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  • State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON — John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for U.N. ambassador, neglected to tell Congress he been interviewed in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials in Africa, the State Department said.
    Democratic senators said the admission should forestall Bush from using his authority to give Bolton a temporary appointment to the U.N. post, without Senate confirmation, (…)

  • Security Costs Slow Iraq Reconstruction
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    Security Costs Slow Iraq Reconstruction
    Contract Excesses Also Hamper Progress
    By Renae Merle and Griff Witte
    Efforts to rebuild water, electricity and health networks in Iraq are being shortchanged by higher-than-expected costs to provide security and by generous financial awards to contractors, according to a series of reports by government investigators released yesterday.
    Taken together, the reports seem to run contrary to the Bush administration’s upbeat assessment that (…)

  • SAUDI AND NIGERIA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
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    By William Fisher
    Human Rights Watch is calling on Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to pardon three jailed advocates of peaceful reform and urging President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria to “show the world that he is serious about pursuing justice,” and “ensure that police torturers are held accountable for their crimes.”
    In Saudi Arabia, an appellate court in Riyadh upheld harsh prison terms of between six and nine years for the three after they attempted to circulate a petition calling (…)

  • U.S. WANTS FBI TO INTERROGATE ISRAELI DIPLOMAT IN AIPAC LEAK CASE
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States wants the FBI to interrogate the Israeli diplomat who headed the political department at its Washington embassy at the time classified information was allegedly transmitted from a Pentagon employee to Israel through two men who were senior staffers at AIPAC, the American lobby for Israel. According to the Hebrew daily Haaretz and Channel 10 television, FBI agents are traveling to Israel where they intend to question Naor Gilon and perhaps others as well.
    The Israeli (…)

  • Mother with son in Iraq cursed at for questioning war
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Marsha Walker’s son survived a suicide bomb in Iraq.
    Her daughter spent a year in Kuwait last year, and her father is a former Marine reservist. She’s part of a military family; she and her sister went into criminal justice because their father dissuaded them from a military career. Marsha is a Blue Star mother, meaning a mother whose son is serving overseas.
    So it came as a bit of a surprise when an email exchange with her local Blue Star chapter concluded with an expletive: "fuckoff." (…)

  • The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
    Mobilize for November 2, 2005
    Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
    Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
    Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
    Your government is moving each (…)

  • TV Anchors; field-marshals in the Information-war
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    Television news is the frontlines in the war on terror. That’s where the symbols of national pride merge with the logic of war and thrust the nation towards aggression. The same was true with Iraq. The anti-war voices were excluded, the pro-war advocates were celebrated, and the drumbeat was sounded from every corner of the country. The pre-war strategy for marshalling popular support was the most flawlessly executed public relations scheme in modern times; the thunderous music echoing in (…)

  • A Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 to the Present
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Blum
    The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
    * making the world safe for American corporations;
    * enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
    * preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the (…)

  • Bill O’Reilly In Drag
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bill O’Reilly In Drag William Fisher July 27, 2005 Michelle Malkin, sometimes known as Bill O’Reilly in drag, opened one of her recent syndicated rants with this question: “Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Civil-liberties activists, anti-war organizers, eco-militants and animal-rights operatives are in a fright over news that the nefarious FBI is watching them. Why on earth would the government be worried about harmless liberal grannies, innocent vegetarians, unassuming rainforest lovers and other (…)

  • Hitler’s Shadow And The Coming Storm
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hitler’s Shadow And The Coming Storm John Chuckman July 26, 2005 Despite many differences, there are striking parallels between Bush’s invasion of Iraq and Hitler’s invasion of Russia, and understanding these parallels serves to warn of the coming storm Bush is calling down upon all of us. Hitler’s decision to invade Russia was a horrific turning point in history, certainly the most consequential decision of the twentieth century and likely the most destructive in all of history. We (…)