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  • Why Do Americans Hate Muslims?
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Do Americans Hate Muslims? Reem Al-Faisal, Arab News May 26, 2005 A few weeks ago an American I met at a friends house asked a much repeated query, “Why do you the Muslims hate the Americans?” To which I answered in the same way as all the preceding instances in which this question was posed to me: “We don’t hate the Americans, we might disagree with a certain US policy and dislike recent American actions in the Muslim world but we surely don’t hate the American people.”
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  • FBI Memo Reports Guantanamo Guards Flushing Koran
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Memo Reports Guantanamo Guards Flushing Koran Wed May 25, 2005
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent wrote in a 2002 document made public on Wednesday that a detainee held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Koran down a toilet.
    The release of the declassified document came the week after the Bush administration denounced as wrong a May 9 Newsweek article that stated U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo had flushed a Koran down (…)

  • Road to Abu Ghraib
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EVEN BEFORE the Bush administration invaded Iraq in March 2003, human rights organizations were raising allegations of torture at U.S. prisons in Afghanistan.
    At the time, the State Department dismissed their allegations as “ridiculous” (just as the White House recently feigned outrage when Newsweek claimed that Guantanamo interrogators flushed the Koran down the toilet—even as evidence surfaced that they urinated on it). As recently as December, military spokesperson Lt. Col. Pamela (…)

  • Massive Abuse of Power Deserves Impeachment, Criminal investigation, and Prosecution
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greens: Congress Must Investigate Torture of Detainees, Pentagon’s Missing $1 Trillion Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld must be removed, say Green leaders, citing abuses of power.
    WASHINGTON — May 24 — Green Party leaders called on Congress to begin immediate and far-reaching investigations of major abuses by the Pentagon:
    * Evidence of torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and abuse at facilities in the U.S., especially at (…)

  • WAKE the F*CK UP: **Stop Election Fraud**
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Advice from Rep. John Conyers, D, MI
    John Conyers, D, MI is a legendary figure in the Democratic Party. He served on the Judiciary Committee since 1964 (and was on that committee during
    the Nixon impeachment hearings); he is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus; has sponsored critical legislation; recently called for * to explain the pre-war Bush-Blair memo; and investigated election fraud in Ohio right after the election.
    Why is this important: because fraud occurred (…)

  • Bloggers are outwitting the Mainstream and Corporate Media!
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    These days, they are rather worried. They are of no use any longer ! They have lost their aura. The carpet is being withdrawn from underneath their feet. Worse, they might even lose their jobs. They have become a burden for their employer. You guessed whom I am talking about ! The mainstream media or their masters’ voice, the corporate media.
    In the near past, these cacophonous trumpets, used to have an idol to worship. They were his press officers. Every morning there was an assembly to (…)

  • Using The Media For A Magic Trick
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Using The Media For A Magic Trick Eugene Robinson May 24, 2005 I propose that the media spend less of their finite, precious resources doing what I’m doing right now: covering the media.
    No, I don’t want to put all the media writers out of business. Yes, there are days when the making or unmaking of the story is the story. But please, not every day. If we covered government, business, foreign affairs, sports, entertainment and the rest of modern existence as aggressively and thoroughly (…)

  • The Tillman Scandal: "Newsweek" Error Bad, Pentagon Lying OK?
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Tillman Scandal: "Newsweek" Error Bad, Pentagon Lying OK? Greg Mitchell (May 24, 2005) - Where, in the week after the Great Newsweek Error, is the comparable outrage in the press, in the blogosphere, and at the White House over the military’s outright lying in the coverup of the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman? Where are the calls for apologies to the public and the firing of those responsible? Who is demanding that the Pentagon’s word should never be trusted unless backed up by (…)

  • FBI asks US Congress for power to seize documents
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases, to investigate terrorism without first securing approval from a judge.
    Valerie Caproni, FBI general counsel, told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee her agency needed the power to issue what are known as administrative subpoenas to get information quickly about terrorist plots and the activities of foreign (…)

  • Fabricating Intelligence as a Justification for War
    24 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The Intelligence and Facts
    were fixed around the Policy"
    The Lie of Preventative War
    Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop speaks on the morning of the Russia invasion to journalists in Berlin. Despite the existence of a nonagression pact, Hitler sent 3 million German soldiers to invade the Soviet Union under the code name "Barbarossa." The nazi leadership justified the attack as a preventative strike to hinder an alleged attack being planned by Stalin.
    Fabricating Intelligence (…)