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At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I’m being interviewed by many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger newspapers in Turkey, the Yeni Safak Newspaper.
I’ll leave the reporters nameless, for reasons you’ll soon see.
The newspaper has been translating various articles of mine into Turkish and running them, particularly those concerning the most recent (…)

Is the tide finally turning?
Americans are now starting to learn what was in the Downing Street Memos. The memos provide confirmation for what those who opposed the war against Iraq knew from the start: the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the White House was simply looking for enough rhetorical fig leaves to cover their naked aggression.
The Associated Press, the primary source of news for most of America’s print and broadcast media, (…)

This is a letter to the editor. Note to Americans: Why don’t any of the paid journalists or politicians have the ability to speak clearly and with courage such as this?
Thanks for the June 23 excellent editorial from the Detroit Free Press.
You defined the issue as "The Downing Street memos and President Bush’s credibility."
The editorial is telling us what is obviously happening in Iraq. This is not a Democratic or Republican issue anymore.
The British public and the American public (…)

See the paralllels in the following and apply it your situations. It contains many solutions to overcoming corporation and money systems of financial slavery to help the people create a working arrangement that is feasable:
For my Mexican Brothers, be strong believe in yourself. Arrange things to create a situation that will lead to the following scenario - Understand what your role is in the following story and how it can teach you what you need to do: Think carefully. Success is (…)

YOU ALL NEED TO WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN TO TELL THEM NOT TO CUT FUNDING FOR PUBLIC RADIO AND TV. THEY OFFER AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT TO OUR MASS MEDIA, OUR CLEAR CHANNELS WHO ONLY OFFE THE SAME PABLUM DAY AFTER DAY. BITS OF NEWS ABOUT KATIE HOLMES AND TOM CRUISE, RUN AWAY BRIDES AND MICHEAL JACKSON! WHO CARES ABOUT THEM?
WE NEED PUBLIC RADIO AND TV TO BRING US IN DEPTH NEWS, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, HOW OUR ENVIRONMENT IS BEING RAPED BY THE BUSH ADM AND WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING (…)

i AM LOOKING TO FIND DOCUMENTATION ON THE USA USING MILITARY JETS TO FLY OVER $12 BILLION DOLLARS OF CASH TO IRAQ TO BE USED TO "PAY FOR PEACE". THE STORY I HEARD WHICH I CANNOT NOW FIND WAS THAT THE CASE WEIGHED X AMOUNT OF POUNDS AND WAS FLOWN OVER TO IRAQ TO BUY PEACE. THERE IS NO ACCOUNTING OF IT SO WE DO NOT KNOW WE IT ACTUALLY HAS GONE. ANY IDEA ON WHERE TO FIND THIS ARTICLE?

As the costs of the Iraq occupation spiral, British and American oil companies meet in secret next week to carve up the country’s oil reserves for themselves. Tom Burgis reports
The Iraq war has so far cost America and Britain £105billion. But the financial clawback is gathering pace as British and American oil giants work out how to get their hands on the estimated £3trillion worth of oil.
Executives from BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s old firm, are expected to (…)

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador will not sign a pact to grant U.S. military personnel special immunity from the International Criminal Court, even if that means more aid cuts from Washington, the foreign minister said Thursday.
"If the United States decides it cannot provide aid if we do not sign this, well, we very much regret that we will not receive the aid," Antonio Parra told Channel 6 television.
President Bush opposes the International Criminal Court, which started operating in 2003. His (…)

Vice President Dick Cheney, 3/16/03:
[M]y belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly. . . (in) weeks rather than months
Donald Rumsfeld, 2/7/03:
It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under attack at a Senate hearing Thursday, weathering calls for his resignation as he insisted the military shouldn’t set a deadline for (…)

Memogate
In case you haven’t made time to download all of the Downing Street Memos, we at the RS Blog would like to offer our Cliffs Notes.
Leaked by one or more high-ranking Brits, the memos consist of seven official documents that together paint a damning portrait of the U.S. march to war in Iraq.
The original "Downing Street Memo" — in which Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain’s intelligence service MI6, reported that "war was now seen as inevitable" and that "intelligence and (…)