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  • The Axis Of Oil
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Axis Of Oil Jehangir Pocha January 31, 2005
    China and India are locked in an increasingly aggressive wrangle with the United States over the world’s most critical economic commodity: oil. More than any other issue, this tussle will shape the economic, environmental and geopolitical future of these three countries, and the world.
    Ensuring a steady flow of cheap oil has always been one of the central goals of U.S. foreign and economic policy, and Washington’s preeminent position in the (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Synopsis
    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Triumph and tragedy for Iraq
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Low level of Sunni participation tarnishes success of large poll turnout
    By Robert Fisk
    Baghdad - Even as the explosions thundered over Baghdad, they came in their hundreds, and then in their thousands. Entire families, crippled old men supported by their sons, children beside them, babies in the arms of their mothers.
    The Shi’ite Muslims of Baghdad yesterday walked quietly to polling stations, to the Martyr Mohamed Bakr Hakim School in Jadriya, without talking, through the car-less (…)

  • Larry King bumps military mom from show- Are the "news" networks afraid of the truth?
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not Worth It
    I was supposed to be on the Larry King Live show last night. I was asked to be on the show to offer my opinion on the election in Iraq from the perspective of a mom whose son was killed in the war prior to the elections. One of the questions I was going to be asked was: Do I think my son sacrifice was worth it? Well, I didn’t get a chance to be on the show last night, because I was bumped for something that is really important: The Michael Jackson Trial.
    If I was allowed to (…)

  • What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of “democracy” have subsided to a dull roar.
    After a day which left 50 people dead in Iraq, both civilians and soldiers, the death toll was hailed as a figure that was “lower than expected.” Thus...acceptable, by Bush Administration/ corporate media standards. After all, only of them was an American, the rest were Iraqis civilians and British soldiers.
    The gamble of (…)

  • The Vietnam Election Turnout was good as well
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No amount of spin can conceal Iraqis’ hostility to US occupation
    By Sami Ramadani
    On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign (…)

  • Iraqi in Baghdad: "The Election Was Shoved Down Our Throats"
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Today we get an Iraqi’s thoughts on the elections. We reached him just before the program. This is Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar at his home in Baghdad.
    GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: I do not believe that the election is legitimate, the election is held under the occupation. The occupying power has modified the basic rules in Iraq as to who is an Iraqi and who is not. The election was shoved down our throat because all the major parties, including Allawi’s party, requested that the election be postponed. That (…)

  • Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams?
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saddam’s Oily Deals Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams? Mark Hosenball, Newsweek Jan. 24 issue - If you’re puzzled by the Oil-for-Food scandal, don’t feel bad. Government investigators have been working the case for months, and still they fear they might need years to figure out who profited from helping Saddam Hussein beat U.N. sanctions against his regime. In 1996 the U.N. Security Council signed off on a program allowing Iraq to sell oil for hard currency to buy food and (…)

  • Neocons Drive The Nation Toward Ruin, Iraqi Guerrillas Kill Our Soldiers, Veterans Are Ignored, and Americans fall asleep
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Stewart Nusbaumer For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.
    We fought a war so we understand the horror of war — horror is not always easy to remember, especially, when in youth, videogames were one’s greatest threat. We fought a war so we know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought (…)

  • Real Freedom Still Far Off
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Real Freedom Still Far Off Eric Margolis January 30, 2005 Will today’s elections for 7,785 unknown candidates in violence-racked Iraq mark the dawn of genuine Mideast democracy, as U.S. President George W. Bush claims, or be another step deeper into the bloody quagmire in Mesopotamia?
    First, no election held under a foreign military occupation resulting from an unjustified war is legal under international law. During the Cold War, elections staged by the Soviets after invading (…)