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  • The year in politics
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush began 2005 celebrating his electoral victory and proclaiming a "turning point" in Iraq. But in every crisis he faced this year — from Terri Schiavo to Hurricane Katrina to Iraq — the tide turned against him
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Dec. 29, 2005 | In his second inaugural address, George W. Bush four times summoned the image of fire — "a day of fire," "we have lit a fire," "fire in the minds of men," and "untamed fire." Over the course of the first year of his second term, all four of (…)

  • An Open Letter To the Congress of the United States
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    .... at the exclusion of the few courageous members who are willing to stand on their own and speak the truth... with all due respect.
    What are you afraid of? That without your office you are nothing? That it is your elected office that makes you who you are, and if you lose it, you will be nothing more than a common citizen again? Perhaps that is what has to happen, for you to realize that even in office, you are a common citizen. You are failing us - time to go (…)

  • POLITICS-IRAQ: US-Shiite Struggle Could Spin out of Control
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gareth Porter*
    WASHINGTON, (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration has embarked on a new effort to pressure Iraq’s militant Shiite party leaders to give up their control over internal security affairs that could lead the Shiites to reconsider their reliance on U.S. troops.
    The looming confrontation is the result of U.S. concerns about the takeover of the Interior Ministry by Shiites with close ties to Iran, as well as the impact of officially sanctioned sectarian violence against (…)

  • Their two cents: Protesters hang up on tax for Iraq war
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Beth Potter
    Peace activist Bill Sulzman in Colorado Springs protests the war in Iraq by refusing to pay the federal excise tax of about 50 cents on his monthly phone bill.
    Sulzman also recruits others who are against U.S. military involvement in Iraq to stop paying the tax, which was first adopted in 1898 to pay for the Spanish- American War.
    The tax raises about $5 billion a year, which activists say goes to fund war efforts. The Internal Revenue Service won’t confirm that the (…)

  • Constitution loses in Haiti election fight: analysts
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Loney
    MIAMI (Reuters) - Haiti’s constitution is being violated by both the U.S.-backed interim government and by the candidacy of a Haitian American millionaire running strongly in the polls in a long delayed election, analysts say.
    "The government has not been paying much attention to the constitution," said Brian Concannon, a U.S. lawyer who worked in Haiti and helped prosecute military leaders accused of a peasant massacre.
    The first round of voting in the troubled Caribbean (…)

  • CONFLICT IN IRAQ: Kurds preparing takeover; U.S. exit strategy at risk
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. plan for leaving Iraq is in trouble, with more than 10,000 Kurds in the Iraqi army prepared to seize control of northern Iraq for an independent state.
    BY TOM LASSETER
    Knight Ridder News Service
    KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an (…)

  • Israel: Expanding Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Letter to President George W. Bush
    December 27, 2005 Office of the President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush, I am writing to you with respect to multiple Israeli announcements of its plans to continue expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This directly contravenes international law and Israeli commitments under the Road Map. You recently reiterated Israel’s obligations to stop expanding (…)

  • If bin Laden was dead, Would the U.S. admit it?
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dec 7, 2001 tape
    Very ill from Kidney Dialysis
    Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
    al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
    News of Bin Laden’s Death
    and Funeral 10 days ago
    Islamabad -
    A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa’da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. The official, who asked to remain (…)

  • Happy New Year from Sydney Indymedia
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Krude Going Under
    I’m going under, going under, and I can’t turn round!
    – http://www.dump.com/nqmp/thesmokingbums
    Related:
    2005 in Review
    No More War! & Repeal Draconian Laws!
    Rave Mission and Gimme a Sign
    See the movie trailer
    – http://www.dump.com/trir/gimmeasign
    2005 in Review2
    Revolution 30A
    Revolution inc and Corporate Greed
    See the movie trailer
    – http://www.dump.com/beyw/corporate-greed

  • Chalabi takes over Iraq oil ministry amid ’crisis’
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi has assumed direct control of the powerful oil ministry as crude exports ground to a halt due to sabotage attacks and logistics problems, officials said on Friday.
    Chalabi, who has been improving his relations with Washington after falling out with the U.S. administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, the officials said.
    Uloum told Reuters he was "intent on (…)