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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 451 through 525 of 525.


November 27, 2005

Iraq abuse "as bad as Saddam era" - "People are doing the same as (in) Saddam Hussein's time and worse..."
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Oxfam: Free trade may drain Arabs - Oxfam, the global anti-poverty organisation, has cautioned the EU against seeking rapid free trade in agriculture with Arab nations around the Mediterranean, saying it will drive people there deeper into poverty.
(1825 views)

Peak Oil: What We Know Now - The permanent military bases and Pentagon sized American consul offices in Iraq are being built because 60% of the world's crude comes from an increasingly hostile Middle East - this percentage of the supply of the world's most valuable commodity will increase over the next decade - and because control of Iraq is the decisive high ground for control of the Middle East..
(2582 views)

Capitalism Has Been Tried and it just Doesn’t Work - We grab the easy, exploitatively derived money and run, letting the Devil take the hindmost. American commercial life consistently works at vicious cross-purposes with public welfare and the common good.
(1813 views)

The US Plans a Long, Long Stay in Iraq - While President George Bush hints at eventual troop withdrawals, the Pentagon is busy building four major, permanent air bases in Iraq that will require heavy infantry protection.
(1689 views)

Pharma's Poisoned Generation - "People often wonder why regulatory officials would protect drug makers. In large part, because the CDC and FDA policy decisions are made through advisory panels whose members have financial relationships with the same companies they are charged to regulate."
(1723 views)

Col. Ted Westhusing, suddenly commits "suicide" in Iraq while investigating private security contractor linked to The Carlyle Group. - The road to the House of Bush is littered with the bodies of "suicide," plane crash, and gunshot victims.
(4201 views)

Hussein set to argue Iraq isn't sovereign - Saddam Hussein's lawyers plan to argue when his trial resumes on Monday that the court is not legitimate because Iraq is not a sovereign country, and therefore the process should be adjourned.
(1728 views)

Arctic booms as climate change melts polar ice cap - The global hunger for oil is fuelling a new gold rush.
(1620 views)

The income gap grows - The spread between the rich and the rest has been growing for decades. Current policies will only make it worse.
(1726 views)

The Politics of Money: Haiti and the Left - Since the U.S.-backed overthrow of progressive Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the severe level of political repression launched by the new government has left tens of thousands of Lavalas (Aristide’s political party) supporters the victims of rapes, incarcerations, firings and murders. One tragic aspect of this story is the extent to which Canadian federal government money has been able to buy the support of supposedly progressive organizations and individuals. Today they continue to align themselves with Canada’s brutal pro-coup policy.
(1134 views)

Body Politics: Evolving Police State in America - Four years ago, President George W. Bush quietly assumed dictatorial powers with a secret executive order granting himself the right to imprison anyone on earth indefinitely, without charges or trial or indictment or evidence, simply by declaring them an "enemy combatant," on his say-so alone. This week, the assemblage of bootlickers and bagmen that befoul the U.S. Senate voted to codify the core of this global autocracy under the pretense of curtailing it.
(2768 views)


November 28, 2005

Torture and Extrajudicial Killings in Iraq - The US, largely through the CIA, has a long history of involvement with genocidal intelligence operations, from Indonesia under Suharto, through Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, to present-day Colombia. The current mass arrests in Iraq and subsequent killings bear all the hallmarks of such an operation. By analogy, one can reasonably guess that the current flood of victims will include anyone opposing US hegemony, such as the hundreds of teachers and academics who have already been assassinated...
(1657 views)

Iron Fisted America - Every branch of government and ninety nine percent of the media operates in the corporate interest—not in the public interest, as we all too willingly assume. America is not even close to resembling a democracy, as the national myth proclaims—it is a corporate oligarchy.
(1709 views)

Iraq's "Year Zero" - The continuing destruction of Iraq's history - ancient and modern - of homes, lives and civil society under the watch of and at the hands of US and British troops - in defiance of a swathe of international law - is an uncanny and chilling mirror image of Pol Pot'sYear Zero.
(1820 views)

Seven Arrested in "Buy Nothing Day" Protest at Delaware Mall - The protesters, including three sisters who were also arrested at the mall last year and a man dressed as Santa Claus, were urging shoppers to curb their consumerist urges as part of "Buy Nothing Day" ...
(2981 views)

Hollywood, Iraq and 9/11: Reinforcing the Party Line - The criminal elements of the government that carried out 9/11 are hopeful that these re-enactments will put people to sleep and reduce skepticism of their fairy tale official version of events.
(1847 views)

Saddam trial postponed - The trial was delayed to allow time to find replacements for two defence lawyers who were slain and another who fled from the country after he was wounded.
(1679 views)

Ludicrous al-Qaeda Plot to Kill Saddam Judge - In Bushzarro world, where Saddam “dead-enders” have morphed into wild-eyed al-Qaeda Muslims, you need a scorecard just to keep track of the convoluted twists and turns of the story as the Pentagon and the neocons make it up as they go along.
(1693 views)

Vanunu Speaks Out About "Illegal Incarceration" and Harrassment by Israeli Authorities - Two weeks after Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistle blower, was jailed for 36 hours on alleged parole violations he tells why he feels "unfairly targeted" as well as telling why his freedom of speech and association rights are being disregarded. Even though he already spent 18 years in jail, it looks like authorities are looking 'for any little thing' to put him behind bars.
(1124 views)

The Recruiters' War - Pressured to fill quotas, army and Marine recruiters have been enlisting kids who don't meet basic physical, moral, and educational standards. Ten recruiters reveal just how corrupted—and in one case deadly—their job has become...
(1919 views)

American Plots to Assassinate Bush? - A 24-year old Arab-American was convicted Tuesday of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Houston native Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was tried after spending nearly two years in a Saudi Arabian prison, where he says was tortured into making a confession. Two doctors who examined him corroborated his claim. Abu Ali moved to Saudi Arabia to study Islam in the year 2000. He was arrested three years later while taking final exams at the Islamic University of Medina. He’ll be sentenced on February 17, and faces life in prison.
(1840 views)

Interview with Scott Forbes...who worked in the South Tower of the world trade center, witnessed a power-down of the tower in the weekend before 9/11. - "When the South Tower collapsed, like a pillar of sand, it seemed unreal and inconceivable and I immediately thought something weird was going on. I became more suspicious several months later when the power down condition was never acknowledged and in some instances was denied by authorities."
(1806 views)

United States v. Deborah Davis: Next Stop: Big Brother - Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please.
(3593 views)

Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress - It may be time for another galvanizing "Pearl Harbor-type event"; one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American democracy. With Congress out of the picture, the path is clear for one man rule; the final jewel in the neocon crown.
(1866 views)

Environmental Warfare and Climate Change - The World's climate can be modified by a new generation of sophisticated electromagnetic weapons.
(1303 views)

Former high-ranking FBI official calls for new OKC bombing probe - And you thought that a chicken (sh*!) bomb did all of that damage?
(2176 views)

U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty - Other nations watch as the United States keeps permitting wide use of methyl bromide for tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, Christmas trees and other crops, even though the U.S. signed an international treaty banning all but the most critical uses by 2005.
(3309 views)

Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit Bonanza for US Agribusiness - Agribusiness companies stand to reap huge gains in the event that scientists at Cambridge University and elsewhere are able to replace the entire world chicken population with genetically-engineered chicks allegedly resistant to H5N1 virus.
(1797 views)

Burying College Grads in Debt - The average student borrower now graduates with $27,600 of debt, almost three and a half times what it was a decade ago. 84 percent of black students and 66 percent of Latino students graduate with debt. And 39 percent of all student borrowers graduate with unmanageable levels of debt...
(2078 views)

Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales - Anyone who has seen the parade of sales representatives through a doctor's waiting room has probably noticed that they are frequently female and invariably good looking. Less recognized is the fact that a good many are recruited from the cheerleading ranks.
(2526 views)

US may use planes as substitute for troops in Iraq - The Bush administration is considering a plan to put America's awesome airpower at the disposal of Iraqi commanders, as a way of reducing the number of US troops on the ground. The plan is causing consternation among commanders in US air force, who say it could lead to increased civilian casualties and lead to airstrikes being used as means of settling old scores.
(1575 views)

Frontline: Private Warriors - What do private military contractors do?
(1249 views)

A criminal process - Just before the U.S. forces attacked Qaim last 29 August, a thriving town of 150,000 people in western Iraq, they cordoned it off, cut electricity, water and food supplies. Then they indiscriminately and disproportionately blanketed the town, from the ground and from the air, with artillery shells, cluster bombs and napalm bombs with the full knowledge that civilians, particularly women and children, would be killed.
(1776 views)


November 29, 2005

Troops Involved In Naked Ritual Abuse (And that's before they even leave the country) - So why are we surprised that they believe "abuse" of Iraqis to be perfectly normal?
(2455 views)

EU official threatens action on CIA jails - Any European Union state that secretly hosted a CIA prison faces loss of its voting rights, and Washington should punish any violations that occurred, an EU commissioner says.
(1655 views)

False Frames - Privatized voting is a perfect example of how the undermining of government regulatory mechanisms leads to one-party rule and further deregulation, in a self-perpetuating cycle. We see the same thing with the highly-consolidated corporate media. Neither is a “conspiracy” required in order for the various corporate entities to act in concert. Combination is in their best interests, and successful corporations are all about finding and pursuing their own best interests, as single-mindedly as sharks.
(3641 views)

Settlers cut down W Bank olive trees - Jewish settlers have cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms near the West Bank city of Nablus, residents and Israeli police said.
(1081 views)

Fascism then. Fascism now? - When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.
(3281 views)

The mass poisoning of humanity: an exploration of human stupidity - As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today.
(3183 views)

Supreme Court rejects FBI linguist's appeal - Without any comment, the justices rejected an appeal by Sibel Edmonds, who worked as a contract linguist at the FBI's Washington field office from shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks until her dismissal the following March.
(1861 views)

BYU Brass Discredit Physics Professor for Saying WTC Brought Down by Controlled Demolition - Professor Steven E. Jones only was in the public eye for five days before BYU told him to stop giving interviews. Now the university has issued a public statement distancing itself from Jones and even discrediting his work. Critics suggest Bush administration had its dirty hand in forcing BYU to 'shut up' its professor.
(1988 views)

Another Video and it is Worse - This video shows how US soldiers in Iraq, with the help of a robot, blow up a standing car that appears to have had an accident, while a young man, well alive but probably trapped, is still sitting in that car.
(1697 views)

TORTURERS 'R' US - George W. Bush, when asked about torture at a press conference recently, said: "We do not torture." One wonders, who is this 'we' of whom he speaks?
(1568 views)

Impact of climate change "can be likened to WMD" - Climate change can be likened in its destructive scale to the effects of using weapons of mass destruction, according to Britain's leading scientist.
(3091 views)

Row over East Timor massacre report - · President accuses authors of "grandiose idealism" · Decision not to publish alarms rights activists
(1534 views)

Cheney accused on prisoner abuse - Asked by the BBC's Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: "It's an interesting question. Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror," he added. "And I would suspect, for whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well."
(1849 views)

Tim Spicer’s License to Kill Iraqi Motorists - It should come as no surprise murderous yahoos working for Aegis Defense Services randomly shoot up innocent Iraqis...
(1785 views)

In Medicare, a $170m savings for Raytheon - Raytheon Co. will save $170 million by using a new Medicare plan to shift some expenses for retirees' prescriptions to taxpayers.
(2495 views)

U.S. reports JDAMS shortage in Iraq - The increased use of Joint Direct Attack Munitions against the Iraqi insurgency is creating a shortage of such precision-guided weaponry for the U.S. military.
(1533 views)

America: the capital of punishment - The United States should be leading the world to oppose the death penalty. Instead, it's one of the leading practitioners.
(3641 views)

American Police State: The Frog Has Cooked - Miami cops to stage sieges, randomly check ID's, ride buses and trains
(3631 views)

Canada: The Privatisation of Public Assets - ...in a speech to the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, the Governor of the Bank of Canada called for the privatisation of Canadian public assets including schools, hospitals, highways and public utilities.
(1731 views)

British mercenary firm with Pentagon contracts exposed in civilian shooting incident in Iraq. - Aegis is run by former British Scots Guard officer Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, an international mercenary who has been involved in UN sanctions busting in Sierra Leone and Bougainville invasion planning in Papua New Guinea. Spicer's firm, Aegis, was awarded a $293 million security contract in Iraq. Spicer's men also stand accused of shooting teenager Peter McBride in the back in Belfast in 1992.
(1800 views)

An Army of None - If counter-recruiters succeed and enlistees flee, a draft could be next.
(2073 views)


November 30, 2005

When Federal Deception becomes Reality - America is witnessing pathological classism where the rich are literally conquering everyone else. One mistake that we, the people, have made for decades has been staying riveted to “breaking news.” We tend to miss the real news that is pre-empted, or in other words, not reported. The only American news is this - the current administration and their corporate backers are dismantling America.
(2002 views)

How our governments use terrorism to control us - The sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have received cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to immediately disappear without discussion or investigation.
(1722 views)

The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption - Many episodes in Abramoff’s relations with various congressmen have already been given considerable exposure in newspaper accounts and court filings. What follows is a summary of the most revealing...
(1794 views)

PROZAC BACKLASH: Trouble in Prozac Nation - Can Prozac make you want to die? The idea seems strange, given that the drug and similar antidepressants are supposed to do just the opposite.
(1864 views)

U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press - As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
(1520 views)

Pentagon Black Ops: Abducting Peacemakers in Iraq - It should be remembered that the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was also kidnapped as she prepared to interview survivors of Fallujah, now admitted to have been attacked with chemical weapons and a napalm derivative.
(1587 views)

Incident at Oglala, 30 Years Later: The Long Struggle of Leonard Peltier - The FBI led the attack on AIM as part of its Counter Intelligence Program (COINTEPRO), begun in the mid-1960s under its director J. Edgar Hoover, and used with terrifying effectiveness against the Black Panther Party. COINTELPRO employed many dirty tricks against its targets including wiretapping, assassination, and the use of agents provocateurs-all in coordination with state and local police forces.
(2201 views)

It's official: Diebold election bugware can't be trusted - Diebold would rather lose all of its voting machine business in North Carolina than open its source code to state election officials as required by law...
(3204 views)

Saddam Hussein trial resumes: a grotesque display of imperial justice - An illegal court
(1768 views)

The horrible house of Walton: Lying, cheating and swindling their way to the top - Webster’s Dictionary defines robber baron as “an American capitalist of the latter part of the 19th century who became wealthy through exploitation (as of natural resources, governmental influence or low wage scales)...or through ethically questionable tactics.” There couldn’t be a better definition of the 21st century Walton family.
(2813 views)

Is the media ever balanced and fair? - The mainstream media does not really present something called "the news." The news is shaped and created, not simply presented. What is presented as news is based on a number of factors, not least of which is the fact that the folks who own news empires are very rich capitalists whose outlook on the world is shared by the rest of the ruling class with whom they rub elbows.
(1612 views)

The emperor's new restricted airspace - His top aide's been indicted, his nominal "boss" is barely speaking to him, and a former high-ranking government official just suggested he might be "a nefarious bastard." But Dick Cheney is still an important guy -- so important that airplanes cannot fly near his new future residence-in-exile....EVEN WHEN HE'S NOT THERE!
(2308 views)

Gifts Rep. Cunningham Admitted Receiving - Some of the payments accepted by Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as detailed in his plea agreement:
(1971 views)

"I was paid to blame Syria" - A man has claimed on Syrian state TV that he was bribed to accuse top Syrian officials of the murder of Rafiq Hariri in his testimony to the United Nations commission into the former Lebanese premier's assassination.
(1060 views)

The Growing Problem of Defense Industry Profiteering - ...a defense contractor has gotten so rich off taxpayer cash he actually held a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter, featuring 50 Cent, Tom Petty and Aerosmith, among others. That's right - a $10 million. On a bat mitzvah.
(2731 views)

Drugmakers Win Exemption in House Budget-Cutting Bill - As part of a House budget bill that reduces spending on Medicaid prescription drugs, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. and other businesses secured a provision ensuring that their mental health drugs continue to fetch top price at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the states.
(1879 views)

"Riding with the Bad Boys"; the rise of Iraqi death squads - The authorization for the death squads comes straight from the Oval Office.
(2373 views)

U.S. Environmental Stance Draws Heat - The United States came under renewed criticism Tuesday as thousands of environmentalists and international officials hammered out rules for a global treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
(3127 views)

What's Good for General Motors Is Killing America - ...if GM is a symbol of the American industrial golden age, its decline...is a sign of the destruction of the American social contract. No more pensions, family-supporting wages, or hardworking, blue-collar membership in the middle class. Instead, we are living in the era of Wal-Mart wages, food stamps and Medicare for the children of the working class, and a disappearing American Dream. That shift may be good for General Motors shareholders, but it is killing America.
(1865 views)

Ruddock firm on sedition - The proposals will widen the scope of the laws, making it an offence to bring the sovereign into hatred or contempt; urge disaffection against the Constitution, the commonwealth government or either house of parliament; urge another person to attempt to procure a change, otherwise than by lawful means, to any matter established by law of the commonwealth; or promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good government of the commonwealth.
(1225 views)


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