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  • Cheney calls Iraq " Remarkable Success Story"
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the Pentagon’s own website , Vice President Cheney was quoted as telling Tony Snow of Fox News that Iraq has become ,in his words, " a remarkable success story."
    A country in ruins , hundreds of thousands dead , US journalists and diplomats billeted behind their Maginot Line , the so called Green Zone, a country polluted with depleted uranium , and the President of Vice regales in his "triumph".
    He furthermore is touting yet more forgeries created by the Pentagon’s Office of (…)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret (…)

  • Intelligence sources warn Venezuela’s Chavez: Beware the Ides of January!
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VHeadline.com editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: A United States move to ’deal with’ Washington D.C.’s percieved problem with Hugo Chavez Frias could be close to execution if usually accurate intelligence sources are to be believed ... warning that Venezuela’s President should take extreme care as the ’Ides of January’ approaches this Sunday, January 15.
    While we at VHeadline.com sincerely hope and trust that, contrary to indications, the imminent threat is baseless, the zeal (…)

  • Flashback: July 5, 1987 - REAGAN AIDES AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU
    WASHINGTON — Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and administration officials have concluded.
    Investigators believe that the advisers’ activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.
    Lt. Col. Oliver North, for (…)

  • Prime (Time) Evil
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Iran’s relations with its erstwhile partners in Europe seem to be hurtling downhill like a snowball out of control." - Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic correspondent, 27 October 2005
    No prizes awarded for what inspired this classic piece of state propaganda but it speaks reams about the relationship between the state and the corporate media. After all, what is it based on? Nothing more than the US and UK’s assertion concerning Iran’s ‘intentions’, in other words, Ms. Kendall’s words are (…)

  • Another Question Which Officials Won’t Answer About Nick Berg
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
    When agencies and officials refuse to answer questions, their silence is revealing in its own special way. I have received very little cooperation in my search for answers about Nick Berg.
    Before attending the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1999, Berg had earlier been a student at Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. Why would someone who could attend far more prestigious eastern schools choose OU? I have (…)

  • Former KOCO Reporter Supports the Station’s Having Suppressed an Explosive 9/11 Story
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
    To appreciate this post, readers need to review this earlier one for context:
    I am posting my correspondence record with Jeff Cunningham, who was working for KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, when that station, in a broadcast by Terri Watkins, reported that an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker was purchased from a computer terminal at University of Oklahoma library. Earlier an OU librarian had told me that the ticket purchaser was (…)

  • Did Fitzmas Santa deliver TIME-LY gift to pRESIDENT BUSH ?
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Before Election Day Matt Cooper , correspondent for TIME magazine, reportedly told the Washington Post the following : " Both he (Walter Pincus) and Cooper said that they did (testify) with Libby’s approval and both said their conversations did not touch on the identity of Wilson’s wife. " (Source : "Post Source Reveals Identity to Leak Probers" , Washington Post , Sept. 16 , 2004) Post Election Day / Matt Cooper reportedly told ABC News the following : " TIME (…)

  • My Lai saviour & US hero dies - expose UK-US state terrorism, PC racism & Coalition war crimes
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HUGH THOMPSON, the American helicopter pilot who courageously intervened to save Vietnamese civilians from massacre by US troops at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, has died.
    HUGH THOMPSON (Vietnam veteran, US Army helicopter pilot, Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier’s Medal) (4/15/1943-1/6/2006) was an American hero and a profoundly decent human being of the kind whose decency and courage surely give hope for all humanity.
    On March 16 , 1968, Hugh Thompson (24) and his 3 man (…)

  • The night the Americans came
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last weekend an American special task force unit raided my house. It was precisely the kind of terrifying experience I have had described to me over and over again by Iraqis I have interviewed in the past two-and-a-half years. My wife, Zina, described it as like something out of a Hollywood action movie.
    It began at half past midnight on Saturday when explosives blew apart the three entrances to my house. We thought we had been caught in a bombing, but then a rifle sneaked round our (…)