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  • A Report, The First Of Its Kind, Says Baghdad Ended Its Chemical Weapons Program In ’91
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CIA Corrects Itself On Arms A Report, The First Of Its Kind, Says Baghdad Ended Its Chemical Weapons Program In ’91 Greg Miller February 01, 2005 WASHINGTON - In what may be a formal acknowledgment of the obvious, the CIA has issued a classified report revising its prewar assessments on Iraq and concluding that Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons programs in 1991, intelligence officials familiar with the document said.
    The report marks the first time the CIA has officially disavowed (…)

  • Chertoff And Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chertoff And Torture Dave Lindorff February 14, 2005 Issue Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the "war on terror" was about to be exposed. John Walker Lindh, the young Californian captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and touted by John Ashcroft as an "American Taliban," was scheduled to take the stand the following Monday in an evidence suppression hearing regarding a confession he had signed. There he would (…)

  • Where The Missing $9 Billion Went
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Where The Missing $9 Billion Went Emad Mekay February 02, 2005 WASHINGTON - The US-run administration in Baghdad failed to keep track of nearly US$9 billion of money it transferred to various Iraqi ministries, according to an official audit released Sunday.
    The report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says that the now defunct US-lead Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) did not exercise adequate managerial control over funds paid to Iraqi government (…)

  • What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America?
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Saddam Hussein, Then George Bush, Now US Created Prime Minister Alyad Allawi Ordered Iraqi Prisoners Tortured. What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America? Marc Krug February 01, 2005 Over the years, Iraqi prisoners have found themselves ensnared in an inescapable trap. They have been subjected, without change or respite, to a seemingly unending succession of torture and abuse.
    What has changed, however, has been the identity of those inflicting this torture. First, it was (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Larry King bumps military mom from show- Are the "news" networks afraid of the truth?
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not Worth It
    I was supposed to be on the Larry King Live show last night. I was asked to be on the show to offer my opinion on the election in Iraq from the perspective of a mom whose son was killed in the war prior to the elections. One of the questions I was going to be asked was: Do I think my son sacrifice was worth it? Well, I didn’t get a chance to be on the show last night, because I was bumped for something that is really important: The Michael Jackson Trial.
    If I was allowed to (…)

  • Campaign to take Bush to justice for crimes against humanity
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Social Forum has Bush in its sights
    01/28/2005 11:49
    Campaign to take Bush to justice for crimes against humanity
    At the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a campaign was launched today, Thursday, to take George W. Bush to justice for crimes against humanity.
    Cebrapaz, the Brazilian organization, together with 35 other entities from around the world, launched a petition which it hopes will be signed by millions of people until September, when it will be presented to (…)

  • CARTOON CONSERVATIVES
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Earlier today, a spokestoon for SpongeBob SquarePants announced he is breaking up with gay puppet icon Tinky Winky. Irreconcilable differences were cited, such as they were physically incompatible as neither one had private parts. The spokestoon also charged that Tinky had been chronically depressed after not getting cast for a part in the Broadway musical Avenue Q.
    Hey, if Focus on the Family leader James Dobson can create a surreal gay plot with SpongeBob SquarePants, (…)

  • The Lighter Side of Fascism - The Neocons Win One
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Lighter Side of Fascism - The Neocons Win One
    Let’s face it, these guys - the president, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Doug Feith, Bill Kristol, Richard Perle (by the way, have you heard this guy speak lately? Somebody better cut down on his dosage of Zoloft) and the rest of the Republican-Christian-Might-Makes-Right crowd that drags along with them - are a bunch of jerks.
    Jerks. Goof-offs. These are the same kind of people many of us remember from high school. They (…)

  • Bush Told Black Caucus He "Didn’t Know Anything About" Voting Rights Act Renewal
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush Told Black Caucus He "Didn’t Know Anything About" Voting Rights Act Renewal, Congressmen Say Black Congressmen Riled By Bush Ignorance Of Voting Rights Act By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor January 31, 2005 President Bush told the congressional black caucus he “didn’t know anything about” renewal of the seminal 1965 Voting Rights Act last Wednesday, RAW STORY has learned. According to several of the 43-member strong Democratic caucus, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) asked (…)