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  • Canadian Lawyers Charge Bush with Torture
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    30 November 2004
    Today in Vancouver, Lawyers Against the War filed torture charges against George W. Bush under the Canadian Criminal Code.
    An information was accepted for filing today by the Provincial Court of British Columbia Vancouver Registry charging George Walker Bush with counselling, aiding and abetting the commission of torture by persons know and unknown being members of US Armed Forces against persons known and unknown being detainees at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay (…)

  • George Bush Has Graves’ Disease: Cause of Erratic Behavior?
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DID SADDAM’S POISON RUIN BUSH’S SANITY AND FAMILY?
    "After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." whined George W. Bush about Saddam Hussein. Actually, it may be worse than that. Sources close to the Army Medical Corp believe that someone, probably agents of Saddam Hussein, ruined Bush’s family by poisoning the drinking water with iodine or lithium at one of the Bushes’ homes. Family dog Millie, George, Barbara, and son Marvin have all contracted Auto Immune Diseases. The odds (…)

  • Kerry and the Gift of Impunity
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old Marine from Appalachia who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by prowar pundits and "The Marlboro Man" by pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows Miller "after more than twelve hours of nearly nonstop deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody scratch on his nose, and (…)

  • Commissar Aaronovitch : Ex-commie takes aim at Antiwar.com - and misses
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Justin Raimondo
    They don’t have neocons in Britain: over there, they’re called Blairites, or New Labourites. But it’s essentially the same thing: they love the State, they love themselves, and, most of all, they love war - in the name of idealism, you understand, which, in Blairite circles, amounts to what passes these days for "humanitarian" internvetionism. In any case, I suppose it was inevitable that the British wing of the species would one day deign to notice Antiwar.com’s (…)

  • Wounded Soldiers contract rare blood infection
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Doctors at Walter Reed, Landstuhl medical centers work to stem antibiotic-resistant bacteria
    by Chris Walz
    An unexpectedly high number of Soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, antibiotic-resistant blood infection, Army officials said Friday. A total of 102 Soldiers tested positive for the bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii between Jan. 1, 2002 and Aug. 31, 2004.
    Doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, in (…)

  • 9/11: The lost "terror drill"? Pt.11
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Photo: White Sands Center, New Mexico- 200 miles away from Albuquerque)
    The lost "terror drill"? Pt.11
    GFP/iNN -November 29, 2004
    By Nico Haupt aka ewing2001
    This final chapter includes the real reason of "wargames" as a planted distraction to "anti terror drills", two government "agents" on Delta1989 and Colgan5930?, Amalgam Virgo "1.5", Rosetta Stone, the significance of 1951, Tinker AFB, White Sands, STARS, Club Cabana, Coalminers with Tomahawks, Flight91, the story of Dave (…)

  • Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Byrne
    Group that won Guantánamo ruling targets U.S. over Abu Ghraib
    Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    The charges, which will be filed Tuesday, name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, the former leading U.S. general in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez and seven other (…)

  • Newly Unclassified US Documents: Bush Ancestor’s Bank Seized by Gov’t
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan D. Salant
    WASHINGTON - President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show.
    Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
    Fritz (…)

  • “Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
    from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003
    After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
    Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his (…)

  • BUSH-NAZI LINK CONFIRMED
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Documents in National Archives Prove George W. Bush’s Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor
    by John Buchanan
    WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until (…)