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  • Waiting for a Leader
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody (…)

  • The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad.
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Solomon The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.
    They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.
    The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is hampering the capacity of the National Guard to save lives at home.
    Before the flooding of New Orleans drastically escalated on Tuesday, the White House tried to disarm questions that could be politically (…)

  • Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by MARCELLO MEGA
    A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
    The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
    The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali (…)

  • How Bush’s policies doomed New Orleans
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004
    Over the last coupla days there has been some wailing and gnashing of (…)

  • The Clock is Ticking, Mr. Bush
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’m confused.
    The news report today, that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said that five million people in the Gulf states would be without power for 6 to 8 weeks, was followed by an advisement that gas for your car, home heating oil and natural gas prices would rise.
    Maybe I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but aren’t we still in a free-market, supply and demand economy? And with five million people not using much of our precious energy supplies - not driving, not using (…)

  • UNTANGLING THE BALL OF BUSH LIES
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNTANGLING SOME BUSH LIES
    By Peter Fredson
    Let me see if I can untangle the huge knot of lies that Bush has made into a large sticky ball.
    He has claimed a dozen or so times that he "wants to stay the course."
    By that he means he intends to stay in Iraq, a foreign country which up until a few years ago was a sovereign country. Bush says that he must "stay the course" because he has to kill "insurgents" in Iraq, before they decide to come here. He wants to attract them to Iraq, by (…)

  • Dear Settlers : "Dear" in the most literal sense
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    At long last it must be spelled out, without hypocritical pity, without "if" and "but".
    We have paid billions of shekels in order to settle you in the Gaza Strip. We have paid billions to keep you there, and most of you have lived there at our expense. We paid billions to defend you, and dozens of soldiers, male and female, lost their lives doing this. Now we are paying billions (Eight? Ten? Twelve?) to get you out of there and pay you generous compensation.
    But all this (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Chavez is to be commended for being the truth-teller!
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In light of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez then apologizing for it, what I have witnessed is the sounds of silence coming from all of our elected leaders, be they Democrat or Republican, chiming in unison that this was wrong.
    Then again, it goes hand in hand with the culture of death we are living with in this country.
    Yes, you heard me correctly ... this is a culture of death where the benefactors are the rich and the powerful (…)

  • Latin Nations Call for Punishment of Pat Robertson
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Source: La Jornada (Mexico)
    sent & translated by Luis Martin
    Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries belonging to the
    Rio Group expressed confidence that U.S. authorities will set in
    motion the "appropiate legal processes" to punish the call of
    evangelical telepreacher Pat Robertson to assassinate Venezuelan
    president Hugo Chavez.
    The declaration, signed by diplomats of 19 Latin American and
    Caribbean nations meeting in Bariloche, Argentina states, in relevant
    part: (…)

  • September 11, 2001 : ANYONE LISTENING?
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    On September 11, 2001, a New York City police helicopter hovered above the World Trade Center.
    Two minutes earlier, the first of the twin towers had collapsed. It would be twenty-one minutes before the second tower was to collapse.
    “About 15 floors down from the top, it looks like it’s glowing red,” the pilot of one helicopter radioed. “It’s inevitable.”
    Seconds later a second pilot radioed, “I don’t think (the second tower) has too much longer to go. I would (…)