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  • Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions. Andrew Buncombe reports from Washington
    03 April 2005
    America’s leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were (…)

  • Democrats, Paper ‘Trails’ Aren’t Good Enough; Count The Damn Ballots!
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lynn Landes
    March 19, 2005-After the 2004 election I thought I would barf if I heard one more Democratic pundit or politician lament the lost election and blame it on the party’s "message." As grassroots activists across the country reported thousands of election irregularities and voting machine "glitches" that overwhelmingly benefited Bush, the Democratic leadership seemed unusually willing to look the other way. John Kerry quickly conceded, former President Carter attended Bush’s (…)

  • Is it fun to shoot innocent people ?
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The USA troops came to Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction and seprade freedom and democracy ,as Mr Bush used to say. However ,on the Iraqi ground, tne USA troops used to shoot indescrimenately . One of thier Generals said, " Itis fun to shoot people " , as can be seen from the following report:-
    General: It’s Fun To Shoot People
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2005
    Trigger-Happy Talk Flap
    Lt. Gen. James Mattis (Photo: CBS)
    "Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a (…)

  • Gore Vidal is Mad as Hell
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blood and Gore Gore Vidal has Never Been the Shy, Retiring Type. And He is as Mad as Hell, Aiming His Fury at a Country He Says Has Lied, Cheated and Stolen to Get Its Way by Gerald Wright
    The love of his life has gone, replaced by a black-and-white photo of a smiling man’s face inside an ornate silver frame. The old, quiet, dark Spanish house in the hills above Hollywood smells of eggs at lunchtime. Gore Vidal sits quietly reading. He is 79, and has lived, fought and written through world (…)

  • E voting Corruption record
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FLORIDA’S 2000 nightmare over punch-card ballots caused America to stampede toward purely electronic voting. But this snowballing trend raises two new concerns: vote-stealing could be easier in digitized elections, and several computer balloting firms have shady pasts.
    Most of America’s e-voting is done on machines purchased from three firms: Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Pacific, and Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Two of the companies are headed by brothers. All are led (…)

  • Bush Embraces WMD Report that Lays Blame on CIA
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    ​ ​​​​ President Bush was pleased to accept the report from the WMD Commission, and he agrees with their conclusions- all the mistakes (wmd lies) were the fault of the intelligence community. Neither Bush nor anyone in his administration was criticized by the Commission appointed by Mr. Bush.
    The 9 member commission was headed by retired Republican judge Laurence Silberman and former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb who said, "They got wrong the critical judgments with (…)

  • The New Slavery
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks. The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as “the American dream” has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the American nightmare of homelessness, and slow, early death. You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don’t lose (…)

  • Sgt. Benderman follows conscience, not orders: Refuses to participate in illegal war
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The ongoing saga of Sergeant Kevin Benderman’s denial regarding the legitimacy of war and his refusal to participate in it has now crystallized into a war of words and legalities, pitting his beliefs and first-hand battlefield knowledge against an action by the U.S. Government and Army prosecutors who are charging him with desertion for choosing to follow his conscience, in a war declared illegal by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Benderman is scheduled to stand trial before a General (…)

  • Analysis points to election `corruption’
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Analysis points to election `corruption’
    Group says chance of exit polls being so wrong in ’04 vote is one-in-959,000
    By Stephen Dyer
    Beacon Journal staff writer
    There’s a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.
    Exit polls in the November election showed Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., winning by 3 percent, but President George W. Bush won the vote (…)

  • Philippines — 2nd Front of "War On Terror" Experiencing Terror
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Since January of this year, 38 leaders, members and allies of progressive organizations and their electoral parties have been killed. The dead include a priest, a town councilor, a lawyer and peasants massacred at Hacienda Luisita, a sugar plantation owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino.
    This wave of state terrorism began intensifying in 2001 when the country was declared the "second front" in the US-led supposed war on terrorism. The return of US troops to the (…)