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  • Freshly Elected Hamas Comes Out From the Shadows
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outlook Shaped by Years in Exile, Prison
    By Scott Wilson
    GAZA CITY — Ahmed Bahar arrived here in his mother’s womb, the beginning of a journey that has taken him from the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip into exile, prison and, soon, a seat in parliament.
    Along his sandy street flutter the triumphant green banners of Hamas, the radical Islamic movement he has helped foster since before its official founding nearly two decades ago. A professor of Arabic, Bahar is the earnest face of an (…)

  • The murder of a half a million children is a price worth paying?
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In my piece concerning John Edwards which ran this past week, I wrote: "In the November 28, 2005, issue of ’The Nation,’ John Edwards was quoted as saying: "I voted for the resolution ... it was a mistake."
    I have to add that I respect anyone, regardless of what decision they made in the past, when they see that it was wrong. I have deep respect when they come out of the political closet and with humility to state that their vote was a "mistake."
    With that said, I (…)

  • "...Shall We Not Revenge?"
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery IF ONE wants to understand what the Palestinians did on election day, one has to see the film "Paradise Now", which has been nominated for an Oscar for the best foreign film, after collecting several prestigious international prizes. It explains better than a million words.
    Its makers - the screen-writer-cum-director, Hani Abu-As’ad from Nazareth, and the actors, are Palestinians. (Amir Harel, one of the producers, is a Jewish Israeli.)
    The two main characters, Sa’id and (…)

  • NEWSMAX HAWKING SYRIA WMD "DOCUMENTS" : BUYER BEWARE !
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Other scoops from the super-patriotic, all-american , god fearing, and truth impaired website NEWSMAX
    1 ) "Madman Saddam’s Lurking Doomsday Weapons"
    2 ) "Saddam’s War Plan Includes Bioweapons to make US a living hell "
    3) " Saddam is Behind the Terrorist Attacks
    4) "Bush : Saddam Not Interested in Complying"
    5) "Saddam Connection : West Nile Virus the First Bioweapon"
    6) " Iraq Linked to 9/11 and Oklahoma City Bombing"
    7) "Report : Saddam to Arm Palestinian Militants (…)

  • AN OPERATION KINDA SLEAZY : NEOCON THREATS AGAINST NORWAY ,OTHERS CARRIED OUT
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ON January 12, 2006 in an article entitled, "USA THREATS AFTER BOYCOOT SUPPORT" , the following passage can be found : " US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Foreign Minister and Socialist leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods. (Aftenposten 1/2/06) What were the promised (…)

  • De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tomgram
    The President passed through his State of the Union address — ill-digested chunks of so many other speeches he’s given ("We’re writing a new chapter in the story of self-government — with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink...) — largely untouched by the media. His two Supreme Court-changing appointments, Roberts and Alito, were triumphantly in the front row of the audience. Undoubtedly, it wasn’t a bad way for a (…)

  • Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PM promised to be ’solidly behind’ US invasion with or without UN backing
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today.
    A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the (…)

  • Congresswomen Waters Urges the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Investigate the Coup d’Etat in Haiti
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Representative Maxine Waters
    Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35) expressed her support for a petition that is being filed before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The petition seeks to establish that the Bush Administration participated in a coup d’etat to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically-elected President of Haiti, in February of 2004, and, in so doing, violated the democratic rights of the people of Haiti. The Congresswoman’s (…)

  • The murder of a half a million children is a price worth paying?
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In my piece concerning John Edwards which ran this past week, I wrote: "In the November 28, 2005, issue of ’The Nation,’ John Edwards was quoted as saying: "I voted for the resolution ... it was a mistake."
    I have to add that I respect anyone, regardless of what decision they made in the past, when they see that it was wrong. I have deep respect when they come out of the political closet and with humility to state that their vote was a "mistake."
    With that said, I (…)

  • Bush War Plans Delusion From Start
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush War Plans Delusion From Start By Bill Gallagher January 17, 2006 Detroit - The predictions of President George W. Bush and his minions are predictably wrong. The Busheviks’ latest Iraq war predictions are, as always, wildly off the mark and make astrological predictions seem like hard science. "We will settle for nothing less than complete victory," Bush told the Veterans of Foreign Wars last week. He made glowing predictions about continued political progress in Iraq, declaring in (…)