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  • Should Canada indict Bush?
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by THOMAS WALKOM
    When U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa - probably later this year - should he be welcomed? Or should he be charged with war crimes?
    It’s an interesting question. On the face of it, Bush seems a perfect candidate for prosecution under Canada’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
    This act was passed in 2000 to bring Canada’s ineffectual laws in line with the rules of the new International Criminal Court. While never tested, it lays out sweeping (…)

  • Purge at the CIA You will follow the (neocon) party line, comrade
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Like another empire founded on ideological hubris, and stained with the bloodof countless victims, this one engages in periodic political purges: when one faction is vanquished, mass firings occur in the upper echelons of the bureaucracy. We don’t send them to the gulag - at least, not yet - instead we set them up for public pillorying, firings, and, in some cases, show trials. Such is the fate of the CIA in the post-election triumph of the Bushies.
    The news that (…)

  • U.N. official denounces Fallujah killings
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
    The United Nations top human rights official on Tuesday denounced the killing of civilians and injured people in Fallujah, saying violators of international humanitarian law must be brought to justice.
    Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, spoke in general terms and did not specifically mention insurgents’ attacks against hostages or a U.S. military report that it is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded man by a U.S. (…)

  • U.S. Operating Secret ’Torture Flights’
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Sunday Times of London is reporting that it has obtained evidence that the US government is leasing a special Gulfstream Jet to transport detained suspects to other nations that routinely use torture in their prisons. We speak with the reporter who broke the story. [includes rush transcript] The Sunday Times of London has obtained evidence that the US government is leasing a special Gulfstream Jet to transport detained suspects to other nations that routinely use torture in their (…)

  • Government looking at military draft lists
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ALMA WALZER
    It’s taken one year, seven months and 19 days of combat in Iraq for the Lone Star State to lose 100 of its own.
    Texas is the second state, after California, to lose 100 service members, according to The Associated Press.
    With continuing war in Iraq and U.S. armed forces dispersed to so many other locations around the globe, Americans may be wondering if compulsory military service could begin again for the first time since the Vietnam War era.
    The Selective Service (…)

  • In Mourning for Margaret Hassan and for the dead of Fallujah
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tony Kevin
    I never knew Margaret Hassan. But her decency shines through every photograph I have ever seen of her. Her Iraqi husband’s love and admiration for her was manifest. I grieve for her, her family and her friends.
    She was the kind of rare person the world cannot afford to lose: the bridge-builders between cultures and religions, the people who live to break down barriers, the people who believe life is about helping others less lucky than ourselves.
    I have known many people (…)

  • Life in the Second Bush Administration
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Charles Shaw
    Featuring: "The Four Horsemen of the Average Fixed Cost"
    by Poet-in-Residence Ronnie Pontiac
    Throughout the last forty years a legitimate Revolution was taking place in this country. It was quieter and more clandestine than the Socialist revolutions of the 60’s, growing from within, from the grassroots upward. It was by the Right, and they now have control of the nation. Orwell may be spinning in his grave, but Barry Goldwater is cackling like a madman in his.
    In (…)

  • A War Crime in Real Time Obliterating Fallujah
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
    The obliteration of Fallujah continues apace. Article 6(b) of the 1945 Nuremberg Charter defines a Nuremberg War Crime in relevant part as the ". . . wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages. . ." According to this definitive definition, the Bush Jr. administration’s destruction of Fallujah constitutes a war crime for which Nazis were tried and executed. There is nothing surprising about that.
    Since the Bush Jr. administration’s installation in power by the (…)

  • Politics and the CIA
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ivan Eland
    It has now become apparent why Porter Goss, a politician, was named to head the CIA in an administration that already has been accused of politicizing intelligence during the Iraq war: to settle old scores. Many intelligence personnel have leaked embarrassing-and accurate-information to the media about the Bush administration’s missteps in Iraq. Now it’s payback time from the White House.
    According to a Newsday article that quotes a former senior CIA official who has close (…)

  • Powell was just a figurehead, not a player
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nathan Guttman
    During Colin Powell’s tenure as secretary of state, the adage that U.S.-Israel relations are managed by the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, with the secretary of state and foreign minister playing purely secondary roles, became even more firmly entrenched. Powell met with Israeli officials and was sent on missions to the region, but the Israeli file was always in the hands of President George W. Bush and National Security Advisor Condoleezza (…)