5 April 2005 — Information Clearing House
[I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB]
Information Clearing House
Digest April 1-5 2005
Date: Tues, 5 Apr 2005
Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 302 Days
Venezuela at the Crossroads of the New Humanity Century
Humanity is at a junction, where it can either choose a more sane and sustainable future for all, or it can choose the path of annihilating other nations in order to steal their resources until there are no resources left.
By Vladimir Bravo-Salazar
The quest is to achieve a solidarity-based, non-violent society, a real and participative democracy, health care for all, free access to education and quality of life for all its members. This stands in contrast to the neo-liberal alternative, which reduces the individual to an island with no sense of the common good and only concern for the self.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8461.htm
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Overview: The Great Energy War
US & Allies Neutralized, World War III Ends
by John Stanton
By the 1990‚s, securing energy resources and limiting the growth of the economies of China, India, Russia, Brazil and Venezuela became paramount. Even with the US colonization of Iraq in 2005, there was not enough oil & gas to satisfy both US needs and those of the high growth nations. The historical record shows that the resource domination was the real goal of the disingenuous US War on Terror. And with the US removing itself from international diplomacy and treaty, and refusing to share the wealth, world war was just a step away.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8471.htm
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Iraq: Four U.S soldiers killed in different clashes
www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=720321
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U.S, Iraqi Troops Battle Dozens of Anti Occupation Forces:
U.S. and Iraqi forces battled dozens of anti occupation forces in a remote area east of Baghdad and three soldiers, two American and one Iraqi, were killed in the fighting, the U.S. military said on Tuesday
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8087107
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2 killed in car bomb blast at Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad :
A car bomb blew up on Tuesday at an Iraqi army check point in Baghdad’s Ameriyah neighborhood, killing at least two civilians, witnesses said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/05/content_2790358.htm
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Blasts Kill GIs, Iraqi Beheaded:
Gunmen broke into a house and kidnapped a top Interior Ministry official, Brig. Gen. Jala Mohammed Saleh, was kidnapped early Tuesday by gunmen who broke into his house, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_story_095094401.html
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America is usurping the democratic will in Iraq:
To forestall a clerical-driven religious regime, Washington has a plan to arm small militias
informationclearinghouse.info/article8460.htm
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Cameraman for CBS Wounded by U.S. Troops in Iraq:
An Iraqi freelance cameraman who works for CBS News was shot and wounded on Tuesday in northern Iraq by U.S. troops
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8093780
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UK Panel: U.S. Troops Too Heavy-Handed :
U.S. troops in Iraq are provoking civilians and hampering rebuilding with an excessive use of force, British lawmakers said in a report Tuesday.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8474.htm
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Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage:
An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning.
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8093558
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Talabani to be new president in Iraq:
Veteran Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani will be named Iraq’s new president at a parliament meeting on Wednesday, according to senior government sources.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1BA55EC6-905D-498B-9B13-5A44D42B7869.htm
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Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces :
The war-strained all-volunteer U.S. military has a growing manpower problem and a cross-section of Washington policymakers has proposed a solution — increase the size of the regular military by 30,000, 40,000 or even 100, 000 or more.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8470.htm
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They’re Talking Up Arms:
Military recruiters are fortifying their outposts at high schools, hoping a chummy familiarity will entice students to enlist. Some decry the tactics.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8475.htm
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Centrist Democrats warn liberals :
“I can’t tell the difference between the positions the DLC puts forward and Republican policy,” said Jack Blum, counsel for the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8472.htm
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Pentagon: Muslim Society Does Not Seek U.S. “Freedom” :
A U.S. Defense Department study has determined that Muslims in the Middle East do not yearn for U.S. liberation.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8469.htm
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Probe suggests CIA role in Iraqi deaths:
CIA interrogations may have played a role in the deaths of several detainees in Iraq, as Bush administration lawyers were advocating an aggressive interrogation policy that critics say led to torture, military documents and officials say.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8467.htm
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UN Torture Envoy Confident of Visit to Guantanamo:
Some nine months after the request was made, Austrian law professor Manfred Nowak said there were signs the U.S. would agree to let him and other U.N. human rights envoys travel to the naval base in Cuba.
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8080843
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Bob Herbert: Is no one in administration accountable?:
The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8473.htm
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Crushing defeat for Italy’s Berlusconi :
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a crushing defeat at Italian regional elections, official results have shown, a huge boost for centre-left leader Romano Prodi’s hopes of unseating him next year.
www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&
art_id=vn20050405091512967C779553
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Blair calls election as Tories narrow the gap:
Tony Blair has confirmed the worst-kept secret in politics — that an election will be held on May 5 — as opinion polls suggested a closer contest than any since 1992.
www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews
& storyID=701877§ion=news&src=rss/uk/topNews
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FBI seeks expanded search powers:
Justice Dept. also wants expiring Patriot Act provisions renewed
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7388717/
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Yushchenko says previous Ukraine regime sold missiles to Iran, China:
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview late Thursday that nuclear-capable cruise missiles were sold illegally to Iran and China under Kiev’s previous regime.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8468.htm
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Ted Rall: Who Lost Central Asia?:
U.S. Again Sides with Dictatorship over Democracy
informationclearinghouse.info/article8466.htm
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What kind of revolution is this?:
Was it people power? Was it a coup? Or was it just the toppling of a clan? With the same lightning speed with which it materialized, the March 24 revolutionary object called the Tulip Revolution has disappeared like a comet in the geopolitical cosmos.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GD02Ag02.html
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Chechnya fighting leaves six dead, five injured: govt official:
Fighting between pro-Moscow forces and separatists in war-torn Chechnya has left six people dead and five injured on the Russian side in the past 24 hours, a local government official said Monday.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39791
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Chechen leader orders own death :
CHECHEN rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov ordered his bodyguards to kill him to avoid being captured by Russian forces.
www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/world/Full_
Story/did-sgHC-ZqjTFbCksglO-LCk0lQvU.asp
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Moscow rejects reports of nuclear-armed Chechens:
Moscow doesn‚t believe Chechen gunmen have a nuclear device and may use it in a terrorist attack, Russia‚s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. It was responding to allegations by Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire living in a self-imposed exile in Britain, that Chechen gunmen have nuclear weapons.
www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=47348
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Peres says will ask U.S. for financial aid for pullout:
Israel has budgeted about US$1 billion for the pullout.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8476.htm
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In case you missed it:
A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion˜and Counting .
The common figure given for U.S. aid to Israel is $3 billion per year˜$1.2 billion in economic aid and $1.8 billion in military aid. As impressive as this figure is, however, since it represents about one-sixth of total U.S. foreign aid, the true figure is even more remarkable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5964.htm
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Israel’s Next War?:
They do not believe in peace talks. They do not want to share the land. They are well armed and are carrying out increasingly violent attacks, even targeting innocent civilians. They are members of Israel’s militant far right, and they are threatening to become Israel’s next big problem.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/press/2311.html
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 04/04/05:
The nation’s only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
snipurl.com/du3y
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Uzbekistan – Torture Trail:
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, says he repeatedly warned the British Government that Uzbekistan was systematically torturing suspected Islamic militants to obtain intelligence.
www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2005/s1330326.htm
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Australia: Death in custody autopsy finds signs of torture:
A second autopsy conducted on Mr Scott’s body at the weekend found lesions that were consistent with torture procedures, like being kicked in the genital region, and with a facial blow and strangulation.
www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1338617.htm
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Canada’s Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open:
Extracts of testimony given in secret by Jean Brault revealed a massive pattern of corruption going to the highest levels of the Liberal party and government. Brault testified to hundreds of thousands of dollars of bogus transactions designed to benefit the Liberal Party of Canada over a period from 1994 to 2002.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8463.htm
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Japan orders changes to school text books:
In its latest screening of junior high school text books, the Ministry has ordered publishers not to state that weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq.
www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1339014.htm
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Cartels cloud country’s commerce:
The Philippines is a tragic basket case of a country that for all its raw materials, abundant skills among its far flung peoples, is so riddled with a corrupt political elite – a legacy of its four hundred plus years of being browbeaten by colonial masters – first the Spanish, then the U.S.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8465.htm
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Former Ecuadoran president ends his exile:
He returned home after spending eight years in exile in Panama, telling thousands of rallying supporters he plans to lead a “revolution of the poor” modeled around that of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/04/2003249081
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Wanted Chávez foes flee to South Florida:
South Florida is quietly emerging as a sanctuary for foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. U.S. officials said their presence hasn’t become a policy issue — yet.
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11311988.htm
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Gangstas R US! So Sayeth The Judge!:
Isn‚t it obvious that our government uses force in exactly the same manner as organized crime?
informationclearinghouse.info/article8462.htm
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The End Of Cheap Oil:
It’s inevitable. But just how soon will the vital fuel become so scarce and expensive that we’re forced to make hard choices about how we live?
magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5/
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FBI monitored British activists :
Agents tapped the phones and read emails of animal rights campaigners
observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1451100,00.html
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Dose Response :
Misconceptions about pain treatment could put a doctor in prison for life. Hurwitz, was charged with drug trafficking because a small minority of his patients abused or sold narcotic painkillers he prescribed for them.
www.reason.com/sullum/040105.shtml
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005
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Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 301 Days
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Corporate Assassin
George W. Bush is a murderer, and a prolific one at that.
By David Podvin
He has deployed surrogates to kill more than one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians in a ruthless slaughter that is ongoing. The fact that he murders via remote control from the Oval Office does not confer legitimacy to his crimes. If anything, it makes them all the more despicable.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8455.htm
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Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
By Deborah Davies
They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It‚s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you‚re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.
Warning this video contains images and descriptions of violent and degrading treatment, which may distress some viewers.
Click here to watch this documentary. Windows Media.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm
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Taliban kill nine Afghan soldiers:
Taliban militants stormed a government building in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and killed nine Afghan soldiers in a two-hour long gun battle before fleeing, said district commissioner Haji Mohamed Rahim.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_4-4-2005_pg7_2
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7 suspected al-Qaida guerrillas killed in clashes with Saudi security forces:
Security forces battled the biggest group of militants in a nearly two-year campaign against terror, killing seven in a gunbattle Monday and cornering up to 10 others in an isolated desert town, Saudi officials said.
snipurl.com/dtdg
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Two Iraqi police, one army officer killed in Mosul:
Four people, including a foreign security contractor, were killed on Sunday and the body of two army officers were discovered north of Baghdad, hospital and security sources said.
www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1305024,00050004.htm
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Violence claims more lives in Iraq : Ramadi:
Two Policemen killed. Tikrik: three Iraqis were killed by a US helicopter. Baghdad: Fighters assassinated an Iraqi police officer. US military vehicle was destroyed in a RPG. Kirkuk: an Iraqi was killed and three were wounded when an IED.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C6009D66-45FB-4381-B8F0-3BBF04BE62C6.htm
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Two US troops killed in Iraq:
The military says an explosion Sunday killed a Marine who was conducting combat operations in a city about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. A soldier was killed in a bomb explosion about 155 miles north of Baghdad on Saturday.
nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_17442.shtml
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Another U.S. Soldier Shot Dead in Northern Iraq:
Gunmen shot dead a U.S. soldier and wounded another in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Saturday, the U.S. military said Monday.
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8078720
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Three U.S. soldiers charged with murder:
Army prosecutors claim Mowhoush was put headfirst into a sleeping bag, wrapped with electrical cord and knocked down before the soldiers sat and stood on him, prosecutors said. The cause of death was determined to be suffocation.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-04-02-iraqi-general-beaten_x.htm?csp=15
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Iraqi legislators withdraw and resign:
Iraqi state television said Sunday an unspecified number of legislators have either pulled out or resigned from the National Assembly.
www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050403-050536-8413r.htm
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Maureen Dowd: The latest intelligence study – 601 empty pages :
It is absurd to have yet another investigation into the chuckleheaded assessments on Saddam’s phantom weapons of mass destruction that intentionally skirts how the $40 billion-a-year intelligence was molded and manufactured to fit the ideological schemes of those running the White House and Pentagon.
www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/03/opinion/eddowd.html
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US envoy says pope considered Iraq war ‘defeat for humanity’:
The former US envoy to the Vatican, Jim Nicholson, recalled Pope John Paul II’s vocal opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq on the grounds that war represented a “defeat for humanity.”
snipurl.com/dtdo
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UK: This edgy volatility will usher in a three-party era :
Iraq has dismayed voters, and two-party politics disgusts them
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1451504,00.html
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Sharon Counting on Bush Assurances on Retaining Jewish Towns Near Jerusalem:
Sharon is counting on President Bush to keep his commitment that Israel can retain several large Jewish towns near Jerusalem as part of a peace accord with the Palestinians, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday.
ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBLOQEZ47E.html
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Israel to dump 10,000 tons of garbage a month in the West Bank:
The project was launched despite international treaties prohibiting an occupying state from making use of occupied territory unless it benefits the local population.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/560433.html
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Poll: Most Jewish Israelis favor emigration of Israeli Arabs:
A majority of Jewish Israelis believe that the state should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate
www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=560441
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UN troops clash with gangs in Haitian slum; 5 gang members killed or wounded
snipurl.com/dtdq
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Fiery priest and U.S. critic says he’d consider seeking Haiti’s presidency :
Supporters call him Haiti’s Martin Luther King Jr., a fiery Roman Catholic priest who electrifies the masses with populist sermons urging social equality and nonviolent protest.
www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050404-0003-haiti-priestpower.html
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U.S. threatens Bolivia in effort to secure criminal court immunity :
That effort, which includes a threat to withhold financial aid and access to free trade, seems to be backfiring.
www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=20238
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5 American soldiers accused of smuggling cocaine in Colombia :
Five U.S army soldiers are under investigation for allegedly trying to smuggle about 15 kilograms of cocaine out of Colombia aboard a U.S. military aircraft, American officials said Thursday.
www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050331/w0331100.html
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Mugabe claims win, says vote was clean:
A triumphant President Robert Mugabe, whose ruling party won parliamentary elections condemned by Western powers as unfair, declared Saturday he would stay in power until he is 100.
snipurl.com/dtdv
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Congress’ implicit healthcare rationing:
As an emergency physician and former governor, I am struck by the towering contradictions – and indeed the hypocrisy – in the controversy over the tragic plight of Terri Schiavo. On the same day that the US House of Representatives voted to involve the federal courts in her case, it also approved a 10-year $92-billion cut in Medicaid funding
www.csmonitor.com/2005/0404/p09s02-coop.html
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Your Social Security Number on Sale for $35
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040405Z.shtml
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005
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Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 300 Days
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Corporate Assassin
George W. Bush is a murderer, and a prolific one at that.
By David Podvin
He has deployed surrogates to kill more than one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians in a ruthless slaughter that is ongoing. The fact that he murders via remote control from the Oval Office does not confer legitimacy to his crimes. If anything, it makes them all the more despicable.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8455.htm
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Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
By Deborah Davies
They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It‚s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you‚re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.
Warning this video contains images and descriptions of violent and degrading treatment, which may distress some viewers.
Click here to watch this documentary. Windows Media.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm
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Two Iraqi police, one army officer killed in Mosul:
Four people, including a foreign security contractor, were killed on Sunday and the body of two army officers were discovered north of Baghdad, hospital and security sources said.
www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1305024,00050004.htm
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Marine killed in Iraq blast:
A US marine has been killed in central Iraq, the military said on Sunday.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C3C8D457-BD59-4225-88A9-861E8BB45398.htm
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Iraqi prison attacked by insurgents, one killed:
The military says dozens of insurgents attacked a prison west of Baghdad, injuring 44 troops and a 13 prisoners.
www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=2E3CCF77-8C57-40D1-8881-AD72FF392409
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US relied on ‘drunken liar’ to justify war :
An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq. According to a US presidential commission looking into pre-war intelligence failures
informationclearinghouse.info/article8456.htm
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Fury at ‘shoot for fun’ memo :
One of the biggest private security firms in Iraq has created outrage after a memo to staff claimed it is ‘fun’ to shoot people.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8449.htm
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U.S. Forces May Have Beaten Iraqi General :
Previously secret court testimony indicates an Iraqi general imprisoned by U.S. forces was badly bruised and may have been severely beaten two days before he died of suffocation during interrogation.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8453.htm
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Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top:
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8446.htm
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Britain to pull 5,500 troops out of Iraq:
Defence chiefs are planning to reduce the size of the British military force in Iraq from 9,000 to 3,500 troops within 12 months as part of a phased withdrawal from Iraq
informationclearinghouse.info/article8447.htm
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Robert Fisk: US forces, are prisoners in their own fortresses:
Sitting in Saddam Hussein’s palace they can stare over the parapets but that is as much as most will ever see of Iraq
informationclearinghouse.info/article8448.htm
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A final plea for world peace:
POPE John Paul II made a final plea for peace last night, in a posthumous message he had prepared for the Sunday mass that turned into a moving farewell by 130,000 pilgrims huddled in St Peter’s Square.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12746150%255E2703,00.html
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Osama’s recruits well schooled:
The typical recruit to al-Qa’ida is Western-educated and has a wealthy, professional background, according to a new study. The analysis of 500 members of Osama bin Laden’s organisation has turned Western experts’ presumptions about al-Qa’ida upside down.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12742245%255E2703,00.html
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Terror Broker:
Bin Laden needed a role in the Iraqi insurgency, and Zarqawi needed outside support. How a deadly deal was made.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7369892/site/newsweek/
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Iraq’s new parliament speaker recognized as “moderate”:
Last year, with Iraqi leaders deadlocked over the impending assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Hajim al-Hassani ignored Sunni criticism and supported the United States.
cbs4boston.com/ctnews/CT—Iraq-ParliamentSp-mn/resources_news_html
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Syria announces withdrawal timetable:
Syria has promised to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon by 30 April and will let a United Nations team verify the pullout.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2907BE52-F9A9-4301-AA75-8EAF8183BD6F.htm
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Indifferent to death: tragedy of the traumatised children of the intifada :
Daily acts of violence may be leaving Gaza’s youngsters too emotionally scarred to adjust to a life of peace.
informationclearinghouse.info/article8454.htm
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Pakistani nuke scientist A Q Khan met Osama: Report :
Scientists Abdul Qadeer Khan and Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood had held meetings with Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda leaders, exchanged letters with militant organisations like the Lashkar-e-Toiba and attended their gatherings and rallies, a media report said.
sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13708892&headline=\’Pak~nuke~scientist~A~Q~Khan~met~Osama\’
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Saudi Policeman Killed, 20 Wounded in Clash-Sources:
A Saudi security officer was killed andat least 20 others wounded Sunday in a fierce gunbattle withgunmen holed up in a house in northern Saudi Arabia, securityand medical sources said.
www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5652853&cKey=1112550632000
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Pentagon Chief Escalates Threats against Venezuela :
The orchestration of propaganda campaigns over arms deals to justify US military aggression is an old game in Washington
informationclearinghouse.info/article8450.htm
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Venezuela’s Media Minister Andres Izarra replies to the Washington Post:
Who stated in an article published March 28 that in Venezuela, journalists are persecuted and the press is censored.
www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=29153
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U.S.: Rights abusers do not belong on U.N. human rights panel:
U.S. delegates to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights say that body’s country membership must be reformed to prevent those who abuse human rights from using their positions on the committee to prevent criticism of their records
www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050402/2005040231.html
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Massacre outside Rio renews focus on police criminality:
The massacre of 30 people in a shooting spree Thursday night, allegedly by a band of rogue police officers, underscores an intractable problem in one of Latin America’s most violent countries: corruption and criminal infiltration of Brazil’s police forces.
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Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 299 Days
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Army reservist witnesses war crimes
New revelations about ongoing brutality at Abu Ghraib.
By Paul Rockwell
Delgado says he observed mutilation of the dead, trophy photos of dead Iraqis, mass roundups of innocent noncombatants, positioning of prisoners in the line of fire˜all violations of the Geneva conventions. His own buddies˜decent, Christian men, as he describes them˜shot unarmed prisoners.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8441.htm
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If You Build It, They Will Kill
U.S. Military Weaponry of the Near Future
by Nick Turse
Lets face it, making war is fast superceding sports as the American national pastime. Since 1980, overtly or covertly, the United States has been involved in military actions in Grenada, Libya, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sudan, the Philippines, Colombia, Haiti (again), Afghanistan (again) and Iraq (again) and that’s not even the full list.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8433.htm
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Scott Ritter: “Mark Your Calendars!”
June, a Great Month for WAR!
Scott Ritter interviewed by Charles Goyette.
“The President has signed off on military preparation that will have the U.S. ready to attack Iran via massive aerial bombardment in June 2005.”
Click here to listen
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8431.htm
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Canadian Intelligence Agencies on a rampage of arrest and torture:
History shall judge the people and nations by their actions, not by their claims.
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Time, logic and history will question the framework of the “War on Terror‰ as a racist doctrine and unilateral plan of action aimed exclusively at terrorizing Muslim people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8444.htm
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Many killed in Yemen fighting:
Yemeni army tanks and helicopters have pounded Shia strongholds in the north, killing at least 36 people, officials and fighters’ sources have said.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/96388788-621D-4F53-AD9A-43372E75D724.htm
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Car Bomb Kills Five Iraqis North of Baghdad:
A car bomb exploded as Iraqi police were checking it north of Baghdad Saturday, killing four policemen and a civilian, Iraqi officials said
www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8067336
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Marine Killed In Ramadi:
www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050401.txt
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Anti occupation forces attack Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison:
A group of 40 to 60 anti occupation forces attacked the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq late Saturday in a well-coordinated assault that inflicted 18 American casualties, U.S. military officials told NBC News.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7366857/
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Iraq blocs agree on parliament speaker:
Iraq’s legislature said Saturday that leaders of various blocs have agreed on naming a Sunni as the speaker of the National Assembly.
washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050402-102836-3600r.htm
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Iraqi Sunni clerics deny decree on police:
The country’s only Sunni religious authority said in a statement that reports of 64 clerics issuing a fatwa, or edict, allowing or urging Iraqis to join national security and military forces to protect Iraqis and their property were not linked to the association.
washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050402-110246-7800r.htm
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Video: The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War :
This film is our soldiers‚ perspective of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. It goes beyond the war stories to look underneath our American tradition of engaging in war and then abandoning the warrior.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7693.htm
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Army Still Misses Recruiting Targets:
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the active-duty Army achieved only about two-thirds of its recruiting goal for March, and the Army Reserve reached slightly more than halfway to its target.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8432.htm
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Army Whitewashes Deaths of Iraq Prisoners: Getting away with murder.
There’s no other way to describe the Pentagon’s announcement that it is refusing to prosecute any of the 17 U.S. soldiers who contributed to the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004. The decision is against the recommendations of the Army’s own investigators.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8442.htm
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Purported Statement From “al Qaeda” in Iraq:
About an American Helper to Abu Musab Zarqawi
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Doubts on Weapons Were Dismissed :
As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing grave doubts about a key charge he was going to make.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8436.htm
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In case you missed it:
Senior intelligence officer sues the CIA:
A sacked CIA official is suing the agency for allegedly retaliating against him for refusing to falsify his reports on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to support the White House’s pre-war position
www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/10/2003214509
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In case you missed it:
Iraqi defector behind America’s WMD claims exposed as ‘out-and-out fabricator’:
A detailed investigation in the Los Angeles Times revealed that the source claiming to have seen mobile bioweapons labs was the brother of one of the senior aides to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress
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Scott Ritter: Don’t let the warmonger off the hook:
The voters should seize their opportunity to punish Blair for his breach of international law
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8445.htm
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How did your MP vote on the decision to invade Iraq? :
Are you wondering how your MP voted in the 18th March 2003 division on the decision to invade Iraq?
logicvoice.blogspot.com/2005/04/how-did-your-mp-vote-on-decision-to.html
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In case you missed it:
Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel:
ISRAEL‚S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-469972,00.html
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Iran Deploys Anti-Aircraft Batteries Around Uranium Enrichment Plant:
At least 10 surface-to-air missile batteries were seen around the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, located about 250 kilometers south of Teheran. The batteries were seen during a tour by journalists of Natanz, the first conducted by Iran’s government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8434.htm
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Chalmers Johnson : Wake Up!: Washington’s alarming foreign policy:
Bush‚s war changed into America‚s war and his conduct of international relations became our own.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8428.htm
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In case you missed it:
America’s War for Global Domination:
The Bush Administration has embarked upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5428.htm
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Having it both Ways: :
U.S. Protests Spanish Arms Sale to Venezuela while it Arms Latin America and the World
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8435.htm
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UN Sends Darfur Suspects to Hague Court for Trial:
The vote was 11 in favor and four abstentions. In addition to the United States, abstentions came from China and Algeria, which opposed any international trials, and Brazil, a supporter of the court, which objected to exemptions the United States demanded as a contravention of ICC statutes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8430.htm
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FBI at crossroads in probe of pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC:
Franklin had been “quietly” rehired at the Pentagon over the “FBI’s objections.” Franklin, however, was not given back his previous position in the Iran section, but instead placed in a “non-sensitive” area which the report didn’t specify.
www.csmonitor.com/2005/0331/dailyUpdate.html
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World Council of Churches deeply concerned about the status of Jerusalem :
The WCC‚s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs issued an open letter today reiterating the position of its member churches and calling for “an open and inclusive Jerusalem, a city of shared sovereignty and citizenship, a city of two peoples and three faiths, of Christians, Muslims and Jews”.
www2.wcc-coe.org/pressreleasesen.nsf/index/pr-05-10.html
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We need a post-Zionist leap of faith :
Assimilation with space for Jewish identity offers us a better future . Does the religious and historical attachment of so many Jews to the “land of Israel” justify the Zionist project? The idea of a Jewish homeland continues to pose two problems. The first is the denial of Palestinian rights, especially the rights of the dispossessed refugees, who see an Israel built on their homeland.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8438.htm
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Pakistanis among 8 dead in attack in Afghanistan
pakistantimes.net/2005/04/02/top12.htm
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Mine explosion kills one, injures four in northern Afghanistan :
“A civilian was killed and four others were wounded, one of them in critical condition, when their vehicle ran over a mine on Balkh-Mazar-e-Sharif road last night
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/02/content_2777053.htm
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US military confirms increasing militancy in Afghanistan :
“The number and severity of attacks against Afghan and coalition forces has increased compared to the winter.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/02/content_2777119.htm
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India spying on N-plants:
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has asked provincial authorities to step up vigilance at the country’s nuclear installations on suspicion that Indian and Israeli intelligence are spying on them, a newspaper reported Friday.
www.centralchronicle.com/20050402/0204006.htm
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U.S. Recruits Mercenaries for U.S. Led Drug Interdiction
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8443.htm
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Secret U.S. court approved record number of terror warrants for secret wiretaps and searches last year:
The FBI has used such warrants to break into homes, offices, hotel rooms and automobiles, install hidden cameras, search luggage and eavesdrop on telephone conversations. Agents also have pried into safe-deposit boxes, watched from afar with video cameras and binoculars and intercepted e-mails.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8429.htm
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When They Came For Ward Churchill
Real Video:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8427.htm
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Wolfowitz confirmed as next World Bank president :
The board of the World Bank approved the controversial nomination of Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld’s deputy at the Pentagon, as its new president.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8437.htm
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Bush’s elbow, not his ear :
The European leaders, who could have objected to the appointment of the salesman for an unpopular Iraq war and bungled reconstruction, sat on their hands in the cause of realpolitik: they calculated that accepting Mr Wolfowitz was a cheap way of appeasing the White House.
www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1450679,00.html
American Jewish Congress Lauds Wolfowitz Appointment to World Bank :
In Israel, The Jerusalem Post had selected Paul Wolfowitz as its Man of the Year for 2002. The Post stated: “On September 15, 2001, at a meeting in Camp David, Wolfowitz advised President George W. Bush to skip Kabul and train American guns on Baghdad. In March 2003
www.israelnewsagency.com/paulwolfowitzajcisrael8990402.html
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Bush Sidesteps Lott, Appoints Commission :
Bush made the appointments while the Senate was in recess, the White House announced Friday night.
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4908847,00.html
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Europeans will need visas for travel to US:
Most Europeans, including almost all British citizens, will need a visa to visit America later this year
news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=625542
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Top adviser to Clinton to plead guilty:
Berger expected to admit that he took classified material from archives
seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/218399_berger01.html
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Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 298 Days
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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.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8421.htm
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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.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8419.htm
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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.
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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.
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US soldiers killed in Iraq unrest :
Three US soldiers have been killed in bomb blasts and firefights throughout Iraq,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Maureen Dowd: I Spy a Screw-Up:
As necessity is the mother of invention, political pressure was the father of conveniently botched intelligence.
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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 Œslam dunk‚ certainty that WMDs existed in Iraq and that they were a threat to other nations including the US.
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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.
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Iraqi seed-saving under attack. :
Americans are accused of putting big agricultural companies ahead of Iraqui farmers.
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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.
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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.
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US military ‘recognizes’ its own regulations on DU:
Will it now comply with environmental and health care mandates for both US and Iraq?
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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
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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
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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
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Israeli rampage:
Settler violence against Palestinians is burgeoning at an alarming rate
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The End of a Viable Palestinian State:
American Complicity in Israeli Settlements
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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.
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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.
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Why American neocons are out for Kofi Annan’s blood :
The US is determined to derail the secretary general’s progressive reforms
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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U.N. troops man checkpoints in Haiti:
One man was killed Thursday and at least six others were wounded in gang shootings.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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