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  • The Peter Principle and the Bush Administration
    21 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last night on Frontline they broadcast a biting documentary entitled "The Dark Side", which revealed the truth about how the CIA and the Pentagon were at odds about evidence for going to war in Iraq,etc. These guys emerged as the "Gang that couldn’t shoot staight", and reminded me of Lawrence Peters, who created the "principle" IN ANY HEIRARCHY, PEOPLE RISE TO THE LEVELY OF THEIR INCOMPETENCY AND REMAIN THERE.
    Nowhere can I find better examples of this rule than in the Bush (…)

  • Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dahr Jamail and Ali Fadhil
    *RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city.*
    A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, reveals that residents are suffering from lack of water, electricity, cooking gas and medical supplies for the hospitals. The streets are eerily empty, and it appears that many people (…)

  • Darkness and Light. When international law and science are silenced, the only outcome is darkness
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabriele Zamparini (*)
    Introduction
    There was a time when the arbitrary act of the powerful was the unquestioned rule and the abuse of the prince was called the ‘art of government’. The word ‘justice’ was used to describe the prince’s magnanimity or the reward for the suffering of this life, because... justice is not of this world.
    Centuries of darkness and misery are now called the history of civilization.
    During this history, women and men have constantly rebelled and struggled (…)

  • Collaborators with the Israeli Occupier are Among Us
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Palestinian living in a refugee camp in northern Gaza gives us his account of the current situation
    Interviewed by Silvia Cattori, June 11, 2006
    The voice that you hear below is that of a young Palestinian baker who voted for Hamas in the recent election, hoping they would be able to lighten the suffering of his people. We think that his account sincerely reflects the feelings of a large part of the population of Gaza and can help us to rethink our biased way of seeing the situation (…)

  • Cutting, fixing, healing
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    I have heard but one viable solution to the Iraq War Debacle, from the same source that has steadfastly offered thought out solutions to virtually all our country’s problems. Why on earth don’t we get behind the man? He IS our voice, near as I can tell.
    :::::::: The boogey man is back! Killer Karl has through some Black Magic escaped what we thought was Patrick Fitzgerald’s crosshairs and instinct for bagging truth. Now on the loose, Killer Karl pounds his chest and roars: “See the (…)

  • Classic Right Wing Responses
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Someone (it wasn’t Elvis) once said "There are none so blind as those who will not see"
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    I have a really good Conservative friend who has a good mind except when it comes to politics, and then his mind tends to freeze, his eyes glaze and all reasoning goes out the window. Here, in nutshells,are some of his typical responses to assertions made by me againt the Bush administration.
    Cheney is a war profiteer and has a terrible voting record in the Senate. (…)

  • American Gods
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American Gods By Anwaar Hussain June 19, 2006 Notwithstanding the fact that Aristotle said a long time back that “the gods too are fond of a joke," and there were no American gods then but now there are, we the hadjis of the world need to understand that, like all gods, the American gods too are fond of a joke. Notwithstanding the fact that the term “hadji” is used by American forces in Iraq as the word “gook” was for Vietnamese, to signify the subhuman scum of the earth, and that the (…)

  • Telling Lies About Ahmadinejad
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Telling Lies About Ahmadinejad Kurt Nimmo June 17, 2006
    Buried in the Week in Review section of the New York Times is an admission that Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the map," a reference to a mistranslated phrase bandied about the corporate media over the last several weeks as an example of Iran’s intention to attack Israel, especially after it develops nukes, either next week or a decade out, depending on the level of fanaticism of the (…)

  • "Wash Post" Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy In Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger & Hardship
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Wash Post" Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy In Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger And Hardship By Greg Mitchell Published: June 18, 2006 6:20 PM ET
    NEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship (…)

  • Veterans Affairs Loses Records
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Veterans Affairs Loses Records Analysis By Mike Hudson June 20, 2006 For nearly five years, we’ve heard ad nauseam about the stepped-up security that’s made America safer in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Security, security, security. It’s like a Bush administration mantra, repeated over and over again by Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Bush himself.
    They even created the federal Department of Homeland Security.
    So it was a little surprising to get a letter - as many (…)