[Media-watch] Pilger, Fisk et al
David McKnight
david at milwr.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 23:42:21 GMT 2005
"I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.": Frederick Douglass - [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint: Edmund Burke - Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny: Otto Hermann Kahn - Speech at the University of Wisconsin
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground: Thomas Jefferson
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Criminal World
Chertoff's involvement in Bush's chamber of horrors goes beyond an advisory capacity.
By Chris Floyd
Another day, another accomplice in the construction of the Bush Regime's torture chambers revealed. Nothing new there; the perp walk of top Bushists colluding in torture could stretch a mile. But the remarkable thing about the latest case is that it exposes an even greater depth of official criminality than hitherto suspected -- no mean feat, given the rap sheet of this crew.
http://207.44.245.159/article7965.htm
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Rebels kill 12 Iraqi soldiers:
The 12 soldiers were travelling back from their jobs guarding oil pipelines when they were ambushed on the road between the villages of Azab and Zaraquiya, 85km west of Kirkuk, said General Anwar Amin.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12135000-23109,00.html
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Five Iraqis shot dead:
Four civilians were killed Wednesday in a drive-by shooting south of Baghdad. An Iraqi motorist was shot dead on the main desert highway west of Baghdad on Wednesday
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/179651
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Two Iraqi policemen and a soldier were killed in two attacks in the city of Baquba:
The two policemen were killed in a drive-by shooting while shopping, and died instantly. The soldier was killed near a city hospital
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDE6C27E-962B-48F1-B0E3-D29812909472.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6h5k5
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Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/66BF7ED2-DA98-4CBE-A1AB-ADFA56D6DD48.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6934v
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Second Marine Killed In Fallujah:
A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action on Feb. 2, bringing to two the number of Marines who died while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
http://tinyurl.com/6gcsn
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American Woman Killed In Mortar Attack In Iraq:
The Department of Defense Wednesday announced that Barbara Heald was killed in a mortar attack at the Republic National Palace in Baghdad on Saturday. She was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army.
http://www.nbc30.com/news/4157762/detail.html
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UK Troops face court martial over Iraq death:
Seven soldiers are to face a court martial for the murder of an Iraqi civilian in May 2003
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=666211§ion=news&src=rss/uk/topNews
http://tinyurl.com/66quh
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Kurds demand autonomy :
About 70,000 Kurds converged on local government headquarters in Sulaymaniya in northeastern Iraq calling for the oil-rich city of Kirkuk - outside the Kurdish region - to become the capital of a Kurdish nation.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3AE0E9D0-1307-4FD6-8009-90C723A777AD.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6ldcy
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Kurdish party says self-rule inevitable:
Kurdish self-rule is inevitable if not imminent, according to Kurdistan Democratic Party chief Masud Barzani.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/350DA932-63C9-4666-9014-2209F872A840.htm
http://tinyurl.com/644pe
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Robert Fisk: Baghdad, the city that dreams of death :
Suicide bombs are now daily occurrences in Iraq. But what of those who escape death? Robert Fisk recounts the story of Abu Ali, who survived an attack that killed eight
http://207.44.245.159/article7959.htm
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Juan Cole: The Shiite earthquake:
With non-Sunni Muslims poised to take power for the first time, a new Iraq is being born. Will it survive its infancy?
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon50.html
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Fear of a Shia Planet:
Ronald Reagan's old enemy becomes George Bush's new friend in Iraq
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0505,mondo1,60657,6.html
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Allawi's government decried as corrupt ;
A top Shia leader tipped to become Iraq's next prime minister has branded Iyad Allawi's interim government the most corrupt in the country's history.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/37FF50AE-F3C8-4ED7-828D-594411718E28.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4g2wv
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Elections Are Not Democracy:
The United States has essentially stopped trying to build a democratic order in Iraq, and is simply trying to gain stability and legitimacy
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6885455/site/newsweek/
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Bush in warning to Iran and Syria :
PRESIDENT George Bush today promised America would confront Iran and Syria if they continued to back terrorists or pursue weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5035244.html
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Iran, Syria reject terrorism allegations
http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/2085366p-10149178c.html
http://tinyurl.com/4xpqu
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There He Goes Again :
I wanted to point out some facts, some realities that Bush had better face-for the sake of our country, before he makes even more of a mess of things in the world and at home.
http://www.todaysalternativenews.com/index.php?event=link,150&values[0]=&values[1]=2212
http://tinyurl.com/5gesm
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Bush to Seek $2.52 billion in military and economic aid for Israel
and $350 million to help the Palestinian economy and security forces.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=3&u=/ap/20050203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_mideast
http://tinyurl.com/3mro9
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Bush leaves Palestinians unimpressed:
Palestinians have reacted with scepticism to President George Bush's State of the Union Address, saying actions speak louder than words.
http://tinyurl.com/5mg73
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The ball is in Europe's court:
Palestinian Loss Of Land 1946 - 2000.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=553
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 02/02/05:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://tinyurl.com/4vpst
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John Pilger Fear and silence in Australia:
Australia, once the land of the "fair go", has collaborated with Guantanamo more closely than any other western government and is guilty of human rights abuses of its own.
http://207.44.245.159/article7964.htm
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Supreme Chickens?:
The high court's Gitmo confusion comes home to roost: Judge Green paints a truly chilling picture of the Kafka-esque "hearing" of Mustafa Ait Idr-who kept begging his judges to simply tell him the name of the al-Qaida member he was alleged to have conspired with.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2113003/
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Rumsfeld Mulls German Visit Amid Concern Over Possible War Crimes Prosecution:
Concern that US leaders and military personnel risk prosecution in Germany for alleged war crimes has become a factor in deciding whether US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will attend an international security conference in Munich, a Pentagon spokesman said.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0202-09.htm
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White House Fears That the Enemy Is ... the CIA:
Administration politicos cite a series of developments during last year's campaign as evidence that CIA careerists were out to get President Bush
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6884903/site/newsweek/
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CIA urged to release Nazi records :
Released documents show links between US intelligence and Nazi war criminals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4225629.stm
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Emails from the Fourth Reich:
Aliens in their own land. Why can't a huge mass of contemporary Americans perceive the distorted values that their current leaders radiate at a frequency that has in no time sunk this great country to murky depths unprecedented in its past?
http://207.44.245.159/article7958.htm
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Bill Moyers: There Is No Tomorrow :
One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
http://207.44.245.159/article7960.htm
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In case you missed it:
Apocalypse Soon:
Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map
http://207.44.245.159/article3716.htm
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The end of days: a self-fulfilling prophecy :
The Last Days theme has also become a major motor in US foreign policy. Just as in Reformation Europe, the Christian right believes we need to sort out the world before the Last Days arrive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1401181,00.html
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Audio: Gore Vidal Interview :
Renowned author and commentator Gore Vidal speaks about the birth of the Republic and how far from the origins of the Constitution the US has traveled since 911.
http://207.44.245.159/article7961.htm
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There Is No Longer Any Room For Doubt :
I watch in disgust as the freedom to dissent is regularly treated with contempt and jingoistic violence at the same time as it is rhetorically praised. And I watch with shame the paltry responses from all of us at these frightening events, making us complicit in what is to come, as well as what is occurring now.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/Tirado0202.htm
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Top military officials say forces strained:
The Army is coming up short in its recruiting of National Guard forces, and staffing the next rotation of guardsmen and reservists to serve in Iraq will be difficult, top military officials told lawmakers Wednesday
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/breaking_news/10799786.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3r5lt
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Marines come up short on recruits :
Service fails to attain monthly quota for first time in a decade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/03/MNGM2B50V61.DTL
http://tinyurl.com/453oh
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Judge: Yale Can Block Military Recruiters :
A federal judge has ruled that Yale Law School can block military recruiters from campus without fear of losing federal funding.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4774316,00.html
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Military Recruiting Office Vandalized:
Police still have no arrests in a vandalism case. Anti-war protesters targeted a local military recruiting office by painting an obscenity, and throwing a bucket of manure at the building.
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=2887448
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African Union Offers to Help Aristide:
The African Union's chairman has called the Caribbean island of Haiti ''an African country outside Africa'' and said the Union is ready and willing to help restore democracy there, after the president was deposed last year.
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=3688&sID=12
http://tinyurl.com/4xz9m
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Venezuela's Chavez Considers Sale of U.S. Refineries ;
``Not one Venezuelan works at these refineries,'' Chavez said in Buenos Aires yesterday, according to Venezuela's Communication and Information Ministry. ``They don't give us one cent of profit. They don't pay taxes in Venezuela. This is economic imperialism.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aP3vwKnY0rNU&refer=latin_america
http://tinyurl.com/5epct
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Rebel at centre of Venezuela-Colombia dispute speaks of US involvement:
Rodrigo Granda said he was kidnapped December 13 in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, by Colombian police assisted by "corrupt Venezuelan colleagues." US agents assisted in the operation, Granda said.
http://tinyurl.com/3ttuq
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The New Bush Agenda:
A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American Enterprise Institute.
Audio and transcript
http://207.44.245.159/article7962.htm
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America's Seniors Are Not Cowards:
The Democrats are being accused of "trying to scare the old folks" by opposing the eventual destruction of the most successful social program in our history. It is said that the nation's senior citizens are afraid of losing their benefits and that fear is leading to the opposition by the AARP and all other senior organizations. Nothing could be further from the truth!
http://207.44.245.159/article7963.htm
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Global warming: scientists reveal timetable:
A detailed timetable of the destruction and distress that global warming is likely to cause the world was unveiled yesterday.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=607254
http://tinyurl.com/6evcm
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
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