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  • $9 Billion is ’Missing’, and Republicans Refuse to Investigate
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
    What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
    A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (…)

  • Embedded In The Spin Cycle...
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Embedded In The Spin Cycle... Isaac Backer NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - An incisive new documentary is taking aim at the U.S. media’s one-sided coverage of the war in Iraq, arguing that its collective complicity deceived the populace and made the war possible.
    "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception", which cost just 200,000 dollars to produce, points to a wide array of failures in the accuracy of the reporting, as well as an unwillingness to question the George W. Bush administration’s claims and (…)

  • Media Held Guilty of Deception at World Tribunal
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.*
    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq made its pronouncement Sunday after a three- day meeting. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.
    The Rome session of the WTI followed (…)

  • Whistleblowers Detail Corruption and Fraud at Halliburton during Senate Hearing
    15 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Byron Dorgan convened a hearing to shed light on the recent revelations of contractor corruption in Iraq. Democratic Senators were fired up about the blatant fraud and theft from the American taxpayers. And since Bush’s new budget cuts education again, it is truly a theft from our children. No Republicans attended the hearing.
    Senator Dorgan: "To see this kind of waste and this kind of corporate culture say, ’What the hell, it’s just the American taxpayer- stick it to ’em...’ Shame (…)

  • How Canada Stunned Bush. Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Canada Stunned Bush Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US Tim Harper February 09, 2005 WASHINGTON-Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Washington revealed for the first time yesterday the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when prime minister Jean Chrétien kept Canadian troops out of Iraq.
    Michael Kergin said in an interview yesterday that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
    Despite all the signs (…)

  • Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms Pete Yost February 14, 2005 Concerned about government secrecy in a terrorism case, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at the Bush administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man held in Saudi Arabia. The government is bolstering its effort to get the case thrown out by submitting classified information to U.S. District Judge John Bates that is unavailable to lawyers for imprisoned terrorist suspect Ahmed Abu (…)

  • Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III February 10, 2005 Most Americans guess wrong when asked to estimate how many troops have died in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a sign that many are giving scant attention to the nation’s most dangerous military operation since the Vietnam War.
    A new survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University found that fewer than half said they "very closely" follow (…)

  • The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
    "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
    With casualty lists (…)

  • Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives Toby Harnden in Hawija February 13, 2005 The US Army’s only Muslim chaplain in Iraq has described his struggle to "educate" soldiers to respect Muslims and how he helped free an innocent Iraqi from American custody after he had been framed by the coalition’s Kurdish allies.
    Captain Abdullah Hulwe, a Syrian-born Sunni who also said that his wife had experienced discrimination at military bases in America, told The Telegraph (…)

  • From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The American Nightmare From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    Steve Fowle
    It has been another of America’s special, sacred Januaries: The American Dream itself has been wheeled out of storage, washed and waxed, and buffed to a high quadrennial shine. Once again we have demonstrated to the world (as if we really cared what they thought) that anyone — any white male, anyway — can become president.
    This year, we actually improved on (…)