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March 2005Condi's Pitch for a 'Different Kind' of Middle EastPosted: Thursday, March 31, 2005 Straight from the horse's mouth (although some find in it echoes of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, Chapter 65), this pithy remark expresses the State Department's attitude towards a large chunk of the planet. It cries out for translation and dissection. "We" of course means the United States, "coalitions of the willing" with shifting compositions, and most of all the GIs who comprised Rice's Afghan audience. "Broader Middle East" (also known as "Greater Middle East") is not a term often used by geographers but is applied idiosyncratically by the administration to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia and parts of Central Asia. Geographers do not consider Afghanistan a Middle East nation; the fact that Bush and Rice do is significant for reasons that will become apparent. Full Article : trinicenter.com Mar 31, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005 ¤ Report: Iraq intelligence 'dead wrong' ¤ Read the full report : PDF Flashback ¤ U.S. companies sold Iraq the ingredients for a witch's brew ¤ Left Apologists for the Occupation ¤ The Left in Iraq ¤ Punish the Warmongers ¤ American Complicity in Israeli Settlements ¤ UN Rights Expert Charges US Using Food Access as Military Tactic ¤ Destiny Not in Iraqis' Hands ¤ George Bush's Limited Definition of "Life" ¤ The Schiavo Circus ¤ US Secretary of State presses India and Pakistan to abandon Iranian gas pipeline ¤ Child hunger in Iraq said about double ¤ Spies in Dark About Threats ¤ Why World War IV can't sell ¤ Stocks Close Down on Soaring Oil Prices ¤ Iraqi puppet parliament adjourns in disarray ¤ Mental disorders on the rise among Iraq, Afghanistan veterans ¤ Three Soldiers, Marine Killed in Action in Iraq ¤ Tanks take a beating in Iraq ¤ The Geneva trap ¤ U.S. Obstructs Global Justice ¤ Bush WMD Panel to Release Final Report ¤ Iraq WMD report to lay blame on CIA ¤ Ousted president blames US for coup ¤ U.S. Avoids Political Fight Among Iraqis ¤ Iraq Intel Report: Expect Another Whitewash ¤ Condi Rice Talks Down to Europe, Asia ¤ Lone Superpower» Status May Not Remain Permanent ¤ Venezuela rejects US criticism about human rights ¤ The US Global Masquerade ¤ A Global War That Doesn't Sell ¤ Africa ; Mugabe rejects phoney poll claim: ¤ New Arab rallying cry: 'Enough' ¤ Spain risks US anger by selling arms to Chavez ¤ Indonesia Death Toll Revised to 400-500 ¤ Zimbabwe polls open ¤ Zimbabwe Articles Bush Lobbies Argentina, Mexico, and Canada to Contain Chávez Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005 The Bush administration has continued to pursue a strategy of containment with respect to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías, most recently in private conversations between US President George W. Bush and other world leaders. In previous criticisms of Venezuela, the US has not provoked the desired reaction among Latin American leaders, many of whom are vocally supportive of Chávez. In a phone conversation with Argentinean President Nestor Kirchner, and in meetings with Mexican President Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, US President George W. Bush articulated his preoccupations with Venezuela. According to a senior White House official, speaking to Agence France-Press (AFP) on condition of anonymity, Bush communicated to Kirchner his uneasiness with some of Chávez' "attitudes," to which Kirchner is reported to have responded that he would continue "dialoguing with the democratic government of Venezuela," with which Argentina has signed various commercial and energy accords. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com The State of the World? It is on the Brink of Disaster Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century. This is not the doom-laden talk of green activists but the considered opinion of 1,300 leading scientists from 95 countries who will today publish a detailed assessment of the state of the world at the start of the new millennium. Full Article : commondreams.org Mar 30, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 ¤ General approved extreme interrogation methods ¤ Frantic search for survivors in Indonesian earthquake ¤ U.S. Holds About 10,500 Prisoners in Iraq ¤ U.S. Barred From Sending 13 Detainees Abroad ¤ Syria confirms full troop withdrawal from Lebanon ¤ So there are no more excuses for a U.S Invasion, or are there? ¤ Legal Fiction ¤ America's Gunboat Democracy ¤ 2,000 feared dead in Indonesia quake ¤ White House commission critical of US intelligence ¤ Enlightened flip-flopping ¤ Annan cleared of oil-for-food wrongdoing ¤ There is no hero for a lackey ¤ Israeli envoy to Ethiopia found shot ¤ Why is there no Iraqi free press? ¤ Stop the Massacres in Iraq! Bring the Murderers Home! The Bush Bolsheviks Rock Kyrgyzstan Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Washington's coup in Kyrgyzstan was an extraordinary example of imperial muscle flexing. Like the other recent regime changes in Ukraine, Georgia and Serbia, the fomenting of the "tulip revolution" was financed and supported by American NGOs working with opposition groups inside Kyrgyzstan. The pattern is unmistakable, but nonetheless breathtaking. Within a matter of hours the 14-year-old regime of Askar Akayev was swept away under the pretext of fraudulent elections and replaced with Washington’s favorite Kurmanbek Bakiev. Currently, the situation is fluid and there is no certainty as to whether Bakiev or the new head of security, Felix Kulov, will retain the top spot in the new government. Full Article : dissidentvoice.org Mar 29, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 ¤ Human Rights in the US ¤ Long Delayed ¤ Is the End of the Iraq War/Occupation Near? ¤ U.S. to create list of 'unstable' nations ¤ Chavez arms sale row splits Spain ¤ 'A con job by Pakistan's pal, George Bush' ¤ America's New Circus Diplomacy ¤ Report knocks CIA on Iraqi arms analysis ¤ Lebanese PM-designate to step down ¤ Africa now 'deals with Africa's problems' ¤ The Bush Bolsheviks Rock Kyrgyzstan ¤ 'Iraqi and US intelligence agents forced Syrians to make confession ¤ American homicide ¤ Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran ¤ Prove You Are Disabled Ali ¤ '1,000 or more' dead in Nias quake ¤ In the real world, Iraq does matter ¤ Indonesian VP: Quake May Kill Up to 2,000 ¤ US/Iraq Official Discourages Demonstrations ¤ Police Academy: Baghdad! ¤ Iraq outcome won't endorse US intrusion ¤ Disenchanted with brute force ¤ Entries for a Devil’s Dictionary of the Bush Era ¤ Democracy Redefined! ¤ Watchdog agencies asleep at the House of Death ¤ US' double deficit not sustainable ¤ Will post-election Iraq go the way of Iran? ¤ Our new nightmare: the United States of America Mar 28, 2005 News Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005 ¤ Sgrena Sets the Record Straight ¤ Forgetting Afghanistan...Again ¤ The UN Betrayal of Haiti ¤ We're Walking Right into a Trap ¤ Sunnis' Exclusion from Political Process Stokes Fears of Civil War ¤ Life, Death and Hypocrisy ¤ Israeli forces raid Jenin ¤ Lollipops and Iran ¤ Mugabe fights Blair in Zimbabwe elections campaign ¤ Brazilians Urge Lula to Reject U.S. Anti-Cuba Project ¤ UN Reports Irregularities in Iraq Elections ¤ The Dawn of a New Oil Era? ¤ Insurgent Attacks Across Iraq Kill Eight ¤ Follow the Money ¤ We can't expect explicit U.S. okay to build in settlements ¤ Sharon: U.S. Settlement Policy Is Clear ¤ America's Dangerous Mideast Assumptions ¤ How the East Was Won ¤ Judge: Man In Gitmo Despite Proof ¤ If Iraq is stabilizing and improving, why isn't the media documenting it? ¤ Paved with Bad Intentions ¤ Israeli settlers poison Palestinian land and sheep ¤ Little Bush denied ¤ Wave of bomb attacks sweeps Iraq ¤ Sharon vows to keep W Bank colonies Mar 27, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2005 ¤ Revolution that came too soon starts to fall apart in chaotic Kyrgyzstan ¤ Tony Blair. You are charged with leading Britain into an illegal war ¤ Full text of Human Rights Record of the US in 2004 ¤ Not the first Italian target of US covert 'silencers' ¤ Degrees of Not Knowing ¤ Iraqi doctor: US troops storm hospital ¤ Collision Course ¤ True face of World Bank is turned away from impoverished ¤ Past Arguments Don't Square with Current Iran Policy ¤ American nightmare ¤ EU: Castro Shares Interest in Closer Ties ¤ Analysis / Sharon, Bush and the settlements ¤ Anarchy of the mind ¤ Report: India Weighs Buying U.S. Warplanes ¤ Beirut warehouse blast injures eight ¤ Iraq Security, Protesters Clash; 1 Dead Mar 26, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2005 ¤ 7 US soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan ¤ Made-for-TV Martyrs and the Angels of Death ¤ Provoking Iran ¤ The World Must Not Ignore This Coup ¤ Weaponizing the Subcontinent ¤ Israel's Record is "Not Reassuring" ¤ Wrong so often, he must be promotable ¤ Empire Builders ¤ Covering up Iraq ¤ MI6, Jack Straw, defence staff: Blair ignored them all ¤ Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places ¤ Bobby Fischer Rails Against U.S., Israel ¤ America's Dangerous Mideast Assumptions: the View From Damascus ¤ Human rights and Cuba ¤ Attacks claims 15 lives as Iraq insurgents strike back ¤ Afghan Blast Kills Four U.S. Soldiers ¤ Wave of violence across Iraq leaves 21 dead ¤ Kyrgyz president slams 'unconstitutional coup d'etat' ¤ Why Intervention Persists ¤ British MPs accuse U.S. of grave rights violations ¤ US steps up war on Afghan opium ¤ India dismayed as US resumes sales of jet fighters to Pakistan ¤ Details About U.S. Military Shooting of Italian War Correspondent in Iraq ¤ Lebanese defence capability doubted The Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the Euro? Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005 By Dr. Elias Akleh 03/24/05 "AMIN" - - Iran does not pose a threat to the United State because of its nuclear projects, its WMD, or its support to "terrorists organizations" as the American administration is claiming, but in its attempt to re-shape the global economical system by converting it from a petrodollar to a petroeuro system. Such conversion is looked upon as a flagrant declaration of economical war against the US that would flatten the revenues of the American corporations and eventually might cause an economic collapse. In June of 2004 Iran declared its intention of setting up an international oil exchange (a bourse) denominated in the Euro currency. Many oil-producing as well as oil-consuming countries had expressed their welcome to such petroeuro bourse. The Iranian reports had stated that this bourse may start its trade with the beginning of 2006. Naturally such an oil bourse would compete against London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), as well as against the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), both owned by American corporations. Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info Mar 25, 2005 News Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005 ¤ How Do We Resist This Ruinous War? ¤ Giuliana Sgrena Shooting: 'Payment' for Ransom? ¤ Afghanistan, the Poor Stepsister to Iraq ¤ The Darkness Has Come ¤ Bomber kills 11 Iraqi police; 5 translators slain ¤ U.S. to Sell F-16 Jets to Pakistan, India ¤ Police, protesters clash during pro-Aristide protest in Haiti ¤ Kyrgyz opposition scrambles to restore order ¤ That Rumbling Is Cheneymania ¤ Democracy--or the US Military--On the March ¤ Body Double ¤ Coverage of Lebanon's demonstrations doesn't tell whole story ¤ Kravchenko's death not a suicide - official ¤ White slave trade now earns US$1 billion annually in Israel ¤ The Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the €uro? ¤ Washington Focuses on Southern 'Axis of Evil' (Venezuela) Flashback ¤ Venezuelan move to replace US$ with the €uro upsetting US ¤ President Hugo Chavez waiting for US to announce that Venezuela has WMD ¤ White House and Media Escalate War of Words Against Chavez ¤ Rice: Kyrgyzstan Events May Be Good Thing ¤ Opening the door to Gazprom ¤ Another hole gapes in Putin's post-Soviet vision ¤ Report reveals shame of UN peacekeepers ¤ 'I was kidnapped,' says chess genius ¤ Pinochet to keep immunity ¤ The Missing WMD Report ¤ From Kennan to Wolfowitz ¤ Soldiers Speak Out ¤ Iraq Checkpoint Killings Unchecked ¤ War's effect felt across Mideast ¤ Europe is risking silence to end its longest war ¤ Publish or be damned ¤ Once-beautiful Baghdad descends to eyesore ¤ America's hard cash and soft words fail to woo Arabs ¤ War crimes overseas, peace crimes at home ¤ The USA's Tragic Withdrawal From the Rule of Law ¤ US Air Force bombs civilian zones in western Iraq ¤ The worst choice possible ¤ US envoy: Israel can keep big colonies ¤ Car bombings kill many in Iraq ¤ Analysis: Oil struggle stops Iraq government Flashback ¤ Iraq No Threat ¤ WARLORD KILLED IN CHECHNYA WAS EX-U.S. MARINE ¤ Syria urges US, Israeli withdrawal Venezuela criticizes Rumsfeld remarks Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005 Venezuela criticizes Rumsfeld remarks CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan officials criticized remarks by the U.S. defense secretary regarding their efforts to improve the country's defenses, El Nacional reported Thursday. Calling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a "lord of war," Vice President Jose Rangel said his remarks were "inspired by his goal of getting involved in the internal politics of other nations and violating our [Venezuela's] sovereignty." Mar 24, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005 ¤ Venezuela criticizes Rumsfeld remarks ¤ Brief facts about Kyrgyz opposition leaders ¤ Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places ¤ A Wiping of the Tears ¤ Iraqi friendly fire incident kills 5 ¤ Insurgents control raided Iraq camp ¤ British government - Lies, Damn lies and endless secrets! ¤ AMERICA RULES! Flashback ¤ Global study finds mental illness widespread ¤ Blair: Nobody planning to attack Iran ¤ Kyrgyz protesters storm government compound ¤ The roots of Kyrgyz political unrest ¤ Hariri killing may need wider inquiry says Annan ¤ Japan to snub US and send Fischer to Iceland ¤ Suicides and young recruits ¤ Iraq war: The smoking gun? ¤ Insurgents control raided Iraq camp ¤ A Factually Correct Guide for Max Boot ¤ Long road to reform in Damascus ¤ Hijacking Democracy in Iraq ¤ Cultural Barbarism ¤ United States Urges U.N. Human Rights Body Not To Target Israel ¤ How AFP killed an Online News Site by Suing Google ¤ War's effect felt across Mideast ¤ Venezuelan arms buy queried ¤ American Imperialists, Old and New ¤ Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting' ¤ Fourteen killed, over 70 injured after BP refinery blast in Texas ¤ Several killed in Afghanistan battle Mar 23, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 ¤ 85 Militants Killed in U.S. Raid in Iraq ¤ Dragon Lady Rice tackles China ¤ 'Buck up, the world hates us more than ever' ¤ Myth of Condoleezza Rice? ¤ U.S. bars Italians from examining victim’s car ¤ Syria accuses U.S. of inciting trouble in the Middle East Flashback ¤ The Lie Factory ¤ The Amazing Hypocrites ¤ Thousands of women smuggled into Israel for sex trade ¤ The Americans are going too far ¤ 2 Years of Death and Destruction By George W Bush and Friends ¤ War's Effect Felt Across Mideast ¤ Bush is What Hypocrisy Looks Like ¤ US Frees Iraqi Kidnappers to Become Spies ¤ U.S. warplanes kill 5 suspected militants in clash near Pakistani border ¤ Right to Life ¤ Book claims US tried to topple Chavez ¤ Blast at Anti-Syrian Stronghold Kills Two ¤ Iraq Says 80 Rebels Killed in Clash ¤ Iran says won't drop nuke plans ¤ Hiding Our War Dead ¤ Russian chopper down in Chechnya ¤ Russia Condemns Warsaw’s Decision to Name Square After Slain Chechen Leader ¤ Cheney Defends Bush Appointments ¤ The Amazing Hypocrites ¤ Chechen group urges Russian arrest ¤ 37 killed in Iraq clashes ¤ Iraq after two years of US administration ¤ Putin to visit Israel In a Warped Reality the Occupiers Justify the War Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Two Years On, The Occupiers Justify the War by Embracing the Irrelevant and Ignoring the Inconvenient Full Article : trinicenter.com Mar 22, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 ¤ Masters of Sleaze ¤ Two Years of Torture ¤ Red Lake Tribe Wary Of Casino Plan ¤ U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export ¤ The New Serfdom ¤ Cuba and Venezuela Face US and Colombia ¤ Democracy--or the US Military--On the March ¤ Dick Cheney's Oil Change at the World Bank ¤ Destroying Iraq Isn't Enough for Bush ¤ Venezuela was just as responsible for 9/11 as Iraq ¤ Ten dead in US school shooting ¤ U.S. Army Raises Enlistment Age for Reservists to 39 ¤ Pentagon Reaffirms Globocop Role ¤ Oops! I Helped Start a War ¤ Be Proud of What You've Achieved ¤ Miscovering Anti-War Protests (Again) ¤ The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius ¤ Wolfowitz at the World Bank Stranger than fiction ¤ Israel's 'Generous Offer' Was Not Really All That Generous ¤ Pistachios for Bush ¤ Iran to restart nuclear programme ¤ Shocked and awed into 'freedom' Submit or Else: The Nuclear Demon That Won't Go Away Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005 Recent news reports in Israeli and US newspapers claim that Israel is planning to attack Iran this summer. The purpose of the attack will be to destroy that country's nuclear facilities. These same reports also claim that Washington has authorized these attacks. Indeed, unless Iran does not respond to the rumored attacks, one can safely assume that not only will Washington authorize the destruction of Tehran's nuclear power capability; its armies will be ready to go into Iran. Although both capitals are currently publicly committed to the diplomatic effort spearheaded by the European Union, Israeli officials say the time to attack will come later this year when they believe Iran will be in a position to start processing uranium. These same officials state further that Tel Aviv's inner cabinet has decided to act alone if the impasse continues after that time. "If all efforts to persuade Iran to drop (what Israel and the US believe to be) its plans to produce nuclear weapons should fail, the US administration will authorize Israel to attack," said one Israeli security source. (London Times) Full Article : trinicenter.com Mar 21, 2005 News Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005 ¤ Washington establishment fails Logic 101 ¤ Syria says U.S. inciting trouble in Middle East ¤ Student Kills 10 At Red Lake School ¤ Russian Intelligence Chief Says Al-Qaeda a Myth ¤ Rumsfeld Laments Iraq Invasion Restriction ¤ Global: America Smells the Coffee ¤ Choosing Wolfowitz definitely benefits Israel ¤ Iran plans secret 'nuclear university' to train scientists ¤ Moscow accused of crime against humanity ¤ Support for the War is Paper Thin ¤ Put the Hungry into Comas, Then Feed Them ¤ Serving, Refusing, Impeaching ¤ A Threat Greater Than Terrorism ¤ Ex-Halliburton Man Charged With Defrauding U.S. of $3.5 Million ¤ The US divide and rule policy comes to the fore ¤ Americans just ignore the devil in the details In a warped reality This is a tale of one war, two anniversaries, three different demonstrations - and inconsistencies, contradictions and civilian deaths that are too numerous to count. On April 18 2003, tens of thousands of Sunni and Shia protesters took to the streets of Baghdad to call for the Americans to leave Iraq. "You are the masters today," Ahmed al-Kubeisy, the prayer leader, told the Americans as he addressed the men emerging from Friday prayers. "But I warn you against thinking of staying. Get out before we kick you out." ¤ Rice tells EU: don't lift China arms ban ¤ Two U.N. Peacekeepers Killed in Haiti ¤ Photos reveal Israeli West Bank expansion ¤ Assassin kills Iraqi police chief ¤ Guantanamo abuse 'videotaped' ¤ Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins ¤ Nuts to Bush ¤ Dying in Iraq is Not a Job Opportunity ¤ The Price of Patriotism … ¤ AFP sues Google for $17.5 m ¤ Iraq and Jordan pull out ambassadors ¤ Four dead in Haiti fighting Mar 20, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, March 20, 2005 ¤ 200 Missing in Afghan Floods; 24 Killed ¤ Bomb at Shia shrine kills 27 ¤ Militant Strikes in Iraq Kill at Least 6 ¤ British troops 'were supplied with blank ammunition' ¤ 2 years after invasion, troops feel mired in Iraq ¤ Secretary of State Reshapes State Department in White House Image ¤ A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition ¤ Misdirecting the Anti-War Movement ¤ The Nuclear Demon That Won't Go Away ¤ The World Bank: a Bigger Problem Than Wolfowitz ¤ Washington Bullies Iran, Ignores Brazil's Nuclear Ambitions ¤ Why the Queen Should Chop Off Blair's Head ¤ At least 40 dead in Pakistan blast ¤ Resurgent Russia challenges US ¤ The Poodle and the Wolf ¤ The Object of Torture is Torture ¤ Global Bully Goes to Guatemala ¤ Playing the Fear Card ¤ The real 'China threat' ¤ Behind the Iraq Lies: Israeli Communications Priorities Mar 18, 2005 News Posted: Friday, March 18, 2005 ¤ Bush's 'shocking' choice of Wolfowitz for World Bank provokes outrage ¤ Ex-hostage: Berlusconi must stick to Iraq pull-out ¤ Italy ridicules PM's 'withdrawal of withdrawal' ¤ The oil under this wilderness will last the US six months ¥ Desperate times brings desperate measures ¤ Opec pledge fails to hold back oil prices ¤ Chubais survives gun ambush ¤ Atomic clock ticks down to fallout with Iran ¤ Chechnya is dangerous with its spirit of freedom ¤ The Remains of President Aslan Maskhadov ¤ Two Years Too Many ¤ The Age of Missing Information ¤ CIA, White House Defend Transfers of Terror Suspects ¤ Afghans Delay Legislative Elections ¤ 30 U.S. FOREIGN POLICY EXTREME MAKEOVER SLOGANS ¤ Stand firm on the Iran pipeline Mar 17, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005 ¤ Oil prices at fresh highs despite Opec boost to output ¤ The Etymology of Torture ¤ Inside the Bush Budget: Rhetoric vs. Reality ¤ The Incredible Shrinking Coalition ¤ Wolfowitz at the World Bank ¤ Trail of Blood Leads from Colombia to US ¤ Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil ¤ Lebanon seaches for the truth - American pundits spin Iraq ¤ Living in Fantasyland ¤ The Washington Establishment Fails Logic 101 ¤ Annan's Bow at Arafat's Grave Sparks Outrage in City ¤ Why the U.S. Media Is a Whore ¤ British MP removed from parliament after claiming Blair misled lawmakers ¤ Cheerleading War and Slaughter ¤ Bulgaria to Pull Out of Iraq: Official ¤ Bush nominates Wolfowitz for World Bank ¤ Bush's choice of Wolfowitz for World Bank risks outcry ¤ Israel pleased with choice of Wolfowitz ¤ Israel's Broken Record - Attack Iran ¤ Iran should embrace democracy: Bush ¤ Democracy -- by George? ¤ Accountability: Why Not Start at the Top? ¤ Report: 108 Died In U.S. Custody ¤ Bush: No Timetable for Troops Coming Home ¤ A revolution made for TV ¤ The birth of Europe ¤ Syria pullout phase 'roughly' finished ¤ Nomination Shocks, Worries Europeans ¤ Bush denies that Italian withdrawal will weaken the coalition Mar 16, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 ¤ Wolfowitz tapped to lead World Bank ¤ After Two Years of Occupation ¤ Yvon Neptune and Haiti's Political Prisoners ¤ America's Has-Been Economy ¤ Truth Is, Bush's Propaganda Hurts the U.S. ¤ 'Purely Informational' Propaganda ¤ 'How Sgrena forced Italy's withdrawal from Iraq' ¤ Bush Says Coalition in Iraq Not Crumbling ¤ Italy Says Arrivederci to Iraq ¤ India, China locked in energy game ¤ Banks helped Pinochet hide money ¤ US approves whopping war bill ¤ U.S. Dollar Slides as Current Account Deficit Soars ¤ Iraq reconstruction 'rife with corruption' ¤ Blast hits Baghdad newspaper office ¤ Pentagon 'hid' damning Halliburton audit ¤ '26 criminal homicides in US military custody' ¤ U.S. calls deaths of 26 prisoners homicides ¤ US troops shoot dead Iraqi general ¤ $225 Billion and No Exit Plan ¤ George W. Bush’s Blurred Vision For America ¤ OPEC says it's lost control of oil prices ¤ Opec members oppose Saudi oil boost ¤ Moscow telling stories about death of President Maskhadov ¤ War in Chechnya crushes Russian dream of Olympic Games ¤ 12 killed in Iraq bombings, attacks ¤ Russian Airliner Crashes, Killing 49 ¤ Rice backs jets to India but not Iran oil ¤ Tariq Ali on empire and those who fight it ¤ Why Over 5,500 U.S. Soldiers Discharged Themselves ¤ Israeli Basketball Rules Bush orders policy to 'contain' Chávez Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Senior US administration officials are working on a policy to "contain" Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, and what they allege is his drive to "subvert" Latin America's least stable states. A strategy aimed at fencing in the government of the world's fifth-largest oil exporter is being prepared at the request of President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, senior US officials say. The move signals a renewed interest by the administration in a region that has been relatively neglected in recent years. Full Article : news.ft.com Venezuela restocks its arsenal The US military's senior officer responsible for security co-operation in Latin America has warned of the destabilising potential posed to the region by the Venezuelan government's controversial, and opaque, arms procurement programme. Hugo Chávez, the president of the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has begun signing contracts to buy an array of weapons to revamp his defences to thwart what he claims could be outside "aggression". Full Article : news.ft.com Militarization of U.S. Africa Policy: 2000 to 2005 Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Guns, Oil and Terror In the wake of September 11th, and in keeping with its interest in securing access to oil and other key natural resources, the Bush administration has been rapidly expanding U.S. military involvement in Africa. While most recent increases in U.S. arms sales, aid, and military training in Africa have been justified as part of what the administration refers to as the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT), oil has been a major factor in the administration's strategic calculations from the outset. In his first few months in office, President Bush's first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, stressed the need to improve relations with oil producing nations like Nigeria and Angola. Similarly, the report of Vice-President Cheney's Energy Task Force stressed the importance of gaining and maintaining access to African oil resources, which U.S. intelligence assessments expect to increase to as much as 25% of U.S. oil imports by the year 2020 (see Salih Booker and Ann-Louise Cogan, "Africa Policy Outlook 2004," at www.africaaction.org/resources/outlook/2004policyoutlook.php). Full Article : commondreams.org Bush Strategy for Syria, Lebanon and Iran Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 As someone who believes that the Bush administration fully intends to implement the neocon plan for regime change in Syria, Iran, and Lebanon in the next couple years, I've watched it and the compliant media build the cases necessary for attack. Just as the disinformation apparatus spun out charges one after one against Iraq (many of them now forgotten, although they produced a climate of fear and hatred and served their psy-war purpose at the time) from 9-11 to March 2003, so they have piled on accusations and insinuations against Syria, Iran and Lebanon's Hizbollah. Full Article : trinicenter.com Bush Strategy for Syria, Lebanon and Iran Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 By Gary Leupp "Oh yes, sir, not only is it Afghanistan. There's a list of countries. We're not that good at fighting terrorists, so we're going after states: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Iran. There's a five-year plan." --A Pentagon general to Gen. Wesley Clark, Nov. 2001 As someone who believes that the Bush administration fully intends to implement the neocon plan for regime change in Syria, Iran, and Lebanon in the next couple years, I've watched it and the compliant media build the cases necessary for attack. Just as the disinformation apparatus spun out charges one after one against Iraq (many of them now forgotten, although they produced a climate of fear and hatred and served their psy-war purpose at the time) from 9-11 to March 2003, so they have piled on accusations and insinuations against Syria, Iran and Lebanon's Hizbollah. These charges collect, growing ever more shrill. Syria stands accused of sponsoring terrorism, having weapons of mass destruction, facilitating foreign fighters' entry into Iraq (to fight other foreign fighters in Iraq), hosting fleeing Iraqi Baathists, providing banking services for the Iraqi insurgents, occupying Lebanon in defiance of the people's will, encouraging Hizbollah attacks on Israel, orchestrating a legal change authorizing an extension of the (Christian pro-Syrian) Lebanese president's term, and (although this is only insinuated) assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Every Palestinian suicide-bomber attack on Israelis is laid at the Syrian doorstep. "Axis of Evil" component Iran is also charged with sponsoring terrorism, assisting anti-US forces in Iraq, and funding Hizbollah and Palestinian organizations. In addition it's accused of seeking to produce nuclear weapons. As was case with Iraq, the possible presence in Iran of al-Qaeda forces fleeing Afghanistan in 2001-2 has been represented as active Iranian complicity in al-Qaeda terrorism. Hizbollah, long vilified by the U.S., is repeatedly linked to terrorist actions taken in Israel by Palestinian groups. The list of reasons for regime change lengthens. But there have been some developments in the last week that some interpret as setbacks for the neocons' Five Year Plan. The administration has agreed to support the Europeans' negotiations with Iran pertaining to the Iranians' nuclear program, and by some accounts to accept Hizbollah's role in Lebanese politics. There is a curious dialectic at work here, but I don't think it fundamentally affects the Plan. Following the February 14 assassination of Rafik Hariri, the U.S. baselessly implicated Syria, stepping up the pressure on Syria building since the passage of UNSC resolution 1559 last September. Anti-Syrian demonstrations conducted by young well-heeled Lebanese, labeled by the mainstream press the "Cedar Revolution" and compared to the U.S.-financed "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine (but labeled the "Gucci revolution" by critically-minded observers) culminated in a rally of 70,000 March 7 demanding the withdrawal of Syrian troops. The U.S. press true to form lauded the "successes" of Bush's Middle East policy, driven supposedly by the heroic impulse to bring "freedom" to benighted Arabs, and pronounced the president's policies vindicated by the happy telegenic faces in Beirut. Syria buckled under, and declared it will withdraw the last 14,000 of the 45,000 troops it has deployed in Lebanon originally at Lebanese request. To save face it stated that it is merely following through on the Taif agreement of 1989. The U.S. responded: That's not good enough. Bully Bush brandishing Resolution 1559 (as though it held greater weight than any of the resolutions pertaining to Israel blithely ignored by the Jewish state) demanded all Syrian forces be out by May. Upping the ante, he also demanded the 1000-plus intelligence officers be withdrawn as well. (But given the nature of the intelligence field, it will be difficult to ascertain whether any Syrian spies remain. Thus it will always be possible, citing unspecified intelligence sources, to assert that some intelligence officers linger and hence Syria is "defying the international community" by their presence. As was the case with Iraq, the U.S. heaps upon Syria demands that it either cannot meet or cannot prove having met; the point is not really to get Assad to change but to change---i.e. topple---the Syrian regime and implant a client pro-U.S., Israel-friendly one. By the way, surely there are U.S. intelligence officers in Lebanon; wasn't CIA station chief William Buckley executed there by kidnappers in 1984? What if Syria was to demand, tit-for-tat: "Get your spies out and we'll do the same"?) March 8: In response to all the above, Hizbollah organized a massive rally of 500,000 in Beirut to express gratitude to Syria, and to demand that the U.S. stop interfering in Lebanese affairs. Christians and Sunnis as well as Shiites participated in this nationalist-themed demonstration. It was too huge for the U.S. media to ignore, although it was downplayed, and explained away by some (like Al Hunt on CNN's "Capital Gang") as involving thousands bussed in from Syria. The U.S. responded to the embarrassingly substantial demo by intimating that it would be willing to accept a Hizbollah role in Lebanese politics, but quickly backtracked on the question (suggesting ongoing debate in the administration) and pressured the EU that has long resisted such a move to list Hizbollah as a "terrorist organization." In return for Europe's shift, the U.S. agreed to support Europe's efforts to peacefully resolve the Iranian nuclear issue. If Iran agrees not to enrich uranium, the U.S. will support Iran's admission into the WTO and won't object to its purchase of spare civilian aircraft parts from the EU. Do these moves represent some slippage in the neocon program, or just clever tactics? I think the latter. The new Euro-American united front will tell Hizbollah, "We understand you are the largest political party in Lebanon and command much respect and support. We know that the Lebanese constitution revised in 1989 gives the Christian minority 50% of parliamentary seats and the presidency, and so long as you agree with that set-up and also disband your militia and cease attacks on Israel we'll take you off our terror list and work with you." Hizbollah will say "no thank you," and so despite its show of strength March 8 will remain a target. Thus the Lebanese state in which Hizbollah plays a prominent mainstream political role will remain a target, along with Syria. Iran, allied with Syria and Hizbollah and enjoying cordial relations with the still unannounced quasi-independent regime in U.S.-occupied Iraq, will say "no thank you" to the U.S.-EU offer to exchange airplane parts for Iran's unquestionable right by international law to enrich uranium. This for the Iranians is a matter of national pride, and the neocons know it. They also know that the Netherlands, Japan and other nations without nuclear weapons programs have been allowed to master the nuclear cycle. But U.S. policy has been to deny Iran, specifically, that right for one reason alone: Israel. Iran, of course, has stated repeatedly that it does not plan or wish to produce nuclear weapons, and its religious leadership has condemned them as "un-Islamic." Iran has opened itself up to the most intrusive IAEA inspections ever; the agency head Mohamed ElBaradei has reported no evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program; and a Bush-appointed bipartisan commission investigating the issue states that U.S. intelligence provides no evidence either. But the neocons aren't impressed with such reports. They reason as follows. If Iran enriches uranium, there's the possibility it will produce nuclear weapons and use them against Israel. To quote Gen. Clark again: he told the Guardian in August 2002 that, "Those who favor [the attack on Iraq] now will tell you candidly, and privately, that it is probably true that Saddam Hussein is no threat to the United States. But they are afraid at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel." Not against the U.S. but against Israel. Bush administration policy is to prevent any nation hostile to Israel (any embracing the historical narrative according to which the settler-state established itself at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian population) from mastering the nuclear cycle since such mastery would constitute an "existential threat" to the Jewish state. One could argue, as some do, that a nuclear Iran would merely counterbalance the existing nuclear Israel and that the two could coexist as did the U.S. and USSR throughout the Cold War, when the "mutually assured destruction" doctrine prevailed. But the Bush administration has made its policy clear: if Iran seems poised to enrich uranium, either Washington or Israel (remember the bombing of Osiraq in 1981?) will preempt that possibility. The Bush administration meanwhile knows that Syria will not be able to demonstrate compliance with Washington's mounting demands, and that Hizbollah will not dismantle its much-admired militia that drove the invading Israelis from south Lebanon in 2000. They know Iran will not---in deference to the feelings of a nuclear power illegally occupying and settling Arab lands and brutally suppressing a popular uprising---agree to accept second-class citizenship in the community of nations by agreeing to never, ever do what international law allows: enrich uranium. The neocons know that when Syria, Hizbollah and Iran say no to their accelerating schedule of unreasonable demands, they'll maintain their case for attacks. But this time they'll have Europe (notably a wheeling and dealing imperialist France, which is doing business with the U.S. regarding its former Syrian and Lebanese colonies, to say nothing of Haiti), on their side as they pursue their five-year regime change plan. * * * * * * * I suspect that many Americans first hear about Syria when as children they encounter the familiar Christmas story: "Now it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria" (Luke 2:1-2). The author of the Gospel of Luke like other subjects of the Roman Empire regarded Palestine as part of "Coele-Syria," which also embraced Syro-Phoenicia or what we now call Lebanon. Syria has in various historical periods stretched from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, overlapping parts of modern Iraq. Some very important Syrian towns such as the early Christian center of Edessa fall within modern Turkey. Many Christian texts were authored in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic. (Aram is a synonym for Syria that often occurs in the Bible.) Under the Ottoman Empire, Lebanon and today's Syria constituted the province of Greater Syria. The Lebanese region had a majority Christian population, which from the time of Napoleon's Middle East conquests France determined to protect from attacks by Druze and other religious communities. Under French pressure, the Ottomans granted Lebanon some local autonomy. After World War One, the League of Nations granted France a mandate over the "Levant states" (Syria and Lebanon), insuring French control of the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline from Iraq to Tripoli. The modern state of Lebanon was drawn by a French colonialist's pen and designed to be a majority-Christian state aligned with France and serving French geopolitical interests. But its long history is generally coextensive with that of neighboring Syria. President Bush has a BA in history from Yale, but he probably has no clue about all this history, other than what he encounters when people read to him from the Bible. Maybe someone's told him that Israel's King David once conquered Syria, and "put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David withersoever he went" (2 Samuel 8:6). Recall that Bush told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in 2003 that "God told me to smite [Saddam Hussein]. And I smote him"? The man truly believes he's doing the Lord's will, like King David, and that God will bless him too with victory. The French allowed Lebanon to become a "self-governing republic" in 1926, but it remained subject to French control, including under the fascist Vichy regime in 1940 and the Free French with their British allies from 1941 to 1944. In the latter year Lebanon became an independent nation, with a constitutional arrangement apportioning parliamentary power to the various communities: Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Druze. 60% of parliamentary seats went to the Christians, principally Maronites, and the presidency was to always be held by a Christian. The demographics of Lebanon have changed significantly since 1944. The Muslim birthrate is higher than the Christian, and although for political reasons there have been no comprehensive censuses taken in Lebanon since 1933, it was clear by the mid-1950s that Christians held a disproportionate share of power. This prompted a Muslim uprising in 1958, backed by Syria; its proximate cause was an effort by Christians to unconstitutionally extend the term in office of the Christian president. (Compare the recent controversy over the extension of Emile Lahoud's presidency, which the U.S. treats as some sort of scandal.) 5000 foreign troops, not from a neighboring brotherly country but from the distant and culturally alien U.S.A. arrived to maintain order and "protect U.S. interests." In the 1970s, Muslim frustration with the power structure led to a civil war, claiming 60,000 lives before Syria, at Lebanese (and specifically Lebanese Christians') request, sent troops in to restore order. This was done with French, and tacit U.S., approval. Bush won't tell his flock about these things. Lebanon was invaded and partly occupied in 1982 by Israeli forces headed by current Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, whom Bush has lauded as "a man of peace." Reacting to PLO attacks from refugee camps in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops advanced way up to Beirut, where Israeli forces watched passively as local Christian fascists (Phalangists) slaughtered two thousand Palestinians (mostly children) in the Shattila and Sabra camps. The PLO leadership headquartered in Beirut was obliged to flee Lebanon for Tunisia. U.S. troops again intervened, alongside French troops, but being associated with Israel and the Christian fascists, these met with fierce opposition from local forces including the newly formed Shiite militia Hizbollah. President Reagan pulled out the Marines after 241 were slain in a Hizbollah attack in October 1983. Israeli invaders redeployed to the south as Syria, avoiding confrontation with the Israelis, sent in reinforcements to stabilize the situation. Syria's alliances shifted from the Christian community to the Shiites and Palestinians. Hizbollah, with Shiite Iran's support, emerged as a large political organization respected for its provision of social services (schools, hospitals) for many in Lebanon. It not only acquired significant representation in the skewed Lebanese parliamentary system but also drove out the Israelis from southern Lebanon (Sheba Farms excepted) in 2000. Lebanon today is arguably the most democratic country in the Arab Middle East, with numerous political parties, a relatively free and lively press, and a largely secular culture. The Syrian presence, increasingly discreet, and much less in-your-face than the far less welcomed U.S. presence in neighboring occupied Iraq, hasn't altered that. Bush, who has come to pose as a Wilsonian missionary of democracy to the lost souls of the benighted Muslim world, depicts Lebanon as a nation victimized by foreign occupation, yearning for the sort of freedom only the U.S. can confer. Concerning the upcoming Lebanese elections, Bush has stated that free elections can't be held under occupation, or even in the context of a Syrian intelligence presence. He says this having orchestrated elections in locked-down Iraq, their results still unannounced more than six weeks after the poll, results that will certainly be influenced by U.S. intelligence operatives in that unfortunate occupied country. One wants to refer the hypocrite to Matthew 7:3-5: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades. This article was reprinted from: counterpunch.org Bush orders policy to 'contain' Chávez Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Bush orders policy to 'contain' Chávez Senior US administration officials are working on a policy to "contain" Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, and what they allege is his drive to "subvert" Latin America's least stable states. A strategy aimed at fencing in the government of the world's fifth-largest oil exporter is being prepared at the request of President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, senior US officials say. The move signals a renewed interest by the administration in a region that has been relatively neglected in recent years. Venezuela restocks its arsenal The US military's senior officer responsible for security co-operation in Latin America has warned of the destabilising potential posed to the region by the Venezuelan government's controversial, and opaque, arms procurement programme. Hugo Chávez, the president of the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has begun signing contracts to buy an array of weapons to revamp his defences to thwart what he claims could be outside "aggression". 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A Template for the U.S. War in Iraq ¤ A Tale Of Two Resistances Mar 12, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2005 ¤ Iranian President Visits Venezuela ¤ Lifting the Veil on the Sgrena / Calipari Incident ¤ The Question of American Guilt ¤ Reining in Syria on Behalf of Israel ¤ Iraqis find irony in Bush's stance on Lebanon, Syria ¤ U.N. envoy: Syria committed to full withdrawal ¤ Hariri reportedly assassinated to make way for large US air base ¤ US, Cuba and Democracy ¤ Abu Ghraib, whitewashed again ¤ Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind ¤ Iran says U.S. incentives offer "insignificant" ¤ Toll from Blast in Iraq's Mosul Reaches 50 --US Army ¤ Pentagon Finds Pentagon Innocent Flashback ¤ What the US Can Never Do ¤ UNPO Condemns Assassination of Mashkadov ¤ The Attack on Syria Continues ¤ In Lebanon, Syria Is Not 'Foreign' ¤ From All Sides ¤ 'Pseudo-Events' Stir Mideast Pot ¤ Europe and U.S. Agree on Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Iran ¤ Guantánamo jail switch planned ¤ Ukraine Begins Pulling Troops From Iraq ¤ Italy puts pressure on Bush ¤ Iran dismisses US incentives approach ¤ Three Iraqi Policemen Shot to Death ¤ Dozens of Syrian vehicles head home ¤ Chavez backs Iran's nuclear goals A Half Million Lebanese March for Syria Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005 It was a warning. They came in their tens of thousands, Lebanese Shia Muslim families with babies in arms and children in front, walking past my Beirut home. They reminded me of the tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims who walked with their families to the polls in Iraq, despite the gunfire and the suicide bombers. And now they came from southern Lebanon and the Bekaa to say they rejected America's plans in Lebanon, and wanted - so they claimed - to know who killed Rafiq Hariri, the former prime minister murdered on 14 February, and to reject UN Security Council Resolution 1559 which demands a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon and the disarmament of the Hizbollah guerrilla movement, and to express their "thanks" to Syria. This was a tall order in Lebanon. 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Chávez May Indeed Be in Somebody's Crosshairs Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005 CARACAS, Mar 9 (IPS) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. government has plans to assassinate him and thus trigger chaos that would allow it to intervene militarily and take control of the South American country's huge oil reserves. Now, recent statements by the top U.S. official in Venezuela appear to back up his fears of a plot against his life. In an interview last weekend with the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Venezuelan Vice President José Vicente Rangel reported that former U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro had warned him of the possibility of an attempt on Chávez's life. Full Article : ipsnews.net Chávez May Indeed Be in Somebody's Crosshairs Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005 CARACAS, Mar 9 (IPS) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. government has plans to assassinate him and thus trigger chaos that would allow it to intervene militarily and take control of the South American country's huge oil reserves. Now, recent statements by the top U.S. official in Venezuela appear to back up his fears of a plot against his life. In an interview last weekend with the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Venezuelan Vice President José Vicente Rangel reported that former U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro had warned him of the possibility of an attempt on Chávez's life. Full Article : ipsnews.net Public Version of Saddam Capture is a Fiction Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2005 A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated. Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army. Full Article : wokr13.tv Chavez: Our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush Posted: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused the United States of planning to portray his country as a security threat in order to capture its vast oil reserves. "We are just waiting for the United States to announce next that Venezuela has weapons of mass destruction," Chavez said in a speech in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Chavez - who has repeatedly accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting to assassinate him, a charge Washington denies - said U.S. officials have called him "a threat" and a "destabilizing force" because they want an excuse to gain control over Venezuelan oil reserves. "The United States government would very much like to keep all our oil for itself," Chavez said. "But our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush. The oil belongs to the Venezuelan people." 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Posted: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 According to CNN, unnamed U.S. officials have branded the charge of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, that the U.S. government plans to oust him from office through assassination as "ridiculous." Ridiculous? Maybe those particular unnamed U.S. officials aren't familiar with a government organization known as the Central Intelligence Agency, or the CIA. Its job is "regime change," even through assassination, especially with respect to foreign leaders who refuse to toe the official U.S. government line and do what they're ordered to do. After all, to judge from history Chavez is an absolutely perfect candidate for CIA assassination. He recently publicly declared himself a socialist, he is close friends with long-time CIA nemesis Fidel Castro, he publicly criticizes the U.S. invasion and war of aggression against Iraq, he is making oil deals with Chinese communists, and his country sits on vast pools of oil. Tell me: what better candidate for CIA assassination and regime change can there be than that? Full Article : fff.org Murder or Ouster for Chavez? Posted: Tuesday, March 8, 2005 According to CNN, unnamed U.S. officials have branded the charge of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, that the U.S. government plans to oust him from office through assassination as "ridiculous." Ridiculous? Maybe those particular unnamed U.S. officials aren't familiar with a government organization known as the Central Intelligence Agency, or the CIA. Its job is "regime change," even through assassination, especially with respect to foreign leaders who refuse to toe the official U.S. government line and do what they're ordered to do. After all, to judge from history Chavez is an absolutely perfect candidate for CIA assassination. He recently publicly declared himself a socialist, he is close friends with long-time CIA nemesis Fidel Castro, he publicly criticizes the U.S. invasion and war of aggression against Iraq, he is making oil deals with Chinese communists, and his country sits on vast pools of oil. Tell me: what better candidate for CIA assassination and regime change can there be than that? Full Article : fff.org Mar 07, 2005 News Posted: Monday, March 7, 2005 ¤ At least 31 Iraqis killed in attacks ¤ The Benefit of the Dumb ¤ Shattered bridges ¤ Historians vs. George W. 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A Boomerang for U.S. ¤ Hostage recalls 'hail of gunfire' ¤ U.S. Used Mustard gas, Nerve gas, and Burning Chemicals on Iraqis ¤ Four US soldiers killed in action in Iraq another dies in accident ¤ Violence continues to plague Iraq US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate Posted: Sunday, March 6, 2005 Ever since the kidnappings and beheadings of non-military personnel in Iraq began nearly 2 years ago, many observers, readers and analysts have asked why the Iraqi resistance would commit these crimes, knowing they would turn world opinion against them. Many ask the same questions about the mass killings of Shiites with bombs. The Iraqi resistance has nothing to gain from these atrocities and the invader/occupiers have everything to gain in the propaganda war. We know that the CIA and Mossad have been very busy in Iraq but what kind of "work" are they doing? Many readers write to us with their suspicions that these killings and kidnappings are the work of Black Ops in Iraq. "The jury is out." "Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive," he added. When Sgrena was kidnapped on February 4 she was writing an article on refugees from Fallujah seeking shelter at a Baghdad mosque after US forces bombed the former Sunni rebel stronghold. Sgrena told RaiNews24 television Saturday a "hail of bullets" rained down on the car taking her to safety at Baghdad airport, along with three secret service agents, killing one of them. "I was speaking to (agent) Nicola Calipari (...) when he leant on me, probably to protect me, and then collapsed and I realized he was dead," said Sgrena, who was being questioned on Saturday by two Italian magistrates. Full Article : axisoflogic.com Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero Pier Scolari, Sgrena's partner who flew to Baghdad to collect her, put an even more sinister construction on the events, suggesting in a television interview that Sgrena was the victim of a deliberate ambush. 'Giuliana may have received information which led to the soldiers not wanting her to leave Iraq alive,' he claimed. Sgrena was kidnapped on 4 February as she interviewed refugees from Falluja near a Baghdad mosque. Two weeks later her captors issued a video of her weeping and pleading for help, calling on all foreigners to leave Iraq. Italian journalists were subsequently withdrawn from the city after intelligence warnings of a heightened threat to their safety. Full Article : guardian.co.uk Chavistas on the Street Posted: Sunday, March 6, 2005 Chavistas in the Halls of Power Yet, with members of Venezuela's political opposition trying to get rid of President Hugo Chávez by just about any means they can think of, Chávez's supporters have been in a near-constant state of anti-opposition mobilization. The implementation of projects aimed at improving the lives of poor Venezuelans has frequently taken a back seat to this defensive mobilization. But the mobilization itself has created a social momentum that may be carrying Chavismo=the loose grouping of Chávez’s supporters-toward a deepening of his proclaimed "Bolívarian Revolution." What distinguishes Chavismo from other political movements is the space Chávez’s leadership has opened for mobilization from below. With his charisma and masterful ability to engage in political dialogue with the estimated 80% of Venezuelans who live below the poverty line, Chávez has united most of the country's anti-neoliberal forces under his leadership. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com Mar 05, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, March 5, 2005 ¤ What's Happening in Lebanon ¤ Disguised Coup, Hidden Abuses ¤ Double Standards on South Africa and Israel ¤ Target: Al Jazeera ¤ The Fall of Saigan ¤ U.S. Used Mustard gas, Nerve gas, and Burning Chemicals on Iraqis ¤ Attack on Sregna was Intentional, says Italian Eyewitness ¤ Is America going broke? ¤ Censorship and democracy don't mix ¤ The rescue of Giuliana Sgrena runs afoul of US military shooters ¤ Why this silence over Chechnya? ¤ Pro-Syrian demonstrations in Lebanon ¤ Several ceasefire violations by Israeli forces ¤ Syria poised to start Lebanon troop pull-out ¤ US troops kill rescuer as Italian hostage is plucked to safety in Iraq ¤ Family praises Jackson in film seen by jury ¤ Why Israel Really Fears Iranian Nukes, Part Three ¤ Brazil Triumphs Over U.S. in WTO Subsidies Dispute ¤ Why the U.S. Must Get Out of Iraq, Pronto ¤ Bush Credits God, Not US, for Freedom Movement in Mideast ¤ Republican media adviser found dead ¤ The Syrian Hoax ¤ Iran owes N-plan to West ¤ After surviving U.S. shooting, journalist arrives in irate Italy ¤ Sandbagging the EU ¤ Who Now Will Read to the President in the Morning? ¤ Study shows 41% drop in number of black Army recruits ¤ Turkey to forego $1 billion in aid from U.S. Mar 04, 2005 News Posted: Friday, March 4, 2005 ¤ Bush's Brain "Blinks" ¤ Bush a Hypocrite to Lecture Putin ¤ Venezuela detects several US battleships near its coasts ¤ Gasoline set to surge ¤ Bush: The strategist in the shadows ¤ U.S. Forces Wound Freed Hostage in Iraq ¤ Italy summons US envoy over killing ¤ Asad to order pullout, officials say ¤ Suicide Bomb Probably Killed Hariri-Lebanon Source ¤ 'I just want to survive and go home with all my body parts ¤ The shadow of another Iraq ¤ US illegally paid $1.5bn to farmers ¤ 12 officers disciplined after 'racist police recruits' documentary ¤ Iran the next nuclear threat ¥ Sure ¤ Diplomats: Iran building tunnels for arms ¤ Troops Called-Off Hunt, Bin Laden's Trail "Cold" ¤ Bush: Stopping Bin Laden U.S. Attack Great Challenge ¤ Blair's Bloody Hands ¤ Ukraine's former interior minister found dead ¤ Chavez renews threat to cut oil to US ¤ 6 Iraqi Policemen Killed in Bomb Attacks ¤ Three US troop among 7 dead in Iraq violence ¤ Syria out of Lebanon and Israel out of Syria ¤ When is Stealing not a Crime? ¤ Report: London mayor brands Sharon a war criminal ¤ The domino theory ¤ Iranian Labyrinth ¤ Iran threat: Attack by West risks all 'Middle East oil' ¤ Vietnam War victims of Agent Orange poisoning sue US chemical companies Mar 03, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, March 3, 2005 ¤ This is Madness ¤ A Less Super Superpower ¤ Looking the Other Way ¤ Iran nuclear row: US revising stand? ¤ Bombs Kill Six Iraqi Policemen, Wound 15 ¤ Trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit' ¤ The White House and world opinion ¤ The oil factor in Bush's 'war on tyranny' ¤ U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah ¤ 33 Things You Should Know About the Middle East and America ¤ America No. 1? ¤ Headlines, Beliefs and Deceptions ¤ It's Not the State; It's the Liberation ¤ Exit Poll Madness ¤ U.S. Troops Deaths in Iraq Top 1,500 ¤ Iraq coalition talks falter ¤ Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire ¤ Get Real, America ¤ A Less Super Superpower ¤ How the White House Stage Managed the "Get Syria" Movement ¤ Syria must comply with international demands, says Blair ¤ U.S. gives Israel “go-ahead” to strike Syria ¤ U.S. Turns Up Heat on Syria to Leave Lebanon ¤ Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon ¤ How the Zionist Neocons 'Cooked' Intel for war for Israel ¤ Bush orders Syria out of Lebanon ¤ Police killed by Baghdad car bombs ¤ Thailand summons US ambassador The 'Noble Liars' Attack Syria Posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 How the White House Stage Managed the "Get Syria" Movement After 9/11, Administration neo-cons offered a "noble lie" to sell the public on the need to invade and occupy Iraq (The Iraqis will shower our troops with flowers and kisses). The same group has invented a new "virtuous prevarication" to build support for an attack on Syria. Ignoring recent testimony by CIA Director Porter J. Goss that "Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists" (Washington Post, February 17, 2005), this group of high US officials in Defense, State and the Vice President's office have organized a "get Syria" movement. 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Peacekeepers Kill 60 Militia in Congo ¤ Saddam tribunal judge assassinated in Baghdad ¤ Analysis: Iraq blast bursts election bubble ¤ Car bomb kills at least 6 in Baghdad ¤ Rice delays Canada trip as relations turn chilly ¤ All Set for War With Syria ¤ Independent Press Was a Target in Iraq ¤ Rumsfeld Sued Over Torture in Iraq and Afghanistan ¤ Lebanon: Background and Forecast ¤ Afghan heroin crop threatens to flood UK ¤ Road map to Damascus ¤ Mutually Undermined Democracy ¤ Afghan drug production reported rising Mar 01, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 ¤ The Grip of War ¤ They're at it again ¤ Israel: Tel Aviv blast killed soldiers ¤ A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government ¤ Why Are We Dumbing Down The News? ¤ Haiti: A Bleak and Dismal Country One Year Later ¤ United States government, 2005 ¤ Bloodbath in Iraq ¤ 'Just say no' ¤ China fuels energy cold war ¤ Bush has clear run at Syria ¤ Out of context, lists of presumptive triumphs in Iraq ¤ Protests force out Lebanese government ¤ Britain and Europe are funding Israel's occupation and expansion ¤ America urges UN to renounce abortion rights ¤ Cruel and usual ¤ Bloodbath in Iraq ¤ Clarke Memo to Condoleezza Rice ¤ Israeli 'hasbara' campaign against Syria ¤ Syria tops neo-cons target list ¤ Neocon pressure for regime change in Damascus is building up ¤ Lebanon's Government resigns ¤ Dollar Loses Ground to Yen, Euro, Pound ¤ From Thirteen Colonies to Five Continents in 200 Years ¤ Potemkin World… or the President in the Zone ¤ Once Again, Democracy Is Not Freedom ¤ What about freedom for Chechnya? ¤ Democracy, Russian style ¤ The House of Saud's eternal dilemma ¤ Five days that shook world politics ¤ 23 Nations Show Palestinian Support ¤ Liars and Cheats |
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