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August 2005August 31, 2005 NewsPosted: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 ¤ A crippling blow to U.S. oil industry ¤ Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 31 ¤ Lies Of Omission ¤ Free-for-all as looters lose scruples and grab what they can ¤ Iraq the most expensive war in 60 years, report says ¤ George Bush's Original Sin ¤ Full Iraq Withdrawal Urged in Denmark ¤ U.S. Selling the Most Weapons to Developing Nations ¤ Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming ¤ White House ignores pleas to save New Orleans; helicopters diverted ¤ Overseas deployments hinder Guard hurricane presence ¤ Israel and 9/11: New Report Connects the Dots ¤ 965 dead in Baghdad stampede ¤ Journalists didn't bother vetting Iraq war rationale ¤ New Orleans is Sinking, But ¤ So That's Why We're in Iraq ¤ Twenty Things We Now Know Four Years After 9/11 ¤ Bush is the real threat ¤ How the US got its neoliberal way in Iraq ¤ Looting Escalates in New Orleans ¤ New Orleans cleared as 'thousands' dead ¤ Funerals Held for Stampede Victims in Iraq ¤ Hundreds killed in Baghdad stampede ¤ CONCLUSION OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH August 30, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 ¤ Sunnis reject Iraq's new constitution ¤ Katrina death toll 'rises to 80' ¤ Oil prices hit new high ¤ Nuremberg Lesson for Iraq War: It’s Murder ¤ All I Did Was Say They Can't Run a Fair Election ¤ Iraq's Fig Leaf Constitution ¤ NY Times Skews the News… Again ¤ Dumping of US dollar could trigger 'economic September 11' ¤ Why Do Israelis Keep Posing as Arab Terrorists? ¤ A War-Weary Nation is Finally Realizing that the Emperor Has No Clothes ¤ Zarqawi replaces Osama as terror world Numero Uno: ¤ How to stop civil war ¤ 56 civilians killed in US air strike west of Baghdad ¤ Media Sycophants ¤ 'George W. Bush, by the numbers' ¤ 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB ¤ Here's the Funny Part ¤ More than 95 percent of Gulf oil production lost ¤ Voice of the White House August 28, 2005 ¤ Palestinian Authority's US Assets Are Frozen ¤ Venezuela threatens legal action ¤ Attack on U.S. helicopter kills soldier ¤ Kenyans Allege Racism in U.S. 'Arranged' Marriages Case August 29, 2005 News Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 ¤ Oil, Blood and the Future ¤ Iraqi Activist Taken Up by Bush Recants Her Views ¤ Robertson's Not Alone in his Dislike of Chavez ¤ Bush vs. History ¤ Pat Robertson: Big Oil's Televangelist ¤ 'A New Label on a Bottle of Poison' ¤ The Exploitation of Tammy Pruett ¤ Energy: The catalyst for conflict ¤ Katrina Swamps Entire La. Neighborhoods ¤ Hurricane Katrina Rips Superdome Roof ¤ Weapons: A Trillion-Dollar Trade ¤ Hurricane closes in on New Orleans ¤ Katrina Targets Oil, Refinery Operations ¤ New Orleans may never be the same ¤ Iraq gamble as Sunnis left out of constitution deal ¤ Anger as £700,000 of £3m British aid to Malawi spent on US firms ¤ The death of woman hailed as heroine of July 7 bombing ¤ Bush suffers ratings tumble as Sunnis reject Iraq charter ¤ Does Anyone Know What We Are Doing in Iraq? ¤ Chickenhawk History ¤ Beslan dialogue ¤ Watching the watchers ¤ Rev. Jackson Lends Support to Chavez ¤ US campaign to ring Chavez alarm fails to resonate ¤ US sniper kills Reuters soundman in Iraq ¤ Factions join hands against constitution ¤ The Vietnamization of Bush's Vacation ¤ Energy: The catalyst for conflict ¤ Senior police officer killed in Baghdad ¤ Oil prices leap past $70 ¤ 'What they died for' in Iraq is a mystery ¤ More journalists killed in Iraq than Vietnam ¤ Talabani won't sign Saddam death sentence ¤ Halliburton Contract Critic Loses Her Job ¤ Pullout fooled the world, say Palestinians ¤ After pullout, little changes for Palestinians in Rafah ¤ Joy fades as grim reality hits Gazans ¤ Venezuela to seek legal action against Robertson August 28, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, August 28, 2005 ¤ Oil pipeline attacked south of Baghdad ¤ Troops told to stand aside as Shia factions grip Iraqi city ¤ Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph ¤ India offers $50 mn plan to Karzai ¤ Drone crashes in Iran ¤ Journalism is in terrible trouble … a large amount of it is repetitive garbage’ ¤ The Exploitation of Tammy Pruett ¤ 'The Vietnamization of Bush's vacation' ¤ Robertson's 'fatwa' ¤ Pat Robertson's Fatwah and the Emergence of Medieval America ¤ Iraq assembly gets charter but no vote Two fingers to America Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 Two fingers to America He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House Full Article : guardian.co.uk Pat Robertson Describes U.S. Foreign Policy Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has stirred up a firestorm with his call for "taking out" Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. What's all the fuss about? All that Robertson has done is state publicly what has long been an important part of U.S. foreign policy – assassination of foreign rulers who behave independently of Washington. Full Article : lewrockwell.com Relating to Venezuela: Hurricane Hugo (Chavez) As President Hugo Chavez adeptly leverages Venezuela's oil wealth to forge an array of regional alliances that leave the United States out in the cold, U.S. Venezuela tensions are heating up. Boosted by the rising prices of oil and the deepening regional anger over U.S. imperial arrogance, Chavez has proved able not only to construct a counter-hegemonic constituency in Venezuela among the country's poor majority but also to piece together a regional network that is challenging U.S. political and economic dominance. Uncle Sam is becoming the odd man out in the hemisphere claimed as U.S. domain since the early 19 th century. What is to be done? As Chavez's star has risen and as the U.S. stars and stripes increasingly become subject to derision, the Bush administration finds itself at a loss when attempting to stem the anti-imperial tide. All its attempts to persuade or dissuade, enforce, or manipulate have backfired. Full Article : counterpunch.org Pat Robertson Describes U.S. Foreign Policy Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has stirred up a firestorm with his call for "taking out" Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. What's all the fuss about? All that Robertson has done is state publicly what has long been an important part of U.S. foreign policy – assassination of foreign rulers who behave independently of Washington. Full Article : lewrockwell.com Relating to Venezuela: Hurricane Hugo (Chavez) As President Hugo Chavez adeptly leverages Venezuela's oil wealth to forge an array of regional alliances that leave the United States out in the cold, U.S. Venezuela tensions are heating up. Boosted by the rising prices of oil and the deepening regional anger over U.S. imperial arrogance, Chavez has proved able not only to construct a counter-hegemonic constituency in Venezuela among the country's poor majority but also to piece together a regional network that is challenging U.S. political and economic dominance. Uncle Sam is becoming the odd man out in the hemisphere claimed as U.S. domain since the early 19 th century. What is to be done? As Chavez's star has risen and as the U.S. stars and stripes increasingly become subject to derision, the Bush administration finds itself at a loss when attempting to stem the anti-imperial tide. All its attempts to persuade or dissuade, enforce, or manipulate have backfired. Full Article : counterpunch.org Two fingers to America He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House Full Article : guardian.co.uk August 27, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 ¤ 'Was Pat Robertson's call for assassination of a leader a crime?' ¤ Patriotic 9/11 pins are made in China ¤ If 'we' had not invaded Iraq... ¤ Our Arrogance Will be the End of Us ¤ Two “Green Zones” ¤ Bush was booed at a Vet’s meeting ¤ Is Blair ashamed to accept highest honour from US? ¤ A United Iraq Is a Western Joke ¤ Leaked witness statement says police fired 11 times at Brazilian ¤ Political Violence Surges in Iraq ¤ Chavez swipes at 'assassin' Bush ¤ Fearing U.S. attack, Venezuela boosts its reserve forces ¤ U.S. soldier killed, 4 wounded in Afghan blast ¤ The Politics of Death: Assassination ¤ Circus in Baghdad ¤ Hurricane Hugo (Chavez) ¤ Enforce a Ban on Settlements ¤ Mr. Bush Fires a Missile ¤ Bush's Exit Strategy: Escape to Crawford ¤ Iraq on Brink of Meltdown ¤ Charges Dropped Against 'Raging Grannies' ¤ Pat Robertson Describes U.S. Foreign Policy ¤ Constitution? Ha! ¤ Where has all the money gone? ¤ Lorry 'kills pavement sleepers' August 26, 2005 News Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 ¤ Iran seeking nuclear bomb "booster," say exiles ¥ Here we go again ¥ Remember these lies about Iraq ¤ CIA-backed exile was source for Times “scoops” on Iraqi arms program ¤ Exiled Allawi was Responsible for 45-Minute WMD Claim ¤ Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation ¤ Sunni Says No Deal Reached on Constitution ¤ The US vs The UN ¤ As China's economy grows, the EU must find a way to compete ¤ Paris apartment fire kills 17 ¤ Hopes fade for deal on Iraqi constitution ¤ Bolton throws UN summit into chaos ¤ Political Violence Surges in Iraq ¤ US rejects media concerns about Iraq detentions ¤ After the Gaza withdrawals, now building begins in West Bank ¤ Don't let the settlers fool you ¤ Venezuela opens fields to Chinese oil corporation ¤ Chavez: If anything happens to me, blame Bush ¤ George W. Bush's tenuous grasp of reality ¤ President of Leisure ¤ 'Hugo Chavez: Two fingers to America' ¤ The fire sermon: A spark is lit in the Texas scrub ¤ "7/7 Bombers" movements Physically Impossible ¤ Venezuela curbs foreign preachers August 25, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2005 ¤ Libeling Venezuela ¤ Oil Fat Cats vs. Hugo Chavez ¤ 'Pat Robertson's Fatwah: A whole lotta smitin' goin' on' ¤ Confusion over Iraq constitution ¤ Chávez taunts US with oil offer ¤ Hugo, Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam ¤ Stagger on, weary Titan ¤ Will News Media Help Bush Exploit the 9/11 Anniversary Again? ¤ US Sends More Combat Troops to Iraq Ahead of Referendum ¤ Jamaica signs on to Venezuela's oil plan for Caribbean ¤ 36 Men Found Slain In Iraq; 8 Of President's Bodyguards Killed ¤ Iraq Set Formally to Adopt Constitution Draft ¤ Robertson apologizes for Chavez comment ¤ Killing the dollar in Iran ¤ 'Big media lie: People like George Bush' ¤ Israeli troops murder five civilians in West Bank ¤ Dying for Israel ¤ Bus bomber stopped for a Big Mac before killing started ¤ Is Bush al-Qaeda's 'Useful Idiot'? ¤ 500 Years Later and the legacy of Africa’s enslavement ¤ Bank of America Becomes Fourth Bank to Admit Ties to Slavery ¤ Supporters of Zimbabwe land reform accuse western media of failing to tell the truth ¤ ICC rejects Zimbabwe ban ¤ Oil price barrels towards $US70 Libeling Venezuela Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2005 Pat Robertson is a Clown, But Rumseld and Rice Have Said Much the Same Thing By Chhandasi Pandya, counterpunch.org Another firestorm in the American media, another opportunity to narrow the parameters of debate. Over the last week it has been impossible to escape mainstream and (to a certain extent) alternative media coverage of popular evangelical leader Pat Robertson's remarks about assassinating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. From CNN to Fox News, from the top story on Google News to liberal and conservative blog sites, supporters and detractors of Robertson have been engaging in a heated debate over how and whether the Christian fundamentalist should be held accountable for his inflammatory comments, and rightly so. Among Robertson's comments was his allegation that Chavez has made Venezuela a "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent." As Jesse Jackson and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights have pointed out, if such comments were made by a Muslim cleric in the U.S., they would be immediately labeled as an incitement to terrorism and the speaker of such comments would be investigated and most likely jailed. In terms of widening the debate beyond mere observations of hypocrisy, Jackson has made inroads. In a statement, he said "the FCC launched an investigation when Janet Jackson showed a part of her breast some months ago. We believe that calling for the assassination of a democratically elected world leader is more serious than that, which is why we ask that an investigation be conducted." But debate about Robertson's comments beyond the obvious implications of hypocrisy has been few and far between. Sections of the alternative media and the mainstream media haven't taken such grossly negligent statements as an opportunity to question their basis. Instead, sections of the "left" have complained about the evangelical's history of making inflammatory statements, bringing in "experts" to dissect the character of a man that most logical people would disregard anyway. On Democracy Now!, discussion about Robertson's comments centered around his ludicrous statements in the past about gays, lesbians, pro-choice advocates and Muslims. While the discussion was interesting, it seems a golden opportunity was lost. On Al Franken's show on Air America, it was much the same. In the mainstream, the ceiling and floor is even closer still. Most sections of the mainstream media have analyzed Robertson's comments as a political opportunity for Venezuela and Chavez. It is being labeled as a propaganda tool for a head of state that most of the western elite dislikes. But asking the question of why they dislike him, evidence for allegations of dictatorial, undemocratic rule, never seems to reach the level of public discussion. Why hasn't anyone confronted Robertson on why he has made these comments about Chavez? What evidence is he using? What information does he have access to? For a member of the Christian Right to make comments about a South American leader even if it the anti-imperialist Chavez is telling in itself, considering most of the global south is relatively inconsequential to the constituency they serve. What is he being fed, and by whom? And even beyond this, the whole media flurry surrounding this issue should be analyzed within the context of other baseless statements made by people in and associated with the U.S. government about Venezuela. Why does the alternative/progressive/independent media allow this to continue? These seem like golden opportunities to demand evidence, information, reasons. Instead, we are given a tease of what can be so easily accomplished. We are given character profiles and debates about the wider political circles involved with whatever speaker is making whatever illogical argument at the time. What we are not getting to is the root of the problem: public figures are increasingly getting away with making libelous statements about Chavez and Venezuela that while in the moment may seem ridiculous, are seeping into the public conscience. Over the past year, allegations that Chavez funds the FARC in Colombia, is allowing Muslim extremists to train in Venezuela and is prepping Latin America to be the next breeding ground for terrorism, go unquestioned. Instead, the mainstream "left" argue about the hypocracy of such statements, while those making the statements meekly, but temporarily back away from such statements, only to make them again later on. Read the past comments of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld or Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or ex-secretary of state Colin Powell about Venezuela and in terms of their validity, they are no different than Robertson's. But they will continue if they aren't contained by progressives. Instead of being retaliatory, progressives should be widening the debate, asking the questions in public that we, in private, think we have all the answers to. Chhandasi Pandya is a freelance journalist based in New York. Email: chhandasi02@yahoo.com Reprinted from: www.counterpunch.org/pandya08252005.html August 24, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 ¤ Robertson Is Pilloried for Assassination Call ¤ Venezuela Wants Probe of Robertson Remarks ¤ Regime Change By Assassin? Easier Said Than Done. ¤ Caracas likens assassination talk to terrorist tracts ¤ Pat Robertson Remark Roils the Markets ¤ Why Pat Robertson Isn't Treated as a Terrorist ¤ Televangelist modifies Chavez remark ¤ Israel's West Bank barrier 'could destroy peace hopes' ¤ Chavez offers Americans cheap fuel ¤ Plan would move African animals to U.S. ¤ Lions, elephants and cheetahs -- Oh my! ¤ Who Would Jesus Assassinate? ¤ Reverend Robertson was just trying to save Taxpayer Money ¤ Mubarak embarrassed as more Egyptians boycott election ¤ Iraqi base attack leaves 13 dead ¤ 41 killed in Peru air crash ¤ Gunfights erupt in Iraqi capital ¤ Bush Approval at All-Time Low in U.S. Regime Change By Assassin? Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Regime Change By Assassin? "And quickly, various Bush administration officials performed the ritual political distancing from a figure who, this incident notwithstanding, represents the president's Christian conservative flank. No administration ever wants to be poised anywhere near a public discussion of assassination. The broad U.S. history of assassinations against foreign leaders is long, colorful and still controversial. What we know comes, in the main, from investigations by a mid-1970s Senate select committee into a very busy era of hits or attempted hits that were either plotted by the United States or aided and supported by it. Five cases -- in Congo, the Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Cuba and Chile -- were examined by that Senate committee, commonly known as the Church committee after its chairman, Idaho Democrat Frank Church." Full Article : washingtonpost.com Venezuela's Ambassador Says Robertson is 'No Ordinary Citizen' Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Caracas, Venezuela, August 24, 2005 — Venezuela's Ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez, held a press conference and released a statement today, in which he highlighted that contrary to the State Department's claim, Pat Robertson, who had called for Venezuelan President Chavez's assassination, is "no ordinary private citizen." Earlier in the day State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack had said, "Pat Robertson is a private citizen and that his views do not represent the policy of the United States." Later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld echoed this, saying Robertson is " a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time." Alvarez pointed out that Robertson is no ordinary citizen because he heads an organization, the Christian Coalition, which has 2 million members and was instrumental in catapulting Bush to the nomination of the Republican Party in 2000. According to Alvarez, "Mr. Robertson has been one of this President's staunchest allies. His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House." Alvarez classified Robertson's call for Chavez's assassination as "a call to terrorism." "The United States may not permit its citizens to use its territory and airwaves to incite terrorism abroad and the murder of a democratically elected President," said Alvarez. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com August 23, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 ¤ How the G8 Lied to the World on Aid ¤ Pedaling Away From Principle ¤ Our Mission in Iraq has Mutated ¤ Bush's Lips Move, But He Says Nothing ¤ No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program ¤ Close the Door on Escalation ¤ Eight US troops killed in three days in Iraq ¤ Iraqi base attack leaves 13 dead ¤ With call for assassination, Robertson again raises eyebrows ¤ Venezuela Slams Robertson Over Remarks ¤ Peruvian Plane Crashes, at Least 37 Die ¤ Kazakh oil coup for China, India cries foul ¤ Government by Dirty Tricks ¤ 'The 'big lie' on Bush's nightstand' ¤ Murdered in Afghanistan? ¤ A simple solution to U.S. bullying ¤ It's Not A ''Conspiracy.'' It's Just Business -- The Bush Way ¤ Terrorism – the western style ¤ Call to kill Chavez condemned ¤ Venezuela vows to help Castro repel US 'lord of war' ¤ Bush works to rally US public on Iraq ¤ WARNING: You Are Under Martial Law ¤ Distortions of The Times When Tyranny is Law, Revolution is Order Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 The US introduced Patriot Acts and violated all international laws after 9/11 to fight "terrorism." After 7/7, the British government went one step further to the extreme to fight "extremism." It proposed many laws, contravening the established legal principles, human rights and all norms of moral decency. The stress on the need for more and more laws gives us the impression as if it was the lack of laws that lead to "terrorism" in the first place. Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info Robertson: U.S. should 'take out' Venezuela's Chavez Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 (CNN) -- Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas. "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson told viewers on his "The 700 Club" show Monday. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." Robertson, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, called Chavez "a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly." "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said. "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." Full Article : cnn.com Venezuela Navy Seizes Massive Drug Shipment in Joint Operation Posted: Monday, August 22, 2005 By: Cleto Sojo - VenezuelAnalysis.com Aug 22, 2005 (VenezuelAnalysis.com).- Authorities from Venezuela and French Guiana seized 3.3 U.S. tons of cocaine aboard a Venezuelan-flagged fishing boat 400 miles east of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean sea, according to the Associated Press. The Venezuelan Navy worked in cooperation with the French Guiana Navy, resulting in the detention of nine crew members, including eight Venezuelans and one Peruvian. Crewmembers aboard the Don Matilde ship, attempted to unload the cocaine packages into the sea when the authorities approached their boat. According to officials, investigators had been following the drug shipment for three days. According to the Venezuelan government, drug seizures in Venezuela have increased significantly during the current administration of President Hugo Chavez, and surpass those of previous governments. However, a highly publicized dispute has erupted recently between the governments of Venezuela and the United States about their efforts to control drug trafficking in Venezuela. President Chavez accused U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials operating in Venezuela, of spying and of over-stepping their authority. U.S. officials rejected the accusations, charging instead that Venezuela was not cooperating well with DEA agents. Last Monday, Venezuelan Vice-President José Vicente Rangel said that his country would no longer give diplomatic immunity to DEA agents in Venezuela, and that it might deny visas to U.S. citizens. According to the Vice-President, this decision is in reaction to a move by the U.S. government to revoke visas of six Venezuelan National Guard members who were in charge of combating drug trafficking. Last week, as efforts are being done to resolve the dispute, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter urged U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to put a stop on his recent negative comments about Venezuela. "I suggest it may be very helpful to U.S. efforts to secure Venezuela's cooperation in our joint attack on drug interdiction if the rhetoric would be reduced, especially at this time, when DEA and our State Department are trying to resolve a highly publicized controversy between DEA and Venezuelan narcotics officials," Specter said. Last week, Secretary Rumsfeld embarked in a three-day tour of Latin America in an attempt to gather support against the growing influence of Venezuela's Chavez, twice-elected leftist leader whom the U.S. government describes as "a negative force in the region". Rejecting Israeli apartheid Posted: Monday, August 22, 2005 There has been a media circus fed by a huge Israeli-government public-relations effort to drum up sympathy for the "painful" relocation of Jewish settlers from Gaza. But who are these settlers, and why were they brought there in the first place? Is Israel really leaving Gaza, or merely switching to occupying it from outside, rather than inside? Will Gaza become a large open-air prison, with its population held hostage as Israel controls its air space, natural resources, and access? Full Article : informationclearinghouse.info August 22, 2005 News Posted: Monday, August 22, 2005 ¤ 8 Iraqi police shot dead ¤ Gaza Stripped; But the Occupation Remains ¤ The Latest Falsehood; The US is in Iraq to Stablize It ¤ Escalating the War in Iraq ¤ India: Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola ¤ What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya's Moves? ¤ There was no reason for a quiet evacuation ¤ When Tyranny is Law ¤ 'The Terrorist of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' ¤ 'Don't prettify our history' ¤ A dose of realism ¤ Staying the course? So did the Titanic! ¤ The next World War starts in Iran ¤ Baghdad civilian death totals are extreme ¤ The Trillion-Dollar War ¤ Rejecting Israeli apartheid ¤ Four murdered Palestinians not considered newsworthy ¤ South African Social Workers to Train in Cuba ¤ Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power ¤ The Earth is not 6 000 yrs old! ¤ Not 'liberation'- An occupation ¤ Millions embezzled at Iraqi ministry ¤ Leaderless on the left ¤ G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since '01 ¤ War on terror good for defense firms in US ¤ Chavez Criticizes U.S. From Castro's Side ¤ Washington worried by Venezuela, Cuban socialism ¤ Walking Among the Dead ¤ Brazilian officials in London to seek answers ¤ Mission accomplished? ¤ Interpreting war crimes ¤ A Besieged-in-Crawford Reading List ¤ Danger Of Staged Terror Attack at Red Alert Level ¤ Warden’s murder fuels racial tension August 21, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, August 21, 2005 ¤ Bush's lousy analogy ¤ Refusal to See Sheehan Is Second-Guessed ¤ Executed: Anatomy of a police killing ¤ Cuba and Panama restore relations ¤ Floods wash away entire villages ¤ Israel! Get in Line, Please ¤ Apologists for Iraqi War Going Bonkers ¤ Gazans finally win, but their tormentors get all the attention ¤ People torn to pieces, relatives scream ¤ Senator takes Rumsfeld to task over Chavez criticism ¤ Democracy is an Illusion ¤ Army Planning for 4 More Years in Iraq ¤ Iraqi general says US troops shot him -police ¤ Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war ¤ Taliban claim killing 11 puppet militants in Zabul ¤ Venezuela State Oil Company to Open First Asia Office in China ¤ Are mere pundits responsible when an administration’s policy goes wrong? ¤ What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? ¤ U.S. casualties in Afghanistan ¤ Bush, in Check ¤ Kabul blast hits US embassy convoy ¤ Iraq may seek fresh charter deadline ¤ Iran blames US for Iraq bombings ¤ Police who tailed shot Brazilian didn't think he was a threat ¤ Paraguayan president defends relations with Cuba and Venezuela ¤ The Madness of Boy George and Me and You Sharon's strategy succeeds - for now Posted: Saturday, August 20, 2005 Ariel Sharon, formerly the hardest of hard-liners and the moving force behind the whole policy of creating Jewish settlements on conquered Palestinian land after 1967. Has he actually changed his spots, or is the evacuation of the Gaza Strip just a smoke-screen for his real intentions? Well, listen to him. "I think it is important that they (Gaza settlers) know that what they did was not in vain. There are certainly great achievements, with the big (West Bank) settlements that will remain in Israeli hands." He is removing 8,500 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip (where they lived surrounded by 1.3 million Arabs and could never be secure anyway) in order to secure the position of some 400,000 Jewish settlers on formerly Palestinian land in the West Bank. That's not exactly a defeat for Zionism, if it works. Full Article : trinidadexpress.com Journalists "Disengaged" From Real Gaza Story Journalist Michael Bronner told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now: "There are thousands of journalists, there are, some say, about 4,000 journalists. And the image of settlers being dragged from their homes or pulled from their homes is an image that they really want to have, and there's almost a sense that, you know, they're being taken to some place far worse than down the beach where they're going, where the new settlement is being built for them, the new community." What journalists are not telling viewers of BBC and CNN is that the The Fourth Geneva Convention, the primary document governing the OPT, stipulates in Article 49 that the transfer of the population of the occupying power into the occupied territory is in breach of international law. Hence, the colonists are war criminals albeit war criminals who are being compensated handsomely for their crimes with some families receiving upwards of four hundred thousand dollars to relocate. Add to the pot the World Bank's last minute buyout for fourteen million dollars of the colonies' greenhouses built on confiscated lands. Some of the kicking and screaming colonists will relocate on illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank. August 20, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, August 20, 2005 ¤ The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation ¤ Terrorism Then and Now ¤ When Sympathy is Not Enough ¤ Moral Values and the CIA ¤ Will Celebrity Addicted America Miss the Point? ¤ The Sacred and the Profane ¤ What Jean Charles de Menezes Didn't Know ¤ Hypocrites and Liars ¤ A Secret's Not a Secret Anymore ¤ Hey, What's That Sound? ¤ Bush brings in an Iraqi ringer (again) ¤ 'Unmitigated cowardice, hypocrisy and ignorance' ¤ Free speech: going, going ... ¤ Bush's War on Terror Destroys Our Liberties ¤ The Rise of the Democratic Police State ¤ Murder and lies in London ¤ Thousands Of Troops Are Sick And Dying From Illegal DU Use ¤ US reject Russian call for Iraq troop pullout ¤ Government minister lashes out at U.S. troops ¤ Iraq talks stall over religion, oil ¤ Media Disinformation: Journalists "Disengaged" From Real Gaza Story ¤ Venezuelan Mock-Tribunal Declares Bush Guilty of Imperialism ¤ Gaza pullout far from enough for peace ¤ China, Russia Begin More Military Drills ¤ Mainstream news media suffer collateral damage from Iraq war ¤ The 'War on Terror' ¤ Has the 'Tipping Point' on Iraq Been Reached? ¤ More Guns in Crawford! ¤ 'Police sources' routinely vilify victims and excuse police actions ¤ Shot Brazilian's family 'offered US$1million' ¤ Family of shot Brazilian say they have rejected $1m offer Flashback ¤ The Bush Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism ¤ Iraq War's Two Constants ¤ I Was at Nagasaki ¤ US downplays Iraq charter delay August 19, 2005 News Posted: Friday, August 19, 2005 ¤ The Myth of a "Free and Democratic" Iraq ¤ Media Coverage of Gaza: Many Questions, Few Answers ¤ Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur Flashback ¤ Sudan's Darfur crisis and US/European concern ¤ Oil, Blood and Iraq ¤ Iran, Venezuela discuss oil embargo ¤ 'Iraq: A drama in 7 acts (4 down, 3 to go)' ¤ Sunnis caution against federal Iraq ¤ "Shoot to Kill"; Blair's first Trophy ¤ Venezuela unveils 56 bln usd investment plan between 2005-2012 for oil sector ¤ American Violence in Iraq: Necrophilia or savagery? ¤ Killers Must Be Prosecuted ¤ People not puppets ¤ The Irony is… ¤ NAMIBIA: Land reform picks up steam ¤ Chevron Paid Agents Who Destroyed Villages ¤ The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical ¤ Study shows racial health gap in US ¤ Tuskegee Airmen Recall Segregated Military ¤ Global warming: Will you listen now, America? ¤ Psst, wanna strike it rich in Iraq... ¤ Four U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Bombing ¤ Reality of war spoils Bush's vacation ¤ How many more must be die? ¤ War Made Impossible – or, At Least, Harder ¤ Trumped ¤ Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan ¤ Who is responsible for the London bombings? ¤ On Iran, Force Is No Option The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical Posted: Friday, August 19, 2005 As many as 13,350 Palestinians were made homeless in the Gaza Strip in the first 10 months of last year by Israel's giant armour-plated Caterpillar bulldozers - a total that easily exceeds the 8,500 leaving Israeli settlements this week. In Rafah alone, according to figures from the UN relief agency Unrwa, the rate of house demolitions rose from 15 per month in 2002 to 77 per month between January and October 2004. Parts of Rafah now resemble areas of Kabul or Grozny. Facing Israeli army watchtowers and the concrete wall that runs close to the Gaza Strip's boundary, rows of rubble and ruined homes stretch for hundreds of yards. Full Article : guardian.co.uk August 18, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2005 ¤ Behind the Iraq Dossier Hoax ¤ Tube shooting family inquiry call ¤ Russia and China join forces to send US message ¤ Israel Behind The Iraq War -- "Vile Anti-Semitic Rhetoric", Or Just Plain Facts? ¤ When Americans Die for Nothing ¤ Vietnam, Reloaded ¤ The Iraq War and MoveOn ¤ The Border is the Color Line of the 21st Century ¤ Theatrics in Gaza ¤ 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq ¤ When a Pullout is Just a Cease-fire ¤ Footage Contradicts London Police Reports ¤ Iraq weapons fear letter was 'buried' ¤ Death of Iraqi brothers sparks anti-U.S. rage ¤ Duck Soup ¤ ID cards could be used for mass surveillance system ¤ 'Bush's unhappy holidays' Out of Gaza - and into Jerusalem Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2005 August 05, 2005 By Lindsey Hilsum, iraqwar.mirror-world.ru The feint is an old military trick - the general sends a section of his forces to distract the enemy, so the battalions heading for the real target meet little resistance. Watch out for the feint in the Middle East in the coming week. Television news all over the world will show dramatic scenes of Israeli settlers in orange T-shirts being forced to leave the Gaza Strip, in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calls a "painful sacrifice" for peace. Thirty-two thousand soldiers and police are being sent to remove 8,200 settlers, by force if necessary. Viewers will see Jewish settler women dragged kicking and screaming from land Israel has occupied since 1967. Full Article : uscrusade.com/forum Israel's withdrawal is both historic and deceptive Politically, the Israeli evacuation from the Gaza Strip that started Monday is significant, and potentially historic. Morally, for the Israeli government and the settler-colonists, it is a pile of garbage, deception and lies. Sorting out the significant from the merely sinful in this situation is useful for discerning whether or not better days lie ahead. Media Serves Up Gaza Trauma and Drama Melancholy music prefaces CNN's gavel to gavel coverage of the Gaza disengagement emphasizing its primary focus: the trauma Jewish inhabitants of Gaza are undergoing as they are once again being uprooted and dispersed. Attention is focused on the alleged trauma inspired by the government's decision to sponsor the relocation of approximately 8,000 Jewish Israelis from the Gaza Strip and a few hundred others from four West Bank colonies to homes within their state, not that they're going far and not that they're going without substantial financial aid from the state, and most likely the fifty states, from whose taxpayers Israel has asked two billion dollars for its"dramatic" step toward peace. Uneasy Standoff in Venezuela's Media Wars Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 The controversy surrounding the media in Venezuela refuses to die. This is because the country is experimenting with a slow but steady anti-capitalist restructuring which the private media see as a threat to their existence. At this juncture, after surviving a military coup, a 63-day oil stoppage-sabotage (the oil coup) and a presidential referendum--all backed by the private media-- President Hugo Chavez is encouraging the formation of public and community media to counteract attacks on "the process" by the private media. In Venezuela people are starting more community radio and TV stations. The state TV station, channel 8, has improved greatly in professional quality without losing its leftist perspective. And now for the rest of Latin America there is the public satellite channel, Telesur. Formed with funding from Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (19%) and Uruguay (10%), Telesur is being hailed as a blow to cultural imperialism, and the private media are not pleased. Even the press, for which Telesur doesn't represent any competition, is assailing the network for being funded by the oil money "which belongs to every Venezuelan" and excluding the right. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com August 17, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 ¤ Out of Gaza - and into Jerusalem ¤ Palestinians fear ‘big prison’ after pullout ¤ Two Sides to a Withdrawal ¤ Three Palestinians shot dead by West Bank settler ¤ Media Serves Up Gaza Trauma and Drama ¤ One of the Reasons for the War on Iraq ¤ Israel's withdrawal is both historic and deceptive ¤ Deceive, Divide, and Devour :: The uses and meanings of "disengagement" ¤ Disengagement May Be a Disappointment ¤ The Quandary Called Iraq ¤ Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad's body count ¤ A nation that is even worse than postwar Iraq ¤ A Mercenary Society ¤ News Notes from the Global War on Terrorism ¤ Chewing on Meaningless Words ¤ If You Supported the War, Pay For It ¤ Battle Fatigue is Setting In ¤ Fire Dept Tape Invalidates Key Points Official 911 Story ¤ US desperate for deal before its influence wanes ¤ Bombs explode across Bangladesh ¤ Footage Contradicts London Police Reports ¤ The U.S. Has Lost the Iraq War ¤ 'Running on fumes: A journey to the end of empire' ¤ 'Grim and grimmer' ¤ Police chief tried to intervene on fatal shooting inquiry ¤ Bomb kills policeman, 16 wounded in Afghanistan ¤ Russia says opposes use of force against Iran ¤ Why It's Time for Us to Confront Hiroshima ¤ Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find ¤ It seems that Israel wants to lock up Gaza and throw away the key ¤ Two Dead After Bomb in Chechnya's Capital ¤ Annan says objective of stability in Afghanistan remains to be met ¤ Honor Thy Neighbor ¤ Deceptive talk about Iraq ¤ Army Offers To Pay Recruits In Gasoline Satire ¤ Shot Brazilian 'did not jump barrier and run' ¤ The No-News Media Same Garbage, Different Writers ¤ Baghdad blasts kill 43 ¤ Three Car Bombs Kill 41 in Central Baghdad ¤ Dozens killed by Baghdad car bombs ¤ Iraq morgue 'receives 1100 dead' in July ¤ Fears of backlash kept pre-9/11 data from FBI ¤ Americans always seem willing to be taken in again ¤ Smearing Cindy Sheehan ¤ I am Chikotilo Marcus Garvey, New Partnership For Africa's Development Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, has gained many well-deserved accolades for his contribution to the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the development of literary arts and the anti-colonial movement in his own ambivalent homeland. However, it is his role and vision for Africa's development that is the central contribution of his remarkable historical journey. History has recorded that some two years before his birth on August 17, 1887, the European powers had convened the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to partition the African continent among themselves. This brutal colonial exercise intensified the plunder of Africa's natural resources and in the process millions of its inhabitants were slaughtered. Full Article : jamaicaobserver.com August 16, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 ¤ Plane Crash in Venezuela Leaves 160 Dead ¤ Meet President George W Ahmadinejad ¤ 26 Iraqi workers wounded as US troops mistake them for rebels ¤ Two helicopters crash in Afghanistan, killing 17 Spanish troops ¤ Stocks or real estate for China's middle class? ¤ 'We're number one! Under Bush, the U.S. sets new records' ¤ Unacceptable regimes in Iraq and the United states ¤ Leaked report lists 'blunders' as police shot bomb suspect ¤ Grim Iraq reality dawns for Bush ¤ Iran: Western hysteria ¤ NO CCTV TO REVEAL WHY POLICE SHOT BRAZILIAN ¤ Hey yall Im back, My son posted for me earlier(Crosses) ¤ Mistakes led to tube shooting ¤ Unmasking George W. Bush ¤ Bush a Coward ¤ A Life With No Purpose ¤ Bush's Blind Spot on Iran ¤ Deceptive Talk About Iraq ¤ The Corporate Media vs. Chavez ¤ West 'hooked to war mode' on Sudan, says NGO chief ¤ More Media Lies About Iran ¤ 'It is all promises and lies' ¤ Iraq: Arab champion or cauldron of civil war? ¤ Bush pursuit of terror stops at Saudi Arabia's borders ¤ Chavez revokes US agent immunity ¤ Gas Pain ¤ Bush downplays Iraq constitution delay ¤ Bush neighbors to seek court order ¤ Mom's Protest Riles Gun-Toting Neighbor ¤ Earthquake destroys buildings in Japan ¤ Guatemalan Prison Riots Leave 31 Dead ¤ Gates' Microsoft Wins Browser Turf From Firefox ¤ Ostrich syndrome ¤ I understand the anguish that some feel ¤ Reality check for Bush administration in Iraq ¤ George Bush’s Bravado Is Killing Our Troops ¤ No-Win War ¤ Iraq war spurs Iran nukes ¤ Iraqi brothers say they were beaten and abused by British soldiers The 'war-for-own-land' in Africa is a reality Posted: Monday, August 15, 2005 Africa: the Other Side of the Coin Like EU, Africa Should Close Ranks Neither academic analysts, nor well-resourced international lobbies and their think-tank programmes will be able to stave off Africa's "war-for-own-land"! THE 'war-for-own-land' in Africa is a reality. No imported industry of "neo-liberal, US approved democracy", "free market economy" and no "willing seller, willing buyer concept" will be able to reverse it. August 15, 2005 News Posted: Monday, August 15, 2005 ¤ The 'war-for-own-land' in Africa is a reality ¤ Chavez once again calls for socialism as the only way to destroy capitalism ¤ Now They're moving the Goalpost ¤ Failing in Iraq ¤ Who's Really Screwing up America? ¤ A Constitution That Means Nothing To Ordinary Iraqis ¤ A Democracy In Name Only ¤ Chavez makes US oil export threat ¤ Che the ‘Guerrilla Fighter’ – Literally! ¤ Insurgents kill 17 in Iraq ¤ Three-way pull in Iraq ¤ Babies Caught Up in 'No-Fly' Confusion ¤ 'It's the arrogance, stupid! ¤ 'Catapulting the propaganda' ¤ Sri Lanka snipers damage peace hopes ¤ Is the Iran Crisis for Real? ¤ On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road ¤ Tests appear to back Iran on nuke traces -diplomat ¤ Al-Qaeda, a Secret Service Operation? ¤ U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq ¤ Three die in Panama Canal terror attack exercise ¤ Shotgun Blast Jars Bush Protesters ¤ Castro lobbies US to free spies ¤ Al-Zarqawi aide killed, US officials say August 14, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, August 14, 2005 ¤ Fingers on the Button ¤ "The Panama Deception" Part I ¤ London bombings: the truth emerges ¤ West 'can't push Iran around' ¤ The flag won't protect you; it's in the wrong hands ¤ Iran Is Not Iraq ¤ Cindy Sheehan: Rosa Parks or Jane Fonda? ¤ 'How can the US ever win, when Iraqi children die like this?' ¤ Assassination leads to state of emergency in Sri Lanka ¤ Greece Plane Crash Kills All 121 Aboard ¤ Tragedy of US drugs craze orphans ¤ Mass Grave Found Near Baghdad, Forces Say ¤ Bush slaps down top general after he calls for troops to be pulled out of Iraq ¤ Six U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq as constitution deadline nears ¤ UN nuclear watchdog rebuts claims that Iran is trying to make A-bomb ¤ Someone Tell the President the War Is Over ¤ THE WAR CASUALTY NUMBERS ¤ Are Half of All Americans Mentally Ill? ¤ No 10 refuses to reveal Iraq war e-mails ¤ Release of Abu Ghraib prison photos could cause riots ¤ Germany attacks US on Iran threat ¤ Five killed, nine injured in Islamic rebel attack in Indian Kashmir ¤ Iraq bombs, shooting kill six US troops ¤ Bush tells why he will shun protester ¤ Garang death inquiry begins work ¤ Central Bank manager kidnapped in Iraq August 13, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, August 13, 2005 ¤ Assassination leads to state of emergency in Sri Lanka ¤ 12 Killed in Militia Fighting in Somalia ¤ Bush hints at military option for Iran ¤ Iran buys some time ¤ Germany rejects Iran military option ¤ 15 Iraqis dead after US gunfire: doctor ¤ Iraq Roadside Attacks Have Doubled ¤ No-Win War ¤ What The Neo-Crazies Knew ¤ War Crimes Even Helen Keller Could See ¤ Election Fraud Continues in the US ¤ Fable of the Emperor and the Grieving Mother ¤ Is Condi Crazy? ¤ Animal Whites ¤ PETA Rethinks Ads Comparing Abuse, Slavery ¤ This is George Bush’s Accountability Moment ¤ The President's Vacation From Reality ¤ President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation ¤ 35 killed in latest Haiti unrest ¤ Four killed in central Iraq; one US soldier killed in bombing ¤ Americans kill Afghan and Iraqi children ¤ Around U.S., Iraq mess finally sinks in ¤ Anything but the truth: Official spin, unnamed sources, and the art of managing perceptions ¤ Reformer Without Results ¤ More killed in Chechen clashes August 12, 2005 News Posted: Friday, August 12, 2005 ¤ 'Meanwhile, jack at the ranch' ¤ It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too ¤ Trade Deficit Up As Oil Imports Hit High ¤ Public Will Get Better View Of Cost Of War ¤ Fake News Abounds, but Vigilance on Rise ¤ U.S. report warns of China sub threat ¤ "Bring 'em on!" Bush's Legacy of Death in Iraq ¤ Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool ¤ Israel's Nuclear Puzzle ¤ Cheney and Halliburton: the Stench Gets Worse ¤ Terror and Democracy ¤ In Defense of North Korea ¤ Venezuela May Deny Americans Visas ¤ Security Situation Worsens in Nepal ¤ Italy hastens troop withdrawal ¤ Oil prices breach 67 dollars per barrel for first time Venezuela must keep the US military at bay Posted: Friday, August 12, 2005 By Oscar Heck, vheadline.com It is a matter of life or death! Venezuela must keep the US military at bay... VHeadline.com commentarist writes: Before reading this article, I would like to ask readers to be prepared to come face to face with some highly disturbing photos and information ... information which is finally coming to the forefront ... information which people such as myself have been aware of for some time ... information that has been intentionally hidden ... information that every single human being on this planet should be aware of. It is a matter of life or death! Please read attentively and most importantly, please take the time to follow the links (click of the underlined blue text). Once you have finished reading this article and the links provided, please pass on the information to as many people as you can. It is critical for the future of humanity. If we sit by and do nothing about it, we will be ensuring the death of this planet and its inhabitants. This article deals with nuclear weapons. I worked in Kuwait city during the Gulf War (1991) when the daytime skies were black and orange from the many oil-well fires. The city was partially destroyed and the airport had sustained heavy damage. I stayed at the International Hotel, across from the US Embassy compound near the waterfront and at the bullet-riddled Crown Plaza Hotel on Airport road. During the several months I worked in Kuwait and in the subsequent months when I worked in Saudi Arabia I met many US soldiers. Certain images of US soldiers have been deeply engraved in my mind. The most striking thing was the age of the soldiers ... they appeared to be children, 18,19,20,21 year-olds. Many were very sick, physically, emotionally and psychologically. Almost all of them felt that their own government had betrayed them and lied to them about why they were there. Many of the soldiers were traumatized ... they recounted their horror stories and the fact that many (many!) innocent people were killed by the US military, themselves. For a period of time during the war, the only television station we were able to see was CNN. What CNN was airing/reporting was very far from reality. In the same way as CNN covered the recent invasion of Iraq, CNN was then portraying US soldiers as being "happy" heroes, when in fact most of them were scared to death, sick ... and complete emotional wrecks. CNN was portraying the Iraqi soldiers as "the enemy" ... as despicable people who raped and killed innocent people. This was far from being the case. Most Iraqi soldiers were poor young men who followed orders ... in the same way as the young US soldiers did. Young men shot at young men, not knowing why they were fighting. This is when I began to question the integrity of CNN and of the US government. Previous to 1991 I was, as most of us, just another person who believed what I was told ... and never really questioned it. I believed in good faith and in the honorability of governments and the media. After 1991, it all changed for me ... as it did for most Gulf War Veterans, many of whom to this day continue to suffer from an unknown illness, a "mystery illness." I witnessed first hand how sick some of the soldiers were in Kuwait. Before I proceed, I would like to present readers with quotes of what some people have written me recently. "Anyone who blames America for Iraq's poverty is totally uninformed ... If you were an opponent of his regime, you weren't prosperous at all -- you were in prison, tortured, or dead. His son's favorite method of execution was to throw people into a wood-chip making machine. We've dug up 400,000 bodies in mass graves so far. By my estimate Saddam was murdering about 25,000 Iraqis a year in order to maintain his grip on power and keep everyone else frozen with fear. So, you extrapolate those numbers over the next ten or 15 years and you come up with the numbers of lives we saved by getting rid of Saddam." "Again, a lot of these allegations never turn out to be true when you actually start digging around. Some US soliders have experienced problems from the Gulf War and there has been a massive amount of attention paid to the problem in Congress, led my John McCain, who is one of the best politicians we have and a former POW." "The bottom line is when it comes to America you can see what you want to see." "There are things we've done wrong and mistakes made that have resulted in tragedy. There are also millions of people walking around the globe today that owe their lives and their freedom to US intervention." "So, my assessment is that we are a country that does believe in high ideals." "Your allegations are, again, uninformed, and DO NOT reflect the reality on the ground." "You need to wake up and understand how the global economy really works today." "This is a serious accusation. Is such information available? Were nuclear weapons used in that invasion? Depleted uranium munitions were, but that's a different story." According to several sources, including a site called globalsecurity.org, the US government admitted to using weapons similar to Napalm in the recent invasion of Iraq. Although these weapons are not called "Napalm," they basically are napalm. "The Pentagon said it had not tried to deceive. It drew a distinction between traditional napalm, first invented in 1942, and the weapons dropped in Iraq, which it calls Mark 77 firebombs. They weigh 510lbs, and consist of 44lbs of polystyrene-like gel and 63 gallons of jet fuel. ... You can call it something other than napalm but it is still napalm. It has been reformulated in the sense that they now use a different petroleum distillate, but that is it. The US is the only country that has used napalm for a long time. I am not aware of any other country that uses it ... Marines returning from Iraq chose to call the firebombs "napalm"." According to several sources, the US government tested Agent Orange and depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Puerto Rico. "Test trials of Agent Orange were carried out in Puerto Rico. The US imposed a military government on Puerto Rico a century ago when it was seized from the Spanish. The island of Vieques (40 miles off the coast, population 5,500) has been used for target practise by the US military for the last 60 years. Since 1980 it has been used for test firing of depleted uranium munitions, chemical contaminants have found their way into ground water, local crabs have 20 times the normal levels of heavy metals, cancer rates amongst the island's population is twice the national average ... In a locked room of Tu Du Obstetrical and Gynaecological Hospital in Saigon are rows of formaldehyde-filled jars containing deformed foetuses, a grotesque illustration of Man's inhumanity to Man. The level of poverty in Vietnam prevents the preservation of further examples. Many of the living have fared little better, limb deformities, cancers." The USA is using nuclear weapons. In order to bypass laws and to allow for the use of napalm weapons against Iraqis in the recent invasion of Iraq, the US military (or someone) simply changed the name of the weapon and slightly modified the ingredients. In much the same way, the US government has been deceiving us regarding depleted uranium ... which has been used in weapons against Iraqis and Afghanis in the recent US invasions. Depleted uranium weapons are apparently not categorized as nuclear weapons. This is where we have been fooled, once again. We have been led to believe that DU is basically harmless. It turns out that this is not the case. DU is very dangerous and there is reliable information to support this. Weapons that contain DU are essentially nuclear weapons ... and the USA has been using them in large quantities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US government is using nuclear weapons! Please read the following short article. It is written by Leuren Moret who is an international radiation specialist and environmental commissioner for the City of Berkeley, California. Below are sections of the article: "I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302." "Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere." "The U.S. has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere with radioactive pollution having a half-life of 2.5 billion years." "The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU 'conventional' weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons." "DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war - it keeps giving and keeps killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over 20 steps." "Terry Jemison at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated in August 2004 that over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are now on medical disability, and that 7,039 were wounded on the battlefield in that same period. Over 500,000 U.S. veterans are homeless. " "In some studies of soldiers who had normal babies before the war, 67 percent of the post-war babies are born with severe birth defects - missing brains, eyes, organs, legs and arms, and blood diseases." "In southern Iraq, scientists are reporting five times higher levels of gamma radiation in the air, which increases the radioactive body burden daily of inhabitants. In fact, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan are uninhabitable." "After Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, 'Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. . .'(from Chapter 5 in the "Final Days" by Woodward and Bernstein)." Leuren Moret is part of a new documentary called "Beyond Treason." It is about the history of treason by the U.S. government against its own soldiers ... about Atomic veterans, MK-Ultra, Agent Orange and DU. The documentary is co-written by Joyce Riley, spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association ... and several Gulf War Veterans are featured in the film. I think it is important for readers to take the time to visit their site here. Scroll down to the bottom and you can click to watch "a two minute theatrical trailer." Please watch the trailer ... and then spread the news to others. It is a matter of life or death! Although I have not yet seen the documentary, I have a strong feeling that everyone should watch it. I am ordering my copy. The documentary website states: "From the first Gulf War the VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 troops are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a 'mystery disease.' How many more will have to die before action is taken?" This "mystery disease" appears to be caused by the use of nuclear weapons, DU weapons included. Another site states: "Decades of Nuclear Testing has demonstrated the effects of 1200 nuclear weapon tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site; and the US Government admitted in Nov. 2002, that every living person in the US between 1958-63 was exposed to this fall out resulting in cancer, gene mutation, heart disease, autism, diabetes, Parkinsons, ALS, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome , hypothyroidism in new-borns, obesity and learning disabilities. One out of twelve children in the US is disabled. The fall out did not stop at the US borders. It travelled around the world, as atmospheric dust and remains even in the biosphere/ sub-orbital space today. High breast cancer rates have been co-located in the proximity of nuclear power plants in the west and more so in the east coast areas of the US" "The long-term effects from over a decade of DU exposures are emerging in Southern Iraq. They are devastating. The increased quantities of radio-active material ( including non-depleted uranium), used in Afghanistan are 3 to 5 times greater than Iraq 199. In Iraq 2003 they are already estimated to be 6 to 10 times 1991 and will travel through a larger area and affect many more people, babies and unborn. Countries within a 1000 mile radius of Baghdad and Kabul are being affected by radiation poisoning ..." "Testimonies of fathers and mothers are horrifying. What else do the Americans want ? They killed us , they turned our new-borns into horrific deformations, and they turned our farm lands into grave-yards, and destroyed our homes. On top of all this their planes fly over and spray us with bullets.. we have nothing to lose..." (Note: Water supplies seems to be one of the main vehicles to deliver radiation to humans!) What is now happening in Afghanistan and Iraq is what will happen in Venezuela if the US government attacks Venezuela. Children will be born dead and disfigured or worse yet, alive and horribly deformed (as seen in the 2 minute trailer above). People will become sicker and sicker. Cancer will be rampant, soil and water supplies will be contaminated and people will be dying from radiation-induced diseases for generations. Venezuela must keep the US military at bay... ... but, more importantly, the people of the USA must themselves do something about their own government. The people of the USA have been lied to by their own government ... and the US government continues to lie. If the people of the USA do nothing, the entire world will be contaminated within a few short years and, in the future, people will no longer look human ... humans in the future will be mutants. It has already begun. This is not science fiction. This is reality. Take another look at the movie trailer. 340 tons of DU were used in the Gulf War. 2400 tons of DU were dumped into Iraq during the recent invasion of Iraq by the USA. (On a similar note, the US government is proudly collaborating with the Colombian government -- and perhaps Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador -- in a program to eradicate coca plantations by spraying the plantations with chemicals ... which are apparently -- and no doubt -- getting into the local drinking water supplies!) I will now repeat one of the quotes from the beginning of this article. Astoundingly, the reader who made the comment (repeated below), made it after I sent her/him the links to "Beyond Treason." "There are things we've done wrong and mistakes made that have resulted in tragedy. There are also millions of people walking around the globe today that owe their lives and their freedom to US intervention." Free to live in nuclear contamination for generations to come? Free to eat, drink and breath radiation? Free to live as brain-damaged twisted pieces of flesh? As I finish writing this article, the same person sends me another letter. Here are parts of it: "Okay, Oscar, here's Chavez latest insult to my country. He called the United States the 'most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world' ... First of all, it's clear Mr. Chavez doesn't know the history of Stalin and Mao who were collectively responsible for ... second, his assertion that America is going to invade Venezuela is completely idiotic ... third, he says Iran is a regime under attack by imperialism and expressed solidarity with the Islamic fascist regime in Tehran ... I've had it with this lying, ignorant, sociopath, Oscar. Hugo Chavez just made an enemy of me, and I am a formiddable opponent." What kind of person would state that someone is now their enemy simply because that person is speaking the truth? * It is because of people who think this way, and react this way, that DU is being dropped on "enemies." * It is because of people who think and react this way that the world, as we know it, will come to an end ... sooner than later. This is no joke! Reprinted from: www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45533 South Africa learning from Zimbabwe on land reforms Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2005 PRETORIA: South Africa can take a leaf from neighbouring Zimbabwe by injecting some "oomph" to quicken the pace of land reforms to redress apartheid-era imbalances, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said yesterday. Full Article : gulf-times.com August 11, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2005 ¤ South Africa learning from Zimbabwe on land reforms ¤ Senate Intelligence chairman quietly 'fixed' intelligence ¤ Uncle Dick Cartoon ¤ More Troops to be Sent to Iraq ¤ Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman" ¤ More Death in Iraq: A Reluctant Soldier's Story ¤ Meanwhile, Israel Grabs the Rest of Jerusalem ¤ No End in Sight in Iraq ¤ Iran No; China Yes ¤ The Politics of an Outing ¤ Globalization and Its Discontents ¤ Oil will pay for rebuilding Iraq? No, wrong again ¤ Has India sacrificed at Washington's altar? ¤ America's new bogeyman ¤ US contingency plan for a Venezuela oil cut off ¤ The gates of hell ¤ Audit: Fraud drained $1 billion from Iraq's defense efforts ¤ Oil surges to $66 a barrel ¤ Plaming Cindy Sheehan ¤ Spy case Cubans win retrial outside Miami ¤ Iraqi: Iran Smuggling Reports Exaggerated ¤ In Defense of the Iranians ¤ Tyranny's Gate ¤ No Sympathy for the Neocons ¤ Explosion closes Spanish Fork Canyon, injures at least six ¤ Three Shootings Across Iraq Leave 4 Dead ¤ Six US soldiers among 20 killed in Iraq ¤ The US-India nexus ¤ Despite armor, more Iraq troops dying in Humvees ¤ Syria faces unjust U.S. threats Venezuela Warns Against US Invasion Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has told thousands of visiting students that if US forces are to invade his South American country, they will be soundly defeated. The US government has strongly denied Chavez's claims that it is considering military action against Cuba's closest ally in the Americas. But Chavez said the US government, which "won't stop caressing the idea of invading Cuba or invading Venezuela," should be warned of the consequences. "If some day they get the crazy idea of coming to invade us, we'll make them bite the dust defending the freedom of our land," Chavez said to applause. Full Article : commondreams.org August 10, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 ¤ Venezuela's Chavez Presents Land Titles to Indigenous Groups ¤ Venezuela Warns Against US Invasion ¤ Cheney + Pakistan = Iran ¤ Coffins And Empire ¤ Bush Sends John Bolton to the United Nations ¤ Rage Against the Killing of the Light ¤ Drawing the Wrong Conclusions from Iraq ¤ Insurgents kill 28 people in Iraq ¤ 6 More GIs Killed in Iraq, 44 Dead in 10 Days ¤ Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group ¤ The Iranian nightmare ¤ Iran opposes UN Council intervention ¤ Baghdad Elite Flees Iraq & The Daily Threat Of Death ¤ GOTCHA! ¤ Bush Vacations While Soldiers Die ¤ Nine U.S. troops die in separate incidents in Iraq ¤ The statistics of propaganda ¤ Iraq’s Children: Choir of Despair ¤ US court overturns Cubans' spy convictions ¤ US soldier among 31 killed in Iraq ¤ U.S. Watch for Insurgent Traffic in Iraq ¤ Bereaved mother camps outside Bush ranch ¤ US tries to spin a web strong enough to contain China ¤ Thirteen U.S. troops die in separate incidents in Iraq ¤ No letup to the occupation ¤ Iranian Ironies ¤ Virus: "Osama bin Laden Captured" ¤ Stuck in the sands of the Middle East ¤ Words That Enslave ¤ Half of oil-for-food firms paid bribes ¤ Five U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attacks In August 09, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 ¤ A credible plan to take down the Internet ¤ U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba ¤ A Look Into the Mirror ¤ Globalization And Its Discontents ¤ It Has No Other Name: Neo-racism ¤ Iraq statistics tell grim story ¤ Baghdad mayor 'ousted by gunmen' ¤ Tragic price of war ¤ Who's Paying for Our Patriotism? ¤ Tariq Aziz says he won’t testify against Saddam ¤ More About Those Nuclear Attack Speculations ¤ Urgent: Woodstock 2005 Bands Needed NOW- Crawford, Texas ¤ Bush’s Legacy to America ¤ Neocons as Parasites ¤ WMD Message Failure Damaging Bush ¤ Two killed in Istanbul blast ¤ Baghdad Attacks Kill More Than 20 ¤ 102 miners feared dead in China ¤ Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds ¤ Killings of civilians by U.S. troops angers Iraqi government ¤ Deafening silence ¤ Army four-star general relieved of command ¤ US mulls sanctions against Venezuela ¤ Make No Mistake: It's a War of Civilizations ¤ Terror fears push oil prices to 22-year high ¤ Gunmen kill 10 policemen in Baghdad ¤ Unseasonal sandstorm disrupts work on Iraq's constitution ¤ Big Star-Spangled Lies for War ¤ Oh, Those Presidential 'White' Lies! ¤ Why suicide attackers haven't hit U.S. again ¤ Sandstorm covers large parts of Iraq ¤ Trading With the Enemy: An American Tradition ¤ G.I. Dead In Afghanistan Clash ¤ Oil price close to $65 mark ¤ The new chauvinism UK considers 'secret courts' Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Britain is considering setting up secretive courts to make it easier to prosecute terror suspects - and to hold them without charge for longer than the current 14 days - as part of the crackdown following last month's deadly London bombings, officials said on Tuesday. Full Article : news24.com August 08, 2005 News Posted: Monday, August 8, 2005 ¤ Kenyan minister to sue Britain over travel ban ¤ The Coming 9/11 for Dummies. ¤ The Lancet Study ¤ Bush removal ended Guam investigation ¤ U.S. strategic interests rise in West Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea ¤ New 'Great Game' Being Played by West in Iraq and Afghanistan ¤ Is Iran our new target? Intelligence seems to say so ¤ Ex-POW Jessica Lynch says US used her as Iraq war symbol ¤ ITALY'S WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ "NOT ENOUGH" ¤ Why Iran will lead to World War 3 ¤ Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse ¤ Continue asking why you are hated all over the world! ¤ A Childish Theory ¤ US 'Emperor without Clothes' is, of course ¤ 'Shared threats' bring Syria and Iran together: Ahmadinejad ¤ Militant Accused of U.S. Terror Camp Plot ¤ The Bush Administration's Not-so-Silly Season ¤ Letter From an Iraq Vet ¤ The Neocons' Childish Theory ¤ Big Star-Spangled Lies for War ¤ Venezuela accuses DEA of spying, suspends ties ¤ Koizumi commits political suicide ¤ Wanted: Aspiring martyrs ¤ US seeks to beef up troops in Iraq August 07, 2005 News Posted: Sunday, August 7, 2005 ¤ Israeli Finance Minister Netanyahu Quits ¤ Eleven dead in spate of Iraq shootings, bombings ¤ Blaming the Mosques for the Sins of Governments ¤ Survival of the Fittest, Indeed ¤ Russia targets media after failure in Chechnya ¤ Big Oil's obscene profits ¤ West turns blind eye as police put Saddam's torturers back to work ¤ George Bush Knows Why They Hate Us ¤ U.S., Saudis play same old game ¤ With the public distracted, George W. Bush is building a big government ¤ Gunman's body to lie near his racist hero ¤ Army: Soldier Just Back From Iraq Kills Wife, Self ¤ Anonymous Lies From Anonymous Sources ¤ Ecuador defends ties with Venezuela ¤ Lessons Learned, Lessons Not Learned ¤ War on Terror, Rest in Peace ¤ 9/11 Group Says White House Has Not Provided Files August 06, 2005 News Posted: Saturday, August 6, 2005 ¤ 'U.S. strips more freedom from citizens than terrorists ever could' ¤ The Downing Street Memo is only the beginning of the proof ¤ The True Story behind the Killing of 14 U.S. Marines in Haditha. ¤ Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Doppelganger Psyop ¤ No Justice for Haiti's Jean-Juste ¤ Cuba Maintains Relations with more than 800 Foreign Cities ¤ Bush and Blair’s “way of life” ¤ U.S. troops fired on civilians after bombing in Iraq ¤ Ex-Employees Faulted Halliburton Role in Iraq ¤ The Real AIPAC Spy Ring Story -- It Was All About Iran ¤ Double standards ¤ "What Have We Done?" ¤ Guardsmen Took 'Rent' From Iraqi Businesses ¤ We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima - or Worse ¤ How the British Destroyed India ¤ From Hiroshima to Iraq and Back ¤ Halliburton and Iran ¤ Rescuers struggle to save trapped sailors ¤ 19 Die in Plane Crash Near Sicily ¤ Dutton Contradicts U.S. on Iran-Iraq Ties ¤ Ten Questions for Cheney ¤ Iraq news was bad, trends worse ¤ Former British Foreign Secretary Cook Dies ¤ Iran rejects EU nuclear incentives ¤ Israeli bus attacker had deserted with gun ¤ Evicted from Uzbekistan, U.S. looks for alternatives ¤ Mauritania coup leaders face anti-Israel pressure August 05, 2005 News Posted: Friday, August 5, 2005 ¤ Basic questions about bases ¤ Mauritania calm after military coup ¤ U.S. deployed 2000 troops to oil rich Mauritania in June ¥ In June U.S goes in, by August the Government is out. ¤ Court must order release of Ghraib photos ¤ General: Iran Influence Only Speculation ¤ Mythology in the White House ¤ The Incredible Blight of TV Punditry ¤ International police group recommends 'shoot-to-kill' ¤ Most sophisticated of roadside bombs reportedly coming from Iran ¤ Deadly Attacks Put New Pressure on Bush ¤ Blood and Gravy ¤ Military Planners Tell Bush Iraq War 'Cannot be Won' ¤ The Hiroshima Cover-Up ¤ Venezuela's Chavez denies aiding Colombian rebels ¤ What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay? ¤ Western Media's Coverage of Africa Biased ¤ Africans stick to UN veto demand ¤ Men Overcompensate When Masculinity Is Threatened ¤ Bush imposes right-wing thug as ambassador to UN ¤ Canadian Imperialism Helps Smash Haiti for Profit ¤ London 7/7 Terror Suspect Linked to British Intelligence? ¤ Attack on Iran: Pre-emptive Nuclear War ¤ Bush on his long retreat ¤ Elusive sniper saps US morale in Baghdad ¤ Above the rule of law ¤ Violent Week Leaves At Least 27 U.S. Troops Dead ¤ Who's Behind the Coming War With Iran? ¤ US's Bolton warns Iran, Syria over Iraqi border ¤ CNN Suspends Novak After He Walks Off Set ¤ We Were Winning and Doing Nothing But Good in Vietnam Too ¤ 34 killed as Iraqi PM unveils security plan ¤ A few obscenities for Blair and company to chew on ¤ An Essential in Iraq: The Ability to Forget ¤ Cheney, Bush Sr arrive in Saudi Arabia ¤ Israeli soldier lynched after killing four Arab Israelis ¤ Bush: U.S. to Stay in Iraq Despite Deaths ¤ African leaders reject compromise on UNSC reforms ¤ US soldier, Afghan official, religious leader killed in Taliban attack August 04, 2005 News Posted: Thursday, August 4, 2005 ¤ US challenged over 'secret jails' ¤ Israel ranks among most corrupt in West ¤ Ohio families reeling after battalion loses 21 in six days ¤ Iran's new president: Scrap all WMDs ¤ Chalabi's top aide assassinated in Baghdad ¤ Israeli kills three on bus ¤ Sudan riot toll put at 130 ¤ 2 Iraq veterans stationed at Fort Hood kill themselves ¤ A Feast of Death ¤ Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing ¤ Britain's Muslim scapegoats ¤ ID cards would not solve terrorism, says minister ¤ How the UK gave Israel the bomb ¤ World Movement for Democracy: Made in the USA ¤ The New Know-Nothings ¤ Uncle Sam’s Iron Curtain of Secrecy ¤ A new credo for the hyperpower ¤ Taking Iran to the UN: A dangerous game ¤ Zen and the Art of Iraqi Regime Change ¤ Will Bush change US policies ¤ Trading With the Enemy: An American Tradition ¤ Rude awakening ¤ Mauritania coup: New president named ¤ Before the War, CIA Reportedly Trained a Team of Iraqis to Aid U.S. August 03, 2005 News Posted: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 ¤ Bush Does It Again ¤ A Young Man's Death in Iraq ¤ 'Ah! But It's Not Working?' ¤ Seven Marines among 40 killed in Iraq ¤ The Tragic Meaning of London ¤ The Iraq Infection ¤ Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War ¤ Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed ¤ American journalist shot dead in Iraq ¤ The Nature of the American Character ¤ Preempting Cheney ¤ Media Flagstones Along a Path to War on Iran ¤ In Memoriam: Innocent Victims of 8/6/45 and 9/11/01 ¤ Marines killed in insurgent stronghold ¤ Why the US won't admit it was jilted ¤ Fourteen US troops die in Iraq blast ¤ Blame it on Syria ¤ US salvoes across South Asia ¤ Garang death to be probed ¤ Afghan attacks claim many lives ¤ Mauritania coup: New president named ¤ Americans Cheer Fictional Insurgents, Real-Life Invaders August 02, 2005 News Posted: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 ¤ The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling ¤ World turning its back on Brand America ¤ When Armageddon Gets No Press ¤ Words Without Meaning ¤ The Bolton Embarrassment ¤ Bush, Bolton to Congress: Screw You! ¤ Saudi Arabia's King Fahd laid to rest ¤ Toll rises on second day of Sudan riot ¤ Ambassador Bolton to take the UN floor/s ¤ 'So long, suckers' ¤ Self-inflicted alienation ¤ Sudanese rioters go on rampage after rebel leader dies ¤ U.S. warns Iran on nuclear threat ¤ Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb ¤ Iran to reopen nuclear plant as dispute escalates ¤ Suspect's tale of travel and torture ¤ Pounds fall off, but so do the dollars ¤ Bush Appoints Bolton, Bypassing Senate ¤ Bush bypasses Senate to install Bolton as UN envoy ¤ Prince Abdullah ascends the Saudi throne ¤ U.S.-led troops in Iraq part of problem-UK's Straw ¤ Operation Withdrawal Scam ¤ US terror hearings rigged, say prosecutors ¤ Georgia accuses Russia of terrorism ¤ Oil dips from record after Saudi King's death ¤ Armageddon Gets No Press ¤ Timing the Cheney Nuclear Drumbeat ¤ 24 die in riots after Sudanese vice-president’s death IMF and EU are blamed for starvation in Niger Posted: Monday, August 1, 2005 As the first shipments of emergency aid reached feeding centres in Niger, accusations are mounting that economic policies imposed on the country from outside contributed to the food shortages affecting up to three million people. Some aid specialists blamed the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. Their economic programmes have contributed to sharp rises in the prices of staples such as sorghum and millet. Others said the Niamey government had downplayed the emergency to protect local food traders who are resistant to free aid because it undermines markets. Full Article : news.independent.co.uk |
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