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  • Linda McQuaig says standing up to U.S. will gain us respect abroad
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s now clear how the Bush administration sees things: Canadian sovereignty exists only at its pleasure. If we do what Washington wants, we retain our sovereignty. If we don’t, all bets are off.
    This is what U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci clarified last week in his angered response to Paul Martin’s announcement that Canada won’t join the U.S. missile defence scheme. Cellucci noted that Washington would simply deploy its anti-missile system over Canadian airspace anyway, and expressed (…)

  • $9 Billion lost, Halliburton Looting, and Bush wants $82 Billion more?
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    The United States interim government, the CPA, run by Paul Bremer, and Dick Cheney’s firm Halliburton have been shamed by whistleblowers documenting blatant fraud. The whistleblowers have provided evidence of massive, systematic (ie intentional) fraud at Halliburton. The US Inspector General just reported $9 billion is missing, the CPA lost it - no trace of it whatsoever - yet Bush and his lapdog Congress want our children to pay $82 billion more for this illegal and immoral (…)

  • War Crimes in Fallujah and Iraq and the War on Terrorism
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Bush’s lies put these forces at risk in an illegal war of aggression. He treated our military personnel as if they were expendable cannon fodder.."
    By Ron Forthofer, Ph.D.
    The Bush administration claims that the U.S. attack on and occupation of Iraq is part of the ’war on terrorism’. This claim is highly dubious, to put it mildly.
    Before the U.S. attack, there was no substantive connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. In fact, Saddam and Osama bin Laden could be said to have (…)

  • Pizza, Ice Cream, and the First Amendment (Not Necessarily in That Order)
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I got lucky the other day. (No, I’m not talking about that kind of lucky. What do you think I am, a “family values” Republican at convention?)
    What I mean is that I was fortunate to meet a couple of real-life patriots: Stephen and Virginia Pearcy. They’re the folks who live one neighborhood over from me whose recent anti-war displays at their house sparked some, um, discussion — both locally and nationally.
    Well, not exactly discussion discussion. More like brainless name-calling and (…)

  • $9B Goes Missing In Iraq-Huge Sum Disappears Without A Trace
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    Profiteering from the Iraq war is not a surprise, especially in light of the Bush administration’s pandering to the military-industrial complex.
    But some Democratic lawmakers are concerned that profiteering may have achieved stratospheric dimensions in the case of the $9 billion that is missing from the sale of Iraqi oil. This money was to have been used for humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Iraq.
    It seems no one is watching the store. The fund was transferred to (…)

  • SOLDIERS GUILTY OF "BRUTAL AND REVOLTING" IRAQI ABUSE
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A MILITARY court today found two British soldiers guilty of abusing Iraqi prisoners in acts depicted in a series of sickening photographs.
    The behaviour of Mark Cooley and Daniel Kenyon and two other soldiers was described as "brutal", "cruel" and "revolting" by the military judge.
    And he added that the shocking pictures, used as evidence in the trial, had "undoubtedly tarnished the international reputation of the British Army and to some extent the British nation too".
    A panel of (…)

  • Protesters Call Bush ’No. 1 Terrorist’ (Germany)
    24 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alexandra Hudson
    MAINZ, Germany - About 12,000 protesters, many carrying banners reading "Bush go home," "No. 1 Terrorist" and "Warmonger," marched through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, but were mostly kept away from the visiting U.S. president.
    The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby Wiesbaden. Police wrestled several (…)

  • Not In Our Name
    24 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term, let it not be said that people in the United States silently acquiesced in the face of this shameful coronation of war, greed, and intolerance. He does not speak for us. He does not represent us. He does not act in our name.
    No election, whether fair or fraudulent, can legitimize criminal wars on foreign countries, torture, the wholesale violation of human rights, and the end of science and reason.
    In our name, the Bush government (…)

  • Paul Bremer and the Looting of Iraq
    24 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have never met Paul Bremer. Yet like a criminal investigator I have stalked him across Iraq for the past 2-1/2 years. In Baghdad I kept my distance from the "Coalition Provisional Authority." I immediately felt this organization would be a disaster, and I was right.
    Since his return to the United States last June Bremer has tried to disassociate himself from his own record. Yet there is now no doubt that Iraq was systematically looted under Bremer’s administration. Like a piano player in (…)

  • We’re the Nazis in this game, and I don’t like it. I’m embarrassed and I’m pissed off.
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Sunday the founder of ’gonzo’ journalism, died at the age of 67 of an apparent suicide. Today we are air a Jan. 2003 interview Thompson gave on KDNK in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado. An excerpt: "Bush is really the evil one here and it is more than just him. We are the Nazis in this game and I don’t like it. I am embarrassed and I am pissed off. I mean to say something. I think a lot of people in this country agree with me - a lot than that are saying anything...we’ll see what (…)