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  • Father of slain soldier plots UK “regime change”
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEDGEFIELD, England - Polls say Tony Blair’s Labour Party is on course to win Thursday’s election, but the father of a British soldier killed in Iraq is convinced he can bring about “regime change” in the Prime Minister’s back yard.
    Reg Keys, whose son died at the hands of a mob in June 2003, is standing against Blair in his Sedgefield constituency in northeast England, arguing his son had died in an illegal war and that the premier had lied over the reasons for it.
    The odds are heavily (…)

  • "Facts Were Fixed." Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
    A BUZZFLASH GUEST NEWS ANALYSIS by Greg Palast
    Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
    The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WDM. (…)

  • U.S. report of attack on Giuliana based largely on the soldiers’ testimony "clearly a lie"
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: The US report should have included the eyewitness testimony of Giuliana Sgrena who stated that the shooting was not even at a checkpoint at all, it was an ambush from behind on a secure road.
    Giuliana Sgrena Blasts U.S. Cover Up- Confirms she was shot at from behind-not in self defense ROME (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had a "long and friendly" telephone conversation on Wednesday as both countries moved to end a (…)

  • US War Crimes and the Legal Case for Military Resistance
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Whensoever the general Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." Thomas Jefferson
    May 10th is a national day of action for GI resisters. A newly formed group, Courage-To-Resist, is organizing veterans, military families, and community activists in a campaign to support military objectors. Demonstrations to support sailor Pablo Paredes, who faces a court martial in San Diego May 11th, are in the making.
    On December 6, 2004, Navy Petty (…)

  • Tactic: Shift the Burden Of Proof To Your Opponent
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tactic: Shift the Burden Of Proof To Your Opponent Tom Ball 05/03/2005 Technique: Make an assertion, promote your opinion, or provide your interpretation. Before your opponent can question your motive, strength of argument, or basis for your assertions, call for them to prove you wrong. Place the burden of proof for your assumptions on your opponent. Don’t let up until they concede that they can’t prove you wrong. At that point, proclaim victory. That’s what Bush does.
    A primary premise (…)

  • Rumsfeld Offered Saddam Freedom - Report
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rumsfeld Offered Saddam Freedom - Report
    5/1/2005
    The U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and a possible return to public life if he made a televised request to rebel groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said.
    Quoting from the London based Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Ynetnews reported that Saddam promptly rejected the offer.
    The (…)

  • Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned; Media Roast Brings Hysterical Laughter While Iraq Burns
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned; Media Roast Brings Hysterical Laughter While Iraq Burns Bob Kendall 05/03/2005
    A lot of Washington bigwigs need glasses! They don’t even see what’s going on. Hysterical laughter erupted at the Saturday night media roast when Laura Bush celebrated the media get together by cracking jokes about George going to bed at 9.
    Laura Bush explained in effect that was why she and Lynne Cheney had to watch Desperate Housewives between trips to Chippendale, where men (…)

  • An Open Letter to Howard Dean
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Chairman Dean,
    Speaking before an ACLU crowd last week in Minnesota, the home state of Paul Wellstone, the only senator to vote against the war, you were quoted as saying, "Now that we’re there [in Iraq], we’re there and we can’t get out.... I hope the President is incredibly successful with his policy now." Did these words really come from the same man who claimed to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and who had recently campaigned on the antiwar theme? What’s (…)

  • Italian Press Accuse Berlusconi of Changing Calipari Report
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Italian press has claimed that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has altered a report investigating the death of Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari, who was killed by US soldiers in Iraq in order not to endanger Washington-Rome relations.
    The papers revealed that Berlusconi had requested some changes be made in the direction of the report so as not to criticize the US too much and not to jeapodize relations. The headline run by Il Messaggero carried the issue to the public, (…)

  • Horror Of US Depleted Uranium In Iraq Threatens World — "A crime against humanity"
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I’m horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."
    The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British (…)