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  • Aziz denies naming British MP in oil probe
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has denied telling investigators that a maverick British lawmaker personally profited from the United Nations’ oil-for-food program for Iraq.
    By Reuters
    US congressional investigators said this week they had evidence that George Galloway had profited from the defunct UN program created to protect Iraqis from the harsh effects of sanctions against their Government.
    The report said Mr Aziz, under questioning by the subcommittee, said he had (…)

  • Tokyo to step up self defence as US cuts military
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Pilling in Tokyo
    US / japanTokyo and Washington have agreed to cut the number of US marines stationed in Japan by 7,000 as part of wide-ranging plans under which Japan’s self-defence forces will play a bigger role in defending the country.
    The agreement, signed in Washington on Saturday, followed intense negotiations last week to wrap up ponderous discussions over the locations and functions of US bases. Failure to agree on details, part of the US’s global strategy to reduce the (…)

  • US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ann Talbot
    Events following the publication of the United Nations report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri confirm that the investigation was never more than a pretext for aggressive US and British action against Syria.
    While there remain sharp differences within the US administration and between the major powers, the thrust of US and British policy goes further than the economic sanctions it is initially proposing and towards military action against (…)

  • So what do Zionists say about Arabs?
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MPACUK comment: You will read a lot in the next few days and weeks in the British press about how Iran should be "wiped off the map" by the west for President Ahmadinejad comments. Now two wrongs don’t make a right but there is massive hypocrisy in the indignation shown by the world toward Iran.
    Please read below what leaders of Israel have said in the past about Palestinians and Arabs. There is also an interview below with Ariel Sharon, the current Israeli leader which vividly shows the (…)

  • Indicting America
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Ritter
    The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald provides the most cogent and visible evidence to date of the criminal mindset that exists inside the Bush administration regarding the decision to invade Iraq.
    The indictment is linked to Libby’s involvement in illegally revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in violation of U.S. law, and the resultant conspiracy to deny and cover up the fact that this crime (…)

  • Robert Fisk: All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As someone who has to look at the eviscerated corpses, I can only shake my head in disbelief
    By Robert Fisk
    I wonder sometimes if we have not entered a new age of what the French call infantilisme. I admit I am writing these words on the lecture circuit in Paris where pretty much every political statement - including those of Messrs Chirac, Sarkozy, de Villepin et al - might fall under this same title. But the folk I am referring to, of course, are George W Bush, Lord Blair of Kut (…)

  • An Open Letter to Col. Boylan
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Butler Shaffer
    To: Lt. Col. Steve Boylan Director, Multinational Force Press Center Re: 2,000 Dead Soldiers
    The media inform me that you have sent an e-mail to news reporters asking them not to treat the 2,000th American serviceman killed in Iraq as “a milestone.” You reportedly asked journalists “to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq.” You added that the 2,000 figure was “an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific (…)

  • Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gordon Prather
    The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom:
    As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policy-makers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. The community’s best assessments were set out in an October 2002 (…)

  • US Coalition-restored Afghan opium & 0.4 million global drug deaths
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since 2001 there have been about 0.4 million global drug deaths linked to US Coalition re-establishment of globally-dominant Afghan opium production (almost completely destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but 76% and 86% of global production in 2002 and 2004, respectively, after US Coalition invasion and conquest).
    Of these 0.4 million post-2001, US Coalition-complicit, opioid-related deaths 1,200 have been Scots, 2,000 Australian, 3,000 Canadian, 3,200 British and 50,000 American.
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  • Welcome To KROVE Radio...
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...and I’m your un-friendly host, Karl "The Brain" Rove, and I can dial up an election faster than you can say "federal prosecutor." A lot faster, thanks to our good friends and sponsors, Diebold and Sequoia, and last but not least, E-S and S. Holy computer bits, Turdblossom! Quick, Libby the disk wipe!
    And on that note, it’s time to turn up the corporate media volume before the GAO can talk. Or Fitzi, for that matter! Have you heard the real news? Scari Harri has withdrawn her name from (…)