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  • FBI Reopens Inquiry Into Forged Niger Documents
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Is Taking Another Look at Forged Prewar Intelligence By Peter Wallsten, Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writers
    WASHINGTON - The FBI has reopened an inquiry into one of the most intriguing aspects of the pre-Iraq war intelligence fiasco: how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification for the invasion.
    The documents inspired intense U.S. interest in the buildup to the war - and they led the (…)

  • Bush’s Bloody Strategy for Victory
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild
    We’re beginning to see the outlines of Bush’s military strategy in Iraq. It’s not withdrawal. Don’t kid yourself.
    Bush intends to prevail.
    While he may, under domestic pressure, bring 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 troops home, he has no intention of ending this war.
    As Seymour Hersh notes in the latest issue of The New Yorker, Bush plans on replacing a reliance on U.S. troops with a reliance on U.S. bombers.
    "Departing American troops will be replaced by (…)

  • The death and torture flights of CIA should be stopped! Bush and his gang should be judged!
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Yildiz Onen Coordinator of the Global Peace and Justice Coalition of Turkey
    As the Global Peace and Justice Coalition we had a press conference in İstanbul on 30 of November about the death and torture flights of CIA and its using Turkish airspace and Sabiha Gökçen airport.
    Last week, there was some news about that CIA has been carrying some people, who had been captured by CIA through secret operations, to the secret prisons which was built in the other countries. In the news it was (…)

  • Is It Madness or Merely More Lying? The Hallucinations of Joe Lieberman
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By KEVIN ZEESE
    In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on November 28, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) put forward an argument for staying the course in Iraq. Of course, his argument in "Our Troops Must Stay" was filled with false information.
    Lieberman describes "real progress" and "self-securing nationhood." What are the facts? Rep. Murtha laid them out clearly saying the "war in Iraq is not going as advertised" and, more specifically:
    "Oil production and energy production are below (…)

  • It’s the Beginning of the End-For the Empire, Not Just the War
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kim Scipes
    This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on September 24th with the failed mobilization the following day in support of the war. A phrase kept running in my head from someone progressives do not generally quote: Winston Churchill. After the British defeat of the German Afrika Korps in Egypt in November 1942, during World War II, Churchill stated, "Now this is not the end. It (…)

  • Up in the Air: Where Is the Iraq War Headed Next?
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year. The Administration’s best-case scenario is that the parliamentary election scheduled for December 15th will produce a coalition government that will join the Administration in calling for a withdrawal to begin in the spring. By then, the White House (…)

  • The Threat of Hope in Latin America
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas, strangers asking questions about you is never a good thing.
    The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which leads a political movement that is autonomous from all those armed forces, held an emergency (…)

  • Help Keep the Pressure on Congress
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by United for Peace and Justice
    The week before the Thanksgiving break events in Congress were dazzling! For the first time since the war in Iraq began, major divisions in Congress have come to the surface - and that means significant new opportunities for our work. Below is a quick re-cap of what happened. While none of the initiatives totally articulates our position, they are all important developments. Now, more than ever before, there are openings in the Congressional work. We are (…)

  • The Press: The Enemy Within
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Massing
    The past few months have witnessed a striking change in the fortunes of two well-known journalists: Anderson Cooper and Judith Miller. CNN’s Cooper, the one-time host of the entertainment show The Mole, who was known mostly for his pin-up good looks, hip outfits, and showy sentimentality, suddenly emerged during Hurricane Katrina as a tribune for the dispossessed and a scourge of do-nothing officials. He sought out poor blacks who were stranded in New Orleans, expressed (…)

  • 9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration by Dr. David Ray Griffin December 2, 2005 911Truth.org
    The 9/11 Commission understood that its mandate, as we have seen, was to provide "the fullest possible account" of the "facts and circumstances" surrounding 9/11. Included in those facts and circumstances are ones that, according to some critics of the official account of 9/11, provide evidence that the Bush administration intentionally allowed the attacks of 9/11. Some critics have (…)