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  • What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of “democracy” have subsided to a dull roar.
    After a day which left 50 people dead in Iraq, both civilians and soldiers, the death toll was hailed as a figure that was “lower than expected.” Thus...acceptable, by Bush Administration/ corporate media standards. After all, only of them was an American, the rest were Iraqis civilians and British soldiers.
    The gamble of (…)

  • The Vietnam Election Turnout was good as well
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No amount of spin can conceal Iraqis’ hostility to US occupation
    By Sami Ramadani
    On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign (…)

  • Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams?
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saddam’s Oily Deals Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams? Mark Hosenball, Newsweek Jan. 24 issue - If you’re puzzled by the Oil-for-Food scandal, don’t feel bad. Government investigators have been working the case for months, and still they fear they might need years to figure out who profited from helping Saddam Hussein beat U.N. sanctions against his regime. In 1996 the U.N. Security Council signed off on a program allowing Iraq to sell oil for hard currency to buy food and (…)

  • Neocons Drive The Nation Toward Ruin, Iraqi Guerrillas Kill Our Soldiers, Veterans Are Ignored, and Americans fall asleep
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Stewart Nusbaumer For three decades, since the end of the Vietnam War, veterans of that bloody fiasco have said, “been there, done that,” implying Americans should listen to what they have to say about war.
    We fought a war so we understand the horror of war — horror is not always easy to remember, especially, when in youth, videogames were one’s greatest threat. We fought a war so we know war should be the last option, which seems to have slipped the minds of most Americans. We fought (…)

  • The Antiwar Movement Awakening
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Manuel Valenzuela
    The Iraq war is this generation’s anti-war and peace movements’ Vietnam. To this reality we must awaken, for in tragedy can an enormous opportunity be seen. The awakening is already taking shape, yet for it to triumph it must continue growing, waking from the doldrums of decades of complacency, dusting off the cobwebs of resistance and evolving to new times and means. It is up to us, millions strong, some more vocal than others, some more courageous than most, each (…)

  • Ex-Officer Describes Lewd Tactics At Guantanamo
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ex-Officer Describes Lewd Tactics At Guantanamo Paisley Dodds, Associated Press January 28, 2005
    San Juan, Puerto Rico - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with sexual touching, by wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear, rubbing a prisoner’s back with her breasts and in one case, smearing a Saudi man’s face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider’s written account.A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated (…)

  • Can 4,000 Or 120,000 Iraqis Battle The Insurgents?
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Can 4,000 Or 120,000 Iraqis Battle The Insurgents? Sarah Whalen January 30, 2005 As columnist George Will critically noted on the Sunday news shows, the US is presently losing its war in Iraq. We control little of that country, we are loathed there and about the neighborhood, and Iraqi infrastructure under our control is barely operational.
    Prayer? Virtually every member of the Bush administration is availing himself of it right now. On their knees. Heads bowed low, pressing into the (…)

  • Are Most Republicans Sheep?
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are Most Republicans Sheep? David Corn January 26, 2005 I try not to denigrate entire groups of people—like the French, professional wrestling fans or even telephone solicitors. Actually, the French were quite nice to me on a recent trip to Paris, and I find it difficult not to condemn all telephone solicitors to the most unpleasant nooks of hell. But I may have to break this rule altogether for Republicans. I’m starting to wonder: do Republicans know how to process facts and think for (…)

  • Because There is No Cause: Iraq, its Elections and the Peace/Anti War Movement
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Into History’s Cauldron
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    In an immoral war with no cause, in an aggressive invasion without reason, in a dehumanizing occupation with no justification, those pawns fighting the battles implemented by elite warmongers and corporatists in power have no enthusiasm to risk their lives, sacrifice their minds and endanger their bodies to the horrors befalling men fighting their fellow men. Yet today, in the lands of deserts ancient and wise, where once glorious rivers (…)

  • Gore Vidal: Iran next, then who?
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush’s apparent desire to create a state of perpetual war spells disaster
    Last week, courtesy of Seymour Hersh and The New Yorker, we learned that a long-held prediction of mine had come true. American forces have been operating inside Iran, thus extending yet further the President’s "war on terror".
    There is no war, other than the one the President unilaterally is waging against a weak Congress and weak countries with oil. It’s true that Congress has given the President certain (…)