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  • The Making of the Enemy [ Part One of Two]
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Only in America
    The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. The level of control over the masses and power over the nation in the years after 9/11 by corporatists intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing success, thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the horrific events of (…)

  • Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    By FORWARD STAFF December 16, 2005
    http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=7020
    In sharp contrast to the growing consensus of Jerusalem’s security and political establishment, President Bush argued this week that Israel’s safety depends on democratization of the Arab world.
    "If you’re a supporter of Israel, I would strongly urge you to help other countries become democracies," President Bush declared Monday, in a major address defending American policy in Iraq (…)

  • Israel ‘robbery of century’
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3186040,00.html
    Arab MK: Israel ‘robbery of century’
    Knesset Member Azmi Bishara in Lebanon: We are original inhabitants of Palestine, not ‘those who came from Poland, Russia; says Israelis should leave, take their democracy with them Ronny Shaked
    Israel is the 20th century’s greatest robbery, carried out in broad daylight, Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara (National Democratic Assembly) told a Lebanese audience last week during a speech at an (…)

  • UNICEF latest - 0.5 million infant deaths annually in US-occupied Iraq & Afghanistan
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As we approach Christmas Day, thoughts turn to mothers and infants and the joy, hope and magic of new human life. However we cannot ignore the reality in a First World-dominated world of about 55,000 avoidable deaths and about 35,000 under-5 year old infant deaths that will occur on this Christmas Day due to deprivation- and malnourishment-related causes.
    More specifically, we should consider the mothers and infants of war-wracked countries and in particular the countries currently (…)

  • Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, Michel Chossudovsky
    17 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the outset of Bush’s second term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell. He hinted, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them "to do it":
    "One of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked... Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that (…)

  • Veterans Affairs loses $1.5 Billion, More Cuts in Care for Soldiers
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At $19.8 billion, the VA healthcare budget is just 2.6 per cent larger than last fiscal year. This figure is immediately turned into a negative. Inflation in the healthcare sector supplying goods and services to the VA has averaged 5.6 per cent per year for the last five years. The negative becomes larger when we factor in a 3.1 per cent pay raise for VA employees.
    December 11, 2005 by Larry Scott — VA Watchdog dot Org
    On November 30, President Bush signed the "Military Quality of Life (…)

  • Re-enlisted National Guard Soldier never received $15,000 bonus as promissed
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    December 13, 2005 By Kelly Kennedy, Army Times staff writer [Excerpts]
    After re-enlisting during his second tour in Iraq but not receiving a promised $15,000 re-up bonus, Sgt. 1st Class Carl Latson says he won’t re-enlist ever again.
    In January, the Spanaway, Wash., soldier signed a six-year contract that was supposed to get him a $15,000 bonus - tax-free, since he signed up in the war zone. But when his 13th year of service ended in March, the check never made it to the bank.
    Latson’s (…)

  • Iraqi Election Confusion
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I don’t understand. I’m confused. The US is occupying Iraq, but they let the Iraqis vote in the election. I thought the Americans were there to kill Iraqis, not let them vote.
    I thought the US was in Iraq to steal all the oil. But if the Iraqis elect their own sovereign government, doesn’t that mean they will control Iraqi oil and not the US?
    I though the war in Iraq was a war against Islam. But it appears that all the candidates and political parties are Muslim, not Christian or Jewish. (…)

  • Green Party’s Kevin Zeese Has New Approach
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baltimore, MD - On a brutal night, Dec. 14, 2005, where the temperature hovered around the ultra-freezing 15 degree mark, the Green Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, Kevin Zeese, was out on the campaign trail delivering his “for the people” message. He spoke at the “All People’s Congress” hall, which is located about a half mile from the now-razed Memorial Stadium, where the sports notables of yesteryear, like John Unitas, Lenny Moore, Brooks and Frank Robinson, once played. (…)

  • CIA War Crimes
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CIA has documented every use of its exclusive ’enhanced interrogation techniques’
    Nothing in the [Geneva] Conventions [on the treatment of prisoners of war] precludes directed interrogations. They do, however, prohibit torture and humiliation of detainees, whether or not they are deemed P.O.W.’s. These are standards that are never obsolete-they cut to the heart of how moral people must treat other human beings. John McCain , in Torture: A Human Rights Perspective, edited by Kenneth Roth (…)