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  • Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By GARDINER HARRIS
    WASHINGTON - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.
    The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, concluded in a report released Monday that the Food and Drug Administration’s May 2004 rejection of the morning-after (…)

  • Bush’s vision fails to win over Middle East
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Simon Tisdall
    Jack Straw put his finger on it. Speaking after a disputatious Middle East summit in Bahrain at the weekend, the foreign secretary said: "It would be a disaster if this region thought democracy was an American idea." Many in the region appear to think exactly that - and have ideas of their own.
    Washington’s latest disappointment came when a 30-country Middle East "democratic manifesto" statement was torpedoed in Bahrain. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt insisted that (…)

  • The End of News?
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael Massing
    In late September, the Government Accountability Office-a nonpartisan arm of Congress-issued a finding that the Bush administration had engaged in "covert propaganda," and thereby broken the law, by paying Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, to promote its educational policies. The GAO also faulted the administration for hiring a public relations firm to distribute video news segments without disclosing the government’s part in producing them.[1] The (…)

  • REASONS TO HATE BUSH
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    REASONED HATRED 1
    By Peter Fredson
    November 14, 2005
    A reader of one of my blogs critical of George W. Bush remarked that I was expressing unreasoning hatred of our President. I would like to say that I believe I am expressing reasoned hatred of Bush. I did not always hate the man. Sometimes I despised his smirk, his swagger or his very strange verbalisms, but years ago I did not hate him. I often reflected on the circumstances where his rich and powerful (…)

  • White House Iraq Group Must be Investigated
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was the White House truthful with the American people and with Congress in making their case to go to war in Iraq? This is a critical question that demands a clear answer and it is long past time for the United States Congress to properly ask it and investigate the matter.
    A group of top White House advisors, including Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the now-indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, formed the White House Iraq Group(WHIG) in (…)

  • The Iraqi government started punishing provinces who rejected the constitution
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The referendum about the Iraqi constitution was associated with huge frauds made by the ruling parties, who insisted on passing articles that are in their favor. Many parties and politicians have asked for investigations. However, instead of investigating these frauds, the Iraqi government has raised major offensives against people of the provinces which rejected the constitution. The minister of interior and minister of defense are from parties that strongly backed the constitution. (…)

  • White Phosphorous, Daisycutters, DU, Thermobaric, Clusterbombs, Napalm...US uses WMD on civilians
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, Thermobaric bombs, Clusterbombs, Napalm... US uses WMD against civilians Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq, Executive committee BRussells Tribunal (12 Nov 2005)
    "Injuries to everyone involved in war - civilians and troops of all sides - shown supreme contempt for international humanitarian law ever since WW2.
    If this war shows one thing it is the need for the World to start to get control over the barbarity of the US military (…)

  • Secretive firm helps U.S. wage information war abroad
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephen J. Hedges
    WASHINGTON // To fight what it sees as an insidious propaganda war waged by militants, from incendiary Web sites to one-sided television images of the Iraq war, the Pentagon has been quietly waging its own information battle throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.
    One of its primary weapons is a secretive firm that has been criticized as ineffective and too expensive.
    The Rendon Group, directed by former Democratic Party political operative John Rendon, has (…)

  • Burn in hell, Mr. President
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by DOUG THOMPSON
    My first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage.
    How dare he, I thought. Not even the lowest, scum-sucking son of a bitch in politics would stoop to using a day to honor those who served their country would stoop to using that day to promote his lies-based, illegal, immoral exercise in mass murder called the invasion of Iraq.
    Yes he would. George W. Bush is a pathetic, pitiless (…)

  • Why isn’t Tony Blair behind bars?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair knew full well before he went to war that he could face criminal charges for ‘waging a war of aggression’, which is is not only illegal in international law but it is the most serious criminal offence known to mankind. 100,000 deaths later and he still isn’t behind bars.
    by Chris Coverdale
    When the Prime Minister and the Attorney General announced that the war with Iraq would be legal, they betrayed the trust of the British people.
    Waging a war of aggression is not only (…)