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  • China Clipper?
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    China Clipper...Too many coincidences:
    1. Massive numbers of US manufacturing jobs go to China.
    2. Massive amounts of multinational corporate assets and capital are invested in China.
    3. Those same manufacturing capacities and ownership levels have left the US with far less up and able manufacturing capacity to support a protracted defense if international supply lines are cut.
    4. The heads of those same multinationals now have billions of little green reasons to love China.
    5. (…)

  • New Iraqi Constitution - text of Preamble
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press)
    PREAMBLE
    We the sons of Mesopotamia, land of the prophets, resting place of the holy imams, the leaders of civilization and the creators of the alphabet, the cradle of arithmetic: on our land, the first law put in place by mankind was written; in our nation, the most noble era of justice in the politics of nations was laid down; on our soil, the followers of the prophet and the saints prayed, the philosophers and the scientists (…)

  • What our kids don’t know can hurt us: Why it matters to know about Africa and the rest of the world
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    It is well known that American kids traditionally score well below their foreign counterparts in geographic knowledge, and Africa seems to be perennially at the bottom of what they know. The reasons for this shameful lack of interest or insight are many and varied, especially given the US’ current position in the world, but a few problem areas are easy to explain.
    It is unlikely in any society, for example, that kids would outpace their teachers, parents, (…)

  • 15 Muslims, Cleared of Terrorism Charges, Remain at Guantanamo With Nowhere to Go
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chinese Detainees Are Men Without a Country
    By Robin Wright
    In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 were deemed low-risk detainees whose enemy was China’s communist government — not the United States, according to senior U.S. officials.
    More (…)

  • Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration
    By Marjorie Cohn
    I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive. But now I will...Anybody who confronts this Administration or Rumsfeld or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end. Janis Karpinski, interview with Marjorie (…)

  • Why Pat Robertson isn’t treated as a terrorist
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We really do know why Pat Robertson won’t be treated as a terrorist. It’s for the same reason Bush’s former Attorney General of the United States could tell a group of decent, honest, hard-working American Muslims that they should count themselves lucky they weren’t being treated the way Japanese Americans were during World War II. It’s for the same reason that Bush protects a mass murderer named Luis Posada Carriles from extradition and trial. It’s for the same reason that American troops (…)

  • WHY DOES BUSH HAVE TO KILL PEOPLE?
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    Let me see if I got it right. Bush is away on a long vacation when teams of Muslims, most of them from Saudi Arabia, crash 3 planes into government installations, another falls into a field, but none were intercepted despite considerable intelligence that this might happen. So Bush and Cheney get into planes, and scoot into bunkers. Later they make speeches while letting their Saudi Arabian oil partners fly out of possible embarrassment. And this (…)

  • Cold Qualls Two - First Tears then hate
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remember, Gary Qualls? The bereaved parent who last week was telling Cindy Sheehan he loved her, and who this week set up a counter-protest site named after his son? [Here’s another photo of Gary Qualls and Cindy Sheehan in a moving embrace.]
    "Over the weekend, as the camp prepared for the arrival of the counter-demonstrators, a huge diesel pickup truck rumbled into camp with its nose menacingly pointed towards the tents. It sat for a while, and everyone waited to see what would happen. (…)

  • Soldier: Nobody in Iraq wants us there
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is from Miltary Families Speak Out - people with loved ones serving in the war zone- as the tide is turning and the truth comes out, 30-40 new families are joining MFSO everday.
    We received an e-mail from Dexter, an MFSO member from Maine whose son is in the National Guard. We asked if we could post it on our website. Below is his reply.
    You may post my letter.
    Thank you for your thoughts and, especially for your prayers. Ben is shaken, but we will not know until this is over (…)

  • Michel Chossudovsky and the Dogs of Reprisal
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As I walked through the living room, on my way outside to play with the incoming coax cables (on occasion I have to do this to get my broadband working), I passed my wife camped out before the television, watching a "debate" between FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley and a loud, obnoxious, an interruptive Mark Williams who claimed, as I drifted past, that Saddam Hussein had "chemical weapons" (even Williams should know this was an obvious lie) and Rowley is a "traitor" because she opposes the (…)