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  • Kerry to add Russia to the new "axis of evil"
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The team of the president creates the policy of the president
    by Pravda
    Dem. Senator John Kerry will most likely announce the existence of the new "axis of evil," embracing Iran, Russia and North Korea. According to the senator, the nuclear possessions of these countries pose the most dangerous threat to the national security of the United States.
    It is an open secret that the team of the president creates the policy of the president. Richard Holbrooke, the US ambassador to the United (…)

  • Children shot as Israel continues Gaza offensive
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Hutcheon
    TONY EASTLEY: There are tears and no doubt some talk of revenge in Gaza too, as Israel’s military offensive continues there, and so does the toll of death and injury.
    United Nations officials say a ten-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl was hit in the stomach by Israeli army fire as she sat at her desk. She’s in a stable but critical condition in hospital.
    The army’s operation has killed more than 100 Palestinians. Both the army and the military police have now opened (…)

  • Iraq Disaster Will Haunt Future Generations
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
    by ROBERT FISK
    I am writing a book about our need to escape from history—or rather about our inability to escape the effects of the decisions taken by our fathers and grandfathers. My father was a soldier in the First World War or, as it says on the back of his campaign medal, "The Great War for Civilisation’’—which is the title I’ve chosen for my book. In the space of just 17 months after my father’s war ended, the victors had drawn the borders (…)

  • Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Hussein Siphon Billions from UN Oil-for-Food Program
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    When the Iraqi Survey Group released its long awaited report last week that said Iraq eliminated its weapons programs in the 1990s, President George W. Bush quickly changed his stance on reasons he authorized an invasion of Iraq. While he campaigned for a second term in office, Bush justified the war by saying that that Saddam Hussein was manipulating the United Nation’s oil-for-food program, siphoning off billions of dollars from the venture that he intended to use to (…)

  • Loach pitches in for low-paid cleaners
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Film-maker lends support to campaign for improving lot of back-up workers at Canary Wharf, but injunction scotches protest march
    by Tania Branigan
    He has spent his life documenting the struggles of the poor and excluded, in films ranging from Cathy Come Home to last month’s Ae Fond Kiss.
    Now Ken Loach is taking on the might of Canary Wharf in a row that mirrors his acclaimed 1998 film Bread and Roses, fighting for the rights of cleaners in the lucrative financial institutions on the (…)

  • Real-Life Fighter Christopher Reeve Dies
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JIM FITZGERALD
    MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - Christopher Reeve, the chiseled, strapping "Superman" of celluloid who became another kind of hero as a force for spinal cord research after a devastating horse-riding accident, has died at 52.
    Reeve, a quadriplegic for the last nine years of his life who vowed that he would one day walk again, died Sunday of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore.
    His wife, actress Dana Reeve, issued a statement thanking "the millions of fans from (…)

  • Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq
    By WALTER A. DAVIS
    I. Laugh In Brings You the News:
    Jake Gittes: "Why do you need it? You’ve got enough money."
    Noah Cross: "The future, Mr. Gittes. The future."
    Chinatown
    The US CODE, TITLE 50,CHAPTER 40 Sec. 2302 defines a Weapon of Mass Destruction as follows: "The term ’weapon of mass destruction" means any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of (…)

  • The making of a hero
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Moqtada al-Sadr is a dangerous theocrat - but his appeal for Iraqis is that he calls for free elections
    By Naomi Klein
    My first run-in with Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army came on March 31 in Baghdad. The US occupation chief Paul Bremer had just sent armed men to shut down the young cleric’s newspaper, al-Hawza, on the grounds that articles comparing Bremer to Saddam Hussein incited violence against Americans. Sadr responded by calling for his supporters to protest outside the gates of the (…)

  • Mystery object under Bush’s jacket at debate?
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White House denies lump a radio receiver
    By Elisabeth Bumiller
    WASHINGTON - What was that bulge in the back of President Bush’s suit jacket at the first presidential debate in Miami?
    A still photo from television footage of Bush as he debated Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry on Sept. 30 in Coral Gables, Fla., appears to show a small, boxy shape between the president’s shoulder blades.
    According to rumors racing across the Internet, the bulge was a radio receiver, transmitting (…)

  • Eggs In One Basket
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What would happen if Americans started to wonder about the roots of the terrorism of Islamic fanatics? Won’t there be some who would argue that America got into the Clash of Civilizations with the Muslim world only because of Israel?
    by URI AVNERY
    About a hundred years ago, the Russian Czar’s secret police cobbled together a document they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The "authors" were not particularly original - they took a satire, written decades earlier about Napoleon (…)