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  • Major Demos Planned for Third Anniversary of War
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    International Antiwar Movement Builds at UK Conference
    By KEVIN ZEESE
    Andrew Murray the Chair of the Stop the War Coalition opened the conference describing it as an "historic event" that brings together peace activists from around the world. Indeed, I was part of a sizable delegation of activists from throughout the United States. And the conference also included delegates from across Britain, Iraq, Iran, as well as from Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Canada, Poland, Greece, Italy, (…)

  • No elections will be credible while occupation continues
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s current political process will not solve the crisis. Only a US and British pullout and a UN sponsored poll can do that
    by Harith al-Dari
    Iraq has a long history of civilisation that has contributed both knowledge and wisdom to humanity. For many centuries, Islam also immunised Iraq against religious or sectarian strife and protected its population from the oppression that peoples of the ancient world had been subjected to. Generation after generation of Iraqis succeeded in (…)

  • The Limits of Power
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    Sometime in the mid-1990s, after it had become quite clear that Bill Clinton’s presidency would deliver rather less than had been hoped, and when it was becoming clear that Newt Gingrich’s control of the House would deliver rather more than had been feared, I penned a review of a then-recently published collection of former Sen, Eugene McCarthy’s poems. In it, I lamented the lack of poetry in the politics of the moment and suggested that America would be far better served (…)

  • The Making of the Enemy [Part Two]
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PART I : The Making of the Enemy [ Part One of Two]
    The Myth of the Superhuman Enemy
    There is purpose behind having enemies, for their existence is the backbone of the corporatists. Indeed, there is a method behind their madness. Having enemies means having control both of fear and hatred of the people, as well as having control of the masses along with their animalistic emotions. Psychology can be manipulated at the push of a few buttons; an entire nation can be mobilized toward war in (…)

  • Our Daily Dose of Hypocrisy
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Regarding Kosovo and President Bill Clinton, 1999: "No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say back out of it because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That’s why I’m against it." Sean Hannity, fox news 4/5/99 "American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy." Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) "If we are going to commit American (…)

  • Formal complaint to ICC over UK-US state terrorism & war crimes in Occupied Iraq & Afghanistan
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following is the text of a Formal Complaint sent to the International Criminal Court over UK-US State Terrorism and Coalition War Crimes in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan:
    19 December 2005
    Office of the Prosecutor,
    International Criminal Court,
    The Hague, The Netherlands
    Dear Mr Moreno-Ocampo, Mr Brammertz and Mrs Bensouda,
    On 14 October 2004 I made a formal complaint against the Australian Government and its Coalition allies over war crimes in Iraq, specifically illegal (…)

  • $8 Billion in Bonuses awarded to Defense Contractors, "regardless of performance"
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Defense Department paid contractors $8 billion over five years in bonuses on weapons programs that were often dogged by severe cost overruns, performance problems and delays, the Government Accountability Office said.
    The agency, an independent auditor for Congress, reviewed 93 of 597 military contracts in force between 1999 and 2004 that included the possibility of a bonus. Contractors on average were awarded about 90 percent of the bonus money available, the agency said in the draft (…)

  • BUSH FOOLS AMERICANS BY APPEARING TO ACCEPT MCCAIN’S BAN ON TORTURE
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D. December 16 , 2005
    In Washington politics, things are seldom what they appear to be - especially when devious Machiavellians are running the White House. And we often end up getting a fairy-tale version of reality because the USA’s government-corporate-media complex prefers to ignore unpleasant-but-true stories while it promotes pleasant-but-false stories.
    For instance, the mainstream media is burying a major Bushite deception right now, so as to (…)

  • Iraqi National Resistance Offers US Cease Fire for Promise to Leave Within 6 Months
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi National Resistance and other Iraqi Political Forces Terms for Ceasefire and End of Occupation By Kevin Zeese December 15, 2005
    Mounzer Sleiman, Ph.D. is a vice president and founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans . He is an independent political-military analyst with expertise in U.S. national security affairs, the subject of his doctorate dissertation. In addition, he is an independent media consultant with more than twenty five years of experience in Middle East (…)

  • Osama, Saddam? What’s in a name?
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
    With a slip of the tongue, U.S. President George W. Bush briefly turned Osama bin Laden into Saddam Hussein on Monday.
    Bush momentarily switched the names of his two greatest nemeses in a news conference at the White House where he was defending his decision to authorize eavesdropping on Americans suspected of links with al Qaeda and other organizations in the U.S. war on terrorism.
    "In the late 1990s, our government was following Osama bin Laden because he was (…)