tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38326542011-04-22T04:47:14.178+10:00Consisting of the Musings of a Disordered MindGwalchgwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09040588368209272433noreply@blogger.comBlogger5861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832654.post-1091612093083254312006-12-31T23:59:00.000+11:002005-12-10T21:59:11.033+11:00

Herewith a selection of inspirational quotes, some of which can be ascribed to an individual...The end ALWAYS justifies the means.- Saul AlinskyThose who constantly worry about the ethics of ends and means wind up sitting on their ends without any means.- S AlinskyThe end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. - Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) The

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The Power of Saying Noby Jeff Halper23 March 2006As the new Hamas government is sworn into power in the Palestinian Authority, we might ask: What would bring a people, the most secular of Arab populations with little history of religious fundamentalism, to vote Hamas? Mere protest at Fatah ineffectualness in negotiations and internal corruption doesn't go far enough. While warning Hamas that

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US Troops Investigated Over Iraqi Massacresby Patrick CockburnThe Independent UK23 March 2006The US military is investigating two incidents in which American soldiers killed at least 26 Iraqi civilians and then claimed that they were either guerrillas or had died in cross fire.The growing evidence of retaliatory killings of unarmed Iraqi families, often including children, by US soldiers

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When Terrorism Outlaws Democracyby Wanda FishOn September 27, 2005, Australian democracy surrendered to terrorism. On that day, a coalition of willing federal and state leaders agreed to anti-terrorism legislation that will enable police persecution of the Muslim community and threaten dissidents with imprisonment. In a country without a Bill of Rights, the prospect of more draconian Terror Laws

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[Our beloved Prime Minister doesn't have a Constitution to worry about, AND he has both the media and the laziness of most Australians on his side. "Trust me," he says. "I'll make you feel relaxed and comfortable!" And we do - as long as rain doen't delay play in the cricket, as long as there is a snag (sausage) on the barbie and a cold beer in the fridge, most Aussies don't give a tinker's cuss

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WHO’S THE BOSS?Soon after humans first appeared on Earth, the parts of the Body began to argue over who should be the Boss.The Brain argued that, of course, it should be Boss, because it exercised control over all aspects of the human’s behaviour.The Eyes claimed that they should be Boss, because they showed the human being what was happening in the world around.The Mouth asserted that it should

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[I was prompted to write this by a phone asking me to donate to what I consider a worthy cause - the Epilepsy Foundation - wherein I was told that my donation would be tax-deductible. Are there really people so mean that they will only donate if they can somehow claw the money back? Apparently - this is the Aussie way, mate!] I cannot help a wry smile when I hear how people are inveigled into

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Bullet Points over BaghdadBy Paul KrugmanThe New York TimesThe National Security Council document released this week under the grandiose title "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" is neither an analytical report nor a policy statement. It's simply the same old talking points - "victory in Iraq is a vital U.S. interest"; "failure is not an option" - repackaged in the style of a slide

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I am a linguist by training, but History runs a close second in my list of enthusiasms. Although no surprise to linguists, the New Left emphasis on the cultural hegemony that “the Establishment” exercises has, in recent years, made the average person aware that the words we use have power to shape the way we think. The trap into which liberal thinkers often fall is to let “the Establishment”

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Official Secrets, Lies, and the Truthby Raymond Whitaker and Marie Woolf3 DecemberNobody outside the Westminster village would recognize the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and

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VIEWPOINTVisit the Viewpoint archives at http://archives.GopherCentral.comEditor's Note:On Monday, Nov. 7th, Italian television network RAI decided to air a documentary of a story that was reported by Bloggers and online sources almost a year ago: The US used chemical weapons during the assault on Fallujah (see stories at the end of today's articles to verify that this is not a new story.)

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[As Australian Prime Minister Joh Howard steps up to ram his ne "Workplace" Relations Bill the the Parliament, I discovered a hint that his service-station-owner father may have been a member of Australia's own Fascist Party, the New Guard. Nothing can be proven, but...] If John Howard’s father was a member of Australia’s home-grown fascist organization, the New Guard, the PM’s hatred of

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Are we going to war with Iran?by Dan PleschThe Sunday Telegraph warned last weekend that the UN had a last chance to avert war with Iran and, at a meeting in London last week, the US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, expressed his regret that any failure by the UN security council to deal with Iran would damage the security council's relevance, implying that the US would solve the problem on its

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[Australian PM John Howard was preparing to push the Parliament a set of draconian "anti-terrorism" laws and called a meeting of State Premiers to strongarm them into agreement, giving them a 'confidential' copy of the draft legislation. Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, Jon Stanhope, took the unusual and brave step of publishing the draft on his website. Naturally he was

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Making The Middle East Safe For What?Leon Hadar16 OctoberThe Bush administration seems to be drawing the outlines of a strategy to oust Syria's President Bashar Assad and his ruling Ba'ath Party.Of course, no one is considering an American-led military invasion à la Iraq to achieve "regime change" in Damascus. Instead, neoconservative policymakers and analysts are urging Washington to take

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IR plan needs time for debateJustinBMonday, 10 October 2005JOHN HOWARD is perfectly right in seeing the industrial relations revolution he is promoting in the centre of his personal and political achievements. He has played a major role, from his earliest time in politics, in promoting the need to loosen up the labour market and to dismantle an all too comfortable system based on federal and

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Our new terror laws too much like South Africa'sMonday, 3 October 2005JOHN HOWARD plays his politics incrementally. He acquires power and influence bite by bite. He is a hoarder of power and influence against the day when he might need it.He stores information and is economic in disclosing it. He talks in the broadest of terms and will not be tied down. He always has an exit strategy, even when

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Sinister Events in a Cynical War by John Pilger30 September 2005Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on Sept. 19? If true, what were they planning to do with them? Why did the British military authorities in Iraq put out

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Let the Dead Teach the LivingBy William Rivers Pittt r u t h o u t Perspective12 SeptemberThey have turned a gigantic warehouse into a makeshift morgue in the Louisiana town of St. Gabriel. Doctors and forensic specialists wait there for the bodies to come in, bodies with no identification, bodies that have spent days submerged in water, bodies gnawed by dogs and rats and 'gators. The doctors

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[This article is one of the most important and sanest that I have read in quite a long time. It gives me hope, in that I realize that there are people who have the courage to stand up to the hairy-chested bullies of the Right] 9/11 AND THE SPORT OF GODBy Bill MoyersPublished on Friday, September 9, 2005 by CommonDreams.orgThis article is adapted from Bill Moyer's address this week at Union

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Big announcement today from FEMA - they say they now have reason to believe a hurricane may have hit New Orleans. - Jay Leno You're a pathetic arselicker, Jay... It was BUSH who denied for a week that New Orleans had been seriously damaged, and FEMA whose budget was sacrificed on the alter of "small government."

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Galloway: Elements Within Government Use Terror ProvocationSteve Watson & Alex Jones - PrisonplanetOn Friday, 9/9 Alex Jones was joined on air by Member of Parliament and prominent antiwar activist George Galloway for a riveting one on one interview.Mr. Galloway discussed the rising tide of anti-Iraq war protest, the snarling Neo-Cons' plan for world war and the possibility of staged government

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The Real Costs of a Culture of GreedBy Robert ScheerThe Los Angeles Times8 SeptemberWhat the world has witnessed this past week is an image of poverty and social disarray that tears away the affluent mask of the United States.Instead of the much-celebrated American can-do machine that promises to bring freedom and prosperity to less fortunate people abroad, we have seen a callous official

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Let's see, 38 years of occupation, a wall, hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers on stolen lands, IDF shooting Palestinians at random, Shin Bet posing as terrorists to justify further military actions by Israel, and Sharon says the Palestinians are supposed to show a desire for peace? Please note that the recent "undercover" British soldiers who were firing at Iraqi police and had a

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Two "Green Zones"by Dahr Jamail 2 SeptemberAs the US-backed Iraqi puppet government flails about arguing over the so-called constitution, Iraq remains in a state of complete anarchy. There is no government control whatsoever, even inside the infamous "Green Zone" where the puppets seem to have tangled their strings.Why the harsh tone for the conflagrations of the so-called Iraqi government?

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An Insufficient Remedyby Akiva Eldar2 SeptemberIt is happening more quickly even than the doomsayers had predicted. The soldiers had barely departed from the Strip of Death, with the world still cheering the disengagers, and already the Israel Defence Forces carried out an assassination in Tul Karm and terrorists struck at Be'er Sheva. As if nothing had happened a week earlier. The only

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Bush Gives New Reason for Iraq War: Says US must prevent oil fields from falling into hands of terroristsBy Jennifer Loven Published on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by the Associated Press CORONADO, California - President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would

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President Bush's Loss of FaithThe New York Times Editorial29 AugustIt took President Bush a long time to break his summer vacation and acknowledge the pain that the families of fallen soldiers are feeling as the death toll in Iraq continues to climb. When he did, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Utah this week, he said exactly the wrong thing. In an address that repeatedly invoked

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[Australian Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, took umbrage at the comments of a recently-appointed Anglican Bishop which criticized the Coalition's anti-worker Workplace Relations "reforms." Peter, of course, is the darling of the Right-facing evangelical Hillsong Church, whose clergy were also guaranteed (by Labor Premier, Bob Carr) immunity from prosecution, if they slurred members of other

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[In the early 1990s a party arose in Australa called the "One Nation Party," preaching a nasty combination of racism, nationalism and economic populism. It died out, not because it lost its appeal, but because the Conservative Liberal/National Party Coalition subsumed many of its policy positions and combined racism with economic rationalism.] Shadow of Hitler hangs over HansonBy ANDREW

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[In the early 1990's New Zealand - the Shaky Isles - was under the thumb of an economic rationalist government. Kiwis soon kicked out their loonies, but the illness crossed the Tasman and is now firmly rooted here in Australia - though our loonies are even more extreme. Those who worship at the Shrine of Economics should read this article from the 1990s.] Shaky isles could learn from Norway's

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[This article, written in 2000, still rings true today. With the Howard government in control of the Senate and poised to 'sell off the silver' of Telstra, we need to reread it carefully.] Howard driving us into declineTHE PRIME Minister, John Howard, wants to accelerate the already rapid sell-off of public Australian assets to the private sector, most notably by selling the rest of Telstra. He

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Robertson's 'Fatwa'by Eric MargolisPublished on Sunday, August 28, 2005 by the Toronto SunReverend Pat Robertson took time off last week from promoting a new protein pancake mix and scourging "ungodly" sodomites, Muslims, and Democrats to suggest the U.S. should assassinate Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez.Unveiling a new bogeyman of far right paranoia, Robertson claimed Chavez was

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Beginning Of The Endby Mustafa Barghouti25 AugustThe Palestinians must guard against complacency and not be overwhelmed by the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, writes Mustafa BarghoutiThe dismantlement of the settlements in Gaza and the departure of the settlers have ushered in the beginning of the end of the history of the Israeli occupation. For the first time since 1897 the Zionist dream has

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An Exit Strategy for Iraq NowBy Tom HaydenThe Los Angeles Times18 AugustPresident Bush has so far fended off Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother demanding to know the "noble purpose" of her son's death in Iraq. However, Bush has been forced to address the existence of the antiwar constituency for perhaps the first time, if only to distort and discredit its message of "troops out now." It is the

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Bush Sends John Bolton to the United NationsBy Phyllis BennisInstitute For Policy Studies15 AugustA Small Consolation PrizePresident George W. Bush, relying on an emergency constitutional provision designed for a mid-1700s era when congress met for only a few months each year and it took six months to get from anywhere to anywhere, used the Senate's summer recess to appoint UN-basher John Bolton

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A reputable alien anthropologist orbiting the Earth in order to observe the shenanigans of the ape-descended species that dominates the planet would often find cause for puzzlement.I imagine that one of the salient observations our alien would make is that, whether they are involved in a small or a large enterprise, businesspeople are always hypocritical whingers. When they have their employees

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UK/US lied about pre-war Iraq air strikesby Michael Smith11 AugustBritain and America's reasons for stepping up bombing of Iraq in the ten months leading up to the war in Iraq was a sham, official figures released by the British Ministry of Defence show.US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Geoff Hoon, his UK counterpart, said the stepped-up attacks by US and Royal Air Force aircraft

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No Sympathy for the Neocons: Mick Jagger runs with the 'neocon' memeby Justin RaimondoAugust 10, 2005The news that the Rolling Stones are coming out with a song called "Sweet Neocon" that takes the administration to task for its Iraq war policy is … music to my ears:You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come

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Between Freedom and Fearby Khaled Amayreh5 AugustWith two weeks to go, Gazans are looking ahead to a life free of military occupation — they hope, writes Khaled Amayreh in PalestineWith its nearly 1.4 million tormented souls - thanks to decades of institutionalised Israeli repression - the Gaza Strip is readying itself for the upcoming Israeli withdrawal, slated to begin in two weeks. The public

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A Feast of DeathBy William Rivers Pittt r u t h o u t Perspective3 AugustNow thou art come unto a feast of death. - William Shakespeare, Henry VI On Tuesday, some took solemn note of the fact that the total number of "Coalition" fatalities from the invasion and occupation of Iraq had reached 2,000. On Wednesday afternoon, that number blurred upwards again to 2,015 dead soldiers. 1,821 of those

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Oil and Bloodby Bob HerbertThe New York Times1 AugustIt's the oil, stupid.It is now generally understood that the US-led war in Iraq has become a debacle. Nevertheless, Iraqis are supposed to have their constitution ratified and a permanent government elected by the end of the year. It's a logical escape hatch for George W. Bush. He could declare victory, as a senator once suggested to Lyndon

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Kill Them There, or They'll Kill Us Hereby Steve Weissmant r u t h o u t Perspective28 JulyHaving lived in London during the IRA bombing campaign of the 1970s, I can feel a small part of the terror that bus and subway riders must have felt when the four bombs exploded on July 7, and again when only the detonators went off last week. This is what life has become in an age of terror, and it could

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[In order to keep us in a state of fear and toeing the Party Line, our "leaders" and their meadia mouthpieces are STILL parrotting the mantra that "Muslims hate us for what we are." Hillsong is the happy-clappy evangelical church in Western Sydeny which preaches that Jesus loves capitalism.] These terrible brown turbaned people are trying to kill us all because they hate us for our freedoms and

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Why Are They Killing Us?by Patrick J Buchanan21 JulyWho carried out the London massacre, we do not know. But, as to why they did it, we are already quarrelling.President Bush says that the terrorists are attacking our civilization. At Fort Bragg, NC, he explained again why we are fighting in Iraq, two years after we overthrew Saddam Hussein. "Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war," he said,

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A Warning from Israel: What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Stripby URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON21 JulyWe feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel in 1967, in the event that the evacuation is implemented. We held back on getting this

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New Study Raises Iraq Death TollBy Irwin ArieffThe Age (Australia)14 July 2005Nearly 40,000 Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since the US-led invasion. It is a figure considerably higher than previous estimates, a Swiss institute reported yesterday.The public database Iraqi Body Count, by comparison, estimates that between 22,787 and 25,814 Iraqi civilians

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The disgrace outside their windowsby Meron Benvenisti14 July 2005Among the initial reactions to Tuesday's murderous attack in Netanya, there were references to the "Jerusalem envelope" fence: Islamic Jihad reportedly says that the motive for the attack was the fence's construction, while security experts did not rule out the possibility that the terrorist infiltrated Netanya via an uncompleted

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[I am amused that I now have the reputation of a "conspiracy theorist." Hitler's conspiracy against democracy in staging the Reichstag Fire is admitted - why do we baulk at similarly categorizing acts which advance the neocon's Project for the New American Century?] Once again we are confronted with the obscene spectacle of an Anglo-Celtic intelligence agency slaughtering its own citizens to

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The Power and the Glory: Myths of American ExceptionalismHoward ZinnThe notion of American exceptionalism - that the United States alone has the right, whether by divine sanction or moral obligation, to bring civilization, or democracy, or liberty to the rest of the world, by violence if necessary-is not new. It started as early as 1630 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when Governor John Winthrop

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Expensive Blunderby Charley Reese08/07/05One question Americans should be asking the Bush administration is why it wishes to do such an expensive favor for the Iraqi people.I cannot think of any instance in which the federal government has been willing to spend $1 billion a week and 1,700 lives just to improve conditions in any one of the 50 states.Yet that is exactly what it is doing in Iraq,

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Over ThereBy William Rivers Pittt r u t h o u t Perspective08/07/05A British associate penned a quick response to the bombing attacks that took place in London this morning. "The message from those claiming responsibility says, in part, 'Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters,'" he wrote. "Well it isn't, so fuck them."

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Getting Real on AfricaBy Suzanne NosselSalon.comIf President Bush is serious about fighting African poverty, here are 10 things he should do.On the eve of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, President Bush deserves some credit for his proposals to address the lot of Africa's roughly 850 million people. Bush's promises to double U.S. aid to Africa, to cancel the debts of Africa's 18 most

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Memo to Iraq War: This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your DeathBy Norman Solomont r u t h o u t Perspective4 July 2005On the propaganda front, it's been another tough week for Washington's war makers. But for them, where there's hope there's death.Let's address the Iraq war directly:It's too soon to know whether the Bush administration's new PR offensive will do anything for you in terms of

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Iraq: A bloody messby Patrick Cockburn30 June 2005A year ago the supposed handover of power by the US occupation authority to an Iraqi interim government led by Iyad Allawi was billed as a turning point in the violent history of post-Saddam Iraq.It has turned out to be no such thing. Most of Iraq is today a bloody no-man's land beset by ruthless insurgents, savage bandit gangs, trigger-happy US

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The Vietnam SolutionBy Robert DreyfussTom Paine30 June 2005Comparisons between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq are coming fast and furious now, so let's consider one more. There is an apt parallel between the way we got out of Vietnam and the way that we will get out of Iraq - sooner or later.Public opinion is turning sharply against the war, even though mainstream Democrats and most Republicans are

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[In Australia, of course, none of these legalities matter. All that the average Aussie in the pub knows, and is told again and again by the gurus of talkback radio, is that "Iraqis are better off without Saddam"]Torture and Accountabilityby Elizabeth HoltzmanPublished on Wednesday, June 28, 2005 by The Nationfrom the July 18, 2005 issue of The Nation Although the terrible revelations of torture

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Stay the Crooked Courseby Ray McGovernPublished on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 by CommonDreams.org The editors of the New York Times this morning feign shock that in his speech at Fort Bragg yesterday evening President George W. Bush would “raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks.” Kudos for that

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America's Crusaderby James CarrollPublished on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 by the Boston Globe Billy Graham returned to New York this past weekend. Tens of thousands of people attended his revival gatherings at Flushing Meadows in Queens. Such response to the aged master of the public pulpit highlights the unpredicted resurgence of a certain kind of American religious enthusiasm. What gives?Much is

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The Thing We Don't Talk Aboutby William Rivers PittT r u t h o u t PerspectiveWith the revelation of the secret Downing Street Minutes, which exposed the fact that George Bush and Tony Blair had decided to invade Iraq in April of 2002, a heated debate has blown through media, congressional and activist circles. The decision to go to war in Iraq was made before any public debate was initiated,

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Bill Kristol And Israel Want To Draft Your Kidsby Kurt NimmoAre you ready to suit up or suit up your kids (and the kids of your kids) in body armour and die for Israel? Before you dismiss me as an 'anti-Semitic' crank, consider the following:"Ephraim Halevy, the former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and the current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,

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The US War with Iran has Already Begunby Scott Ritter23 June 2005Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to

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Bards of the PowerfulFar from Challenging the G8's Role in Africa's Poverty, Geldof and Bono are Giving Legitimacy to Those Responsibleby George MonbiotPublished on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by the Guardian/UK...Listen to these men - Bush, Blair and their two bards - and you could forget that the rich nations had played any role in Africa's accumulation of debt, or accumulation of weapons, or loss

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Bush Plays Politics with Guantánamo "Gulag"by Marjorie Cohnt r u t h o u t Perspective"Absurd!" George Bush exclaimed. "Reprehensible!" Donald Rumsfeld charged. "Ridiculous!" stated Scott McClellan. "I'm offended!" declared Dick Cheney. What are they all so upset about? Is it the stripping and shackling of Guantanámo prisoners low to the ground, the forcible squeezing of their genitals, the

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After Downing Streetby William Rivers PittT r u t h o u t Perspective17 June 2005As to US assertions that Iraq possessed bombs, rockets and shells for poison agents, unmanned aerial vehicles for delivering biological and chemical weapons, nuclear weapon materials, sarin, tabun, mustard agent, precursor chemicals, VX nerve agent, anthrax, aflotoxins, ricin and surface-to-surface Al Hussein

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No, I’m not a totally “politcal animal” — I DO have other interests, such as linguistics history, and reading and/or watching science-fiction and fantasy. However I will admit that I do tend to interpret these enthusiasms within their social context through a broadly “Marxist perspective. One of my favourite TV shows was the Stargate-SG1 series. I was discomfited when it ended but pleased to see

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Withdrawal on the Agendaby Tom EngelhardtPublished on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 by TomDispatch.com Republican Congressman Walter B. Jones (famed for insisting that the Congressional cafeteria re-label French fries as "freedom fries" on its menu), a man who represents North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, home to the Marine's Camp LeJeune, voted enthusiastically for the Iraq War, but

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Nixon's Empire Strikes BackBush's imperial project has succeeded by learning the chief lesson of Watergate - muzzle the pressby Sidney BlumenthalPublished on Thursday, June 9, 2005 by the Guardian/UK...Nixon's grand plan was to concentrate executive power in an imperial presidency, politicize the bureaucracy and crush its independence, and invoke national security to wage partisan warfare. He

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Bush at OAS: Same Old "Free Trade" Tuneby Deborah JamesPublished on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 by CommonDreams.orgThis weekend, foreign ministers and ambassadors of 34 nations of the western hemisphere met in Ft Lauderdale, Florida at the 35th meeting of the Organization of American States. The meeting occurs during a time of major shifts in the relationship of the US with Latin America,

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Torture's Part of the Territoryby Naomi KleinPublished on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.The photographs will elicit what has become a predictable response:

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The Shock of Being Shockedby Joan ChittisterPublished on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 by the National Catholic ReporterI am ... part of the generation who were taught to fear Communists, who were trained to hide under school desks or sit on the floor in darkened basement corridors to protect ourselves from nuclear attack, who were told lurid tales about Russian gulags. And who, most of all, in my case,

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[In Australia, the shock-jocks are STILL telling us that the ousting of Saddam was all that mattered!] Bring It Down. Now.by David Michael GreenPublished on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 by CommonDreams.org The Downing Street Memo is the gift that just keeps on giving. And well it should. It is the smoking gun which proves that the gravest possible crime was committed by the Bush administration, and

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The Bush EconomyThe New York Times - Editorial9 June 2005With all of the debate about taxes, the economy and domestic spending, it is hard to imagine anyone supporting the notion of taking money from programs like Medicaid and college-tuition assistance, increasing the tax burden of the vast majority of working Americans, sending the country into crushing debt - and giving the proceeds to people

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The War Against Islamby James CarrollPublished on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 by the Boston Globe Among the factors leading to the French and Dutch rejections of the European constitution last week, none looms more ominously than the nightmare of antagonism between ''the West" and Islam. Many Europeans fear a rising tide of green, both within the continent and from outside it. Where once communists

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[Recently a diplomat from the Chinese embassy here defected, trying to claim political asylum. The Howard government, unwilling to offend its trading partner, the PRC, but treading daintily in the face of its military "mentor," the USofA, offered him a lesser status]The loony Gwalchgwyn has come up with another conspiracy theory. Ready? This time he’s saying that the Chinese diplomat was

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[The Coalition Government is poised to take control of the Australian Senate and ram through draconian new industrial laws which will change Australian society into a more "American" mould. The terrified petit-bourgeois of Howard's government have tried this before of course - in 1998, they attempted to break the Maritime Union of Australia, and in justification, blitzed the mainstream media with

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Administration's Offenses Impeachableby Robert ShetterlyPublished on Friday, June 3, 2005 by the Bangor Daily News (Maine) Let's consider an item from the news of about two weeks ago:A British citizen leaked a memo to London's Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the

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Given the Chance, the People Reject "Globalization"French Say "Non" in Thunder!by Diana JohnstonePublished on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 by CounterpunchPARIS -- The French went ahead and did it. Despite being lectured by government and party leaders, media pundits and foreign leaders flown in from neighboring countries, all telling them that they must vote "yes" to the Treaty establishing a

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The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun: How Bush Began the Iraq Invasion Before He Went to Congress or the UNby Jeremy ScahillPublished on Thursday, June 2, 2005 by The NationIt was a huge air assault: Approximately 100 US and British planes flew from Kuwait into Iraqi airspace. At least seven types of aircraft were part of this massive operation, including US F-15 Strike Eagles and Royal Air

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The 'I' Word: Impeachmentby Ralph Nader and Kevin ZeesePublished on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 by the Boston Globe The impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ''fixing"

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Wolfowitz’s Move to the World Bank Presidency and the Sharpening of Economic Policy as a Weapon of Mass Impoverishmentby Njoki Njoroge Njehu & Leslie CaganPublished on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org On June 1, Paul Wolfowitz will become the 10th President of the World Bank Group. This news, confirmed in March, took just about everyone by surprise. President Bush had just returned from

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["Liberals" and "elitists" in Australia take note - sell out and vote 1 for John Howard!] Why I'm Joining the GOP: Leaving the left for fun and profitby Jeff GillenkirkPublished on Sunday, May 29, 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle After a lifetime voting for and working for Democratic candidates and independents, I'm finally going to make the switch and become a Republican.The reasons are many,

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[The Conservative Liberal Party/National Party alliance which runs Australia for capitalism is about to take control of the Senate, giving them an absolute control of the Parliament. PM John Howard plans to ram through laws which will reduce Australian workers to virtual slaves of their employers - just like in "the land of the free 'n' the home of the brave"] John Howard is about to realize the

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Why Muslims Distrust the Westby H.D.S. GreenwayPublished on Friday, May 27, 2005 by the Boston Globe "There appears to be a very unpleasant feeling existing among the native soldiers, who are here for instruction, regarding the grease used in preparing the cartridges," a young British officer in India, Captain J.A. Wright, wrote to his general in the winter of 1857. ''Some evil disposed persons

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Time for Progressives to Grow UpBeyond Lakoff’s Strict Father vs. Nurturant Parent, A Strong Community Manifestoby Frances Moore LappéPublished on Thursday, May 26, 2005 by Guerrilla News NetworkGeorge Lakoff’s new best-seller Don’t Think of an Elephant has been heralded as the “bible” for battered progressives searching for direction in the post-election doldrums. Lakoff himself has become the

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Adding Insult to Injury: Halliburton Contractors Denied Insurance Benefitsby David PhinneyPublished on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 by CommonDreams.org Mark Baltazar was between jobs operating heavy construction equipment when he heard he could make $84,000 doing the same work in Iraq. When he took the job, his plan was to save up the tax-free money and then buy a new home for his family back in

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Morality a casualtyDON ALLANI DON'T know about you but I am confused by the fact that, according to the US, the non-Afghans fighting on the Afghan side in the war against terrorism aren't prisoners of war but unlawful combatants.I am further confused by the fact that, try as I might, I have not been able to find out what makes someone an unlawful combatant. But what makes me even more confused is

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A Hypocritical Church's Sex LessonsThe pope has minimized priests' crimes while wagging a finger at gaysby Robert ScheerPublished on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times One of the most sexually repressed institutions in human history has been caught with its pants down yet again but still insists on wagging its disapproving finger at the rest of us...This is all especially outrageous

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Newsweek Didn't Create White House Imageby Helen ThomasPublished on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 by the Seattle Post-IntelligencerIt was an act of desperation when the White House tried to blame Newsweek magazine for the United States' low esteem around the world, particularly in the Middle East.The Bush administration could look in the mirror and see that the real cause for rampant anti-Americanism is

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The Harvest of Messianic Foreign Policy: Anti-US Radical Islamby Ivan ElandPublished on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 by the Independent Institute An interventionist US foreign policy, fueled by the Bush administration’s messianic zeal to make the world more democratic, has contributed to a dramatic rise in radical political Islam around the world. In fact, the current administration’s campaign is even

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[ This Letter to the Editor was inspired by two others, the first lamenting the fact that in Australia in 2005 the wealthy are seen as more "deserving" than others, and the second whining that Aussies won't talk about god.] Sadly, (Name Withheld, Letters, CT, Mon 23 May), the moral paradigm of society in 2005 dictates that the rich are, in fact, more deserving than the rest of us. This worldview,

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Occupation, Insurgency Feed Each Otherby William PfaffPublished on Friday, May 20, 2005 by the Korea Herald The Bush administration's acute anxiety about Iraq was demonstrated by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to that country on Sunday, as it was during Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's earlier Iraq trip.Once again the administration's illusions have betrayed it. The Bush ideology

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Quran Desecration: Far Worse than Abu Ghraibby M. A. Muqtedar KhanPublished on Thursday, May 19, 2005 by CommonDreams.orgThe reports in the media that Americans at Guantanamo facility allegedly desecrated the Quran to torture prisoners has unleashed an intense wave of anti-Americanism in the Muslim World, which has already caused 16 deaths. This is worse than Abu Ghraib; Abu Ghraib represents the

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The Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandalby Seymour HershPublished on Saturday, May 21, 2005 by the Guardian (UK) It's been over a year since I published a series of articles in the New Yorker outlining the abuses at Abu Ghraib. There have been at least 10 official military investigations since then - none of which has challenged the official Bush administration line that there was no

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More to fear than war against terrorismDon Allan17 May 2005It seems to me the War Against Terror initiated by the US after the events of September 11, 2001, has become a greater problem for the world than the problem it was supposed to cure.Many people in America, Britain, France and other countries who in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were

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Mr. Galloway Goes to Washingtonby John NicholsPublished on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 by The Nation Norm Coleman is a fool.Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot -- just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.The Minnesota Republican senator who took Paul Wellstone's seat after one of the most disreputable campaigns in American political history has been

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Papal PerplexityRoger Beckmann16 May 2005THE NEW Pope, the media says, has been much troubled by "relativism". This is not relativity. But it's almost as tricky. I suspect I would have several areas of civilised disagreement with a man whose "infallible" predecessors threatened Galileo with torture, but on some aspects of relativism I might just agree with Pope Benedict XVI.The Pope is presumably

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They Lied to UsMemo proves leadership knew Saddam was not a threatby Molly IvinsPublished on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 by Working for Change ...I cannot let this astounding Downing Street memo go unmentioned.On May 1, the Sunday Times of London printed a secret memo that went to the defence secretary, foreign secretary, attorney general and other high officials. It is the minutes of their meeting

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Things Americans BelieveBefore criticizing biases of others, we should acknowledge our ownby Geov ParrishPublished on Monday, May 9, 2005 by Working for ChangeIn the 66-line opening paragraph of an article in the new June 2005 issue of Atlantic Monthly, author William Lancewiesche chooses to begin his profile of Ziad al-Khasawneh, the Jordanian lawyer who is lead attorney for Saddam Hussein's

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US Policy Continues to Fan the Embers of Terrorismby David BenjaminPublished on Monday, May 9, 2005 by CommonDreams.org A novelty that distinguishes European technical conferences from those held in the United States is that, often, Old World participants will recklessly drift away from the solipsist drone of high-tech shoptalk to discuss "horizontal" topics like culture, war and peace, foreign

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