February 2004
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Information Clearing House Archive February 2004 Part 5
February 2004 — Information Clearing House Digest February 26-29 2004 Date: 29 Feb 2004 301 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === Aristide Flees Haiti; Judge Claims Power: Haiti’s beleaguered President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and flew into exile Sunday. Gunfire crackled throughout the capital as it fell into chaos, and the United States Continue reading
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Blair: Out-Gunned and then brought up Short By William Bowles
On Thursday 26 February, ‘lose cannon’ Ms Clare Short, former member of the Labour Cabinet went one step further and accused the Blair government of bugging Kofi Annan’s telephone conversations as well. Blair, understandably pissed off about Ms Short’s revelations attempted to make out that not only were Ms Short’s allegations untrue but in a… Continue reading
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HAITI: Rhetoric Versus Reality By William Bowles
So what else has changed in the following 179 years? Not very much and predictably, the media is doing a hatchet job on Haiti’s Aristide. A piece by Andrew Gumbel in Saturday’s Independent (21/02/04 p. 21) is pretty typical. Headed “The little priest who became a bloody dictator like the one he once despised” is… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive February 2004 Part 4
February 2004 — Information Clearing House Digest February 20-25 2004 Date: 25 Feb 2004 Note: A reader forwarded the following comments in relation to an article ‘The Coming Implosion of the American Empire’ posted on site 02/24/04. I thought it worthwhile to bring it to your attention. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5765.htm Thanks to Mark for providing the info. === Continue reading
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National Endowment for Democracy: At It Again in Haiti! By William Bowles
The National Endowment for Democracy that ‘celebrated’ its 20th anniversary this year has a long and less than illustrious past. It’s dead hand has descended on a number of countries over the past two decades including Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela (currently also on-going) and of course Haiti. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive February 2004 Part 3
February 2004 — Information Clearing House Digest February 13-19 2004 Date: 19 Feb 2004 291 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === U.S. to Send Military Team to Haiti : The Bush administration said Thursday it would send a military team to Haiti to assess the security of the U.S. Embassy there, but Continue reading
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Media Dumps on Aristide By William Bowles
Haiti, yet another US foreign policy disaster area, Western press coverage has been predictably less than forthcoming over the deteriorating situation. Indeed, trying to find out anything meaningful at all about the current situation has proved to be extremely difficult. Aside that is from what has become a de facto methodology of reportage of events… Continue reading
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FAMILIES SHRED THE COVER-UP VEIL: 23 QUESTIONS OF THE 9/11 FAMILY STEERING COMMITTEE TO GEORGE W. BUSH
16 February 2004 — www.unansweredquestions.net/ – www.911independentcommission.org The Family Steering Committee Statement and Questions Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview with President Bush February 16, 2004 February 16, 2004. The Family Steering Committee believes that President Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the full ten-member panel of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the Continue reading
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WHY? By William Bowles
Is it credible that after a dozen years of sanctions, investigations, overflights, hundreds of bombing raids on virtually every military target of any significance in the country, spying via human and electronic means, that Iraq, probably the most ‘watched’ country on the planet, managed to ‘fool’ the most sophisticated countries on the planet? Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive February 2004 Part 2
February 2004 — Information Clearing House Digest February 6-12 2004 Date: 12 Feb 2004 284 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === Sept. 11 Panel to Ask for Bush Testimony: The federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will soon ask President Bush, former President Bill Clinton and their vice presidents to testify Continue reading
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Wriggling, Squirming and Sliding into Sleaze By William Bowles
As predicted, Blair has done his best to reset the agenda re the ‘dictionary’ definition of WMD but then what other choice does he have? Blair’s capos Reid, Straw, Hain, Hoon et al have been working overtime trying to do damage control but it’s the performance of Margaret Beckett’s that took the cake this week,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive February 2004 Part 1
February 2004 — Information Clearing House Index February 1-6 2004 Date: 6 Feb 2004 278 DAYS … AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === Iraq threat was limited, troops told: Australian troops fighting in Iraq were told in an official briefing days before entering the country that Saddam Hussein did not have the capability to Continue reading
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Damn! What a Week (and it’s only Wednesday) By William Bowles
Hard to know where to begin what with Blair desperately seeking solutions. Kay, Jones, Powell and co, all spilling the beans (not, I add of the ricin kind) and jumping ship in what now looks remarkably like a total rout for the imperium. Blair protests in Parliament that Saddam’s ‘plans’ are pretty much the same… Continue reading
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Mea (Ex)culpa By William Bowles
Aish! Well I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised but in an op-ed piece in today’s Independent(03/02/04) by Mary Dejevsky headed “Let’s be honest: journalists failed as well”, we are told that: “We journalists failed to ask pertinent questions that could have at least cast doubt on the information the government supplied…. How could so congenitally… Continue reading
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It’s the spies wot gets the blame By William Bowles
“I saw evidence that was categoric on Saddam possessing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Now I saw the evidence, so did the Prime Minister, so did other cabinet ministers. That informed our decision to go topple him. I think we were right in doing so, but let’s wait and see what the jury… Continue reading
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Coitus Interruptus By William Bowles
“US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD”. So goes the headline in the Observer(01/02/04) but the reality is that the US government knew in 1991 that Iraq possessed no WMD as did the UK government. So what’s the argument all about? Why is it so important that a ‘battle royale’ is being conducted… Continue reading
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