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  • Stick To A Good Lie
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STICK TO A GOOD LIE
    By Peter Fredson
    December 10, 2005
    Condi Rice, Bush’s attack dog, the Black Angel of Death, has been high-stepping around Europe lately with the fancy shoes that she bought as Katrina killed many people. I’m surprised she doesn’t wear hip-height rubber boots to wade knee-deep in all the crap she is spreading on European leaders. But she finds time to lecture Syria and Iran and constantly threaten them because that was the neocons plan years ago. She also, following (…)

  • Sacred Terror: The Global Death Squad of George W. Bush
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The much-belated, poll-prompted outcry of a few American elected officials against the widespread use of torture by the Bush Administration - following years of silent acquiescence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of deliberate atrocity - is a welcome development, of course. But it has left an even more sinister aspect of Bushist policy untouched, one that likewise has been hidden in plain sight for years.
    On September 17, 2001, George W. Bush signed an executive order authorizing (…)

  • German Papers: Does Anyone Believe Condoleezza Rice?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Der Spiegel
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her visit has left all sorts of bad tastes in the mouths of Germans. Nobody seems terribly convinced by her claim that America doesn’t torture. And what is "torture" anyway?
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her lightening visit on Tuesday is still splashed across the headlines on Wednesday. Nobody, of course, expected the issues raised by Rice’s visit to disappear as soon as (…)

  • Britain ’trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi’s election chances’
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The British government is trying to stall an investigation into the theft of more than $1.3bn (£740m) from the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, senior Iraqi officials say.
    The government wants to postpone the investigation to help its favoured candidate Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, in the election on 15 December. The money disappeared during his administration.
    The UK’s enthusiasm for Mr Allawi may have led it into promoting a cover-up of how the (…)

  • Helen Thomas: Journalists are Now ’Soul Searching’ After ’Playing Dead’ Since 9/11
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Helen Thomas, arguably the nation’s best known print journalist and dean of the White House press corps, told a Falls Church audience last week that “there is a lot of soul searching going on now” among news professionals about uncritical coverage since 9/11 of the Bush administration and its policies.
    “The press has rolled over and played dead,” Thomas said of its behavior in recent years. “Our main weapon is skepticism. It is our indispensable role to protect the people’s right to know,” (…)

  • Panicky Bush slinks away from Chavez
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    The easiest way to understand the institutional bias of western media is to analyze reporting from the developing world. The economic summit in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the coverage and decide whether such partiality exists.
    Although tens of thousands of working people came to protest George Bush and his suspiciously-named “free trade” economic policies; they were invariably smeared by the corporate media as “Leftists” or (…)

  • Coup brewing in Iraq?
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Hassan Hanizadeh
    Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi is a dangerous, mysterious figure who is currently trying to play a significant role in the Iraqi political scene, which seriously threatens the future of the country.
    The fact that Allawi was the only Iraqi official to attend a recent military parade inspection ceremony indicates that he intends to play an ambiguous military role in Iraq.
    After the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, Allawi, who was once an Iraqi (…)

  • There is a Name for this Government-Corporation we call "The US Administration"
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice saga continues as the year 2005 draws to a close. The only breaking news to come from the ongoing drama is the implication, published in Vanity Fair, that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of US Representatives, was the recipient of campaign contributions and assorted bribes from the Turkish-American community. That another US politician is on the take comes as no surprise. But more on that later. Sibel’s story may have quietly died from the (…)

  • Brass in Pocket, Blood on the Tracks
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Chris Floyd
    The only defense for the indefensible is to be offensive, it seems. The Bush Faction has obviously decided to stop refuting allegations about torture and just openly embrace the heinous practice instead. You’ve got Bush vowing to veto torture restrictions, you’ve got Cheney twisting arms on Capitol Hill to preserve the Faction’s inalienable right to beat people to death — and now you’ve got Condi Rice traipsing off to Europe to tell America’s allies to stop all their whining (…)

  • War Crimes, USA. Could administration officials be called to account?
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Engler
    In normal times, suggesting that the leaders of our country might have committed war crimes would violate a firm taboo in American political discussion. Yet in the post-Abu-Ghraib era-and especially as President Bush has quarreled with Congress over the McCain amendment prohibiting abuse of all detainees in U.S. custody-observers can no longer profess shock at the idea that criminal breaches of humanitarian law have occurred. According to a recent editorial in the Washington (…)