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  • Travels in Palestine, Part One : Horror Story
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON Former CIA political analysts
    It all quickly comes together traveling through the West Bank: the separation wall encircling Anata; the verdant natural spring in the Israeli settlement of Anatot — the spring, along with the mountains and wadis surrounding it and even the settlement’s very name, all stolen from Palestinians by Israel and its settlers; the wall encroaching on the small, heroic village of Bil’in; the Israeli trash and garbage heaps that loom (…)

  • British soldiers, allegedly dressed as Arabs, opened fire on a police patrol
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Violence erupted in Basra this afternoon following the arrest of two British soldiers for allegedly killing one policeman and wounding another.
    British troops fired on crowds throwing petrol bombs, burning furniture and tyres which set at least one tank on fire. Reuters witnesses said a British soldier was engulfed by flames as he scrambled out of the burning tank, being pelted with stones by the crowd. Two Iraqis were killed in the violence, an Interior Ministry official said. The (…)

  • Is the Wartime President a Military Deserter?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that most Americans recognize the war in Iraq was initiated with lies, it’s important to reconsider President Bush’s military record.
    By Phil Vargas
    I know, I know, it’s all been said before. But maybe it hasn’t. And it may be worthwhile to revisit our President’s military record in view of the deaths and maiming of thousands of Americans and the billions we have paid and are paying for his war in Iraq.
    It is nearly two and a half years since our military invaded and occupied a (…)

  • Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon (Bush/Cheney False Flags Imminent Excuse To Nuke Iran)
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon [ Post 293980003 ]
    Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Government Synopsis: Bush/Cheney False Flags Imminent Excuse To Nuke Iran Source: Rense.com Published: September 19, 2005 Author: Webster Griffin Tarpley
    Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon Rumsfeld 10-12 Is Imminent
    By Webster Griffin Tarpley 9-19-5
    WASHINGTON, DC — The Bush-Cheney war drive continues unabated, despite hurricane Katrina. The US government continues to (…)

  • Fewer Americans Trust Bush on Iraq
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 19, 2005
    (Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in the United States are losing confidence in their president’s aptitude to make decisions connected with the coalition effort, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 63 per cent of respondents are uneasy about George W. Bush’s approach to the war in Iraq.
    The survey shows a 17-point drop in confidence on the American president since a survey conducted days before the war began.
    The coalition effort against (…)

  • A Reality Check on Bush’s Speech to the UN World Summit
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yifat Susskind
    On September 14, George W. Bush addressed a gathering of over 170 world leaders at the UN World Summit. His speech came in the wake of international outrage against the US for its attempts to derail the Summit’s original purpose, which was to make progress on reducing global poverty. Given the disconnect between the President’s words and deeds, we offer the following MADRE reality check on some of Bush’s more egregious comments at the World Summit.
    "Either hope will (…)

  • UK under pressure to stem Afghan opium growth
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Oliver
    The home secretary, Charles Clarke, and EU interior ministers were today grappling with how to stop the flood of narcotics from Afghanistan, increasingly a responsibility of the UK.
    The UK is under pressure from EU countries to take a lead role in the fight against heroin production in Afghanistan, with Britain taking over the Nato mission in the country next May.
    As much as 90% of the heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Europe and there is concern about the impotency of (…)

  • Global warming ’past the point of no return’
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Steve Connor, Science Editor
    A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.
    They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the (…)

  • Galloway 10 x Hitchens 0
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, the long-awaited “Grapple in the Big Apple,” as the Guardian dubbed it, has taken place. Here is the link Hitchens, that "drink-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay," as MP George Galloway of the Respect Coalition party in Great Britain so memorably put it, apparently was on another planet. The event took place on September 14 in the Mason Hall at the Baruch College performing arts center in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan. Baruch College is one of ten senior colleges of the (…)

  • SURVEY: SUPPORT FOR WAR AT ALL-TIME LOW; 52 PERCENT CALL FOR IMMEDIATE PULLOUT
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - With Hurricane Katrina already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars, more than eight in 10 Americans are very or somewhat concerned that the $5 billion being spent each month on the war in Iraq is draining away money that could be used in the United States, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
    The poll also showed that nearly half of Americans say the war is distracting President Bush from addressing problems at home, though an equal (…)