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  • From Dictatorship to Democracy - A Primer for Freedom
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro democracy? Learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of goverments that act more like dictatorships than so-called democracies. Velvet Revolution: An interview with Gene Sharp
    Laura Secor has an interview in the Boston Globe Ideas section with Gene Sharp, the author of a pamphlet, From Dictatorship to Democracy, that has been used by pro democracy groups from Serbia to Ukraine, to learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of dictatorships. Sharp’s (…)

  • America is led by a brutal, mocking, heedless Caligula
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Killing Joke: The Day the American Republic Died
    Bob Herbert, who has been incandescent for months now , usefully reminds us of the comedy routine that Bush performed for a sycophantic audience of TV and radio "journalists" back in March 2004: the infamous "hunt for WMD" in the Oval Office. As you’ll recall, this was a series of cutesy shots showing Bush peering behind the office curtains, looking under the rug while cracking wise: "No weapons of mass destruction under here! Maybe they’re (…)

  • Italy Sets Date To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq. Speculation Over Terror Fears As 300 To Leave In Sept
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italy Sets Date To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq Speculation Over Terror Fears As 300 To Leave In September John Hooper in Rome Saturday July 9, 2005 The Guardian Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday confirmed that he would start pulling his country’s troops out of Iraq within two months. Speaking at the G8 Gleneagles summit, Mr Berlusconi said the withdrawal of the first of Italy’s 3,000 troops would start in September.
    "We will begin withdrawing 300 men in September," he (…)

  • As America Sinks Into The Mud, Iraq’s Neighbors Breathe A Sigh Of Relief
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As America Sinks Into The Mud, Iraq’s Neighbors Breathe A Sigh Of Relief Writing From London, The Writer Explains That Iraq’s Neighbors, Either Actively Or Passively, Have Been Working Against The Americans Due To The Heavy-Handed Way In Which Washington Has Gone About Its Experiment In Democracy In Baghdad Salah Al-Qallab July 07, 2005 The Americans, and some Iraqis, have accused Iraq’s neighbors of interfering in its internal affairs and of looking to ensnare Washington in a quagmire (…)

  • Editorial: The Second Quarter
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Editorial: The Second Quarter July 12 2005 President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all gone out of their way in recent weeks to tell us we’re "winning" the war in Iraq, that the efforts of indigenous Muslims to toss us out of their backyard are in their "final throes" and other such nonsense.
    Some morons still believe them. Presumably, these are the same morons who still believe — despite all evidence to the contrary — that Saddam (…)

  • London. Once again: our deaths - your war
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The bombings which horrified London, like the events of the 11th of March in Madrid, struck at the civilian population of the British capital during the summit meeting of the eight big world powers. An attack on civilians is clearly an act of terrorism, but no-one can fail to understand that these operations are conceived by those who plan them and carry them out as acts of war in response to the actions of the western powers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. In this context we wish to (…)

  • VIDEO: Iraq In The Name Of Freedom - Democracy Hypocrisy
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This twelve minute ’realvideo’ movie has more truth than all the tv ’experts’ combined. (contains graphic scenes)
    Stream: http://www.informationclearinghouse... Download: http://www.dawah.tv/broadcast/iraqf... (9mb)
    Is this ’news’? Does it give you valuable information about what is happening in Iraq? Compare to a network newscast- which is more informative?

  • THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MediaLens, July 6th, 2005.
    "The best relationship with our viewers is no longer one of parent-child but of consenting adults trying to piece together the best picture of the world." (Roger Mosey, head of BBC TV news)
    "A good case can be made that propaganda is a more important means of social control in open societies like the United States than in closed societies like the late Soviet Union... This system of thought control is not centrally managed... It operates mainly by individual (…)

  • 60 Years Ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer was Murdered
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been washed with many waters. We have learned the arts of dissimulation and ambiguous speech. Through experience we have become distrustful toward people and often owe them truth and the free word. We are worn-out or perhaps even cynical through the unbearable conflicts. Are we still needed? We will need plain, simple, direct people, not geniuses, cynics, misanthropes or clever tacticians. Will our inner power of resistance against what (…)

  • Heard that before somewhere........
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The three British party leaders Blair, Howard and now Kennedy have all said that the London bombings have no connection with Iraq and that ’’they want to destroy our way of life’’.
    This, and the immediate statement by Blair returning prematurely from G8 were parrotting Bush.
    Pre scripted, with us/without us, childish Texan rhetoric.
    He has now gone on to say to people who link the bombings to Iraq, that this can’t be the case as 9/11 happened before Iraq. What he means is before the (…)