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  • The President’s Greatest Fear
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The President’s Greatest Fear
    By Doug Soderstrom
    22 August, 2005
    It has been said that "Love hath no fear" which I believe means that if one is committed to finding the truth, that one wants to understand, wants to know the truth more than anything else in the world, then through such conviction one will find the courage, the fearlessness, to pursue what must be done.
    Next to the president’s Crawford, Texas vacation compound Cindy Sheehan has indicated that she will not leave until (…)

  • President Bush Knows the True Reasons He Started A War in Iraq, But He’s Not Going to Tell
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11 the Bush administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, it’s just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth about the reasons the war was started.
    So here goes.
    The disinformation campaign the White House launched last weekend should leave no doubt that the war in Iraq was hatched well before 9/11 and is part of a broader strategy (…)

  • Habitual lies to promote a war against the guiltless are pretty telling...
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In June, US president Bush’s spinmeister and advisor Karl Rove had this to say of liberals concerning September 11: “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
    I still say that this statement is ludicrous and just plain nuts.
    I am of the belief we go after those who not only attack us as a nation, but also personally. I am not of the belief of excusing horrific behavior and (…)

  • Mother tips the balance against Bush
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside the President’s ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match. Paul Harris reports
    Candles were lit all across America last week in one of the largest single anti-war protests in recent US history. At more than 1,600 vigils tens of thousands of protesters gathered in solidarity with the woman who has been the catalyst for the rebirth of the anti-war movement: Cindy Sheehan.
    Her remarkable one-woman stand outside (…)

  • Sympathy for the devil
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Rapaport
    TO MICK, Keith, Charlie, and Ron: Many California fans who really Miss You have been Shattered by news that California Governor Schwarzenegger is Slipping Away to Spend the Night Together with you on Sunday at your opening show in Boston.
    Don’t Start Me Up, but maybe you haven’t heard about Big Arnold’s scam to drag the Wild Horses of conservatism to your concert. They’ll be there to pony up beaucoup Brown Sugar because they believe California progressivism is (…)

  • John Roberts and Enemy Combatants
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: as long as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled again one day with substance.
    But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series of (…)

  • The Neo-cons Never Accounted for the Cindy Sheehans of America
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Neo-cons Never Accounted for the Cindy Sheehans of America
    by Stan Moore (Thursday August 18 2005)
    "Empires are never benevolent enterprises. Empires are expressions of force, usually for reasons of accumulating wealth and power. Empires take lives from their own citizens and from those they rule."
    The Neo-cons thought they had in all figured out when they planned their Pax Americana. They were going to rule the entire world, taking strategic resources for America, keeping (…)

  • An Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Prime Minister: Not since the Christie Affair * (1862-1865) have relations between our two countries been this bad; I mean Brazil and England. Quite apart from the lies of the war which, in our cups, I’m sure we all agree, were fantastic fibs (great with the rabble, though, I must admit: they sold like hot cakes here in the US where I live), I think you would better do right by the De Menezes dossier and not try to "fix the facts around the policy" on this matter. Brazil did not (…)

  • Like Old Times: U.S. Warns Latin Americans Against Leftists
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    LIMA, Peru, - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s visit this week to South America had the throwback feel of a mission during the cold war, when American officials saw their main job as bolstering the hemisphere’s governments against leftist insurgencies and Communist infiltration.
    During stops in Paraguay and Peru, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be troublemaking by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington’s old cold war foe, (…)

  • Pope seeks immunity in Texas abuse case
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN CITY — Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
    The Vatican’s embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope’s lawyers in (…)