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Disgraced by Silence
Editorial - The Los Angeles Times
When will the president respond to the cascading allegations of prisoner abuse by the military? A Marine guard in Iraq sprayed an alcohol-based liquid on a detainee, struck a match and ignited the prisoner, burning and blistering the man's hands. Another Marine held wires from an electric transformer to a detainee's shoulders, so that the man "danced as he was shocked," according to military documents made public this month.
http://207.44.245.159/article7519.htm
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The Enemies Among Us
by Mike Whitney
The new Intelligence reform bill is a more stunning attack on the Bill of Rights than the Patriot Act. Most people have no idea how dramatically their "inalienable" rights have been savaged, or to what extent the Congress has sold them out. It's no exaggeration to say that the foundation of personal liberty, guaranteed in the law, is cracking at the base. It'll be a miracle if we can put it back together in time to pass it on to our children.
http://207.44.245.159/article7518.htm
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Push for Broader Presidential Powers:
By Michael Isikoff
A Justice Department lawyer may have been laying the groundwork for the Iraq invasion long before it was discussed publicly by the White House.
http://207.44.245.159/article7522.htm
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Five killed in Afghanistan attack:
FOUR policemen and a miliant were killed when insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the police have said.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11747666^1702,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bi0y
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Four killed in northern Iraq ambush:
Elsewhere, three Iraqis, including a woman, were killed in a string of attacks, police said.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=12193
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Picture From Fallujah
A combo shows pictures released by the US Marines 18 December 2004 of a US soldier being hit by enemy fire while trying to pull a fatally wounded Marine to safety during battles in the restive city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51877481&cdi=0
http://snipurl.com/bi12
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Hiding the bodies:
Were 6 U.S. Marines Killed In Fallujah on the 17th: Read the second to last paragraph of this article.
http://snipurl.com/bi14
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Bin Laden targets oil to bleed US:
Osama bin Laden claims to have bled the Soviet Union into bankruptcy as an Islamic guerrilla fighter in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Could he do the same to another hated superpower — the US?
http://207.44.245.159/article7517.htm
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Iraq Pipeline Watch :
A statement circulated in Bayji said that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had blown up a pipeline, following orders from ''supreme commander Osama bin Laden''.
http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm
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Displaced Fallujah residents unsure of when they can return home:
"You should not believe it when they say the fighting has stopped," Nasser Mehssen, 48, told IRIN.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=44734&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=IRAQ
http://snipurl.com/bi18
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Robert Fisk: There was screaming and shouting and crying.:
It was the insouciance, the absolute indifference of the British military press office in Basra that shocked me.
http://207.44.245.159/article7521.htm
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Saddam claims election is US plot:
Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has urged his compatriots to unite against the US occupation and warned that upcoming elections were designed to divide the nation.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11746148%255E2703,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bi1d
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Patrick Cockburn : A poll governed by fear:
Millions will get no chance to vote, and the war will go on
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=594551
http://snipurl.com/bi1e
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Nearly 1,300 Lives Lost - And For What?:
What makes the death of this soldier particularly poignant is that only a short time ago he was back in Maple Shade on leave and made DVDs of himself reading his daughter bedtime stories. The videos remain as her introduction to a father she will never otherwise know.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1217-22.htm
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Deserters Are Heroes :
Today let us take the sad, sordid case of one George W. Bush. Our president. Love him or hate him, it was he and he alone who decided that our mighty armies should travel to Iraq and kill tens of thousands of people, most of whom were guilty of nothing more than being there.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/13/hsorensen.DTL&type=printable
http://snipurl.com/bi1j
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Slain Soldiers' Kin Rip Robo-Rummy Letters :
The grieving families of New York soldiers killed in Iraq blasted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday for letting a machine sign his name to condolence letters they got in the mail.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/263808p-225884c.html
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Polish special forces back home:
POLISH special forces have ended their mission in Iraq where they took part in joint operations alongside US troops, the Polish military said today.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11750106%255E1702,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bi1n
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Eric Margolis: West has bloodied hands:
Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq? If your answer was Saddam Hussein's cousin, the notorious "Chemical Ali" -- aka Ali Hassan al-Majid -- you're wrong.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/19/790077.html
http://snipurl.com/bi1o
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Lawyers to resign over UK terror law:
"My role has been altered to provide a false legitimacy to indefinite detention without knowledge of the accusations being made and without any kind of criminal charge or trial."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80A49E05-D6C3-4052-B9B8-99CBD046990B.htm
http://snipurl.com/bi1q
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Bin Laden's New Message::
Scheuer says he was particularly alarmed by the video of al-Zawahiri, aired Nov. 29 on the Arabic TV network al-Jazeera, in which he offered a "final piece of advice for America ... - "What bothered me is he said this is the 'final' time we're going to raise this. "
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041227-1009880,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bi1t
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Believe it or not:
U.S. takes border war on the road: Boats being sunk near Ecuador:
U.S. counterterrorism officials have set up a high-seas gantlet deploying Coast Guard cutters off Latin America and arresting foreign nationals trying to leave their own countries.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11676~2606736,00.html#
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Gordon Prather: Threatening Iran – despite the evidence:
Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has just reported to the IAEA Board of Governors that after a year-long exhaustive and intrusive inspection he has – to date – found no evidence that Iran has – or ever has had – a nuke program.
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/966343.htm
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Report: Iran says it has uncovered spy ring for Israel :
Iran said Sunday its intelligence services have uncovered a spy ring that collected intelligence information for Israel, according to a report by Israel Radio's Persian language program.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/516450.html
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Bush says may step up Syria pressure:
President George W. Bush has said that the United States could step up diplomatic and economic pressure on Syria over interference in the election process in Iraq.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=641599§ion=news&src=rss/uk/worldNews
http://snipurl.com/bi1u
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Uri Avnery: The mountain and the mouse:
Sharon's "vision" for Israel and the Palestinians exposed
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery110.htm
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Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner compares Israel to Nazi Germany
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/4614.htm
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Israel: An entire village in the balance :
If the orders are carried out, the Ministry of the Interior will be able in another 35 days (the legal period for appeal) to erase the entire village from the face of the earth.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/516503.html
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Revealed: Haiti bloodbath that left dozens dead in jail :
Reed Lindsay is the only journalist to get into the Port-au-Prince prison since a riot three weeks ago when, it is said, guards executed inmates
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1376873,00.html
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Freed Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste:
Aristide Supporters "Are Not Only Targeted, We Are Being Chased"
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/20/154247
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The Coup Connection:
How an organization financed by the US government has been promoting the overthrow of elected leaders abroad
http://207.44.245.159/article7520.htm
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Report: Congresswoman's Family Profited:
Rep. Maxine Waters' family members earned more than $1 million in the last eight years doing business with candidates, companies and causes she helped, a newspaper reported Sunday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-congresswoman-family,0,7583184.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
http://snipurl.com/bi1y
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Food stamp use is on rise across U.S.:
Since 2000, Gray and more than 6 million other Americans have joined the ranks of the families who find it increasingly difficult to perform a most basic function - to put food on their tables.
http://snipurl.com/bhr8
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Poll: Half of Americans Worry About Debts :
One-half of Americans say they worry about the money they owe, and many say they worry most of the time about their overall debts, an Associated Press poll found.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/ap/20041220/ap_on_re_us/consumer_debt_poll
http://snipurl.com/bi20
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Report: U.S. Rentals Unaffordable to Poor :
- Most Americans who rely on just a full-time job earning the federal minimum wage cannot afford the rent and utilities on a one- or two-bedroom apartment, an advocacy group on low-income housing reported Monday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=5&u=/ap/20041220/ap_on_re_us/affordable_rent
http://snipurl.com/bi21
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Earth-Hostile Chemical Gets White House OK :
The Bush administration announced new rules Thursday to allow U.S. farmers who grow tomatoes, strawberries and other crops to continue using methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide that had been scheduled to be phased out worldwide next year.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=5&u=/ap/20041217/ap_on_go_pr_wh/methyl_bromide=102&topic_id=1079661&mesg_id=1079661
http://snipurl.com/bi22
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Weak dollar may threaten balance:
A weakening dollar is raising alarms.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/10452739.htm
http://snipurl.com/bi24
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Our disappearing dollar:
Foreigners put up 90 percent of the $2 billion required every day to make sure Uncle Sam's checks don't bounce.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/guests/s_284616.html
http://snipurl.com/bi26
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Arabs wary about dealing with US banks :
Wealthy Arabs, concerned about increased US scrutiny of their offshore bank accounts, are nervous about dealing with US banks and may seek safer havens if the conflict in Afghanistan spreads, bankers said Thursday.
http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/23/int8.htm
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NEWS For 12/19/04
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/#12-19-04
Car bombs hit Karbala and Najaf, killing more than 60 people; three election workers killed in Baghdad ambush :
11 Palestinians Killed During Israeli Occupation Forces Invasion of Khan Yunis:
Two US contractors killed in Iraq:
'U.S. Soldier Killed Iraqi Teenager after Sex' :
US warplanes strike Falluja:
US threatening UN over Arab report:
Saddam bids to challenge case in US:
Interview: Pilger On The Media: Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilger talks to Antony Loewenstein about the media.
A System Bereft of Justice:
National ID Red Alert! :
And more
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/#12-19-04
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