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The « Oil for Food » affair
Free... but on bail !
Statement by Gilles Munier
Secretary General of the French-Iraq Friendsdhip Organisation
“I pay for my support to the Iraqi people...”
After 60 hours of questioning and police custody, I was charged, on October 6, 2005, by Magistrate Philippe Courroye but released on a bail amounting to 80 000 euros or $ 96 600 which I have to pay in four instalments till February 2006 or be imprisoned. My passport has been withdrawn and I am (…)

By matthew burrows
Publish Date: 20-Oct-2005
A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.
Gail Davidson, cofounder of an international group of jurists called Lawyers Against the War, expressed her delight on October 18 following the lifting of a publication ban on court proceedings against the U.S. president.
“It’s great news, but really they had no choice,” Davidson told the Georgia Straight. (…)

The Wayne Madsen Report states that the White House is now fully informed about the nature and scope of the indictments handed down by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald this week.
He cited a report of Attorney General Albert Gonzalez holding a meeting with Fitzgerald on Wednesday, at which the AG was briefed on the prosecutor’s findings, and the Grand Jury was released after brief questions.
Madsen quotes "informed sources in Washington," as saying that Vice President Dick Cheney’s (…)

Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
A film by Mark Manning and Conception Media - To be Released October 18, 2005
http://www.conceptionmedia.net/
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS: Victims of combat operations in Iraq
ConceptionMedia presents:
A Joint Production of Iraqi & American Filmmakers
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FALLUJA ON SALE NOW
Proceeds go to ongoing relief (…)

by Arianna Huffington
In the Times’ Sunday Judy-Culpa, Judy Miller said of her woeful pre-war reporting: "WMD — I got it totally wrong... The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong."
To which a growing number of journalists are responding: No, we weren’t.
Among them is Joe Lauria, a reporter who has covered the UN since 1990 for a variety of papers, including the London Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Boston Globe. He bridles at Miller’s (…)

The Bush nemesis
Rightwingers in the US are still not satisfied by the most conservative president in decades
Sidney Blumenthal Thursday October 20, 2005 The Guardian
President Bush is the most conservative president in modern times. He consciously modelled himself as the opposite of his father. A conservative revolt contributed to defeat of the elder Bush, who was fiercely attacked as a betrayer. In a classic case of reaction formation, George W Bush was determined never to make an (…)

October 20, 2005
A Small Victory
Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
By JUSTINE DAVIDSON
On Monday, October 17th Gail Davidson and Howard Rubin along with Jason Gratl and Micheal Vonn representing B.C. Civil Liberties stepped into courtroom 55 of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver with the hopes of lifting the publication ban which, since December of 2004 August, has kept the case out of the public eye. After a relatively short session of 45 minutes they emerged successful. "I (…)

By JOELLE DIDERICH
UNESCO’s member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a pact on protecting cultural diversity after a bitter debate left the United States isolated in opposition to what it sees as a threat to sales of American movies and music.
The convention - championed by the European Union and Canada - aims to promote ethnic traditions and minority languages and to protect those local cultures from the negative effects of globalization, UNESCO said.
The United States (…)

By Mary MacElveen
This past week, I have had discussions with a number of people through emails where they have suggested that I back down in my criticisms of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton since she voted for the war and perhaps will be the Democratic candidate come 2008. But, if I want to remain truthful with my readers and have credibility, I simply have to stay the course. As an American that has been against this war from the start, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vote for this war (…)

by Cliff DuRand
Introduction
Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, this beautiful island in the Caribbean has aroused passions everywhere in the Americas. Since its inception, the revolution has had a profound impact on the popular classes throughout Latin America and haunted the political elites and wealthy classes in the United States and oligarchies elsewhere in the hemisphere. Admirers have often praised Cuba as the model for the future; its detractors have (…)