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  • ALERT: MEDIA COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’’ Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.’’ - Jean Rostand
    NUREMBERG - ARTICLE SIX - February 23, 2005
    On February 13, The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples‚ initiative, declared much of the Western media guilty of deception and incitement to violence in its reporting on Iraq. The tribunal, meeting in Rome, made its pronouncement after taking testimony from (…)

  • How Blind Can Christians Be About Bush’s Case For War?
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Blind Can Christians Be About Bush’s Case For War? Jim Moore February 23, 2005 It’s no big secret. Conservative Christians (fundamentalists) stand foursquare behind President George W. Bush in his so-called war on terror. They have their reasons.
    In his incisive article, The Christian Case for War, Stephen W. Carson tells us that these are some reasons he has gleaned from his talks with people. It is those reasons that he lists in his article, together with his personal refutation (…)

  • NON TO FRENCH WINE, OUI TO FRENCH AD AGENCY
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When France refused to join in the "coalition of the willing," the right-wing propaganda machine rolled out the "Hate-Everything-French" campaign. Conservative media mouthpieces like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh led the Franco phobic charge, exhorting their benighted minions to boycott everything French. There was even an effort to change French fries to "freedom fries." French bashing could be heard and read, in varying degrees of ferocity, across the nation as the Bush (…)

  • Invasion Anniversary Next Month Is Date Of Campaign Kickoff
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Evelyn Nieves Washington Post Staff Writer
    On Feb. 15, 2003, as millions of people worldwide took to the streets to protest the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Hoffman was in Kuwait, awaiting deployment to Baghdad.
    Two years later, Hoffman, 25, is a civilian on the lecture circuit, introducing himself as an Iraq Veteran Against the War. On March 19, when war opponents plan to converge near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., to mark the date of the invasion, (…)

  • WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO EXPLAIN FAKE REPORTER IN ITS PRESS CORPS
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian Kelly
    Internet researchers have uncovered new evidence that contradicts the Bush Administration’s claims about James Guckert, a Republican activist allegedly involved in criminal activities and linked to an incident involving a major breach of national security. Guckert, operating as "Jeff Gannon," was granted daily access to White House press briefings for more than two years as a "reporter" for Talon News.
    White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan stated that Guckert was (…)

  • SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN, ‘COOKED’ JAN. 30 IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.
    Olympians like to call the Capitol Theater "historic," but it’s doubtful whether the eighty-year-old (…)

  • Congressman tells GOP crowd we really did find WMD in Iraq
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing I went to the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Otherwise I never would have known that, despite the findings of the authoritative David Kay report and every reputable media outlet on earth, the United States actually discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, vindicating all of George W. Bush’s pre-war predictions. The revelation came not from some crank at Free Republic or hustler from Talon News, but from a congressman surrounded by (…)

  • 19 yr old that Wanted Out of the Marines, Drowns at Boot Camp
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this image taken from WIS-TV, video, taken Feb. 7, 2005, on Parris Island, S.C., an unidentified Marine Corps drill instructor, far-left, back to camera, grabs Jason Tharp, far left, facing camera, by the collar, near a swimming pool. Tharp of Sutton, W.Va., drowned the next day, Feb. 8. at Parris Island while participating in a 25-meter swim that was part of a water-survival course. His family wants answers from the Marine Corps on the circumstances surrounding their son’s drowning (…)

  • How America’s response to 9/11 unleashed an obscene nightmare
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official complicity in the abuse. Five days after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney emerged from the fortified burrow in which he’d been awaiting Armageddon and - glowering as blackly as the oil he no doubt dreams of - explained how the (…)

  • Iran, Beware of the Attack Dog
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong."
    It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now.
    Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.
    This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were (…)