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  • UN rights expert accuses Israel of war crimes over house demolitions
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The UN rapporteur for human rights in the occupied territories accused the Israeli government of war crimes for the punitive destruction of Palestinian homes in a report released here Thursday.
    "It is difficult to resist the conclusion that punitive house demolitions constitute serious war crimes," John Dugard, a South African law professor, said in the report.
    Dugard said the destruction of Palestinian homes following acts of hostility against Israeli forces were carried out as (…)

  • Presidential Concerns
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush is off to less than a flying start in his second term. Besides the success of the elections in Iraq on Sunday, he has a slew of nagging problems, any one of which might derail his presidency.
    With that thought in mind, I sat down and wrote up a list of the things George W. Bush might be worried about. They are roughly in order of importance. I hope he’s taking notes because I don’t think he will last all four years of his second term unless he addresses at least some of (…)

  • HOLOCAUST IN DISGUISE
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2 YEARS AGO, A INDEPEPENDENT BRITISH TEAM, WANTED TO EXPERIENCE LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE.
    Saturday. As we jumped on our buses at 8 am we were told to expect confrontation. It was a lovely spring day, everything is peaceful, the birds are singing, and spring flowers. We arrived at the first checkpoint and the Army were there ready to stop us. With smiles on their lips and weapons in their hands they said, “You cannot and will not pass.” We jumped out of our buses and all demonstrated (…)

  • History’s BIGGEST FISH STORY:
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    History’s BIGGEST FISH STORY:
    And then you read the appalling little story about how BushCo is now "taking steps" to further the investigation into why their original intelligence on Iraq was so painfully, treasonously, colon-clenchingly wrong, why they thought Saddam had giant Costco-sized warehouses stacked to the rafters with snarling nukes and nasty biotoxins and active warheads when, in fact, he had nothing but a couple Dumpsters full of rusty 20-year-old shell casings and a bucket of (…)

  • What the US has in store for Iran
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    READING BETWEEN THE LINES What the U.S. has in store for Iran By Lance Selfa | Janury 28, 2005 |
    A FEW hours before President George Bush gave his inauguration address promising to rid the world of tyranny, Vice President Dick Cheney made a few comments that tell more about where the administration is heading.
    Yukking it up with right-wing talk show host Don Imus on MSNBC, Cheney placed Iran at the “top of the list” of “potential trouble spots” that the Bush administration was determined (…)

  • No, honestly, its not an occupation...
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE BUSH administration and its media cheerleaders will declare the “dawning of democracy” in Iraq no matter what happens on January 30. They hope that enough Iraqis manage to cast ballots that the results lend legitimacy to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
    But the elections on January 30 have nothing whatsoever to do with democracy.
    U.S. generals claim that the residents of only four of Iraq’s 18 provinces may not be able to “fully participate” in the voting. “Good news,” wrote antiwar (…)

  • No Comparison?
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Comparison? January 24th, 2005 : Filed by A! This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees. Can anyone tell me who said that? Was it:
    A) George W. Bush B) John Ashcroft C) Donald Rumsfeld D) (…)

  • Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi Was Captured, Then Released
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi Was Captured, Then Released Alisha Ryu, Baghdad 24 January 2005
    A suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia, who survived a failed attempt to blow up the Jordanian mission Baghdad in December, alleges that Iraqi police may have captured, and then released, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, two months ago. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials could not confirm the claims made by the suicide bomber.
    On a video disk provided by Iraq’s interior (…)

  • Kucinich: Iraq Elections Will Be A Farce; No International Election Monitors in Iraq
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: Iraq Elections Will Be A Farce; Closest International Election Monitors Will Get Will Be Amman, Jordan In Letter To Secretary of State Rice and Ambassador Negroponte; Kucinich Cites Lack Of International Monitors
    WASHINGTON — January 26 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today said that Iraqi elections, to be held on Sunday, will be a farce. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, Kucinich cites a total (…)

  • Senator Dayton denounces Rice and US policy in Iraq
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I don’t like to impugn anyone’s integrity, but I really don’t like being lied to repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally. It’s wrong. It’s undemocratic, it’s un-American, and it’s dangerous. It is very, very dangerous. And it is occurring far too frequently in this administration. And this Congress, this Senate must demand that it stop now.
    My vote against this nomination is my statement that this administration’s lying must stop now. I urge my colleagues to join me in this demand, (…)