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July 2004
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2004
¤ Israeli troops open fire on funeral
¤ Two Afghan Officials Killed, Taliban Blamed
¤ Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll
¤ Gen. saw chaos coming
¤ Iraq teacher's institute chief assassinated
¤ Iraq Funds Are Focus of 27 Criminal Inquiries
¤ Frenchmen Say Guantanamo Detention Was Like Hell
¤ Outside Kerry's Tent
¤ Five Questions with Noam Chomsky
¤ The Shame of the DNC
¤ The Disturbing Words of John Edwards
¤ All Blame and No Responsibility
¤ Genocide in Darfur?
¤ The IMF and the Indonesian Elections
¤ Was Iraq a Mutual Charade?
¤ the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy
¤ Bush camp solicits race of Star staffer
¤ Penned protesters outnumbered
¤ Man said to be Zarqawi captured: Reports
¤ Al-Zarqawi Arrest Denied
¤ MIA: ABC, CBS, NBC
¤ A Secret Operation of British Intelligence
¤ A woman's place is to wait and listen, says the Vatican
¤ Magazine: US troops abused, sodomised Iraqis
¤ Al-Qaida detainee misled US
¤ 20 insurgents killed in Fallujah
¤ ‘Serious’ water crisis looming in Basra, UN warns
¤ Head of Iraq Teacher's Institute Killed
¤ Floods leave 1m Bangladeshis out on a limb
¤ Uzbek suicide bombers kill two
¤ Americans' spending power plummets as oil price rises
¤ Cover-Up of Iraq Bridge Incident Admitted
¤ Tossing Iraqis from Bridges
¤ CFR to Bush: Stop Israeli strike on Iran's nuke sites
¤ The Secret File of Abu Ghraib
¤ U.S. Shifts Stance on Nuclear Treaty
¤ Doctors and Torture
¤ Throwing the Book at Bush
¤ Decision 2004: Iran or Sudan?
¤ Repeat After Me: 'I Am Getting Safer and Safer'
¤ When Will They Figure It Out?
¤ Why Sudan?
¤ Anti-War Activist Dragged off DNC Floor in Handcuffs
¤ 'Terror' Against the Press
¤ Documents Showing Bush Illegal activities
¤ John Kerry's Pure Wind
¤ Business Booming for Soldiers of Fortune
¤ Occupation Causes Drop in Palestinian Living Standards
¤ Military spying on soldiers
¤ Pipeline blast kills at least 15 in Belgian factories
¤ Captives' throats slit in Iraq
¤ Iraqi governor: Free my sons and I'll quit
¤ Sudan rejects UN resolution on Darfur
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2004
¤ Developing nations rally against subsidies at WTO
¤ The Pathology of George Bush***By FIDEL CASTRO
¤ PAKISTAN FOR BUSH. July Surprise?
¤ Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border
¤ Three killed in Uzbekistan blasts
¤ Tug-of-war over Uzbekistan
¤ Pakistan caught in terror tit-for-tat
¤ Bush Charges Castro with Promoting Sex Tourism
¤ Iraq, the US and the World
¤ Hope Is Not On the Way, But Hopefully Bush Is On the Way Out
¤ Sharon: U.S. Wants Israel to Have Nukes
¤ Johnnie Been Good?
¤ UN: Palestinians suffer Israeli occupation
¤ Fear of Death Wins Minds and Votes, Study Finds
¤ Sudan rejects 'misguided' UN resolution
¤ Documenting death
¤ Anybody but Bush - and then let's get back to work
¤ Lurch and the gang
¤ Threats force delay of key Iraqi congress
¤ U.S. Soldier Found Guilty in Carjacking Case
¤ Afghanistan could implode, MPs warn
¤ Powell Makes Unannounced Stop in Baghdad
¤ U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
¤ Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death
¤ The Unbearable Costs of Empire
¤ Why is Mr Blair still in Downing Street?
¤ Help! We're going to die
¤ Federal Bureau of Incompetence
¤ U.S. Media kills a Troubling Story again
¤ US air strike on Falluja kills nine Iraqis
¤ US Arabs feel squeezed by tighter security
¤ Kerry's aides complain: Sharon prefers Bush
¤ U.N. warns of humanitarian crisis in southern Iraq
¤ Israeli Soldier Filmed Beating, Shooting Palestinian
¤ Captors threaten to kill Indian hostage
¤ American Client States
¤ From wall to wall
¤ Belgian Gas Explosion on Fluxys Pipeline
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2004
¤ Patriot Game, Media Shame
¤ Israel Ignores the Lessons of History
¤ Enough About Vietnam. What about Iraq?
¤ They're Not Neo-Cons, They're Con Men
¤ How Israel Created The Myth of Al-Qaeda
¤ Bush's search for clean Cuban hookers goes awry
¤ Does Iraq Mark Start of Decline?
¤ U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
¤ Heavy casualties in US air strike on Falluja
¤ 126 die in Iraq suicide bombing, clashes
¤ Suicide bomb havoc as Iraq attacks claim 100 lives
¤ Death Toll Rises to 70 in Suicide Bombing
¤ Baquba blast toll climbs
¤ Scores killed in al-Suwayrah clash
¤ Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers
¤ Pakistan condemns beheading of its nationals
¤ Soldiers joked as they beat Iraqis, court told
¤ GI: Officer Ordered Carjacking of Iraqi
¤ Shantytown in the shadow of a gold mine
¤ Military Says Two Marines Killed in Iraq
¤ Somali driver captured in Iraq
¤ Iraqi governor's sons taken captive
¤ Coke or Pepsi? It's all in the head
¤ US soldier: Drowning of Iraqis was ordered
¤ Oil prices ignore supply and demand
¤ British troops accused of torture
¤ A frontier too far
¤ 120 killed in Iraq suicide attack, clashes
¤ Should the U.S. Stay in Iraq?
¤ U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High
¤ How the US blurred the line between aid and the armed forces
¤ Iran terms war on terror US political tool
¤ Whether it's Bush or Kerry, Israel wins
¤ Clueless in Baghdad
¤ Democracy of Dolts
Why Americans Believe Only American Deaths Count in Iraq
Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Nationalism can be a vicious disease, and an infectious one, too. It can take all sorts of forms, and its most destructive strains can surely sneak up on any country. Just think of the tens of thousands of German Jews--German nationals--who refused to believe what was happening, even after Kristallnacht and the ghettos, until the trains arrived at Dachau. We know well from this past century what sentiments intense nationalist fervor can ignite among a country's people, but we have yet to learn deeply those lessons after two "great" wars, hundreds of so-called conflicts and countless millions of young men, women, and children dead. It's striking how rarely we talk about the most recent abuses of nationalism as well as the genocides--attempted eliminations of groups considered impure or unwelcome in a society--they engendered, in Bosnia or Rwanda, for example. Shouldn't the ones we read about firsthand logically instill the most compassion, the most closeness? We say never again while it happens under our knowing gaze. And yet Americans are not fully immune. Think of the violent attacks on, and illegal detainment of, thousands of Arabs and Muslims after September 11, 2001. Never again?
Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
¤ 68 dead in Iraq blast
¤ The real reasons Bush went to war
¤ High court challenge over Iraqi civilian deaths
¤ Iraq suicide blast kills 68
¤ Iraq captors kill two Pakistani hostages
¤ After the Fact, the International Community Moves to Bail Out...
¤ Bulgarian opposition wants troops in Iraq out by January
¤ Six killed including two UN staff in central Afghanistan
¤ Iraq Insurgents Kill 2 Coalition Soldiers
¤ Aid doctors to leave Afghanistan
¤ Two Us Aircraft Damaged, 11 U.S. Troops Wounded In Western Iraq
¤ Bush Floats War Against Iran
¤ Computer Glitches Lost Voting Data
¤ How 9/11 Report Soft-Pedaled Root Causes
¤ The Democrats and Their Conventions
¤ Saddam could die before his trial
¤ U.S. Crude Prices Hit 21-Year High
¤ Give Up 'Delusional Hope' of Iraq WMD, Kay Says
¤ Human Rights Horrors in Haiti
¤ Who is a Terrorist?
¤ Suicide Car Bombing Kills 51 in Iraq
¤ Iraq police station bomb 'kills more than 50'
¤ Opium trade booms in 'basket-case' Afghanistan
¤ $200 Million Ad Campaign Must Lure Recruits in Wartime
¤ UK troops held torture contests, Iraqi claims
¤ Eight killd in Afghan violence
¤ ‘Iraq will not cave in to kidnappers’
¤ Jordanian firm pulling out of Iraq to help free hostages
¤ Body of Turkish driver in Iraq found
¤ Iraq War Straining U.S.-Turkey Ties
¤ Aid agency pulls out of Afghanistan
¤ Veterans Demand End to Occupation
¤ Health fears grow in polluted Iraq
¤ Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire
¤ Over His Head
¤ Why Americans Believe Only American Deaths Count in Iraq
¤ US war on terror is "void" after decision to protect Mujahedeen: Iran
¤ Flashback America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims
¤ Flashback Bystanders to Mass Murder
¤ Whether It’s Bush or Kerry, Israel’s Laughing
¤ Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead
¤ The real reasons Bush went to war
¤ South Asia floods claim 1,100 lives
¤ Sudan to face 'genocide' inquiry
¤ There can be no quick fix in Sudan
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
¤ So this is what self-determination looks like
¤ Woman sentenced for anti-semitism lie
¤ South Asia floods crisis grows
¤ U.S. colonel admits holding Iraqi children
¤ If We Were Venezuelans... We Would Vote for Hugo Chavez
¤ First the Contra Butchers, Then the Sweatshops
¤ Dodging the Issue of Palestine-Israel
¤ Maybe Spinning our Safety
¤ Axis of Eve
¤ Baghdad Becomes Captive of Extremists
¤ 'You can't be a war president one day, a peace president the next'
¤ 'What war?'
¤ A few questions for the president
¤ Reality: irrelevant
¤ Armenian con artists
¤ Iraqis seek legal redress in UK
¤ Iraq reconstruction flawed, say experts
¤ Mortar Attack Kills Iraqi, Injures 14
¤ Techies Reshape 9/11 History
¤ Castro Slams Bush 'Lies and Slanders' on Sex Tours
¤ Castro outraged at Bush's allegations
¤ US Stands Behind Cuban Sex Tourism Allegations
¤ Bush Took Quote Out of Context, Researcher Says
¤ US finds new weapon in Iraq - cash
¤ The complex politics of lying
¤ And still they cry wolf . . .
¤ Force will be met with force: Sudan
¤ Is Blair deceiving himself about America yet again?
¤ Israel expands West Bank settlements
¤ Assassins kill top Iraqi official as eight die in attacks
¤ On 9/11, All Failed But Rugged Individuals
¤ US weapons research industry grinds to a halt
¤ Rhetoric becomes reality
¤ Iraq hostages survive deadline, UN envoy slams US-led invasion
¤ U.S. Sneaks Uranium Out of Iraq
¤ Palestinian girl, 13, said killed by IDF fire in Gaza
¤ IDF soldier assaults Palestinian at West Bank roadblock
¤ Iraq the last big lie
¤ Where are the bodies of evidence?
¤ Civilian killed in Baghdad mortar attack
¤ Britons 'more vulnerable to terrorism than 60 years ago'
¤ Iran warns Israel of retaliation if attacked
¤ US Veto Over the Israeli Wall Would Threaten the Rule of International Law
¤ Sovereignty: "If they want it that bad, they can have it"
¤ Incompetent Imperialists
¤ Spain reprimands Australia over Iraq
Latest News
Posted: Monday, July 26, 2004
¤ Same old story
¤ How Chechnya Inspired the Iraqi Kidnappers
¤ Arresting the Curious
¤ The Democrats and Their Conventions
¤ Warnings of Threats are Threatening
¤ Is That All There Is?
¤ Stay Out of the "Free Speech Zone"
¤ Dissent is Now Dangerous
¤ Terrorists Attacked America Because They Hated "Freedom"? You Bet They Did
¤ Democrats remove Aljazeera banner
¤ Manipulating US elections is not an Al-Qaeda goal
¤ U.S. 'Correctional Population' Hits New High
¤ Bush Arrogance vs. CIA Intelligence
¤ Gunmen kill top Iraqi official
¤ When Grozny comes to Fallujah
¤ Russia sticks with Iran
¤ US lessons on India and Pakistan
¤ Democracy a tool in neo-con hands
¤ Iraqi official killed on day of bombings
¤ Spain reprimands Australia over Iraq comment
¤ Convention Demonstration Zone is a Dark, Shadowy Place
¤ Sudan warns against foreign intervention
¤ Chief of Staff of New Iraqi Army Dismissed
¤ By the banks of Lake Tunk
¤ Iraq Militants Kidnap 2 Pakistanis, Iraqi
¤ Bestseller on honour killing 'is a fake'
¤ Bomber Explodes Car at U.S. Base in Iraq
¤ GM protest reignites in France
¤ How to Lose the War on Terror
¤ The Army's whitewash
¤ Empire building is nasty work
¤ Baghdad's Officers impose gun control
¤ The Uncertainty of Iraq's Transition
¤ Intelligence officer fired for criticising Blair over Iraq's WMD
¤ Iran Says U.S. Senators 'Daydream' of Regime Change
¤ US indictment complicates Colombian peace process
¤ U.S. Soldier Guarding Iraq Oil Tankers Killed In Roadside Bombing
¤ MPs criticise MoD 'failures'
¤ Understanding US History and Mythology
¤ Survey: Arabs Detest US Policy
¤ Israeli Hit Squads in US
¤ International Assassination Squads
¤ Israeli troops kill six Palestinians
¤ China: powerhouse of world economy
¤ Suicide Bomber Kills Three in Iraq
¤ Car bomb blasts rock Mosul, Baghdad
¤ Three family members beheaded in Kashmir
¤ Darfur can best be resolved by Africans
¤ Philippines blasts Australia
¤ Convention Protesters Upset With Site
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, July 25, 2004
¤ Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
¤ Iran new U.S. whipping boy
¤ How much of the Iraq mission is about profit?
¤ U.S. Air Raid Goes Astray, Hurts 8 Afghan Soldiers
¤ Israeli bank at centre of probe into Holocaust victims' millions
¤ Flood report whitewashes Iraq WMD lies
¤ North Korea Accuses U.S. of Spy Flights
¤ Looking for an Iraq precedent? Try Honduras
¤ No Shortage of Fighters in Iraq's Wild West
¤ Venezuela: Chávez Effort Boosts Voter Rolls
¤ 'America is not a Charitable Organisation - They Came to Steal from Iraq'
¤ Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood, Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
¤ Iran: the next target?
¤ Israel moves to highlight Iran's nuclear threat
¤ Israel Woos Foreign Jews, Including Americans, to Keep Up in Population
¤ Blair: my way or it’s the highway
¤ Iraq Committee Shows Torture Equipment
¤ NZ: 2 more passport suspects may have fled to Israel
¤ Correcting the Record on Sept. 11, in Great Detail
¤ Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood, Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
¤ Two Pakistanis kidnapped in Iraq
¤ ‘More vigilantes active in Afghanistan’
¤ History repeats itself
¤ Arafat waits for Bush's failure: Israeli intelligence
¤ Unclear casualty toll in Baquba fighting
¤ Sudan: Darfur issue being used against it
¤ Iraq clashes continue, toll rises
¤ Bushmen of Botswana, visit U.S to Publicize Human Rights Violations
¤ Nine gunmen killed in Algeria
¤ Four Afghan Soldiers Killed In Ambush
¤ 2,000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq: Russian expert
Flashback ¤ Russian Expert Predicts 500,000
¤ Iraqi forces aim at each other
¤ Effect of Iraq war, support for Israel go unaddressed
¤ N. Korea rejects U.S 'sham offer'
¤ Whitewashing 9-11; "When everyone is to blame, No one is to blame"
¤ A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
¤ 9/11 panel plays it safe and makes no enemies
¤ Out of touch, but not out of the woods
¤ Haitian Rebels Still Armed and Active
¤ Soldiers, who had served in Iraq, Die in Apparent Murder-Suicide
¤ Afghan border region has new boss
¤ U.S. Soldier Dies While Escorting Convoy
¤ Darfur's deep grievances defy all hopes for an easy solution
¤ The UN must not fail Sudan again
¤ Sudan's Darfur crisis and US/European concern
¤ UK banking link to fraud by Pinochet
¤ Butler 'wrong' on Iraq uranium link
Challenges to Garifuna & Afro-Brazilian Communities
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Shackled together and piled on top of each other, men, women and children crossed the Atlantic crammed in the dark leaky hulls of creaking slave ships. Upon arrival in the New World, they suffered a daily existence of backbreaking labor, endless abuse and the subjugation of their religions and cultures. Although African slaves endured relentless brutality in the Americas, many did not acquiesce to their captivity; they were not docile subjects. Resistance characterized their new lives: from covert sabotage of plantation equipment and working at a turtle’s pace when possible, to outright violent rebellion and escape. Many opted for the latter.
As slavery spread across the Americas, so did autonomous communities of runaway slaves. Living off the plantation allowed these groups to preserve and reproduce their original African cultures. The modern descendants of these courageous renegades amazingly have kept much of their culture, religion and language intact.
Full Article : americas.org
Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Oil, Venezuela's Lifeblood,
Is Now Its Social Currency, Too
CARACAS, Venezuela - Seventeen months after an antigovernment strike crippled production, Venezuela's state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, has made what analysts call a Herculean return.
Though energy experts say production remains below prestrike levels, the oil-and-gas monolith is, once again, one of the world's great producers of crude. Its giant refining arm is talking of adding two refineries to the three already operating in the United States. The company says it is embarking on a strategy, heavily dependent on foreign oil companies, to nearly double production by 2009.
All this is part of a grand design made possible largely by sky-high oil prices, which have nearly doubled the expected revenue of Pdvsa (pronounced peh-deh-VEH-sah), as the company is known.
But while Pdvsa's talk of foreign investment and ramped-up production is welcome in the boardrooms of the world's biggest oil companies, in recent months much of the new earnings have been siphoned from exploration and production projects that some energy analysts say Pdvsa needs to recover fully from the strike. Instead, the windfall is financing a social revolution long promised by President Hugo Chávez's 5½-year-old government to extricate the country from its malaise and ease life for the poor, an effort that had been hobbled by the strike and a 2002 coup that temporarily ousted the firebrand leader.
Full Article : nytimes.com
Reproduced on: Trinidad News board
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2004
¤ Those 16 Words Still Smell
¤ The Struggle for Iraq is Just Beginning
¤ What's at Stake in Venezuela
¤ U.S. President George W. Bush a Big Winner at World Stupidity Awards
¤ Brazil Investigates American Corporation for Spying
¤ Official US Body Count Is A Lie
¤ U.S. West Nile virus matches Israeli strain
¤ Iran's next
¤ Bomb thrower
¤ Coup-less
¤ Iraq clashes continue, toll rises
¤ North Korea rejects US nuclear offer
¤ Trouble ahead for Bush from 9/11 panel
¤ Some Firms Will Halt Business in Iraq
¤ Ruling throws doubt on Bali convictions
¤ Eqyptian diplomat becomes latest victim of Iraq's hostage takers
¤ The “Invisible” U.S. War in Colombia
¤ Muslim cleric would not get fair trial in US, court told
¤ Bush: GOP Must Work to Appeal to Blacks
¤ Bush uses civil rights speech to win black vote
¤ Occupied Haiti
¤ Afro-Latinos and African Americans: Making the Connections
¤ U.S. policy on Israel key motive for effort
¤ Kerry: I can do better than Bush on fighting terrorism
¤ Iran, Saudis Feel Vindicated After Report
¤ Iran's Challenge to the Bush Doctrine
¤ US Must Stay Out of Sudan
¤ Bush should stop bashing Tehran and seek better relations.
¤ Prison abuse not systemic: US Army
¤ Army: Much higher estimates of abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan
¤ The Puzzling 9/11 Report
¤ Destroying Freedom to Save It
¤ New Zealand Has Solid Evidence of Mossad killing Austalian tourists
¤ From Iraq to Latin America
¤ Fresh bombings in Falluja
¤ US proposes sanctions against Sudan
¤ Selling War to a Willing Public
¤ Continuing Challenges to Garifuna & Afro-Brazilian Communities
¤ Iran dismissive about 9/11 report
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2004
¤ "Anyone But Bush" and the Anatomy of Moral Failure
¤ Analysis: Permission to speak freely?
¤ Bali bombers court shock
¤ Sudan Arabs Attack U.S. Stand on Darfur 'Genocide'
¤ First Skirmish in the Battle of NYC
¤ Zaniest President in US History
¤ The 9/11 Whitewash
¤ Macho Politics and Major Consequences
¤ Remember Afghanistan?
¤ Hezbollah and Three Alive 9/11 Hijackers
¤ Multiple identities of hijack suspects confound FBI
¤ Israel's Condition For Peace Conference: No Palestinians
¤ Tall Buildings and Tall Tales
¤ Clueless 9-11 Commission Cheats American Public
¤ Powell condemns Philippine pullout
¤ Against the whole world: Bush's AIDS policy
¤ Roadside bomb kills US soldiers
¤ Two sides of the same coin
¤ An Occupation by Any Other Name
¤ Bush accused of pressuring countries to stop producing generic drugs
¤ U.S. Military Spending vs. the World
¤ The Mass Graves in America
¤ U.S. pressures Sudan
¤ Hard Reign
¤ Train crash death toll revised to 36
¤ Egyptian diplomat in Iraq taken captive
¤ US tank crash kills Iraqis
¤ Radicals in the ashes of democracy
¤ Sudan warns Blair against sending troops
¤ Turkish train crash kills 139 as carriages derail
¤ U.S. Irate Over Philippines' Iraq Pullout
¤ EU and Israel clash over support for UN resolution
¤ Yesterday's heroes could soon be tomorrow's traitors
¤ US worked with torture suspect
¤ Australia went to war on back of 'thin' intelligence
¤ UN report accuses Rwanda of breaking Congo arms ban
¤ 'The system was blinking red'
¤ Intervention: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba
¤ No "collaborative operational relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.
¤ Halliburton Ignores Sanctions
¤ Iran had no active role in 9/11: CIA
¤ Violence Surges in Baghdad and Sunni Area to the West
¤ Yes Means No for al-Jazeera in Canada
¤ Axis of liars
¤ Israel's wall just keeps on growing
¤ U.S. forces attack insurgents linked to al-Zarqawi in Fallujah
¤ Fresh bombings in Falluja
Top 30 Bush - Iraq Lies Debunked BEFORE The Invasion
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2004
Since the release of a blistering report by a U.S. Senate committee blaming the CIA for miserable intelligence leading to our pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, the White House and its apologists have had a field day pointing their fingers anywhere and everywhere except where it most certainly belongs...at the White House.
After the incomprehensible incompetence and abhorrent, deceptive tactics used by both the Bush and Blair administrations, you would think that they would let sleeping dogs lie.
Well that has never been the case with these people and I don't think it ever will be.
Thus I think it appropriate to take a stroll down memory lane and see just how innocent this administration was of all the supposed CIA foul-ups.
Grab a coffee. This might take a while.
Full Article : politicalstrategy.org
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 22, 2004
¤ Kenya citizens 'must leave Iraq'
¤ Haiti's loan-aid deal a debt trap
¤ Howard, Bush and Sharon
¤ Chirac v. Sharon
¤ Accidental Explosion Kills 18 in Yemen
¤ Outsourcing War Crimes
¤ Cheney Lobbied Congress To Ease Sanctions Against Terrorist Countries
¤ Democracy in Peril
¤ Don't Call It A Comeback
¤ 9/11 Airport Surveillance Video
¤ Whoopi doo
¤ IS CUBA NEXT?
¤ Mean and clean streets
¤ Lies and human blunders
¤ Train Derails in Turkey, Killing 36
¤ 2 Killed in Gaza City Explosion
¤ Israeli rocket kills Islamic Jihad leader
¤ Army Announces 94 Allegations of Abuse
¤ The Oft-Asked Question: Why Do They Hate Us?
¤ US interest in peace process waning, says UK
¤ Howard's obsequiousness to America exceeds even Holt's
¤ The selling-out of Tasmania
¤ EU freezes £83m aid to Kenya
¥ These hypocritical 'bastions of morality'
¥ now pontificates to Africans about corruption and greed.
¤ Profits of war
¤ Report Alleges Halliburton Overcharges
¤ Missing in Action: $20 Billion
¤ Grand jury probes Cheney's role in 'illegal' Iran trade
¤ Israel warns Britain over UN barrier resolution
¤ Israel lashes out at EU stance
¤ Israel shows contempt for international opinion
¤ Facing the Facts About The U.S.-Israeli Relationship
¤ Hanging the bell on Israel’s neck
¤ More Palestinians made homeless
¤ Israel warns Iran will have nukes in 2007
¤ From vigilantism to terrorism
¤ 'Two governments are calling him a liar'
¤ GAO: War Cost Underestimated by $12.3 Billion
¤ Bush OKs Arms Sales to Iraq
¤ Al Qaeda Relationship With Iran Is Debated
¤ Rumsfeld knew all about me, says American 'jailer' held in Kabul
¤ Blair may send troops to Sudan
¤ Root of Sudan's Darfur crisis and US concern
¤ Fortress America
¤ Some of my best friends
¤ Venezuela Officials Question Bush’s Remarks on Referendum
¤ Space programs out, cemeteries in as war-time US budget ax falls
¤ Ice cream entrepreneur totes Bush effigy
¤ Six US soldiers among 25 killed in Iraq
¤ Many Iraqis killed in Ramadi fighting
¤ Exactly How Has Bush’s War Made Us Safer?
¤ John Kerry: 'George Bush Lite' on Iraq
¤ Blame the CIA? Top 30 Bush - Iraq Lies Debunked BEFORE The Invasion
Bush's 'Moral' Remarks
Posted: Thursday, July 22, 2004
Venezuela Officials Question Bush's Remarks on Referendum, Cite Lack of Morals
www.venezuelanalysis.com
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
¤ Deserting a Ship of Rats
¤ Bush May Lose, But His War Will Go On
¤ How About an October Naval Skirmish?
¤ A Disease of Conceit
¤ The Emotional Casualties of War
¤ U.S. helicopter shot down in Iraq
¤ Vigilante in Afghanistan Says He Worked for U.S.
¤ IAEA has no evidence to prove Syria's nuclear weapons attempt
¤ UK firms in Iraq 'unaccountable'
¤ UN 'to detail lack of Iraqi WMDs'
¤ Head of slain U.S. hostage found in Saudi raid
¤ In the face of stubborn insurgency, troops scale back Anbar patrols
¤ The genocide we're missing
¤ Unrecorded victims
¤ Iraq dismisses nuclear find report
¤ Even CNN and BBC Beating Drums of a New War, on Sudan This Time
¤ Annan Urges Sudan to Disarm Militias
¤ Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies
¤ New Niger/uranium tale flops
¤ 11 Killed, 6 Kidnapped in Iraq Violence
¤ Israel shows contempt for international opinion
¤ Three brothers killed in Ramadi bombing
¤ The tongue of the mujahideen
¤ American Exceptionalism: A Disease of Conceit
¤ Oops, They Invaded the Wrong Country?
¤ 70 go on trial in Zimbabwe over alleged coup plot
¤ US press hit by new scandal
¤ Alarm at US drift over Middle East
¤ U.N. Demands Israel Tear Down Barrier
¤ 'Rejoice over Iraq': fury at Blair's echo of Thatcher
¤ 900th GI Dies Since War Began in Iraq
¤ Bush-Hitler: Hypnotizing The Masses
¤ Russia denies plans to send troops to Iraq
¤ Abu Ghraib: Male Rape Witness Statement from Taguba Report
¤ The Ghost Prisoners
¤ African Americans suffer Abu Ghraib treatment in America
¤ Senior official killed in Basra
¤ Blair ridiculed for fuzzy grasp of Iraq intelligence
¤ America sings a new song of celebrity censorship
¤ A Shrinking Base
¤ Running scared
¤ Why tyrants rule Arabs
¤ Bush: "I want to be the peace president"
¤ Pressured by U.S., Greece Will Allow Troops at Olympics
¤ General Assembly demands that Israel tear down barrier
¤ UN assembly votes against Israeli wall
¤ Annan: Israel must accept ICJ ruling
¤ ICJ: Israel must stop building wall now
¤ Israel Vows to Continue Building Barrier
¤ Bush State Of The Union Address 2005 Cartoon
¤ US soldier, four Iraqis killed
¤ Iraq’s new terrorist prime minister part II
¤ Donors pledge billions in aid to Haiti
¤ Nearly all the funds could end up in the pockets of foreigners and elite
African Americans suffer Abu Ghraib treatment in America
Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
In terms of African American history in this country it's a "been there, done that," sort of approach to these controversial topics dominating much of the media coverage.
African American men disproportionately fill prison facilities in the United States, not abroad in a foreign setting obscure to most Americans, but in our own prisons. For many years men like journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal have written prison memoirs in which they describe the ways that men are physically, mentally, and morally broken down by the prison system, and their lives can be endangered more by the prison atmosphere than by life on the roughest city streets. Little in the way of national outrage has been mustered over these accounts.
Full Article : rawstory.com
Food Security Program
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Venezuela Expands Food Security Program to Provide Free Food to Street Children
Caracas, July 19, 2004--In a country that has long endured wide social disparity created by an oil economy in which oil revenues reached only a small minority while the majority suffered from poverty, the government of Venezuela under initiated a new program meant to provide emergency relief to those Venezuelans most in need.
Yesterday Chavez announced the creation of a new food program to benefit the poorest of Venezuelans; adults and children who live on the street. Chavez said the program will draw from the existing Mercal (Mercados de Alimentos) food security program, which consists of government supermarkets with basic food supplies at fixed discount prices.
Chavez announced that one thousand houses for prepared food distribution will be opened next week, each house with the capacity to feed approximately 100 people, adults as well as street children, who Chavez called "Children of the fatherland."
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
¤ Bush Says Castro Welcomes Sex Tourism
> Student whose paper on Castro was used in a speech is 'annoyed.'
> He says the president misconstrued the Cuban leader's stance.
¤ Bush Took Quote Out of Context, Researcher Says
¥ Another example of plagiarism of a student's paper
Flashback ¤ Downing St dossier plagiarised
¤ Everyone Knows This is Theater
¤ Banking on Your Desperation: The Bush / Kerry War Ticket
¤ Black Americans Discovered By Democratic Party
¤ Putin Considering Sending 40,000 Troops to Iraq — Agency
¤ Russia not to send troops to Iraq
¤ White House Won't Give UN Details on Halliburton in Iraq
¤ Bush Administration Has Blocked Court-Approved Payments to Black Farmers
¤ As Iraqi police take over, they use their only resource: threats
¤ Bush, CIA at Odds on Iran
¤ Another Campaign of Misinformation?
¤ Lies Even the U.S. Doesn’t Believe
¤ NZ 'evidence' against Israel
¤ New Iraqi leader says bounty no big deal
¤ Bush Cronies Profit from War in Iraq While Soldiers Die
¤ Did the Bush Administration Allow a Violent Coup in Haiti?
¤ Torturing Children
¤ Bush: Re-Election Will Ensure U.S. Safety
¤ Iraq: the crowning glory of George W. Bush
¤ All power to the sheikh
¤ Israeli army warns of strike against Syria
¤ More Palestinians made homeless
¤ 14 to 1 Against the Wall
¥ That should be 14 to 2 don't forget The U.S.
¤ Filipino Hostage Is Released in Iraq
¤ Arab women singers complicit in rape, says Amnesty report
¤ 9 Killed in Truck Bomb Blast in Baghdad
¤ How has the US been spending other people's billions?
¤ Riled Putin shakes up top brass
¤ Our lies led us into war
¤ The Daily Show With George Bush
¤ The Iraq Scandals: Media Failures Are Next
¤ House Republicans Fight International Criminal Court
¤ Iraq's Transition to Dictatorship
¤ Iraq is not improving, it's a disaster
¤ Four missiles, 14 deaths and the crisis of information in Baghdad
¤ A Nation Whose Govt Rules Only Its Capital
¤ Fox News' use of 'Fair and Balanced' deceptive advertising
¤ French Jews caught up in a war of words
¤ Basra Council Member Killed by Gunmen
¤ The Daily Show With George Bush
¤ America's Not Safer
¤ Three Palestinians killed in West Bank
¤ Bush ‘flat-out lied’ on Iraq
¤ No, I am not ‘devastated’ by Butler
¤ The rule of law and the rule of exceptions
¤ Iran may provide Hezbollah with chemical weapons
Flashback ¤ Sharon: Iran Next on War List
¤ Israel accuses Iran of resuming suspect nuclear activities
> Unlike Israel, which is widely thought to possess
> up to 200 nuclear warheads, Iran has signed up to the
> IAEA's nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
¤ Israel Will Prosecute Holocaust Deniers
¤ Israeli missile strike on Gaza leader
¤ Israeli soldiers continue killing spree
¤ Senior Basra official, guards shot dead
¤ Philippines Forces Leave Iraq
¤ Methane Blast Kills 31 at Ukrainian Mine
¤ Ruling on Israel's wall: A veto on the U.S. veto
Latest News
Posted: Monday, July 19, 2004
¤ Pakistan pledges to pursue peace with India
¤ MAURITANIA: Oil, copper and gold exports to start in 2005
¤ "Locusts invade Mauritania"
¤ Blacks are Invisible at AIDS Conference
¤ A brief history of imperialist intervention in East Africa
¤ Is A New Era Ahead of De Beers in Africa?
¤ A very British coup? Top Tories dragged into brewing heir's African adventure
¤ Sudan: 'Rape as weapon of war'
¤ Africa develops appetite for patents
¤ Kuwait Of Africa?
¤ Halliburton Subpoenaed Over Unit's Iran Work
¤ 9 killed in blast outside Baghdad police station
¤ Senior Iraqi official assassinated
¤ Blair and Bush 'Should Have Realised Pre-War Truth on Wmd'
¤ How We Got It so Wrong in Iraq
¤ Forget WMD -- It's Conventional Arms That Are Killing GIs and Iraqis
¤ Chirac Says Sharon Not Welcome in France
Flashback ¤ Sharon: Iran Next on War List
¤ Regime change in Iran if Bush wins?
¤ Lack of Iran Contacts Said Harming U.S. Interests
¤ Allawi, Our Puppet with a Pistol
¤ The Crisis of Information in Baghdad
¤ Scant Coverage of US Labor Opposition to Iraq War
¤ Berg family says U.S. gov't is stonewalling them
¤ Lies deception, cover-up; the bush legacy
¤ The Big "Mistake"?
¤ US casualty rate high since handover
¤ Bush, unprincipled and unwise to the extreme
¤ The Fallujah model
¤ Three wounded in Gaza rocket attack
¤ Six killed in Kashmir bomb attack
¤ Iran rejects US claim of al-Qaida link
¤ Blair: the attacks mount up
¤ Troops kill 19 Chechen separatists
¤ Red Cross urged to investigate Allawi claims
¤ Fallujans: Use oil revenue to rebuild homes
¤ Rights groups slam Israel's citizenship law
¤ 3 in Afghan Abuse Case Claim U.S. Link
¤ US media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners
¤ US Sikhs Shocked by 'Inflammatory' AP Article
¤ We can't prove Iran-Sept 11 link: CIA
¤ Americans ran illegal jail, Kabul alleges
¤ Car bombs kill two officers
¤ Woman killed as rockets hit Kabul
¤ Kicking the Bully’s Dog
¤ The era of strategic deception
¤ Do you ever get the strange feeling you’re being watched? You are
¤ France angered over Sharon's call
¤ ICJ ruling, Israel’s reaction and Sudan in headlines
¤ Top commanders in Iraq allowed dogs to be used
Downing Street admits Iraqi mass graves claim untrue
Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2004
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.
In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'
On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: 'The remains of 400,000 human beings [have] already [been] found in mass graves.'
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2004
¤ How intelligence was bent to one will and purpose
¤ PM admits graves claim 'untrue'
¤ Invisible casualties
¤ Israel's Mossad's litany of blunders
¤ Hidden Angle
¤ Security chaos as Gaza boils over
¤ Sharon Urges Exodus of Jews From France
¤ The problem was in the Oval Office
¤ Bushites are trying to rewrite history
¤ Our troops died on a false pretext... but never mind
¤ Women and children among 14 dead in US attack on Fallujah house
¤ Why Philippines is pulling out
¤ US unhappy over Phillipines' Iraq withdrawal
¤ Five arrested for India school inferno
¤ Iran, Al-Qaida Not Connected, CIA Says
¤ Germany to drop 9/11 plot charges
¤ U.S. Strike in Fallujah Kills at Least 10
¤ Palestinian PM offers to resign
¤ Bomb Explodes in Indonesian Town
¤ Europe or the US? Britain must choose
¤ Attorney General warned Blair on legality of war
¤ Inquiry into British WMD intelligence watered down to protect Blair
¤ Like Jeeves, this Butler's first language is Euphemism
¤ What Butler missed
¤ U.N. quits Afghan province after attack
¤ Iraq Amnesty Excludes Killers of Americans
¤ US is obliged to support its 'old friend' Israel - Bush
¤ 'How can Blair live with Iraq deaths?'
¤ Now America accuses Iran of complicity in World Trade Center attack
¤ Regime change in Iran now in Bush’s sights
Flashback ¤ Will Iran Be Next?
¤ Soldier in U.S.-Led Afghan Force Struck Army Man
¤ Iraqi Police Chief Killed
¤ British army sanctioned hooding Iraqi prisoners
¤ 'Here you go. Here's Iraq. Take it'
¤ Former CIA director used Pentagon ties to introduce Iraqi defector
¤ Suicide is top killer of Israeli soldiers
¤ How to Prevent a US Election (with the Help of 'al Qaeda')
¤ Anybody but Bush or Kerry
¤ Philippine Troops to Complete Iraq Pullout Monday
¤ US again denies money to population fund
¤ US attack in Falluja leaves 11 dead
¤ Assassinations, bombings sweep Iraq
US writes off over $495m Pak debt
Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2004
ISLAMABAD: The United States wrote off $495.3 million bilateral debt that Islamabad owed to Washington in an agreement here on Friday.
"This final instalment of debt cancellation marks an evolutionary transition from stabilisation assistance to participation in Pakistan’s economic take-off and sustained development," US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell said after signing the agreement with Dr Waqar Masood Khan, Secretary Economic Affairs Division (EAD). She ruled out more debt relief.
In the post-September 11 period, the United States has helped Pakistan by agreeing to the Paris Club terms under the stock of the debt operation, which paved the way for writing off the $1 billion debt in April 2003, and finally another half a billion dollar to reduce the bilateral US debt from $3 billion to about $1.6 billion, according to the EAD. However, the US administration has only waived off concessional loans borrowed under the Official Development Assistance (ODA). These loans, with a weighted average cost of just 2.54 per cent, were repayable in 38 years, leaving their Net Present Value (NPV) at just $200 million. The US administration approved these funds in its 2004 budget, as part of an overall package of $395 million.
Full Article : jang.com.pk
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2004
¤ Oil is the only reason for the African Focus
¤ Gunmen Kill at Least 25 Indian Separatists
¤ Israel's alliances with Turkey, India start to fray
¤ Roadside Bomb Blast Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq
¤ Vanishing the Palestinians
¤ Israel Builds Another Wall
¤ Israel, Iran and the IAEA: Nuclear Ambiguity or Hypocrisy?
¤ Italy Govt Crisis Threat Remains Despite Reshuffle
¤ Car Bomb Hits Iraqi Minister's Convoy
¤ Gunmen pick off Baghdad councillors
¤ Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence
¤ Palestinian militants ban UN envoy
¤ No 10 admits Hutton cover-up
¤ How judge was misinformed about Iraq's WMD threat
¤ Downing Street forced into the open on discredited spies
¤ Blair faces quit call in backbench backlash
¤ US writes off over $495m Pak debt
¤ Iraqi clerics: US occupiers must leave
¤ Civilians, policemen killed in Iraq
¤ Baghdad blast targets Minister of Justice
¤ Gaza kidnappings: Security chiefs quit
¤ NZ's Palestine stance said to rule out formal apology
¤ ‘America gripped by unease over Pakistan’
¤ A French call on Arafat fuels a diplomatic furor
¤ Afghans get to vote, sort of
¤ Obedience Is an Option
¤ Betraying Iraqi Women
¤ Guide to age
¤ Car bomb blasts in Iraq kill six
¤ Car bomb targets US convoy; Philippine, Thai troops trickle out of Iraq
¤ Where Is This 'Safer' America?
¤ Padilla, Hamdi, and Rasul: Charge Them or Release Them
¤ Colorism in Sudan
¤ Britain calls Kenya government corrupt
¤ UK envoy attacks graft 'gluttons'
¤ The politicians may 'eat like gluttons' but Kenyan people face starvation
¥ What could possibly prompt these types of attacks?
¤ Preliminary Surveys Find OIL DEPOSITS in KENYA
Latest News
Posted: Friday, July 16, 2004
¤ 'Acrimonious' talks continue
¤ Darfur peace talks start in Addis Ababa
¤ Iraqi PM executed six insurgents: witnesses
¤ Darfur Rebels Set Six Conditions for Sudan Talks
¤ Libya to help speed up aid delivery to Sudan
¤ 100 girl students feared killed in school fire
¤ Allawi vows to 'annihilate' insurgents
¤ China delivers blunt warning to U.S.
¤ They're True Because They're Said A Lot
¤ Allawi shot inmates in cold blood, say witnesses
¤ 32 killed as attacks rock Iraq
¤ Turning History Upside Down
¤ Now It's Coffin Bombs in Baghdad
¤ The Iraq War is All Right Then
¤ Terrorism and the Election: Trial Balloons and Spin
¤ Whoopi Goldberg Brings Hypocrites from Under Their Rocks
¤ Labour loses safe seat in Iraq war backlash
¤ Blair tells aides: find a way I can apologise for dossier
¤ Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape
¤ Cameron Kerry: Bush too soft on Saudis
¤ Elections, what elections?
¤ Waging Another Losing War
¤ $18m slap on the wrist for Uzbekistan
¤ Bush on the Bus
¤ Gaza kidnappings: Security chiefs quit
¤ Bid to cut Egypt aid rejected by US Congress
¤ Headless corpse found in Iraq
¤ U.S. to Withhold $34M to U.N. Fund
¤ Philippines to Pull Out of Iraq to Save Hostage
¤ US threaten cutting diplomatic ties with Philippines
¤ Hawking changes his mind on black holes
¤ New Zealand PM says Israeli apology not enough
¤ Report slams Saudi abuse of workers
¤ Philippines orders partial Iraq pullout
¤ Libya to open corridors for Darfur aid
¤ Vital US nuclear weapons data goes missing
¤ Insurgency in Iraq: a dangerous development
¤ US House of Representatives Rejects Hague Court Ruling
¤ American Israel Public Affairs Committee Applauds
> Strong Bipartisan Condemnation of ICJ Ruling
¤ Call to suspend Israel from United Nations
¤ Angry Prime Minister hammers Israel
¤ Islamic Website Baffled at 'Al-Qaeda Threat' Attributed To It
¤ 'These people are treating us like idiots'
¤ 'Secret film shows Iraq prisoners sodomised'
¤ Experts Dispute Bush Line on Zarqawi
¤ U.S. Won't Turn Over Data for Iraq Audits
¤ Baghdad tackles the disaffected with carrot and stick
¤ UN pulls staff out of central Afghan province
¤ The Damning Evidence
¤ Watchdog finds weak controls over Iraqi oil funds
¤ Subpoena seeks Iraqi oil records
¤ US, Israel Against the World on Wall
¤ Bush needs second term ‘to help the world’
¤ Iraq City Becomes Symbol of Resistance
¤ UK blocks US plans to spend oil fund on museum
¤ 'Mossad agents' jailed in fake New Zealand passport scandal
¤ Delusions of grandeur
Tutu: No Security Without Justice
Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Palestinians are urged, rightly, to trade terrorism for non-violence. When they do, as in turning to the International Court of Justice regarding Ariel Sharon's wall in the West Bank and Jerusalem, they are told that the ruling means nothing.
Israel says the court is irrelevant, and the White House adds: "We do not believe that that's the appropriate forum to resolve what is a political issue." Canada says the same thing.
Zalman Shoval, an adviser to Sharon, says the World Court's historic ruling "is not a legal event; it's a political event."
The conundrum that follows is this: The issue must be tackled politically but the court's ruling must be ignored because it is political.
There are other obfuscations and distortions.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, July 15, 2004
¤ Africa Lags In U.N. Wealth Ranking
¤ Philippine troops await Iraq pull-out order
¤ U.S. Works to Sustain Iraq Coalition
¤ NYC's anti-war billboard in court
¤ Democracy is best taught by example
¤ Car Bombing in Western Iraq Kills 10
¤ Iraq Pipeline Attacks Halt Turkey Exports
¤ Villagers: Nigeria Troops Kill 15 in Raid
¤ Israel breached NZ's sovereignty and international law, says PM
¤ NZ freezes ties with Israel after agents jailed
¤ Bush and Lay Have Same Lawyer
¤ You know your veep is in trouble, if...
¤ Iraq Follow the Money
¤ What Does the Bush Regime Object To?
¤ Corporate Power is the Driving Force behind US Foreign Policy
¤ All Together Now
¤ Dissent at the War Memorial
¤ The Illusion of Safety
¤ 'The Ministry of Fear'
¤ 'George W. Bush: Presidential or pathological?'
¤ Bad Lay
¤ Why the media failed Americans
¤ More Iraq prison abuse cases emerge
¤ Five Iraqis killed in mortar attack in Kirkuk
¤ Flaws Cited in Powell's U.N. Speech on Iraq
¤ Philippine-US ties strained over Iraq?
¤ Israel invades and detains Palestinians
¤ Fresh blast kills Iraqi police officers
¤ Slim-Fast Dumps Goldberg Over Bush Jabs
¤ Prisoners Swim to Escape in South Asia Flood Chaos
¤ High radioactivity recorded in Israel
¤ US urges Pakistan to step up crackdown against Taliban
¤ Whitewash on Intelligence Failures
¤ UK Iraq report labelled a 'whitewash'
¤ Butler Report: Error Did It
¤ The Story About Israel TV News Won't Tell
¤ Plenty of Blood, No Foul
¤ Some 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Bloody Day in Iraq
¤ Venezuela, Colombia Focus on Security
¤ Key Southern Iraqi Oil Pipeline Attacked
¤ Learn the code
¤ Okinawa anti-base candidates elected
¤ American Vigilante fooled Nato into helping raids
¤ Butler provides the props for another great escape
¤ 9 Afghan soldiers killed
¤ British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs
Flashback ¤ From Hitler to Bush
¤ Boycott The Military
¤ How 'patchy' intelligence became proof Saddam possessed WMD
¤ Kerry's brother reassures Israel of strong support
¤ Kerry Didn't Read Iraq Report Before Vote
Israel assassinates Palestinian leader
Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
An alleged local leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement has been assassinated by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
An Aljazeera correspondent reported that Numan Tahaina, 38, was on Israel's most wanted list since the first Palestinian intifadha against Israeli occupation in 1987.
"Israeli troops entered the western part of a refugee camp called Dahisha near the city of Jenin. A few moments later one could hear, rapid gunfire," the correspondent said.
Full Article : english.aljazeera.net
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
¤ Angry Indian reaction to Fernandes' US strip-search
¤ US hails good relations with India
¤ US to ensure foreign visitors treated 'appropriately'
¤ Venezuela, Caribbean to discuss oil deals
¤ Politics of deceit on Haiti
¤ Caribbean Leaders See Hope for Haiti Ties
¤ Root of Sudan's Darfur crisis and US concern
¤ Philippines Pulls Out Iraq Peacekeepers
¤ Baghdad Blast Kills Seven; Bulgarian Hostage Killed
¤ Philippine pullot sparks mixed reaction
¤ Iraqi Insurgents Kill Bulgarian Hostage
¤ Tuesday’s Chechen Death Toll Lowered, 12 Hostages Taken
¤ Chechen acting president escapes attempt on life
¤ Politics of deceit on Haiti
¤ 11 dead in Baghdad blast
¤ Philippines begins Iraq withdrawal
¤ Iraqi governor killed in ambush
¤ 'Serious flaws' in Iraq intelligence
¤ CIA: From Bad to Worse?
¤ Court Serves Israel's Interest
¤ The Model for Iraq was Ireland, 1692
¤ Class, War and Education: an Interview with Erin Murphy
¤ We've Seen the Enemy, and He is Us
¤ The Election: Bring It On!
¤ Bush Values on Display
¤ Some in Congress Rethinking War Vote Based on False Data
¤ Bush flunked his test on Iraq
¤ Bush: Safely in Denial
¤ Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's Reconstruction
¤ US court urges Palestinian payout
¤ For Iraqis Seeking Wrongful Death ‘Sympathy Money,’ Obstacles Abound
¤ US struggles to hold together Iraq coalition
¤ Militant Not Seen As Senior al-Qaida Aide
¤ Anti-biotech Artist Indicted for Possessing ‘Harmless’ Bacteria
¤ Israelis fired on food convoy
¤ World is much safer now: Bush
¤ Cook: Blair Knew We Had No War Evidence
¤ Wear an anti-Bush T-shirt, get arrested, lose your job
¤ Hello, God? It's Me, Dubya Lord?
¤ The Islamic emirate of Fallujah
¤ UK intelligence 'seriously flawed' on Iraq
¤ Bush and C.I.A. Won't Release Paper on Prewar Intelligence
¤ Two children killed in mortar attack near Wana
¤ US launches new operation as Taliban kill five more cops
¤ World Court has pronounced
¤ ICJ Advisory Opinion in a wider context
¤ UN envoy to Iraq
¤ Israel must be compelled to comply
Flashback ¤ Mistranslated Osama bin Laden Video
¤ Israeli helicopters fire missiles in Gaza
¤ Major Gulf Newspaper Calls Israel A Terrorist State
¤ Arafat and Khameini: US and Israel Behind Attacks and Beheadings
¤ The Iraqi Body Counts
¤ Ten Reasons to Fire George W. Bush
¤ 'Nine killed' in Baghdad blast
¤ US moves to cut off aid to Uzbekistan
¤ Seven million threatened as floods cut off India and Bangladesh
¤ France accuses US of Aids blackmail
¤ Anti-semitic attack hoax hits raw nerve
¤ It's a wall, and it's illegal - and dangerous
¤ A failure of the system
¤ Why pressure analysts when making stuff up is so much easier?
¤ Torture as Due Process
¤ Israel assassinates Palestinian leader
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
¤ Kenyan Youth Culture Takes Off as Censorship Weakens
¤ Correia Makes History at Swimming Trials
¤ India has most HIV cases outside South Africa
¤ Armitage in India for talks with new government
¤ Saudi Terror Suspect Surrenders Under Amnesty Offer
¤ Police detain woman who claimed anti-semitic attack on Paris train
¤ Sex and Porn Scandal Hits Austrian Catholic Seminary
¤ Iraqi Police Launch Sweep of Baghdad Town
¤ Afghan warlords 'bigger threat than Taliban'
¤ Sharon's Fingerprints On Latest Non-Suicide Tel Aviv Bombing
¤ George Bush's Crumbling Credibility
¤ What a Tangled Web We Weave...
¤ Militants Claim to Kill Bulgarian Hostage
¤ U.S. Sued Over Two Guantanamo Detainees
¤ Iraq Reconstruction Money Slow
¤ Manila agrees to withdraw humanitarian troops early
¤ 9-11 panel expected to level criticisms of Congress
¤ Concerns rise about draft, but officials dismiss idea
¤ Alleged Terror Threat Operates in DC Suburb
¤ Osama Wins! Election Postponed!
¤ Politus Interruptis
¤ Steps to Potentially Cancel ("Postpone") the Presidential Election
¤ Israel in Iraq
¤ The CIA and Iraq: An Intelligence Debacle...and Worse
¤ Red Cross Fears US Is Hiding Detainees
¤ New Documentary Aims to Demonstrate Bias on Fox News
¤ Outfoxed at the News Conference
¤ Now We Know: It's our Mideast Policy that's Creating Enemies
¤ Why You Should Care About the Separation Wall
¤ Fact of the Matter Is That Facts Didn't Matter
¤ Depleted Uranium: America's Silent Weapon of Mass Destruction
¤ Battling "Evil-Doers" Begets Evil
¤ The Continual Lies of King George
¤ Iran Leader Says U.S., Israel Behind Iraq Kidnaps
¤ Lies for wars of conquest & greed
¤ Echoes of occupation of 1920 in latest effort to bring Iraqis to heel
¤ Israel up against the wall
¤ The lying liar lies again: Bush again tries to link Saddam, al-Qaida
¤ The fear factor
¤ Rummy’s Don’t Do List
¤ At least 13 die in Maoist violence in Nepal
¤ Blair defiant ahead of Iraq inquiry
¤ Bush again tries to link Saddam, al-Qaida
¤ Briton accused of plotting coup drops legal team
¤ Hearts and minds at any cost
¤ US in talks over biggest missile defence site in Europe
¤ In public, united. In private, the feud deepens
¤ Kidnap forces Filipinos out of Iraq
¤ Millions homeless in India after worst floods for a decade
¤ Butler inquiry took evidence from Blix
¤ CIA Becomes Political Football
¤ Could Bush Cancel the Election?
¤ Condoleezza Needs to Call Anonymous
¤ Did White House pressure CIA on Iraq?
¤ Blair faces Iraq storm
¤ Time's up in blame game
¤ Intelligence Failures Now and Then
¤ Vet says Americans 'asleep'
¤ FBI admits to Bali warning delay
¤ 28 Pakistani cops may be on terrorists’ hitlist
¤ Putin: newly re-elected and unpopular
¤ Bush: 'We were right'
¤ The Process Did It
¤ Greasing up to power
¤ GM plants will be used to create Aids vaccine
¥ Trying once aging to sell GM crops
¤ Know the limits of your intelligence
¤ Bush to declare state of emergency in the U.S.?
¤ Iraq: The Words of Mass Deception
¤ Nine killed in held Kashmir violence
¤ The case for sanctions against Israel
¤ Confusion over Manila withdrawal from Iraq
Latest News
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2004
¤ Iraq sabotage 'an inside job'
¤ Unfair Trade: U.S. Treaties Hurt the Poorest Partners
¤ The Critical News Stories you Never Read
¤ Venezuela and Saudi Arabia: A Tale of Two Countries
¤ Whaling Ban 'Bought Off by the Japanese'
¤ Bush May Still Win in Iraq
¤ Wars causing shortage of officers
¤ Blair and Scarlett told me Iraq had no usable weapons
¤ Brain Injuries Common Among U.S. Soldiers In Iraq
¤ In Iraq, no power for the people
¤ Jadakiss Single Courts Controversy
¤ Officials discuss how to delay Election Day
¤ FBI Refuses to Answer Questions about Al Qaeda Affiliated Terror Web Sites
¤ The Trail Of Disinformation
¤ Bush Defends Decision to Invade Iraq
¤ Arms suppliers scramble into Iraq
¤ Time's up in blame game
¤ 'Voter list mess shows officials can't be trusted'
¤ 'Bush reassures America about delaying elections'
¤ The Push
¤ Handicapped Palestinian pensioner killed as army razes Gaza House
¤ The massive heist
¤ Blair's week of reckoning
¤ Butler acts to prevent PM 'spinning' his report
¤ Sharon defies UN with pledge to keep building barrier
¤ Bush's mistakes cost hundreds of lives, Kerry says
¤ Timebomb of Aids menaces bloom of Asia's youth
¤ Ambushes kill three US soldiers as non-Iraqi deaths top 1,000
¤ Anger at US ban on Aids scientists
¤ Space for the embattled
¤ 'The Dots Never Existed'
¤ 9/11 Report Is Said to Dismiss Iraq-Qaeda Alliance
¤ In Iraq, Showdown Looms Over Self-Rule for Kurds
¤ Beneath the Hoods
¤ It’s All About Style!
¤ Legal Nonsense
¤ Mubarak mystery
¤ Bush goes to work with the whitewash
¤ Pre-war failures exact a huge cost
¤ The CIA did it?
¤ Senate WMD Report Whacks CIA, Not Bush
¤ Putting Bush in His Place
¤ Seven US soldiers among nine killed in Iraq
¤ Changing sands of Europe
¤ Powell says Israel proved fence reduces terror
¤ Faulty Iraq intelligence won't stop pre-emptive U.S. military action
¤ Former government legal advisor says Iraq war was illegal
¤ Powell's WMD speech 'based on lies'
Flashback ¤ 3 Out of 4 Experts Predict a Terrorist Attack by November
¤ Judges call for “radical review” of Milosevic trial
¤ Former Agents: Blair Exaggerated Iraq Threat
¤ Bryant and O'Neal Don't Know Own Strength
¤ France split over battle for Muslim souls and minds
¤ Clashes with Chechen rebels
¤ Cooked intelligence books
¤ Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. Intelligence on Iraq
¤ Relatives Defend Marine to Fellow Arabs
¤ Insurgents Kill 3 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
¤ Elderly Palestinian crushed to death
¤ Violence breaks out in Venezuela
The US is still trying to unseat Venezuelan President Chavez
Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2004
Venezuelan President Chavez again accuses US of backing campaign to unseat him
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez restated his long-time contention that Washington is behind a campaign for a "yes" vote in an August 15 recall referendum aimed at removing him from power, in order to control Venezuela's oil.
Chavez said he would present proof on Sunday that the US was financing the Venezuelan opposition's referendum campaign in order to open his country's huge petroleum industry to foreign investment.
Full Article : news.yahoo.com
DAFUR: the open sore of a continent
Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2004
By Obi Nwakanma
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Another human tragedy is playing out in western Sudan. It is the tragedy of Dafur. The conflict in the Sudan has been described as genocide. But we shall return to this. However, let me point out that what we see in Dafur is another example of how Africans are made victims of an expansionist, and brutal external marauders who have historically taken advantage of the inherent pacifism, and some might even say indolence, of the Negroid people.
Many Africans have focused singularly on the effects of the European conquest and colonisation of Africa. And Africans have often forgotten that the history of Africa is the history of double penetration: one from the East, and the other from the West.
Although each form of these violent penetrations of Africa remains the central basis of its historical instability, but a close study shows, that the Eastern –– that is Arab - penetration of Africa in the last one thousand years remains the most violent.
Full Article : vanguardngr.com
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2004
¤ The Hands Of Israel
¤ Court rules Israel's West Bank barrier is illegal
¤ Roadside bomb kills one, wounds 21 in Tel Aviv
¤ Arafat hints Israel planted Tel Aviv bomb
¤ Sharon slams ICJ for attack
¤ Sharon blames court for bomb
¤ Sharon: Barrier Construction to Continue
¤ Sharon Orders Construction of West Bank Barrier to Continue
¤ President Kerry on Israel
¤ Kerry and Edwards: White America's Dream Team
¤ Blast outside Afghan police station kills 5
¤ Hanging in horror house
¤ Portrait of a U.S. Vigilante in Afghanistan
¤ President Chavez again accuses US of backing campaign to unseat him
¤ The real intelligence failure was Blair and Bush’s
¤ The claims and the reality
¤ Lying About Lay; Bush's Chronic Lying
Flashback ¤ Powell's Lies to the U.N. Security Council
¤ Blair's key quotes on Iraq's weapons
¤ America's criminal occupation
¤ The New American Apartheid
¤ Haiti is a prison ruled by psychopaths
¤ DAFUR: the open sore of a continent
¤ Bloody Uniform
¤ Soldier killed in coordinated attack on military convoy
¤ Exclusive: Election Day Worries
¤ Five Killed in Afghanistan Explosion
¤ Annan urges Israel to respect world court ruling
¤ Israel wants US veto on illegal wall
¤ Israeli tank fire kills Palestinians
¤ Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager
¤ Florida scraps felon vote list
¤ Four U.S. Marines Killed in Iraq
¤ Several killed in Herat bomb blast
¤ US soldier to face new charges
¤ Four die in Iraq; gas pipeline attacked
¤ Violence claims 14 lives in held Kashmir
¤ Moscow editor of Forbes killed
¤ The ICJ decision
¤ Blair accused over WMD evidence
¤ Spy chiefs 'withdrew' Saddam arms claim
¤ Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House...
¤ Key Revisions Were Made to CIA Document
¤ Legal Nonsense
¤ Ashcroft's magic act
¤ Bush's Top Ten Lies
¤ TERRORISM: We've got them right where they want us
¤ Deaths since start of intifada, 3176 Palestinians and 925 Israelis
¤ Africa braced for giant plague of locusts
¤ Join the US army - because Iraq's far safer than Miami
¤ Defiant Blair faces censure from Butler over Iraq war
¤ Filipino hostage threatened with beheading 'is released'
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, July 10, 2004
¤ Ethiopia wants Eritrea talks, war would be "stupid"
¤ Africa readies Darfur troops
¤ Tear down Israel's illegal barrier, says World Court
¤ US opponents to boycott Iraqi national conference
¤ Child abuse report names Brazil elite
¤ Car Blast in Gaza Kills 4 Palestinians
¤ Systematic Slaughter Unfolds in Sudan
¤ U.S. News obtains all classified annexes to the Taguba report on Abu Ghraib
¤ The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel
¤ A Transfer of Power, Sort Of
¤ How to Steal an Election
¤ Rumsfeld's al-Qaeda?
¤ Reflections on American Pathology
¤ The Rise of Global Resistance
¤ What Israel Gets away with and why
¤ Weird, weird, weird
¤ Did Bush pressure CIA?
¤ How The Iraqis See It
¤ Is administration crying wolf?
¤ Facing the Enemy on the Ground
¤ Bagged and Tagged!
¤ World court tells Israel to tear down illegal wall
¤ Barrier ruling shifts the debate
¤ 'Ghost detainees' at Camp Delta
¤ Bushmen fight for ancestral lands
¤ US opponents to boycott Iraqi national conference
¤ Army Whistleblower Says Superiors Hid Torture
¤ Welcome to the Matrix
¤ Taliban claim killing 12 Afghan soldiers
¤ The (very) silent revolution
¤ Threat Israel poses
¤ 2 GIs, 2 Iraqi truck drivers killed in attacks
¤ Iraqi police on the beat as US quits patrols
¤ Bagged and Tagged!
¤ ANCIENT AND MODERN
¤ US report gives Bush a breathing space
¤ The 10 key questions Butler must answer
¤ The grieving parents who might yet bring Bush down
¤ CIA critical of British uranium claim
¤ 'A global intelligence failure'
¥ Not global, 'intelligence failure' was limited to Britian and the U.S.
Tear down Israel's illegal barrier, says World Court
Posted: Saturday, July 10, 2004
The United Nations was urged by the International Court of Justice yesterday to enforce the Court's ruling that Israel should tear down its 450-mile separation barrier and compensate the Palestinians for the hardship it has caused.
Although its unequivocal ruling that the routing of the barrier through occupied Palestinian territory was in breach of international law is non-binding, the ICJ called for the UN Security Council to consider "further action" to halt construction.
In a ruling read out in the Hague by its president, Judge Shi Jiuyong of China, the court found that "Israel is under an obligation to terminate its breaches of international law; it is under an obligation to cease forthwith the works of construction of the wall being built in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, to dismantle forthwith the structure therein situated."
Full Article : independent.co.uk
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Posted: Friday, July 9, 2004
¤ Amy Goes to Cuba
¤ Woman pregnant with wrong sperm plans lawsuit
¤ Pandering to the lies the Left tells itself about the Democrats
¤ African Union vows to tackle Darfur
¤ African Troops In Darfur By End Of July: AU
¤ A problem of communication
¤ Freelance US fighter identified in Afghanistan
¤ China won't 'sit idle' if US backs Taiwan independence
¤ Five US soldiers, two Iraqi guards killed in security HQ attack
¤ The Cheney factor
¤ Israel: No nuclear talks now
¤ Missing Lebanese US marine surfaces
¤ Oil prices soar on US 'terror-warning'
¤ Report: World Court to rule against Israel
¤ Iraqi rule still leaves U.S. troops in hot seat
¤ Israel in Iraq: Evidence Mounts
¤ U.S. Marine is alive in Beirut
¤ July Surprise?
¤ The October Surprise?
¤ Iraq takes backward step in march to democracy
¤ Kerry would keep US troops in Iraq far longer than Bush
¤ Israeli interrogators in Iraq
¤ The Horrors of War
¤ £100m drive to eradicate Afghanistan drugs trade
¤ CIA chief says goodbye before 3 critical reports
¤ Palestinian economy chokes
¤ Israeli outposts still growing
¤ Half of US shuns literature
¤ US mercenary 'dangled Afghans upside down in private Kabul jail'
¤ Marine who went missing in Iraq found safe in Beirut
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Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2004
¤ Bush Wins; House Leaves Patriot Act As Is
¤ Afghans Arrest Americans in Abuse Case
¤ AP: Iraq Insurgency Larger Than Thought
¤ World Court to Rule Against Israel's Barrier
¤ Security Council urges steps to pave way for CAR elections
¤ A dark, ugly history we must all face
¤ SA to host Africa's parliament
¤ African leaders endorse integration plan
¤ The lie that killed my son
¤ UK limits Jamaica death sentence
¤ Pentagon accused of evading Guantánamo ruling
¤ Kidnapped marine reported safe in Lebanon
¤ White House Downplays Bush Ties to Lay
¤ 5 U.S. soldiers, 1 Iraqi guardsman killed
¤ Clash Erupts in Baghdad, Allawi Signs Security Law
¤ The Venezuelan Referendum
¤ More Political Effluent from Team Morality
¤ Iraq Insurgency Far Larger Than Thought
¤ Has US Foreign Policy "Failed"?
¤ So Much for Democracy - Iraqis Plan for Introduction of Martial Law
¤ New US Embassy, Baghdad: Mother of All Dead Time Factories?
¤ Israel's Chemical Weapons
¤ Fuelling suspicion: the coalition and Iraq's oil billions
¤ Bush Liked Less Than Saddam, Bin Laden
¤ Halliburton/Cheney Investigated For Iran Deals
¤ Halliburton faces row on Iran link
¤ Mounting Evidence Suggests Israeli Operatives Working in Occupied Iraq
¤ 'Time to de-bushify'
¤ Nine Palestinians killed in Gaza raid
¤ Former Enron CEO turns himself into FBI
¤ Emergency law
¤ Iraq PM given sweeping powers
¤ Half of troops on return trip to Iraq
¤ Israel's Chemical Weapons
¤ Report: US-Backed Tunisia Holding Political Prisoners
¤ African Oil Giant Foils Alleged Coup
¤ Britain and Mauritius in diplomatic stand-off over Diego Garcia
¤ NEW Zealand Prime Minister United States should butt out of Australian
¤ Veterans oppose war in Iraq as deceitful
¤ US deserter makes first court appearance in Canada asylum plea
¤ Paul Bremer was out of touch with Iraqis
¤ US torture on UK territory claim
¤ CIA attacked for 'gross exaggeration' of Saddam's WMD threat
¤ The Crisis in the Sudan
¤ Taliban kill six Afghan soldiers in ambush
¤ Philippines angry over US comments, withdrawal of aid
¤ Embarrassing America
¤ Israeli troops kill 8 Palestinians in Beit Hanoun
¤ Study: Africa Oil Boom Presents Challenges
¥ Challenge number one just how can the U.S exploit it
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Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2004
¤ Caribbean Bloc Won't Recognize Haiti Gov't
¤ Caribbean festival hits Toronto
¤ India's AIDS Population Up to 5.1 Million: Govt
¤ Richard Gere Pushes India AIDS Awareness
¤ India Won't Send Troops To Iraq, Says Manmohan
¤ AIDS virus continues to outrun efforts to combat it
¤ Sudan pressed further on Darfur
¤ Africa shouldn't pay its debt, says Annan's adviser
¤ History Affirms What Cosby Says About Young Blacks
¤ The return of South Africa's Black Christ
¤ Several Explosions Rock Central Baghdad
¤ In the Driver's Seat
¤ In the Age of Terrorism, the Rule Is: Celebrate Early, If At All
¤ Five Die as Suicide Blast Rocks Sri Lanka Capital
¤ Tribal Clash in Sudan's West Kills at Least 70
¤ BLAIR IN WM-DENIAL
¤ Cradle of World Civilization Destroyed by Invasion and Looting
¤ 'Hey, America — It's not always about you'
¤ I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist
¤ The Bushies have gone too far
¤ Washington Refuses to Relinquish Legal Authority to ‘Sovereign’ Iraq
¤ U.S. Gives Iraqi Hospitals Broken Promises in Place of Medicine
¤ Sovereignty and Freedom in Iraq
¤ Moore's Ax Falls on a Derelict Media Too
¤ Iraq is now another Palestine
¤ Austria's President Klestil dies
¤ Americans Still Traveling to Cuba
¤ When Saddam Fell: How the Press was Misled From Day One
¤ Cheney Had No New Data on Saddam, Al Qaeda-Panel
¤ Iraq: A Mercenary's Paradise
¤ Iraqi: U.S. Soldiers Laughed at Drowning
¤ Four US marines killed in Iraqi operation
¤ Iraqis want Americans to leave
¤ No easy in-and-out for U.S. in Sudan
¤ Outside View: Ali Baba and the Israelis
¤ The "Handoff"
¤ Blair finally admits it: 'We may never find WMD'
¤ Extermination of the pygmies
¤ LAND OF THE OCCASIONALLY FREE
¤ Court Shortens Sharon's Term by a Year
¤ 20 dead as Iranian army, Turkish Kurd rebels clash
¤ Sharonomics: killing the Palestinian economy even if...
¤ US Ignores Iraqi Courts
¤ New Law in Iraq Gives Premier Martial Powers to Fight Uprising
Saddam Didn't Mass Murder His People with Gas
Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Another Bush Lie About Iraq: Saddam Didn't Mass Murder His People with Gas. But is it Worse than that?
by Rob Kall, OpEdNews.Com
Now we're discovering that one of the last excuses G.W. Bush has remaining for going to war, that Saddam gassed thousands of his people, is also a lie-- a lie that Bush should of and probably did know was a lie.
Back in 1988 thousands of Kurds were reported killed in the gassing of Halabja. The CIA even prepared a report on it. Too bad the Bush people don't like to bother with reports. They have direct info from God.... Oh. I guess this proves that it's not God talking to George. Maybe he's having flashbacks. Maybe it's a case of the DTs. Maybe he's having strange symptoms from choking on another pretzel.
Bottom line.... Sadam did not kill those people. Bottom line--- Bush knew it and still uses it to argue his case for going to war with Saddam. This article about how Saddam will use testimony from the CIA to prove he did not do the gassing got me started on the column you are reading.
The IRANIANS gassed Halabja. The US knew it. Bush senior knew it and that's why, in 1988, the US gave Iraq poison gas to defend itself with.
Yet George W. Bush, in building his case for war, said, "The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured."
Now, it appears that Saddam didn't use the poison gas on his people at all.
It gets even worse. When you tie in Achmed Chalabi, the accused Iranian Mole, who fed Bush's military neocons lies about Iraqi WMDs, you get a picture that adds up to the Iranians first mass murdering thousands of Kurds, then tricking Bush to go to war to do their dirty work-- defeating Saddam and neutralizing Iraq as a military threat. Bush has been working for the Iranians!
Now, one might be inclined to attribute this to the stupidity of George W. Bush and his advisors. But wait. His advisors are supposed to be really smart. And there's that little matter of the October Surprise that Ronnie Reagan and his VP George Bush senior pulled off upon taking office in the White House. It was the mess in Iran, more than anything else, that blew it for Jimmy Carter. Iran saved the Republicans' butts and handed them an eight year reign in Washington DC.
Is it too much of a stretch to speculate that the Republicans used their experience exploiting chaos in the Middle east to win the 2002 elections? Is it too much of a stretch to speculate that the Iranians worked with some of the neocons? Maybe. Is it too much of a stretch to speculate that the Iranians used their experience manipulating politics in America, used Chalabi to trick Bush and his failed advisors into a war that eliminated their sworn enemy and neutralized the army that had killed hundreds of thousands of their troops? Is that such a stretch? I don't think so.
Bottom line-- when an independent or right winger tells you he or she is glad we took out Evil Saddam the mass murderer, point out that Bush has lied about the mass murder too, that the worse mass murder that happened in Iraq was perpetrated by Iran, and that Bush was tricked by Chalabi into doing Iran's dirty work. Bush's father even gave Saddam poison gas to use in defense against the Iranians.
Weapons of mass destruction? No!
Saddam as evil mass murderer? No!
Huh? Saddam was not a mass murderer as Bush and Blair said? But he cut off people's heads and hands. That's nasty, right? If you think so, then take a look at Saudi Arabia. Decapitation is a regular form of execution in Saudi Arabia, and other parts of the Arab world. Cutting off hands is also a punishment for unacceptable actions, like thievery, that has been around for centuries in the Arab world. Years ago, while sharing a family dinner in a home in Morocco, I started to take a handful of food from a family-style bowl (cous-cous, I think) but they raised a ruckus and stopped me before my left hand touched the bowl. My host explained that the left hand was used for clean-up, in a country where toilet paper was a luxury most people couldn't afford. It was dirty and offensive to use the left hand to eat. When a thief is punished, his right hand is cut off and he can no longer share food with others.
Was Saddam the worst offender in the Middle East? I don't think so. The Iranians were guilty of gassing thousands of people. But the Iranians had a real army. Bush went after an Iraqi army that was far weaker than the one his father took on in 1991. The real villains are still out there. But now, after being duped by the Iranians, Bush has created a playground for terrorists that they would never have dreamed possible. Bush created a recruiting scenario for terrorists that they wouldn't have even fantasized could be that good.
What's left for Bush to lean on in his battle to hold onto his appointment to the Whitehouse? The divisive cultural issues are all that he has left to salvage his plunging presidency. We can expect him to go after churches, NASCAR dads, blue collar moms, southern Christians, homophobics... and that he and his surrogates will stir the waters of prejudice and division to a level this nation has not seen since the civil war. It's going to get very ugly.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story This article is copyright Rob Kall and originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached. Reproduced from: www.opednews.com/kall_070604_gas_lies.htm
A bloody June in Jamaica: 150 murdered in 30 days
Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
July 5, 2004 - AS A Cabinet sub-committee gets ready to meet this morning to deal with issues relating to crime and public order, the police are reporting that last month was the bloodiest in the last 30 years of Jamaica's history.
The slaughter continued into July, as on the weekend the country's murder tally increased with the killing of prominent Highgate couple Winston Chin and his wife, Ilene, who were gunned down at their gate in the Claremont district, St. Mary, Saturday night.
Full Article : jamaica-gleaner.com
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Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
¤ GE arm to invest US$222m in India expansion
¤ Aids in India
¤ IOC to lay pipeline between India and Nepal
¤ Iran Shines At 10th World Youth Chess Olympiad In India's Kerala
¤ African Union set to send troops to Sudan
¤ Blair: WMD 'may never be found'
¤ Bush maintains Iraq WMD claims
¤ 13 killed in Iraq car bombing
¤ US hostage 'free and well' in Iraq
¤ Three US Marines die in restive central Iraq: military
¤ Tougher rules on Cuba could tip Florida's vote
¤ Blair: Guantanamo an anomaly that must end
¤ U.S. Response to Insurgency Called a Failure
¤ Israeli troops kill Palestinian academic
¤ The Legacy of Deceit
¤ How Israel "Disperses" Demonstrations
¤ It's Not Always About You
¤ The News From Planet Falluja
¤ Hussein's Trial is Shaping up as just U.S. Theatrics
¤ Saddam Didn't Mass Murder His People with Gas.
¤ An account of mistreatment of girls and boys in Iraqi prisons
¤ Car bomb kills 14 in Baquba, wounds 70
¤ US troops kill Iraqi preparing wedding feast
¤ Oil prices touch new high
¤ Kerry chooses Edwards as running mate
¤ Members of a Terror Cell Arrested in Africa
¤ Africa must not pay its debt
¤ AU backs off on Zimbabwe issue
¤ Fragments help fill out human origins
¤ Kidnapped marine 'safe after defecting' to Islamists
¤ ElBaradei to focus on Israel's nuclear weapons
¤ Winnie Mandela escapes prison term
¤ Megawati lags behind her former security chief in poll
¤ C.I.A. Held Back Iraqi Arms Data, U.S. Officials Say
¤ U.S. Maintaining High Profile in Iraq
¤ More Than 100 Children Imprisoned
¤ Disappearing Prisoners
¤ A Deluge of Bad Advice and Statistics
¤ Uneasy Allies on Patrol in Baghdad
¤ British forces face frequent mortar bomb attacks in 'quiet' Basra
¤ Blair to offer partial apology over war
¤ The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War
¤ People are sovereign
¤ Mexican Soldiers Demand U.S. Marines 'Disarm'
¤ Why the truth must be told
¤ They Behead; We Do It With Smart Bombs
¤ Four Palestinians, Israeli Soldier Killed in W.Bank
¤ Oil Prices Rise Amid Iraq, Yukos Troubles
¤ Iraqi child killed in US shooting
¤ Iraq delays announcing new security measures
Legality of Iraq occupation 'flawed'
Posted: Monday, July 5, 2004
By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent
The senior Foreign Office lawyer who resigned after ministers ignored her advice that the war in Iraq was illegal has issued a damning legal critique of the occupation, claiming that the alleged abuse of prisoners "could amount to war crimes".
In her first newspaper interview since her resignation, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the former deputy legal adviser to the Foreign Office, said that the basis for going to war should always be based on "facts" rather than an "assertion" about an "imminent threat". Ms Wilmshurst said "it could be alleged that the use of force in Iraq was aggression" while "the kinds of abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners that have been alleged could amount to war crimes".
Full Article : independent.co.uk
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Posted: Monday, July 5, 2004
¤ US Imperialism in Latin America
¤ A bloody June in Jamaica - 150 murdered in 30 days
¤ IE workaround a non-starter
¤ US ready to 'open skies' for India
¤ Reforming India's maddening tax system
¤ No-frills airlines to crowd skies soon
¤ Caribbean urged to re-admit Haiti
¤ U.N. seeks aid to combat locust swarms in Africa
¤ Apartheid victims turn to US court
¤ An African army for Africans?
¤ Sudan says Darfur disarmament under way
¤ South African lawyers sue Disney for 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' copyright
¤ Iraq gets fraction of US aid billions
¤ Former envoy attacks Iraq blunders
¤ Did one woman's obsession take America to war?
¤ Legality of Iraq occupation 'flawed'
¤ Saudis freed Britons in a secret swap of prisoners
¤ Militant group denies killing US Marine
¤ We were wrong on WMD, admits Britain's former envoy to Iraq
¤ Why does Irish TV ask Bush the questions that our American media won't?
¤ 'Beggar's banquet'
¤ Car-bomb attack on US army convoy
¤ Wars Bring Security At Home, Bush Says
¤ Bush Defends Iraq War During W.Va. Visit
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Posted: Sunday, July 4, 2004
¤ Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue
Flashback ¤ Staged Cheering "throngs" in Baghdad
Flashback ¤ Doctored Photo from the London Evening Standard
Flashback ¤ Pentagon staged statue's fall
¤ So this is what they call the new, 'free' Iraq
¤ IDF paratrooper filmed abusing Palestinians
¤ A short account of 1953 Coup
¤ The Isreli spies who stole my name
¤ Congressman suggests Bush hiding Osama
¤ Iraq Oil Pipeline Hit, Exports Reeling
¤ Syrian, Iranian presidents call for departure of Iraq's "occupiers"
¤ Another Top Bioweapons Expert Killed
¤ US trying to provoke war with Iran
¤ War on truth still rages
¤ Another "Arab" Web Site Traces Back To Houston, Texas!
¤ Bush should follow Saddam into the dock
¤ Media misplaced curiosity
¤ Filipinos Seek Withdrawal of U.S. Troops
¤ Iraqi militants 'behead US Marine'
¤ Group Now Denies Beheading U.S. Marine
¤ And on they blunder
¤ Israeli interrogators 'in Iraq'
¤ Israel denies agents operating in Iraq
¤ Israeli interrogator was at Abu Ghraib
¤ Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski
¤ What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
¤ Russia, a mobster entity
¤ 18 killed, 66 injured in held Kashmir violence
¤ Israeli troops kill four Palestinians
¤ America, as the liberator
¤ Did US cut a prisoner deal with Saudis?
¤ Tropical Storm Kills 53 Across Asia
$19 billion in Iraq oil revenues disappear
Posted: Saturday, July 3, 2004
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials in charge of the Development Fund for Iraq drained all but $900 million from the $20 billion fund by late last month in what a watchdog group has called an "11th-hour splurge."
An international monitoring board is planning an audit of money from the fund that was spent on contracts for Iraq's reconstruction that were approved without competitive bidding.
The fund, made up largely of Iraqi oil revenue, is intended to pay for the rebuilding of Iraq. Critics have charged that U.S. officials have failed to account properly for money spent so far.
In a report this week, the General Accounting Office said that "contracts worth billions of dollars in Iraqi funds have not been independently reviewed." It also questioned what control over U.S.-approved contracts would now exist with the handover of formal sovereignty to Iraqis. Full Article
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Posted: Saturday, July 3, 2004
¤ Haiti on agenda for leaders at Caribbean summit
¤ Advocates turn to State Dept for help with Caribbean teachers
¤ Depp private in Caribbean after island buy
¤ AME bishop faces huge challenge in Africa
¤ What's Africa to do about the MIddle East?
¤ Wright sends warning to India's rivals
¤ India Gov't Likely to Present Budget
¤ 13 US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
¤ Now More Than Ever
¤ al-Zarqawi: "He can't be that difficult to recognise with his wooden leg"
¤ The Dog That Did Not Bark
¤ Civility and Uncertainty
¤ Do Anti-War and Anti-State Equal Anti-Americanism?
¤ Spillover
¤ Polish Army 'Mortified' That 'Terrorists Were Looking for Warheads'
¤ Iraqi chemical weapons found by Polish troops
¤ Polish Army Says Iraq Shells Had Deadly Cyclosarin
¤ Warheads found in Iraq not chemical weapons, military says
¤ Seven policemen among 22 killed in held Kashmir
¤ Insurgents launch series of attacks in Baghdad
¤ Iraq balance sheet
¤ US leaves Iraq running on empty
¤ Deluge of bad advice and statistics
¤ Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defense
¤ Israel to bomb Iran?
¤ Iraq: A Failure Without Borders
¤ The American Revolution and Iraq
¤ US may keep 145,000 troops in Iraq up to 5 years: Myers
¤ Two US marines die; hotel attacked after Saddam's court appearance
¤ Pakistan in a squeeze over Iraq
¤ 5 Iraqi Soldiers, One Marine Killed
¤ Prisoner Abuse in Afghanistan Investigated
¤ Israeli Soldiers Kill 9-Year-Old Palestinian-Medics
¤ Iraqi oil pipeline set ablaze
¤ CIA pressed to reveal questioning methods
Bush and Venezuela
Posted: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Bush family's murky dealings in Venezuela
Edgar Gonzalez Ruiz writes: The George W. Bush Jr. government is promoting a bloody military intervention in Iraq and has tried by every means possible, from military uprising to the "democratic way", to destabilize the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Both Iraq and Venezuela have immense petroleum resources.
Florida governor Jeb Bush, the brother of President Bush Jr., is one of the most strident proponents of Chavez' overthrow. The governor has referred to Chavez as "a crazy guy," whose government "needs to be isolated in the international community." The governor believes that "The support Chavez receives from Castro and the support Castro receives from Chavez incite them. Isolating them would be potentially beneficial for the region, for Latin America."
Besides using the implausible rhetoric of "defense of democracy" justify the destabilization of Venezuela, the Bush clan has maintained interests and ties to this country for many years, specifically with multimillionaire businessmen who, like Jeb, have not used their wealth to benefit others; as well as with well-known members of the Cuban exile community living in Venezuela. Full Article
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Posted: Friday, July 2, 2004
¤ Sounds of silence
¤ Soldiers Charged in Iraqis Death
¤ Pentagon 'stalling on Abu Ghraib probe'
¤ Confused? Shadow of His Old Self? Hardly...
¤ Why the Elites Hate Hugo Chavez
¤ Three killed in Turkey bomb blast
¤ U.S. urges its citizens in Bahrain to leave
¤ Add 'Sovereignty' to Bush's Grand Illusions About Iraq
¤ Waking Up to the War
¤ Moore 1, Media 0
¤ Another Whopper: Iraqi “Sovereignty”
¤ Dan Rather Suggests Bush Is Manipulating The Media?
¤ Saddam-Qaeda ties, and it's Clinton's fault
¤ At Least Five Killed in Kansas Shooting
¤ US sidles up to well-oiled autocracy
¤ US will override Baghdad in war on terrorism
¤ Army Plans Broader Call-Up of Reservists
¤ Undeterred, Insurgents Keep Up Deadly Attacks Across Iraq
¤ The story TV news won't tell
¤ The 'prop-agenda' war
¤ Iraqi security forces plagued by mass desertions
¤ Thai troops begin Iraq pullout early
¤ Bush Praises Bremer's Record of Incompetence
¤ How Chalabi Played the Press
¤ Don’t Rock the Boat
¤ Congress Ignores 'Dirty War' Past of New Iraq Envoy
¤ Iran faces retaliation over boats
¤ It's illegal: top defence lawyer
¤ Seven killed, 17 injured in US-led Fallujah strike: hospital
¤ Iraqi finance ministry official among 15 dead
¤ Cuba slams tighter US sanctions
¤ End of a misadventure?
¤ Transition in Iraq: Who Is Working for Whom?
¤ The real trial lies ahead
¤ Quake in Eastern Turkey Kills 18
¤ Explosions Rock Central Baghdad
Defiant Saddam Scoffs at 'Theater'
Posted: Thursday, July 1, 2004
Defiant Saddam Scoffs at 'Theater', Calls Bush Real Criminal
A defiant and unrepentant Saddam Hussein appeared in court to hear a string of charges for which he could face the death penalty, in a landmark moment for the new Iraq.
A visibly tired Saddam defended his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and refused to sign legal papers after seven charges were read against him, an official of the Iraqi Special Tribunal said.
Insisting he was still president of Iraq during the 30-minute hearing, the ousted dictator, speaking in a hoarse voice, questioned the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
Full Article : commondreams.org
Saddam's lawyers slam tribunal as 'illegal'
Amman - Saddam Hussein's defence team, which has not yet been allowed to enter Iraq, on Thursday again slammed as "illegal" the Iraqi Special Tribunal trying the deposed dictator.
"This court is illegal since it was designated by an illegal authority, created by the occupation," one of the lawyers, Jordanian Ziad Khassawneh, told reporters as Saddam appeared before the Baghdad court to hear charges against him.
"This procedure contravenes international laws and Geneva Conventions which consider null any accord struck between an occupier and a provisional government, since it stems from a dictat," he said.
Members of the team, who gathered at the Amman office of the lead defence lawyer, Mohammed al-Rashdan, challenged the tribunal, where a visibly tired Saddam defended his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and refused to sign legal papers after seven charges were read against him.
"I challenge the American administration to show him (Saddam) on television and to let him speak... Defence is a sacred right," Khassawneh said. Full Article
Buzz Words and Venezuela
Posted: Thursday, July 1, 2004
By: Saul Landau - ZNet.org
President Hugo Chavez Frias' enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." Indeed, Venezuela's current conflict could become a test for the meaning of words; not only the insults, but concepts like democracy. In Venezuela democracy, as Chavez's enemies and the media use the word, means return to oligarchy. Human rights mean US-style elections: an acceptable candidate wins and lauds the right of billionaires to own media and print lies.
In Venezuela and the United States the media routinely claim that Chavez undermined the constitution, compromised freedom and destroyed Venezuela's economy.
Right wing Latin American media and Miami's El Nuevo Herald treat such charges as axioms; they don't substantiate the claims. In Venezuela, the newspapers and TV stations that charge Chavez with censorship continue to attack him. The assault appears almost in daily papers like El Universal and El Nacional, on TV channels, and radio stations. In fact, Chavez has not shut down or censored media controlled by extremely powerful and very hostile tycoons. Gustavo Cisneros, known as the Rupert Murdoch of Latin America, owns Venevision TV and Venezuela's Playboy Channel and is a partner in Coca-Cola and other multinational ventures. He and Marcel Granier, owner of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), own over 60% of Venezuela's TV market.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
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Posted: Thursday, July 1, 2004
¤ Media blocked from Saddam hearing
¤ When Madmen Run the Asylum
¤ Defiant Saddam Scoffs at 'Theater', Calls Bush Real Criminal
¤ The Resistance Campaign is Iraq's Real War of Liberation
¤ The Damaged Mind of George W. Bush
¤ Is Our President a Whackjob? Does It Matter?
¤ The Dogma of Richard Perle
¤ Saigon Revisited? Bush's Evacuation Moment
¤ Bread and Circus Trials in Iraq
¤ Raiding Israeli Forces Kill Gaza Boy
¤ Blair begins to sidle away from his US ally
¤ Insurgent attacks kill 8 in Iraq
¤ Iran rejects UK servicemen claims
¤ 9/11 families: We're uminvited and unwanted
¤ Saddam's lawyers say they were in the dark
¤ Saddam's lawyers voice anger
¤ US planes bomb Falluja
¤ US will override Baghdad in war on terrorism
¤ The resistance campaign is Iraq's real war of liberation
¤ Russians jailed over Chechen rebel killing
¤ Bush may transfer detainees to US jails
¤ When Cheney's mask slips, it reveals Bush
¤ Mass Media Cover-up
¤ Republican senator rips Bush on Iraq strategy
¤ Traumatic Stress Found in 20% of Soldiers Post-Iraq
¤ Embarrassment for US military as captured men aren’t Taliban commanders
¤ Blind, Or A Coward?
¤ The secret history of Anonymous
¤ Rethinking the American Mission
¤ How Arafat was tarred by faulty Israeli intelligence
¤ Mr Berg complained that the US media "won't let me give my story".
¤ Underclass of Workers Created in Iraq
¤ The taming of the rogue
¤ UK-US secret deal on Diego Garcia for 2nd Guantanamo
¤ Iraq re-instates death penalty
¥ Just in time for the 'U.S./Iraqi' trial of Saddam
¤ World’s eyes on trial of the century
¤ Terrorism and democracy
¤ Israeli army raids two West Bank towns
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