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  • Letters from France: Divided by a single language
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    It is said that the late Sir Winston Churchill was the first to make the comment that the U.S.A. and Britain were divided by a single language, and listening to spokesmen for the present administration in the U.S.A. this becomes more and more evident as the election campaign rolls on on your side of the Atlantic.
    It seems almost comic when one has to learn that what you call "diapers" are the ordinary British "nappies", or that your "sidewalk’ is the British (…)

  • The US elections as open season for Israel
    17 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    Once upon a time, an assistant to Levy Eshkol, our [Israeli] late prime minister, rushed up to him and cried: "Levy, a disaster! A drought has set in!"
    "Where?" the prime minister asked anxiously, "in Texas?"
    "No, here in Israel!" the man replied.
    "Then there’s nothing to worry about," Eshkol said dismissively.
    Right from the beginning, the State of Israel has been critically affected by events in the United States. "If America sneezes, Israel catches cold," is the (…)

  • Only Cowards Cancel Elections
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the Bush-appointed chairman of the newly minted U.S. Election Assistance Commission, apparently got the ball rolling with Ridge by writing a letter to him. In it, he bade Ridge ask Congress for the power to put off the November election in the (…)

  • Iraq War Supporters Lose in European Elections
    14 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dutch opposition parties critical of the Iraq war scored significant gains at the start of elections for the European Parliament, while Prime Minister Tony Blair lost support across Britain in local voting, key tests since the invasion last year.
    Iraq, as well as domestic issues, concerned voters as the 25 nations of the recently expanded European Union began electing legislators a four-day process that started Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands.
    While Britain’s results in the EU (…)

  • Blair suffers severe electoral drubbing over Iraq
    12 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Severe election blow for Labour
    · Labour loses 211 council seats
    · Tories +101, Lib Dems +67
    Hélène Mulholland, Tom Happold and agencies
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/story/0,14549,1236480,00.html
    Tony Blair suffered a drubbing today as Labour limped into third place in the local elections, losing control of at least eight councils.
    With about half of the results declared, Labour has lost over 200 councillors, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both (…)

  • Down Goes Tenet
    5 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060404A.shtml
    The news over the last week or so has been grim for the White House. Ahmad Chalabi, Bush’s favorite Iraqi, has been accused of passing high-level intelligence secrets to Iran. Questions as to who could have coughed up those secrets have been auguring towards Defense Department officials Douglas Feith and William Luti, the two men who ran the secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP).
    The OSP, organized for the express (…)