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  • IS GEORGE BUSH A LIAR?
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IS GEORGE BUSH A LIAR?
    By Peter Fredson
    May 23, 2005
    The American public has now had 4 years of what is loosely called “Bush Leadership.” According to most polls, about half of the nation thinks G.W.Bush is some kind of heroic or even saintly figure, and the other half thinks he is a shallow smirking strutting popinjay who is determined to destroy the democracy he found intact when he was given the Presidency by the Supreme Court.
    Many people have charged that he has a firm (…)

  • Custer Battles Whistle-Blower Suit May Set Course on Iraq Fraud Cases
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To its accusers, the security company Custer Battles exemplifies corporate profiteering in postinvasion Iraq, when officials were pumping out hastily written contracts for everything from air conditioners to armed guards.
    In a lawsuit now in federal court, two former associates of the company say it bilked the American-led coalition out of millions, turning in hugely inflated invoices from phantom supplier companies among other misdeeds. If successful, the suit, brought under the False (…)

  • 15 days left before war with Iran
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • China goes undercover to sway opinion on Internet
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEIJING - China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.
    China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising.
    A special force of online commentators had already been operating (…)

  • George Galloway Testimony to Congress- Full Transcript
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Testimony of Mr. George Galloway, Member of the British Parliament, before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee
    Senators Norm Coleman and Carl Levin attending
    SEN. COLEMAN: Mr. Galloway, I’m pleased to have you before the committee today.
    What I’m going to do is briefly summarize the evidence before we give you a chance to give your sworn testimony.
    The Oil-for-Food program was used to support those who were favorable to Iraq. Former Iraqi (…)

  • GIs calling out for help and speaking the truth
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Steve Morse’s hands are rough from years working in sheet metal, and his voice is soft and a little hoarse, as if he were still teaching math to fifth graders from 7 a.m. to sundown, and then volunteering a few hours a week on the G.I. Rights Hotline. Now, he coordinates the Hotline for CCCO, which means part of his job is to say, over and over, to the press: "Last year we got 32,000 calls." Except, as he said Monday night, that number only counts the calls coming over (…)

  • Blair Faces US Probe Over Secret Iraq Invasion Plan
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blair Faces US Probe Over Secret Iraq Invasion Plan Tony Allen-Mills and Tom Pattinson May 22, 2005 SENIOR American congressmen are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in preparations for the war in Iraq.
    Democratic opponents of President George W Bush have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence that American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.
    A group of 89 (…)

  • Not-So Endearing Enduring U.S. Military Bases In Iraq
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not easy writing about something about which I know very little, but I’m going to try anyway. (Hey, you, in the back. I heard that. It has too stopped me before.)
    What I think I’m talking about are the fourteen permanent U.S. military bases currently under construction in Iraq. Yes, that Iraq, the country from which we will militarily withdraw just as soon as we get the word from the completely-free-of-U.S.-influence Iraqi government telling us to go. (Look for snow in Baghdad that (…)

  • War Crimes: the Iraq Living Conditions Survey
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deluded right-wingers refuse to believe the Lancet survey ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T 1B-4DV11P2-13&_user=1496926&_coverDate=11%2F26%2F2004&_alid= ... )indicating more than 100,000 Iraqis died from violence in 2003, most of that violence dished out by yahoo American soldiers with trigger fingers who apparently believe they are doing the Iraqis a big favor by destroying their country and killing them. From my perspective here in a (…)

  • Red, White, and Without a Clue
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America naively asked in its stunned stupor, "Why do they hate us?" In consoling us, our fearless leaders appealed to our collective sense of superiority and self-righteousness by explaining that the Muslim world (a.k.a. "they") hate us because of what we stand for: freedom, democracy, Mom, baseball, and apple pie. Comforted, we patted ourselves on our collective back for being so gosh-darn wonderful and condemned the savage heathens who wanted nothing (…)