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  • Al Gore’s Crytal Ball
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Trudi Loh Trudi Loh Bio Blog Index RSS 11.18.2005 Gore’s Crystal Ball (29 comments ) READ MORE: Saddam Hussein, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Iraq, George W. Bush
    As the Democrats rage about the war — 3 years too late — and the Bush Administration huffs and puffs about the Democrats playing politics with an issue and rewriting history, I felt the need to re-read some of the remarks made by Vice President Al Gore at the Commonwealth Club on September 9th, 2002, prior to the vote (…)

  • FORGIVE MY CYNICISM
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FORGIVE MY CYNICISM
    By Peter Fredson
    November 19, 2005
    I was not always cynical of American politics, civics, and public service. Indeed, I thought highly of “American Values” such as patriotism, honor, honesty, keep one’s sworn word, doing one’s duty to country, and serving honorably. Although I knew that the words “Liberty” and “Democracy” had multiple meanings for philosophers and linguists, to me they were fairly straight-forward. Indeed they were master symbols of Americanism (…)

  • Iraq Cannot Be Won
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rep. John Murtha
    A conservative senior House Democrat and Purple Heart-decorated Vietnam veteran describes the U.S. presence in Iraq as an ’occupation,’ and calls for immediate troop withdrawal.
    Following is the transcript of a speech by conservative Democratic Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania on October 17. Murtha is the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriation Committee’s defense panel.
    I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war. And (…)

  • Civilization, genocide style
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    “I think it would be a good idea” - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought about Western civilization by: Gabriele Zamparini on: 19th Nov, 05
    Ann Clwyd is the Prime Minister Blair’s Human Rights Envoy in Iraq. On November 15th, 2005, interviewed by Jeremy Paxman at BBC 2 Newsnight, she said:
    “We have been trying to train the Iraqis in human rights. We’ve set up conferences for the Iraqis on human rights with all the NGOs. We’ve been trying our very best to get human rights into the (…)

  • The BBC’s Big White (Phosphorus) Lie
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William Bowles • Friday, 18 November 2005 Finally, the ‘white phosphorus’ obscenity made it into the BBC’s main news, at least for a couple of days before being relegated into the Beeb’s dustbin of ‘allegations’ which of course, at least according the BBC, is where the story belongs. Of course, ‘making it into the news’ is a bit of a misnomer as it took the BBC nearly two weeks for the story to actually ‘break’ into its mainstream news coverage, no doubt because it was us non-entities, (…)

  • International outcry greets allegations of police abuse
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Ministers launch inquiry after detainees found Shia paramilitaries now control force, say Sunnis
    by Ewen MacAskill and Rory McCarthy in Beirut Michael Howard
    Seif Saad, an Iraqi guard, showed no remorse yesterday for the detention and alleged abuse of 173 prisoners in Baghdad. "We placed sacks on their heads and tied their hands behind their backs," he said of their arrests, but, as far as he was concerned, they were suspected terrorists.
    He was standing in a watchtower overlooking (…)

  • The Big Lie Technique
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Scheer
    At a time when approximately 57 percent of Americans polled believe that President Bush deceived them on the reasons for the war in Iraq, it does seem a bit redundant to deconstruct the President’s recent speeches on that subject. Yet, to fail to do so would be to passively accept the Big Lie technique—which is how we as a nation got into this horrible mess in the first place.
    The basic claim of the President’s desperate and strident attack on the war’s critics this past (…)

  • The man who could bring about a revolution in Israeli politics
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In less than a week Amir Peretz has revitalised the Israeli peace camp and brought a rare optimism to the Middle East
    by Jonathan Freedland
    In the Middle East, the sensible position is pessimism. No one ever lost a bet by gambling that Israelis and Palestinians would keep fighting each other rather than make peace. The smart money says that remains true, that progress is impossible, that there are too many obstacles in the way.
    And yet the last few days have brought an optimism that is (…)

  • Pentagon Reverses Position and Admits U.S. Troops Used White Phosphorous Against Iraqis in Fallujah
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago. Chemical weapons experts say such attacks are in violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons. We speak with columnist George Monbiot and the news director of RAI TV, the Italian TV network that produced the film "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre." [includes rush transcript] The U.S. government has now admitted its troops (…)

  • Kucinich Calls for Accountability and Exit Plan "Things are getting worse in Iraq"
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq Is Bush’s War Buck Stops At His Desk And He Cannot Duck Responsibility Or Accountability The President Cannot Claim He Was Misled As He Continues To Mislead
    WASHINGTON - November 14 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement today on the Bush Administration’s attacks on critics of his Iraq policy:
    "Let there be no mistake about it, Iraq is Bush’s war. The buck stops at his desk and he cannot duck responsibility or accountability for the failure of his war (…)