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  • A sunny ’W’ seizes the moment Bush intends to further consolidate power at the White House
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Kenneth T. Walsh
    Suddenly, the West Wing is buzzing with a new sense of possibility. Reports on the assault in Fallujah (story, Page 16) have been cautiously positive. The president’s first call to Harry Reid, the new Senate Democratic leader, raised hopes that he might get more cooperation from his congressional adversaries. And the death of Yasser Arafat may provide a "new opportunity" for Middle East peace, Bush said late last week in a joint appearance with British Prime Minister (…)

  • Chile: Pinochet crimes to be exposed for the first time
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Socialist President Ricardo Lagos is reviewing an official report containing over 35,000 testimonials of tortures
    by Hernan Etchaleco
    Shortly after Chile’s army acknowledged that tortures and political assassinations during Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing dictatorship were institutional, not excesses of a few individuals, country’s Socialist President Ricardo Lagos received on Wednesday a massive official report containing 35,000 testimonials of abuses providing details of such crimes. It (…)

  • Arafat : the Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    He was everything loyal and everything miserable about the Palestinian dream. I have a tape recording of Arafat, sitting with me on a cold, dark mountainside outside the Lebanese port of Tripoli in 1983 where the old man - he was always called the old man, long before he was elderly - was under siege by the Syrian army, another of the Arab "brothers" who wanted to lead the Palestinian cause and ended up fighting Palestinians rather than Israelis.
    Even worse, the Syrians (…)

  • Afghanistan wants its ’Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism’ back from UK
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Meo in Kabul
    The Afghan government is to request the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism" from the British Library, amid concerns the priceless manuscripts were looted during civil war in the early nineties.
    Afghanistan’s Minister of Culture will formally ask for the 2000-year-old scrolls to be sent from London to the newly restored Kabul Museum in the next few weeks as part of a campaign to bring home stolen treasures from foreign collections.
    The British Library, (…)

  • Arafat’s death a major test for Bush
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether US President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel’s right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the US’s European allies and Muslim public opinion.
    It will also provide an early insight into whether the hardline coalition that has dominated US foreign policy since September 11, 2001 - aggressive nationalists, neo-conservatives who support Israel’s governing (…)

  • Who is George W. Bush?
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY SUSAN BRYCE
    He grew up as a very rich child with powerful parents. He partied from high school until he was 40 then went cold turkey on drugs and alcohol. His business career was marked by mediocrity or failure that nonetheless resulted making him millions of dollars thanks to the political allies of his father, who happened to be the US President. He was elected 46th governor of Texas mostly because of his family name and his dad’s cronies. He found God and became a Christian. Now, (…)

  • Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft, Sources Say
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SCOTT LINDLAW
    President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and one of the most prominent Hispanics in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to the White House said Wednesday.
    Ashcroft announced his resignation on Tuesday, along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a Texas friend of the president’s.
    After a National Security Council meeting, Bush was sitting down Wednesday with Secretary of State Colin Powell, (…)

  • Ashcroft’s Reign of Terror Comes to an End
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DOUG THOMPSON
    From the time he took the oath of office as Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft declared war on the Constitution and freedom as we know it in the United States.
    President George W. Bush capitulated to the rabid, right-wing of the Republican Party by appointing Ashcroft, a bible-thumping zealot from Missouri who holds a narrow, ultra-conservative moralistic view of the world.
    Ashcroft showed his true colors from day one, ordering drapes for nude statues (…)

  • Vice President Cheney Hospitalized for Tests
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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  • The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy by Robert Fisk
    Yet again, Yasser Arafat is dying. We thought he’d been killed back in 1982 when the Israeli air force flew around Beirut attacking apartment blocks and homes they thought he was visiting. Their bombs tore to pieces hundreds of innocent Lebanese civilians but Arafat was never there. Then we thought he’d died in a plane crash in the Libyan desert — but it was the pilot who (…)