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  • Bush’s Politics of Fear: Neocon-Patriotism Only Acceptable Ism
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Emerson
    Two years ago, shortly after American troops "had taken" Baghdad, Stefan, my Greek economist-friend and former classmate at UCLA, paid me a short visit. During his stay, the topic of Bush’s lunacy occupied much of our time together and, for once, found us in synchronized agreement as to this folly?s likely outcome.
    Not my intent, however, to recount our castigation of Iraq’s invasion, or the prophetic pronouncements we both made on the WMD (…)

  • What Did Bush Decide and When Did He Decide It?
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street Memo reported that in a July 23, 2002 meeting between Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet, attendees of the meeting discussed the fact that President Bush had already made up his mind to attack Iraq. According to the minutes of the meeting:
    “There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action.”
    Yet, as the record below proves, President Bush claimed over and over after July (…)

  • US Army hhires firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis with outsourced Propaganda
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, June 10, 2005 by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) Psychological Warfare Effort to be Outsourced Army command hires three firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis by James W Crawley WASHINGTON — The U.S. Special Operations Command has hired three firms to produce newspaper stories, television broadcasts and Web sites to spread American propaganda overseas.
    The Tampa-based military headquarters, which oversees commandos and psychological warfare, may spend up to (…)

  • Rep. James Sensenbrenner shuts down hearing on Patriot Act
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.
    The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.
    Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, (…)

  • Bush and ’The Memo’
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editorial
    PRESIDENT BUSH apparently thinks he can dismiss the damning "Downing Street memo" with a few glib words.
    If he is right, it is a sad commentary on the state of American democracy and values.
    The memo, recounting the details of a July 23, 2002, meeting at British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official residence on 10 Downing St., strongly suggested that the message had been sent across the Atlantic that the Bush White House had made the decision to wage war on Iraq. The minutes (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo Reveals Blood on the Hands of Our Complicit Corporate Media
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ...and the Hijacking of Our Collective Fear
    by Anthony Wade
    On September the Eleventh, 2001, our worst fears were realized. I will never forget that day and traveling home by subway in New York City. Looking into the shell-shocked faces of people I never met, would never see again, realizing how truly close we all were. We were bound together by the experience. A collective outrage, a collective understanding that we were in this together. Unfortunately, some took this opportunity to (…)

  • Why I LEFT the GOP and joined the Earth People Life Support System
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The GOP. That party that stands for Greater Operational Profits at ANY COST.
    Yes it was tuff but now I am out of GOP rehab and feel HUMAN again and seem to have feelings of peace and happiness that my "balance" sheet just seemed to lack. If your thinking about giving up your addiction to money think about the following it may help align your mind with realities of life on earth... As a GOP memeber the following kept going through my mind until I made the call and got help... I called
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  • In shying away from 2002 Downing Street Memo, a timid press shirks its duty
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The coverage, or lack of coverage, of a story regarding notes from a meeting of British intelligence officials dubbed the "Downing Street Memo’’ is quite a mystery.
    If fact, coverage has been curiously meager, although the contents of the memo were reported in early May by the Sunday Times of London. The intervening weeks have seen the American media focus on runaway brides (Jennifer Wilbanks), runaway mouths (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) and a runaway Congress (…)

  • An open letter to Jon Stewart
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Jon,
    First let me say, in all honesty, I would take a bullet for you. It would be all dramatic too, I would see the gun and would push you out of the way screaming, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
    As the mother of 2 toddlers, it is not something that I take lightly. I have no desire to die, but you are someone that I consider too important to lose. The world is a better place with you in it. You have been salvation for so many since Nov. of 2000. The honesty and humor of the Daily Show has been (…)

  • Senior US military chief admits insurgents are "good, honest" Iraqis
    10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’Good and honest’ Iraqis fighting US forces By Phil Sands, Staff Reporter Tikrit:
    A senior US military chief has admitted "good, honest" Iraqis are fighting American forces.
    Major General Joseph Taluto said he could understand why some ordinary people would take up arms against the US military because "they’re offended by our presence".
    In an interview with Gulf News, he said: "If a good, honest person feels having all these Humvees driving on the road, having us moving people out of (…)