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From countercurrent.org - 14 August 2006
As The 6am Ceasefire Takes Effect... The Real War Begins
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806.htm
The real war in Lebanon begins today. The Israeli army, reeling under the
Hizbollah's onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the harshest
guerrilla war in its history. And it is a war they may well lose
--
Bush
'Viewed War In Lebanon As A Curtain-Raiser For Attack On Iran'
By Andrew
Buncombe
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-buncombe140806.htm
The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green
light" to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah with plans
drawn up months before two Israeli soldiers were seized it has been
claimed. The US reportedly considered Israel's actions as a necessary
prerequisite for a possible strike against Iran
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Washington's
Interests In Israel's War
By Seymour M Hersh http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-hersh140806.htm
The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of
Israel's retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick
Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic
officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign
against Hezbollah's heavily fortified underground-missile and
command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel's security
concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive
attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are
also buried deep underground
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Sham UN Resolution Guarantees No End To
Israel's War Of Illegal Aggression
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-lendman140806.htm
UN Resolution 1701 is little more than an outrageous and illegal expression
of victor's justice. It allows Israel the right to resume hostilities any
time it wishes and for any reason so long as the Israelis claim an imminent
threat exists regardless of whether or not it's true
--
Tea And Rockets: Café
Society, Beirut-Style
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806A.htm
Too many journos are wearing flak jackets and helmets, little spacemen who
want to show they are "in combat" on television. I notice how
their drivers and interpreters are usually not given flak jackets. These are
reserved for us, the Westerners, the Protected Ones, Those Who Must Live
--
Venezuela's Revolution Of Hope
By Joshua Frank, Kim Peterson &
Sunil K. Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/ven-frank140806.htm
We were fast waking up to something we hadn't felt before as we
battled Bush day in and day out in North America: revolutionary hope,
Bolivarian style. And we hadn't even had our first sips of Venezuelan
coffee yet
--
Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, And The American Empire's
Way
By Jason Miller
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-miller140806.htm
We live in a fascist state that inflicts terror on billions of human beings.
'Terror Nation.Notes from the Perimeter', the latest book by Mike
Palecek, offers us a glimpse of the future potentially awaiting those of us
in the United States who pose a threat to corporate and plutocratic hegemony
--
Penis Politics
By Lucinda Marshall
http://www.countercurrents.org/gen-marshall140806.htm
In Israel, in Iran, in Afghanistan, when women speak out about the global
ramifications (word used intentionally) of penis politics, they are screamed
at, shot at, arrested. But this is a truth that must be spoken and we dare
not be silent
--
After Heathrow: What Accounts For The Threat Of Terrorism?
By
Chris Marsden & Julie Hyland
http://www.countercurrents.org/hyland140806.htm
There is still little substantive information on the alleged plot to explode
transatlantic flights from Britain to the US in mid-air. To date, the
British government has provided no facts to substantiate its claims of a
conspiracy to commit mass murder in the air
--
How London's Terror Scare Looks
From Beirut
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806B.htm
I think Paul Stephenson huffs and he puffs but I do not think he stands for
law and order. He works for the Ministry of Fear which, by its very nature,
is not interested in motives or injustice. And I have to say, watching his
performance before the next power cut last night, I thought he was doing a
pretty good job for his masters
--
War Spreads To The North Of Sri Lanka
By
Sarath Kumara
http://www.countercurrents.org/sl-kumara140806.htm
Fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) intensified and expanded over the weekend to the northern
Jaffna peninsula, claiming as many as 200 lives. While neither side has
formally withdrawn from the 2002 ceasefire, the agreement is effectively a
dead letter. The island is rapidly sliding back into full-scale civil war
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12 August 2006
The Moment of Confrontation
By Dan Lieberman - Editor Alternative Insight
Somewhere in the history of Israel, there occurred a moment of confrontation that could not be resolved. Hezbollah is not a result of this moment, but the unresolved situation has fueled Hezbollah’s anger and paved the road to the war between Israel and Lebanon. The anger is derived from perceptions of:
· A Zionist expansionist philosophy that started with a colony in 1878 and within 100 years occupied almost all of earlier Palestine.
· Brutal methods to create a Jewish state although population concentrations in 1947 allowed Israel to be only a bi-national state with a majority of Jews.
· Continued attempts to create a Jewish state, an unclear definition, which fails to recognize that the large percentage of Palestinians indicates the state is bi-national today.
· Israel's attempt to incorporate all Jerusalem into its territory, although Christians and Moslems have well-identified and centuries-old institutions in the Holy City, while major Hebrew institutions from Biblical times are not evident.
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The Christian Science Monitor - 8 August 2006
US troop scandals: Is Iraq different?
A military tribunal this week is hearing charges that troops
killed an Iraqi family in March.
By Brad
Knickerbocker - Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
In Baghdad this week, a
military tribunal is deciding whether five American soldiers must stand trial
for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her parents and
sister in March.
The alleged events, which are among several
atrocities tied to US forces now in their fourth year of fighting insurgents in
Iraq, raise important questions for military officials: How do the numbers and
types of incidents compare with earlier wars? Is there something about this
conflict that makes such incidents more likely? Could they have been anticipated
and prevented
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9 August 2006
The "visible hand" of US state terrorism in action
What Do You Say To A Man
Whose Family Is Buried Under The Rubble?
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk090806.htm
What do you say to a man whose family is buried under the rubble? The last
corpse had been a man whose face appeared etched in dust before the muck was
removed and he turned out to be paper-thin - so perfectly had the falling
concrete crushed him
--
Israel's Promise Of Humanitarian Corridors Is Exposed
As A Sham
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk090806A.htm
So much for Ehud Olmert's "humanitarian corridors". Two weeks
after the Israeli Prime Minister's comforting assertion - which no one in
Lebanon believed - the Israeli air force has blown up the last bridge across
the Litani river, in effect ending all humanitarian convoys between Beirut
and southern Lebanon
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Israeli War Crimes Aimed At "Cleansing"
South Lebanon
By Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-auken090806.htm
What the US-Israeli offensive aims to accomplish as its immediate goal is
the thorough ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon.This is a term that never
appears in the mainstream media in relation to the present war in Lebanon
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Extraordinary Precision: The Logic Of Israel's War On Civilians
By Ramzy
Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-baroud090806.htm
The Israeli tactics are reaping a conflicting outcome, as both Hezbollah and
Hamas are emerging more powerful than ever before, widely viewed as the only
defenders of Lebanon and Palestine
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"Positive Conditions" - The
Water Crisis In Gaza
By Alice Gray
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-gray090806.htm
The political rhetoric and frequent violence of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict often serve to mask underlying environmental issues which, if not
resolved, may pose an even greater threat to the well-being of the
Palestinian population than the guns and bombs of the military occupation
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From the BBC London - 7 August 2006
US state terrorism in action:
US troops 'took turns' to rape Iraqi
The case is the latest in a series of scandals for the US
army.
A US
military hearing has examined testimony of how three soldiers took it in turns
to try to rape an Iraqi girl aged 14 in Mahmudiya in March.
The girl and three family members were allegedly killed by four US soldiers.
Graphic details of the attack at the family's home came in a sworn statement
by one of the accused, James P. Barker.
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State terrorism Israeli in action:
Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
By Anders Strindberg
01/08/06 Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK - As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.
Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports.
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25 july 2006
U.S. state terrorism in action:
Lebanon massacre.
Genocide in the name of self-defense.
The U.S. imperialist policy to "reshape" the Middle East utilizing the army of the neo-nazi state of Israel.
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From Countercurrents.org -22 july 2006
Betrayal Of the
Empire Or Fealty To Humanity?
By Jason Miller
http://www.countercurrents.org/miller210706.htm
“See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop
doing this shit and it’s over.”
What a
profound analysis of the current crisis in the Middle East. Bill Fitch, the
former coach of the Boston Celtics, used to tell his players to “keep it simple,
stupid.” Apparently the “leader of the free world” is a devout follower of
Fitch’s philosophy. It may have been effective in coaching an NBA team, but
unfortunately for the world, Bush’s habit of ignoring complexities has resulted
in multiple disasters.
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Britain And US Defy Demand For Immediate Ceasefire
By Anne Penketh, Ben
Russell, Colin Brown and Stephen Castle
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-brown210706.htm
Two countries, the US and Britain, defiantly refused to back the international
clamour for an immediate ceasfire between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas. Their
ambivalence about civilian deaths in Lebanon has given Israel a powerful signal
that it can continue its attacks with impunity
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Bringing On "World War
III"
By Bill Berkowitz
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-berkowitz210706.htm
During the past week or so, with the Israeli/Hezbollah crisis in full swing,
Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives,
is using any platform available to him to convince the public that the U.S. is
engaged in World War III
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The Long, Hot Summer Has Already Begun
By Robert
Rosenberg
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-rosenberg210706.htm
So, the Israeli air war over Lebanon continues and the Hizbollah's missile war
against Israel continues. The outlines of a solution are becoming clear -- a
ceasefire, a prisoner exchange, a Lebanese Army or multinational force led by
Americans or British deployment in south Lebanon and some form of disarmament of
Hizbollah - but how the sides will get there remains a mystery
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And After The
Attacks In Lebanon And Israel?
By George E. Bisharat
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-bisharat210706.htm
Yet Israel will harvest the future of conflict and violence it has sown, facing
foes of ever-increasing sophistication and determination. Some Lebanese may
resent being dragged into a firestorm by Hezbollah. But they know who their real
tormentor is, and who has thwarted their country's march toward peace and
prosperity
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Collectively Punishing Lebanon
By Dahr Jamail
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-jamail210706.htm
"A friend of mine just called and told me of a massacre: civilian building
destroyed in Tyre by Israeli aggression. There, Zouhair Edde's mother has been
killed. Rayaan Qudsi has been killed along with her two daughters. This is a
conservative number of martyrs thus far. This building is where refugees
typically hide."
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Context Of Israeli Wars In Lebanon,Palestine: Back To
Roots
By Nicola Nasser
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-nasser210706.htm
The ongoing Israeli wars on Arabs in Palestine and Lebanon are just the latest
rounds of the cycle of violence that has raged in and around Palestine since
1917, and are vivid and bloody evidence that imposition of political realities
by military means won’t last and that “Whoever takes by the sword,
by the sword will be taken."
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Hezbollah Confronts Israel
By Dan Lieberman
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-lieberman210706.htm
It is not often that one antagonist helps the other antagonist to
accomplish its objective. Nevertheless, Hezbollah stumbled into giving Israel an
excuse for accomplishing a long sought objective: the destruction of
Lebanon
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Did Hizbullah Do The Right Thing?
By Joshua Frank
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-frank210706.htm
One thing goes without question; Hizbullah’s response was bold and
timely. Given that most Arab countries have failed to lift a finger against the
nuclear-armed nation of Israel, they have not backed down and have proven they
are far more prepared to challenge Israel than intelligence operatives in the US
and Israel had expected
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The Iraq War Is A Huge Success
By Aseem Srivastava
http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-srivastava210706.htm
Is there reason to believe that the war, far from being a disaster, has actually
proceeded quite well from Washington’s point of view? That the view that
the war has been a fiasco is merely a convenient smokescreen of innocence
helpful to keep in check public perceptions of the monstrous crimes of leaders
in Washington and London?
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The Great Divide: Gated Communities And Street
Children
By Joseph Grosso
http://www.countercurrents.org/br-grosso210706.htm
A look at the city of Sao Paulo in wake of the ongoing gang violence there the
past two months as well as the more violent police response through the
extremely wide gulf between the metropolis' rich and also at the phenomenon of
child soldiers enslaved in the civil wars of failed states
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Confessions and Reflections of a Recovering White Middle Class Hegemon Indian
Dalits: Law As Paper Tiger!
By Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/dalit-gatade210706.htm
Thus India, a country of billion plus people, which is itching to get a
superpower status, which takes pride in its ancient tradition and culture and
whose elite goes gaga over the booming sensex, rather presents a strange
spectacle of a nation. But a close look at the goings on within the society
makes it clear that there is a disjunction between the world of economics and
the lifeworlds of its people. The core of the society bears its encounter with
barbarism in abundance
Kashmiri Sufism: Theological Resources For Peace-Building
By Yoginder Sikand
http://www.countercurrents.org/kashmir-sikand210706.htm
Kashmir provides some of the clearest instances of shared religious identities,
remnants of which are still to be found, in however attenuated forms, today. As
numerous writers have noted, the Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits shared several
customs and beliefs in common, and the numerous Sufi shrines that dot the Valley
attracted Hindus as well as Muslims in large numbers
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From countercurrents.org - 23 March 2006
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US Nuclear Hypocrisy
By Doug
Lorimer
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-lorimer230306.htm
While pushing for international sanctions against Iran for pursuing
its legal right under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to
research the production of nuclear fuel (low-enriched uranium), US
President George Bush has agreed to provide India with access to US
civilian nuclear technology, even though India has nuclear weapons
and is not a signatory to the NPT
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Against The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
By Sharbani Banerji
http://www.countercurrents.org/banerji230306.htm
If India goes the US way, we would soon see Indian Universities
actively participating in the research and production of nukes, just
like the Universities in US, and in the near future, we would be
teaching students from other countries who would come to study here,
to do the same. Can that be our goal?
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US Media Bias: Covering
Israel/Palestine
By Remi Kanazi
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-kanazi230306.htm
I understand why The New York Times and CNN reports the way it does.
They are media hacks run by the corporate dollar. Injustice is
injustice. Murder is murder. While Palestinian suffering goes on
unreported children like Ragheb Al-Masri remain dead and forgotten,
and the American press remains biased and forgiven
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The Power Of
Saying No
By Jeff Halper
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-halper230306.htm
The vote for Hamas was not a closing of the door at all, but a
rational, intentional and powerful statement of non-cooperation in a
political process that is only leading to Palestinian imprisonment.
Hamas, if anything, stands for steadfastness, sumud, the refusal to
submit
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Depleted Uranium For Dummies
By Irving Wesley Hall
http://www.countercurrents.org/hall230306.htm
More than 1,000 tons of Depleted Uranium have been used in
Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons in Iraq, the results of which
will affect victims generations to come
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The Democratic Quandary -
War Opposition or Party Allegiance?
By Joshua Frank
http://www.countercurrents.org/frank230306.htm
Can you really oppose the occupation of Iraq and still call yourself
a Democrat? I’m not so sure. The majority of Washington Dems
continue to applaud Bush’s invasion of Iraq as well as his
debauched crusade against terror. A few antiwar voices have echoed
though Democratic corridors, but none have produced any genuine
shifts in ideology, let alone direction. Nor will they
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Nepal And
Venezuela
By Pratyush Chandra
http://www.countercurrents.org/chandra230306.htm
Chavez-led Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela apart, the Communist
Party (Maoist)-led movement in Nepal – popularly known as
People’s War – is undoubtedly the most significant popular
struggle for freedom and democracy in the world today
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The Oxycops
By
William Fisher
http://www.countercurrents.org/fisher230306.htm
Wheelchairbound multiple sclerosis patient Richard Paey is serving
25 years in a Florida prison for “trafficking” 1/2 gram of
OxyContin, even though the prosecutor concedes that Paey never sold
any of his medications. In prison, he now receives more pain-killing
drugs than he was convicted of having
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Punjab State Policy On Organic
Farming
By Umendra Dutt
http://www.countercurrents.org/en-dutt230306.htm
The Indian State of Punjab is going to have a state policy on
organic farming very soon. The Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder
Singh has announced this in current session of the assembely.Though
announcements made are always political but, policies always drafted
without any political vision.This lack of vision takes policies
always away from the very people on whose name and welfare the
policies were declared
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From Human Rights Watch
April 2005
Impunity for
Rumsfeld and other state terrorists,
Getting Away with Torture?
Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees
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BBC World News: -
17 March 2005
Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel
By Paul Reynolds World Affairs correspondent, BBC News
website
By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears
to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the
same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.
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Wolfowitz seeks to calm critics
Dismay at Wolfowitz's nomination
Bush backs hawk for World Bank
Wolfensohn quits World Bank
Profile: Paul Wolfowitz
Wolf at World Bank's door?
Head-to-Head: The right
choice?
In quotes: Wolfowitz reaction
Q&A: What the World Bank
does IMF and World Bank:
reform underway?
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The New York Times
- 6 March 2005
Italian
Journalist Shot in Iraq Rejects U.S. Account
By JASON HOROWITZ
The Italian reporter wounded when American troops opened fire on the car carrying her and
Italian secret service officers to the Baghdad airport just hours after her release from
kidnappers rejected today the United States' version of the incident and refused to rule
out that she was intentionally targeted.
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The U.S. state
terrorists have a pile of Weapons of Mass Destruction which can wipe out from the face of
the Earth anything between 1 to 3.5 billion human beings. Currently, they are discussing
how to make their Weapons of Mass Destruction even more destructive. Read here more about
the deadly plans of the imperialists whose policies are menacing the survival of planet
Earth.
(Róbinson Rojas)
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From The New York Times
A Fierce Debate on
Atom Bombs From Cold War
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Published: April 3, 2005
For over two decades, a compact, powerful warhead called the W-76 has been the centerpiece
of the nation's nuclear arsenal, carried aboard the fleet of nuclear submarines that prowl
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
But in recent months it has become the subject of a fierce debate among experts inside and
outside the government over its reliability and its place in the nuclear arsenal.
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The New York Times
- 8 March 2005
EDITORIAL
Torture by
Proxy
One of the biggest nonsecrets in Washington these days
is the Central Intelligence Agency's top-secret program for sending terrorism suspects to
countries where concern for human rights and the rule of law don't pose obstacles to
torturing prisoners. For months, the Bush administration has refused to comment on these
operations, which make the United States the partner of some of the world's most
repressive regimes.
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A Guide to Memos on Turture
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The New York Times
- 6 March 2005
Rule Change
Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
By D. JEHL and D. JOHNSTON
- The Bush administration's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign
countries for interrogation has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency under
broad authority that has allowed it to act without case-by-case approval from the White
House or the State or Justice Departments, according to current and former government
officials.
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9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: February 10, 2005
In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of
intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, some of which
specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, according to a
previously undisclosed report from the 9/11 commission. But aviation officials were
"lulled into a false sense of security," and "intelligence that indicated a
real and growing threat leading up to 9/11 did not stimulate significant increases in
security procedures," the commission report concluded.
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A Three Kings’
January 6th 2005 Year of the Rooster Offering
MEET UNCLE SAM - WITHOUT CLOTHES - PARADING AROUND CHINA AND THE
WORLD
Observed From the Top of the Great Wall through the Eyes of the Innocent Little Boy
by Andre Gunder Frank
Uncle Sam has just reneged and defaulted on up to
forty percent of its trillions of dollars foreign debt, and nobody has said a word except
for a line in this week’s Economist. In plain English that means that Uncle Sam runs
a world-wide confidence racket...
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30 December 2004
Statement on
the humanitarian crisis in Asia
The world has witnessed the greatest natural disaster
in the lifetime of most of the people now living. The expressions of human solidarity,
stretching across countries and continents, is the one bright light. But even that light
is dimmed by the reports and images of growing human suffering and loss that nearly defies
the imagination. President Bush, after days of silence, emerged from his Texas vacation to
issue a brief statement... |
8 December 2004
By Ralph Nader
Come Clean, George
What's your problem here? The American people need to
know the full casualty toll of U.S. personnel in Iraq and know it regularly and in a
timely fashion. Not to do so is disrespectful, especially of the military families, but
none more so than of the soldiers themselves
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At Least 100,000 Dead in Iraq
U.S. War is a Blood Bath for the Iraqi People
Pledge
to Take Action to End the War
In a medical study being published today, scientists
have concluded that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in the deaths of
at least 100,000 Iraqis, "and may be much higher." It further revealed that most
of the 100,000 Iraqis who died were killed in violent deaths, primarily carried out by
U.S. forces airstrikes. "Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were
women and children," according to the study. The study was designed and conducted by
researches at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya
University in Baghdad (The Lancet, October 29, 2004).
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Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and
Iraq
A report for Parliament on the British Government's
response to the US supply of biological materials to Iraq.
Geoffrey Holland
School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
University of Sussex
October 2004
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ZNet |
Memories of Chile in the Midst of an American Presidential
Campaign
Ariel Dorfman (October 2004)
Day after day over the past three years, as I watched Americans respond to the terror that
unexpectedly descended upon them on September 11th, 2001, the direst memories of Chile and
its dictatorship resonated in my mind. There was something dreadfully familiar in the
patriotic posturing, the militarization of society, the way in which anyone who dared to
be faintly critical was automatically branded as a traitor. Yes, I had seen that before:
"You are either with us or against us." I had seen it far too often -- national
security trumpeted as a justification for any excess in the pursuit of an elusive enemy.
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Final
Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations
Defense Leaders Faulted by Panel in Prison Abuse
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 24 August 2004
"There was chaos at Abu
Ghraib," James Schlesinger, the panel's leader said, and "sadism on the night
shift." |
P. Krugman, 24
August 2004
The Rambo
Coalition
Almost a year ago, on the second anniversary of 9/11,
I predicted "an ugly, bitter campaign - probably the nastiest of modern American
history." The reasons I gave then still apply. President Bush has no positive
achievements to run on. Yet his inner circle cannot afford to see him lose: if he does,
the shroud of secrecy will be lifted, and the public will learn the truth about cooked
intelligence, profiteering, politicization of homeland security and more. |
A. Juhasz (july
2004)
The hand-over that wasn't
How the occupation of Iraq continues
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J. Lobe (July 21, 2004)
They're back: Neocons revive the Committee on the Present Danger
This time against terrorism
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Architects
for Peace
Forum for architects and related professions seeking
urban development based on social justice, solidarity, respect and peace.
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A Guide to the
Memos on Torture
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
-- 27 June, 2004
The New York Times, Newsweek, The
Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have disclosed memorandums that show a pattern
in which Bush administration lawyers set about devising arguments to avoid constraints
against mistreatment and torture of detainees. Administration officials responded by
releasing hundreds of pages of previously classified documents related to the development
of a policy on detainees.
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P. Krugman, 29 June, 2004
Who Lost Iraq?
Let's say the obvious. By making Iraq a playground for
right-wing economic theorists, an employment agency for friends and family, and a source
of lucrative contracts for corporate donors, the administration did terrorist recruiters a
very big favor. |
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From the
Washington Post: 9/11 Commission Report
Released July 22, 2004
The independent, bipartisan National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established by Congress in 2002 to
investigate the events of and circumstances surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks. The panel heard from members of the Clinton and Bush administrations, New York
City emergency personnel and victims' families. Their final report was released on July
22, 2004. It is available below in PDF format.
Complete
9/11 Commission Report (7.4 MB)
Executive
Summary (5.9 MB)
Report by Chapter
Contents,
List of Illustrations and Tables, Members, and Staff (233 KB)
Preface
(67 KB)
Chapter
1: "We Have Some Planes" (952 KB)
Chapter
2: The Foundation of the New Terrorism (1.44 MB)
Chapter
3: Counterterrorism Evolves (188 KB)
Chapter
4: Responses to al Qaeda's Initial Assaults (185 KB)
Chapter
5: Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland (312 KB)
Chapter
6: From Threat to Threat (209 KB)
Chapter
7: The Attack Looms (949 KB)
Chapter
8: "The System Was Blinking Red" (146 KB)
Chapter
9: Heroism and Horror (2.3 MB)
Chapter
10: Wartime (109 KB)
Chapter
11: Foresight--and Hindsight (133 KB)
Chapter
12: What to do? A Global Strategy (184 KB)
Chapter
13: How to do it? A Different Way of Organizing the Government (158 KB)
Appendices
(109 KB)
Notes
(669 KB)
© 2004 The Washington Post Company |
From The Washington
Post ( 8th July 2004)
Special Coverage: Iraq Aftermath
U.S. Senate
Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. intelligence community's prewar intelligence
assessment on Iraq |
M. C. Rupert, 8
June 2004
Coup d'etat: the real reason Tenet and
Pavitt resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th
Based upon recent developments, it appears that
long-standing plans and preparations leading to indictments and impeachment of Bush,
Cheney and even some senior cabinet members have been accelerated, possibly with the
intent of removing or replacing the entire Bush regime prior to the Republican National
Convention this August. |
Learning from the
historical records (June 2004):
An American
Coup d'État?
C. E. Cramer, History Today, November 1995
How different is America from nations where political power comes quite directly
"from the barrel of a gun"? A curious footnote to American history suggests
that, except for the personal integrity of a remarkable American general, a coup d'état
intended to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office in 1934 might have plunged
America into civil war. |
|
Lost History
How the American historical record has been tainted
by lies and cover-ups |
J. Burke (Foreign
Policy, May/June 2004)
Think Again: Al Qaeda
The mere mention of al Qaeda conjures images of an
efficient terrorist network guided by a powerful criminal mastermind. Yet al Qaeda is more
lethal as an ideology than as an organization. “Al Qaedaism” will continue to
attract supporters in the years to come—whether Osama bin Laden is around to lead
them or not. |
J. Lobe (April 9,
2004)
From Iraqi Occupation to Islamic Reformation: Neocons Aim Beyond
Baghdad
No one ever said that U.S. neoconservatives
lack ambition.
---
Neoconservatives Argue That Sadr Uprising is
“Made in Teheran”
Neocons aim at Teheran while Baghdad burns |
P. Bergen/S.
Armstrong (4 April 2004)
15 questions for Dr.
Condoleezza Rice
--
April 8, 2004
Testimony of
Condoleezza Rice Before 9/11 Commission
Transcript of National Security Adviser Condoleezza
Rice's testimony before the September 11 Commission on Thursday, April 8, as recorded by The New York Times
--
March 23, 2004
Public Testimony Before 9/11
Commission (pp. 1-41 and pp. 42-83)
Transcript of public testimony from four high-ranking
officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations before the independent commission
investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, as recorded by Federal News Service. Published by The New York Times
--
23 March, 2004
Excerpts from
"Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" by Richard A. Clarke
--
J. Miller (22 March, 2004)
Former Terrorism
Official Criticizes White House on 9/11 |
A. Buncombe (2
April 2004)
"I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would
attack cities with aeroplanes" |
The global
hegemony of the American Empire (2004)
Fickle, Bitter and
Dangeorus
An interview with Chalmes Johnson, by David Ross |
M. J. Rivers (
March 2004)
A Wolf in Sheikhs Cloting:
Bush Business Deals with 9 Partners of bin Laden's Banker |
| U.S. imperialism today: |
Americas Program
- Foreign Policy In Focus - Global Affairs
Present Danger - Right Web - SW
Global-Local Links
The network of
power that's changing our world
George W. Bush Files - Gloves
Off (bare-fisted political
economy)
L. Haugaard: Textbook
Repression: US training manuals declassified |
| Monthly Review: Africa - Asia - Europe - Globalization - Labor and Working Class Issues - Media/ Communications - Social/Political Theory - U.S. Politics/ Economics |
| New Left Review - ZNet - Multinational Monitor
- Counterpunch |
| Socialism & Democracy
- Global Policy Forum - Cultural Logic |
| Andre
Gunder Frank website |
| The official Noam Chomsky website - The Noam Chomsky Archive |
The Consortium for Independent Journalism
--Imperial Bush
W's war on the environment |
CFS: Communications for a sustainable
future
IPENet: International
Political Economy Network |
| The films and writings of John Pilger
-- Prensa Latina --- News |
J. Webb (22 march,
2004):
Analysis: Insider's attack rattles Bush
-
Bush attacked on terrorism record
-
Profile: Richard Clarke |
Over the last 70
years or so, an international capitalist class have been trying to create a world order
ruled by oligopoly capital. U.S. ruling elites have being leading this process. After the
collapse of bureaucratic socialism they are implementing a Project for the New American Century
which is unleashing, once again, U.S. State Terrorism all over the world. To understand
better how the international capitalist class enforces its domination mainly through U.S.
State Terrorism, I include here two texts ( Carroll & Carson, and Fraser &
Beeston). More reading on this is available at http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/pfpc. (Dr.
Róbinson Rojas)
--
W. K. Carroll & C. Carson:
Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of
Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance
---
I. Fraser and M. Beeston:
The Brotherhood
Part 1: Introduction. The Main Manipulating Groups
Part 2: The Main Protagonists
Part 3: Economic Control. Steps Towards a Global Bank
Part 4: Political Control
Part 5: The World Army
Part 6: Population Control
Part 7: Who We Are & Mind Manipulation
Part 8: Further Examples of Manipulation
Part 9: The Pharmaceutical Racket
Part 10: Seeing Beyond the Veil
|
Corporate Watch
(Feb. 18 2004)
Analysis: Report
from the World Social Forum |
K. Yurica
(Feb. 11 2004)
The Despoiling
of America
How George W. Bush became the head of the new American
Dominionist Church/State |
D. C. Korten:
Living economies for a living planet |
| The People-Centered Development Forum |
| From Project Underground
(2001): ---Dirt on Dick
Cheney?- Oil & Politics Do Mix
---NEWS
- Bank Funding For
Oil Project And Government Repression Both On The Rise In Chad
- Occidental
Petroleum's Cozy Relationship With Colombian Military Turns Fatal
- Ecuadorian
President Approves Pipeline Backed By Occidental Petroleum
- Namosi Copper
Mine Proposes to Dump 100,000 Ton of Waster Per Day
---DIARY:
BUSHWACKED: The Kyoto Protocol
---WHAT YOU CAN
DO: Speak out against World Bank Investments and Political Repression in Chad
---HOTSPOTS:
Burma, Chile, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, United States, Sudan
---VITAL
STATISTICS: Greasing The Machine: Bush, His Cabinet and their Oil Connections
---COMMUNITY
PIPELINE: Reports, Books, Websites
|
T. Hayden (January
18, 2004):
Talking Back to the Global Establishment
As the Bush administration struggles with setbacks in its
global trade and Iraq agendas, the opposition World Social Forum opened festively this
week with 150,000 global justice activists primarily from India and South Asia, marking a
successful transition for the grassroots experiment from its original site in Brazil. |
L. Panitch and S.
Gindin
Global
Capitalism and American Empire
"The American empire is no longer concealed. In
March 1999, the cover of the New York Times Magazine displayed a giant clenched fist
painted in the stars and stripes of the US flag above the words: ‘What The World
Needs Now: For globalization to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the
almighty superpower that it is’. Thus was featured Thomas Friedman’s
‘Manifesto for a Fast World’, which urged the United States to embrace its role
as enforcer of the capitalist global order: ‘…the hidden hand of the market will
never work without a hidden fist.... The hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon
Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine
Corps.’ " |
N. Chomsky
(Toronto Star, 21 Dec. 2003)
Selective memory and dishonest doctrine |
M. Klare (January
2004)
Bush-Cheney energy strategy: procuring the rest of the world's oil
|
F. Morales ( Dec.
2003)
Homeland Defense:
The Pentagon declares war on America |
M. A. Hoare (Nov.
2003)
The Left Revisionists
From "Balkan Witness"
------
Grateful Slave
by Paine's Torch (1993) |
T. McNally
(AlterNet)
( 12 November 2003 )
The professor takes the gloves off
...Accustomed in economic circles to calling a stupid
argument a stupid argument, and isolated (in Princeton, New Jersey) from the Washington
dinner-party circuit, Paul Krugman has become the most prominent voice in the mainstream
U.S. media to openly and repeatedly accuse George Bush of lying to the American people to
sell budget-busting tax cuts and a pre-emptive and nearly unilateral war. ... |
S. J. A. Talvi
(AlterNet)
( 12 November 2003 )
The truth about the Green River killer
...Why was he allowed to kill, again and again, when
so much evidence had already pointed in his direction two decades ago? The answer, in
great part, lies in Ridgway's own admission of who he preyed upon. ... |
From Michael Bednar
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
( 3 November 2003 )
U.S. Congress moves
to regulate postcolonial studies |
A. Tausch ( 3
November 2003 )
Afterward: Europe and the political geography of
global confrontation
A world system perspective on "Behind the War on Terror" |
C. Kupferberg (23
October 2003):
What follows is a reconstruction of one of the most extensive disinformation campaigns in
history, and the chronicle of a legend that may now shine a devastating spotlight on some
of the cliques behind 9/11 - and the FBI Director covering the paper trails.
There's something about Omar:
Truth, Lies and the Legend of 9/11 |
Nafeez Mosaddeq
Ahmed (09/10/03)
'Behind the War on
Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq' |
C.P. Scherrer ( 10 October,
2003):
Action for the Indictment of US-UK War-mongers
Revised Report for the World Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, and the
preparatory meeting for the International Tribunal on Iraq, October, 2003
...Nuclear warfare is not a thing of the past. In 1991, after
46 years of shame, it was employed again by the same USA in Iraq. Over six weeks in 1991,
US aircraft and missiles systematically destroyed lives and life-support systems in Iraq.
An equally ferocious assault by the US air force in March-May 2003 was followed by the
deployment of ground troops by the world’s mightiest nations against a country that
had been thoroughly disarmed of its weapons of mass destruction by UN inspectors over the
years! UK and US forces used massive amounts of extremely toxic and radioactive uranium in
the heart of Iraqi cities. Uranium remains active for millions of years! Since 1991 the
death toll has climbed exponentially and it is feared that it will climb even faster.
Uranium kills over generations. It attacks the human DNS. Horrifically deformed babies are
born.
Invasion of Iraq, the U.N., U.S. Unilateralism and
Crimes against Humanity: Perspectives for Accountability |
The
lies of George W. Bush
Mastering the politics of deception
David Corn (30 Septembet 2003 )
This book is an example of good journalism. Timely published, it will become a must to
show the "emperor" without clothes. (R.R.)
-------
C. Brenti (19/09/03)
The progress of disaster
Here the criminal is king. Saddam emptied the
prisons and the United States disbanded the police, while 60 percent of people are
unemployed. As a result, carjacking, robbery, looting, and murder are rife. Marauding men
in "misery gangs" kidnap and rape women and girls at will. Some of these victims
are dumped back on the streets only to be executed by their "disgraced" male
relatives in what are called "honor killings." |
Whose Terror?
Washington's War on Terrorism is Not Misguided
( Septembet 2003 )
The chaos in Iraq has belatedly led many in the media to question aspects of the Bush
administration's war on "terrorism". But badly planned as it may appear to
outsiders, Steven Gowans points out that the region's slow descent into anarchy is all
part of the overall USA strategy. |
M. Chossudovsky
(11/09/03)
In the weeks leading up the coup, US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and members of the CIA
held meetings with Chile's top military brass together with the leaders of the National
Party and the ultra-right nationalist front Patria y Libertad. While the undercover role
the Nixon administration is amply documented, what is rarely mentioned in media reports is
the fact that the military coup was also supported by a sector of the Christian Democratic
Party
Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup |
Roger Burbach (The
Guardian, 11/09/03)
State
Terrorism and September 11, 1973 and 2001 |
(The Guardian,
11/09/03)
September 11 2003: As the world marks the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, Chileans are remembering their own September 11. Thirty years ago
today, the democratically elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in
a US-backed coup headed by the then-head of the Chilean armed forces, General Augusto
Pinochet. With Washington's blessing and support, Pinochet set up a military dictatorship
that was to last 16 years, and under which thousands of civilians were tortured, murdered
or simply disappeared in a manhunt designed to wipe out left-wing politics in Chile for
good.
Chile: 30
years after the coup |
I. Wallerstein , 15
July 2003
Bush's days are numbered. He is in serious trouble, and the trouble will not go away. The
tissue of justifications for the Iraq invasion is fraying bit by bit. Both he and Blair
have had to retreat on some of the more egregious statements ...
When will Bush fall? |
T. Engelhardt , 14
July 2003
...
Intelligence unglued |
M. Schwarz , 13
July 2003
...
U.S. Pre-emptive Strike Doctrine Bane of Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Watchdogs |
L. Minear , 9 July
2003
...
A moment of truth for the humanitarian enterprise
J. R. Cheney , 26 June 2003
...
The United States in Iraq: an experiment with unilateral
humanitarianism |
H. Meyerson, 1st
May 2003
The American president -- though not of the United States -- whom George W. Bush most
nearly resembles is the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis. Yes, I know: Bush is no racist, and
certainly no proponent of slavery. He is not grotesque; he is merely disgraceful. But, as
with Davis, obtaining Bush's defeat is an urgent matter of national security -- and
national honor. ...
The Most Dangerous President Ever
How and why George W. Bush undermines American security |
G. Vidal, The
Observer,
27 October 2002
Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated,
critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about
America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish
Vidal’s remarkable personal polemic urging a shocking new interpretation of who was
to blame....
The Enemy Within |
The New York Times,
12 July 2003
...the United States often wished, sometimes planned and occasionally took concrete steps
to kill foreign leaders. The best known of its targets was Fidel Castro...Can it still be
called assassination if it is carried out in wartime? Does a White House decision to
attack Iraq make it "a war," and thereby turn Mr. Hussein into a legitimate
target? Old hands in the intelligence business say that legal questions raised by the
deliberate killing of named individuals, the core definition of assassination, are less
important than practical matters...
When frontier justice become
foreign policy |
From Haaretz.com, 8
July 2003
A. Regular
...According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: "God told me to strike at al
Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and
now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act,
and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
"Road map is a life saver
for us", PM Abbas tells Hamas |
J. Pilger( July 04,
2003 )
How Britain exports weapons of mass destruction |
( June 29, 2003 )
The barbarians in the U.S. Senate and the U.S.
Army |
( June 26, 2003 )
Letter of Michael Moore to Lt. George W. Bush |
W. Brasch ( June
20, 2003 )
Down on our knees.
An American tale |
N. Chomsky and D.
Barsamian ( June 16, 2003 )
Imperial ambition |
S. Pitelli ( June
14, 2003 )
When Will House Republicans Call for Bush's
Impeachment? |
N. Chomsky ( June
02, 2003 )
Does the USA intend to dominate the whole world
by force? |
Resolution of the
Anti-imperialist Camp
After the aggression: on the Iraqi resistance and the American world order
...The Pax Americana offered integration of the former enemies
after their surrender. It promised global détente. In the form of Clintonianism it deeply
penetrated the European intelligentsia transforming the historic left into left liberalism
supplying the leadership of imperialism. ... full text |
S. Bichler / J. Nitzan
Dominant Capital and the New Wars
...Traditional analyses of imperialism emphasized the benefit
of accumulation by territorial conquest, access to raw materials and the expansion of
markets. But with capital becoming increasingly political in nature and financial in form,
the link between imperialism and accumulation has grown more complex and subtle. Dominant
capital has fabricated a whole | | | |
