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Julia Day Wednesday September 28, 2005
Reuters has told the US government that American forces’ conduct towards journalists in Iraq is "spiralling out of control" and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.
The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global managing editor, in a letter to Senator John Warner, head of the armed services committee.
The Reuters news service chief (…)

Ruled unconstitutional in 1997, after President Clinton used it some 82 times, the Line Item Veto is back, but this time with the weight of a Constitutional Amendment. Senator George Allen, who deems himself a legitimate contender for the 2008 Presidential election; and Senator Talent, facing a tough re-election campaign next year, offered the Amendment today.
Claire McCaskill, Talent‘s challenger, was having none of this Johnny come lately budget consciousness, and fired out a statement, (…)

GRANMA July 16, 2002
BUSH’S LIASONS The scandalous release of Letelier’s killers
HOW José Dionisio "Bloodbath" Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero were able to personally express their gratitude to their master . As CIA head, George Bush Sr. never had to explain his role in this dirty story of murder and disinformation . A few weeks before September 11, President Bush released two dangerous terrorists, who are also CIA collaborators and CANF mercenaries
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for (…)

WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The decision Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge in Texas to deny Venezuela’s request to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, whom Caracas has dubbed "the Osama bin Laden of Latin America", was greeted with surprise and disappointment by Latin America activists and even some former U.S. officials.
Venezuela wants Carriles to stand trial for the October 1976 bombing of a civilian Cubana Airlines flight that killed all 73 people aboard shortly after it took off from (…)

Depressed and demoralized White House staffers say working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is "life in a hellhole" as they try to deal with a sullen, moody President whose temper tantrums drive staffers crying from the room and bring the business of running the country to a halt.
"It’s like working in an insane asylum," says one White House aide. "People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking (…)

Son of a Bush pushed officer during arrest
A nephew of US President George Bush repeatedly pushed against an officer who was trying to handcuff him during his arrest on suspicion of public intoxication, according to an affidavit.
John Ellis Bush, 21, whose father is Florida Governor Jeb Bush, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) at 2.30am on Friday in Austin’s Sixth Street bar district.
Bush had approached the state agents and Austin police officers (…)

"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." - George Washington’s farewell adress to the nation 1796
Why We Hate Bush’s War
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President Bush, We Hate Your War. Want more reasons why this administration should be held accountable? There are at least 1,000, but try these on for starters: (…)

WHAT THE $#@^#! BLACKWATER AND THE RED CROSS Yesterday I drove to the Algiers Red Cross distribution point which is located in the southern section of the Algiers neighborhood near the middle-class white section of town. As soon as I walked in, I noticed a frowning young man in a khaki shirt and black hat with a sidearm and corporate logo prominently displayed.
Blackwater Security is now providing security to the Red Cross! That’s right, you heard correctly. Armed mecenaries are providing (…)

The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
After more than a year of investigations and discussions by American Courts, the verdict by a military court has come to sentence Lynndie England to 3 years of imprisonment. The photos which have been disclosed about Lynndie have shown torture, sexual assault and humiliation of Iraqi detainee in Abu-Graib Prison. The pictures only show part of the suffering of those innocent detainee and only God knows what they have (…)