November 2005
November 30, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
¤ Cheney 'created climate for US war crimes'
¤ "Riding with the Bad Boys"
¤ Bush wants to 'Vietnamize' Iraq
¤ The World's Most Dangerous Man
¤ Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies
¤ Contractor spends big on key lawmakers
¤ Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms
¤ If you can't shoot the messenger, lock him up
¤ Demonize to Colonize
¤ Colin Powell: Still Craven After All These Years
¤ Where's Hillary on Iraq?
¤ Atomic Hypocrisy
¤ Bush’s Bloody Strategy for Victory
¤ In Bush's Bubble, It's a Rose-Colored World
¤ Soldiers and Reporters
¤ Iraq's Armed Forces Sinking Into Sectarian Chaos
¤ U.S. Military Stages Media Offensive in Iraq
¤ Gunmen open fire on Iraq bus, kill 9
¤ The Abuse of 'Democracy'
¤ What Happened to Those Bush/Cheney Bumperstickers?
¤ Britain and Israel batting for Washington in the propaganda war against Iran
¤ U.S. Can Head for the Exits in Iraq, But...
¤ Operation "Mass Forgery"
¤ The Coming Flame Out in Iraq
¤ RUMSFELD BANS THE WORD 'INSURGENTS'
¤ What is Wrong With Joe Lieberman?
¤ What 'staying the course' really means
¤ Rice faces barrage over CIA claims
¤ Bush rejects troop pullout timetable
¤ US, UK blamed for Iraq kidnappings
Venezuela and Spain Proceed with Military Deal
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
In what Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has declared a victory for sovereignty, Spain proceeded with its sale of 12 aircraft and 8 patrol boats to the South American nation. Venezuela's Defense Minister Admiral Orlando Maniglia and Spanish Defense Minister José Bono signed the deal at a ceremony earlier today.
"I want to thank King Juan Carlos… the prime minister of Spain, our good friend José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, defense minister José 'Pepe' Bono, and all of Spain, for resisting the interference and the lack of respect by the imperialist government of the United States," said President Chávez yesterday on his weekly television program "Aló Presidente."
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
November 29, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
¤ Bush the Dupe?
¤ Haiti's Political Prisoners
¤ The Media is the Enemy
¤ Nowhere to run
¤ U.S. Black "Ops" in Portugal?
¤ The Bush Administration's "Noble Lies"
¤ Hariri witness says he was bribed
¤ A war supporter disillusioned in Iraq
¤ Cheney's history needs a revise
¤ Police who shot Brazilian on Tube 'to escape charges'
¤ Canada's government is thrown out
¤ Who served and who sends others
¤ None Dare Call It Censorship
¤ The Abuse of 'Democracy'
¤ Bush V Al-Jazeera: Fact or Fancy?
¤ Abuse of prisoners in Iraq widespread, officials say
¤ Adrift and No Substantive Debate
¤ Bush Owns the OSP and the Broken Iraqi Pottery
¤ ‘Global warming equals WMD’
¤ Canada faces snap election as opposition turns on Martin
¤ Caught between Iraq and a hard place
¤ Blair accused as summit on anti-terrorism ends in failure
¤ Spain agrees £1.2bn defence deal with Chavez
November 28, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2005
¤ Running Scared
¤ Politicians' Silence on Iraq Speaks Volumes
¤ The Challenge and the Fear of Becoming Enlightened
¤ Fascism Then. Fascism Now?
¤ Bush's Burgeoning Body Count
¤ 10 Reasons Why I Am No Longer Proud to be an American
¤ The "Bomb Al Jazeera" Documents Trial
¤ The Detainees are Props in the Terror Game
¤ Tookie Williams, Shame and Clemency
¤ Contractors In Iraq Fire On Civilians
¤ Chavez applauds Spain for 'resisting' US on arms
¤ Iraq leader attacks abuse claim
¤ Sunni politicians said killed in Iraq
¤ The illusion of phased withdrawal
¤ Chechen elections mocked by rebels as 'pseudo-ballot'
¤ Azerbaijan condemned for crackdown
¤ Blast in China Coal Mine Leaves 68 Dead
¤ four aid workers reportedly snatched in a violent section of Baghdad.
¤ Britons killed in Iraq attack
¤ US under pressure over CIA prisoner transport
¤ Beggars can be choosers
¤ Cuba’s internationalist humanitarian aid
¤ The Woodward Scandal Should Not Blow Over
¤ The Grave Threat Is the Bush Administration
¤ On the question of «elections» on the territory of occupied Chechnya
¤ Convoy of Death Video Flashback
¤ History Proves That Israel Will Kill US Military Personnel
¤ Video prompts probes into security in Iraq
¤ So what have they got to hide?
¤ Al-Jazeera, Serbia, and Liberal Amnesia
The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera
Posted: Sunday, November 27, 2005
The US president planned to bomb the Qatar-based channel - that was the remarkable claim made in a top-secret memo. Why is the world's most powerful man so worried about a TV station?
by Jamie Doward, Antony Barnett, Peter Beaumont, David Rose and Mark Townsend
Sunday November 27, 2005
The Observer UK
It was an ambush. As Britain woke up yesterday morning to snowstorms and arctic temperatures, the Attorney General was preparing to be questioned on Radio Four's Today programme over government plans to scrap jury trials in complex fraud cases.
Instead, as the interview with John Humphrys ground to an end shortly after 8.30am, the urbane Lord Goldsmith found himself explaining why he had warned national newspapers not to reveal the contents of a top secret memo detailing a lengthy conversation between the Prime Minister and President George Bush over the direction of the war in Iraq.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Assault on Fallujah: What Have They To Hide?
Posted: Sunday, November 27, 2005
So What Have They To Hide? Official Secrets, Lies, and the Truth About the Assault on Fallujah
The trial of two Whitehall workers this week could reveal Britain's role in one of the Iraq war's darkest episodes.
by Raymond Whitaker and Marie Woolf
Nobody outside the Westminster village would recognize the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and George Bush.
On Tuesday, Mr Keogh, 49, the civil servant, and Mr O'Connor, 42, who worked for the former Labor MP Tony Clarke, will appear at Bow Street magistrates' court in London. Mr Keogh is charged, under the Official Secrets Act, with sending the researcher a transcript of an April 2004 meeting at the White House between the Prime Minister and the President. When the document was shown to Mr Clarke, then MP for Northampton South, he returned it to Downing Street.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 27, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, November 27, 2005
¤ The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera
¤ No more evasions
¤ Troops Who Burned Taliban Face Discipline
¤ Iran President: Charge Bush for War Crimes
¤ Dark days at White House
¤ Israel Gradually Occupies Eastern Jerusalem
¤ VENEZUELA: Evidence of US involvement in bombing
¤ Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian olive trees
¤ Blair’s slow, embarrassing death by a thousand leaks
¤ An Arab-American Priest, Depleted Uranium, and Iraq
¤ To burn children by phosphorus - this is civilized
¤ 'Bush the dupe?'
¤ 'All fall down'
¤ Iran Quake Kills 10, Flattens 7 Villages
¤ Report: US expanding domestic spying
November 26, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2005
¤ Torture and the Empire
¤ Excluding Voices That Save Lives
¤ What Are They Dying For?
¤ First Kill the Language, Then the Culture
¤ US War Crimes List Keeps Growing
¤ Compassion for Corporations
¤ Dumbing Down the Audience
¤ Trimmings for the Poor
¤ DANGEROUS DENIAL
¤ US takes casualties in Syria
¤ Nuking Iran Without the Dachshund
¤ 'The cost of Bush will be huge, lasting'
¤ Crips' Death Row Drama Gains Star Support
¤ Test runs record greatest achievement of Lara's career
¤ Car Bombings Kill 16 People in Baghdad
¤ Haiti poll postponed a third time
¤ The US Plans a Long, Long Stay in Iraq
¤ Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq
¤ US oil firm pleads guilty to kickbacks in Iraq oil-for-food scandal
¤ Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers
¤ Can You Spell Withdrawal without O-I-L?
¤ The Press: The Enemy Within
¤ Slipped His Moorings
¤ Success in Iraq?
¤ Secret British document accuses Israel
¤ UN confirms deal with Syria in Hariri probe
¤ Earthquake in Central China Kills 14
¤ Laughing stock of Katrina makes disaster his business
¤ Bombing Kills 4 Iraqi Civilians in Baghdad
¤ CIA under scrutiny
¤ US convoy in Baghdad targeted
¤ 145 feared dead as heavy rains flood S. India
¤ George Best, RIP
¤ How the Iraq War disappointed Israel
¤ While We Were Sleeping
¤ Britain gives approval to torture, claims Amnesty
¤ Resistance not terrorism, says Iraqi Sunni leader
¤ War's Strain Wearing on Troops
November 25, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2005
¤ Is Bush lying about his lies?
¤ The American Economy Has Left the Building
¤ A News Revolution Has Begun
¤ Syria accuses US of launching lethal raids over its borders
¤ 'George Bush was lost in Beijing'
¤ 'First light'
¤ More deadly blasts shatter Iraqi cities
¤ Sorry, Mr. President, we won't shut up
¤ 'Extreme Bush: The good, bad & ugly'
¤ Scores feared drowned in India
¤ UK press gags news outlets
¤ 'Assassinations'
Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2005
On November 22, Britain's Daily Mirror published a startling allegation: In an April 2004 White House meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush proposed bombing the Arab TV network Al Jazeera's international headquarters in Qatar. The report was based on a memo stamped "Top Secret" that had been leaked by a Cabinet official in Blair's government.
Full Article : thenation.com
Is Bush's War on Terrorism in Iraq a War Crime?
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2005
by Jacob G. Hornberger, November 21, 2005
After U.S. troops failed to find weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, which had been the Bush administration's primary reason for invading Iraq, one of the president's alternative rationales for his war has been the so-called magnet rationale. It goes like this: Even though we failed to find WMDs in Iraq, we'll make Iraq the central front in the "war on terrorism" by making U.S. troops a "magnet" that will attract "the terrorists" to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq rather than people in the United States.
But the magnet rationale raises an important question: Why is it moral to use an innocent country for such a purpose, especially when the targeted country is going to be thrown into chaos and destruction and tens of thousands of citizens of that country are going to be killed and maimed in the process?
We must never forget the most important facts about the Iraq War: Iraq never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. Moreover, neither the Iraqi people nor their government participated in the 9/11 attacks. In this war, the United States was the aggressor nation.
Full Article : fff.org
November 24, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2005
¤ Doubts Now Surround Account of Snipers Amid New Orleans Chaos
¤ 'Your war profiteers at work'
¤ 'Extreme Bush: The good, bad & ugly'
¤ 'Papa Dick and the Grand Fear Machine'
¤ US,UK asked to explain Jazeera memo
¤ The 21st century Nazis
¤ Entrepreneur Taps Mistrust of Media for New Venture
¤ Cheney's Trouble with Truth
¤ Scenes From A Bush Thanksgiving
¤ Thanksgiving Torture
¤ Suicide Car Bomber Kills 30 in Iraq
¤ Car Bomb Kills 30 Outside Iraqi Hospital
¤ Scores killed in fresh Iraq violence
¤ Ain't no free speech allowed in Dubya's America
¤ Killing us softly
¤ A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime
¤ Thanksgiving and Marginal Utility
¤ Pakistan earthquake: A tragedy the world forgot
¤ Beyond That Memo: Bush Wanted al-Jazeera Gone
¤ I'll go to jail to print the truth about Bush and al-Jazeera
¤ Iraq car blast kills 30: police
¤ Press groups seek answers on Jazeera memo
¤ UN: One million Afghans use drugs
¤ Iraqi Sunni politician, three sons killed
¤ Report drops Fallujah bombshell
¤ Are Iran's Arguments Sound?
¤ UN convinced US hiding truth about Guantanamo
¤ Prism of prejudice
Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row
Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way. Though it has obtained court injunctions against newspapers, the government has never prosecuted editors for publishing the contents of leaked documents, including highly sensitive ones about the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Argentina and Venezuela Strengthen Links
Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
By: Alessandro Parma - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, Venezuela, November 22, 2005 -- Argentinean President Nestor Kirchner came to Venezuela yesterday and signed a deal to build a gas pipeline between the two countries. Kirchner also confirmed Venezuela's entry to the South American trade bloc Mercosur next month. Speaking in Puerto Ordaz in Bolivar state, Kirchner said Venezuela and Argentina, "have made many more advances than I had thought possible."
The proposed gas pipeline would be built by the multinational oil company Petrosur. Petrosur was created in 2004 by Argentina and Venezuela as a joint venture of their state energy companies. Other Latin American public energy companies, such as Brazil's, could also join in with Petrosur on the project. The pipeline would eventually be 6,000 km long and external estimates say it should cost $10 billion to build.
Hugo Chavez said he was confident that Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Bolivia would want to be involved with a project to secure energy, "to all of South America for the next 200 years." Bolivia has the second largest energy reserves in Latin America, but so far they have not been thoroughly developed.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
November 23, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
¤ Blair branded 'Bush's lapdog'
¤ Double Standards in Assessing War Crimes
¤ Stop Evictions of Katrina Evacuees
¤ 'Bush policies spread terrorism'
¤ How ragtag insurgents beat the world's sole superpower'
¤ 'Lies catch up to Bush, Cheney and company'
¤ The return of an Israeli opposition
¤ Bush was informed of lack of Iraq-Qaeda ties
¤ Iraq WMD Lies
¤ Sharon rejects land for peace approach, says aide
¤ Up close: the reality of Iraq's hidden war
¤ Two-timing the Chinese
¤ Commuters face chaos as transport workers strike
¤ Growing corruption scandal threatens to engulf Republicans
¤ A Close Call for al-Jazeera?
¤ The Woodward Cover-Up
¤ Iran Has Nuke Warheads! Not
¤ Cheney's White Flag
¤ Is Bush’s War on Terrorism in Iraq a War Crime?
¤ What I Knew Before the Invasion
¤ War in Iraq could last for decades
¤ Taliban Ambassador Speech in the USA - March 10, 2001
¤ Officials resume aid talks with U.S.
¤ Troops teargas West Bank pupils
¤ A gutless, draft-dodging coward named Dick Cheney
¤ Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row
¤ Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
¤ Rummy Lectures the Chinese
¤ Is Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?
¤ Israel approves new Jewish settlements in West Bank
¤ When bullying is not enough, try disinformation
¤ Venezuela as the success of defiance
¤ Were my captors worse than the Guantánamo jailers?
¤ Kirkuk car bomb kills 21
¤ One year on, Ukraine's orange revolution pales
November 22, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
¤ Chickens, Hawks and a Turkey Called Iraq
¤ Oil For Bronx Poor is a Foreign Gift
¤ Iraq Bomber Kills 17; U.S. Toll at 2,100
¤ 'Superpower?'
¤ 'An old, ugly, mean trick'
¤ Cheney tries to raise the stakes
¤ Legal Crimes
¤ Why I Hate Thanksgiving
¤ 6,644 are still missing after Katrina
¤ Sleepwalking through slaughter
¤ Madonna's 9/11 Comments Underline Danger Of Political Celebrity Bandwagon
¤ CIA's "Torture Taxi" in the Spotlight
¤ Out of Iraq, Now
¤ Pesticides for Dinner
¤ Bush in land of Genghis Khan
¤ CITGO to Begin Discounted Heating Oil Distribution to Poor U.S. Communities
¤ Chavez Pushes Petro-Diplomacy
¤ About Iraq on the Record
¤ Children killed as US troops fire on van at roadblock
¤ Losing the Fear Factor
¤ Faking the Case Against Syria
¤ Muddling Through
¤ «War on Terror» bred terror
¤ Ever-Evolving Excuses for War
¤ No, Robert Fisk, there were not 19 Saudi hijackers
¤ Iraq's oil: The spoils of war
¤ There's Got To Be A Better Way To Run A Country
¤ The Failure of Nation-Building in Bosnia and Iraq
¤ On President George W. Bush's Speech
¤ Earth to John McCain -- The Israelis Use Torture
¤ All sides look to governor as gang leader's death date nears
¤ The real cost of Iraq war
¤ US exaggerated claims on WMD
¤ Washington has no evidence against syria, US general says
¤ Out of Iraq and into Afghanistan. Gulp
¤ Show us (more than) the money
¤ CIA’s 'Torture Taxi' in the Spotlight
¤ Is Bush’s War on Terrorism in Iraq a War Crime?
¤ How the Media Can Restore Credibility
¤ Memo: Bush wanted Aljazeera bombed
¤ Venezuela Releases Blueprint On Africa
¤ France caught in its own contradictory racial issues
Hugo Chavez and the Crawford madman
Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005
Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush's nose. He's repeatedly called Bush a "terrorist" and disparaged the US as a "terrorist state". Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, "The planet's most serious danger is the government of the United States... The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman."
He got that right.
For liberals and leftists Chavez's fiery salvos have been a welcome respite from the weak-kneed groveling of congressional Democrats and the congratulatory purring of media brown-nosers. So far, the Venezuelan president has been the only leader on the world stage to state the obvious, that Bush and his maniacal group of liars, carpet-baggers, and war criminals are savaging the planet and putting millions at risk.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
Without clemency, Williams' execution is weeks away
Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005
It was 1976, according to Stanley Tookie Williams, when he met a young Austrian bodybuilder along the Venice Beach boardwalk, then the epicenter of the Southern California muscle culture.
Williams, who was a hard-bodied weight lifter as well as a notorious gang member, recounted the brief encounter in a book published last year: Arnold Schwarzenegger was so impressed with Williams' physique, he noted that Williams' biceps were as big as thighs.
Nearly 30 years later, the two men are again crossing paths.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 21, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005
¤ The scramble for the wealth of Angola
¤ The BBC’s Big White (Phosphorus) Lie
¤ Al-Qaeda the Database Unbound
¤ Give Thanks No More; It's Time for a National Day of Atonement
¤ US army accidentally killed civilians
¤ 'Hugo Chavez and the Crawford madman'
¤ 'The champ meets the chump'
¤ Israeli jets raid Lebanon after shelling
¤ Bush Discusses Murtha and Says Progress in Iraq is 'Amazing'
¤ Coalition....What Coalition?
¤ The 21st Century Nazis Are Here
¤ Iraq's New Army Looks a Good Deal Like the Old One
¤ West 'should buy the Afghan opium crop'
¤ Economic Apartheid in America
¤ White People! Don't Just Cast a Vote; Sell It
¤ No Sex, But Plenty of Lies and Videotape
¤ Getting Out of Iraq
¤ Bill Clinton's Hypocrisies on Iraq
¤ Hugo Chavez vs. the King of Vacations
¤ Lies and Official Secrets
¤ Lies of War from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq's WMDs
¤ U.S. put ex-con in charge of cash for rebuilding of Iraq
¤ Bush provides China with lectures, entreaties and a few laughs
¤ Rice and Rumsfeld deny role in leak of CIA secret
¤ Wasting Fallujah
¤ Proof The Administration Manipulated Intelligence
¤ Six feet from death on the day Iraq descends further into Hell
¤ Irony of American gulags in the former Soviet bloc
¤ A million martyrs await the call
¤ Scoreboard: Indicted Zionists & Sell-Outs
¤ Israeli banks profit from Holocaust
¤ BELLICOSE ADMINISTRATION REFUSES TO CONCEDE ITS ERRORS
¤ Body Counts
¤ The Man Who Sold the War
¤ Defense of Phosphorus Use Turns Into Damage Control
¤ Widespread Violence Kills Dozens Across Iraq
¤ 'Political earthquake' shakes Israel as Sharon quits Likud
¤ UK's deadly legacy: the cluster bomb
¤ Row is all Bush's fault, Chavez tells Mexico
¤ Rumsfeld: Troops will stay in Iraq
November 20, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2005
¤ How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball'
¤ Door thwarts quick exit for Bush
¥ No quick exit
¤ A Black Mark for Media
¤ MP urges enhancement of parliamentary ties between Iran, Poland
¤ Bush People Have Cranked Up the Ol' Fog Machine
¤ Bush Message: You Were Wrong to Trust Us
¤ 'Sorry, George, I'm in the majority'
¤ One War Lost, Another to Go
¤ Iraq Ambush Kills 24, Including 1 Marine
¤ Didn't the U.S. install a democracy in Vietnam once upon a time...?
¤ Stiffer laws and armed police will never stem the rise in crime
¤ Reflections on the Riots in France
¤ US-Iraqi army patrol ambushed
¤ Iraqis protest detainee abuse
¤ Attacking the Imperial Presidency
¤ Tim Collins trained troops to fight with white phosphorus
¤ Torture and mutilation used on Iraqi 'insurgents'
¤ UK is accused over 'torture flights'
¤ British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills'
Bush Message: You Were Wrong to Trust Us
Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2005
by David Sarasohn
There are, of course, many ways the Bush administration brings to mind the movie "Animal House" — except even the movie didn't have a character named "Brownie."
But right now, the Bush administration has adopted as its battle cry the best-known line of the movie. Deep into a messy war whose original justifications have crumbled away, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are bellowing that it's not their fault, because many Democrats believed the administration's warnings about Iraq.In other words, the Bush message is — as Otter once cheerfully explained to Flounder after leading him to disaster — "You screwed up. You trusted us."
We gave you all the intelligence we had, says the president, and you bought it, so don't blame us.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 19, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, November 19, 2005
¤ 49 Die in Iraq Blasts; Bombs Kill 5 GIs
¤ Condi Rice's Disdain for the Civil Rights Movement
¤ Admit It: The US Has Been Defeated in Iraq
¤ 'What's eating Dick Cheney?'
¤ 'Money for Napalm but not for Food Stamps'
¤ Walk-out stalls Iraq conference
¤ Tropical storm kills six in Central America
¤ Al Qaeda – The Database
¤ Dying For Israel’s Oil Pipeline
¤ Who Are They Trying to Kid? Most Everybody Knows Bush Lied.
¤ British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills'
¤ Wasting Fallujah
¤ Horror at mosques; the war lies continue to unravel
¤ Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
¤ Suicide bombers kill 77 in attack on mosques
¤ The right to rule ourselves
¤ One year on, the orange uprising leaves a bitter aftertaste
¤ Six feet from death
¤ Casualties soar again in Iraq
¤ Unforgiveable
¤ Thrill of the Kill: The Other Tragedy in Iraq
¤ Slaughter And Tragedy On The Chemin Des Dames
¤ Venezuela to Sell Cheap Oil to U.S. Poor
¤ More Wheels Spin Off Iraq Policy
¤ Iraq War Criticism Stalks Bush Overseas
¤ Bush rejects Iraq pull-out timetable
November 18, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2005
¤ Bush's War on the Press
¤ A Thousand Tipping Points
¤ "Black Sites" / Black Deeds
¤ Faking the Case Against Syria
¤ What are you going to do now, Mr. Bush?
¤ London mayor: Israel caused bloodshed
¤ 'Who's lying now?'
¤ 'Dick Cheney: War profiteer'
¤ Haiti: Insanity Takes Over, While the Selection Continues
¤ 82 Die in Attacks on Iraq Mosques, Hotel
¤ 'House of horrors'
¤ The Senate's sham rebellion against tyranny and torture'
¤ 'Body politics: The Senate's sham rebellion against tyranny and torture'
¤ Operation Saddam - America's Propaganda War (2003)
¤ The New York Times, Nuclear Weapons and Iran
¤ Venezuela's Chavez calls Bush 'killer', 'madman'
¤ Use of Weapons on the Israel-Lebanon Border
¤ Clinton: The big mistake of the Iraq war
¤ Two car bombs shake central Baghdad
¤ In Defense of Lying
¤ Attacks on oil costing Iraq at least $28 million a day
¤ Lying About Lies About Lying
¤ The Man Who Sold the War
¤ The fear game, our latest sensation
¤ Americans Give Bush Failing Grade on Iraq
¤ Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank
¤ And now Syria in the cross hairs
¤ Two Car Bomb Blasts in Baghdad Kill Six
¤ U.S. State Dept. told «lies» with «disinformation»
¤ More than 80,000 held by US since 9/11 attacks
¤ U.S.: Democracy in Venezuela in Peril
¥ The U.S. is about to attack
Flashback: Bush 'Unsigns' War Crimes Treaty
Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
May 6, 2002 - The Bush administration Monday formally renounced its obligations as a signatory to the 1998 Rome Statute to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC). Critics say the decision to "unsign" the treaty will further damage the United States' reputation and isolate it from its allies.
"Driven by unfounded fears of phantom prosecutions, the United States has hit a new nadir of isolationism and exceptionalism," said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International's U.S. section (AIUSA).
Full Article : alternet.org
November 16, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
¤ Trying to Look Female Suicide Bombers in the Eye
¤ Evidence Mounts That Bush Wants New Wars
¤ New Orleans' Racial Divide: An Unnatural Disaster
¤ Bush 'Unsigns' War Crimes Treaty
¤ Hotel Bombings: Early Evidence Indicates State Terror
¤ Holocaust denier deported from US
¤ Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
¤ Iraq detainees 'found starving'
¤ US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
¤ Bush’s Unpopularity Is Good News for the World
¤ New Orleans' Racial Divide: An Unnatural Disaster"
¤ 5 Marines Killed as U.S. Pushes Sweep in Western Iraq
¤ Trying to Look Female Suicide Bombers in the Eye
¤ Evidence Mounts That Bush Wants New Wars
¤ New Orleans' Racial Divide: An Unnatural Disaster
¤ Bush 'Unsigns' War Crimes Treaty
¤ Hotel Bombings: Early Evidence Indicates State Terror
¤ Holocaust denier deported from US
¤ Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
¤ Iraq detainees 'found starving'
¤ US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
¤ Bush’s Unpopularity Is Good News for the World
By Amitabh Pal
¤ New Orleans' Racial Divide: An Unnatural Disaster"
¤ 5 Marines Killed as U.S. Pushes Sweep in Western Iraq
¤ US forces used 'chemical weapon' in Iraq
¥ They LIED until an Italian TV Station Showed Irrefutable Proof
Pentagon confirms using white phosphorous in Iraq
A US military official confirmed white phosphorous bombs were deployed against insurgents in Iraq last year but denied media reports they used against civilians.
¥ Still LYING.....
¤ Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre Video MUST SEE
¤ Incinerating Iraqis; the napalm cover up
¤ U.S. Used Chemical Weapons In Iraq
¥ Italian Journalist journalist Giuliana Sgrena was investigating the use of Chemical Weapons in Iraq. Read what happened to her.
Progressive Italian journalist shot by US military
The titles of Sgrena’s recent articles for Il Manifesto, including “Ten thousand Iraqis in US and British prisons” (Dec. 29, 2004); “Two thousand victims in Fallujah” (Nov. 26, 2004); “Napalm raid on Fallujah?” (Nov. 23, 2004); “The death throes of Fallujah” (Nov. 13, 2004); “Stop the massacre” (Nov. 12, 2004); and “Interview with Iraqi Women tortured at Abu Graib,” show that neither she nor the paper pulls any punches when it comes to criticism of U.S. policy and conduct.
¤ “My truth”: Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena
¤ What does Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena know?
¤ Did the US military target Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena in Iraq?
¤ On the line: the internet's future
¤ Blair should stop playing fall guy in Rumsfeld's war games
¤ Corruption being ignored in Uzbekistan
¤ Not guilty. The Israeli capt. who put 17 bullets into a Palestinian girl
¤ Who profited from Amman bombings?-
¤ What Are They Cooking Up in the White House?
¤ Doctors question ethics of Guantanamo
¤ Protests, violence mark Egypt polls
November 15, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
¤ Israeli Mossad establishing Trinidad & Tobago base against Venezuela
¤ Here we go again: Hugo Chávez allegedly an ”anti-Semite”!
¤ Venezuela: Socialism without the use of any reformist fig-leaves
¤ Venezuela's Chavez has the guts to say it as it is
¤ Experts see Israeli, US links in Jordan blasts, Lebanon murder
¤ Secret CIA Testimony Undermines Bush, Again
¤ Sorry Jimmy, This IS the 'Real America'
¤ Afghan drug problem solved, praise the laudanum
¤ When presidents lie
¤ Bush's magnificent deception
¤ Iraq WMD Lies: The Words of Mass Deception
¤ 'I treated people who had their skin melted'
¤ Banking / Federal Reserve System
¤ Burn in hell, Mr. President
¤ Bushenomics
¤ Administration Thinks Abuse Sounds Better Than Torture
¤ Exposed: The Carlyle Group Video
¤ Chirac admits riots reveal French malaise
¤ The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it
¤ Fox-Chávez spat erupts after Summit of Americas
¤ Afghanistan: The war with no end
¤ Afghanistan and Iraq: A tale of two conflicts
¤ The fog of war
¤ Blast rocks downtown Karachi
¤ The importance of being polite
¤ White House whitewashes Lewis Libby Indictment
¤ Is capitalism the key to peace?
¤ Sharon's son guilty in funds scandal
¤ Mexico, Venezuela recall ambassadors
¤ Venezuela Refuses to Apologize to Mexico
U.S. President's Latest Scandals Of Leaks And Torture
Posted: Monday, November 14, 2005
Whoever advised U.S. President George Bush to escape the storm of criticism over Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, and the Libby CIA case by flying to Argentina for a free trade summit should be sent to Guantanamo.
Bush's venture was an embarrassing diplomatic failure and the most humiliating fiasco faced by a U.S. president in Latin America since Richard Nixon got mobbed in 1958. He was left looking confused, while his nemesis, Venezuela's boisterous merengue-marxist leader, Hugo Chavez, mocked him.
Full Article : torontosun.canoe.ca
November 14, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, November 14, 2005
¤ Cambodia All Over Again?
¤ Assimilate or Die
¤ The Sun's Not Yellow, It's Chicken
¤ Evolution, Ecology and 'Malignant Design'
¤ The Ghosts of Japan's Past
¤ IDF choppers in service of drug cartel
¤ Bush faces crisis...
¤ Bomb in ceiling caused Jordan hotel blast
¤ Iran lends support to Syria over US pressure
¤ 'Do you really want to hurt me? Bush: Yes, we do.'
¤ The Staggeringly Impossible Results of Ohio's '05 Election
¤ 'Germ boys and yes men'
¤ Roots of violence lie in colonial past
¤ Race and colonialism
¤ The US uses WMD against civilians.
¤ Iraqi Patsy Confesses on TV
¤ Wall Street Journal defends torture
¤ The Jordan river of lies
¤ Autumn of Discontent
¤ White House declines to rule out torture to thwart attack
¤ Car Bomb Hits Baghdad Market
¤ The Making of the Arab Menace
¤ 2 Schools Ablaze As French Unrest Persists
¤ Riots are a class act
¤ The vice that dooms Bush
¤ CIA allegedly hid evidence of detainee torture - report
¤ Spinning Like a Broken Record
¤ Avoiding the big questions in Iraq
¤ The President Betrayed Us
¤ How Did Saddam Hussein Become a Grave Threat?
¤ Champions of Democracy Are Wrong
¤ Marriage, Bombing, and Investing
¤ CIA hid evidence of Iraqi detainee’s death
November 13, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, November 13, 2005
¤ Rewriting Hysteria
¤ Kuwait's biggest field starts to run out of oil
¤ Why Would Arabs Blow Their Own Pipelines?
¤ How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War
¤ 1,100 lawyers leave Saddam defense team
¤ Blair Faces New Inquiry into Iraq War
¤ The Worst Speech of Bush's Presidency
¤ The American Body Politic Laid Low
¤ UK wartime torture camp
¤ Iron Fisted America
¤ 'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories
¤ French Ghettos, Police Violence and Racism
¤ CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez
¤ Zarqawi Flubs and Kills Israel's Enemies
¤ New terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
¤ Al-Qaida: UK queen is enemy of Islam
¤ Weak president plagiarizes own speech 11/13
¤ Lyon burns as riots hit city centre
¤ France and the Muslim myth
¤ Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights
¤ Israeli troops kill two Palestinians
¤ Bomb kills eight as Annan makes first visit to Iraq
¤ French police turn on Chirac as officer jailed
¤ Iran rejects U.S. claim on atomic weapons work
¤ New Orleans, Public Housing, and the "Chilean Option
CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2005
by Kurt Nimmo, kurtnimmo.com
"How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?" asked historian William Blum in 2002. "Same way we know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. That's what it's always done and there's no reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different."
Now we have a bit more evidence the CIA and the FBI connived with reactionary elements to not only briefly overthrow Chávez, abolish the constitution and the National Assembly, but later assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor, Danilo Anderson. He was killed by a car bomb in Caracas on November 18, 2004, while investigating those who were behind the coup. Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, a member of Colombia's right wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, claims he was in charge of logistics for the plot to kill Danilo Anderson. Vasquez De Armas told the Attorney General's office that those planning the killing, "all discussed the plan with the help of the FBI and CIA."
And the sun will rise tomorrow.
"According to the Attorney General, Vasquez De Armas said that during a meeting in Darien, Panama, on September 4 and 6, 2003, an FBI Officer called 'Pesquera' and a CIA agent called 'Morrinson,' attended a meeting along with two of the plot's alleged organizers, Patricia Poleo and Salvador Romani, as well as two of those who actually did the killing, Rolando and Otoniel Guevera," writes Alessandro Parma. "An official from the Attorney General's office, speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, said that in Panama the FBI and the plotting Venezuelans agreed, 'to take out Chavez and the Government.' He said, 'the meeting's final objective was to kill President Chavez and the Attorney General.'"
None of this is new or particularly revelatory.
Steve Kangas writes:
CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator's security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.
Examples include the coup to overthrow the democratically elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, the ouster of democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala, one coup per year (between 1957-1973) in Laos, the installation of the murderous "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti, the assassination of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, the overthrow of Jose Velasco in Ecuador, the assassination of the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba in the Congo (later Zaire), the overthrow of the democratically elected Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart in Brazil, the overthrow of the democratically elected Sukarno government in Indonesia, a military coup in Greece designed to install the "reign of the colonels" (when the Greek ambassador complained about CIA plans for Cypress, Johnson told him: "F— your parliament and your constitution"), the overthrow of the popular Prince Sahounek in Cambodia, the overthrow of Juan Torres in Bolivia, the overthrow and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, the assassination of archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador, and dozens of other incidents rarely if ever taught in American school history lessons.
As John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), as a former respected member of the international banking community and National Security Agency economist, told Amy Goodman: "Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring—to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government…. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men." Perkins' job was "deal-making":
It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan—let's say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador—and this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure—a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, "Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil." And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they've accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
Most of the money for these loans, according to Perkins, is provided by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two premier neolib loan sharking operations (it is important to note that the Straussian neocon, Paul Wolfowitz, is now president of the World Bank, thus demonstrating how closely related the neocons and traditional neolibs are).
If the loan sharks are unable to steal natural resources (oil, minerals, rainforests, water) as a condition of repaying this immense debt, "the next step is what we call the jackals."
Jackals are CIA-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations—or try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to Saddam Hussein… His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we've obviously done in Iraq.
Hugo Chávez is now between the assassination point of this neolib plan and invasion, when "our young men and women" will be "sent in to die and kill" Venezuelan peasants the same way they are now killing poor Iraqis. Of course, it remains to be seen if Bush can actually invade Venezuela—the neocon roster is teeming with targets, from Syria to Iran—and so we can expect the Bushcons and their jackals to continue efforts to assassinate Chávez, as Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas reveals the CIA and the FBI are attempting to do, with little success. One notable failure by the jackals is Fidel Castro in Cuba, who experienced numerous assassination attempts and CIA counterinsurgency specialist Edward Lansdale's Operation Mongoose (consisting of sabotage and political warfare), also known as the "Cuba Project."
As Blum notes, we know all of this is happening, same as we know the sun will come up tomorrow.
Reprinted from:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=113
New terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2005
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."
The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could "validate" the President’s war on terror and allow Bush to "unite the country" in a "time of national shock and sorrow."
Full Article : capitolhillblue.com
November 12, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2005
¤ The Real Difference Between America and France
¤ Answer to Bush’s Speech: It’s our Foreign Policy, Stupid
¤ International espionage over Syria?
¤ UN clears man sacked in scandal
¤ Tamiflu linked to deaths of 2 teens
¤ Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel
¤ Muhammad Ali Gestures to Bush that he's Nuts while Receiving Medal
¤ FEMA Fails To Re-Open No-Bid Contracts Despite Pledge
¤ Bodies found after US Iraq offensive
¤ Bush Tries to Gag Critics in Veterans Day Speech
¤ Bushit
¤ Liberia's 'Iron Lady' Poised for Tough Job
¤ Disagreements Mar Mideast Democracy Summit
¤ Iran rejects compromise nuclear deal
¤ A Legal US Nuclear Attack Against Iran
¤ Power Über Alles
¤ Y. professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC
¤ Rice enters Iraq under heavy security, secrecy
¤ Vice President Cheney Should Resign
¤ A bad day for Blair - an even worse one for liberty
¤ Talk host's towering rant: S.F. not worth saving
¤ Follow the drugs: US shown the way
¤ Cheney Leaks Again
¤ Running on empty
¤ Following in Thatcher's fatal footsteps
¤ Beleaguered Bush hits out at 'irresponsible' Iraq war critics
¤ More Cars Torched in France Overnight
¤ Prize-Winning Cuban Scientist Denied Visa
¤ Namibia uncovers apartheid-era mass graves
¤ Bringing Out the Dead
November 11, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005
¤ Bush Pounds His 9/11 Theme, Again
¤ The Bombings of Zarqawi and Bush
¤ Hypocrisy Watch
¤ War Blurs Lines Between Good, Evil
¤ The US of Z
¤ US Soldiers in St. Louis Admit to Rape and Murder in Iraq
¤ The impact of Devastating WMDs
¤ Russian Nuclear Chief Says Cooperation With Iran Completely Legal
¤ Saddam number two reported dead
¤ Why the Iraqi quagmire is no Vietnam
¤ Vulnerable Venezuela
¤ Annan's Son Accepts Settlement From Paper
¤ The White Death
¤ U.S. forces 'shake and bake' Iraqi civilians!
¤ The Rise Of America's New Enemy
¤ People like the Disciples of Strauss
¤ The Rise Of America's New Enemy
¤ Chávez calls Fox "a puppet of the empire"
¤ FBI and CIA identified as helping Plan Venezuelan Prosecutor's Murder
¤ Chirac admits riots had 'exposed inequality'
¤ US trade deficit hits record
¤ Rebels kill seven police and abduct two
¤ The Myth of Zarqawi
¤ Who's Misinforming Whom About White Phosphorous?
¤ Bush Administration: Parade of lies
¤ Cuban doctors happy to serve in Pakistan
¤ The Russian factor
¤ A cry for change
¤ A Pact With the Devil
¤ Iraqis find 27 bodies near border with Iran
¤ UN warns of Iraq environment threat
¤ Chalabi's Latest Publicity Stunt: A Moral Obscenity
U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2005
by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - Six countries -- the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan -- have been singled out for violating international human rights conventions by deporting terrorist suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured.
Manfred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United Nations, speaks at a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. Independent human rights experts from the United Nations, including Nowak, welcomed on Monday an invitation to visit U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but expressed regret that their time was limited to one day and that private interviews or visits with detainees were excluded. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
The charges, which come at a time when the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is accused of running secret detention centers overseas, have been catalogued in a 15-page U.N. report presented to the 191-member General Assembly by Manfred Nowak, a special rapporteur on torture.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Saddam's Defense Team Boycotts Trial Over Killings
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2005
by Brian Bakst
RAMADI, Iraq - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his aides severed all contact with the court trying the former Iraqi president on Wednesday after the second murder of a member of the defense team since the trial began last month.
The judge said the court was considering its response.
Attorneys representing Saddam and seven co-accused on charges of crimes against humanity considered a second day of hearings set for November 28 to be "canceled and illegitimate", lead counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi told Reuters.
Interviewed in the Sunni Arab rebel stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, he said he felt personally threatened and renewed demands for the United Nations to intervene to stop the trial following Tuesday's killing of lawyer Adil al-Zubeidi.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 10, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2005
¤ Just What Does U.S. Get as Consequence of Torture?
¤ Cheney's Torture Policy Hughes' Worst Nightmare
¤ Falluja: A Name That Lives in Infamy
¤ A long US march in Africa
¤ 'Smear-and-distract time'
¤ 'Heckuva job, Bushie!'
¤ Suicide bombers kill 45 in Iraq
¤ China calls hotel terror warning 'a sham'
¤ Haiti: Insanity Takes Over, While the Selection Continues
¤ America's Dark Secret
¤ The U.S. abuse of prisoners
¤ Some Kind of Manly
¤ The U.S. abuse of prisoners
¤ San Francisco Voters Ban Military Recruiters in Schools
¤ Cuba Policy Isolates White House at UN
¤ The Dispossession Of The Islanders To Create A U.S. Base
¤ Bush's Syrian Mass Murder Campaign Inches Forward
¤ A hunger eating up the world
¤ France targets aid at areas hit by riots
¤ This is not only a French crisis
¤ Interrogation broke UN pact, CIA report warned
¤ The moment Tony Blair lost his authority
¤ US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon
¤ Iraqi Civilians Killed in Rebel-Held House Bombed by U.S.
¤ Washington elite bring Chalabi in from the cold
¤ Bush's best defense is now incompetence
¤ Don't talk about the war
¤ Fox News: “Why All The Fuss About Torturing People?”
¤ Bush's failing grade on racial issues
¤ Bush's Fowl Play
¤ Off with his head!
¤ To become an occupier
¤ Al-Qaida Claims Jordan Suicide Blasts
¤ Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings
¤ Fake Al Qaeda
¤ Disappearances and abductions in the Chechnya
¤ Two Suicide Bombers Kill 33 in Iraq
¤ Baghdad restaurant blast kills dozens
¤ Zimbabwe Scolds, but Does Not Expel, U.S. Ambassador
November 9, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, November 9, 2005
¤ Saddam defence team boycotts trial over killings
¤ The Niger Uranium Deception and the "Plame Affair"
¤ The Won't-Be-Bullied Pulpit
¤ Cruel Distortion: 'We Do Not Torture'? Is the President Serious?
¤ Torture, What Torture?
¤ Israel Used White Phosphorous Lest We Forget
¤ BBC and Fallujah: War Crimes, Lies and Omertà
¤ Bush: “We don’t torture”—but don’t put it in writing
¤ We Have Become the Criminals
¤ The Crimes of Fallujah Revisited
¤ Blair defeated over terror laws
¤ Schwarzenegger's Entire Agenda Is Rejected by California Voters
¤ U.S., Britain plot ‘regime change’ in Iran
¤ Fallujah - the hidden massacre Photo gallery
¤ Bush And Cheney Play Mute As The Nation Bleeds!
¤ 57 die in explosions at three Jordan hotels
¤ 'We hate France and France hates us'
¤ US criticised for use of phosphorous in Fallujah raids
¤ France is clinging to an ideal that's been pickled into dogma
¤ Europe faces 'fear of all things foreign'
¤ More liberty and equality
¤ Sudan at the head of a global sweep to mop up world's oil
¤ Pillaging the Gardens of Babylon
¤ Cuba gets huge vote at UN for lifting US embargo
¤ Haiti election supervisors 'quit'
¤ Syria will cooperate with UN probe: Annan
¤ France rioters defy state of emergency
¤ Several Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire
¤ Politically Deflated Bush Faces a Resistant World
¤ Get a Clue
¤ United States will start bombing Antarctica
So Iraq Was About the Oil
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
When Colin Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson publicly decried the Bush administration's bungling of U.S. foreign policy, the focus of the press coverage was on Wilkerson's depiction of a "cabal" headed by Vice President Dick Cheney that had hijacked the decision-making process.
Largely overlooked were Wilkerson's frank admissions about the importance of oil in justifying a long-term U.S. military intervention in Iraq. "The other thing that no one ever likes to talk about is SUVs and oil and consumption," the retired Army colonel said in a speech on Oct. 19.
Full Article : consortiumnews.com
US Forces 'Used Chemical Weapons' in Fallujah
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
US Forces 'Used Chemical Weapons' During Assault on City of Fallujah
Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.
Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city.
On 10 November last year, the Islam Online website wrote: "US troops are reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988."
The website quoted insurgent sources as saying: "The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally banned chemical weapons."
In December the US government formally denied the reports, describing them as "widespread myths". "Some news accounts have claimed that US forces have used 'outlawed' phosphorus shells in Fallujah," the USinfo website said. "Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. US forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre (Video)
Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.
November 8, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
¤ Can Zimbabwe Become Africa's Cuba?
¤ One Dead, 2 Hurt in Tenn. School Shooting
¤ State of emergency declared in France
¤ Saddam trial defence lawyer shot dead
¤ Israeli shots kill Palestinian teenager
¤ Why Paris is burning
¤ A tale of two generals
¤ The President is plainly plastered
¤ A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies
¤ Panic in Paris
¤ Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture'
¤ Infowars.com's Torture Photo and Article Archive
¤ Pictures of Torture And Sexual Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners
¤ US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah
¤ The media are minimising US and British war crimes in Iraq
¤ A PBS documentary names U.S. torture commanders
¤ Incinerating Iraqis; the napalm cover up
¤ Depleted Uranium Is WMD
¤ Security officers have started the next genocide
¤ Yes, Mr. Vice President?
¤ So Iraq Was About the Oil
¤ Why is Bush so unpopular?
¤ France violence claims first victim
¤ Timeline: France riots
¤ How neocons have spun the wheels of a weary war
¤ Two months on she was still in the house
¤ Bush Doing Corporate Bidding While On The Clock
¤ Agencies put quake toll at 87,350
November 7, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, November 7, 2005
¤ Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture'
¤ Fallujah - The Hidden MassacreVideo Graphic Images
¤ Italian TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians
¤ U.S. Used Chemical Weapons In Iraq
¤ Using Napalm in Iraq - The Story That Won't Die
¤ The Unborn child of Iraq, victim of American callousness
¤ The US blood thirsty invaders at it again
¤ Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
¤ American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
¤ US troops kill Iraqi civilian in Baghdad
¤ US won’t yield Gis to RP government
¤ Top advisor to Bush may be charged with lying
¤ Syria agrees to cooperate in UN probe
¤ Who Owns the Rights on Tamiflu? Rumsfeld.
¤ Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry
¤ Arafat's Death Still a Mystery
¤ Iran Says Contracts With Russia Could Reach $10Bln
¤ Bush trip to Latin America an unmitigated disaster
¤ Will the BBC tell the truth about Fallujah?
¤ The President and His Vice: Torturers' Puppetmasters
¤ Ethnic riots in France
¤ Riots Spread Into Rebellion
¤ Rebellion in Real Time
¤ The Bush-Cheney Ethics Refresher Course
¤ The Lies of Colin Powell
¤ Israel as an Extension of American Empire
¤ What Country was Bush Talking About?
¤ The Origins of Mr. Danger
¤ 5 U.S. soldiers killed in car bomb, assault
¤ Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq
¤ Five US soldiers face abuse charges
¤ Explosion in the suburbs
¤ New Illegal Trail Rules Critcized
¤ We Americans are like recovering addicts
¤ Three killed as Hindus attack Muslim village
¤ Bush Diplomacy Means Settling for Less
¤ Chirac vows to restore order
¤ U.S. and Iraqi Troops Battle Insurgents
¤ Disturbing Questions Raised by Cover-Up Timeline
¤ Another Vietnam coverup
¤ The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman
¤ The reality of Britain's reliance on torture
¤ Long Day, Interesting People…
¤ Pressure on Syria 'unacceptable': Iran
¤ U.S. lies on Iraq war uncovered- but too late
¤ POW Rights Are Our Rights
¤ Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions
¤ The FBI's Secret Scrutiny
¤ Chris Matthews and the Power of Repetition
Rioters shatter Bush's hopes of forging free trade coup
Posted: Sunday, November 6, 2005
President George W Bush was poised for a big new political setback last night as a diplomatic push for a major free trade agreement seemed stalled amid fierce opposition from key countries and scenes of violence and rioting in Argentina and Uruguay.
Bush, who is already beset by a host of domestic political troubles, had hoped for a major foreign policy coup to take some of the pressure off his beleaguered White House. He has put breaking down free trade barriers in the region at the top of the agenda at the Summit of the Americas, which has brought together leaders from 34 different countries in the Argentine city of Mar Del Plata.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
November 6, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, November 6, 2005
¤ Blacks Rated Lower Than Animals
¤ WHY IS FRANCE BURNING?
¤ Trinidad police detain Israeli; may be linked to bombings
¤ Chirac orders riots crackdown
¤ Azeri opposition calls for street protests against 'rigged' election
¤ Shut Down Guantanamo
¤ Tornado Rips Through Ky., Ind.; 22 Killed
¤ Iraqi politicians condemn US offensive
¤ 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
¤ Venezuela On The Road to Eliminating Homelessness
¤ Tariq Aziz pulls plug on Senate’s Galloway smears
¤ Venezuela between Jesus Christ and Karl Marx ...
¤ Violence sweeps France in 10th night of riots
¤ An outcast generation
¤ Rioters shatter Bush's hopes of forging free trade coup
¤ Colombian Police Seize 2.6 Tons of Cocaine
¤ Analysis: Italians: We didn't dupe Bush
¤ Bush is single target of multiple complaints
¤ Panama angry over US weapons left along canal
¤ In Brazil, More Protests May Await Bush
¤ Bush, Cheney, and Powell Repeatedly Pushed False Evidence To Justify War
¤ Bush rebuked by the hand of God
¤ The Niger connection
¤ America Online (AOL): Made in Langley, VA
¤ Unrest Reaches Paris; 28 Cars Torched
November 5, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, November 5, 2005
¤ When Conscience Bows to Calculation
¤ The United States of Torture
¤ Bush-Cheney and Big Oil's Big Summer
¤ Of Course They’re Rioting in Argentina
¤ Riots Spread Across France; 250 Arrested
¤ 'George Bush's culture of death'
¤ Witnesses Describe Ballot Fraud in Nineveh
¤ Iraq offensive meets resistance
¤ Torture: It's the New American Way
¤ Shot Palestinian boy dies in hospital
¤ Crackdown ordered as French riots spread
¤ 40 Years Later The Mass Killings in Indonesia
¤ Bush faces Latin fury as popularity sinks at home
¤ Zimbabwe media says Prince Charles lobbied UN
¤ Haiti in uproar over American candidate for presidency
¤ Thousands chant 'Get out, Bush!'
¤ George Bush came face to face with Latin America's revolt
¤ It's the poor that gets the blame
¤ Syria and the UN: Another polarizing double standard
¤ Big Lies and Little Lies
¤ Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington
¤ The Case of Jerusalem - The Holy City
¤ No hero's welcome for Bush
¤ US, Iraq forces launch Syria border assault
¤ Democracy and oil fight it out for the future of Azerbaijan
Possible U.S. and Israeli Assassination of Rafiq Harari
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2005
Possible U.S. and Israeli Connection in Assassination of Rafiq Harari, the Former Popular Lebanese Leader
By Greg Szymanski
The official U.S. mafia, masquerading as a legitimate government, has again exposed its dirty, itchy trigger finger in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Harari.
Harari, 61, was killed in a powerful Beirut explosion, rocking his heavily guarded car caravan as it traveled near a seaside resort area, the shocking murder immediately plunging the country into a state of shock and hysteria.
Although specific trigger-men cannot yet being squarely identified or nabbed, reports are starting to circulate eight months after the incident that a joint U.S. and Israeli hit squad killed the popular Lebanese political figure.
But quickly after Harari was killed to cover any American-Israeli shenanigans, U.S. intelligence reports pointed the finger squarely on Syria in an attempt to further inflame relations between the two countries as well as give the U.S. another reason, albeit a misguided and wrong one, to justify a future Syrian invasion, a plan reportedly being concocted by the maniacal U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his band of neo-con thugs.
Full Article : arcticbeacon.com
Bush Faces Showdown with Chavez 'The Kid'
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2005
by Phil Davison
If President Bush thought a weekend beach break in Argentina would get him away from his Washington woes, he is about to be proved wrong. Tens of thousands of South Americans are descending on Mar del Plata to protest against the US President.
Can you imagine one of the leaders at the G8 summit slipping out between sessions, through the security cordon, to join in a street demonstration of bearded anoraks against the summit's most powerful participant, George Bush?
Something similar looks like happening today when Mr Bush attends a summit of 34 western hemisphere leaders - that's everyone in the Americas and the Caribbean except Fidel Castro, who has long been banned - in the Argentinian beach resort of Mar del Plata. Mr Bush's latest nemesis, the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, dubbed "the new Castro," has said he will leave the summit in between sessions to take part in an alternative "People's Summit" and lead, along with the former Argentinian football star Diego Maradona, a protest march against Mr Bush.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 4, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2005
¤ Bush Faces Showdown with Chavez 'The Kid'
¤ Axis of Hardliners, From Tehran to Washington
¤ The Threat of Hope in Latin America
¤ Orwell's Oceania and Bush's America: Coming Together
¤ Grim King George and the Price of Paving Paradise
¤ Lying's Just the Tip of the Iceberg
¤ Paris rioting spreads
¤ Possible U.S. and Israeli Connection in Assassination of Rafiq Harari
¤ Iraq prisoner abuse witnesses 'disappear' in US custody
¤ Summit Protests Turn Violent in Argentina
¤ Protests swell as Bush meets American leaders
¤ Moving towards a petroeuro system? Russia, Venezuela and some OPEC
¤ Two Social Movement Leaders Detained
¤ Katrina and Tax Breaks for the Very Rich
¤ Of Madmen and Nukes
¤ Violence Surges as Ramadan Nears Close
¤ Wrongful incarceration not unusual in Iraq
¤ Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified
¤ Marine tells of 'carte blanche' to kill
¤ Hunger In America Rises By 43 Percent Over Last Five Years
¤ Anti-Bush Demonstrators Take to Streets
¤ Latin America prepares to 'say no to Bush'
¤ Denver decriminalises possession of marijuana
¤ What's the biggest single cause of global violence today?
¤ US military action against Syria would lead to disaster
¤ The golden legacy that Blair was hoping for is crumbling by the day
¤ Bush War Policy Is Now in Play
¤ Italian lawmaker: U.S. told of WMD forgeries
¤ Stop the Next War Before It Starts
¤ Squeezing Bush on his Prewar WMD Hype
¤ The Senate’s Closed Session: Nothing But a Democratic Sham
¤ Niger Uranium Forgeries: Excavating a Roman Mystery
¤ Boy is shot as he holds a toy gun
¤ US marines 'raped Filipina woman'
¤ Insurgents Kill 11 Iraqi Security Forces
¤ Britain isolated over role in Afghanistan
¤ False Accusations Against Police Protected
¤ Suburbs burn in worst night of Paris riots
¤ Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides
¤ An unsafe world for US companies
¤ Putin, Dutch PM Spar Over War in Chechnya
¤ Iraqi witnesses lied to court in return for 'blood money'
¤ Italian Official Skips Anti-Iran Protest
November 3, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, November 3, 2005
¤ Zim: Annan is being misled
¤ Seeing Ourselves Through Our Own Black Eyes
¤ Security Council Resolution on Syria is in Violation of the UN Charter
¤ Solved: the mysteries of the black hole
¤ How Occupation Affects Palestinians Access to Water
¤ 'Inside the bunker'
¤ Coverup got Bush team past '04 election
¤ US has secret prisons in Poland and Romania
¤ Who writes our history books?
¤ Thanks to Bush, bad could get worse
¤ Bush War Policy Is Now in Play
¤ Experts dismiss scare over bird flu
¤ Saving Rosa Parks from American Hypocrisy
¤ Sham Behind Closed Doors
¤ Torn Families and Shot Down Planes
¤ Bolton pushes for new Syria resolution
¤ Philosopher's Stone
¤ War by remote control
¤ How to arm ourselves physically and mentally to become invincible
¤ Chirac calls for calm
¤ 20 killed in attack on Iraq market
¤ Blunkett quits on Blair's day from hell
¤ Bush 'operating secret gulag in eastern Europe'
¤ Rumsfeld Rejects UN Access to Guantanamo
¤ Palestinians 'terrorised' by sonic boom flights
¤ Senate to probe how case for war was made
¤ Stay What Course?
¤ Lies of the Neocons: From Leo Strauss to Scooter Libby
¤ Exiting Iraq Now
¤ Cheney, Libby and the Mess They Made
¤ South Americans' Discontent Portends a Chilly Reception for Bush
¤ Iraq oil industry bogged down in cycle of violence
¤ Bush Aide: Iraq Pullout Bad for Israel
¤ How To Resist Propaganda
¤ The Real George W. Bush
¤ Levee materials, techniques questioned
Mexico Defies Washington on ICC
Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
by Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK - If Washington follows through on threats to slash aid to Mexico as punishment for its accession to the International Criminal Court (ICC), it risks further alienating key U.S. allies and drawing attention to its own increasingly shaky human rights record, say activists.
"There will be a price to be paid by the U.S. government in terms of its credibility," Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Programme, told IPS.
Full Article : commondreams.org
November 2, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
¤ Israel and the Consequences of 'Uniqueness'
¤ Mexico Defies Washington on the International Criminal Court
¤ Harrari's Death was a Minor Detail, a Pretext at Best
¤ The Democrats' Slap Happy Day
¤ In such a terrorist reality, what could Venezuela expect from the USA?
¤ America's Double Standard on Terrorism
¤ Bush Declares War on America
¤ UN Double Standards Again on Display With Syria Resolution
¤ Cheney Promotes Two with Dirty Hands to Take Over for Libby
¤ Hurricanes Spawn Oil Industry Scams
¤ Congress Must Investigate Lies, Leaks
¤ How the US destroyed the Black Panther Party
¤ Students start walkout to protest war, recruiting
¤ Political lies fool us again
¤ Senate Intelligence chairman quietly 'fixed' intelligence
¤ Our Greatest Criminals Are Never Charged
¤ 'Culture of fear: The latest phantom terror'
¤ Self-made threat to US oil and security
¤ Six GIs Killed in Iraq; 20 Die in Bombing
¤ Pakistan quake toll tops 73,000
¤ US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border
¤ Does Zarqawi Have An Infinite Supply Of...
¤ Carter: White House Manipulated Iraq Intel
¤ Tariq Aziz pulls plug on Senate’s Galloway smears
¤ All the President's Men, the Sequel
¤ Attacks cast shadow on Delhi's festival of light
¤ Roadside Bomb Kills Five Iraqis
¤ Israel dragging heels over Gaza agreements
¤ US soldier charged with killing officers faces death penalty
¤ Secret Senate session keeps up pressure on Bush over Iraq war
¤ CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons
¤ Amnesty International on Blair's terror laws: Dangerous. Ill-conceived...
¤ UN probe 'can quiz key Syrians'
¤ The Other Liars
¤ Why Americans Don't Care About GTMO, and Why They Should
¤ Rumsfeld says no U.N. access to Guantanamo inmates
¤ U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
¤ Western democracies slip back, with the US falling more than 20 places
¤ BIGGER THAN WATERGATE
¤ Why Reid did what he did
¤ Scapegoating on a ‘Scooter’
¤ Bush Abandons Plan for New Nukes
¤ Don’t Divert: Keep Opposing the Iraq War
¤ Kashmir: New government, new challenges
¤ Researchers Say Levees Had Design Flaws
¤ Riots flare for sixth night outside Paris
¤ Castro taunts Bush
¤ Chavez says may give US F-16 jets to Cuba, China
¤ Cheney Circles the Wagons
¤ The Snake Oil Merchants Who Sold Us A War!!
¤ Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove
¤ Civilian contractors in Iraq dying at faster rate as insurgency grows
November 1, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2005
¤ Put George at the Head of a Dreadful List
¤ The Coverup Worked
¤ What's Eating George Bush?
¤ Tender Mercenaries: DynCorp and Me
¤ Another Trojan Horse from the UN?
¤ A Thousand Evictions a Day for Weeks
¤ A Japanese oil victory in Libya
¤ LIBBY'S LIES TIP OF THE ICEBERG
¤ 'Seymour Hersh winces at media protecting 'lying' sources'
¤ Israeli troops kill three Palestinians
¤ Western falsehoods and the roots of Muslim anger
¤ US mum on Guantanamo
¤ Forging the Case for War
¤ Cheney's new security adviser linked to bogus information on Iraq
¤ US Commanders: Bombs Are Not Made in Iraq
¤ Breaking the Science: Misleading Stories
¤ Intelligence on Vietnam War 'faked'
¤ Spy agency faked key Vietnam War data
¤ October deadly month for U.S. troops
¤ Basra bomb kills 20 as Iraq violence escalates
¤ Berlusconi's outburst puts strain on relations with US
¤ Libby Lied, and Cheney Needs To Come Clean
¤ Israel conducts mass arrest campaign
¤ Australia delays terrorism laws
¤ Syria calls for backing of Arab League
¤ Stomach May Act Like Lie Detector
¤ Katrina: Rumors, Lies, and Racist Fantasies
¤ No Underlying Crime, Not!
¤ Clumsy Forgeries, Italian-Style
¤ It's the coverup, stupid
¤ Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence
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