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  • Confused? Shadow of His Old Self? Hardly
    4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert Fisk Bags beneath his eyes, beard greying, finger-jabbing with anger, Saddam was still the same fox, alert, cynical, defiant, abusive, proud. Yet history must record that the new "independent" government in Baghdad yesterday gave Saddam Hussein an initial trial hearing that was worthy of the brutal old dictator.
    He was brought to court in chains and handcuffs. The judge insisted that his own name should be kept secret. The names of the other judges were kept secret. (…)

  • Irreversible Mental Damage
    20 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Uri Avnery*
    Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration.
    Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the “Quartet” accepted the “Revised Disengagement Plan” of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes.
    In the first paragraph of the “plan”, the following words appear: “ Israel (…)

  • Rewriting the script
    11 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Ronald Reagan’s presidency collapsed at the precise moment on Nov. 25, 1986, when he suddenly appeared without notice in the White House briefing room, introduced his attorney general, Edwin Meese, and instantly departed from the stage. Meese announced that funds raised by members of the National Security (…)

  • Down Goes Tenet
    5 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060404A.shtml
    The news over the last week or so has been grim for the White House. Ahmad Chalabi, Bush’s favorite Iraqi, has been accused of passing high-level intelligence secrets to Iran. Questions as to who could have coughed up those secrets have been auguring towards Defense Department officials Douglas Feith and William Luti, the two men who ran the secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP).
    The OSP, organized for the express (…)

  • The Bush orthodoxy is in shreds
    29 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A series of investigations has shattered neocon self-belief
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1225600,00.html
    The Guardian (UK)
    At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about (…)