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  • IT’S THE OCCUPATION, NOT THE FUNDAMENTALISM
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last month, Scott McConnell caught up with Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, whose book on suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, is beginning to receive wide notice. Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. In his office is the world’s largest database of information about suicide terrorists, rows and rows of manila folders containing articles and biographical snippets in (…)

  • Rumsfeld Fails to deliver benchmarks, in contempt of congress
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DEFENSE SECRETARY DON RUMSFELD FAILS TO GIVE WAR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
    Under the provisions of the defense bill, Rumsfeld was supposed to give performance numbers
    WASHINGTON POST — President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.
    Two weeks ago, David Broder pointed out that the Bush administration would soon face a (…)

  • Weapons in space put the world at risk
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Weapons in space put the world at risk
    By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG
    Within the next few weeks, President Bush is expected to release his administration’s new national space policy. The most crucial aspect of the plan will be whether it endorses placing weapons in space.
    There have been a series of reports since 2001 that essentially advocate deploying space weapons. The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, initially chaired by Donald (…)

  • Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Stalking of Andy Stephenson
    Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?
    by Elizabeth Ferrari
    I have lived for the last ten weeks with Andy Stephenson’s cancer. And in the most useless way. I couldn’t take it away, couldn’t relieve him of it, couldn’t mind it for a few hours so he could be freed to do the election reform work he so loved.
    Andy was one of the most luminous people I have never met, because we never shared room temperature. I (…)

  • CIA Veteran Ray McGovern: Cheney Caught in a Lie
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
    27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
    I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
    By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

  • Unborn US babies soaked in chemicals
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unborn US babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, petrol by-products and pesticides, according to a report released today.
    Although the effects on the babies are not clear, the survey prompted several members of US Congress to press for legislation that would strengthen controls on chemicals in the environment.
    The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical cord blood taken by the American Red Cross.
    They found an (…)

  • R. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    R. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
    Not published in The New York Times
    by Greg Palast
    Judy, Karl Rove ain’t no "source." A confidential source — and I’ve worked with many — is an insider ready to put himself on the line to blow the whistle on an official lie or hidden danger. I would protect a source’s name with my life and fortune as would any journalist who’s not a craven jerk (the Managing Editor of Time Magazine comes to mind).
    But the weasel who (…)

  • War Crimes - Dahr Jamail - World Tribunal on Iraq
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
    Beat prisoners
    He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

  • JOE WILSON: ’The President should fire Rove’!
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blogged by Brad on 7/13/2005 @ 2:45pm PT...
    The Ambassador Strikes Back, Answers to the Right Wing Spin Machine *** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE ***
    Ambassador Joseph Wilson fired back today at the Rightwing Spin Machine, which, having been issued marching orders late yesterday in a set of talking points from the RNC, is once again hoping to distract from the potentially treasonous crimes that George W. Bush’s top political operative and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove is being alleged to have (…)

  • Global Eye: Dark Waters
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
    There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)