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If you want to stop the terror, then look in Texas...
BUSH FAMILY MACHINATIONS, 1918-2000
1918 Prescott Bush Sr., leads a raid on a Indian tomb to secure Geronimo’s skull for Skull & Bones.
1937 Prescott Bush’s investment firm sets up deal for the Luftwaffe so it can obtain tetraethyl lead.
1942 Three firms with which Prescott Bush is associated are seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
1953 George Bush and the Liedtke brothers form Zapata Petroleum. Zapata’s (…)

By Robert Fisk
Ever since Daniel Pipes - he of the failed American neo-cons - piped up last summer with his plan to install a "democratic-minded autocrat" (sic) in Iraq, I have been eyeing the Washington crystal ball for further signs of what the designers of this wretched war have in store for the Iraqis whom they "liberated" for "democracy" last year. And bingo, not long before Christmas, another of those chilling proposals for "New Iraq" popped up from the same right-wing cabal. Any (…)

By Lee Hockstader The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36979-2003Dec28.html
Orders Extend Enlistments to Curtail Troop Shortages.
Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Eagle, an expert on enemy targeting, served 20 years in the military — 10 years of active duty in the Air Force, another 10 in the West Virginia National Guard. Then he decided enough was enough. He owned a promising new aircraft- maintenance business, and it needed his attention. His retirement date (…)

By Sudarsan Raghavan
Knight-Ridder
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7582823.htm
FALLUJAH, Iraq - At the Sound of the Revolution music shop, lots of Arab pop stars look down from wall posters, but the hottest local one - resistance singer Sabah Hashim - needs no promotion.
Hashim is part of a new and growing group of Iraqi singers whose anti- Western lyrics are raw with hate. In one number in his latest collection, Hashim urges listeners to: "Carry your weapons and kick the (…)

’America, You Must Be Born Again’
How Martin Luther King Jr. moved from reform to revolution by Stewart Burns
Sojourners Magazine
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0401&article=040110
Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public statements against the Vietnam War in the summer of 1965. But harsh attacks from the White House and the press, coupled with lack of support from most of the civil rights community, initially led King to downplay his (…)

Rights, Liberties Groups Hail Court Defeats for Bush Anti-Terror Measures
Jim Lobe, OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec 19 (OneWorld) — U.S. civil liberties and human rights groups Thursday hailed the one-two punch delivered by two federal appeals courts against the Bush administration’s refusal to recognize basic due-process rights of alleged U.S. and foreign detainees held as "enemy combatants" in Washington’s "war on terrorism."
"Not one, but two federal courts have rebuked the (…)

Ounce of Preventive War, Pound of Destruction
Notion of ’strike first’ helped fill the 20th century with violence
By Errol Morris,
Errol Morris’ documentaries include "The Gates of Heaven" and "The Thin Blue Line." "The Fog of War" opens in Los Angeles and New York City today.
In the spring of 2001, I started interviewing Robert McNamara, the secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, for the film "The Fog of War." I have often been asked: "Why McNamara? Why make a (…)

Saddam’s Capture Means Trouble for U.S. Officials
BlackPressUSA.Com
Saddam’s Capture Means Trouble for U.S. Officials
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Special to the NNPA from The Future of Freedom Forum
News Analysis
FAIRFAX, Va. (NNPA)-In his official statement celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein, President Bush announced that ’the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions.’
Notably lacking from the president’s statement, however, was whether the U.S. (…)

Government move a bid to ’dismantle labour relations,’ QFL leader charges
By Rheal Seguin
QUEBEC — More than 3,000 angry union members braved blowing snow to demonstrate on the steps of Quebec’s National Assembly yesterday, as Premier Jean Charest imposed closure on major government bills that they say will hurt labour.
The leaders of six labour organizations promised that they will take to the streets again in the new year to confront what they called the anti-labour agenda of Mr. (…)

By Robert Parry
In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=498_0_1_0_C
With all the hoopla surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein-"caught like a rat," read the Chicago Tribune headline-it is time to take a step back and consider the full story of the Saddam Hussein and his long time relationship with the U.S. government, beginning in 1959, when the CIA put Saddam on its covert operations payroll in a plot to assassinate then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim (…)