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  • Microsoft’s plan to take over your computer
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Stallman
    Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing", large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. (Microsoft’s version of this scheme is called "Palladium".) Proprietary programs have included malicious (…)

  • With up to 400,000 dead in Asia, why keep killing people in Iraq?
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    With the dead of Asia spread out before us like some nightmare Van Helsing movie come to life, it seems a bit presumptuous to me for George Bush to continue to play God and go on killing and killing and killing in Iraq.
    Would it finally come into perspective for Americans to know that Bush is spending the same amount of money in aid for the millions of tsunami victims in Asia as he spends in just FOUR HOURS on killing people in Iraq?
    Thousands of Americans were (…)

  • Tsunami Disaster Highlights Corporate Media Hypocrisy
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Peter Phillips
    The terrible earthquake/tsunami disaster, along coastlines of the Indian Ocean, left tens of thousands dead and many times more people homeless and weakened.
    Front pages news stories swept the US corporate media -12,000 dead, 40,000, 60,000 and 100,000 made progressive day by day headlines. Twenty-four hour TV news provided minute by minute updates with added photos and live aerial shots of the effected regions.
    As the days after unfolded, personal stories of survival (…)

  • Ukraine to pull contingent out of Iraq: minister
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ukraine will withdraw its 1,400-strong military contingent from Iraq by the end of next year, Defence Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
    "Next April we will be sending only a reinforced battalion rather than a brigade and by the end of 2005 we will complete our pullout of the contingent," Mr Kuzmuk’s press service quoted him as saying.
    The statement said a battalion would be made up of about 500 servicemen.
    Ukraine’s original contingent sent to Iraq was made (…)

  • The Buck Never Stops at the Top
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    The FBI has blown the whistle on the Defense Department’s military investigators by accusing them of abusive treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    The FBI was especially outraged that the interrogators of suspected terrorists had posed as FBI agents.
    Administration officials usually are pretty clubby folks who close ranks in times of trouble. But apparently, the FBI was not ready to take the fall for the Pentagon’s atrocious treatment of some (…)

  • 700 Civilian Bodies Recovered From Fallujah; 504 Women And Children
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Free Arab Voice | December 28 2004
    Emergency teams from the Fallujah Hospital have recovered 700 bodies of Iraqis from the ruins of houses destroyed in the US offensive on the city. Among the 700 bodies were 504 bodies of women and children; the rest elderly and middle aged men.
    Dr. Tamir Salih al-‘Ani, who is in charge of the morgue in Fallujah General Hospital has reported that emergency teams from the Fallujah Hospital have recovered 700 bodies of Iraqis from the ruins of houses (…)

  • Asia Earthquake kills +24,000 EXACTLY one year after Iran quake killed 26,000
    27 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Incredible Coincidence: A massive earthquake in Asia unleashed tsunamis killing thousands, exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran earthquake killed 26,000. What are the odds of two of the most destructive earthquakes in decades occuring exactly one year apart- almost to the minute!
    December 26, 2003 - Bam, Iran, only 6.6 on the richter scale, but quake is centered directly under the city- 26,000 dead.
    December 26, 2004 - Centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the (…)

  • Saudi Government Daily Accuses U.S. Army of Harvesting Organs of Iraqis
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, a n article from Brussels written by Fakhriya Ahmad charges that, based on alleged secret European military reports, the U.S. military in Iraq is harvesting and selling human organs. The following day, the story was also published in the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Islami, [1] as well as the Syrian daily Teshreen. [2] The following are excerpts from the article: [3] "Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the (…)

  • Letter to Bush from Santa
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A letter from Santa
    By David Martin
    G.W. Bush
    The White House
    Washington, D.C.
    Dear Georgie,
    I’m glad to hear you have been a good boy this year. I got a lot of letters from other children who said you had been naughty. They were sure you were moving back to Texas soon or someplace even hotter. But apparently they were mistaken because your address hasn’t changed.
    I see that the top thing on your Christmas list is 50,000 GI Joes. That’s a lot of soldiers, Georgie. I don’t think (…)

  • The New York Times manufactures support for the Iraq war in aftermath of Mosul bombing
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Kelly
    In response to Tuesday’s attack on a US base in Mosul, the New York Times published an extraordinary front-page article yesterday, entitled “Fighting is the only option, Americans say.” The piece quoted a number of people who expressed their full support for the ongoing occupation, and presented their views as being representative of the US population as a whole.
    While the article was presented as an objective characterization of the nation’s mood following the deaths of (…)