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  • PALESTINE: WHAT’S NEXT?
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    That President Bush is a big fan of elections should surprise no one. He’s won a lot of them.
    But his simplistic equation — elections = freedom = democracy = peace — has been running into a bit of trouble lately.
    The president hyped the deeply flawed presidential and parliamentary elections in Egypt as steps toward democracy. But the result was a dramatic rise in votes for the outlawed Islamic brotherhood and Mubarak’s principal contender for the top job sent to jail. (…)

  • Teacher Awaits Day in Court
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Rothschild
    Deb Mayer was a teacher of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at Clear Creek Elementary School in Bloomington, Indiana, during the 2002-2003 school year.
    On January 10, 2003, she was leading a class discussion on an issue of “Time for Kids”-Time magazine’s school-age version, which the class usually discussed on Fridays and which is part of Clear Creek’s approved curriculum.
    There were several articles in the magazine that discussed topics relating to the imminent (…)

  • "We’re in for another war." - Mike Whitney
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    January 31, 2006
    Battle Plans for Iran by Mike Whitney
    In less than 24 hours the Bush administration has won impressive victories on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. At home, the far-right Federalist Society alum, Sam Alito, has overcome the feeble resistance from Democratic senators; ensuring his confirmation to the Supreme Court sometime late on Tuesday. Equally astonishing, the administration has coerced both Russia and China into bringing Iran before the United Nations (…)

  • Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Whitney
    In less than 24 hours the Bush administration has won impressive victories on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. At home, the far-right Federalist Society alum, Sam Alito, has overcome the feeble resistance from Democratic senators; ensuring his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Equally astonishing, the administration has coerced both Russia and China into bringing Iran before the United Nations Security Council although (as Mohamed ElBaradei says) “There’s no (…)

  • The End of a Political Fiction?
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Adam Hanieh
    Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. Arguably for the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948, an official administrative power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has strong popular support and is not directly beholden to Israeli or Western interests.
    Pre-election polls had consistently forecast a (…)

  • Israel’s shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Chris McGreal in Khan Yunis
    As the votes were counted in the Palestinian election and the scale of Hamas’s landslide became apparent to the world, Aya al-Astal drifted away from her home and wandered towards the fence along the border between the Gaza strip and Israel.
    The nine-year-old girl’s parents realised she was gone as they watched the election results on television. They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious (…)

  • SEAN’S INANITY: MORE YELLOWCAKE JOURNALISM , WMD IN SYRIA
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The news network that that only George Orwell and George W. Bush would describe as "fair and balanced" is back to their old tricks. Having pawned earlier tales from the script , remember "Saddam’s Bombmaker" and Joe Aziz , FOX is backing hawking "Saddam’s Secrets" a bok authored by former Vice Air Marshall of Saddam Hussein’s late air force - a man named Georges Sada.
    Did they tell you that General Sada was the former spokesmen for MI6 flunky Iyad Allawi ? Allawi’s Iraqi (…)

  • Ghost of Osama bin Laden Sending Tapes
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since December 22, 2001, U.S.-backed Hamid Karzai became the head of Afghanistan (first as the “interim” leader and later as the President), Osama bin Laden’s videos and audiotapes have mysteriously surfaced from time to time, sending the world reeling in fear and confusion. Headline news stories have continuously hyped the CIA’s claims that these recorded bin Laden appearances and voices were indeed from the most-wanted-man in the world, despite the odds against their authenticity.
    Death (…)

  • The 100th British Soldier...
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rounded numbers
    Rounded lives
    The 100th soldier
    From the UK dies
    Tears of grief
    Tears of shock
    The 100th soldier
    Another loss
    Mourning on
    Mourning off
    The 100th soldier
    We count the cost
    Of wars fought
    In our name
    Of loss loss
    With no gain
    Of cost cost
    To our shame
    The 100th soldier
    The 1st
    The 25th the 3rd
    The numbered souls
    On lists and roles
    Names no longer called
    This memoriam
    The final
    For them
    They drew their last breath
    Final thought...
    Noble cause?

  • The problem with democracy
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power
    By Robert Fisk
    "The Independent" — — Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn’t we award this to those Algerians in 1990? And didn’t they reward us with that nice gift of an Islamist government - and then they so benevolently cancelled the second round of elections? Thank goodness for that!
    True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit that they included some warlords and murderers. But then (…)