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  • Russia, China Oppose N. Korea Sanctions
    15 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russia and China on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the U.S. wants to impose against North Korea this week for its claimed nuclear test, saying they want time to work out a more moderate response to Pyongyang’s nuclear brinkmanship, The Associated Press reports.
    After several hours of closed-door negotiations late in the day, Russia and China - the two Security Council nations closest to Pyongyang - reported good progress.
    The U.S. envoy was even more upbeat after the meeting of the (…)

  • Russian energy: Europe’s pride, US’s envy
    15 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Buried beneath the heaps of hot words on North Korea’s nuclear test, the announcement in Moscow on Monday about the Shtokman natural-gas deposit off Russia’s Arctic coast almost escaped attention, despite its comparable lethal fallout in world politics.
    Undoubtedly, Gazprom’s statement shook up the world energy scene - and the calculus of European politics. Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, announced that it would develop on its
    own without foreign companies the fabulous Shtokman (…)

  • Former Weapons Inspector, Experts Warn Against Military Action Toward Iran
    13 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Experts are urging the Bush administration to use patience and caution in its approach to Iran over its nuclear ambitions. The comments by former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay and others at an event on Capitol Hill Wednesday came as President Bush and other officials reiterated a call for Iran to end its uranium enrichment efforts and reach a peaceful and negotiated solution.
    David Kay, who has been critical of the Bush administration’s faulty pre-war intelligence on weapons of mass (…)

  • Bush’s Joke: The "Good News" from Iraq
    13 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And you thought it was a Hell-Hole LAST year!
    Bush, a bit stumbly and somewhat incoherent yesterday in the Rose Garden (what a sweet smell!), tried once again to persuade the doubting Thomases in the Press Corps that Iraq’s problems are just a series of temporary glitches and that they can be fixed!
    I really had a huge guffaw when Bush had the audacity to actually say he was proud of the Iraqi citizens who wanted "freedom" so desperately they were willing to sit tight and put up with the (…)

  • AMERICANS ARE SO BRAIN-WASHED THEY ARE UNABLE "FOLLOW THE MONEY"
    13 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THAT IS - AMERICANS CAN’T SEE ***WHO*** TAKES THEIR MONEY AND HOW THEY DO IT.
    WHY FOR INSTANCE WAS THERE NO 9-11 TYPE ATTACK ON PARIS? ON MOSCOW? ON ROME?
    SIMPLE: AS BIN LADEN AND ALL THE OTHER ARAB-WORLD LEADERS HAVE SAID: BECAUSE IT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT GIVES ISRAEL THE WEAPONS TO OCCUPY PALESTINE AND CONTROL THE PALESTINIANS BY KILLING THEM. MANY U.S. SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMIC INVESTIGATORS NOW HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT THROUGH CIA AND MOSSAD INFILTRATORS (…)

  • Olmert Courts Hard-Line Party in Israel
    13 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MATTI FRIEDMAN
    JERUSALEM (AP) - With his political fortunes plummeting after the war in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scrambling to shore up his rickety coalition by courting a hard-line party that favors redrawing Israel’s borders to exclude Arab citizens.
    Bringing the Yisrael Beitenu party into the coalition would mark a sharp turn to the right for Olmert, who was elected on pledges to cede large parts of the West Bank, and could hurt already slim chances of restarting (…)

  • Jack Cafferty asks if the Iraq War will be recorded as a “comma”
    12 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    Jack Cafferty of CNN’s ‘Situation Room’ is no stranger to speaking out and asking the viewers what they think as evident in this CrooksAndLiars.com video feed titled, “Sometimes politicians say really dumb things” This is not the first time, nor do I suppose it will be the last that journalists such as Cafferty are willing to go against the current media trend and express his negative opinions of Bush. If one were a Marine, one would shout, “hoo-rah!”
    But, getting back (…)

  • Abusing the Arab Peace Initiative
    12 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The failed Qatari mediation in the still unresolved inter-Palestinian divide was in practice an American success in turning the Arab Peace Initiative (API) into a pressure tool that further exacerbates fractures both in Arab and Palestinian ranks, less than two weeks after the U.S. aborted a move by the Arab League to revive an overdue comprehensive approach to the Arab and Palestinian - Israeli conflict on its basis through the United Nations.
    The Unites States is now (…)

  • Study sees 655,000 Iraqi war deaths; Bush disputes
    12 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Will Dunham
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers said on Wednesday, but President George W. Bush called the findings not credible and a top U.S. commander put the toll at 50,000.
    U.S. and Iraqi researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to gauge how many more Iraqis have died due to the 3 1/2-year-old war than died annually before it.
    Deaths are occurring at more than three times the (…)

  • The Legacy of the Iraqi War Hawks
    12 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Good doesn’t exist anymore...everything is like Moral Ground Zero!” - Film director, Martin Scorsese, in discussing the script of his latest classic, “The Departed.”
    On Oct. 10, 2006, the Department of Defense announced the death of yet another American solder in Iraq. His name is Cpl. Benjamin S. Rosales, age 20, from Houston, Texas. He makes No. 2,748, who have fallen in a war hatched by liars in the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, promoted by War Hawks in the U.S. (…)