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  • Patriots Need Reality Check: ’We the people’ must stand up for the truth about our country’s actions
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Patriots Need a Reality Check ’We the people’ must stand up for the truth about our country’s actions by Byron Williams There are moments when a democratic society must compare the utopian ideals it committed to on paper versus the reality of its praxis. In the 229 years since declaring itself a sovereign nation, America has had several such reality checks.
    Women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights Movement are examples of America being challenged to authentically live up to the ideals (…)

  • Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington John Nichols May 17, 2005 Norm Coleman is a fool.
    Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot — just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.
    The Minnesota Republican senator who took Paul Wellstone’s seat after one of the most disreputable campaigns in American political history has been trying over the past year to make a name for himself by blowing the controversy surrounding the United Nations Oil-for-Food program (…)

  • The 9/11 Terrorists Were Mostly Saudi. Suicide Bombers In Iraq Are Saudi. And We’re Allies?
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Saudi Arabia, Off The Hook The 9/11 Terrorists Were Mostly Saudi. Suicide Bombers In Iraq Are Saudi. And We’re Allies? Mark Morford May 20, 2005 I am no foreign-policy expert. I am no virtuoso of nuanced and wicked international relations. I know not of intricate deal making and smarm sucking and backstabbing and glad handing and the Bushes raking in millions from clandestine oil deals with the Saudi kingdom. Ahem.
    But this much I do know. This much is sickeningly, painfully obvious. (…)

  • Leaked Report leads to more US shame over detainees shackled, abused and left to die
    21 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A NEW chapter of horror has opened in the brutal treatment of prisoners by American guards and interrogators, this time in Afghanistan.
    A leaked 2,000-page report into the deaths of two detainees details systematic and routine mistreatment at the Bagram military base, 40 miles (64km) north of Kabul.
    Each man had spent most of his five days’ captivity shackled to the ceiling or wall of his cell, a technique that has since been labelled by the US military as a criminal assault. They were (…)

  • GEORGE GALLOWAY REVISITED
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GEORGE GALLOWAY REVISITED
    By Peter Fredson
    May 19, 2005
    Yesterday I wrote about a remarkable encounter of Mr. George Galloway, British Member of Parliament, with a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate. One particular senator had been waiting to skewer and roast Mr. Galloway, but had the tables turned on him (and the entire Bush administration) when the fiery Mr. Galloway responded in words that half of the country was waiting to hear.
    Today I spent several hours reviewing news sources and (…)

  • THE KORAN AND CYO
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KORAN AND CYO
    By Peter Fredson
    May 20, 2005
    For the past several days an article in NEWSWEEK, regarding alleged desecration of the Koran by American Soldiers in Guantanamo, has aroused a great deal of comment. Events followed the usual pattern. The first defense of Administration and Pentagon people is to deny everything, vociferously, at length. Next come counter-charges, stating that everything is highly exaggerated and that all is running smoothly.
    Anyone who has ever served in (…)

  • Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Syria: More Black Propaganda from the Bush Lie Factory
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a primary example of how the corporate media unquestioningly snaps up Pentagon disinformation, deliberately created as a form of psychological warfare against the American people, consider the following by Paul Garwood of the Associated Press:
    The leaders of Iraq’s most notorious terrorist group recently held a secret meeting in neighboring Syria, where they plotted the recent wave of insurgent violence that has killed hundreds of people and was intended to break the postelection lull (…)

  • Civil Rights Group Announces Indictment of Bush and others for Torture, Illegal Detention,and Murder
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee announced that it had indicted President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former President William J. Clinton and other high government officials for violations of Federal and State laws ranging from Deprivation of Civil Rights to War Crimes, Torture and Murder. “We are making this indictment and we are demanding that these individuals be officially indicted by a Grand Jury for these crimes, and stand trial for them.” said Eric Lerner, (…)

  • Lying for a Living: The White House Comments on the Downing Street Memo
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I wonder if they’re getting nervous now in the West Wing.
    As the drumbeat grows louder, the White House finally decided to comment on the Downing Street Memo.
    But only in typical Bush administration fashion. Which means rhetorical games, little lies, and big ones hidden in the context of what is said and not said.
    So, for example, when White House spokesman Scott McClellan finally responded to questions put to him over the last week about the memo, he of course said that he hadn’t read (…)

  • The Grand Illusion - A Nation Willingly Deceived
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    That incriminating "smoking gun" memo proving the Bush and Blair Administrations pre-determined an invasion and occupation of Iraq long before the invasion occurred has apparently come and gone, barely noted in the American press, AWOL from editorial pages. Eighty-eight brave members of Congress signed and sent a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) ( http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502 ) asking President Bush to answer questions about the secret U.S.-UK (…)