December 2003
Sovereignty bigger than individual leaders
Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
By Caesar Zvayi, www.herald.co.zw
UNCLE SAM'S forces captured Saddam Hussein on December 13, and the Texas gunslinger, that son of a bush, was beside himself with thirst for blood.
He immediately pronounced the death sentence on Saddam, inspite of the fact that Saddam's "crimes" are yet to be documented, whilst his crimes have been televised for all to see by his very own embedded journalists!
Bush has broken international law by launching pre-emptive strikes on two nations whose populations are 50 percent children. He has also violated the 1949 Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians during hostilities and treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Most importantly he has trashed the United Nations and launched unprecedented genocide using banned weapons particularly cluster bombs which are still maiming innocent Iraqi children today. If anyone deserves the hangman's noose, it is George Bush himself. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
¤ Car Bomb Kills 5 at Baghdad Restaurant
¤ Brazil to fingerprint US citizens
¤ A Short History of Saddam-Bush-Noriega Business
¤ Manufacturing Hysteria
¤ The Occupation is Damned
¤ Double vision
¤ A citizen's duty is to ferret out the truth
¤ Year Of The Liars
Flashback Some words better left unuttered
¤ At year's end, signs of dictatorship abound in Washington
¤ Sovereignty bigger than individual leaders
¤ Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror
¤ Zimbabwe: 400 farms repossessed
¤ At least 8 people hurt by IDF fire during W. Bank fence protest
¤ Israel announces Golan expansion
¤ Parmalat funds siphoned for family use, founder admits
¤ Yassin: Israel will pay heavy price for assassination attempt
¤ Ten charged in Portuguese paedophile ring scandal
¤ Pentagon to Washington Post Reporter Ricks: Get Lost
¤ Bus Tire Explosion Causes Brief Panic in Israel
¤ A Short History of Saddam-Bush-Noriega Business
¤ Tape confirms Iraqis tried to save U.S. POWs
¤ Was it really the US that 'got him'?
Flashback Bush Uranium Lie Is Tip of the Iceberg
¤ Red Cross demands access to Saddam
¤ Bam earthquake toll hits 40,000
¤ Quake may have killed 50,000
¤ Iran Says U.S. Aid Won't Help Relations
¤ U.S. wins hearts, not minds
¤ Bush signals softer line on Iran
¤ Iran's Khatami rejects US dialogue overtures
¤ Israeli Copter Targets Hamas in Gaza City
¤ Japanese Eatery to Stop Serving Beef Dish
¤ Syria was conduit for Saddam arms
¥ Sure...
¤ Sharon's resignation, and other reckless predictions
¤ Pilots Wonder if Odd Conduct Is Terrorism
¤ 11 Palestinians hurt in Israeli air strike
¤ Iraqi dies in bomb blast
¤ Genetically modified food for thought
¤ US Defence Dept pulls engineers from Halliburton contract
¤ Musharraf Remains U.S. Ally in Terror War
¤ American airline order flies into turbulence
¤ Flights go unprotected, even as US hollers for marshals
¤ Grieving families take US payout, but lose right to sue
¤ It's the big question. Why did humans survive?
Flashback Creating Democracy In Afghanistan Was Doomed From The Start
¤ 2003 Media Follies!
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
¤ US data undershoot economists' forecasts
¤ Realism vs. fanaticism: Iraq at the end of the year
¤ Criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitism
¤ American 'Values' Cast a Global Shadow
¤ Washington's Past Relationship with Saddam Hussein Worth Looking At
Flashback The spies who pushed for war
¤ Agriculture, Corporate Greed and Bush
¤ Liberation on Hold in Samarra
¤ Israeli Copter Fire Hurts 11 in Gaza
¤ Pentagon freezes Iraq funds amid corruption probes
¤ String of U.N. votes belies U.S.' own reluctance to give up WMD
¤ Iraq keeps Russia, France in running for oil deals
¤ Senior UK Bishop Criticizes Israeli Treatment of Palestinians
¤ Ashcroft Recuses Self From CIA Leak Probe
¤ A day after withdrawal, Israel sends forces back into West Bank
¤ String of U.N. votes belies U.S.' own reluctance to give up WMD
¤ U.S. to ban Supplement Ephedra
¤ Dollar Under Fire; New Record Lows Beckon
¤ Philippines to Deport Two U.S. Brothers
¤ Bush's Worst Enemy
¤ N. Bush's foreign business deals draw spotlight
¤ US helped Saddam in 1993 to quash coup attempt
¤ Dollar Under Fire; New Record Lows Beckon
¤ Philippines to Deport Two U.S. Brothers
¤ Bush's Worst Enemy
¤ N. Bush's foreign business deals draw spotlight
¤ US helped Saddam in 1993 to quash coup attempt
¤ How the British Spy Agency MI6 Mislead A Nation Into War
¤ US cool on reports North Korea ready for talks
¤ New Syria as Iraq's Main Weapons Link
¤ New Allegations: Syria as Iraq's Main Weapons Link
¤ PA critical of order to remove illegal outposts
¤ 'Crats': rodents harass Israeli soldiers
¤ Castro photo gets a Hitler makeover
¤ American airline order flies into turbulence
¤ A Soldier's Return, to a Dark and Moody World
¤ Army's Suicide Rate has Outside Experts Alarmed
¤ U.S. Estimates Mad-Cow Exposure at 81
¤ Serb democrats urged to join forces
¤ Iran death toll may reach 50,000
¤ Lieberman: Dean Will 'Melt' Under GOP Attacks
¤ Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught
¤ Realism vs. fanaticism: Iraq at the end of the year
¤ Armed with an almanac? The FBI has its eye on you
¤ FBI Issues an Almanac Alert
¤ FBI Looks for Terrorists Armed With Almanacs
¤ Terrorism In Iraq (Flash)
¤ Roadside Bomb Kills Iraqi in Baghdad
¤ Bomb explodes in Baghdad
¤ US death rate worsening
¤ Japan refuses to lift ban on US beef imports
¤ Papal envoy shot dead in Burundi ambush
¤ Israeli Forces Re-Enter Nablus After Lull
¤ Jewish settlers to resist West Bank evacuation
¤ PA critical of order to remove illegal outposts
¤ U.S. orders guards on foreign carriers
¤ Sky marshals plan followed orders from Washington
¤ No guns on planes, say angry pilots
¤ Poland, Israel sign missile deal
¤ Syria wants UN vote on Israeli nukes
¤ Syria Calls for Nuclear Free Middle East
¤ Time to Revisit Threat Alerts
¤ Democrats face a hard-to-hit Bush
¤ Don't Throw Away Liberty
¤ The War Party Versus Global Capitalism
¤ America's stretched army
¤ The Musharraf mysteries
¤ Actors And Politicians
¤ U.S. tracing 8 more cows
Bogus terror threats and Bush's police state
Posted: Monday, December 29, 2003
By Kurt Nimmo, Dissident Voice
Bomb Las Vegas, America's gambling Mecca and glittery playground built on desert sands by mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lanksy, and Frank Costello?
Only al-Qaeda, we are assured, would contemplate such a depraved act -- and it stands to reason because those varmint Muslims hate our way of life. They are envious of our freedom to play the nickel slots and idle away carefree hours perched over blackjack tables -- or get no fuss, no muss marriages at Circus Circus. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Monday, December 29, 2003
¤ Boeing lands two fighter contracts
¤ Bogus terror threats and Bush's police state
¤ FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs
¤ The Bush Election Strategy
¤ The good, the bad and the lucky
¤ President Bush Reports Visitation by Four Ghosts
¤ Halliburton Contracts in Iraq: The Struggle to Manage Costs
¤ Israel warns of major 'non-conventional' attack
¤ No guns on planes, say angry pilots
¤ US death rate worsening
¤ $1.3m bounties offered for Iraq's dirty dozen
¤ Three Iraqis killed, two U.S. troops wounded in Mosul firefight
¤ 'Don't Call Me Osama,' Iraqi Imams Tell U.S. Troops
¤ Japan promises to cut Iraqi debt; China weighs the idea
¤ Loyalists take aim at Karbala
¤ Taliban Says Behind Attack as Kabul Debate Drags On
¤ US Jobless Rate 'Artificially Rosy'; Millions Not Counted
¤ Effort to Promote U.S. Falls Short, Critics Say
¤ Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting
¤ Burundi papal nuncio shot dead
¤ Libya allows snap inspections of arms sites
¤ Thousands die as Asia's forgotten wars slog into new year
¤ Israel targets Jerusalem's Palestinians
¤ U.S. Soldier: I Will Not Die For Oil, It's Not Worth It
¤ Blair's days are numbered
¤ Two Years Gone: Post-9/11 Detainee Still Held Without Charges
¤ Japan rejects U.S. request to lift beef import ban
¤ Amnesty International blasts US for human rights violation
¤ Milosevic elected to parliament in Serbian election
¤ www.blairfacedlies.org
¤ Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills 5 After Arrest
¤ Baghdad Bombs Kill 2 GIs, 2 Children
¤ US claims infected cow came from Canada
¤ Canada angry as American claim BSE-infected cow came from Alberta
¤ Meat From Infected Cow May Be in 8 States
¤ BSE scare spreads to six US states
¤ Pakistan: the west's soft centre
¤ Nine months after US invasion
¤ Journalists Take Flak in Iraq
¤ How long before Saddam's trial?
¤ Nine months after US invasion
¤ Journalists Take Flak in Iraq
¤ How long before Saddam's trial?
¤ Syria talks must start from scratch
¤ Gun guards on British flights to US
¤ Blair under fire again for WMD claims
¤ Blair under fire over Iraq claims
¤ Syria pushes WMD-free Mideast
¤ Checkpoints Prove Useless Against Suicide Bombers in Iraq
¤ Israelis kill one, wound 17 in Nablus
¤ Blasts Kill Two Soldiers in Iraq
¤ Tokyo's Historic Decision Emphasizes its Commitment to Washington
¤ US relations with Tehran begin to thaw after disaster
¤ Serb Rightists Are Big Winners, but Not Big Enough to Rule
¤ Deadlock in Serbia as voters turn again to rabble-rousers
¤ Report on Brutal Vietnam Campaign Stirs Memories
¤ Row After Row, Photos of the Fallen Turn Loss Into Something Personal
¤ What the CIA learned (and mislearned) in the groves of academe
¤ India possesses 50 to 100 nuclear devices
¤ How three threats interlock
¤ Mad as hell: Pegging the new year right
¤ The exploitation of the American soldier, part 1
¤ Why Democrats must not abandon the old stronghold
FBI tells stunned BWIA pilot 'We've got you!'
Posted: Sunday, December 28, 2003
By Horace Monsegue In New York
December 28, 2003 Newsday TT
BWIA pilot Rawle Joseph was surrounded by five armed FBI agents at JFK International Airport, New York, last week, one of whom shouted, "We've got you!"
Joseph, 50, a father of three, of Pinto Road, Arima, a national scholarship winner, who joined BWIA in June 1980, was stunned when the agents pulled him aside and began two and a half hours of questioning, claiming that he was a terrorist, whose name and age, matched someone on a 'no-fly list' issued by the Transport Security Agency. Joseph denied being a terrorist and showed the agents that he always carried a bible in his flight bag. The agents then proceeded to go through the bible - page by page. Full Article
Payback Time? BWIA Pilots Humiliated by FBI
Flashback: America's arrogance knows no bounds
Flashback: Controlling the 'Fourth Front'
Flashback: Our sympathies, Mr Nahas
U.S. split grows over Chávez links to rebels
Posted: Sunday, December 28, 2003
U.S. split grows over Chávez links to rebels
www.miami.com
The Bush administration is growing increasingly divided over the credibility of intelligence reports on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's links to Colombian guerrillas, officials say. "It's getting very testy, because the believers and skeptics want to quote only from the reports that agree with their own views," said a top U.S. government official involved in the dispute.
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, December 28, 2003
¤ UK: Saudi top terror target
¤ US: Terror threats can be bogus
¤ Yes, Virginia, there are government conspiracies
¤ Bush Can't Have Justice Both Ways
¤ Increase in Suicides Among U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
¤ The Relatively Charmed Life Of Neil Bush
¤ No respect for international law
¤ Bush's New Year's Wish: Another Attack?
¤ Bush's man rejects Blair weapon claim
¤ 'Massive Evidence' of WMD Found in Iraq says Blair
¤ Saudi Denies British Report It Foiled Airliner Attack
¤ Suicide bomber kills 5 in Kabul
¤ Bomb blast rocks Kabul airport
¤ Karbala bodycount climbs to 19
¤ In Iraq, Pace of U.S. Casualties Has Accelerated
¤ Baghdad Bomb Blast Kills 2 Iraqi Children, U.S. Soldier
¤ U.S. split grows over Chávez links to rebels
¤ Bloodbath in Karbala
¤ 150 Dug Out Alive From Rubble in Bam
¤ The year of the pre-emptive strike
¤ FBI tells stunned BWIA pilot 'We've got you!'
¤ Eleven killed in three blasts
¤ 13 dead, 129 injured in rebel attack
Flashback The bad guys we once thought good
¤ A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
¤ Iran Fears Quake Toll Could Hit 40,000
¤ The trumped-up truce
¤ Who was that man?
¤ Secrets and Lies
¤ The year Britain invaded Iraq - and tore itself apart
¤ Bloody conclusion to Christmas period
¤ Saddam's captured, Gaddafi's given up, so why the orange alert?
¤ Four Bombings Kill 13 in Iraq
¤ Libya 'no bomb threat'
¤ US rubbishes Blair's WMD claim
¤ Blair's WMD claim dismissed by America's Baghdad chief
¤ 13 Killed and Scores Wounded in Karbala, and It Was Almost Worse
¤ Officials fear up to 40,000 may have perished
¤ Six soldiers killed in Karbala
Payback Time? BWIA Pilots Humiliated by FBI
Posted: Saturday, December 27, 2003
As Bwee works with TT Embassy to get them home
'Pilots humiliated'
By CHARLEEN THOMAS, Newsaday TT
NATIONAL airline BWIA was working closely yesterday with officials at the Trinidad and Tobago Embassy in Washington, USA, to have the names of two BWIA pilots struck off the "no fly list," to enable them to return to Trinidad. The two BWIA pilots Captain Anthony Wight and Rawle Joseph, a co-pilot, were detained in the USA, at Miami and New York respectively, after landing at international airports there earlier this week. They have numerous years of service with the airline. The reason given for their detention was because their names appeared on the "no fly list," which is a list of suspected persons with terrorist links. Communications Manager for BWIA, Clint Williams, told Newsday yesterday that the pilots were interviewed by FBI agents, "who appear to be comfortable with what they are saying."
He said the "necessary paperwork to take their names off the list is being done, and once that is completed they would be allowed to fly." He said the airline was working closely with the TT Embassy in Washington to have the matter efficiently dealt with. Williams stressed that Homeland Security required that the process be fully completed before the men are allowed to leave the USA. He however could not give a time line as to when the process would be completed, saying "this is all new ground for us." Williams also said that they were trying to ascertain how the pilots' name got on the list to enable them to prevent further recurrences. Sunday Newsday Editor, Horace Monsegue, was in New York yesterday when told by airline officials that the pilots were questioned for about 12 hours. The FBI they said, kept asking the pilots the same questions over and over. Eventually, it was felt that it was a case of "stolen identity." Speaking to Joseph over the phone in New York he told Newsday he has been employed with the airline since 1980, and was allowed to go through the "normal channel" of disembarking from the flight when the aircraft landed in New York on Tuesday. He was later escorted by four armed uniformed officers in the full glare of the public, for questioning. The source said he was not handcuffed, however the manner in which it was done, was enough to cause him "humiliation and embarrassment." Joseph also expressed concern over the harm which he said was already done to him and to the airline's operations. He has expressed the feeling of even giving up his US visa.
Joseph who lives in East Trinidad is the father of three, and was expected home on Christmas Day. Joseph told Newsday he and Wight were "extremely embarrassed and humiliated" over the incident, more so since they have not been told when they will be allowed to leave. Their passports and visas were initially taken from them, but they were later returned to them. The source further revealed that only his Fleet Manager and a junior person in the airline's legal department have contacted him. Newsday understands that Joseph was upset that no senior official from the airline had contacted him. When contacted yesterday at his hotel Joseph declined comment. He said he did not wish to speak to the media. However, a hotel official confirmed that Joseph was responsible for his meals at the hotel to which he has been confined in New York. The source said Wight has been employed with the airline since October, 1973. Both he and Joseph were crew members on the 737's. Efforts to contact the TT Embassy in Washington, and the Consulates in Miami and New York proved futile. They were all closed due to the Boxing Day public holiday and will reopen on Monday.
Over the Christmas holiday, Homeland Security in the US, had raised the security level to "high." The department claimed to have "credible" intelligence that al Qaeda links intended to use foreign aircraft to hit targets in the US. As a result, several flights have been cancelled, including Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles. Information from the Internet said that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was authorised by law to maintain a watchlist of names and individuals suspected of posing "a risk of air piracy or terrorism, or a threat to airline or passenger safety." The TSA is said to have initially denied the existence of the list, but eventually acknowledged its existence in October, last year. The watchlist is said to have been created in 1990, and was administered by the FBI before the Federal Aviation Administration and the TSA assumed full administrative responsibility for the list in November last year. The source said there are two primary principles that guide placement on the list, but those principles have not been revealed. And there is also no information as to how a person can remove their name from the list, and there have been many complaints that the matter could generate a number of lawsuits.
Could this be payback time?
Flashback: America's arrogance knows no bounds
Flashback: Controlling the 'Fourth Front'
Flashback: Our sympathies, Mr Nahas
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, December 27, 2003
¤ Musharraf attacks may have been stage-managed
¤ Saddam Threatens to Expose US
Flashback Missing U.S.-Iraq History
¤ Story of Iraq-9/11 link discredited
¤ Memo: FBI destroyed terrorism e-mails
¤ Racist Terrorist Groups in the Heart of the USA
Flashback Pink Slips Greet Returning Soldiers
¤ Terrorists plan to pose as disabled travelers
¤ France warning tipped off terrorists, say U.S. officials
¤ Fear Factor Orange
¤ American Government Terrorizes America After 9/11 Attacks
¤ U.S. wants to question Air France no-shows
¤ "Relative Calm" Leaves 117 Dead
Flashback Israel's Threat To World Peace
¤ Iraq: Quicksand & Blood
¤ US Mad Cow Link Questioned In Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cases
¤ Payback Time? BWIA Pilots Humiliated by FBI
¤ From joy to despair: Iraqis pay for Saddam's capture
¤ Four Bulgarian soldiers die in Iraq attack
¤ Iraqi Blasts Kill 2 Coalition Troops
¤ Week's U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 10
¤ Five US soldiers killed in Iraq violence
¤ Four GIs die in Iraq violence, another in crash
¤ A year of thwarted ambition
¤ Death toll mounts after gas disaster
¤ Rebel Bombs Injure 6 U.S. Troops in Iraq
¤ 15,000 killed in Iran earthquake
¤ Iran earthquake toll climbs to 25,000
¤ 'There is nothing but debris and devastation'
¤ Iran quake toll soars
¤ Dangerous buildings, lax rules: why Bam death toll was so high
¤ US polices towards Muslims
¤ US to continue support for Musharraf
¤ Al-Qaeda out to get Musharraf
¥ And Musharraf continues to support U.S propaganda
¤ Israel plans revenge for Christmas attacks
¤ A Very Special Relationship
¤ Tank Rams Minibus in Indonesia, 18 Killed
¤ Herds quarantined in US case
¤ Second herd quarantined in America's mad cow scare
¤ Cow Parts Used in Candles, Soaps Recalled
¤ Government Takes Back $1.2M in WTC Grants
¤ The weapons hunt in Iraq
¤ Iran's Nuke Disclosure Puts Pakistan in Crisis
Latest News
Posted: Friday, December 26, 2003
¤ Al-Qaeda issues fresh threat
Flashback Anyone can issue threats
Flashback False alarm? No evidence found of plot on airliners
¤ Air France Resumes Its Paris-LA Flights
¤ Massive Earthquake Kills at Least 5,000 in Iran
¤ Six Dead in California Mudslides, 12 Missing
¤ Israel troops fire on peace rally
¤ Say Anything
¤ Weasels of crass deception
¤ Mad cow: Worse than an al Qaeda attack?
¤ Israel 'Steps Up' Elimination of Suspected Palestinian Terrorists
¤ Beirut-bound plane crashes, 111 dead
¤ More Than 20,000 Killed as Quake Devastates Iranian City
¤ The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce
¤ US bombs Baghdad for third night
¤ Nuclear rogue has balm for our fears
¤ Police seize terror cell explosives
¤ Why Turkey's dream gives some EU nations the jitters
¤ India's grand strategic vision gets grander
¤ Hussein's Capture Not Likely to Harm Al Qaeda
¤ Israel seeks to avoid Middle East disarmament fest
¤ Five GIs killed in Iraq insurgency attacks
¤ Qaeda Vows 'Back-Breaking' Strike, Magazine Says
¤ Deaths mount on both sides on Christmas Day in Iraq
¤ Iraqi Police Caught Between Insurgents, Coalition
¤ 'Our Guy' for Iraq Leader May End Up Biting Us
¤ Leaks Probe Is Gathering Momentum
¤ Troops' 'Real Christmas' Awaits the Return Home
¤ U.S. believes five families behind attacks
¤ Nuclear chickens come home
¤ Army Thin-Skinned Over Homemade Armor
¤ Iraq through the American looking glass
¤ BSE: Markets shaken and dollar tumbles to a record low
¤ America in fear of BSE
¤ Quake kills more than 2,000 in Iran
¤ 2000 dead as earthquake destroys ancient city
¤ Iraqi Mortar Attack Kills 2 U.S. Troops
¤ Iraqi rebels kill two U.S. soldiers in Iraq
¤ Soldier's death takes US postwar toll to 206
¤ Markets shaken and dollar tumbles to a record low
¤ Musharraf escapes second attempt on his life
¤ Iraq through the American looking glass
¤ US in row with France over terror operation
¤ 15 killed but bombs miss Musharraf
¤ More killed in Aceh clashes
¤ Deaths mount on both sides on Christmas Day in Iraq
¤ When Blair doesn't care about terror
¤ Five dead in Tel Aviv suicide bombing
¤ The Brits agree: It's mad cow
¤ Mad cow confirmed in US
¤ Gloom descends as US mad cow outbreak feared
¤ Israel invades Nablus following blast
Saddam fell for hoax: New ridiculous UK claim
Posted: Thursday, December 25, 2003
Saddam fell for hoax: UK claim
By Richard Norton-Taylor
London: December 25, 2003, www.theage.com.au
British officials are circulating a story that Saddam Hussein may have been hoodwinked into believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The theory is the result of an attempt to explain why no chemical and biological weapons had surfaced in Iraq. According to the theory, Saddam and his senior advisers and commanders were told by lower-ranking officers that his forces were equipped with chemical and biological weapons. The officers did not want to tell their superiors that the weapons had been destroyed or were no longer usable. Full Article
Iraqi leader issues weapons denial
Thursday November 14, 2002
The Guardian UK
The Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, set himself on an early collision course with the US and Britain yesterday by defiantly continuing to insist he has no weapons of mass destruction.
As expected, he bowed to international pressure by sending a letter to the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, reluctantly accepting a security council resolution that will allow weapons inspectors to return to Iraq. But the letter, in the name of the Iraqi foreign minister, Naji Sabri, vociferously denied that Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, "whether nuclear, chemical, or biological, as claimed by evil people". Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, December 25, 2003
¤ False alarm? No evidence found of plot on airliners
¤ G.I. Joes May Be Under Tree, but Not Around It
¤ Sad Holidays for U.S. War Widows
¤ At least 90 killed in Benin plane crash
¤ Suicide Blast Kills Four Outside Tel Aviv
¤ W. Africa Airline Crash Kills at Least 82
¤ Rafah Counts the Dead
¤ 14 die in suicide attempt on Musharraf
¤ Ten killed in Mid-East violence
¤ French Authorities Find No Evidence of Planned Air Attacks
¤ Fed.gov upset that terror attack quelched
¤ Seeking a new emphasis, Dean touts his Christianity
¤ Brazilian hacker hits NASA websites
¤ Who's Keeping Saddam's Secret Safe?
¤ Israeli Airstrike Kills Two in Gaza
¤ Four dead in Tel Aviv explosion
¤ Bethlehem observes low-key Christmas
¤ Iran Says Israel's Plan to Attack 'Not an Easy Task'
¤ Bomb attacks kill Iraqis, US soldiers
¤ Pakistan Leader Survives New Attack, 14 Dead
¤ Beijing claims to have smashed Taiwan spy ring
¤ US draws a bead on Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
¤ The Spin Saddam fell for hoax: UK claim
Flashback Defiant Saddam insist he has no weapons of mass destruction
¤ Embassies hit in wave of Iraq attacks
¤ Large blasts shake central Baghdad
¤ 13 killed in Iraq attacks
¤ 4 G.I.'s and 6 Iraqi Civilians Are Killed in Bomb Attacks
¤ Three US soldiers die in bomb blast
¤ Bomb attacks kill Iraqis, US soldiers
¤ The growing danger in Iraq
¤ Air France cancels flights to US
¤ US beef ban opens export door
¤ Gas field blast kills at least 163
¤ Seven dead as president Musharraf escapes blast
¤ Musharraf escapes attack, seven killed
¤ Musharraf Laboratory Flash
¤ Turkey warns Iraqi Kurds against expanding autonomy
¤ Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda
U.S. Estimates Mad-Cow Exposure at 81
Posted: Wednesday, December 24, 2003
U.S. Estimates Mad-Cow Exposure at 81
December 30, 2003
Federal investigators increased to 81 the number of cattle now roaming the U.S. that may have been exposed to mad-cow disease, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Temporary ban on live cattle,
beef and beef products from the US
December 30, 2003 Trinidad and Tobago
The Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, yesterday informed the public that effective December 24, a temporary restriction has been placed on the importation of live cattle, beef and beef products from the United States of America. A release from the Ministry noted that this had become necessary as a result of the discovery of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in the US. This suspension on the importation of live cattle, beef and beef products from the US, the release continued, will be in effect for one month when this decision will again be reviewed and the public further advised. [www.newsday.co.tt]
Japan rejects U.S. request to lift beef import ban
US claims infected cow came from Canada
December 29, 2003
The US Agriculture Department said the Washington state dairy cow infected with mad cow disease had probably been imported from Canada but Canadian authorities say the statement is premature.
Canada angry as American officials claim
BSE-infected cow came from Alberta
December 29, 2003
Canadian officials have accused their American counterparts of jumping the gun in announcing at the weekend that an animal found suffering from BSE on a farm in Washington state had necessarily entered the United States from Canada.
US Mad Cow Link
Questioned in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Cases
December 27, 2003
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - Family and friends of American victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the fatal brain disorder sometimes linked to mad cow disease, on Friday questioned whether the wasting illness that killed their loved ones was actually due to eating contaminated U.S. beef.
Herds quarantined in US mad cow case
American officials were yesterday trying to determine whether the country's first case of mad cow disease was an isolated incident or part of a wider outbreak, as some fear.
Cow Parts Used in Candles, Soaps Recalled
Cow parts - including hooves, bones, fat and innards - are used in everything from hand cream and antifreeze, to poultry feed and gardening soils. In the next tangled phase of the mad cow investigation, federal inspectors are concentrating on byproducts from the tainted Holstein, which might have gone to a half-dozen distributors in the Northwest, said Dalton Hobbs, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Now, it's the secondary parts - the raw material for soil, soaps, candles - that are being recalled.
The Mad Cowboy's Prediction Comes True
Back in 1998, a few Texas cattlemen, led by billionaire Paul Engler, owner of Cactus Feeders, Inc., filed suit against Howard Lyman, Oprah Winfrey, and Harpo Productions. The lawsuit alleged Howard Lyman and Oprah Winfrey had violated a Texas law which forbids someone from "knowingly making false statements" about agricultural business. The cattlemen alleged that Oprah and Lyman were responsible for the decline in beef futures. Howard and Oprah had discussed the threat of e-Coli and Mad Cow Disease and Howard suggested that it was only a matter of time until Mad Cow Disease appeared in the United States.
Expert warned that mad cow was imminent
but Bush administration did not listen
Dec 26, New York Times via smirkingchimp.com
So six weeks ago, Dr. Prusiner, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on prions, entered Ms. Veneman's office with a message. "I went to tell her that what happened in Canada was going to happen in the United States," Dr. Prusiner said. "I told her it was just a matter of time."
Congress Scuttled Meat Protection Measure
BSE: Markets shaken and dollar tumbles to a record low
news.independent.co.uk
Fears of an outbreak of BSE rocked US financial, grain and livestock markets. The dollar tumbled to an all-time low against the euro, and the stock market fell as shares in restaurants and food companies sank.
'Cow came from Canada'
U.S. farmers: Community closes ranks: Suspicion will remain until cow's origin is determined
Gloom descends as US mad cow outbreak feared
Every last drop of holiday cheer has been drained out of the old one-storey slaughterhouse on the south-western edge of Moses Lake, a farm town in the semi-desert country of eastern Washington state. It was here that the first cow in the US to test positive for mad cow disease was slaughtered two weeks ago. "I have so much nervous energy I prefer to stand," said Tom Ellestad, who, with his older brother Larry, runs the meat company where the Holstein dairy cow was slaughtered.
Congress Scuttled Meat Protection Measure
WASHINGTON - Legislation to keep meat from downed animals off American kitchen tables was scuttled - for the second time in as many years - as Congress labored unsuccessfully earlier this month to pass a catchall agency spending bill.
First case of mad cow disease in US
"I suggest this cow is the tip of an invisible iceberg," Mr Stauber, co-author of a book about the threat of the disease, told CNN last night. "My presumption is mad cow disease is spread throughout North America at some level, but because our testing programme is so inadequate we have not identified it." He said the US livestock industry, unlike its European counterparts, continued to practise "animal cannibalism".
Inspections for Mad Cow Lag Those Done Abroad
In discussing the case of mad cow disease apparently found in Washington State, Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman said yesterday that her department tested 20,526 cattle for mad cow disease last year. But that is only a small percentage of the 35 million commercially slaughtered each year.
Feed banned in Britain dumped on Third World
Flashback: Sunday October 29, 2000
The Observer UK
Britain offloaded tens of thousands of tons of potentially BSE-infected cattle feed on the Third World after deciding it was too dangerous to give to herds in the UK.
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, December 24, 2003
¤ Selective forgiveness
¤ White House Faulted on Uranium Claim
¥ Simply put they Lied...
¤ Iraq bomb kills three US soldiers
¤ Occupation forces bomb Baghdad
¤ Nuance & Innuendo in the War on Iraq
¤ The Mad Cowboy's Prediction Comes True
¤ Saddam's People and Ours
¤ Rumsfeld backed Saddam even after chemical attacks
¤ Is it Safe Yet? The Saddam Illusion
¤ Never Apologize, Never Explain
¤ U.S. preparing genetic bomb for mankind
¤ Dissolving journalistic integrity: Lies & profits in the media
¤ Bush's balancing act: Taiwan and China
¤ Here we go again
¤ First Come, First Serve
¤ No agreement yet between UN, US on Iraq talks
¤ Palestinians Protest Deadly Gaza Raid
¤ Follow my lead, Gaddafi urges 'rogue' states
¤ Militants arrested as top judge is killed
¤ Court reprimands American teenager for threatening e-mails
¤ People Celebrated December 25th Three Centuries Before Christ's Birth
¤ Chocolate may be way to keep age at bay
¤ Orange alert in US-terrorizing the American public again
¤ The Weapons That Weren't
¤ US media, government scramble to obscure criminal dealings with Hussein
¤ Baghdad rocked as troops battle guerrillas
¤ Israel's Threat To World Peace
¤ Bin Laden 'ordered US attack'
¤ Rumsfeld backed Saddam even after chemical attacks
¤ New theory for Iraq's missing WMD
¤ IDF raid that left nine Palestinians dead
¤ 600 Lawyers Volunteer to Defend Saddam
¤ Iran's conflicting views on Saddam
¤ Sunnis Flock To Volunteer For Iraqi Forces
¤ Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
¤ Sharon's Speech: the Decoded Version
¤ White House Faulted on Uranium Claim
¤ Talk, Saddam, Talk
¤ Follow my lead, Gaddafi urges 'rogue' states
¤ Pakistani unrest is Taliban boon
¤ US warns of attacks against Westerners in Bahrain
¤ Asia balks at US-Australian missile shield
¤ U.S. Increases Military Aid To Morocco
¤ Afghanistan exposes fault lines in NATO
¤ Occupation forces bomb Baghdad
¤ Asian countries ban imports of US beef
¤ First case of mad cow disease in US
¤ Washington sniper will not be executed
600 Lawyers Volunteer to Defend Saddam
Posted: Wednesday, December 24, 2003
600 Lawyers Volunteer to Defend Saddam
By SHAFIKA MATTAR
Associated Press Writer
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - More than 600 Jordanian lawyers have volunteered to defend former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the president of the Jordanian Bar Association said Tuesday.
The Arab Lawyer's Union, which comprises members from across the Arab world, is setting up an international team for Saddam's defense, Hussein Mejali told The Associated Press. Full Article
Iran's conflicting views on Saddam
By Safa Haeri
PARIS - Ever since the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein by US forces aided by Iraqi Kurdish peshmergas, top Iranian officials on both sides of the leadership have made discordant, if not contradictory, statements about his trial, his sentence and the issue of Iran-Iraq War reparations, estimated by Tehran at billions of US dollars.
For several days after Saddam's capture on December 13, there was stunned silence from Iran's clerical rulers, high-ranking military commanders and advisers. Saddam Hussein had launched a devastating eight-year war from 1980-88, a conflict that cost Iran half a million dead and wounded. Many of the casualties were injured for life because of the massive use of chemical weapons by Iraqi troops.
Full Article
Bush has thrown open Pandora's box
Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Bush has thrown open Pandora's box in a paradise for international terrorists
2003 has been a crucial year for the Middle East, with war in Iraq and the continuing intifada in Israel. The Guardian's acclaimed commentator on the region assesses what happened, what it means, and where it might lead next year
David Hirst
Tuesday December 23, 2003
The Guardian UK
This was the year the Middle East became the undisputed, tumultuous centre of global politics. When, at dawn on March 20 the US and its British ally went to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, they were intervening in the region on such a scale that Arabs everywhere compared the invasion, in its potential geopolitical significance, to that seminal upheaval of the last century: the collapse of the Ottoman empire. That led to the arbitrary carve-up of its former Arab provinces by the European colonial powers and, in 1948, to the loss of one of them, Palestine, to the Israeli settler-state. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
¤ The Year of the Liar
¤ Duck and Cover-Up
¤ Sharon's Speech The Decoded Version
¤ Conflicted Feelings About the Capture of Saddam
¤ Cheney Should Check his Own 'Facts'
¤ Trial Could Dredge Up Sordid Role of US
¤ Revealed -- Saddam's Network or a PSYOPS Campaign?
¤ Partners in Crime: US Complicity in the War Crimes of Saddam Hussein
¤ More 'Shaky' Intelligence Claims?
¤ Israeli raid on a Gaza killed eight Palestinians
¤ Talk of Tikrit's Favorite Diner: Hatred of Hussein, Fury at U.S.
¤ Group in charge of Iraq blamed for woes
¤ Families sue U.S., reject 9/11 'bribe'
¤ Two large explosions rock central Baghdad, casualties uncertain
¤ Johnson's conduct toward Israel approached treason
¤ NBC: Terror threat to extend through January
¤ It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House
¤ Sharon's Wall a Threat to All Religious Groups
¤ The Libyan Scam
¤ Rumsfeld made Iraq overture in '84 despite chemical raids
¤ When will press stop circulating dubious Iraq claims?
¤ Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
¤ Iraq war has made us safer from terrorism, my ass
¤ Congress Gives Lump of Coal to Unemployed
¤ Pray to Play: Bush's Faith-Based National Parks
¤ This Republican has some doubts
¤ Bomb kills two US soldiers, Iraqi translator
¤ Baghdad attack kills two US soldiers
¤ UK plan to pressure Syria on weapons
¤ S. Korea to Send 3,000 Troops to Iraq
¤ Five Palestinians Killed in Gaza Raid
¤ Gaza violence claims nine
¤ Bush has thrown open Pandora's box
¤ It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House
¤ Two Dead As Quake Shakes Central Calif
¤ The unknown Hussein factor in the 2004 election
¤ What a Tangled Web the Neocons Weave
¤ If You Can't Beat 'Em, Hire 'Em: Rumsfeld and the Assassins
¤ Israeli commandos face dismissal on refusing to act in Palestine
¤ The uses and abuses of intelligence
¤ Will Iraq survive the Iraqi resistance?
¤ The UK's stale, not special, US relationship
¤ Hurdles block Iraq's regional integration
¤ Australia won't match US terrorist alert
¤ Terrorism alert fails to stop Britons flying to US
¤ Color Codes Are a Kaleidoscope of Confusion
¤ A democracy that smells like a dictatorship
¤ Hamas sent message to U.S. via Qatar proposing truce
¤ Five Palestinians killed in Gaza invasion
We got him: Kurds say they caught Saddam
Posted: Monday, December 22, 2003
Washington's claims that brilliant US intelligence work led to the capture of Saddam Hussein are being challenged by reports sourced in Iraq's Kurdish media claiming that its militia set the circumstances in which the US merely had to go to a farm identified by the Kurds to bag the fugitive former president.
Full Article
Saddam was captured by Kurdish forces
LONDON: Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British tabloid newspaper reported on Sunday.
Saddam: Betrayed, drugged and traded
Saddam Hussein was betrayed and handed over to Kurdish forces, who negotiated for political gain before leaving him for the Americans to find, a British newspaper has reported.
Saddam was held by Kurdish forces,
drugged and left for US troops
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, "exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".
Revealed: Who Really Found Saddam?
Saddam's capture was the best present George Bush could have hoped for, and then Gaddafi handed a propaganda gift to Blair. But nothing's ever that simple...
Latest News
Posted: Monday, December 22, 2003
¤ Russia Deploys Fresh Batch of Missiles
¤ US army conducts raids near Syrian border, kills Iraqi woman
¤ Thousands demand Kirkuk for the Kurds
¤ Latest Attacks Could Worsen Fuel Shortage Faced by Iraq
¤ Arab leaders from Persian Gulf approve pact to fight terrorism
¤ Troops kill 128 Aceh rebels in one month
¤ Oil deal puts Sudan a step closer to peace
¤ 'Lost Tribe' Finds Itself on Front Lines of Mideast Conflict
¤ U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Agency Head to Travel to Libya
¤ U.S. Reverses, Lets Hmong Exiles Resettle
¤ U.S. Squabble Holding Up Iraq Aid
¤ Judge Halts Forced Military Anthrax Shots
¤ If Libya can do it, why not Israel?
¤ Egypt calls for international conference to rid Mideast of WMD
¤ Pressure on Israel to scrap WMD
¤ Israeli invasion shakes Jenin
¤ Bush and Blair: The Big Fall-Out
¤ A crude attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
¤ Saddam to portray America as accomplice
¤ For Baghdad's Sunnis, hostility toward occupation is growing
¤ Bush & Democracy Hypocrisy
¤ Has Saddam Been Caught Too Soon for Bush's Comfort?
¤ Pro-wars weave a web of deceit around Saddam's spider hole
¤ US Contractor in Iraq Helped Fund Al Qaeda
¤ UN satellites eye Israeli barrier
¤ U.S. Tobacco Companies Accused of Terrorist Ties
¤ US forces arrest three Iraqi weapons scientists
¤ US moves to high terror alert
¤ We got him: Kurds say they caught Saddam
¤ 'Saddam was captured by Kurdish forces'
¤ Saddam: Betrayed, drugged and traded
¤ Saddam Capture Won't Mean Much
¤ Two Iraqi oil pipelines blown up
¤ Two Explosions Heard in Afghan Capital
¤ Taliban kill seven Afghan troops
¤ Iraqi woman dies in anti-resistance dragnet
¤ Two children killed in Balata
¤ Israeli troops kill boy, 5
¤ Turkey Accuses Israel Of Buying Oil From Iraq
¤ If Libya can do it, why not Israel?
¤ Israel must also eliminate WMDs, says Mubarak
¤ America, Britain must now pressure Israel to disarm
¤ Israel warns Iran on N-weapons
¤ Israel threatens Iran’s nuclear sites
¤ A $20 million carrot to keep WMD scientists in Iraq
¤ Americans Mostly Shrug Off Terror Warning
¤ Threat level in Austrailia to stay low despite US warning
¤ The Two Troublemakers
¤ Musharraf More Valuable than Ever in 'War on Terror'
¤ Iraqi resistance inspires Palestinians
¤ Why the 'we told you so' brigade have told us nothing
Re: Selective memory and a dishonest doctrine
Posted: Sunday, December 21, 2003
Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine by Noam Chomsky
Published on Sunday, December 21, 2003 by the Toronto Star
Re: Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine
"All people who have any concern for human rights, justice and integrity should be overjoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein, and should be awaiting a fair trial for him by an international tribunal.
An indictment of Saddam's atrocities would include not only his slaughter and gassing of Kurds in 1988 but also, rather crucially, his massacre of the Shiite rebels who might have overthrown him in 1991.
At the time, Washington and its allies held the "strikingly unanimous view (that) whatever the sins of the Iraqi leader, he offered the West and the region a better hope for his country's stability than did those who have suffered his repression," reported Alan Cowell in the New York Times." Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2003
¤ Saddam capture changes nothing
¤ Arabs push for Israel to disarm
¤ Saddam to portray America as accomplice
¤ Gadhafi acted after U.S. assurances
¤ Cheney faces prosecution: report
¤ Iran fears Israeli attack
¤ Arab League calls on Israel to follow Tripoli's lead
¤ Libya's fatal blow to axis of evil
¤ Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops
¤ US Saddam Claims Being Challenged
¤ Revealed: Who Really Found Saddam?
¤ Controlling the 'Fourth Front'
¤ Saddam is The Man Who Knew too Much
¤ A 'War' Fought on Half-Truths and Deceptions
¤ Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine Chomsky
¤ Re: Selective memory and a dishonest doctrine Rootsie
¤ The Anatomy of Racial Denial
¤ Bush declares: "We must get rid of Arafat"
¤ Israel considering operation to destroy Iran's nuke capabilities
¤ Iraq Pipelines, Storage Tanks Set on Fire
¤ Nuclear program in Iran tied to Pakistan
¤ UK in secret talks with pariahs
¤ Palestinian killed in attack on US forces in Iraq
¤ Secret Diplomacy Won Libyan Pledge on Arms
¤ Libya spies' secret deal to reveal terrorists
¤ Israelis, Palestinians demonstrate against settlements
¤ Maoist rebels denounce amnesty offer
¤ Afghan deadlock weakens Karzai
¤ Government Blasts Venezuela Recall Drive
¤ We'll be waiting for good news from frontlines
¤ Three Iraqi cops killed in friendly fire
¤ New York murder rate creeps up
¤ Rebuilding Iraq Is ... Nothing a Few Middle-Class Guys Couldn't Solve
¤ Palestinian killed in attack on US forces in Iraq
¤ Why the capture could make things worse
¤ Revealed: who really found Saddam?
¤ Spanish PM pays surprise Iraq visit
¤ Putin searches for tame 'rival' to oppose him
¤ Philippines landslides toll may top 200
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2003
¤ U.S. Opposes Provisions for Iraq Tribunal
¤ World Court to hold hearings on Israeli wall
¤ World leaders should take stand in Saddam trial: lawyer
¤ US troops kill four pro-Saddam protestors
¤ US troops kill Iraqi cops by mistake
¤ Israeli invasion of Balata continues
¤ Libya aims to rejoin international fold
¤ Saddam was 'betrayed by aide'
¤ Rifts dog Afghan constitution debate
¤ US open to talks on UN role in Iraq
¤ CIA analysis finds "most likely" voice of Zawahri
¤ Too soon to decide on Libya sanctions: US
¤ Sharon Threat Seen as Major Problem
¤ Bush wants Saddam to hang, but we must resist
¤ Death Toll in 3 Years of Mideast Violence
2,583 Palestinians 898 Israelis
¤ Protests over Sharon threat fail to derail summit hopes
¤ Iraqi homeless shelter bombed
¤ How Israel manipulated western intelligence agencies
¤ Divided on the war? Not really!
¤ Allow an international panel to judge Saddam
¤ Bush has six months to reassure voters
¤ Sharon's vow: agree, or you'll be worse off
¤ After Saddam
¤ Why the resistance will increase
¤ Halliburton unscathed by overcharge flap
Flashback Halliburton handed Iraq contract
¤ Libya to Give Up Arms Programs, Bush Announces
¤ Fears of Retaliation for U.S. Limits on Iraq Work
¤ In Iraq, Shiites are poised for power
¤ Engage Mr. Sharon
¤ To the last drop of blood
¤ Fight to the death
¤ Battle lines drawn: settlers prepare to fight
¤ Washington struggles with its own catch-22
¤ Will Saddam go on trial?
¤ Bhutan kills five top Ulfa leaders, hands over seven to India
¤ Pakistan 'flexible' on Kashmir talks
¤ Australia moots radical future for bankrupt Nauru
¤ Bethlehem to be encircled in steel
¤ Bin Laden's deputy says US beaten in Afghanistan
¤ Guterres says Papuan force ready to fight
¤ Bremer escaped guerrilla attack on his convoy
Best-laid Plans
Posted: Friday, December 19, 2003
One of the constant refrains we hear from the malcontents carping about George W. Bush's triumphant crusade in Iraq is the charge -- the canard -- that the president and his crack team of advisers "had no plan" for the post-war period, that they've stumbled from crisis to crisis, changing policies without rhyme or reason, or have even "plunged off a cliff," as erstwhile war-hawk Newt Gingrich declared last week. Full Article
America Bags The 'Jackal Of Samarra'
Posted: Friday, December 19, 2003
We have been saturated, satiated, numbed, and waterlogged with screaming newspaper headlines and late breaking TV exclusives of the capture of Saddam Hussein. There was such a surge in news transmission of this man's being apprehended that we have to assume that aliens billions of light years away knew about it promptly. Whilst back on earth, I had to hear of it via an early morning jangling phone waking me from deep sleep. A call from a dear friend as she breathlessly told me to quickly turn on my TV to witness events of the capture. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Friday, December 19, 2003
¤ America Bags The 'Jackal Of Samarra'
¤ Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam
¤ When Will Press Stop Circulating Dubious Iraq Claims?
¤ U.S. Intelligence Learn of Possible Threats to New York
¤ Rumsfeld was told to placate Saddam
¤ Giuliani: Saddam's Interrogation Could Show 9/11 Link
¤ Qaeda Leader Says Chasing Americans in 'Homeland'
¤ Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam
¤ Nuclear terrorism - the greater dangers
¤ Settlements Pose Fundamental Threat to Democracy in Israel
¤ Central Asia's great base race
¤ The Iraqis Who Hated Saddam Hate the Americans More
¤ Dangerous religion: Bush's theology of empire
¤ Best-laid Plans
¤ US has already lost Iraq
¤ We believed because we were scared
¤ Is the search for weapons over?
¤ Iraq weapons hunter to quit early as hopes of finding arsenal dwindle
¤ Who Needs WMD When You've Got Saddam?
¤ 'CIA discussing next steps for search of Iraq's WMDs'
¤ Iraq, a dilemma unresolved
¤ After Afghanistan and Iraq, where to now for Bush?
¤ United States must thank, honour Saddam Hussein
¤ We must honour the Thousands of dead Iraqi civilians
¤ Halliburton Says It Saved Pentagon Money
¤ Unusual Pentagon review further delays new Iraq contracts
¤ Capture of Hussein opens deep rifts in Iraq
¤ Iran acepts nuclear inspections
¤ Sharon: act now or we go it alone
¤ Four Palestinians killed in West Bank raid
¤ Sharon warns he will 'sever' Israelis from Palestinians
¤ Palestinians scorn 'these dangerous words'
¤ U.S. Warns Israel on Imposing Solution
¤ Teen convicted of US sniper killings
¤ Blast Hits Office of Iraq's Shiite Party
¤ Mbeki visits Mugabe - and his sworn rival
¤ Proof of our exploding universe
¤ Rights, Liberties Groups Hail Court Defeats for Bush Anti-Terror War
¤ Nuclear terrorism - the greater dangers
¤ Guantanamo prisoner has right to see lawyer, US court rules
¤ Assassination 'windfall' for Musharraf
¤ The assassination attempt
¤ How Saddam may still nail Bush
¤ US troops kill two Iraqis, American soldier dies in ambush
¤ United States must thank, honour Saddam Hussein
¤ Know thy enemy!
¤ War Crimes Trials and Errors
¤ The Trial Of Saddam Hussein
¤ Dean stands by comments on Hussein
¤ Soldier's Iraq death 'avoidable'
¤ Libya Renounces WMD Program
¤ Saddam and the War Hawks
Bush Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2003
When Robert Dreyfuss of the American Prospect asked an unspecified Bush neocon "strategist" how best to deal with the resistance in Iraq, the response he received was chilling, "It's time for 'no more Mr. Nice Guy.' All those people shouting, 'Down with America!' and dancing in the street when Americans are attacked? We have to kill them." Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2003
¤ Bush Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
¤ Lethal Israeli raid on Nablus
¤ 9/11 Commission Set to Blame Bush
¤ Why WMD question must not be allowed to go away
¤ Iraqi Shiites Want U.S. Out, Threaten Resistance
¤ Blix sceptical on Iraqi WMD claim
¤ Bush Warned: Don't Push Israel
¤ Court: Gitmo Detainees Should Have Lawyers
¤ Plead guilty or stay at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely
¤ Appeals Court Says Bush Can't Hold U.S. Citizen
¤ Judge: Bush Has No Right To Detain U.S. Citizen
¤ Pat Robertson Warns Israel Against Allowing Palestinian State
¤ We Got Saddam. Big Deal.
¤ U.S. lawmakers urge Iraq relations with Israel
¤ Netanyahu: Israel's demographic problem is with its Arab minority
¤ German Foreign Minister slams Israel for building fence
¤ Bush calls for Hussein's execution: a portrait of sadism and ignorance
¤ Gold Hits Highest Price In Nearly 8 Years
¤ Iran signs nuclear inspection agreement
¤ 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
¤ The Colonial Occupation of Iraq
¤ Saddam's capture bodes ill for Bush's re-election
¤ Remember 'weapons of mass destruction'?
¤ We got Saddam! - So what?
¤ Live from the new Iraq: Happy talk
¤ Celebration aside, nothing has changed in Iraq
¤ Iraqi Insurgents Kill U.S. Soldier in Baghdad
¤ 90 rebels, 34 soldiers killed in Bhutan military offensive
¤ Albright thinks Bush hiding bin Laden
¤ Kay Plans to Leave Search for Iraqi Arms
¤ Saddam's arrest fuels insurgency
¤ No "smoking gun" to convict Saddam Hussein yet
¤ Sean, Truth Holding on Line One!
¤ Next US War Target: the Vatican?
¤ Ten killed in fuel tanker blast
¤ An unjust war and an unjust occupation
¤ Halliburton units file for bankruptcy
¤ Saddam's arrest fuels insurgency
¤ Capture won’t end Iraqi resistance
¤ U.S. Soldier Killed in Ambush in Baghdad
¤ Earth is 20% darker, say experts
¤ War may prove more of a blunder than a crime
¤ The passing Bush doctrine leaves policy vacuum
¤ Ambush kills U.S. soldier in Baghdad
¤ Saddam’s arrest: ironies of history
¤ Rumsfeld and his 'old friend' Saddam
¤ Lethal Israeli raid on Nablus
¤ Iraq contract exclusion only on US spending
¤ Kay Plans to Leave Search for Iraqi Arms
¤ No "smoking gun" to convict Saddam Hussein yet, say Iraqi experts
¥ They just need some time to plant them
¤ Saddam Hussein as a Symbol
¤ CIA interrogators plan good cop-bad cop grilling
Rumsfeld and his 'old friend' Saddam
Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
By Jim Lobe, www.atimes.com
WASHINGTON - At last in United States military captivity, ousted former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will soon mark an important 20th anniversary, the kind of anniversary that brings with it an appreciation of the ironies of life, and politics.
His captor, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, might also recall long-forgotten memories - or memories best forgotten - of what he was doing exactly 20 years ago. Full Article
Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth
Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
www.boston.com
THE INVASION was still a lie. The capture of Saddam Hussein changes nothing about that. There were too many forked tongues in the road to his lair. The way we removed the dictator, we became a global dictatorship.
No major reason for the war has been proven. The deadly WMDs became weapons of mysterious disappearance. In August 2002, Vice President Cheney said: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." Full Article
Saddam's silence is golden for West
Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
TO the Americans, the glory of capturing Saddam Hussein, to the Iraqis the job of dispatching him to the gallows and eternal silence . . . a silence that will cover up those long cruel years of dictatorship when the United States, certain Western states, and especially Russia, were among his secret and not so secret supporters.
Pardon me for being so sceptical and so cynical about Jack Straw’s shrug of the shoulders that, although the UK opposes the death penalty, if Iraq imposes it on Saddam, well we’ll just have to accept it. Full Article
Iraq's Real Weapon Of Mass Destruction
Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Saddam Hussein's surrender to coalition forces on Sunday should catapult into focus the need not only for the establishment of a properly structured system of War Crimes Tribunals, but for all countries which today are not signatories to the International Criminal Court [ICC] to become members and accept the authority of this body. The principle of the jurisdiction of War Crimes Tribunals should not be seen as applying merely to vanquished and/or weak nations, but rather to all. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
¤ Ten killed in fuel tanker blast
¤ Saddam's silence is golden for West
¤ Exposed: US War crimes
¤ Blair signals retreat on Iraq weapons
¤ Blair's weapons claim sparks fresh 'spin' row
¤ Dollar Falls to a Record as Investors May Shun Low U.S. Rates
¤ Saddam, so not worth it
¤ Who will testify at Saddam's trial?
¤ Evil trying evil
¤ Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth
¤ Meanwhile, Halliburton handed another Iraq contract
¤ Bush and Cheney: Don't let them hustle us!
¤ Saddam and Dean and beyond
¤ Iraq's Real Weapon Of Mass Destruction
¤ Desertions deplete Afghan Army
¤ Saddam in Irons: The War's Hard Truths Remain
¤ Insurgents or Protesters? 18 Killed in Clashes with US Troops
¤ Saddam should pay 'ultimate penalty' says Bush
¥ Got to shut him up quickly
¤ US accused of double standards
¤ Unprecedented public ferment among once-silent Saudis
¤ In Iraq's court of public opinion, the truth can get hazy
¤ Blair: US has found secret Iraq labs
¥ Yeah Right!!!
¤ Deadly violence rages in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's capture
¤ 20 Iraqis killed by US troops
¤ 18 Iraqis Killed in Clashes with US Troops
¤ Anger Too Surfaces Over Arrest
¤ Neil Clark: The war we never should have fought
¤ U.S. Expands Defense Ties With Algeria
¤ Bush hopeful UN will now fall in line
¤ Al-Douri is no laughing matter for US military
¤ The future is being fought over now
¤ Saddam should die, says Bush
¤ Guns for cash offer swamped
¤ Desertions deplete Afghan Army
¤ Blair: US has found secret Iraq labs
¤ Bush hopeful UN will now fall in line
¤ Say no to the US
Saddam's capture: Irrelevant, except for American voters
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
By Kurt Nimmo, www.kurtnimmo.com
Like Osama running a worldwide terrorist outfit from an isolated cave in Afghanistan, the US and its handpicked puppets in Iraq will attempt to make the case Saddam ran the "insurgency" from an 8x10' dirt hole under a house.
"We obviously are thrilled at this [the capture of Saddam], and yes, we consider him the 'head' of the beast and hope his capture demoralizes those resisting coalition troops," a nameless defense official told MSNBC. "But we can't say it's over. There are others out there, and more to this fight than just Saddam."
For the occupiers, of course, the resistance is a "beast" they believe can be "demoralized" by the capture of a former dictator who became irrelevant on the day the US invaded.
"Do I expect an increase in retaliation?" asked Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. "I don't know, but we're prepared."
Retaliation, or resistance regardless of Saddam Hussein?
More than anything, the capture of Saddam is for American public consumption.
"The arrest of Hussein appears to be fortuitous, coming just in time for the new year -- and the new season for political campaigning in America," writes Christopher Deliso. "The timing could not have been any better for a beleaguered president who had, until yesterday, run out of propaganda stunts in advance of next month's pivotal State of the Union address."
If Osama is suddenly captured in the wilds of Pakistan, Karl Rove won't need his customary bag of dirty tricks to get Bush elected -- because if Bush gets Osama, the American people will rush to the polls in November and happily vote for Junior in record numbers... the Republicans won't even need those notorious Diebold computer voting machines. "Enemies of Bush who fear nothing more than the unrestrained indulgences of a second-term president do not want to contemplate a long dark night of foreign intervention and revoked civil liberties," notes Deliso.
Well, get used to it because, even without Osama under wraps, Bush will likely "serve" a second term -- by hook or crook, if need be. No way is Howard Dean or General Wes going to win the election, even with Hillary as the VP nominee. No Democrat can compete with Bush now, save a catastrophic development in the Middle East or elsewhere.
Expect the Saddam Show Trial this summer, mid-stride of Dem campaigning. As it now stands, estimates on when Saddam will go before a tribunal -- carried, naturally, on TV for American viewers (this thing will be as big or bigger than the OJ trial) -- are anywhere from "very soon, in the next few weeks" (Mouwafak al-Rabii, a handpicked Shi'ite Muslim council member) to "four to six months" (Adnan Pachachi, another Bremer stooge).
More than likely, the Saddam Show Trial will begin sometime after the July 1 deadline when the occupation authority supposedly hands over "sovereignty" to a transitional Iraqi government sanctioned by the Bushites.
Forget about Saddam being shipped to the United Nations court in The Hague. "It was people inside Iraq who were gassed. The mass graves inside of Iraq are full of Iraqis," said Tony Blair's official spokesman. "It is just that his fate should rest with Iraqis."
If Saddam were sent to The Hague, chances are his trial would last as long if not longer than that of Slobodan Milosevic. He would have plenty of time to divulge juicy details about US, British, and European complicity in building his war machine over the years, including weapons of mass destruction, and even the role of the CIA in catapulting the Ba'ath Party to power 40 years ago. Imagine Saddam spilling the beans -- live on TV and translated on the fly.
Even the Bush Ministry of Disinformation, aka Fox News, would be obliged to carry the news.
No, Saddam will be tried by Iraqi "exiles" and others handpicked by the Bushites, the trial will likely last at most a few weeks, Saddam will not mention the role of the US, and he will be quickly executed. End of story.
None of this, of course, will mean squat to those Iraqis resisting US occupation and, after July 1, resisting the so-called transitional Iraqi government arranged by the Bushites. Saddam is seriously irrelevant and his capture, interrogation, show trial, and execution will not take the wind out of the resistance. "We are not fighting for Saddam," a resistance fighter told the Los Angeles Times after Saddam was bagged.
It will, though, more than likely help Bush get "re-elected."
So long as Iraqis are dying instead of American soldiers in the name of the neocon dream of splintering Arab nationalism into palsied shards and allowing neoliberal vulture capitalism to steal (i.e., "privatize") with impunity, the American people will not care, especially if Bush rolls out a couple more precisely timed video productions that make Americans feel warm and fuzzy about themselves, their unelected president, and pre-emptive colonialism in far away places.
Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Visit his excellent no holds barred blog at www.kurtnimmo.com/blogger.html This article was originally published in www.smirkingchimp.com
"We Got Him" Give Me A Break!
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
What is wrong with many supposedly critical writers on the Internet? Are they suffering from analytical paralysis?
Let me spell it out as simply as possible:
SADDAM HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACK ON AMERICA.
SADDAM WAS NOT AN IMMANENT THREAT TO AMERICA, BRITAIN, AND AUSTRALIA.
Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
¤ White House Admits Pre-9/11 Warnings; Bush Still Denies It
¤ The Real Significance of the Capture of Saddam
¤ Wash. Congressman Questions Saddam Timing
¤ Bush, Sharon ought to suffer same destiny as Saddam
¤ Blair and Blix clash over WMD claims
¤ Resistance attacks continue in Iraq
¤ France Says It Is Willing to Make Deal on Iraq's Foreign Debt
¤ Iraqi leader predicts quick trial, death
¤ Fighting in South Philippines Breaks Shaky Truce
¤ Paper: Israel Planned Hit on Saddam
¤ Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S.
¤ Israel: Iran is No. 1 sponsor of terror
¤ Libya leads Arab race for nuclear bomb - Sharon
¤ With the media focused on Saddam, Israel makes hundreds homeless
¤ Dean blames Rove for online attacks
¤ Squelching Dissent in the Name of Security
¤ "We Got Him" Give Me A Break!
¤ Let Saddam face ICC for Trial
¤ Saddam's capture: Irrelevant, except for American voters
¤ Meanwhile, Osama bin Laden remains definitely not smoked out
¤ Meanwhile Halliburton gets more work in Iraq
¤ Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the slaughter goes on
¤ US Takes Custody of Another Wayward Client
Flashback ¤ How Do I Liberate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
¤ The War Fête
¤ Bush may yet wish Saddam had been killed
¤ An American Tale
¤ US Killed Protestors in support of Saddam
¤ Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'
¤ New powers, old habits in Iraq
¤ Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S.
¤ A Defiant Roar From Iraqi Rebels
¤ U.S. troops kill 11 in Samarra firefight
¤ Captured - but still a huge problem
¤ Saddam Hussein is behind bars, now what?
¤ Anti-war MPs give Blair no respite over WMD hunt
¤ Mugabe lashes out at 'predatory' West
¤ Syria not worried about threats of US attack, says Assad
¤ Misguided Mission
¤ Bush is still in a real hole
¤ Israel to Coordinate With U.S. on Moves
¤ Israel invades West Bank camp
¤ Blair backs move to punish Spain and Poland
¤ U.S. Troops Kill 11 in Iraq Firefight
¤ Coalition fears confirmed as blasts kill eight
¤ Baker Starts Iraq Debt Relief Mission
¤ Alzheimer's can be spotted decades before illness starts
For Example ¤ Main opponents of war rush to congratulate Bush
¤ Hip-hopping mad at Vatican gig
¤ Democrats step up attack on Bush's war policy
Latest News
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2003
¤ The New Model of Imperialism: Saddam on Parade
¤ Iraqi cheer fades into ire at U.S
¤ Capturing Saddam Hussein: Will It Mean a New Day for Iraq?
¤ Imitating Israel is Dumb U.S. Policy
¤ US occupation authority suppresses study of Iraqi civilian casualties
¤ 'Musharraf faked bid on life'
¤ 'How to dump Bush (part one)'
¤ Jessica Lynch captures Saddam
¤ Nine tales of a society scared into stupidity
¤ Notice to Iraq: Let us protect you, or be shot
¤ Saddam sideshow obscures reality
¤ We caught the wrong guy
¤ We got him - what now?
¤ Suicide Bombers Kill 8 Policemen in Iraq
¤ Car Bomb Kills Nine at Police Station Near Baghdad
¤ Car Bomb at Iraqi Police Station Kills 17
¤ Car bomb kills 19 in Khalidiyah
¤ And still, the Iraqis hate us
¤ Saddam Was Already Irrelevant
¤ US Officials and Iraqis Agree That Conflict Will Get Worse
¤ How much will it matter?
¤ Saddam's Capture Means Trouble for U.S. Officials
¤ Saddam's Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings
¤ Bombs rock Iraqi police stations
¤ Blasts outside two Baghdad police stations
¤ Israelis kill unarmed Palestinians
¤ UN agencies threaten to quit war-torn Afghanistan
¤ Odd Reaction
¤ Assassination Attempt on Musharraf Fails
¤ Seeds of anger take root
¤ Saddam capture spells good news for Bush
¤ Capture gives Bush a big campaign boost
¤ Saddam's Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings From Insurgents
¤ Future Uncertain as Saddam Unearthed
¤ Saddam's Capture: A Pyrrhic Victory in the Making?
¤ Misguided Mission
¤ Capture probably won't help in bin Laden hunt
¤ Saddam Hussein captured
¤ How much will it matter?
¤ Saddam is history, but who is the real enemy?
¤ And still, the Iraqis hate us
¤ The 'rat' and the information war
¤ Officials wary of retaliation on U.S. targets
¤ Iraq has more debt than it can pay
¤ Palestinian-Canadian Charged in Israel
¤ Uncle Sam's Guantanamo Prison
¤ Washington's Global Strategy Changes Asian Perceptions
¤ Terrorist act exposed, hurry up and forget it!
¤ China urges U.S. to be more flexible on North Korea
Write Stuff
Posted: Sunday, December 14, 2003
Venezuelans learn the write stuff
More than a million people have enrolled in Mission Robinson, a literacy campaign launched by Chávez's left-wing government. It is tinged with revolutionary evangelism.
Tens of thousands of 'missionaries' have been recruited to teach the 'patriots' who enrol. Soldiers - the 'Army of Light' - have distributed 80,000 TVs and video recorders to makeshift classrooms across the country, from city shanty towns to remote Indian villages. 'Chávez uses popular language with a certain religiosity.
He uses the symbols of the people and he taps into their hopes and beliefs. He makes direct contact with the popular classes, something his opponents have failed to do,' says Oscar Schémel of polling firm Hinterlaces.
Chávez then lectures his audience on the importance of education. 'It is about liberation. You are your own liberators; you are breaking the chains of ignorance that shackled you for so long.'
www.guardian.co.uk
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, December 14, 2003
¤ A hastily imposed plan for democracy has little chance to succeed in Iraq
¤ For telling the truth
¤ Who's really in charge at the White House?
¤ Democratic presidential candidates hitting Bush on ties to Saudi Arabia
¤ Bush tries to quell Halliburton uproar
¤ Bush Changing Views on Putin
¤ Iraq's Illegal Weapons Are Clear, Bush Says
¥ Another level of dementia
¤ US Officials and Iraqis Agree That Conflict Will Get Worse
¤ U.S. General Sees More Attacks Despite Capture
¤ Will Saddam's capture prove to be a trap for Bush?
¤ Why are Wolfowitz and the Pentagon in Charge of Iraq Rebuilding?
¤ America's arrogance knows no bounds
¤ Saddam Hussein has been Captured
¤ Car bomb hits Iraq police station 17 killed
¤ Iraq Council Confirms Saddam Caught Alive
¥ The case for the war was not capturing Saddam,
but the removal the threatening WMD which are yet to be found
¤ Saddam captured -- Tony Blair
¤ Europe summit ends in chaos on constitution
¤ Europe's grand folly
¤ EU squabbles break out amid fury at US
¤ Chechnya's secret slaughter
¤ Afghanistan: the forgotten war
¤ UN agencies threaten to quit war-torn Afghanistan
¤ Army shells pose cancer risk in Iraq
¤ Venezuelans learn the write stuff
¤ Bush Touts Achievements, Fills War Chest
¤ Iraq Army Desertions May Force Pay Raises
¤ Guantanamo UK
¤ A Baghdad Neighborhood, Once Hopeful, Now Reels
¤ Europe faces crisis after summit split
¤ Sticking together
¤ 12 more die in held Kashmir violence
¤ Pakistan's Afghan dilemma
¤ Car bomb toll rises
¤ Zimbabwe formalises Commonwealth withdrawal
¤ Lethal car bombing at Iraqi police station
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, December 13, 2003
¤ Our sympathies, Mr Nahas
¤ The Pervasive Fear of Talking About the Israeli Connection
Flashback ¤ Different head, same dick
¤ Jessica Lynch, Plural
¤ The Saga of Iran's Alleged WMD
¤ Saddam, Oil and Empire
¤ Woman shot as taxi runs Israeli roadblock
¤ Canadian Probed for Al Qaeda Ties
Blame Canada...
Flashback ¤ How Mossad Got America To Bomb Libya And Fight Iraq
¤ Israel Has Nukes: UN Official
¤ Iraqi "reconstruction" as corporate looting
¤ Iraq Contracts Expose Washington's True Aims
¤ Syria rejects US sanctions bill
¤ US must explain Afghan deaths
¤ Bush dangles another carrot
¤ Cheney oil firm accused of overcharging $61m in Iraq
¤ UK envoy urges Nato to play big role in Iraq
¤ Blast Kills U.S. Soldier Outside Baghdad
¤ Plunder goes on across Afghanistan as looters grow ever bolder
¤ The same old racket in Iraq
¤ Murder Inc
¤ Operation Avalanche underway with 15 children martyred
¤ Female student shot dead in Nablus
¤ Mbeki claims UK to blame for crisis in Zimbabwe
¤ US on defensive over Iraq contracts
¤ Boy killed in Quetta blast
¤ Iraqi cop killed, two Poles wounded
¤ Two US soldiers, one Iraqi killed
¤ Blix urges Israel to give up N-arsenal
¤ Russian reality test for Kyoto
¤ Europe's pious hypocrisy should be exposed for what it is
¤ America's challenge from within
¤ Baker's Return = Cheney's Heartburn
¤ Indian firms fight back for $10bn Iraq 'prize'
¤ When regime change meets reality
¤ War report puts British defence in line of fire
¤ The Bush hard-liners will keep on fighting
¤ Japan, don't send your soldiers
¤ 120 Coalition soldiers killed in operation Mountain Resolve
¤ Crimes of Russian occupiers in Chechnya
¤ No Chechen squad in Japan
¤ Bonfire of faith as mosques go to war
¤ UK troops ill-armed, report finds
¤ 19 killed in Abidjan clashes
¤ Bush criticised for duping air traffic control
¤ Bush signs Syria sanctions into law
¤ Iraq splits EU summit as Blair backs US
Latest News
Posted: Friday, December 12, 2003
¤ The Axis of Incoherence
¤ Cluster Bombs, Air Strikes Killed Hundreds in Iraq
¤ Iraqis Warn Country Close to Civil War
¤ Follow the Money: Halliburton, Timber and Dean
¤ Bush Drops the Mask: They Died for Halliburton
¤ US Evades Blame for Iraqi Deaths
¤ A Deliberate Debacle
¤ The Fallacy of the War on Terror
¤ Hearts and Minds
¤ Things Are Just Ducky, Now That Cheney's Left Town
¤ Bush Says Halliburton Will Have to Repay Any Overcharges
¤ Pentagon launches Halliburton inquiry
¤ Businessmen use Neil Bush link to win Iraq contracts
¤ New enemies mean lighter and faster armed forces
¤ Iraqi Protesters Oust Appointed Governor
¤ Deadly U.S. Raid Leaves Some Afghans Bewildered
¤ Blast Kills U.S. Soldier Outside Baghdad
¤ Another U.S. soldier dies in attack
¤ UK not to intervene in Iran, Syria: O’Brien
¤ Britain blamed for many civilian fatalities in Iraq
¤ Settlers begin preparations for new illegal outpost in West Bank
¤ US troops kill Afghans in arrest bid
¤ 'Bullet points'
¤ 'Who said that? The 2003 Totally Full Of Crap Awards'
¤ US bent on world domination
¤ 'Anti-Americanism will be reawakened'
¤ Settlers vie for East Jerusalem
¤ Allied cluster bombs blamed for 1,000 deaths in Iraq
¤ US commanders are taking more cues from Afghans
¤ Georgians move into breakaway region
¤ Australia extends Pacific power
¤ ElBaradei calls on Israel to give up nukes
¤ Britain blamed for many civilian fatalities in Iraq
¤ Sharon warned against land grab
¤ Guerrilla chiefs to undercut Karzai
¤ The sweet sound of propaganda
¤ UK not to intervene in Iran
¤ France to ban pupils' religious dress
¤ Iraq Suicide Attack Kills 1 U.S. Soldier
¤ Israeli army 'kills six' in Rafah raid
¤ Bush defends decision on Iraq bids
¤ 6 Palestinians Reported Killed in Gaza Clash
¤ New battlelines drawn in the Iraqi sand
¤ The bad news that just won't go away
¤ US, Spain caught in Libya missile mixup
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, December 11, 2003
¤ "Restoring the American Community" by Governor Howard Dean
¤ Response to Howard Dean's Speech by Rootsie
¤ Nearly half of new Iraqi army has quit
¤ Pretty women scramble men's ability to assess the future
¤ Corporate media lies, distortions, spin and omissions all serve Bush
¤ Robert Mugabe slams US & UK 'hegemony'
¤ Why does President Bush avoid funeral ceremonies of US soldiers?
¤ Bush asks excluded nations to forgive Iraq's debt
¤ U.S. Signals Flexibility on Iraq Contracts Amid Row
¤ Making enemies
¤ As Donations Fall, U.N. Plans to Reduce North Korea's Food Aid
¤ On the beat in Basra
¤ Attackers strike US base in Iraq
¤ US using Sep 11 attacks to justify Human Rights violations
¤ New Activist Network Slams Growing Abuses Under Bush
¤ 'Made in Israel' crackdowns in Iraq won't work
¤ Israel kills four Palestinians in Rafah
¤ US air strikes kill 15 Afghan children
¤ US military admits it killed Afghan children in attacks
¤ Iraq sets up war crimes tribunal
¤ Helicopter in Iraq May Have Been Shot Down
¤ Share the Loot?
Flashback Iraq contracts 'won by Bush donors'
¤ US justifies Iraq contracts policy
¤ US bans anti-war countries from Iraq deals
¤ Iraq contract ban angers U.S. allies
¤ Bush Seeks Help of Allies Barred From Iraq Deals
¤ Canada shut out of Iraq contracts
¤ US reignites transatlantic dispute over Iraq
¤ Bush Speaks With Leaders Of France, Germany, Russia About Iraq Contracts
¤ US, Russia at odds over Washington's military expansion plans
¤ US leaves India out of Iraq spoils
¤ All or nothing: Europe's leaders gather to redistribute power
¤ Germany raises the stakes on eve of EU talks
¤ Palestinian Prime Minister Warns Israel
¤ Nobel prize winner attacks west
¤ A Third of Iraq's Army Has Resigned
¤ Putin and emptiness
¤ Not About Bush
¤ Iran asks West not to pay ransom for hostages release
¤ No 'normal' victory this
¤ Illusions and political spin in Taipei
¤ On the precipice in Afghanistan
¤ The quick and the dead
¤ Why the US should stick with the Shi'ites
¤ Whose Peace?
¤ Marine most likely died in friendly fire, not ambush
¤ Beijing hails Bush's tough line on Taiwan
¤ UN to return to Iraq after bombing - but from a base in Cyprus
¤ Tale of rape and murder on Burmese pipeline haunts US
¤ India to send commandos to Afghanistan
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
¤ On Killing Children
¤ Delivered Into Hell by US War on Terror
¤ The Booming Defense Business
¤ Corporate Media Ignores US Hypocrisy on War Crimes
¤ Most Soldiers are Non-Killers in Battle
¤ Myths of Yugoslavia
¤ The Bodies Come Home
¤ Now They're After Putin
¤ Family members, veterans, return from Iraq visit with grim report
¤ Bush Rejects N. Korea's Offer of Nuclear Programs Freeze for Energy Aid
¤ Death Comes in Cans for U.S. Troops in Iraq
¤ What Happened to 'Trust But Verify'?
¤ Iraq troops dispatch violates constitution, says Japanese
¤ Japan trying to become military power
¤ Baghdad mosque blast kills three
¤ Sharon vows to defend barrier at The Hague
Flashback The Parable of Samarra
¤ 'Phoenix' arises in Iraq
Flashback Saddam 'is months away from a nuclear bomb'
¤ Sharon has a Plan B for peace
¤ Teen shot dead by IDF in W. Bank; 3 Hamas men killed in blast
¤ US denies Gaza inspired new tactics
¤ Six Afghan Children Killed in U.S. Attack
¤ More children die in US raid in Afghanistan
¤ The Empire Strikes Out
¤ The privatisation of war
¤ Bombs shatter Iraq's brief calm
¤ Iraq and Vietnam: Battles of will
¤ Iraqi suicide bombs strike mosque and US troops
¤ Terrorist acts organized by Russian secret services
¤ Suicide Blast Near Red Square Kills 5
¤ Female suicide bombers kill six in Moscow
¤ Suicide bomb near Kremlin mars Putin's poll triumph
¤ How can you disrupt what does not exist?
¤ CIA bribery claim hits BP's Russian merger
¤ Caucasus key point for U.S.
¤ Zimbabwe threatens to cut UK ties
¥ I Quit!!!!
¤ Blair 'to strip Mugabe of knighthood'
¥ You're fired!!!!
¤ Firms on the frontline
¤ Oil-rich Iraq squeezed at the pump
¤ Like Fox to Henhouse, Baker Goes to Iraq
¤ Contracts elude Iraq war dissenters
¤ Critics of war lose out on bids
¤ Helicopter Likely Downed by Ground Fire
¤ The new tragedy in Afghanistan
¤ U.N. Countries Reveal Costs of Corruption
Flashback The UN: It Should Be Late; It Never Was Great
Flashback US refuses to disclose WMD report
¤ Taiwan gets a caution from Bush against independence
¤ Here We Go Again
¤ Putin's puppet democracy
¤ Detained at the whim of the president
¤ Across the great divide
¤ Baghdad Blogger
¤ Insurgents' goal: damage, but also publicity
¤ Japan to send 1,000 on rebuild mission
¤ Japanese troops to be in harm's way
¤ Annan Says Danger In Iraq Is Too Great For U.N. for Now
¤ Uzbek Leader Becoming Embarrassment to West
Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq
Posted: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday December 9, 2003
The Guardian UK
Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces, and according to two sources, Israeli military "consultants" have also visited Iraq. Full Article
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
¤ Canada barred from Iraq contracts
¤ U.S. shuts out France, Germany
¤ President's Business Partner Slices Up Iraq
¤ Turkeys on the moon
¤ The Liar Of Record
¤ It's A Scary Feeling To Fear Your Own President
¤ New World Emperors Dividing The World Like Mafia Territories
¤ The Drumbeat Of Outrage
¤ Dear Mr President - About the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra....
¤ A New Low Point in this President's Dismal Record
¤ Pentagon Punishes Iraqi Civilians Israeli Style
¤ US claims on North Korea doubted
¤ U.S. policy change now favors China
¤ 59 U.S. troops injured in bombing
¤ Britain counts cost of Iraq war
¤ The Revised Inspiration for War
¤ U.S. Warning Won't Deter Taiwan Vote on China
¤ Bush boldly going where we went decades ago
¤ Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq
¤ U.S. Raid in Afghanistan May Have Missed Target
¤ Ranks close to save Commonwealth
¤ Iraq Insurgents Shoot, Kill U.S. Soldier
¤ US soldier, Iraqi bomb disposal squad chief killed
¤ A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
¤ U.S. Launches Major Afghanistan Offensive
¤ Observers condemn Russian elections
¤ ‘War on terror can’t be won at expense of innocent lives’
¤ China resents Taiwan using democracy as cover for separatism
¤ Storm brews as China tackles Bush
¤ Geneva storm hits US
¤ Commonwealth a house divided as summit ends
¤ Concrete, razor wire, ID cards
¤ Former Top US Security Officials Back Geneva Accord
¤ Uzbek Leader Becoming Embarrassment to West
¤ Brothels and bombs in Saudi Arabia
¤ Taking the 'Russia' out of Asia
¤ Afghanistan's own opium wars
¤ Putin's victory slammed as 'distorted'
¤ US joins criticism of Russian poll
¤ NATO far from relieving US forces in Afghanistan
¤ Iraqi exile warns Japan not to send troops
¤ Iraqi force elicits hope - and fear
¤ Terrorism cases fizzling out in US courts: study
¤ US soldier, Iraqi policeman killed
Implications of the Coup in Georgia
Posted: Monday, December 8, 2003
When NGOs Attack
By Jacob Levich
Nongovernmental organizations--the notionally independent, reputedly humanitarian groups known as NGOs--are now being openly integrated into Washington's overall strategy for consolidating global supremacy.
Events surrounding last month's coup in post-Soviet Georgia, read in light of recent State Department documents, suggest that seemingly innocuous NGOs now play a central role in the policy of US-engineered "regime change" set forth in the notorious National Security Strategy of the United States.
The November 24 Wall Street Journal explicitly credited the toppling of Eduard Shevardnadze's regime to the operations of "a raft of non-governmental organizations . . . supported by American and other Western foundations." These NGOs, said the Journal, had "spawned a class of young, English-speaking intellectuals hungry for pro-Western reforms" who were instrumental laying the groundwork for a bloodless coup.
Astute commentators have correctly noted connections between these provocateur NGOs and mega-philanthropist George Soros, but the billionaire speculator did not act independently. Georgia's so-called "Velvet Revolution" appears to have been a textbook case of regime change by stealth, carefully planned and centrally coordinated by the US government.
Thanks to first-rate reporting by Mark McKinnon in the Toronto Globe & Mail and Mark Ames in the Moscow-based online journal The Exile www.exile.ru, the Georgian coup can be understood as a virtual scene-for-scene rerun of the overthrow of Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic--right down to the role of US Ambassador, played in both cases by spooky career diplomat Richard Miles.
But while foreign-funded NGOs played a significant minor part in the Yugoslavian operation, in Georgia they were granted star billing. This bold, all but overt, deployment of NGOs in service of US imperialism represents a new wrinkle in regime change, reflecting adjusted post-9/11 priorities at State and in the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Illuminating background is available in a watershed USAID report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest: Promoting Freedom, Security and Opportunity, released in January 2003 but ignored by a press swept up in pre-invasion hysteria. In the report, USAID vows that development programs will no longer be directed primarily toward alleviating human misery, but will be committed to "encouraging democratic [i.e., US-friendly] reforms." This policy shift is explicitly linked to the National Security Strategy of the United States, the 2002 White House blueprint for a new, openly aggressive phase of US imperialism.
Henceforward, the report promises, only friendly regimes will be rewarded with development money, while hostile (or merely independent) states will be punished by NGO-driven "reform" programs that sound suspiciously like old-fashioned destabilization ops.
The document notes with approval the explosive growth of NGOs worldwide and points to the NGO network as an attractive conduit for the strategic distribution of dollars. Of course, not every NGO is controlled by the US foreign policy establishment, and many rank-and-file aid workers continue to perform thankless but essential relief work in countries decimated by capitalism and war. But there's no mistaking which way the wind is blowing in the development community: "NGOs used to work at arm's length from donor governments," the USAID report smugly observes, "but over time the relationship has become more intimate."
To be sure, the vast global network of privately-funded foundations and NGOs has done enormous damage in its own right over the past two decades. With or without direct US assistance, NGOs continue to prop up immiserating neoliberal reforms, abet the schemes of transnational finance and agribusiness, and thwart the struggles of Third World people to claim better lives as of right. (The broader case against NGOs has been exhaustively set forth by James Petras, among others, and is powerfully advanced in the current issue of Aspects of India's Economy.)
But USAID's new emphasis on "building strategic partnerships" with humanitarian groups promises far worse to come. In thinly coded language, Foreign Aid in the National Interest touts NGOs and other private donors for their ability to lay groundwork for coups d' état: "Assistance can be provided to reformers to help identify key winners and losers, develop coalition building and mobilization strategies, and design publicity campaigns. . . . Such assistance may represent an investment in the future, when a political shift gives reformers real power."
As summarized by Hoover Institute fellow Larry Diamond, a self-described "specialist on democratic development and regime change" who contributed to the report: "Where governments are truly rotten, the report suggests channeling assistance primarily through nongovernmental sources, working with other bilateral aid donors and multilateral aid agencies to . . . coordinat[e] pressure on bad, recalcitrant governments."
Shevardnadze, for many years a reliable US client, seems to have become truly rotten at around the time of his perceived tilt toward Russia, a development which potentially threatened US military access to the region and control of the $2.7 billion Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.
Per script, coordinated pressure began immediately. An interlocking network of development-oriented foundations, think tanks, and NGOs was mobilized to disseminate propaganda, recruit opposition leaders, and fund an ex nihilo "student resistance movement" modeled on Yugoslavia's CIA-connected Otpor. Meanwhile, NGOs like the Liberty Institute--a USAID subcontractor managed by Mikhail Saakashvili, the US-approved candidate for Georgian leadership--worked hand-in-glove with the US Embassy (and presumably the CIA) to destabilize civil society.
Even the coup's immediate pretext--allegations of electoral fraud -- conveniently emerged from an "election support" operation run by USAID in consort with a Soros-connected NGO, Open Society Georgia Foundation. TV-friendly street demos and orchestrated international outcry followed in due course. Shevardnadze accepted the inevitable and agreed to go quietly. Within two weeks, Donald Rumsfeld was in Tbilsi as guest of the coup leaders, discussing a timetable for Russian troop withdrawals.
In the near future, the smashing success of the Georgia operation may be expected to lead to similarly coordinated attempts on independent-minded governments worldwide--Cuba, now doing its best to cope with an invasion of foreign-sponsored "reform" organizations, is an especially likely candidate.
Meanwhile, as the US continues to assimilate worldwide humanitarian endeavors to its imperial ambitions, the heavy hitters of the NGO establishment are preening for another round of mediagenic self-celebration at the upcoming World Social Forum. Suggested new slogan: "Another Coup is Possible."
Jacob Levich, lives in Queens, N.Y. He can be reached at: jlevich@earthlink.net This article was originally published in www.counterpunch.org and reproduced at Trinicenter with permission from the author.
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Posted: Monday, December 8, 2003
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¤ Credibility Gap: Bush Vs. Reality
¤ Moving Targets
¤ U.S. Solider Killed in Iraq While Guarding Gas Station
¤ Afghan villagers torn by grief after U.S. raid kills nine children
¤ Grief for children killed as they played
¤ Going AWOL
¤ Bush's comparison of Iraq with postwar Japan ignores the facts
¤ No accountability in Iraq spending is disastrous recipe
¤ Spinitaway Media Sanitation Services
¤ Democracy in Iraq, Acts I and II
¤ US commander offers grim warning of greater violence in Iraq
¤ Iraqi town's balance of power stays in doubt
¤ Russia accuses US over Georgia
Flashback Israel's weapons exports skyrocket
¤ Ailing dollar falls to record low
¤ Mugabe quits Commonwealth
¤ Humiliation led Mugabe to quit the club
¤ Mugabe quits Commonwealth over 'racist' plot against Zimbabwe
¤ Commonwealth dismayed by Zimbabwe pullout
¤ US kills nine children in air attack
¤ Roadside Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq
¤ Making a killing in the new Iraq
¤ Anti-war parents of American soldiers brave hostility at home
¤ Six dead in Hyderabad Hindu-Muslim riots
¤ US soldier, boy killed in Iraq
¤ Freedom of choice
¤ Iraqi tribunal may bypass UN
¤ Taliban the target, 9 children die
¤ UN takeover of Internet? Some are 'not amused'
¤ The Iraq tragedy: It's too late for the UN to help much
¤ China's 'Peaceful Rise' overshadowing US influence in Asia?
¤ A Baghdad Christmas
¤ Three of a Kind?
¤ The peace threat from Damascus
¤ I am an angry man
¤ The losing battle for Iraqi hearts and minds
¤ Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients
¤ WMD claims of Iraqi 'colonel' treated sceptically
¤ Cheney and the 'Raw' Intelligence
¤ Dissent in the Bunker
¤ Hamas leader rejects Israeli state
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Posted: Sunday, December 7, 2003
¤ 'Miserable failure' links to Bush
¤ Tough new tactics by U.S. tighten grip on Iraq towns
¤ Kucinich to Ask for Investigation of Air Attack in Afghanistan
¤ UN wants probe into Afghan children killings
¤ Oil, power and empire: Iraq and the US global agenda
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¤ Bridging Baghdad's opposite worlds
¤ Boeing 'confident' Pentagon will proceed with 18-bln dollar deal
¤ MTV generation's 'black holes of history' blamed on Hollywood
¤ Oh The Little Saddams We Weave
¤ Rumsfeld in Iraq to review security, Bremer says no room for militias
¤ First evidence of foreign fighters in Iraq
¤ Britain's Home Secretary blocks return of Guantanamo Bay detainees
¤ Iraq Insurgents Show Off Firepower To Time
¤ Israel losing PR battle
¤ US soldier killed in Iraq as top commander warns of increased violence
¤ A new era of nuclear weapons
¤ U.S. to speed Iraqis toward security duty
¤ Jordan Promoting U.S.-Iran Contacts
¤ US child bombing account challenged
¤ Privately brokered peace best plan yet for Mideast
¤ Collapsing credibility: Bush disinformation threatens nation
¤ Are we any safer now?
¤ Turning Leaders On Dime
¤ Blair 'knew 45 minute claim was false'
¤ Mugabe: I'll quit Commonwealth
¤ Call to restore Mugabe
¤ Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'
¤ Mugabe lashes out amid Commonwealth split
¤ Now Vanity Fair's editor is gunning for George Bush
¤ Nine Afghan children die in US air attack
¤ Kids Dead After U.S. Attack in Afghanistan
¤ Iraq morass will take years to fix
¤ Iraq delays hand Cheney firm $1bn
¤ How a Shady Iranian Deal Maker Kept the Pentagon's Ear
¤ Iraq Mourners Open Fire, Killing Policeman
¤ Ex-secret police general shot dead in Baghdad
¤ Rumsfeld urges quick action as policeman killed
¤ Israel kills three in Gaza
¤ A Sunday in Samarra
¤ Bush Sending Baker to Iraq to Deal With Its Debt Problem
¤ Bush's lunar lark, but not everyone's over the moon
¤ Funds for Iraq Are Far Short of Pledges, Figures Show
¤ UK arms human rights abusers
¤ Train suicide bombing gang 'led by a woman'
¤ IDF cautiously optimistic despite Arafat resurgence
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Posted: Saturday, December 6, 2003
Flashback The Pearl Harbor Deception
¤ Cheney's grab-and-go rubs some the wrong way
¤ Bush's unhealthy relationship with reality
¤ Iraq: the next Afghanistan
¤ 'How can we leave Iraq?'
¤ Bush policies more problem than solution
¤ Intelligence heads under fire
¤ The Madness of George II
¤ U.S. peacekeeper found dead in Kosovo
Flashback The US Terrorism Plot That the Media Ignores
¤ Bush's big idea: put a man on the moon
¤ A bloody victory or dangerous fantasy?
¤ Torn summit leaders delay decision on defiant Mugabe
¤ Blair fails to reach Commonwealth agreement on Zimbabwe exclusion
¤ Rumsfeld Makes Unannounced Visit to Iraq
¤ More attacks in Afghanistan
¤ Bomb Explodes in Center of Kandahar
¤ Disappointing US jobs figures drive dollar to new low
¤ A very Georgian coup
¤ Stuffed by a plastic turkey
Flashback Bush idealism at odds with realities of democracy
¤ America's Foreign Policy and the Sword of Empire
Flashback Powell warns against Taiwan independence
¤ Democracy vs history: erecting a Shia Iraq
¤ Suicide bombing of Russian train leaves 40 dead
¤ French Troops Caught in Ivorian Trap
¤ Not About Bush
¤ The Era of Fictitious Capitalism
¤ Blood Kin
¤ Four Iraqis, US soldier killed in blast
¤ Rumsfeld urges Russia to withdraw troops from Georgia
¤ Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq
¤ Bush’s cherry-picked reporters: wagging the media-II
¤ Israel linked to Iraq intelligence failure, general says
¤ The Bush Iraq visit: colour or deception?
¤ Grammy nods bring home impact of hip-hop
¤ Home of apartheid slams Israeli wall
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Posted: Friday, December 5, 2003
¤ The Drugs-and-Terror Ad Campaign
¤ The Photos We'll Never See
¤ Bremer of the Tigris
¤ Human Rights and the Rule of Law
¤ France Starts Facing Up to Anti-Muslim Discrimination
¤ Afghanistan
¤ Big Words and Big Oil Don't Mix
¤ Spin Clouds Truth in Polls of Iraqis
¤ The Symbolism's Perfect, But Not The Bird
¤ Other People's History
¤ Skin lesions afflict troops in Iraq
¤ Officials concerned about holiday attacks, report says
¤ Bremer predicts upsurge in guerrilla attacks in Iraq
¤ Rumsfeld Offers U.S. Support for Georgia
¤ Baghdad convoy attack kills four
¤ No Excuse The Race Card Defense
¤ Iraqification and the Media
¤ Blast kills four Iraqis, one US soldier
¤ Anti-war group organizing thousands of gatherings on Sunday
¤ BBC more biased than FOX
¤ Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied
¤ Turkey stunt comes back to haunt Bush
¤ Bird in Bush hands is all show
¤ 15 Killed in Train Blast Near Chechnya
¤ American soldiers to get new body armour - at last
¤ Bush's Baghdad turkey a leg-pull
¤ Bush visit involved flights of fancy
¤ The merchants of pain
¤ Bush Holds Fast to His Mideast Approach
¤ Wind Knocks Out Power in Western Wash.
¤ US backs down over Nato force for Iraq
¤ Powell Calls for Increased NATO and U.N. Roles in Iraq
¤ Taliban will never regain power in Afghanistan, pledges Rumsfeld
¤ Uncharacteristic Bush pragmatism
¤ Rumsfeld rightly attending to the Caucasus
¤ Figures of fun
¤ Five Iraqis hurt in police station attack
¤ "Israeli intelligence exaggerated Iraq attack threat'
¤ Politics of confrontation and consensus
¤ Noam Chomsky: You Ask The Questions
¤ US denies blocking six-nation North Korea crisis talks
¤ Allies at odds over how to fight Afghan drugs boom
¤ How an American war hero is taking his battle over Iraq to Washington
¤ Africa lobbies for Zimbabwe's return to the Commonwealth
¤ Sharon must depart before peace can be welcomed in
¤ Rumsfeld meets 2 Afghan warlords
¤ Attack in Kabul follows departure by Rumsfeld
¤ Vigilantes stalk Baghdad's backstreets
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2003
¤ Just poppycock
¤ 'George W. Bush: Master of illusion'
¤ 'Cheering for the turkey and stuffing body bags'
¤ US Exporting 'Tools of Torture'
¤ 'The lesson of Samarra'
¤ Sex, Blood and the FBI
¤ There's Force, and There's Resistance
¤ Fox News' Occupation Critic
¤ Put the Blame on Cheney for US Mess in Iraq
¤ 1,700 U.S. soldiers quit Iraq: French magazine
¤ A Brewing Constitutional Crisis
¤ Blast Hits by U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan
¤ Rumsfeld Meets Warlords, Afghan Worker Gunned Down
¤ Bush warns Israel to tread carefully
¤ There Were Nine Crusades, Bush's Makes The Tenth
¤ No Case For War: 9/11 Does Not Justify Invading and Occupying Iraq
¤ White House changes story on Bush plane incident
¤ UN blasts Israeli occupation
¤ US fires Guantanamo defence team
¤ US under pressure to back claims over Iraq firefight
¤ China backs universal participation to control WMDs’ proliferation
¤ Between Iraqgate & Iraqnam
¤ Escaping the quicksand
¤ Bush fails schools test
¤ Homicide ruling on beating
¤ Police not to blame for beaten man's 'homicide'
¤ UN still waiting for US report on Iraq weapons
¤ Bush warns Israel to tread carefully
¤ US may have just missed catching Saddam's deputy
¤ US Exporting 'Tools of Torture'
¤ Ethnic cleansing on the Jordan River
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2003
¤ Recent Visitors to Iraq Question US Tactics
¤ Experts Returning from Iraq Criticize US Tactics
¤ Showdown In Samarra U.S. Claims 'Victory' - But What Really Happened?
¤ How About That
¤ Beijing Warns That Taiwan Referendum Could Lead to War
¤ U.S. Arrests 34 in Northern Iraq Raid
¤ War in Iraq not finished yet, government tells lawmaker
¤ Israel Wins Approval For U.S. Military Trucks
¤ Powell Sends Russia Warning About Georgia
¤ Moscow will keep forces in Georgia, Moldova
¤ Israel Approves Construction Of More Homes At Settlements
¤ CIA stands firm on Iraq assessment
¤ US Army Uses Bulldoze Threat to Get Iraqis to Talk
¤ More people don't believe Iraq war reduced terror threat
¤ With All That Oil, Baghdad Wonders at Lengthy Gas Lines
¤ D.C. Upside Down
¤ Pentagon puts hold on MacDill tankers
¤ Democracy Cannot Coexist with Bush's Failed Doctrine of Preventive War
¤ Dismantling US Democracy
¤ As White House Changes Story, British Airways Refutes Bush Story
¤ Samarra Massacre Will Haunt U.S. in Iraq
¤ Bush Ignores the Developing World
¤ Let Them Eat Turkey
¤ The Post-occupation Power Struggle
¤ Stuffed on Thanksgiving
¤ 'That sucking sound: Our self-inflicted power vacuum in Iraq
¤ US troops' big victory is strangely short of bodies
¤ Israel criticises Powell for 'mistake' over peace plan
¤ 'Bush has not served the US economy'
¤ Know your enemy
¤ No, anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism
¤ 'We're air force pilots, not mafia. We don't take revenge'
¤ Iraqi 'big fish' eludes US forces
¤ Afghan Soldier Dies in Clash With Rebels
¤ US fires Guantanamo defence team
¤ People the law forgot
¤ More power to the Ba'athists
¤ No use preaching to the converted
¤ Pre-emptive wars: in the national interest?
¤ Military starts body count of enemy killed
Flashback Investigation of Halliburton's Nigeria Gas Deal
¤ Nigeria accused of oppression
Latest News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2003
¤ Of course, it was all about Iraq's resources
¤ US Contributes to the Marginalization of Women Worldwide
¤ Iraq Could Produce Another Enron
¤ Death Takes No Holiday in Iraq
¤ Israeli to Powell: Skip Mideast Meeting
¤ Iraqis challenge US account of battle
¤ Iraqis dispute claim of 54 killed Townspeople say only 8 died
¤ Coverage of Iraq Firefight Disputed
¤ No bodies found after Iraq gunfight
¤ Does Bush Know Why He is a Threat to World Peace?
¤ Freedom from genuineness
¤ Soldier Who Married Iraqi To Be Discharged
¤ 108 nations decline to pursue terrorists
¤ U.S. rejects Syrian overtures on relations, Israel
¤ Amnesty Criticizes U.S. Military in Deaths of 2 Afghan Prisoners
¤ Japan puts on hold Iraq troop deployment
¤ Israel Raps U.S. for Planned Talks with Geneva Authors
¤ U.S. Soldier Killed in Bomb Attack in Iraq
¤ George Bush: 'Fine Boy' Or 'Master of Illusion'
¤ 28st man dies after police beating
¤ Iraqis challenge US account of battle
¤ Iraqis deny US accounts of fierce fight with 'guerrillas'
¤ Ferocious gun battle that left no bodies
¤ Unyielding Israeli PM deadlocks new peace initiative
¤ Radical plan for Middle East
¤ Sharon's opposition boosts initiative
¤ Rumsfeld tries to cool row over EU military plan
¤ Israeli forces kill three Hamas
¤ Deadlock as Israel rejects bid on talks
¤ Bottom of the barrel
¤ Rumsfeld, at NATO meeting, acknowledges ‘contradiction’ in Iraq
¤ UN aims to disarm Afghan fighters
¤ Deaths add to Koizumi's dilemma
¤ Musharraf offers simultaneous withdrawal from Kashmir
¤ France steps up terror alert
¤ Geneva initiators to meet Powell
¤ Seven die in held Kashmir violence
¤ Spain and Poland push for Nato to take on Iraqi peace-keeping role
¤ Devastation in Iraqi town as US responds to ambushes with deadly fire
¤ Iraq and economy top political agenda
¤ Race tension follows US police bashing
¤ Oil on the flames of civilizational war
¤ US keeps its Iraqi bases covered
¤ US intelligence under the microscope
¤ Rumsfeld Calls Peril in Iraq, Along With Progress, a 'Contradiction'
¤ Staying Power in Iraq
Latest News
Posted: Monday, December 1, 2003
¤ Zionism, US Imperialism and Islamic Fundamentalism
¤ Bush's Cherry-picked Reporters: Wagging the Media
¤ US Foreign Policy: a Monstrous Mess
¤ This war not against terrorists
¤ Bush and Iraq: Mass Media, Mass Ignorance
¤ Talking Turkey About a 'Free' Press
¤ Crocodile Tears For The Troops
¤ U.S., Iraqi police dispute death toll in ambushes
¤ Israeli Barrier Cuts Into Palestinian Olive Harvest
¤ US accused of provoking Samarra shootout
¤ Israelis Kill Four in West Bank Raid
¤ US soldier killed in Iraq
¤ A Coward Goes to Baghdad
¤ Iraq becomes Operation Sitting Duck
¤ Only dictators ban television news
¤ Do our enemies covet our way of life?
¤ Playing the Fear Card
¤ CIA acknowledges deficiency in information about Iraq's WMDs
¤ Dual studies undermine Washington's basis for war
¤ Bush 'highlights Iraq instability with secrecy of visit'
¤ Inside story of how Washington is losing its bottle
¤ News you may have missed in 2003
¤ A nation divided
¤ Six die in held Kashmir
¤ Dozens killed in Samarra carnage
¤ US forces kill 46 ambushers in Iraq
¤ Yanks Kill 46 Iraqis
¤ U.S. Troops Kill 54 People In Iraq Bloodbath
¤ Clashes between insurgents, US forces spark bloodbath
¤ Police say alleged bomber has al-Qaeda link
¥ Sure...
¤ Allies alarmed as Iraqi insurgents seek them out
¤ We've sent terrorists ample targets
¤ Body bag count puts strains on coalition
¤ Bloodiest month in Iraq leaves 105 troops dead
¤ Iraqi council may backtrack on power-transfer plan after objections
¤ Crunch-time for Al-Jazeera
Flashback Al Arabiya TV denies U.S. charges over Iraq
¤ Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
¤ Israeli Troops Kill Two in West Bank Raid
¤ Israel rules out halting apartheid wall
¤ The real significance of Taiwan's referendum law
¤ Iraq: Three from one doesn't add up
¤ New sniper fear hits US highway
¤ Georgians worried by Moscow's moves
¥ Only the U.S. would be worried.
¤ Russia accused of plot to sabotage Georgian oil pipeline
¤ Oil cartel and Russia on the verge of a cold war
¤ Earthquake in China Kills at Least Ten
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