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  • Castlereagh collusion confirmed : the British government tried to suppress it...
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by LAURA FRIEL
    Collusion: Gerry Adams details among hundreds leaked
    The British government tried to suppress it. British sources briefed the media it was a "non story". The PSNI refused to comment and the then British NIO Minister Ian Pearson insisted, "There were no indications the material had fallen into the hands of paramilitaries."
    Over a year after secret files containing the personal details of up to 400 republicans and nationalists were stolen from offices used by covert (…)

  • Failure of Leadership; Republicans In Charge
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush’s 37% popularity offers an opportunity to highlight the results of Republican failures. Under the leadership of our self-anointed “War President”, our foreign policy has grown increasingly delusional. Republicans in Congress have spent and borrowed trillions, for the benefit of the wealthy, while cutting vital aid to working-class Americans.
    We’re locked in two land wars in a hostile region. Neither war can nor will end without withdrawal, for radical Islamic terrorists pledge (…)

  • BUSH PLOT TO BOMB ALJAZEERA
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    22 November 2005 Madness of war memo By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
    PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
    But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
    A source said: "There’s no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
    The attack would have led to (…)

  • Experts Questioning Iraq Intel Silenced Before War- Never Let Politicians Say They Didn’t Know...
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the New Zealand Scoop-This isn’t new news! Posted by The Prissy Patriot http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am
    By Jason Leopold
    Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing (…)

  • Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist” and disparaged the US as a “terrorist state”. Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, “The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States...The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman.”
    He got that right.
    For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a (…)

  • INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    November 21, 2005
    “Incongruity: strangeness, absurdity, inappropriateness”, according to my in-computer thesaurus, seems to reflect the puzzlement I feel when looking at the daily news about Iraq for the past four years.
    I wonder what those young people in United States uniform, holding automatic weapons at the ready, dressed like Samurai warriors in full-field gear, are doing so far from home. Why are they not back home in Sheboygan, Duluth, or (…)

  • How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ’not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. By Bob Drogin and John Goetz Special to The Times
    November 20, 2005
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his (…)

  • Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Poised for Presidency
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Franklin
    SANTIAGO, Chile (WOMENSENEWS)—To many Chileans the idea of quotas for female cabinet members is just the latest in a stunning turn of political events in this usually staid, conservative nation of 15 million.
    "Fifty percent of my cabinet will be women," Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet promised a crowd of supporters last week. "We are going to set a standard for Latin America."
    Chileans lived, and too many died, under a dictatorship from 1973 to (…)

  • Break Up Cheney’s Cabal
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
    Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq by nearly two to one, according to a new Gallop poll. A majority want US troops withdrawn from Iraq within twelve months—a higher proportion than wanted to withdraw from Vietnam in the summer of 1970. Catering to public sentiment, on November 15 the Senate voted 79 to 19 for a Republican resolution saying 2006 should be a year of "significant transition" for US withdrawal (…)

  • The Champ Meets the Chump
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Zirin
    The presidency of George W. Bush is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence. The polls speak for themselves—only 35 percent of us approve of his job performance. Fifty-six percent—including one in four Republicans—say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and more than half believe Bush intentionally misled the country to bring the United States into war. The response from the White House has been grimly predictable: Admit no mistakes and spin, slash or burn (…)