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  • Abu Zubayda - Valuable Intel Asset as Bush Declares or Deranged Misfit?
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Juan Cole has been doing an exemplary job uncovering the administration’s deceptions for years now, but his 9/07 entry will break your heart, if it hasn’t already been broken. Read how Bush has inflated the significance of a captured travel agent (through a $25 million reward) with multiple personality disorder into a major operative:
    http://juancole.com/

  • REBELS ’CONTROL HALF OF AFGHANISTAN’
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REBELS ’CONTROL HALF OF AFGHANISTAN’
    6 September 2006
    AFGHANISTAN is falling back into the hands of the Taliban, according to an international security and drugs think-tank.
    The hard-line Islamic group have psychological and military control over half the country, say the Senlis Council.
    And the lawless Helmand province in the south, where British troops are concentrated, is under "limited or no central government control". Senlis blame military priorities and "flawed" poppy (…)

  • Pro-Israel lobby targets BBC online poll
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pro-Israel lobby targets BBC online poll ’Megaphone’ lobbyware mobilisation By Chris Williams Published Wednesday 6th September 2006 11:18 GMT
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/giyus_megaphone/
    BBC History Magazine was forced to remove an online poll after it was targeted by a project aimed at influencing internet opinion in Israel’s favour.
    The Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS) website hosts a downloadable desktop tool called Megaphone. The program alerts users to opinion (…)

  • Rehabilitating Fascism: How Would We Know It If We Saw It?
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With his announcement that the war on terror is actually a war against "Islamo-fascism," President Bush has opened a fruitful debate. As is so common with Bush, however, his use of the term seeks to stigmatize more than characterize, to evoke glandular excretions more than intellectual reflections.
    But in one sense, the president has performed a useful service. By re-introducing fascism into legitimate public discourse - by "rehabilitating" it, as it were - the president may actually help (…)

  • Kucinich to draw up Mideast peace deal
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington- Fresh from a trip to the Middle East, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is ready to help craft "a comprehensive peace agreement" between Lebanon and Israel.
    Presidents, diplomats and the United Nations have failed at that. Enter Kucinich, who failed to become president or establish a Cabinet-level Department of Peace but who did have a lot to do with saving Cleveland’s municipal electric system.
    "I feel that one person can make a difference," the Cleveland Democrat said in an interview (…)

  • George Bush’s "Freedom" Speech.. Wow!
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush spoke today at a safe venue: The Republican Troops for the Neverending War...in Ft.Ticonderoga, Georgia. ********************************* Good day! (troops: "Hoo-Rah!")
    We’re all real Americans here, and we’ve got a long slog of a fight ahead of us. We’re engaged in an almost endless battle for truth, justice and the American way. We all love freedom and must fight terror where and when we find it.
    Our old enemy Ben Laden, that creepy cave-dwelling leader of the Evil Forces (…)

  • When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic"
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Criticism of Cluster Bombs is "Anti-Semitic"
    By STANLEY HELLER
    The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports that the head of Germany’s Jewish community accused a minister in Angela Merkel’s German government of "anti-Semitism" because of the minister’s statement on Israel’s use of cluster bombs. Development Aid Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul had asked for a United Nations probe into Israel’s use of cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon.
    Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central (…)

  • Putin Calls Russia Defender of Islamic World
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Putin Calls Russia Defender of Islamic World
    12.12.2005 18:05 MSK MosNews
    Russia is the most reliable partner of the Islamic world and most faithful defender of its interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Chechnya’s capital Grozny. Putin unexpectedly visited the war-ravaged republic to speak in the local parliament that opened for its first sitting on Monday.
    “Russia has always been the most faithful, reliable and consistent defender of the interests of the Islamic world. (…)

  • The US Occupation forces in Iraq throw Iraqi detainees in the streets
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US Occupation forces in Iraq throw Iraqi detainees in the streets after lacerating theirs faces and killing them
    Special reports from Baghdad - Al Moharer September 4, 2006
    Reliable sources close to the US Occupiers’ authorities ascertained today that hundreds of Iraqi prisoners considered as missing and detained by the US Occupiers’ forces in secret detention camps and in particular those detained on US war ships or in European secret prisons since the beginning of the Occupation (…)

  • Empire in the Mirror
    5 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Empire - A Tribe on Steroids
    Inside the belly of the beast can the harbinger of what is to come be seen, for the internal machinations of the Pax Americana have become rusted and decrepit, its lifeblood infected and diseased by the spoils of its conquests and the narcissism of its hubris. In pursuit of unmatched wealth and power its internal organs have been infected by the malignancies of greed, arrogance and corruption, spreading from coast to coast, a haze of barrenness infiltrating (…)