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  • Former US public broadcasting chairman resigns in disgrace
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Walsh
    Right-winger Kenneth Tomlinson resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) November 3, after a report by the agency’s inspector general sharply criticized his performance. Tomlinson has been at the center of efforts to transform public broadcasting into a mouthpiece for the Bush administration.
    Tomlinson, a former director of the Voice of America in the Reagan administration and editor-in-chief or Reader’s Digest, was appointed to the CPB by (…)

  • Our Situation is no Different from the Dark Days of Saddam Hussein
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2005-11-07 :: azzaman ::
    The former regime of Saddam Hussein suppressed all forms of freedom, did not tolerate the slightest dissent and buried any voice he did not like.
    As a result of his rash, brutal and despotic polices we ended up in the kind of the brutal foreign occupation we have now.
    Iraqis’ pleasure over the collapse of the regime was short-lived. It did not take us long to discover that there has been little or no difference in conditions before and after the so-called (…)

  • France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOCELYN GECKER
    France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
    The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…)

  • Before Rearming Iraq, He Sold Shoes and Flowers
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Solomon Moore and T. Christian Miller
    Ziad Cattan was a Polish Iraqi used-car dealer with no weapons-dealing experience until U.S. authorities turned him into one of the most powerful men in Iraq last year - the chief of procurement for the Defense Ministry, responsible for equipping the fledgling Iraqi army.
    As U.S. advisors looked on, Cattan embarked on a massive spending spree, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi funds for secret, no-bid contracts, according to (…)

  • Bush rebuked by the hand of God
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Phil Davison
    George Bush presumably knew before this weekend that the "hand of God" could be merciless. He certainly does now. Maradona, rather than Iraq, was uppermost on the US President’s mind this weekend as he attended a summit of leaders from the Western hemisphere in the Argentinian beach resort of Mar del Plata.
    As domestic polls informed him that he was increasingly mistrusted by his fellow Americans, Mr Bush was clearly mortified to be called "human trash" by Latin America’s (…)

  • ’I’m a fashion god’ - what FEMA boss e-mailed as hurricane Katrina raged
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by RHIANNON EDWARD
    AS HURRICANE Katrina battered New Orleans, the man in charge of the US government’s response was sending e-mails to colleagues about his fashion sense and how he looked on television.
    On 29 August, the day Katrina struck the United States, Michael Brown, then director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), wrote to a fellow official: "I am a fashion god."
    The correspondence emerged as a congressional panel released 23 pages of internal e-mails offering (…)

  • The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America’s revolt
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters
    by Naomi Klein
    When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in south-west Colombia, ringed by soldiers, rightwing paramilitaries and leftwing guerrillas, strangers asking questions is never a good thing.
    The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which (…)

  • PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Patrick Apel-Muller
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (…)

  • Montana Gov: "Are we going to allow the military to do an end run coup on civilian government?"
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HELENA, Mont. — Several governors are fuming over a Bush administration suggestion that the active military take a greater role in disaster response, calling it an attempt to usurp state authority over National Guard units.
    Governors in Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arkansas, West Virginia, Delaware and Alabama are among those who have panned the idea, questioning whether it would even be constitutional.
    Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, among the harshest critics, said the issue (…)

  • Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rob Kall
    The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information.
    The NY Times reports Bush, Cheney, Powell, and other administration officials repeatedly cited known dissembler’s information as “credible’’ evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda (…)