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  • U.S. fears prospect of Saudi coup, weighs invasion plans
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - The United States has raised the prospect of a military invasion of Saudi Arabia.
    The House Armed Services Committee considered the possibility of a Saudi coup and U.S. response during a hearing on Oct. 26.
    Saudi Arabia, with 200,000 military and National Guard troops, is the largest oil producer and exporter, with an output of nine million barrels of oil per day, according to Middle East Newsline. The Arab kingdom is the third largest supplier of oil to the United States, (…)

  • Montana Gov: "Are we going to allow the military to do an end run coup on civilian government?"
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HELENA, Mont. — Several governors are fuming over a Bush administration suggestion that the active military take a greater role in disaster response, calling it an attempt to usurp state authority over National Guard units.
    Governors in Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arkansas, West Virginia, Delaware and Alabama are among those who have panned the idea, questioning whether it would even be constitutional.
    Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, among the harshest critics, said the issue (…)

  • Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rob Kall
    The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information.
    The NY Times reports Bush, Cheney, Powell, and other administration officials repeatedly cited known dissembler’s information as “credible’’ evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda (…)

  • Halliburton Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage
    The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly. The board did not, however, give examples of poor (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • In the Name of Justice
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Kevin Benderman sits in jail. An injustice. He did not want to go. He did not take his stand, break a law and dare the courts to put him in jail with a stiff sentence. Kevin Benderman put his principles on the line and dared to trust that his rights would be respected as the constitution he fought to defend demands.
    Kevin Benderman did everything he could to demonstrate to the military, and to the world, that he did not want to go to jail, by consistently (…)

  • Lies my government told me or How to sell an illegal war.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ChrisSal
    Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
    No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002
    The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. George W. Bush, Nov. 23, (…)

  • Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act The Senate will sit today to pass legislation the Federal Government says could help authorities deal with a specific threat of terrorism.
    The Government says the new laws are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat.
    The Government says the new laws broadening the definition of a terrorist act are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat of terrorism in the last few days.
    It says the legislation will (…)

  • The Watergate Parallel
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tom Hayden A 1974 headline - "THE WATERGATE CRISIS, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE..."
    "The Watergate crisis represents a conflict in the American establishment brought on by the Indochina War, giving the peace movement its best chance yet to finally end U.S. involvement..."
    So concluded "A Strategy To End the War", a working paper of the Indochina Peace Campaign, in 1974. The IPC was a network in key states which carried out public education and pressured Congress from the grass roots (…)

  • Mapping Out Catastrophe
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    Does anyone remember that quirky little document called "the roadmap," the proposed path to peace initiated by the Quartet-the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia-involving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
    If you remember it and its contents, you can recall that Israelis and Palestinians should be in phase two (of three) of the plan by now: the creation of a quasi Palestinian state with "provisional borders" and the markings of (…)