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  • "Facts Were Fixed." Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
    A BUZZFLASH GUEST NEWS ANALYSIS by Greg Palast
    Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has, "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
    The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WDM. (…)

  • Horror Of US Depleted Uranium In Iraq Threatens World — "A crime against humanity"
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I’m horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."
    The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British (…)

  • These are Blair’s last days
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq is our greatest foreign policy calamity in modern history and the reckoning has only just begun
    George Galloway Tuesday May 3, 2005 The Guardian UK
    When I first called the prime minister a liar on air over his repeatedly denied plans to invade Iraq - in the wake of the Texas meeting with George Bush in spring 2002 - the BBC presenter was aghast at my presumption. Today there can scarcely be a sentient being in the land who would disagree.
    If Tony Blair had been told a couple of (…)

  • Blair to the Hague for war crimes! ICC Prosecutor "one of the most significant" cases he had seen
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Troops’ families demand public inquiry into war By Severin Carrell
    01 May 2005
    The parents of British troops killed in Iraq are to demand that Tony Blair orders a public inquiry into the war or face legal action in the courts.
    Six families will go to Downing Street on Tuesday to call for an independent inquiry into the legality of the war, after it emerged last week that the Attorney General warned the UK could lose in court if it failed to win the United Nations’ approval.
    The (…)

  • UK Election - does anybody care?
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I haven’t looked at this site for a while, and..... I’m in shock. Plenty of continuing griping analysis (????) of the election of Bush 2.2, but no mention AT ALL of the British General Election, in which there is a chance to send a clear message to Tony Blair that we weren’t happy with what he did in Iraq (and plenty of things within the country). This seems to indicate two things:
    1. The sad apathy of British electors, the youth in particular (nothing new there)
    2. A complete (and (…)

  • Revealed: documents show Blair’s secret plans for war
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair had resolved to send British troops into action alongside US forces eight months before the Iraq War began, despite a clear warning from the Foreign Office that the conflict could be illegal.
    A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that (…)

  • Dying Democracy.
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I live in Canada where the government is about to collapse because of corruption.
    I see in Britain that it is almost certain that Blair lied about Iraq.
    I look to Washington and am revolted.
    Is democracy dying?If not,from where will the leadership with World vision come?

  • Iraqi Lawmaker Says U.S. Soldier Grabbed His Throat
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi lawmaker accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground Tuesday after he parked his car in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
    Fattah al-Sheikh, an independent, said he had parked his car before a session of parliament when U.S. troops approached him and told him he didn’t have the right permit.
    He said a soldier then kicked his car, insulted him and grabbed him by the throat with both hands as others looked on, before tying his hands behind his (…)

  • UK News - 3rd People’s Assembly: the Manchester Social Forum in action
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by maciacia
    Use solar electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen then burn the hydrogen as fuel. There is no pollution. Water is plentiful and so is sunlight. This fuel cell technology was demonstrated at the Campaigners’ Fair during the 3rd Manchester People’s Assembly on the 16th of April 2005. Mike Koefman of the Campaign for a Hydrogen Economy used a small tabletop machine to demonstrate the catalytic breakdown of water and explained how this technology could supply limitless (…)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger sued for groping and libel
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London groping case dogs governor British libel law seen as benefit to TV host’s suit
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women he encountered as a movie star has largely faded from public discourse, aside from the occasional Doonesbury cartoon that depicts the governor as a giant hand addressed by reporters as Herr Gropenführer.
    But there’s one incident that refuses to go away. A British television interviewer, Anna Richardson, says Schwarzenegger pawed her during a publicity stop (…)