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  • TABOO: The Questions Which Reporers Cannot Ask
    7 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whether its out of fear for their jobs or just the excercize of "diplomacy", there are meaningful and dynamic questions whiich the Press cannot ask of the Bush administration. Among them:
    Will you please tell us why you won’t investigate HUGE government waste in the Pentagon (which "lost" over a trillion dollars!) and other departments? Surely at very least BILLIONS of dollars could be saved by so doing.
    Why do our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq still have inadequate armor and food? (…)

  • The Downing Street Fixation
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street papers are proving a formidable challenge to the White House PR machine as it desperately tries-in often-ludicrous ways-to slow down a train that has already left the station. And interest continues to build. The leaked British documents are now on the top-ten list of Google queries.
    One huge fly in the ointment for the administration was British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s early decision that it would be a fool’s errand to challenge the authenticity of the papers. Why? (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo Proves that Ray McGovern is Right ’the facts were fixed around the policy’
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: this is a repost from last year. When this came out last year, it really seemed that congress might finally act toward accountability however nothing has come of this information which proves that Ray Mcgovern is correct in calling Rumsfeld a liar. The entire administration lied repeatedly in the run up to war in Iraq and they are doing it again for Iran. The Downing Street Minutes Demand Action
    (- ; mp3 Cliff Notes to teach your neighbors :o)
    The "Downing Street (…)

  • Three years since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”: Torture, corruption, growing resistance in Iraq
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three years since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”: Torture, corruption, growing resistance in Iraq
    By Patrick Martin
    May 4, 2006 World Socialist Web Site
    May 1 marks three years since President George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for a rally, choreographed by White House spin-doctors, to celebrate "Mission Accomplished" in the US war against Iraq. Organized military resistance by the regime of Saddam Hussein had collapsed. Fewer than 150 American soldiers (…)

  • Iraq: National Sovereignty and Military Occupation are not Compatible By Prof. Ramzy Baroud
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq: National Sovereignty and Military Occupation are not Compatible
    By Prof. Ramzy Baroud
    May 3, 2006
    In a seemingly poignant analysis of the situation in Iraq, BBC news online analyst, Jim Muir assessed Iraqi politics following the choice of Jawad Al Maliki as prime minister designate.
    Muir’s detailed analysis failed to even hint at the possibility that the unwarranted US-British military occupation of Iraq is at all a factor in the growing sectarian divide, the insurgency and the (…)

  • Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans By Chris Floyd (counterpunch)
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans
    By Chris Floyd
    May 1, 2006 chrisfloyd.com
    Imagine growing up in a family where every day, father raped daughter, mother tortured son, brother abused brother, sister stole from sister, and the whole family murdered neighbors, friends and passing strangers. Imagine the underlying assumptions about life that you would adopt without question in such an atmosphere, how normal the most hideous depravity would seem. If some outsider (…)

  • Message from a Vet of My Lai Time : "Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun" By TONY SWINDELL
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Message from a Vet of My Lai Time
    "Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun"
    By TONY SWINDELL http://www.counterpunch.org/
    A few weeks ago we got a friendly letter from Tony Swindell, a newspaper editor in Sherman, Texas. "Begin paying attention," Swindell urged, ’’to stories from Iraq like the very recent one about U.S. Marines killing a group of civilians near Baghdad. This is the next step in the Iraq war as frustration among our soldiers grows — especially with multiple tours.
    ’’I served (…)

  • Hecklers interrupt Rumsfeld speech
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hecklers interrupt Rumsfeld speech
    Defense secretary cites importance of non-traditional allies
    ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday, and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment.
    "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the (…)

  • Ahmadinejad: Lost in translation
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Today’s Little Red Email It was October last year when we came home, flicked on the radio and listened aghast to the news that the Iranian president denied the Holocaust had happened and said the state of Israel should be wiped off the map. ‘Christ,’ we thought, ‘this nut job’s playing into their hands with this kind of rhetoric.’ Since then “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion” as one US academic has described the Iran/US imbroglio has ratcheted up to high alert with Seymour Hersch (…)

  • Bolton Stonewalling Questions on Troops in Iran: US Is Prepared To Act With or Without The UN
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At House Government Reform Subcommittee Hearing UN Ambassador Bolton Refuses To Answer Kucinich’s Questions About US Troops In Iran States That US Is Prepared To Act With or Without The UN Washington, May 2 -
    Despite numerous public reports stating that US troops are currently conducting operations within Iran, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) refused to answer repeated questions by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) about US troops in Iran, today at a House (…)