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  • Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices Bill Gallagher February 15, 2005 Detroit - Like their Soviet predecessors, the top leaders of the American politburo — Dick Cheney and George W. Bush — never admit their mistakes or acknowledge their authoritarian policies and police-state oppression. The very thought of apologizing for failures and injustice — no matter how disastrous and obvious — is repugnant to such regimes. Comrades Cheney and Bush get away with (…)

  • Slaughter Spearheads Investigations Into Phony White House "Journalist"
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Slaughter Spearheads Investigations Into Phony White House "Journalist" Mike Hudson February 15, 2005
    Call it "Gannongate."
    Responding to a Feb. 8 Niagara Falls Reporter editorial, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter last week called on President George Bush to explain how a person operating under an assumed name and with no journalistic background managed to obtain access to the White House briefing room regularly for the past two years.
    Additionally, Slaughter and Rep. John Conyers of (…)

  • Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms Pete Yost February 14, 2005 Concerned about government secrecy in a terrorism case, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at the Bush administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man held in Saudi Arabia. The government is bolstering its effort to get the case thrown out by submitting classified information to U.S. District Judge John Bates that is unavailable to lawyers for imprisoned terrorist suspect Ahmed Abu (…)

  • Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III February 10, 2005 Most Americans guess wrong when asked to estimate how many troops have died in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a sign that many are giving scant attention to the nation’s most dangerous military operation since the Vietnam War.
    A new survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University found that fewer than half said they "very closely" follow (…)

  • The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
    "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
    With casualty lists (…)

  • Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives Toby Harnden in Hawija February 13, 2005 The US Army’s only Muslim chaplain in Iraq has described his struggle to "educate" soldiers to respect Muslims and how he helped free an innocent Iraqi from American custody after he had been framed by the coalition’s Kurdish allies.
    Captain Abdullah Hulwe, a Syrian-born Sunni who also said that his wife had experienced discrimination at military bases in America, told The Telegraph (…)

  • From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The American Nightmare From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    Steve Fowle
    It has been another of America’s special, sacred Januaries: The American Dream itself has been wheeled out of storage, washed and waxed, and buffed to a high quadrennial shine. Once again we have demonstrated to the world (as if we really cared what they thought) that anyone — any white male, anyway — can become president.
    This year, we actually improved on (…)

  • We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself Paul Craig Roberts February 12, 2005
    Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.
    What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame (…)

  • Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man. Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Scheme
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man His Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Schemes - And Then Was Killed Colin Freeman, Chronicle Foreign Service February 13, 2005 Tikrit, Iraq - In the midafternoon of Oct. 9, 2003, Kirk von Ackermann, an American contract worker from the Bay Area, used a satellite phone to call a colleague from a lonely desert road between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. He told his colleague he had a flat tire and needed a jack.
    About 45 (…)

  • Voices of freedom are kept prisoner in Baghdad
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Giuliana Sgrena is an Italian journalist, working for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto. She was kidnapped in Baghdad on the 4th of February, in front of the Al-Mustafah mosque, where she had interviewed a number of families forced by US bombing to fly from Fallujah. She is still a captive.
    Florence Aubenas, French journalist of Liberation, disappeared more than one month ago in similar circumstances.
    Giuliana has visited Iraq many times, documenting with great honesty the dire sufferings (…)