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  • A Great Miracle
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "This is a well-known phenomenon in many countries: the most discriminated class of the ruling nation provides the most radical enemies of national minorities and foreigners in general. Those who are trampled-upon trample those beneath them. After being robbed of their self-esteem, they can regain some self-respect only by belonging to a "master race". Thus the poor whites in the United States. The same in France."
    NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French cities (…)

  • Bush’s vision fails to win over Middle East
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Simon Tisdall
    Jack Straw put his finger on it. Speaking after a disputatious Middle East summit in Bahrain at the weekend, the foreign secretary said: "It would be a disaster if this region thought democracy was an American idea." Many in the region appear to think exactly that - and have ideas of their own.
    Washington’s latest disappointment came when a 30-country Middle East "democratic manifesto" statement was torpedoed in Bahrain. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt insisted that (…)

  • All in the Family
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Returning soldiers and their spouses, parents, and children are the backbone of the antiwar movement spreading today in the United States. And they’re speaking louder than ever.
    By Nan Levinson
    CARLOS ARREDONDO, a wiry man with expansive gestures, circles the Cambridge Common, handing out copies of letters his son Alexander wrote in January 2003 as he shipped out for his first tour of duty in Iraq. "I feel so lucky to be blessed with the chance to defend my country 6 months after I (…)

  • Israeli envoy to U.K. questioned in money-laundering probe
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent
    Israeli Ambassador to Britain Zvi Hefetz was questioned Friday by the police international investigations unit over suspicions he was involved in money laundering of the Bank Hapoalim accounts of businessman Vladimir Gusinsky.
    Hefetz recently acted as Gusinsky’s agent in Israel.
    Police began an investigation into the affair about six months ago, after suspicions were raised that the bank’s Hayarkon branch in Tel Aviv had allegedly been involved in (…)

  • White House Iraq Group Must be Investigated
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was the White House truthful with the American people and with Congress in making their case to go to war in Iraq? This is a critical question that demands a clear answer and it is long past time for the United States Congress to properly ask it and investigate the matter.
    A group of top White House advisors, including Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the now-indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, formed the White House Iraq Group(WHIG) in (…)

  • The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out?
    by George Monbiot
    Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It’s a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. (…)

  • The Iraqi government started punishing provinces who rejected the constitution
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The referendum about the Iraqi constitution was associated with huge frauds made by the ruling parties, who insisted on passing articles that are in their favor. Many parties and politicians have asked for investigations. However, instead of investigating these frauds, the Iraqi government has raised major offensives against people of the provinces which rejected the constitution. The minister of interior and minister of defense are from parties that strongly backed the constitution. (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • 1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMAL HALABY
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein’s defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
    In a statement obtained Sunday, the lawyers did not say whether Saddam’s chief Iraqi attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, was among those who withdrew. But the statement said other members of the team in Baghdad were continuing their duties under complex and (…)

  • Bush Administration rewriting history won’t change reality or restore credibility
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
    Neither assertion is wholly accurate.
    The administration’s overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of (…)