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  • Blood Of The Innocents 32 CHILDREN KILLED IN BAGHDAD CAR BOMBING US Soldier Handing Out Sweets
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blood Of The Innocents 32 CHILDREN KILLED IN BAGHDAD CAR BOMBING US Soldier Handing Out Sweets
    By Grace Reid
    What is wrong with this picture?
    Yesterday a suicide bomber targeted an American soldier who was busy distributing candy to Iraqi children during a bomb alert. The soldier, the bomber and twenty four children were killed.
    This is the US armed forces, this is not the Red Cross/Red Crescent. Why would a US soldier be handing out sweets in the middle of a bomb alert? Why is (…)

  • Weapons in space put the world at risk
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Weapons in space put the world at risk
    By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG
    Within the next few weeks, President Bush is expected to release his administration’s new national space policy. The most crucial aspect of the plan will be whether it endorses placing weapons in space.
    There have been a series of reports since 2001 that essentially advocate deploying space weapons. The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, initially chaired by Donald (…)

  • CIA Veteran Ray McGovern: Cheney Caught in a Lie
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
    27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
    I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
    By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

  • ONCE MORE, INTO THE BREACH DEAR FRIENDS
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN
    By Peter Fredson
    July 14, 2005
    Shakespeare’s Henry V urged his troops as follows:
    “Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.” (…)

  • KARL ROVE Shows Osama: Bush Can’t Keep Word [w/ cartoon]
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush promised to fire whomever outted CIA operative Valerie Plame Bush. Karl Rove has been exposed as that person and Bush refuses to fire him. How good is Bush’s word to Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il (N. Korea), Hu Jintao (China) — or the American people?
    Bush said on February 10, 2004: "There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there’s leaks out of my administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be (…)

  • Unborn US babies soaked in chemicals
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unborn US babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, petrol by-products and pesticides, according to a report released today.
    Although the effects on the babies are not clear, the survey prompted several members of US Congress to press for legislation that would strengthen controls on chemicals in the environment.
    The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical cord blood taken by the American Red Cross.
    They found an (…)

  • War Crimes - Dahr Jamail - World Tribunal on Iraq
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
    Beat prisoners
    He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

  • Global Eye: Dark Waters
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
    There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)

  • ROVEGATE - the Israeli Spying Connection
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 13, 2005 — ROVEGATE — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ken Mehlman has a good reason to come to Karl Rove’s defense. Mehlman’s July 12 RNC talking points memo on Rove and the leak of classified CIA information was not only an attempt to clear Rove but himself as well. When the CIA leak occurred in 2003, Mehlman was the White House political director and he reported directly to Rove, then counselor to the President. Mehlman and Rove were both mentioned in the infamous 2002 (…)

  • Rove endangered America. Bush leaves this one-man sleeper cell positioned to do it again
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Code Rove By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet July,13, 2005
    Okay, keep your eye on the ball: Karl Rove endangered America.
    But, you’ve been keeping up, reading, watching TV, and you’ve undoubtedly heard (or will hear) that Karl Rove didn’t say the words "Valerie Plame," or he didn’t mean to blow her cover — or was her cover too threadbare to even matter? — or Joe Wilson’s claims weren’t true, or else he was trying to save a reporter from printing a false story, or ...
    ... Hey, look over there: (…)