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  • All the King’s Media
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Greider
    Amid the smoke and stench of burning careers, Washington feels a bit like the last days of the ancien régime. As the world’s finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. Let the perp walks begin. Whether the public feels reassured is another matter.
    George W. Bush’s plight leads me to thoughts of Louis XV and his royal court in the (…)

  • GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party’s decline
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."
    The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and (…)

  • The Predators who rule the world
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Who are the neoliberals?
    The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable.
    The planet is owned and ruled by the same people; not the heads of State, but the owners of the capital. State governments, if unyielding to the superior power of the capitals, run the risk of becoming figureheads in the claws of the neoliberals. Do what we tell you to do or we will unmask the vacuum behind (…)

  • Ex-Powell Aide Suggests Pre-War Memo Was Kept From Bush
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marc Perelman
    A former top official in the Bush administration is suggesting that a White House memo outlining the need for hundreds of thousands of troops for the Iraq invasion was kept from the president. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to then-secretary of state Colin Powell during President Bush’s first term, said in a November 7 speech that the National Security Council had prepared a pre-war memo recommending that hundreds of thousands of troops and other security (…)

  • Bush Forcibly Attacks Iraq Critics ‘rewriting history’ - what about the UAVs Mr. Bush?
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The truth is that virtually everything Bush says is the exact opposite of the truth. The Patriots fighting to stop this war, this killing for profit, are not rewriting history- Bush is. Bush claims he didn’t lie, they used the best intelligence... bull- they lied, here’s some proof.
    1. "Someone" took the Senators into a closed door session and told them Saddam had UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast... shortly after they voted on the Resolution.
    Senator Bill Nelson (FL): I, along with (…)

  • BUSH PREACHES PATRIOTISM TO VETERANS
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DRAFT DODGERS LECTURE VETERANS ON PATRIOTISM
    By Peter Fredson
    November 12, 2005
    Oh, the irony of it all. Yesterday was Veteran’s Day, to honor both the living and the dead soldiers who had served their country. Yet the main speakers were Neo-Con Bush War Hawks, mainly draft-dodgers, sons of wealthy and influential people, who opted not to give their valuable lives for their country.
    President Bush, the Vice-President, and other members of the Bush administration gave speeches to (…)

  • Bush’s Irresponsible War on the Truth
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a member of Military Families Speak Out, I am outraged this president has the nerve to tell Americans that opposition to his quagmire is “irresponsible.” Actions by this administration have shown nothing but a consistent, repeated pattern of irresponsible behavior toward our troops, their families and the people of Iraq.
    Sending our troops into a war of choice improperly trained and shoddily equipped was irresponsible. Bush abused Veterans Day, twisting it into a political plug to (…)

  • The Rise of America’s New Enemy
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you here?" asked the man sitting opposite me in the packed jeep-bus that chugged up the hill. Like so many in Latin America, he appeared old, but wasn’t. Without waiting for my answer, he listed why he supported President Chavez: schools, clinics, (…)

  • A Year Later, Arafat Mourners Are Subdued
    11 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By GREG MYRE
    RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 11 - One year after Yasir Arafat died and was buried in a tumultuous funeral, the crowd was far smaller and the mood subdued today at a commemoration service next to the former Palestinian leader’s grave.
    Mr. Arafat was the dominant Palestinian figure for nearly four decades, and his legacy lives on. His photo still hangs in government offices and shops, and many Palestinians describe him as a father figure.
    Yet public tributes and references to (…)

  • One. Two. Three. Four---What the hell are we remembering for?
    11 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Greg Felton
    Do we seriously believe that our soldiers, airmen and sailors fought against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan only to bequeath to us a world terrorized by Israel, the U.S. and Great Britain?
    This Remembrance Day, I will show my respect for Canada’s war dead in a different way-I will not wear a poppy.
    The poppy, John McRae’s In Flanders Fields and the commemoration of the two world wars are part of a ritual that has become a perverse anachronism. Simply put, (…)