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  • Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi’s Salt March to Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win — when truth and justice is on his or her side.
    Now, in 2005, along comes Cindy Sheehan, the California woman whose altar-boy son Casey was killed in Iraq last year. As you may have heard, Sheehan and some supporters have been camping out outside the Bush ranch in Crawford, Tex., refusing to leave (…)

  • Mr President, there’s someone waiting, and waiting, to see you
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Texas ambush ... Cindy Sheehan on the road leading to Mr Bush’s ranch. She has vowed to camp out until the President agrees to see her. Photo: Reuters
    Crawford, Texas: The US President draws anti-war protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road towards George Bush’s ranch last weekend to try and tell him face to face to pull all US troops out of Iraq.
    Mrs Sheehan’s son, Casey, was killed last (…)

  • Why the AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Karl Rove
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last week, the Justice Department issued a new indictment of Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon official accused of passing secrets to officials of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying outfit. The indictment is bad news for the Bush White House and Karl Rove.
    That’s not only because the Franklin case is embarrassing for the administration, the Pentagon, and their neocon allies. (Franklin worked with Douglas Feith, who until recently was a senior Pentagon official close to the neocons.) The Franklin (…)

  • Koizumi commits political suicide
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By J Sean Curtin
    After weeks of fierce political infighting within the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s Upper House of parliament has decisively rejected the flagship postal privatization bills of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, by 125 to 108 votes.
    Even though the LDP and its coalition partner, New Komeito, hold a majority in the 242-seat upper chamber, many members of the fractious LDP joined the opposition to vote down the crucial bills, which were a vital component (…)

  • Netanyahu seeks fancy office, car, staff, on taxpayer’s dime
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Zvi Zrahiya
    Outgoing Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t wasting time, and plans to gallop forward with his public and political activity on the taxpayer’s dime. After submitting his resignation from the treasury, Netanyahu is checking if the state will finance offices for him in his capacity as a former prime minister. The cost of operating a former premier’s bureau is estimated at NIS 2 million annually.
    Former premiers are entitled to employ an office manager, an advisor, a (…)

  • Cheney + Pakistan = Iran
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program showed how the country’s top nuclear scientist was secretly selling Iran and North Korea, the so-called “Axis of Evil,” blueprints for building an atomic bomb were uncovered last year, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see how President Bush would punish Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaff.
    Bush has, after all, spent his entire two terms in office talking tough about countries and dictators that conceal (…)

  • It’s not who they are — it’s who we are
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - There is a quiet struggle going on in the nation’s capital, and the stakes are the very soul of the Republican Party and this administration.
    Three senior Republican senators wrote a small amendment into the defense appropriations bill this summer that outlaws cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of all detainees in American custody.
    No one can call Sens. John Warner, R-Va., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., soft on anything, much less terrorism. (…)

  • TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law, Part 2: THE DEATH PENALTY
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TREASONGATE: The Controlling Law, Part 2: THE DEATH PENALTY, 18 USC 794 and the shift from GWOT to GSAVE
    In Part 1 of this report, Citizen Spook analyzed 18 USC 793, the United States Code provision which provides the most direct route to convictions for Patrick Fitzgerald in the Treasongate/Valerie Plame affair.
    In this follow up, we are going to discuss 18 USC 794 which deals directly with Treason and the death penalty.
    Before we move on to 794, please take note of the indictments (…)

  • Documenting a Lie by the 9/11 Commission
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma mpwright9@aol.com
    One of my goals is to contribute to the assembling of firm grounds for a new and honest official 9/11 investigation. Readers are invited to see an email from me, sent to the Commission in September 2003. > http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7465
    Just focus in on one aspect of it, for right now. I informed them that Zacarias Moussaoui had a meeting with Mohammed Atta, in Oklahoma City. See the second page of the (…)

  • Why I cannot be part of this divisive war
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an extract from Robin Cook’s resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.
    by Robin Cook
    This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here.
    I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international (…)