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  • Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
    European governments should consider direct intervention in an attempt to curb the systematic measures being undertaken by Israel to increase its control and population in the historically - and legally - Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem, a highly sensitive EU report concludes.
    The confidential report, prepared by top diplomats representing the 25 EU governments in the city, warns that the chances of a two-state solution are being eroded by Israel’s (…)

  • Democratic lawmakers lament Iraq war vote
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ANDREW MIGA
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Three years ago, Massachusetts congressmen Martin Meehan, Stephen Lynch and Edward Markey bucked their state Democratic colleagues and cast votes to give President Bush a green light to go to war in Iraq.
    Since then, the three have renounced their votes and emerged as critics of the way Bush has handled the war.
    Unlike the dramatic public change of heart by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated Marine veteran who served in Korea and Vietnam, the three (…)

  • Red, White, and Blue Dawn in Iraq
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    COUNTERPUNCH November 23, 2005
    What a Bad Hollywood Film Can Teach Americans About Life Under Occupation:
    Red, White and Blue Dawn
    By STAN COX
    Striking parallels between the current US occupation of Iraq and events depicted in the movie The Battle of Algiers have been widely discussed. The 1965 classic, a dramatization of anticolonial struggle, was even shown at the Pentagon back in 2003, apparently as an instructional film.
    But, as a few commentators have noted, there is (…)

  • QATAR: AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST’S WIDOW MAY SUE U.S.
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station’s Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar but was talked out of it by British prime minister Tony Blair.
    Dima Tahboub, wife of the 35-year-old (…)

  • The Specter of a Zarqawi Takeover Is As False As Saddam’s Mushroom Cloud
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the White House misled Congress and the American public to support an unprovoked attack on Iraq, they stressed frightening images of vast stockpiles of WMD and the threat of a mushroom cloud from Saddam’s unchecked nuclear program. Of course, that all turned out to be false. But the White House is up to its old propaganda tricks again, this time to mislead Congress and the public to back the continued occupation of Iraq, which has already cost over 2,000 American lives, tens of (…)

  • Is Bush lying about his lies?
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions. In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq.
    Is the administration lying about its lies? That many of the arguments in favor of the war were false is beyond question. Nor can there be any (…)

  • AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATE JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An open letter to senator Liebermann
    Dear senate Liebermann
    I saw your press conference with the Iraqi prime minister, from which I understand that:-
    1-You are concerned about the future of Iraqis. If so, please visit the detainees in Abu-Graib and Bucca prisons, where number exceeded 14,000. More than 98% of them are there without any charges, no access to lawyers. The red cross and Iraqi crescent are not allowed to visit them. Moreover, the Iraqi security forces, backed by the USA (…)

  • Axioms of the World
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One frequent criticism of my articles for PRAVDA.Ru evolves from my propensity to reference my past articles in more recent ones. Some attribute this proclivity to vanity, laziness or some other ulterior motive.
    The truth, however, is not as complicated or self-serving. I simply want to remind readers that there were some, like myself, who recognized the corruption, venality, hypocrisy and mendacity of George W. Bush and his minions long before his dictatorship’s popularity fell to what (…)

  • GLOBAL EYE: First Light
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Light
    By Chris Floyd Published, MOSCOW TIMES: November 25, 2005
    Last week, America’s troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington’s corridors of power, where the rule of the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the moribund Republic — perhaps too late — but it has struck a mighty blow against the Lie’s adherents, driving them into spasms of (…)

  • BUSH PLOT TO BOMB ALJAZEERA
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    22 November 2005 Madness of war memo By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
    PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
    But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
    A source said: "There’s no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
    The attack would have led to (…)