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  • Republicans and the "Rule of Law"
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Have you ever noticed the rank hypocrisy of the Republican Party when they drag out their old standard "We must have respect for the Rule of Law"?
    What respect? What are they talking about?
    To wit:
    They love putting criminals to death (Bush did it 131 times) without seriously considering the possibility of innocence.
    Many of their followers bomb or burn abortion clinics or murder doctors in the name of "life", despite the gross illegality of such actions. And the GOP says nothing! (…)

  • Former Presidential Candidate George McGovern Criticizes US Role In Iraq
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Presidential Candidate George McGovern Criticizes US Role In Iraq By Greg Joyce July 8, 2006 CASTLEGAR, B.C. (CP) - The United States government is making the same mistake in Iraq as it did in Vietnam and is jeopardizing its international standing in the world, former senator George McGovern said Saturday.
    The former presidential candidate told a crowd of about 300 people that the U.S. government’s decision to enter Iraq is "cut from same cloth" as the decision to enter Vietnam. (…)

  • Israel Using The Extremists As An Excuse To Avoid Negotiations
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel Using The Extremists As An Excuse To Avoid Negotiations Gwynne Dyer, Arab News Sunday, 9, July, 2006 The Europeans have rediscovered their backbones. “The EU condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,” said Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency, on Friday. The Swiss were even blunter, condemning what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip (…)

  • Bush Or Keller? Who Do You Trust?
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Or Keller? Who Do You Trust? By Jack Shafer Posted Thursday, July 6, 2006, at 10:56 PM ET When governments acquire emergency powers during wartime, it’s with the understanding that the crisis is finite and that when the war ends the government will relinquish those powers. But what happens when a government defines its war as neverending, as the Bush administration has its so-called "war on terror"? As long as any jihadist anywhere threatens the West, the administration would have us (…)

  • Censoring The Military Embeds
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Censoring The Military Embeds Posted by Bradford Plumer 0/07/2006 One could devote a lifetime-or at least the better part of a year-to chronicling all the propaganda-like tricks the Bush administration and the military have pursued over the past few years. Here’s a new one, courtesy of Rod Norland, Newsweek’s former bureau chief:
    The military has started censoring many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the (…)

  • Coalition Cover Up On AWB: Labor
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Coalition Cover Up On AWB: Labor Advertiser Newspapers Pty Limited 08 July 2006 NEWLY released documents showed the Australian Government had colluded with AWB and deliberately lied to the US Senate to hide the grain trader’s kickbacks to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the ALP said today.
    Labor’s public accountability spokesman Kelvin Thomson said documents obtained by his office through Freedom of Information showed the Howard Government had assisted AWB in dodging questions from the US (…)

  • Breakthrough On The Niger Documents?
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Breakthrough On The Niger Documents? By Larry C Johnson Friday, 07 July 2006 at 18:35 The defeat of Silvio Berlusconi and the election of Silvio Prodi has changed the political dynamics in Italy and opened a door that may lead to some significant progress in identifying the origin of the fraudulent Niger documents.
    Phil Giraldi, a retired CIA intelligence officer and longtime Italy hand, penned the following analysis (and has kindly given me permission to post here):
    The arrest of two (…)

  • DU in Afghanistan
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    read it and weep.
    http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=24460&s2=08

  • Uranium Bombin In Iraq Contaminates Europe
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (San Francisco) Nine days after the start of the American president’s 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain’s towns and countryside and throughout Europe.
    Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after conducting research on specialized high volume air filters in England. Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of London article on Feb. 19, 2006. Their (…)

  • Explaining How Depleted Uranium Is Killing Civilians, Soldiers, Land
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Christopher Bollyn
    Depleted uranium weapons, and the untold misery they wreak on mankind, are taboo subjects in the mainstream media. This exclusive report should break the media embargo imposed on the American people.
    Despite being a grossly under-reported subject in the mainstream, there is intense public interest in depleted uranium (DU) and the damage it inflicts on humankind and the environment.
    While American Free Press is actively investigating DU weapons and how they (…)