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- 04/01/05
The
good news about terrorism
Paul Robinson
Far from being more dangerous, the world is safer now
than ever before; and far from being an ever-growing problem,
terrorism has been in sharp decline for over a decade. This is not
a matter of opinion. It is provable. Continued.
Infinite
Injustice
By Chris Floyd
Each day brings new revelations of torture, murder and
government whitewash in Bush's gulag. At least 108 prisoners have
died in Bush's captivity so far; dozens of these have been listed
as homicides, CBS reported. But last week, the Pentagon declined
to prosecute 17 soldiers for brutal murders of prisoners in
Afghanistan and Iraq, despite the recommendation of Army
prosecutors. Continued.
US
soldiers killed in Iraq unrest :
Three US soldiers have been killed in bomb blasts and
firefights throughout Iraq,
U.S.
Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Walks Free:
A U.S. army tank company commander convicted of shooting
dead a wounded Iraqi walked free from court on Friday, although he
was dismissed from the army
U.S.
Soldiers Told to ”Beat the F**k Out of” Detainees:
U.S. Army documents obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act show that the mistreatment of detainees in Iraq
was much more widespread than the government has admitted.
Army
Memo Suggests Perjury In Lt. Gen. Sanchez Sworn Testimony on
Torture : The American Civil Liberties Union today
sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking him to
open an investigation into possible perjury by Lt. Gen. Ricardo
Sanchez, the theater commander at the outset of the Iraq War.
The
Pentagon's Secret Stash: Why we'll never see the second round of
Abu Ghraib photos. The images, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be
described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified
briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out."
U.S.
military has held an American citizen without charges in Iraq
since last year.: The U.S. military said on Friday it
has held since last year an American citizen without charges in
Iraq as a suspected top aide to militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
drawing condemnation from civil rights activists.
Study
details mental ills of returning U.S. troops : 1
million U.S. troops have been deployed for the war on terror,
according to the Pentagon. If the study's rates are accurate for
all military members deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, it would
mean that approximately 250,000 suffer some mental illness.
Iraq
outcome won't endorse US intrusion: The issue raised
by the Iraq war remains as it was in the beginning: Do we want a
world ruled by the arbitrary decisions of its dominant power, or
do we want to uphold a semblance of international law?
Key
Iraqi informant was 'crazy,' U.S. was told before war :
Prewar claims by the United States that Iraq was producing
biological weapons were based almost entirely on accounts from a
defector who was described as "crazy" by his
intelligence handlers and a "congenital liar" by his
friends.
WMD
verdict: 'Dead wrong': A bipartisan US commission has
delivered adevastating critique of the intelligence assessment of
Iraq's pre-war weapons of mass destruction. It also implied that
the country's spy agencies know "disturbingly little"
about Iran and North Korea.
Maureen
Dowd: I Spy a Screw-Up: As necessity is the mother of
invention, political pressure was the father of conveniently
botched intelligence.
In case you missed it: Blair
Slam Dunk Delusional?: There was the question of the
certainty of the advice given by Tenet to Bush and Powell - the
‘slam dunk’ certainty that WMDs existed in Iraq and that they
were a threat to other nations including the US.
The
gates of hell are open in Iraq : The elections held
under the control of the occupying forces in January were neither
free nor fair. Instead of being a step towards solving Iraq's
problems, they have been used to prolong foreign rule over the
Iraqi people.
Iraqi
seed-saving under attack. : Americans are accused of
putting big agricultural companies ahead of Iraqui farmers.
Veterans
Group Calls on Congress to Impeach George W. Bush and Richard
Cheney: A national veterans’ organization called
for the removal of President George W. Bush and Vice-President
Richard Cheney for crimes the group charges were committed during
the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
American
media silent over mass protest in Bahrain: The
hypocrisy of Washington’s self-proclaimed crusade for democracy
in the Middle East found damning expression this week in the
nearly total silence of the US government and the American media
over a demonstration that brought tens of thousands of protesters
into the streets of Bahrain last Friday demanding democratic
reforms.
US
military 'recognizes' its own regulations on DU: Will
it now comply with environmental and health care mandates for both
US and Iraq?
Another
country : As rumours persist of US plans to invade
Iran, Rageh Omaar, the face of the BBC during the Iraq war, visits
Tehran - and finds a nation far removed from the one George Bush
seems to fear
Today
on Flashpoints: A wide-ranging interview with London
Independent reporter Robert Fisk on the volatile situation in
Lebanon; also tensions between pro-democracy activists and UN
forces in Haiti at an all-time high as the US-installed Prime
Minister calls for the lifting of the arms embargo there
The
mythology of people power : The glamour of street
protests should not blind us to the reality of US-backed coups in
the former USSR
Israeli
rampage: Settler violence against Palestinians is
burgeoning at an alarming rate
The
End of a Viable Palestinian State: American
Complicity in Israeli Settlements
The
battle for the capital : Even a disinterested
onlooker can see that the elimination of East Jerusalem as a
metropolitan center for its Arab hinterlands is now proceeding
apace.
Video:
Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 03/31/05:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news
reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime
Video.
Why
American neocons are out for Kofi Annan's blood : The
US is determined to derail the secretary general's progressive
reforms
Why
is the US indulging Pakistan?: Why is Washington so
keen to prop up General Pervez Musharraf's illegitimate
government? More importantly, why is Washington keen to give
Pakistan weapons which can only be used against India?
India
turns its back on US arms: Peeved at the US decision
to supply F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, Delhi has announced new
defense orders to Russia, Germany, Italy, Israel and even Qatar,
worth a total of US$746 million.
Is
the U.S. Housing Market Going to Crash?: It’s the
costly S&L tragedy all over again--only bigger; the characters
may be different, but I fear the plot and outcome are the same.
UK:
House prices suffer worst fall in 10 years : Tony
Blair's plan to make the economy the centrepiece of Labour's
re-election strategy suffered a fresh blow yesterday when
Britain's biggest building society reported the sharpest fall in
house prices for 10 years.
U.N.
troops man checkpoints in Haiti: One man was killed
Thursday and at least six others were wounded in gang shootings.
The
Starving of the Five (Hundred) Thousand : What if
Terri Schiavo were not white and Christian? What is she were,
instead, a Muslim Arab? Would the self-righteous still have
gathered outside her hospice and decried her court-sanctioned
murder? Would they have given her a second thought? Would they
have given her any thought at all?
FOX
News Exclusive: Terri Schiavo's Psychic Friend : Are
Americans so bored with their own lives that they couldn't resist
getting swept up in the hype of the Schiavo case as if their own
lives depended on it?
Oil
Surges on 'Super-Spike' Prediction: Oil prices surged
2.6 percent on Thursday as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the biggest
trader of energy derivatives, said prices could ultimately surge
all the way above $100 a barrel.
Screened
Audiences, Fake News Promote Bush Agenda: As he
travels around the nation to make his pitch that Social Security
is in a crisis, the president is limiting his congregation to
screened, sanitized audiences. Why does he sermonize on the
subject only to carefully selected audiences?
US
plans for plague, flu and nuclear bomb attack: A
NUCLEAR bomb in a big city, plague released into an airport
washroom and food stocks laced with anthrax are three of fifteen
doomsday scenarios "inadvertently" published by American
security chiefs yesterday.
Gangs
and Minutemen: The president, law enforcement
officers and activist groups have unintentionally ended up on the
same side of the issue as a violent criminal gang targeted by
coordinated raids just two weeks ago.
Little
Brother may also be watching soon: Many people have
never heard of these microchips. They're not magical floating
potato chips or magnetic poker chips -- they're human tracking
devices.
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