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  • Constitution loses in Haiti election fight: analysts
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Loney
    MIAMI (Reuters) - Haiti’s constitution is being violated by both the U.S.-backed interim government and by the candidacy of a Haitian American millionaire running strongly in the polls in a long delayed election, analysts say.
    "The government has not been paying much attention to the constitution," said Brian Concannon, a U.S. lawyer who worked in Haiti and helped prosecute military leaders accused of a peasant massacre.
    The first round of voting in the troubled Caribbean (…)

  • Note to Health Care Reform Activists: Public Employee Health Benefits to Evaporate
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Andy Coates
    According to two recent articles, one in the New York Times and one in the Wall Street Journal, the federal Governmental Accounting Standards Board has begun to require municipalities — states, counties, cities — to account for how much it will cost them to provide all the health care promised to present and retired public employees. This process, to be completed over the next 3 years, has already started in states like Alaska, Delaware, and Maryland and cities like Duluth, (…)

  • CONFLICT IN IRAQ: Kurds preparing takeover; U.S. exit strategy at risk
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. plan for leaving Iraq is in trouble, with more than 10,000 Kurds in the Iraqi army prepared to seize control of northern Iraq for an independent state.
    BY TOM LASSETER
    Knight Ridder News Service
    KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an (…)

  • Israel: Expanding Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Letter to President George W. Bush
    December 27, 2005 Office of the President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush, I am writing to you with respect to multiple Israeli announcements of its plans to continue expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This directly contravenes international law and Israeli commitments under the Road Map. You recently reiterated Israel’s obligations to stop expanding (…)

  • ACLU: Bush Broke the Law and Lied to the American People
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - The Justice Department said on Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a secret National Security Agency program under which President Bush authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States without court warrants.
    The investigation began in recent days after a formal referral from the security agency regarding the leak, federal officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the (…)

  • David Corn and "The White House Smear"
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wish an enterprising journalist would ask Mr. David Corn ,The Washington Editor of Nation Magazine , to answer the folowing questions :
    1) Mr. Corn , have you been contacted by the Office of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald ?
    2) Mr. Corn , in your article published in the Nation Magazine on July 16, 2003 ( 2 days after the infamous Robert Novak article identified CIA agent Valerie Plame as an Operative on weapons of mass destruction ) you quote an unidentified source (…)

  • GO TO THE LIGHT!
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    Folks at the White House stay pretty busy these days just trying to untangle the lies George Bush keeps telling every time he opens his mouth. For example, back in April 2004, Bush explained to a cheering audience and an unchallenging press corps in Buffalo about "eavesdropping" on Americans — "When you think ’Patriot Act,’ constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because," he said earnestly while leaning (…)

  • The American’s Creed of 1918-Or Proof It’s Republicans Who Hate Americas Freedom...
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American’s Creed William Tyler Page
    “I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
    “I therefore believe it is my (…)

  • If bin Laden was dead, Would the U.S. admit it?
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dec 7, 2001 tape
    Very ill from Kidney Dialysis
    Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
    al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
    News of Bin Laden’s Death
    and Funeral 10 days ago
    Islamabad -
    A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa’da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. The official, who asked to remain (…)

  • Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Polish Psychologist, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, who lived through the Nazi and Communist occupation of Poland, made a pact with fellow researchers to study the nature of the evil that had fallen on their society. They called the new science “Ponerology” which the dictionary defines: n. division of theology dealing with evil; theological doctrine of wickedness or evil; from the Greek: poneros -> evil’.
    But Dr. Lobaczewski was not proposing a “theological” study, but rather a scientific study (…)