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  • Spineless, Tired and Uninspired. What Opposition Party?
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Lindorff
    Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
    Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
    Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
    White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
    Abortion rights under serious threat, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
    New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped by (…)

  • Democrats Sink Deeper into the Ooze
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
    Away to prison for three years goes Lynndie England, her pleas for mercy ignored by the military judge in Fort Hood, Texas. So who are the penalized thus far to indicate America’s revulsion over the systematic use of torture by its own forces? It tots up to a handful of rednecks.
    Scot-free go those who inherited a secret system of torture that goes back decades and who ensured that its relentless and widening application would soon bring the (…)

  • Flashback: Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Monday, 7 March 2005
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    Many press reports during the Iraq war were later retracted (Image: iStockphoto) Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the (…)

  • Israel may annex West Bank territory if no progress with PA
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jerusalem, Sept 28 (PTI) Israel may annex parts of West Bank territory, drawing borders unilaterally, if the current diplomatic deadlock with the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues, a close confidante of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned today.
    "If we see that the standstill continues despite the fact that it is a standstill in a diplomatic situation which is ’easy on Israel’, there may be room to consider turning disengagement into a strategy," Eyal Arad, a senior strategy advisor to (…)

  • ’Israel will take out Iran’s nuke facilities if US does not’
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington, Sep 30 (PTI) If Washington and its allies do not stop Iran’s nuclear programmes by force if necessary, Israel will, three Israeli legislators visiting the US have warned. "Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our friends that Israel should not be pushed into a situation where we see no other solution but to act unilaterally against Iran," said Yosef Lapid, head of the Shinui Party.
    Lapid and his colleagues Yuval (…)

  • Rumsfeld Refuses To Pay Back Military Families For Lifesaving Body Armor
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Traitor Defies Congress:
    "How Many Of Those Killed Could Have Been Saved With The Proper Equipment?"
    Families Still Forced To Buy Their Own Protection
    "The administration is either showing complete incompetence or utter indifference," "Rumsfeld is violating the law," he said.
    September 29, 2005 By Rick Maze, Army Times staff writer & The Associated Press.
    Soldiers and their parents are still spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for armor they say the (…)

  • Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Bush is Cooking Up Two New Wars
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for "preventative nuclear attack." In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons. The Pentagon document, "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear (…)

  • Portrait of a neo-con
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the United States and the world look back over the events of the past three years, events triggered by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it is worth taking a close look at the under secretary of defense for policy, one of the architects of the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq.
    Douglas Feith is the No 3 civilian in the George W Bush administration’s Department of Defense (DoD), under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Under Secretary for Policy Feith had previously (…)

  • Permanent Occupation
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you are inclined to believe the president, we will be in Iraq, in his words “as long as necessary, and not a day longer.” Members of the Bush administration, including the president, have been at pains to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq.
    On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, “As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America.”
    On February 17, 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald (…)

  • British Terrorism in Iraq
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 30, 2005
    By Dr. Elias Akleh
    It had been long known to the Iraqis, to the Arabs, and to all Moslems in countries bordering Iraq that the majority of the terrorist attacks in Iraq, especially car bombing, are perpetrated by covert British, American, and Israeli operatives. It is also well known to them that the terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi and his “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” are just inventions of the coalition forces to justify their existence. More and more evidences are coming out (…)