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  • Chalabi takes over Iraq oil ministry amid ’crisis’
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi has assumed direct control of the powerful oil ministry as crude exports ground to a halt due to sabotage attacks and logistics problems, officials said on Friday.
    Chalabi, who has been improving his relations with Washington after falling out with the U.S. administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, the officials said.
    Uloum told Reuters he was "intent on (…)

  • UNANSWERED QUESTONS FROM 2005
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNANSWERED QUESTIONS OF 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    December 30, 2005
    As 2005 is fading into history there are some questions regarding George W. Bush that have not yet been answered. Perhaps in his State of the Union Message, in a couple of weeks, he will answer these nagging questions, perhaps not.
    First of all: Cindy Sheehan says she would like to know what were the noble purposes for which George Bush hastily declared war on Iraq. I too would very much like to know. So far I have (…)

  • ’Patience, Mr. Bush? How about impeachment, now?’
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After suffering 17 minutes of bobbling homilies, lies, and hand gestures, as if the president were talking in sign language to the deaf and dumb, asking for our patience in pursuing a criminally illegal war, one that so far has cost 2100 American lives, 200,000 Iraqi lives, $200 billion plus (another $80 billion to be asked for), patience is not what is needed. Rather it is Bush’s impeachment and that of his entire administration, now. This is a no-vote on his referendum-seeking screed. But (…)

  • Clowntime is Over: The Last Stand of the American Republic
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So now, at last, the crisis is upon us. Now the cards are finally on the table, laid out so starkly that even the Big Media sycophants and Beltway bootlickers can no longer ignore them. Now the choice for the American Establishment is clear, and inescapable: do you hold for the Republic, or for autocracy?
    There is no third way here, no other option, no wiggle room, no ambiguity. The much-belated exposure of George W. Bush’s warrantless spy program has forced the Bush-Cheney Regime to (…)

  • Sovereignty or Slavery
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sovereignty
    By Peter Fredson
    December 29, 2005
    When I become confused by lies I often turn to my Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary that has been my companion since 1950. Today I read some articles published since 2004 about Iraqi Sovereignty put out by the Neocoms of the Bush Administration and the more I read the more I was confused.
    The meaning to the Bush thugs of Sovereignty is similar to the meanings of Liberty, Democracy, Freedom, and Constitution. That is, those words mean (…)

  • The Carnival of Values and the Exchange Value of Carnival
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this issue of The Commoner we are beginning to clear a path (or maybe several paths) out of the dust emerging from the front line, and try to make sense of what is the reason for the smoke and sparks. We see a strange phenomenon occurring: what we practice is often not what we value and what we value is often not what we practice (and in saying this let us not forget that “practice” means many diverse things: work, shopping, eating, filling forms, writing, taking the train, watching the (…)

  • America’s Tomorrow [Corporatism Rising]
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Burden on Those Yet to Come
    Throughout human history certain patterns continue repeating themselves over and over again, becoming, if careful attention is paid to study them, a direct harbinger to what tomorrow’s cultures and societies will be like. The inevitability of what a future generation’s destiny will become is oftentimes discernable from the accumulated sins of the fathers that came before as well as those of the grandfathers that (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to protest at State of the Union January 31
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 The Year The Chickenhawks will go home to roost by Cindy Sheehan Wed Dec 28, 2005 at 02:07:09 PM PDT
    Since hot, hot Camp Casey in August, some amazing grass roots actions have taken place all over the country. People are starting to speak up and Congress has begun to take action against the criminal and neo-Fascist regime that tried to take over America.
    * CindySheehan’s diary
    From Camp Casey to Katrina to use of chemical weaponry and extraordinary rendition to illegally spying (…)

  • Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Lasseter
    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 independent Kurdistan.
    Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and (…)

  • Renditions in Greece -MI6 Spook’s Name Revealed
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Proto Thema Newspaper, Sunday 25 December 2005, page 10
    “Guantanamo” nights took place during July, in Athens, according the details revealed by “Thema”, proving that the kidnapping and interrogations of Pakistanis living in Greece, didn’t just take place, but were a result of the total collaboration between the British secret services and the National Information Service of Greece (EYP). The ministers of Public Order, G. Voulgarakis and Foreign Issues, Petros Moliviatis, were fully (…)