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  • Remember When Presidential Campaigns Used to Be About The Issues?
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Somewhere in between the furor surrounding those dubious National Guard memos that purportedly show how President Bush shirked his military duties some 30 years ago lies the meat of this ferocious, mud slinging presidential campaign; the policies the candidates are promoting that will shape the lives for a majority of Americans over the next four years.
    Pundits on both sides of the political spectrum have pontificated, for the most part, that Democratic nominee John (…)

  • The Littlest Terrorist Dies....We’re Safe Now!
    17 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Judith Moriarty
    A hundred thousand words have been written of the glories and the sufferings of war and still men of wealth and perverse corrupted character order up the killing of the multitudes.
    Mantra’s of patriotism-fear-nationalism-rally the naïve youth of a land to fight for elusive slogans like; "liberation-freedom-liberty and democracy". Public relations schemes have recruiters in war-mongering busses; pull up in rust belt towns-ghettos and distant rural farmlands, promising (…)

  • Who Seized Simona Torretta?
    16 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Iraqi Kidnapping has the Mark of an Undercover Police Operation
    by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill
    When Simona Torretta returned to Baghdad in March 2003, in the midst of the "shock and awe" aerial bombardment, her Iraqi friends greeted her by telling her she was nuts. "They were just so surprised to see me. They said, ’Why are you coming here? Go back to Italy. Are you crazy?’"
    But Torretta didn’t go back. She stayed throughout the invasion, continuing the humanitarian work she (…)

  • September 16, 1982: The Sabra and Chatila Massacres
    16 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Robert Fisk is still probably the most outstanding journalist working in the Middle East. He was one of the first journalists to be present at the scene of the horrific murders in Lebanon, 1982. He has published a number of different books and writes columns for The Independant newspaper. He has received a number of prestigious awards for reporting and has produced a number of documentaries including the excellent "Beirut to Bosnia"
    What we found inside the Palestinian (…)

  • ’He’s just sleeping, I kept telling myself’
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
    On Sunday, 13 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in Baghdad when US helicopters fired on a crowd of unarmed civilians. G2 columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who was injured in the attack, describes the scene of carnage - and reveals just how lucky he was to walk away
    It started with a phone call early on Sunday morning: "Big pile of smoke over Haifa Street." Still half asleep I put on my jeans, cursing those insurgents who do their stuff in the early morning. What if I (…)

  • Chain of command, Seymour Hersh: Rumsfeld’s dirty war on terror
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an explosive extract from his new book, Seymour Hersh reveals how, in a fateful decision that led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the US defence secretary gave the green light to a secret unit authorised to torture terrorist suspects
    by Seymour Hersh
    In the late summer of 2002, a CIA analyst made a quiet visit to the detention centre at the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where an estimated 600 prisoners were being held, many, at first, in steel-mesh cages that provided (…)

  • Media spotlight on Baghdad deaths
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Journalist Mazen Tumeisi is seen falling and his blood covers the lens
    by Martin Asser
    Sunday’s bloody events on Baghdad’s Haifa Street came amid some of the fiercest fighting for months in the centre of the Iraqi capital.
    But though they were captured by television cameras, two very different accounts have emerged about what happened.
    At least 13 people were killed and about 60 others were wounded by US helicopter fire as they milled around the burning wreckage of an American (…)

  • ’Folly of Empire’ Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism
    14 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John B. Judis
    When U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, some American policymakers were unprepared for the intensity of the resistance that ensued. John Judis’ latest book, The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, finds the postwar developments in Iraq entirely unsurprising.
    Judis, senior editor for The New Republic offers a survey of U.S. foreign policy since the late 19th century — and finds that the Bush administration (…)

  • The Wrong Side of History
    14 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    We were all lied to. We’re used to it. If Westmoreland’s body counts and Watergate and Iran Contra and the Savings and Loan and the first Gulf War didn’t teach some of us, then I guess some of us were never meant to learn. The fact is that some of us bought it, and some of us didn’t. It’s a big, glaring, important distinction, one that, without indulging hyperbole, divides the whole of history and places us on one side or the other.
    This is not parlor politics or (…)

  • Nuclear Weapons Stealth Takeover
    14 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by LEUREN MORET
    5 Admirals, U.C. Regents, Carlyle Group, and Rand
    "I think some of these folks would put nuclear tips on ice cream cones if they could."
    U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) on efforts by Bush Administration officials to repeal a research ban on low-yield nuclear weapons.
    Global Security Newswire ‘Quote of the Day’ May 19, 2003
    UC AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THE KISS OF DEATH
    The top-secret Manhattan Project was laid out by Robert Oppenheimer the night Ernest (…)