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  • Cuba TV Analyzes Bush Fundamentalism
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The threats and failures of President Bush’s warmongering fundamentalism was the main topic on Thursday’s edition of the Cuban prime time TV and radio show “The Round Table”
    The panelists highlighted that US popular support for the war on Iraq is dropping fast and that the peace movement is gaining momentum at the cost of the president’s approval rating.
    The Iraqi resistance actions continue targeting US troops and the death toll has now reached 1,870. At the same time, over (…)

  • Is Bush al-Qaeda’s ’Useful Idiot’?
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Western intelligence agencies are right - that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the two-year-plus military occupation have been recruiting boons for Islamic terrorism - why is it logical to commit American troops to an indefinite deployment there? Won’t that just create more terrorists?
    Put differently, has George W. Bush’s Iraq policy done more to help than hurt al-Qaeda, from Bush’s hasty decision to redirect U.S. military assets from Afghanistan to Iraq while Osama bin-Laden was (…)

  • Lessons (of Vietnam)? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Lessons!
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Vietnam War ended in the spring of my senior year in college, but most of us paid little attention to the tanks that rolled into Saigon or the last helicopter taking off from the U.S. Embassy there. For the most part, our war had ended two years earlier at the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, and the abolition of the draft three months later, when those draft cards we carried in our wallets were to become historical oddities.
    After that, the public debate was on (…)

  • Poll: Many back right to protest Iraq war
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By WILL LESTER
    WASHINGTON - An overwhelming number of people say critics of the Iraq war should be free to voice their objections - a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines.
    Nearly three weeks after a grieving California mother named Cindy Sheehan started her anti-war protest near President Bush’s Texas ranch, nine of 10 people surveyed in an AP-Ipsos poll say it’s OK for war opponents to publicly share their concerns about (…)

  • Saddam’s political party makes a comeback
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Saddam Hussein’s political party is staging a comeback, and US military commanders are debating how far to accommodate it in Iraq’s coming constitutional referendum.
    While less tied than before to the ousted dictator, the Ba’athist movement has become an important channel for Sunni Arab political expression, say US officers, helping to promote voting in the October 15 referendum.
    But the New Ba’ath party, as military planners now call it, still flits between engagement in the US-backed (…)

  • Give Us the Answers - Cindy deserves them, and so do we
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On April 4, 2004, Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq. His mother Cindy Sheehan wants President Bush to explain why. He might answer thus:
    "The hard truth is your son’s life was wasted. I accept a share of blame, but only a share. Others must accept theirs, my advisors and supporters, my political opponents and ordinary Americans - particularly ordinary Americans."
    Can good people do bad things? I consider myself a good person. Yet, upon receipt of a coded message, I would have killed (…)

  • A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron Times Staff Writers
    August 25, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
    About to emerge as a key critic was Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat who asserted that the administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion.
    At the White (…)

  • The Next World War Starts in Iran
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Whitney
    "We consider that it would be counter-productive and dangerous to use force, the serious consequences of which would be barely predictable." warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry to the Bush Administration about prospective plans to attack Iran
    There’s only one thing that Americans need to remember when the read about the standoff between the Bush administration and Iran. There is no evidence whatsoever that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. But, don’t take my (…)

  • IT IS NO MORE THAN A REDEPLOYMENT
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ibrahim Ebeid
    In order to keep the Zionist settlements around Gaza "Israel" needed over 50,000 soldiers equipped with the most sophisticated weapons to do the job. The Gazans who were equipped with faith and strong will, were able to lead a war of attrition that forced the Zionist enemy to withdraw these settlers to another part of Palestine.
    The withdrawal was not a voluntary one, nor had a good intention to achieve peace, as the Western media and the US Administration portrayed to (…)

  • Privatizing the Truth; Bush’s war on information
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 25, 2005
    ’’We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality". Bush aide; Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine 10-17-04
    A great deal of print has been wasted on President Bush’s inability to tell the truth. In fact, it really makes little difference whether Bush is a pathological liar or not. What is meaningful however is that deception is the primary tool for the maintenance of the state. Transparency and candor are now seen as direct threats to the preservation of (…)