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  • The Specter of a Zarqawi Takeover Is As False As Saddam’s Mushroom Cloud
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the White House misled Congress and the American public to support an unprovoked attack on Iraq, they stressed frightening images of vast stockpiles of WMD and the threat of a mushroom cloud from Saddam’s unchecked nuclear program. Of course, that all turned out to be false. But the White House is up to its old propaganda tricks again, this time to mislead Congress and the public to back the continued occupation of Iraq, which has already cost over 2,000 American lives, tens of (…)

  • Is Bush lying about his lies?
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions. In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq.
    Is the administration lying about its lies? That many of the arguments in favor of the war were false is beyond question. Nor can there be any (…)

  • BUSH DOUBLE-SPEAK REVISITED
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH NEWSPEAK REVERSED
    A News Satire
    By Peter Fredson
    November 25, 2005
    Every day I visit GOOGLE for its excellent news service. The other day I read another of George Bush’s incessant belligerent war rumblings against Muslim countries. The Reuters news report said basically:
    “Syria would start pulling back its forces in Lebanon Monday. The United States warned it would accept no half measures and wants the Syrians gone before May elections. The United States is wary of Assad’s (…)

  • AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATE JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An open letter to senator Liebermann
    Dear senate Liebermann
    I saw your press conference with the Iraqi prime minister, from which I understand that:-
    1-You are concerned about the future of Iraqis. If so, please visit the detainees in Abu-Graib and Bucca prisons, where number exceeded 14,000. More than 98% of them are there without any charges, no access to lawyers. The red cross and Iraqi crescent are not allowed to visit them. Moreover, the Iraqi security forces, backed by the USA (…)

  • Axioms of the World
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One frequent criticism of my articles for PRAVDA.Ru evolves from my propensity to reference my past articles in more recent ones. Some attribute this proclivity to vanity, laziness or some other ulterior motive.
    The truth, however, is not as complicated or self-serving. I simply want to remind readers that there were some, like myself, who recognized the corruption, venality, hypocrisy and mendacity of George W. Bush and his minions long before his dictatorship’s popularity fell to what (…)

  • GLOBAL EYE: First Light
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Light
    By Chris Floyd Published, MOSCOW TIMES: November 25, 2005
    Last week, America’s troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington’s corridors of power, where the rule of the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the moribund Republic — perhaps too late — but it has struck a mighty blow against the Lie’s adherents, driving them into spasms of (…)

  • Wisconsin Should Hold Oil Executives Accountable
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Miranda
    Wisconsin Governor Doyle’s administration will be holding a public hearing in Milwaukee on December 1st to ask corporate oil executives questions about record profits their companies amassed in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
    Under the authority of Wisconsin’s trade and consumer protection law, the Governor has subpoenaed oil company executives to appear in Wisconsin for this public hearing. Those served with subpoenas are: David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO of (…)

  • Food Workers Union Steps up Healthcare Reform Push
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brendan Coyne
    Joining the efforts of a government-founded national organization devoted to finding a workable solution to growing problems with the United States’s healthcare system, one of the nation’s largest unions yesterday announced its intention to actively engage members in the conversation. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is the first labor union to join the two-year-old Citizens’ Health Care Working Group.
    According to information compiled by the Working Group, (…)

  • Powell aide: Torture ’guidance’ from VP
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former staff chief says Cheney’s ’flexibility’ helped lead to abuse
    WASHINGTON - A former top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and "flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities.
    Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, told CNN that the practice of torture may be continuing in U.S.-run facilities.
    "There’s no question (…)

  • THE BEST SPEECHWRITER BUSH CAN BUY
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEST SPEECHES MONEY CAN BUY
    By Peter Fredson
    November 24, 2005
    By now everyone knows that all of the Bush speechwriters use Newspeak liberally. This is the fine art of making white appear to be black, war to be peace, incompetence appear to be clever leadership, torture to be simple college pranks, corruption appear to be bookkeeping mistakes, with death and destruction appearing to be joyous preparation for a wonderful eternal world of the future.
    Everyone knows that a loyal (…)