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  • My latest prediction: That Bush will "win" and then be impeached — if not run out of town on a rail
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jane Stillwater
    Someone just asked me what my latest prediction is. "As of today, who do you think will win on Tuesday?"
    My prediction is this: George Bush will win. Why? No-brainer! Even as we speak, members of the George Bush fan club who are willing to do ANYTHING to see that their guy wins have been embedded in positions of influence in every electoral board, registrar of voters’ office and secretary of state staff in America. I predict that we will see innumerable election dirty (…)

  • Mideast Experts Hope for, but Don’t Expect, Easy Transition
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Laura King Seeing any potential heir as a threat, Arafat never groomed a successor. Now observers fear a violent power struggle.
    Jerusalem - Whenever someone close to Yasser Arafat has dared to try to persuade him to do something he didn’t want to do, the famously temperamental Palestinian leader has had a favorite reply.
    "Mish waatu," he would say in Arabic. "It is not the time."
    Sometimes he would utter it lightly and dismissively; other times he would scream it in (…)

  • Global Eye : Hysterica Passio
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    Now we come at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from their own words, that the Bush Regime is a cult — a cult whose god is Power, whose adherents believe that they alone control reality, that indeed they create the world anew with each act of their iron will. And the goal of this will — undergirded by the cult’s supreme virtues of war, fury and blind faith — is likewise openly declared: "Empire." You think this is an exaggeration? Then heed the words of the White (…)

  • Bush’s War Against the Military
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ian Williams
    Bush has failed the military on almost every level - marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.
    George W. Bush so often invokes his nominal title of "commander in chief" at veterans’ rallies, on military bases and during presidential debates that he now appears like some latter-day caudillo. But his claims to be a commander of any kind in any serious way are a figment of his imagination.
    Discounting that he sent American troops into Iraq on (…)

  • How Rummy’s Failed War Plan Caused the Loss of More Than 1,000 US Soldiers in Iraq
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    In October 2002, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment in the event the United States decided to invade Iraq, ignoring concerns from career military officials that American military forces will suffer a huge number of casualties under Rumsfeld’s plan.
    Rumsfeld denied, in an Oct. 12, (…)

  • White House of Horrors
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Dick Cheney peaked too soon. We’ve still got a few days left until Halloween.
    It was scary enough when we thought the vice president had created his own reality for spin purposes. But if he actually believes that Iraq is "a remarkable success story,’’ it’s downright spooky. He’s already got his persona for Sunday: he’s the mad scientist in the haunted mansion, fiddling with test tubes to force the world to conform to his twisted vision.
    After 9/11, Mr. Cheney swirled (…)

  • Bush doesn’t ’misspeak.’ He lies. Lies. Lies."
    27 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason." Ernest Hemmingway
    By Sheila Samples
    10/26/04 "ICH" — My friend Bernie says anyone who believes that George W. Bush’s war on terror isn’t a miserable, howling failure is surely a member of the media, a perp over at the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), or has had "the lobotomy." (…)

  • Eat your heart out Mussolini
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “We control political forces, we control moral forces we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state.” - Benito Mussolini [1]
    By William Bowles
    The database state
    Six million video surveillance cameras, bioemetric ID cards, transnational data interception laws and ’joined up’ government. Add to this the privatisation of key state functions, all mediated by global IT corporations that are also the indispensable link in the weapons, media, pharmaceuticals and (…)

  • Terrifying Tyranny
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert Thompson
    As I have done in previous essays, I feel it appropriate to preface my remarks by making it clear that I write as a committed practising Catholic Christian, and by stressing that I am always shocked and upset by the misuse of religion as a cover for, or in pursuit of, material and/or political gain.
    On Tuesday night, my wife and I watched with growing fear and horror a television report on "Arte" (the Franco-German channel) on the religiosity of Mr George W. Bush. If the (…)

  • Bush and Cheney on Iraq intel: FALSE
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush and Cheney seem to be following Rumsfeld in his creativement faux mea culpa.
    by Michael Berglin
    The administration is trying to pass off a faux mea culpa in telling the US and the world that the intel on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction was bogus. Layer by layer, the administration’s justifications for the war in Iraq are crumbling. More intel has surfaced to indicate that Iraq’s WDM program had been sunset as early as 1991.
    Even as late as one week ago, both Bush and Cheney (…)