actress and activist Jane Fonda said she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.
    Fonda said her antiwar tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil." She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.
    Fonda was speaking Saturday in Santa Fe, N.M., where she was promoting her book, "My Life So Far." The actress released the book in April, which among other things gave her side of the story in regard (…)

  • Scary Police State emerges in UK and USA
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The powers that be are taking us down another notch towards a total police state. What should cause public outrage is being swept aside as par for the course in today’s world of terror attacks.
    London police just chased down a man and shot him- after they had him detained and he did NOT appear to be a threat.
    He was pinned down on the floor and shot through the head five times- is that ok with you?!
    If he had a bomb strapped on him, why didn’t the police remove his coat to prove it? (…)

  • Blair spends thousands on make-up
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prime Minister Tony Blair has spent more than £1,800 of taxpayers’ money on cosmetics and make-up artists since coming into office, it has emerged.
    Between 1999 and 2005 Downing Street paid £1,050.22 for cosmetics for Mr Blair’s media appearances.
    Another £791.20 was spent over the past two years on make-up artists.
    But this seems modest compared with Irish premier Bertie Ahern, who is reported to have spent more than £115,000 on his appearance since 1997.
    The Independent reported in (…)

  • Paris’s poor struggle to find decent homes
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kerstin Gehmlich
    PARIS. For the last year, Fatima Louarn and her family have shared a tiny Paris hotel room because they could find nowhere else to live. Now she is pregnant and the owner wants to kick her out.
    About 8,000 people live in shabby hotels in Paris, often sharing a bathroom with dozens of other people, and living off sandwiches because they are not allowed to cook in their rooms.
    "It’s not a life. You feel like you’re in prison," says Louarn, a 37-year-old unemployed (…)

  • VIDEO: Iraq In The Name Of Freedom - Democracy Hypocrisy
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This twelve minute ’realvideo’ movie has more truth than all the tv ’experts’ combined. (contains graphic scenes)
    Stream: http://www.informationclearinghouse... Download: http://www.dawah.tv/broadcast/iraqf... (9mb)
    Is this ’news’? Does it give you valuable information about what is happening in Iraq? Compare to a network newscast- which is more informative?

  • Website that carried al-Qaida claim has connections to Bush family
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted on one of the dozens of Islamic websites that are routinely monitored by western intelligence services.
    The statement, under the name of the Secret Organisation of the al-Qaida Jihad in Europe, said: "The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern and western quarters."
    It was posted on an Arabic website, (…)