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  • A Bait-and-Switch Charity: The Scandalous History of the Red Cross
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Scandalous History of the Red Cross
    By JOE ALLEN
    Iin recent years, the image of the Red Cross has been tarnished. The worst scandal came after the September 11 attacks, when it was revealed that a large portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars donated to the organization went not to survivors or family members of those killed, but to other Red Cross operations, in what was described by chapters across the country as a "bait-and-switch" operation.
    Recently, long-simmering (…)

  • Editor Says He Missed Miller ’Alarm Bells’
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JOHN SOLOMON
    WASHINGTON - The New York Times’ Judith Miller belatedly gave prosecutors her notes of a key meeting in the CIA leak probe only after being shown White House records of it, and her boss declared Friday she appeared to have misled the newspaper about her role.
    In a dramatic e-mail, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote Times’ employees he wished he’d more carefully interviewed Miller and had "missed what should have been significant alarm bells" that she had been the (…)

  • Bush publication ban lifted
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By matthew burrows
    Publish Date: 20-Oct-2005
    A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.
    Gail Davidson, cofounder of an international group of jurists called Lawyers Against the War, expressed her delight on October 18 following the lifting of a publication ban on court proceedings against the U.S. president.
    “It’s great news, but really they had no choice,” Davidson told the Georgia Straight. (…)

  • WHITE HOUSE KNOWS ABOUT INDICTMENTS
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Wayne Madsen Report states that the White House is now fully informed about the nature and scope of the indictments handed down by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald this week.
    He cited a report of Attorney General Albert Gonzalez holding a meeting with Fitzgerald on Wednesday, at which the AG was briefed on the prosecutor’s findings, and the Grand Jury was released after brief questions.
    Madsen quotes "informed sources in Washington," as saying that Vice President Dick Cheney’s (…)

  • Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    A film by Mark Manning and Conception Media - To be Released October 18, 2005
    http://www.conceptionmedia.net/
    http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
    A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS: Victims of combat operations in Iraq
    ConceptionMedia presents:
    A Joint Production of Iraqi & American Filmmakers
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FALLUJA ON SALE NOW
    Proceeds go to ongoing relief (…)

  • Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn’t Get it Wrong on WMD
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    In the Times’ Sunday Judy-Culpa, Judy Miller said of her woeful pre-war reporting: "WMD — I got it totally wrong... The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong."
    To which a growing number of journalists are responding: No, we weren’t.
    Among them is Joe Lauria, a reporter who has covered the UN since 1990 for a variety of papers, including the London Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Boston Globe. He bridles at Miller’s (…)

  • The Bush nemesis
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush nemesis
    Rightwingers in the US are still not satisfied by the most conservative president in decades
    Sidney Blumenthal Thursday October 20, 2005 The Guardian
    President Bush is the most conservative president in modern times. He consciously modelled himself as the opposite of his father. A conservative revolt contributed to defeat of the elder Bush, who was fiercely attacked as a betrayer. In a classic case of reaction formation, George W Bush was determined never to make an (…)

  • A Small Victory: Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 20, 2005
    A Small Victory
    Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    By JUSTINE DAVIDSON
    On Monday, October 17th Gail Davidson and Howard Rubin along with Jason Gratl and Micheal Vonn representing B.C. Civil Liberties stepped into courtroom 55 of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver with the hopes of lifting the publication ban which, since December of 2004 August, has kept the case out of the public eye. After a relatively short session of 45 minutes they emerged successful. "I (…)

  • U.S. Out in Cold in UNESCO Diversity Pact
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOELLE DIDERICH
    UNESCO’s member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a pact on protecting cultural diversity after a bitter debate left the United States isolated in opposition to what it sees as a threat to sales of American movies and music.
    The convention - championed by the European Union and Canada - aims to promote ethnic traditions and minority languages and to protect those local cultures from the negative effects of globalization, UNESCO said.
    The United States (…)

  • Kucinich introduces Resolution of Inquiry,demands documents from WHIG-Questions Iraq Reconstruction
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich Uses Resolution Of Inquiry To Demand Documents From White House Group That Developed Strategy To “Sell” War To The Public And Press
    Washington, Oct 20 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
    “This group, comprised of the President and Vice President’s top aides, was critical in selling the (…)