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  • Editorial: Is Congress Complicit In Bush Lies?
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inaction raises a question over the entire Government
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 06/07/05 — Eighty-nine members of the House of Representatives have called on George W. Bush to answer a series of five questions:
    1. Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
    2. Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your (…)

  • After the Downing Street Memo: The Case for Impeachment Builds
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent; John Bonifaz, author of Warrior King : The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush; as well as Hans Von Sponeck, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, formerly.
    Looking at this Times of London piece that came out last month John Bonifaz, I’d like you to respond to this secret document from the heart of government, revealing that Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure (…)

  • Suicide Attacks Explained by US Author
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A surge in "suicide attacks" in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with "Islamic fundamentalism", a political science professor has said.
    Robert Pape, associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, has spent 25 years creating a database of such attacks and has chronicled them in his new book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. According to the author, most suicide terrorists were (…)

  • The US Probe On The Iraq "Oil-For-Food Scam" Has Exposed Its Own Duplicity
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US Probe On The Iraq "Oil-For-Food Scam" Has Exposed Its Own Duplicity Prem Shankar Jha June 06, 2005 The criminal procedure code of every democratic country contains one all-important provision. Information obtained through an unlawful search of any premises cannot, under any circumstances, be admitted as evidence in a court of law. No American government, whether national, state or local, would dream of flouting this principle at home. But in its dealings with other nations and (…)

  • US Uses The Magic Mantra "Zarqawi" To Justify Its Failures
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Uses The Magic Mantra "Zarqawi" To Justify Its Failures Fatih Abdulsalam May 31, 2005 There seems to be no end to the flow of reports on al-Zarqawi. This legendary rebel has now come to haunt the Americans the way Saddam Hussein did before his overthrow two years ago.
    For many Iraqis the name ‘Saddam Hussein’ has been replaced by ‘Zarqawi’. The only difference is that while they could easily verify the footage, the speeches and sound bites of the former, many of them believe the (…)

  • Uri Avnery : From Bad to Worse
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...I stood with a group of demonstrators at the gate of the General Staff building to protest against his appointment. Our slogan was: "You have blood on your wings!" ­ a reminder of his remarks when the Air Force dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential area in Gaza, in order to kill Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh. As will be remembered, the bomb also killed 14 uninvolved people, including nine children...
    From Bad to Worse
    by Uri Avnery
    While Israel’s new chief of staff, Air Force (…)

  • A Lie of Historic Proportions
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first gulf war. For years, Saddam was one of our government’s propped up and militarily supported puppets. Many people have seen the famous footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam. I suppose the two are smiling so big for the cameras because they are kindred spirits. After all of the hand-shaking and weapon brokering, when did Saddam become such a bad guy to Bush, Cheney, Halliburton and Co.? (…)

  • 2005 Digest of the E.V. Debs Speech at the 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A 2005 Digest of the E.V. Debs Speech at the 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago; Plus The Cashless Utopia
    The kernel of great human movements has always involved just a few individuals. What’s the pop adage from back in the nineteen eighties? ... It only takes four people to start a new hair-do.
    Perhaps there’ll be a few gallant souls, women and men, who have ideas in advance of their time, who’d show the mettle to profess ideas that (…)

  • Shards of memory
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Gideon Levy This is the most Arab-free area in Israel. It was the scene of total ethnic cleansing, which left not a vestige apart from the heaps of ruins and the sabra bushes. On the coastal plain, between Jaffa and Gaza, not one Palestinian village remains intact. Now the settlers of the Gush Katif bloc from the Gaza Strip are to be brought here. In a bitterly ironic jest of fate, the settlers who sowed ruin and destruction in the Gaza Strip will now live on the ruins of the (…)

  • A greater threat now looms over mankind
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kenneth T. Tellis
    Today, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov spoke out against the U.S. Missile Defence System, because it would set a dangerous precedent. Consider the reasons why Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov was against the U.S. Missile Defence System. What were the guarantees that they would not be used by a rogue government in the U.S. to subjugate peaceful countries? If the U.S. has already voided international covenants like the United Nations Charter, the (…)