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  • STEP BY STEP, INCH BY INCH
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Step by Step, Inch by Inch.
    By Peter Fredson
    December 6, 2005
    The incompetence and misdeeds of the Bush administration are slowly being revealed with horrifying details of torture, abuse, misinformation, slander, CIA jails, indefinite detentions, incompetence, reckless adventuring, lobbing cruise missiles, fake reporters, fake news, habitual lying, patting themselves on the back, excoriating, slandering and punishing critics.
    Their Machiavellian plans for World Conquest, the Downing (…)

  • Rep. Smith back from Iraq "most troops now say they want to come home"
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rep. Smith says vote in favor of war a mistake
    By MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
    WASHINGTON — Just back from Iraq, Rep. Adam Smith says he is encouraged by the progress U.S. troops are making there. But Smith, one of two House Democrats from Washington state to vote in favor of the war, said Friday if he had to do it over, he would change his vote.
    "I wanted to give our commander in chief a certain amount of trust," Smith said of his October 2002 vote authorizing President Bush (…)

  • To heal or to patch? Military mental health workers in Iraq
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    by Stephen Soldz
    The Wall Street Journal has a new article on the role of mental health professionals in treating war trauma in Iraq Therapists take on soldiers’ trauma in Iraq. The military has caught on to how these workers can aid the war effort and has increased their per capita numbers. Rather than seeking the best treatment to help traumatized soldiers recover from their stressful and horrific experiences, these professionals attempt to patch soldiers in order to return them to (…)

  • Congressmen claim Iraqi pullout is coming
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    By KEVIN DIAZ
    Amid raucous debate in Congress about an exit strategy from Iraq, U.S. commanders on the ground have already launched plans to close bases and withdraw troops in the coming year, according to two congressmen who returned from Iraq this week.
    "They wouldn’t put a hard date on it, but clearly the planning is at a very mature level," Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., said. "We can shrink down the number of bases as we shrink down the number of Americans."
    Rep. Mark Kennedy, R-Minn., (…)

  • The Antiwar Movement Isn’t Where You Think It Is
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Stratman,
    On October 29 of this year there was an antiwar rally on Boston Common. My wife and I and our daughter and two young granddaughters took part. After a few speakers one of the rally organizers announced to loud cheers that a contingent of antiwar demonstrators had gone to join gay activists who had been since 8 a.m. two blocks away outside the Tremont Temple Baptist Church. Later many other antiwar demonstrators plus the rally sound truck reportedly joined the gay (…)

  • AXIOMS OF THE WORLD
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda
    One frequent criticism of my articles for PRAVDA evolves from my propensity to reference my past articles in more recent ones. Some attribute this proclivity to vanity, laziness or some other ulterior motive.
    The truth, however, is not as complicated or self-serving. I simply want to remind readers that there were some, like myself, who recognized the corruption, venality, hypocrisy and mendacity of George W. Bush and his minions long before (…)

  • What Kind of Incendiary Bombs were used against Civilians in Iraq
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    The earlier pre-mixed ’napalm’ bomb utilized benzene, gasoline and polystyrene. The Pentagon destroyed its stockpile of napalm canisters, which had been stored near Camp Pendleton at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station, in April 2001.
    Following is my understanding of the present MK77 - mod 5 bomb. Hundreds of partially loaded MK77 - mod 5 firebombs were stored on pre-positioned ammunition ships overseas. Those ships were unloaded in Kuwait during the weeks preceding the (…)

  • Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ’Rendition’
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dana Priest
    In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany to pay an unusual visit to that country’s interior minister. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions from the State Department transmitted via the CIA’s Berlin station because they were too sensitive and highly classified for regular diplomatic channels, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.
    Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one (…)

  • Atomic hypocrisy
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran’s nuclear programme
    by Tony Benn
    Britain has played a leading role in the negotiations with Iran about its nuclear programme and the risk that it might lead to the development of an atomic bomb, and may well seek to take the matter to the UN security council.
    Given that the prime minister himself is determined to upgrade Trident and appears to be committed to a new series of nuclear power stations, his position (…)

  • The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." —Eugene V. Debs
    These words of the fabled social activist also define the life of NFL hall of famer and actor Jim Brown. He has mediated truces between the toughest gangs in Los Angeles and (…)