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  • Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up Warwick McFadyen August 25, 2006 "WE’RE not leaving, so long as I’m the President." There in nine words is the exit strategy for the United States involvement in Iraq. Depending on your viewpoint, it’s either a commitment or an admission of defeat.
    George Bush has another 26 months to run on his presidency, which means that by November 2008, the US will have been in Iraq for almost six years. In a couple of months, America (…)

  • Olbermann Our New Murrow
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Olbermann Our New Murrow By Larry C Johnson Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 22:43 If you missed Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Donald Rumsfeld’s accusation that Americans who criticize the Bush Policy in Iraq are basically traitors, then you missed a chance to witness history. Olbermann’s courage and genius should be celebrated and cherished. God bless him. The man has a set of stones.
    The following is posted at Keith’s blog. If you don’t want to read it, check out the video posted at (…)

  • Blind Faith in Bad Leaders is Not Patriotism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salt Lake City Rally Protests Bush Admin and Congress
    Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson
    Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah August 30, 2006
    A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.
    Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation - and for our world?
    And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth?
    Let’s hear it: "Give us the (…)

  • Our Lesson From Rummy (transcript?)
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday, Aug 30th 2006, Donald Rumsfeld delivered an erudite and foreceful speech to the Republican Veterans of War (membership 16 men). Here is a transcript:
    Good Evening:
    Today we are fighting a new kind of war. We went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq to strike back at those who attacked us on 9/11,and to find and destroy WMDs, which we know are still to be located beneath the burning sands. These monsters in turbans, these Neo-Nazi Muslim extremist Islamo-Fascists use terrible (…)

  • Venezuela’s Cooperative Revolution. The Hidden Story
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela’s Cooperative Revolution. The Hidden Story
    An economic experiment is the hidden story behind Chávez’s ’Bolivarian Revolution.’
    By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice.
    Zaida Rosas, a woman in her fifties with 15 grandchildren, works in the newly constructed textile co-op Venezuela Avanza in Caracas. The co-op’s 209 workers are mostly formerly jobless neighborhood women. Their (…)

  • Behind the plan to bomb Iran
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
    Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.
    It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources. [1]
    There is strong evidence that the US (…)

  • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mike Schiller
    Permission granted to publish & post this article on any website at will, free of charge.
    Tom Kean, the Republican running against Bob Menendez for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by John Corzine, is trying very hard to avoid talking about the issues. For instance, he’d rather avoid letting New Jersey know that he would have voted to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. He’d rather avoid discussing whether he would have voted for the Bush tax cuts that (…)

  • Towards the Truth Regarding War Crimes Committed in Lebanon
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon has been victim of what the French government has called a ‘disproportionate’ act of war committed by Israel. This war has violated international law which stipulates that all attacks should be in keeping with proportionality and a limited use of violence against only military objectives. In addition, Israeli military operations contravened the First Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which stipulates that collective punishments and actions against the civilian (…)

  • Bush to Launch Series of Speeches on War
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Bush is kicking off another series of speeches to counter opposition to the war in Iraq, impatience with the rising U.S. death toll and anxiety about possible terrorist attacks.
    Bush delivers the first speech Thursday to the annual American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. The appearances will continue through the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and culminate on Sept. 19 when Bush addresses the U.N. Security Council.
    It is the third time (…)

  • International Law Authority Rips Bush Policies
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BUSH POLICIES ARE "ONGOING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY" UNDER U.S. AND WORLD LAW, LEGAL SCHOLAR SAYS
    By Sherwood Ross
    If anyone knows anything about international law it’s Dr. Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he’s more than a little ticked off at the moment at President Bush. Dr. Boyle’s credentials are little short of amazing.
    He was the expert who drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 --- (…)