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  • US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil Mark Turner in New York January 19 2005 The Clinton and Bush administrations not only knew but told the US Congress that Iraq was smuggling oil to Turkey and Jordan, and in both cases recommended continuing military and financial aid to countries seen as important allies. Recent revelations that Saddam Hussein was able to raise billions of dollars in illicit revenue in defiance of international sanctions have prompted savage criticism of (…)

  • Either You are With Us or Against Us: A Discourse on Terrorism
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    Without justice, there can be no peace. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.... Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter... Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love... Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.... The ultimate weakness of (…)

  • Global poll slams Bush leadership
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global poll slams Bush leadership
    Negative feelings for Mr Bush extended to Americans as a whole More than half of people surveyed in a BBC World Service poll say the re-election of US President George W Bush has made the world more dangerous.
    Only three countries - India, Poland and the Philippines - out of 21 polled believed the world was now safer.
    The survey found that 47% now viewed US influence in the world as largely negative and such unfavourable feelings extended towards (…)

  • Majority of Americans disapprove Bush’s Iraq policy— Where is his mandate?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Despite President George W. Bush’s belief that by reelecting him Americans expressed support for the war on Iraq, two opinion polls published Tuesday showed the opposite: the majority think the war was a mistake and disapprove of the way he is handling things in Iraq.
    Shortly before Bush’s inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC (…)

  • ‘Something is wrong in America’- An interview with Greg Palast
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Strumpf
    Interviewing Greg Palast is a bit like rummaging through your mother’s nightstand-you’re bound to learn some things you’ll wish you hadn’t. As an investigative journalist seen on the BBC’s Newsnight and England’s most influential newspaper, The Guardian, Palast is most famous for exposing racist scheming behind the 2000 Florida election scandal nearly a year before the mainstream American media got around to it.
    If you’ve never heard of Palast, an American himself, it’s (…)

  • Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush Dave Zweifel January 17, 2005 The headlines in the newspapers and the 10-second snippets on radio and TV were similar to the one that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last week: "CBS News fires 4 in erroneous Bush story."
    Unfortunately, the headlines and summaries were wrong.
    Yes, CBS did fire four of its top news people after a two-person independent investigation concluded that the news network failed basic journalistic standards in putting (…)

  • Ohio Pulls Plug On Electronic Voting. Blackwell Opts For People Filling Out Ballots By Hand
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ohio Pulls Plug On Electronic Voting Blackwell Opts For People Filling Out Ballots By Hand Julie Carr Smyth January 13, 2005
    Columbus - The battle is over and electronic voting machines, at least in Ohio, are dead.
    After years of wrangling and protests, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced Wednesday that he will limit Ohio’s uncompleted voting-machine conversion to a single device: the precinct-count optical-scan machine.
    The decision effectively sidelines the embattled (…)

  • Decorated US Marine brings "Fallujah" back to his hometown
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexican-American marine who did not want to return to Iraq, kills cop and is killed in shootout
    AVI video clip of first part of the shootout
    by Ernesto Cienfuegos
    Los Angeles, Alta California, January 11, 2005 - (ACN) A US Marine of Mexican descent home for the holidays from Fallujah, Iraq decided to wage battle yesterday against his own hometown police department of Ceres, California rather than return to Iraq to kill innocent Iraqi civilians. Nineteen year old Andres Raya, a (…)

  • Defying Pentagon Ban, La. Guard Unit Allows Footage of Returning Coffins
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK The Pentagon ban on newspaper and TV images of coffins returning from Iraq suffered an unexpected jolt in Louisiana yesterday.
    A Louisiana National Guard unit defied a Pentagon request to prevent television news crews from filming six flag-draped soldiers’ coffins arriving in the state following the men’s deaths in Iraq last week, according to a report by CBS News.
    The Louisiana National Guard allowed a CBS crew to film the arrival of six soldiers’ coffins at (…)

  • Jan. 20 media coverage & more updates
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 20 Update:
    Media coverage from NYTimes, NPR, AP & Reuters (see below)
    Funds needed for bleachers, sound, stage & more
    Spread the word about antiwar bleachers at 4th St. & Pennsylvania Ave. NW!
    Please share the following articles from the mass media with your friends.
    "On inauguration day Pennsylvania Avenue is where the action is" was the lead of the January 13 Morning Edition on National Public Radio. The NPR news story is among hundreds covering plans for the (…)