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Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions. In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq.
Is the administration lying about its lies? That many of the arguments in favor of the war were false is beyond question. Nor can there be any (…)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) — The U.S. practice of using torture on terror detainees was rooted in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, a former senior State Department official claims.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, made the allegation to CNN, and said it was possible the practice was still going on.
"There’s no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so (…)

By Dror Mishani and Aurelia Smotriez
PARIS - The first thing the French-Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said to us when we met one evening at Paris’ elegant Le Rostand cafe, where the interior is decorated with Oriental-style pictures and the terrace faces the Luxembourg Gardens, was "I heard that even Haaretz published an article identifying with the riots."
This remark, uttered with some vehemence, pretty much sums up the feelings of Finkielkraut - one of the most prominent (…)

We describe CIA treatment of prisoners so you can judge for yourself. Each escalation of maltreament reportedly comes ONLY after an inquiry to, and approval from, JOSE RODRIGUEZ, the CIA’s Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) at the McLean, VA, headquarters. We describe how the torture works and how agents work it with Mr. Rodriguez (and allegedly with his predecessors, Stephen Kappes and James Pavitt).
The CIA shuttles the prisoners around the world on civilian aircraft, almost (…)

The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2.
Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as (…)

I found a great blog that speaks some important facts at..
Everytime a website, news program, radio broadcast, or government speech is given very speciifc language is used and restated to mentally IMPRINT the emotional fear needed to SHOCK you into submission. It works just like the following words that we have all heard. "If you do that you will BURN in HELL..." "Crime doesn’t pay..." (thats why they are running all the world) "A new kind of war..."
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Each of these has been heard (…)

BUSH NEWSPEAK REVERSED
A News Satire
By Peter Fredson
November 25, 2005
Every day I visit GOOGLE for its excellent news service. The other day I read another of George Bush’s incessant belligerent war rumblings against Muslim countries. The Reuters news report said basically:
“Syria would start pulling back its forces in Lebanon Monday. The United States warned it would accept no half measures and wants the Syrians gone before May elections. The United States is wary of Assad’s (…)

An open letter to senator Liebermann
Dear senate Liebermann
I saw your press conference with the Iraqi prime minister, from which I understand that:-
1-You are concerned about the future of Iraqis. If so, please visit the detainees in Abu-Graib and Bucca prisons, where number exceeded 14,000. More than 98% of them are there without any charges, no access to lawyers. The red cross and Iraqi crescent are not allowed to visit them. Moreover, the Iraqi security forces, backed by the USA (…)

One frequent criticism of my articles for PRAVDA.Ru evolves from my propensity to reference my past articles in more recent ones. Some attribute this proclivity to vanity, laziness or some other ulterior motive.
The truth, however, is not as complicated or self-serving. I simply want to remind readers that there were some, like myself, who recognized the corruption, venality, hypocrisy and mendacity of George W. Bush and his minions long before his dictatorship’s popularity fell to what (…)

First Light
By Chris Floyd Published, MOSCOW TIMES: November 25, 2005
Last week, America’s troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington’s corridors of power, where the rule of the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the moribund Republic — perhaps too late — but it has struck a mighty blow against the Lie’s adherents, driving them into spasms of (…)