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  • Bush’s vision fails to win over Middle East
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Simon Tisdall
    Jack Straw put his finger on it. Speaking after a disputatious Middle East summit in Bahrain at the weekend, the foreign secretary said: "It would be a disaster if this region thought democracy was an American idea." Many in the region appear to think exactly that - and have ideas of their own.
    Washington’s latest disappointment came when a 30-country Middle East "democratic manifesto" statement was torpedoed in Bahrain. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt insisted that (…)

  • All in the Family
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Returning soldiers and their spouses, parents, and children are the backbone of the antiwar movement spreading today in the United States. And they’re speaking louder than ever.
    By Nan Levinson
    CARLOS ARREDONDO, a wiry man with expansive gestures, circles the Cambridge Common, handing out copies of letters his son Alexander wrote in January 2003 as he shipped out for his first tour of duty in Iraq. "I feel so lucky to be blessed with the chance to defend my country 6 months after I (…)

  • The End of News?
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael Massing
    In late September, the Government Accountability Office-a nonpartisan arm of Congress-issued a finding that the Bush administration had engaged in "covert propaganda," and thereby broken the law, by paying Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, to promote its educational policies. The GAO also faulted the administration for hiring a public relations firm to distribute video news segments without disclosing the government’s part in producing them.[1] The (…)

  • REASONS TO HATE BUSH
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    REASONED HATRED 1
    By Peter Fredson
    November 14, 2005
    A reader of one of my blogs critical of George W. Bush remarked that I was expressing unreasoning hatred of our President. I would like to say that I believe I am expressing reasoned hatred of Bush. I did not always hate the man. Sometimes I despised his smirk, his swagger or his very strange verbalisms, but years ago I did not hate him. I often reflected on the circumstances where his rich and powerful (…)

  • ePluribus Media Introduces Searchable Timelines
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Did you get confused or lost in the hurricane of bits of information during the time of Katrina?
    Have you made up your mind about what FEMA did or did not do and trust your information?
    Are you trying to write about Katrina/FEMA/Rita and finding the research overwhelming?
    For dramatic, far reaching stories, such as the Katrina and Rita hurricanes, the new ePluribus Media Timelines let you go behind the blockbuster headlines to connect the dots between the minor stories that led to (…)

  • Art of War : Project for a New American Century (P.N.A.C.)
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Project for a New American Century (P.N.A.C.)

  • MSNBC Questioning what happened on 9/11
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Professor believes planes didn’t cause all the damage around the WTC
    Millions of people watched the horror of 9/11 right before their very eyes, live on television. Two planes, crashing into the World Trade Center. Less than a couple of hours later, both towers, of course, collapsing.
    On Monday, Tucker Carlson welcomed Brigham Young University Professor Steven Jones to the ’Situation.’ Jones, a professor of physics, believes that the hijackers may not have brought down the towers by (…)

  • White House Iraq Group Must be Investigated
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was the White House truthful with the American people and with Congress in making their case to go to war in Iraq? This is a critical question that demands a clear answer and it is long past time for the United States Congress to properly ask it and investigate the matter.
    A group of top White House advisors, including Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the now-indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, formed the White House Iraq Group(WHIG) in (…)

  • The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out?
    by George Monbiot
    Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It’s a turkey, whose evidence that white phosphorus was fired at Iraqi troops is flimsy and circumstantial. But the bloggers debating it found the smoking gun. (…)

  • CHART, TABLE: CIA Secret Prison-Torture Planes—What the MSM Won’t Tell
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    QUESTION: WILL CIA AGENTS BE TREATED AS "FOREIGN COMBATANTS" BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES WHEN THEY OPERATE OUTSIDE THE LAW? Should they tush be subjec to Guantanamo type treatment? There is plenty of evidence in the news of illegal (under international and non-US laws) CIA operations.
    The European Commission JUST ANNOUNCED (Nov. 15) it will NOT investigate published reports that the CIA set up secret jails in Eastern Europe to detain high-profile terrorism suspects. However, it strongly (…)