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  • Ukraine to pull contingent out of Iraq: minister
    29 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ukraine will withdraw its 1,400-strong military contingent from Iraq by the end of next year, Defence Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
    "Next April we will be sending only a reinforced battalion rather than a brigade and by the end of 2005 we will complete our pullout of the contingent," Mr Kuzmuk’s press service quoted him as saying.
    The statement said a battalion would be made up of about 500 servicemen.
    Ukraine’s original contingent sent to Iraq was made (…)

  • Second Ukrainian Election: Results Reversed in a Blowout for the Liberal
    27 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Exit polls predict a 15% margin for Yushchenko, but at this point with 10% of the vote counted he leads by an astonishing 25%. The first election was a nail-biter, and now a month later it’s total blowout. Last time the ’conservative’ won by a hair, but this time with more scrutiny making the fraud impossible, the ’liberal’ won in a landslide- imagine that.
    Official Results:
    Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko headed toward victory in a re-run of Ukraine’s rigged presidential election on (…)

  • EUROPE: EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM FAILS TO MAP OUT STRATEGY FOR STRUGGLE
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joy
    An "Extraordinary" Assembly of the European Social Forum (ESF) took place in Paris, on 18-19 December 2004. Over 300 people from social movements, trade unions and political parties from at least 16 countries participated in the weekend. Whatever hopes might have been entertained for this meeting, in no sense was it extraordinary, either in its procedure or in its results. In fact, it went in exactly the same way as all the other ESF preparatory meetings - undemocratically - and (…)

  • Sharper watch on nuclear trains
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    After a nuclear waste train ran over and killed the French activist Sébastien Briat nearly seven weeks ago, such trains are under sharper observation, writes the leftwing newspaper, Neues Deutschland. Many environment campaigners are asking themselves whether such an accident could also happen in Germany and what sort of inhibition threshold there might be for careless and inconsiderate driving of such trains.
    The paper, which was the official mouthpiece of the communist (…)

  • Ukrainians Show Americans How to Reject Election Fraud
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ukrainians Show Americans How to Reject Election Fraud Can We Emulate Their Courage & Determination?
    By Michael Bleyzer (from Kyiv, Ukraine)
    (Copy of the letter of a young Ukrainian. A nice, timely report from someone on the spot....)
    As you likely know from the news, we are in the middle of the Orange Revolution here in Kyiv. I can tell you that this is one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life to be here during this time. We have been spending a lot of time on the (…)

  • Time names Adolph Hitler, Man of the Year 1938
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Fuhrerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler.
    Fuhrer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy (…)

  • If Ukrainians Can Demonstrate in the Streets Over a Stolen Election, So Can We
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Ukrainians Can Demonstrate in the Streets Over a Stolen Election, So Can We by Rob Kall
    http://baltimorechronicle.com/121704Kall.shtml
    Doesn’t our country deserve the same protest, the same raising of voices that the people of the Ukraine felt their country deserved? I’ve been feeling a bit of a disappointed malaise and dejection the last few days as the realization that the theft of the election is going pretty much unprotested has sunken in, that the 55 million Americans who voted (…)

  • The Yushchenko ’Poison Plot’ Fraud. He’s poisoning Ukrainian politics with lies
    17 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    The headlines blared: "Doctors Confirm Yushchenko Poison Claim" - and, yes, even I believed it. But, you know what? It’s a lie. And now the truth is coming out....
    I knew there was something fishy about the whole "Yushchenko-was-poisoned-by-the-bad-guys" narrative, even as I blindly accepted the pronouncement of Dr. Michael Zimpfer, of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna, that tests had "proved" the poisoning hypothesis, and he now considers the "case closed." To begin (…)

  • The Ukrainian Template. It’s the Next Big Thing
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    It didn’t take long for the supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the West’s Ukrainian sock puppet, to point to the KGB as the perpetrators of the poisoning of their candidate with a major dose of dioxin:
    "When asked by ABC News’ Bill Weir if the Russian government, and specifically President Vladimir Putin, had anything to do with the poisoning, Yushchenko chief of staff Oleh Rybachuk said: ’I am not very positive about government, but what I might say that was Soviet (…)

  • German industry pushing for nuclear waste dump
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    German industry pushing for final nuclear waste dump
    by Diet Simon
    The German government, industry and anti-nuclear activists are arguing publicly again about final storage of nuclear waste.
    Industry wants a salt deposit experts condemn as unsafe. The activists want it scrapped altogether. And the environment minister is promising examination of three new sites but hasn’t moved on that in six years.
    The president of the federation of industry, BDI, Michael Rogowski, has criticised (…)