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  • When Democracy Failed - 2005 : The Warnings of History
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Thom Hartmann
    This weekend - February 27th - is the 72nd anniversary, but the corporate media most likely won’t cover it. The generation that experienced this history firsthand is now largely dead, and only a few of us dare hear their ghosts.
    It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small (…)

  • Negroponte’s dark past disqualifies him today
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The American public may take comfort in U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision last week to nominate John D. Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence (DNI). The position was created in response to recommendations put forth by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. It found coordination among the 15 different U.S. intelligence agencies lacking. The DNI will be tasked with mediating turf wars (between the CIA and FBI, among others), (…)

  • Not In Our Name, Mr. President
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not In Our Name, Mr. President 02-21-2005 An opportunity for productive social outreach looms on the horizon. A day is coming - maybe in weeks, maybe in months or maybe in years - when President Bush’s true-believers hit the wall of credibility. They have been led to believe our “war on terror,” as the president calls it, pits the forces of good vs. the forces of evil. Unfortunately, every report of the United States inhumanely abusing prisoners in its care tarnishes our gold star and (…)

  • How America’s response to 9/11 unleashed an obscene nightmare
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official complicity in the abuse. Five days after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney emerged from the fortified burrow in which he’d been awaiting Armageddon and - glowering as blackly as the oil he no doubt dreams of - explained how the (…)

  • Damning 9/11 Report Exposes Bush Adminstration as Woefully Incompetent if not Criminally Negligent
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us Robert Scheer
    February 15, 2005
    Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
    The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. (…)

  • Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms Pete Yost February 14, 2005 Concerned about government secrecy in a terrorism case, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at the Bush administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man held in Saudi Arabia. The government is bolstering its effort to get the case thrown out by submitting classified information to U.S. District Judge John Bates that is unavailable to lawyers for imprisoned terrorist suspect Ahmed Abu (…)

  • Guantanamo Detainee Claims Confession Under Torture
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib. Transcript: Under suspicion February 13, 2005
    Reporter: Tara Brown Producer: Stephen Taylor Mamdouh Habib. INTRO TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is an innocent man persecuted because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s one or the other, simple as (…)

  • Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions: Why did the twin towers fall so fast?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Madrid Fire Re-opens 9/11 Questions
    Prior to 9/11, no steel building had ever collapsed due to fire. Here is a photo of the smoking buildings. wtc2, was on fire for less than an hour when it collapsed.
    Isn’t it odd, the wtc collapsed after an hour, and the black smoke indicates that fire wasn’t even burning hot. Now compare- this is the Madrid Fire, it burned for 10 hours and still has not collapsed.
    Why did wtc2 only last an hour before collapse while the Madrid building burned (…)

  • Bush and Condi Failed US on 9/11-The Security of our Country is Severely in Danger
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With the news that President Bush and his administration knew of impending suicidal airplane attacks on American soil and did nothing about it directly indicates a dangerous ineffectiveness and incompetence to protect America.
    The failure to implement internal security for our country compounds our inability to secure America. After 911, few safe guards were implemented to protect our national security. Our boarders are not protected, our nuclear and chemical plants are not adequately (…)

  • In 2001 the FAA issued 52 warnings, including CD-ROM to airports mentioning Suicide Hijackings
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America’s aviation authority received numerous warnings about al-Qaeda attacks in the six months before 9/11, including five that mentioned hijackings and two that mentioned suicide operations, it has emerged.
    A previously published report by the commission set up to investigate the September 11 attacks on the United States reveals that the US Federal Aviation Authority received 52 intelligence reports on al-Qaeda between April and September 2001.
    The 911 Commission report criticises the (…)