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  • Media Held Guilty of Deception at World Tribunal
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.*
    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq made its pronouncement Sunday after a three- day meeting. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.
    The Rome session of the WTI followed (…)

  • How Canada Stunned Bush. Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Canada Stunned Bush Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US Tim Harper February 09, 2005 WASHINGTON-Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Washington revealed for the first time yesterday the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when prime minister Jean Chrétien kept Canadian troops out of Iraq.
    Michael Kergin said in an interview yesterday that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
    Despite all the signs (…)

  • Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III February 10, 2005 Most Americans guess wrong when asked to estimate how many troops have died in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a sign that many are giving scant attention to the nation’s most dangerous military operation since the Vietnam War.
    A new survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University found that fewer than half said they "very closely" follow (…)

  • The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
    "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
    With casualty lists (…)

  • Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army’s Only Muslim Cleric Says Lack Of Respect Has Cost US Lives Toby Harnden in Hawija February 13, 2005 The US Army’s only Muslim chaplain in Iraq has described his struggle to "educate" soldiers to respect Muslims and how he helped free an innocent Iraqi from American custody after he had been framed by the coalition’s Kurdish allies.
    Captain Abdullah Hulwe, a Syrian-born Sunni who also said that his wife had experienced discrimination at military bases in America, told The Telegraph (…)

  • From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The American Nightmare From The Bogus To The Outrageous To The Illegal, We Are Now Living The American Nightmare
    Steve Fowle
    It has been another of America’s special, sacred Januaries: The American Dream itself has been wheeled out of storage, washed and waxed, and buffed to a high quadrennial shine. Once again we have demonstrated to the world (as if we really cared what they thought) that anyone — any white male, anyway — can become president.
    This year, we actually improved on (…)

  • We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself Paul Craig Roberts February 12, 2005
    Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.
    What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame (…)

  • Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man. Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Scheme
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man His Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Schemes - And Then Was Killed Colin Freeman, Chronicle Foreign Service February 13, 2005 Tikrit, Iraq - In the midafternoon of Oct. 9, 2003, Kirk von Ackermann, an American contract worker from the Bay Area, used a satellite phone to call a colleague from a lonely desert road between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. He told his colleague he had a flat tire and needed a jack.
    About 45 (…)

  • Guantanamo Detainee Claims Confession Under Torture
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib. Transcript: Under suspicion February 13, 2005
    Reporter: Tara Brown Producer: Stephen Taylor Mamdouh Habib. INTRO TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is an innocent man persecuted because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s one or the other, simple as (…)

  • Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Only a Temporary Setback
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Center for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
    Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…)