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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
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- When the possibility of far-reaching war crimes and crimes against humanity exists, people of conscience have a solemn responsibility to inquire into the nature and scope of these acts and to determine if they do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Two months before the Iraq invasion, US President George W Bush had told British Premier Tony Blair that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq" in dealing with the spread of weapons of mass destruction and mentioned Pakistan as one of the countries posing problems... - Political analysts believe that America and Britain are undermining security in Iraq in order to justify their own presence. - Terror suspects on a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility should not be allowed to speak in person or by telephone with relatives and friends because of security risks, the government argued in federal court on Friday. - Thousands of African-Americans, young and old, have rallied in Washington, frustrated with lingering inequalities in the United States. - While President George W. Bush continues to assert that Americans would be better off with Social Security in private hands, a new study shows that privatization of the country's 70-year-old benefit program would drive millions of people into poverty. - To fight poverty the government will have to switch from attacking workers to siding with them.
- Driving to work, you notice the traffic beginning to slow. And because you have your cell phone on, the government senses the delay, too. - Five hours after the arrest of Zery and another Egyptian, Ahmed Agiza, both were deported from Stockholm's Bromma airport. It was not revealed for another two years that there had been a US plane at the airport, plus a team of US agents who, it has been claimed, picked up the suspects, manacled their wrists and ankles, dressed them in orange overalls, drugged them, and bundled them into the plane.
- Being poor is a big hazard when it comes to mistreatment by police officers and the legal system. So is being a person of color. - Today's vote on the Iraqi Constitution is the culmination of 15 years of unrelenting aggression against the Iraqi people. Washington has never wavered in it's to determination to topple Saddam and control Iraqi oil. Saturday's balloting is just another public relations stunt to disguise the criminal intention of the present occupation.
- How did a judge's decision not to deport the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela connect to the report that George W. Bush has again hit the bottle? - Prison Service troops disguised as Arabs incited Palestinian youths to throwing stones at Israel Defense Forces troops during a weekly demonstration against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil'in, village residents said on Friday. - With Saddam Hussein’s trial quickly approaching, much speculation has been made of the event. Most agree that it will be a mockery and the court has already made up its mind to execute the Iraqi President. - Casualties of the Bush Administration - "This winter a significantly larger number of applicants are expected than last year to request assistance in paying their energy bills, but President Bush has proposed cutting assistance programs from $2.2 billion to $2.0 billion. These programs that assist in paying energy bills are particularly critical for the elderly, disabled, and children." - A powerful coalition of judges, senior lawyers and politicians has warned that the Government is undermining freedoms citizens have taken for granted for centuries and that Britain risks drifting towards a police state. One of the country's most eminent judges has said that undermining the independence of the courts has frightening parallels with Nazi Germany. - "Who else could it have been but the British?" an unidentified man asked on state television as he was interviewed close to the site of Saturday's blasts in Ahvaz. - Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. - "Water is a fundamental human right and must be made universally available to all people. Unlike the public water delivery, the market system distributes on the basis of the ability to pay -- those who have the ability to pay have access to quality water, those who are unable to pay go without."
- Preparations for renewed US militarization and intervention in Latin America are underway. To protect its own hegemony and economic interests, the US government is using the threat of terrorism as an excuse for military operations aimed at destabilizing leftist movements and governments and securing natural resources such as oil and gas. - The February, 2004 U.S. invasion was only its latest incursion into that poor and defenseless country. - Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is to be court-martialled for "refusing to obey a lawful command" after he told his commanding officer that he would not go to Basra. - Halliburton unit is tapping pipeline of illicit workers for U.S. military jobs in war zone - A former police chief wants to end a losing war by legalizing pot, coke, meth and other drugs - At least 80 percent of low-income Americans who need civil legal assistance do not receive any, in part because legal aid offices in this country are so stretched that they routinely turn away qualified prospective clients, a new study shows. - "I believe that we can charge the government with criminal neglect," he said. "I firmly believe that if the people on those rooftops (in New Orleans) had blond hair and blue eyes and pale skin, something would have been done in a more timely manner. We charge America with criminal neglect," he said from the steps of the US Capitol. - Re-creating the Deadly 1918 Flu Virus: As Chilling as Resurrecting Dracula or Making Atomic Bomb - The deep ocean is one of the world's last great wildernesses. But not for long. Two kilometres below the surface, scores of rare and exotic species are being wiped out at a dramatic rate. - Now, 50 years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that struck down "separate but equal" as inherently unfair, schoolchildren in the U.S. are again suffering the consequences of segregation -- an all the more odious reality because segregation has been outlawed on paper.
- Tens of thousands of such TCN laborers have helped set new records for the largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a US war. - ...the blind, former President of Indonesia – reportedly more trusted than any other official in the country - told SBS-TV Date-Line, Australia’s state-run public TV, that the horrendous Bali bombing, which killed more than 200 in Indonesia, was planned and carried out by Indonesian police or military personnel at the behest of Western powers.
- He was responsible for the investigation into the two Elite SAS men disguised as Arab "terrorists" - ...this whole exercise is a funnel that moves in the direction of prescribing psychiatric drugs. - ODIOUS AGENDA BEHIND MEDIA’S TRIAL COVERAGE - Obviously, we are now at a point where the government is completely non-responsive to the people—and the people are so brainwashed and distracted as to not fill the streets and demand the government resign and Bush face criminal prosecution for war crimes.
- Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d’etat against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. - French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada. - Venezuela will become a permanent member of the Mercosur trade bloc, helping to strengthen cooperation between the oil-rich country and its regional neighbors, the Venezuelan government has said.
- The ongoing cover-up of a U.S. government informant's participation in mass murder in a Mexican border town extends to the highest level of the U.S. Justice Department, recently obtained public documents show. - The stage is set for a chain of events that could lead to nuclear war over chemical weapons in the immediate future. If these events unfold, the trigger will be Israel, the target Iran, the nuclear aggressor the U.S. - A former Bush-appointed official is calling for a new, independent, scientific investigation into 9/11 - The following is the full text of the Iraqi constitution...
- The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a decade ago.
- Did the neocons have Kanaan lined up as Syria's Chalabi, a friend ready to be Washington's stooge in Damascus after an American-engineered coup? Did Bashar find out about it time to take the only logical step to preserve his regime? - HISTORICAL FACTS EXPOSING THE DANGERS AND INEFFECTIVENESS OF VACCINES
- Looking back at the Bali bombing and new whistleblowers - "Underground democracy movements ... will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters...Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers." - No stranger to controversy, Lee has already stated his suspicion that the authorities were somehow involved in the flooding. - Nine-Second Coverage For Dozens of Dead Iraqi Women and Children - The killings expose the utterly cynical character of the Bush administration’s propaganda that the October 15 referendum marked a genuine step toward democracy and sovereignty. Iraq is a conquered country, where US occupation troops are using the most ruthless methods to intimidate any opposition by the Iraqi people and force them into accepting neo-colonial American rule. - The judges who will be trying former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday have been secretly trained in Britain in recent months... - Vote Totals Under Inquiry in 12 Iraqi Provinces, Panel Says - Fears that British forces in Iraq are reaching "breaking point" grew last night as the first hard evidence of a crisis in morale began to emerge. - Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a "middleman" between an American military unit and the Iraqi National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in April 2003, and "took custody" of Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, one of 55 most wanted Iraqis... - Chomsky, who was underwhelmed by the honour, beat off challenges from Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Vaclav Havel and Christopher Hitchens to win the Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed cigarette makers a victory, rejecting a Justice Department appeal aimed at allowing a potential $280 billion penalty in the government's landmark racketeering case against the industry. - ...I think the only way we can explain Blair's behaviour is that he is blackmailable by the intelligence services. - According to Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, the Venezuelan Attorney General, Isaiah Rodriguez, has announced that there is clear evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency advised a team of conspirators on how to assassinate Judge Danilo Anderson, who in 2002 was investigating the circumstances surrounding the attempted coup against President Hugo Chavez. - Analysts suggest that the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a broader military agenda to control the Middle East; a continuation of the 1991 Gulf War and the NATO led wars on Yugoslavia. - Israeli Oligarch’s Ill-Gotten Loot Channeled to Dubya’s Brother - An individual arrested in connection with Saturday’s twin bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz has confessed to have received British training in Iraq to carry out the attacks, the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) deputy for the oil-rich city announced on Monday.
- If some of its key publications are any indicator, much of the American left seems unable to face the reality that the election of 2004 was stolen. So in all likelihood, unless something radical is done, 2008 will be too.
- ...Elections. Controlled means of persuading the powerless to stand in line and prove their gullibility... - A Government openly promoting torture, A President acting like a King cannot be trusted, must be impeached - A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest order for three US soldiers whose tank fired at a Baghdad hotel during the war in Iraq, killing a Spanish journalist. - Those with the highest incomes and the most expensive homes (including second homes) get the largest subsidy.
- The trial of Saddam Hussein that begins today in Baghdad, under the auspices of the US-created Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) and the US-sponsored Iraqi government, is a legal travesty. No credibility can be given to the prosecution of the former Iraqi head of state by a puppet court and client administration that exist only due to the illegal and predatory invasion of Iraq by US imperialism and the continued presence of more than 150,000 American and other foreign troops. - Haiti is in the midst of a comprehensive program of electoral cleansing. - US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions. - The television addict has lost the ability to think independently, and even the casual viewer looks for little more than entertainment. The news programs that once informed the public have therefor been reduced to that level, providing coverage of fascinating but inane trivia that have no relevance to public policy. - When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption. - One of the six Bahraini prisoners being held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is seriously ill and has been hospitalised after going on hunger strike. - For the more than 1.4 million Palestinians who live in Gaza water shortages and water deterioration affects their health. Moreover, the water crisis creates agricultural, economic, social, and political instabilities that have regional ramifications. Most of the existing problems are a direct and indirect result of Israeli policy. - If this is our philosophy for this new century, the era will create the sort of economic caste system we boasted of having overcome in the last.
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