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  • Rangel: The CIA is plotting to kill Chávez
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuelan VP José Vicente Rangel Friday in Havana claimed that President Hugo Chávez’ life "is seriously threatened," and put the blame on the CIA for plotting to kill the Venezuelan head of State.
    "President Chávez’ life is in serious danger," Rangel said during a summit on terrorism held in Habana and hosted by Cuban president Fidel Castro, news agency EFE reported.
    Rangel added that both Colombian paramilitary troopers and hired assassins and Cuban exiles in Miami are plotting to (…)

  • Protest outside TV studio draws attention to Downing Street Memo(Minutes)
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TAMPA - Just a stone’s throw away from a life-size gorilla dressed in military fatigues was another oddity along Kennedy Boulevard Thursday - people protesting about a memo.
    "Did you get the memo?" read the fliers.
    "Air the truth!" said a poster held by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph F. Bohren, outside the WTVT-Ch. 13 studios with about 10 others.
    They were there because of what has become known as the "Downing Street Memo," minutes from a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (…)

  • Memo to Mainstream Media
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have a three-word response to the media frenzy that followed revelation of the long-secret identity of Deep Throat: Downing Street Memo.
    Here’s what John Dean, a key Watergate figure, wrote about Dubya’s case for the Iraq war in a June 2003 column for www.findlaw.com: "To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. . . . Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be a ’high (…)

  • Secret no more: Downing Street memo
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
    IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
    Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
    This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
    John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC (…)

  • Administration’s offenses impeachable
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s consider an item from the news of about two weeks ago:
    A British citizen leaked a memo to London’s Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the England’s MI-6, the equivalent of the CIA. On July 23, 2002, Dearlove briefed Tony Blair about the meeting. He said that Bush was determined to attack Iraq. He said that Bush knew that U.S. intelligence had no (…)

  • The cat is out of the bag now
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sick Strategies For Senseless Slaughter
    The murderous fools are not trying to end the war; they’re trying to keep it going as long as they can
    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    5-24-05
    The cat is out of the bag now.
    It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities in the past few years, although it’s hard to prioritize that claim because of the level and frequency of barbaric acts (…)

  • Kerry to bring issue of Downing Street Minutes/Memo to Senate
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW BEDFORD — Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday called on Americans to be more aware of the "bait and switch" Iraq war and the "hollowing out" of the Army in the pursuit of a mistaken policy.
    In a swing through SouthCoast, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee attacked the priorities of the Republican Party and President Bush, elaborating on what they are sacrificing — health care for children, infrastructure, Social Security — in the pursuit of tax cuts.
    "The Holy Grail of the Republican (…)

  • Big, Bad Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: The creation of a myth
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is it time to ’dispose’ of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? Has he ’outlived’ his usefulness?
    "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - a man notorious for his alleged ruthlessness - is suspected of direct involvement in the kidnap and beheading of several foreigners in Iraq - even of wielding the knife himself." news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3483089.stm
    A headline to conjure with no doubt, though clearly whoever writes this drivel needs to go back to journalism school and get a lesson in sentence construction. (…)

  • A ’Civilized’ Nation Respecting the Dead
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many historians consider Iraq as the cradle of civilization. It was in Iraq that of writing was invented. It was in Iraq that the great Hammurabi’s Code of Laws was first engraved. Iraq was the birthplace of Abraham, father of the Jews and the Arabs.
    The territory now called Iraq was the center of the greatest powers of the day. At other times it was conquered by Alexander the Great, ravaged by the Mongols and dominated by empires based in Persia, Turkey, Britain and now the United States. (…)

  • Visibility Is Victory
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    A few weeks ago, I wrote a controversial column, "Losing the Battle", which sounded the alarm that the GLBT movement is going backwards. This remains indisputably true on a political level, as our sworn enemies are increasingly sworn into office. Each morning we rise, we live the long nightmare of George W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-TN., and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-TX.
    Nonetheless, I still remain hopeful as our community progresses in this most (…)