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  • Bush Blows Debate: Talks to Rove in Earpiece!
    2 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John ReynoldsDuring the Presidential Debate Bush made what may be his most costly error- he exposed that he’s using an earpiece to help him answer debate questions.
    In the middle of an answer bush said, "now let me finish" as if someone was interrupting him - yet nobody did - he was talking to the person in his earpiece.
    Listen to the mp3 yourself- or watch the video at c-span
    ffwd to 40 min 30 sec
    There is an mp3 with the audio at NYC indymedia
    I’ve been thinking for years that (…)

  • Why Have We Suddenly Forgotten Abu Ghraib?
    1 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Children, Ardent for Some Desperate Glory"
    by ROBERT FISK
    We are now in the greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis. That’s how we run the Iraq war—or the Second Iraq War as Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara would now have us believe. Hostages are paraded in orange tracksuits to remind us of Guantanamo Bay. Kidnappers demand the release of women held prisoner by the Americans. Abu Ghraib is what they are talking about. Abu Ghraib? Anyone remember Abu Ghraib? Remember those dirty little (…)

  • The kidnappers’ cruel message: If Bigley dies, it will be Blair’s fault
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Cahal Milmo
    For a week they had endured the silence of the kidnappers. As the pall of dread hung over them, the Bigley family watched as other captives walked free and wondered if, just maybe, those holding Ken might be beginning to bend.
    Early yesterday, an e-mail purporting to be from the hostage-takers offered freedom. But just after 2pm, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Tawhid and Jihad group dashed those hopes - at least for now - releasing instead fresh video footage of the 62-year-old (…)

  • Barbra Streisand: where is our Free Press?
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Barbra Streisand
    If you cross this administration you get your head handed to you. If you open your mouth and tell the truth like former White House Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsay did when he told the Administration that the Iraqi war was going to cost between $100-$200 billion dollars, you get fired.
    If you disagree with the President, like Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill did one too many times regarding the President’s policy on tax cuts, you get canned. If you claim that the (…)

  • Seven foreign hostages released in Iraq
    29 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
    Three Egyptian telecommunications workers abducted last week were among those freed Tuesday, their parent company, Orascom, announced in Cairo. A fourth Egyptian in the (…)

  • Italy’s "Two Simonas" freed
    28 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Crispian Balmer
    The release of two Italian women aid workers in Iraq has been greeted with joy and relief following three weeks of anguish in Italy over their abduction.
    Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the news on Tuesday to cheers in parliament, television stations broke into normal programming with special bulletins and out on the streets, ordinary Italians finally found something to smile at.
    "It’s like being reborn. Out of the darkness and into the light," said (…)

  • Of Disconnect and Fantasyland
    26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Imagine my surprise, having returned from a research and exploratory sojourn through the mesmerizing beauty of the lands, coasts and peoples of Mexico where the spirit re-energized, mind meditated and appreciation for humanity returned, all of which enabled me to escape, at least for a small respite, from the madness of a troubled world, to see that Iraq had almost overnight been transformed into a nation on the verge of a Renaissance, becoming a new beacon of (…)

  • Michael Moore On Tour; Slackers of the World, Unite!
    26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Tomorrow I begin a little 20-state, 60-city tour to try and convince the fed-up, the burned-out, and the Nader-impaired to leave the house for just a half-hour on November 2nd and mark an "X" in a box (or punch a chad or touch a screen) so that America and the world can be saved.
    (I don’t mean "saved" as in all workers will henceforth control the means of production. That’s, um, going to take a few more years.)
    What I’m asking is that our fellow Americans, as the (…)

  • How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
    26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president
    by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
    George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of (…)

  • Baghdad Year Zero
    25 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single piece of heavy machinery apart from tanks and humvees. Then I saw it: a construction crane. It was big and yellow and impressive, and when I caught a glimpse of it around a corner in a busy shopping district I thought that I (…)