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  • Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A major study by the UN and Iraqi officials found that life in Iraq has decayed significantly since foreign forces invaded, following a general trend seen in most sectors since the imposition of a global embargo in 1990.
    May 18 - Responses to a detailed survey conducted by a United Nations agency and the Iraqi government indicate that everyday conditions for Iraqis in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion have deteriorated at an alarming rate, with huge numbers of people lacking (…)

  • Nuzak: What the mainstream media are giving us is elevator news’
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John W. Baker
    Recently, I encountered the term "WPN" (for "what passes for news"). I’d like to propose a related term, "Nuzak." It’s a functional description of how WPN fits into the life of the average Joe, who never reads a newspaper except for the sports section.
    Nuzak is like Muzak. It runs in the background. It’s a New York Times headline on the way out of the house. It’s CNN at the airport. It’s Fox News at home whileJoe is really doing something else. The purpose of Nuzak is to (…)

  • Kucinich On US Space Weapons, Control Of the World
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The Administration is considering putting weapons in outer space, to give the United States the power to control the world. This astronomical arrogance pushes not simply aggression to new heights, but may well preclude our nation from spending money for anything other than weapons, which will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. "The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 states that it is "the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful (…)

  • Bill Maher show openly discusses vote fraud, smoking gun memo and the truth about Iraq
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    clips from the last Bill Maher show of the season with Al Franken, Liz Marlantes and GORE VIDAL!
    full transcript
    Okay, let’s get to it. Ohio , what went wrong in Ohio ? The Democrats seem to be in two camps about losing the last two elections. One camp says, “Get over it! You know, you’re making us look worse by just belaboring the fact that we lost to this man.” And the other side says, “No. There are irregularities and they’re stealing elections. And the one thing the Democrats (…)

  • Criminal US, there will be no honorable exit for you,
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 18, 2005 - You thought that the world, was just a jungle, a brothel, an open arena, a free market in which, you allow yourself to behave like pimps, whores and savage beasts, satisfy your sadistic low instincts and loot and kill at random. You imagined that you were going to the Land of revelation, for a nice stroll, an outing, for another plunder, another razzia, another foray and another raid. Hey let’s go to Iraq to kill for fun and, slaughter another American Indian indigenous tribe, (…)

  • 19 days left before war with Iran
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • Galloway testimony reminiscent of the day McCarthy went down
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, May 18: It was as if the Boston Tea Party had been reversed all over after 232 years!
    Hours after it happened yesterday, BBC newsreaders could not hide their smirk of satisfaction. In the Senate office buildings here, Americans gasped in disbelief that this was happening.
    George Galloway, the British MP who gave Tony Blair a black eye last fortnight by winning in a Labour stronghold after having been expelled from the ruling party, stormed up Capitol Hill yesterday to answer (…)

  • Losing in Iraq
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush Administration wanted a short conventional war with a glorious victory; they have a drawn-out guerrilla war and an approaching humiliating defeat.
    Travis Anderson of Hooper, Colorado had a bad week. He was killed in Iraq.
    We’re not doing well in the Islamic world, and I don’t mean only recently. In 1979 the Carter Administration managed to make a huge fire ball in the Iranian desert in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages, incinerating a number of Americans. In 1983 (…)

  • What We Iraqis Want
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 18, 2005
    We want the Americans to go back home. Iraq is our country, not theirs. However, the Americans seem to think it is their country. It is not theirs now, nor will it ever be theirs, unless they kill all of us, men, women and children. We are raising our children to resist this illegal, this immoral, this un-Christian occupation. I am a Christian, my husband is a Muslim, we both want the Americans out. They are causing us nothing but harm, sickness, poverty and lawlessness.
    We (…)

  • "He called me from Iraq: ’I have no idea what we’re doing here, mom.’
    19 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Nadia McCaffrey, member of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee (Inge Van de Merlen - May 18 2005)
    May 18, 2005
    September 12, 2001: Day 1 after the attacks on the WTC towers in the US. 34-year-old Patrick McCaffrey, husband and father of two, was upset enough to join the Californian National Guard. The National Guard is usually deployed in case of disasters or other emergency situations within the United States. A few days after 9/11 the Bush administration, without (…)