[Media-watch] Pilger-Tsunami
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No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies." : by: Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations
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"The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people." : Justice Hugo L. Black - (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice - Source: New York Times v. Unites States (Pentagon Papers) 1971
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.: Marcus Tullius Cicero - (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator Date: 42 B.C. - Source: Speech in the Roman Senate
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The other tsunami
While the sea may have killed tens of thousands, western policies kill millions every year. Yet even amid disaster, a new politics of community and morality is emerging.
John Pilger
The hypocrisy, narcissism and dissembling propaganda of the rulers of the world and their sidekicks are in full cry. Superlatives abound as to their humanitarian intent while the division of humanity into worthy and unworthy victims dominates the news. The victims of a great natural disaster are worthy (though for how long is uncertain) while the victims of man-made imperial disasters are unworthy and very often unmentionable. Somehow, reporters cannot bring themselves to report what has been going on in Aceh, supported by "our" government. This one-way moral mirror allows us to ignore a trail of destruction and carnage that is another tsunami.
http://207.44.245.159/article7633.htm
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We Are All Torturers Now
By Mark Danner
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Americans began torturing prisoners, and they have never really stopped. However much these words have about them the ring of accusation, they must by now be accepted as fact.
http://207.44.245.159/article7634.htm
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18 Iraqis seeking jobs at US base found dead:
The bodies of 18 young Iraqis executed after seeking work at a US base have been found in a field near the volatile city of Mosul, police said on Thursday.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1185211,001300180001.htm
http://snipurl.com/btnd
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Bodies of three drivers found:
THE bodies of three Jordanian truck drivers have been found near the Iraqi town of Ramadi, al-Jazeera television reported today.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11875327%255E1702,00.html
http://snipurl.com/btne
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Marine Killed:
A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action on Jan. 6, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050108.txt
http://snipurl.com/btng
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Policemen resigning due to insecurity and threats:
Iraqi police continue to leave their jobs, and some are even leaving the country, in response to violence and threats against them. Insurgents have said policemen countrywide are targets due to their work with US troops and consider them to be traitors.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/535ed41524908317ee7d685c61453c45.htm
http://snipurl.com/btnh
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Army Doctors Implicated in Torture:
U.S. Army doctors violated the Geneva Conventions by helping intelligence officers carry out abusive interrogations at military detention centers
http://207.44.245.159/article7629.htm
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U.S. sent Australian citizen to Egypt for torture before Guantanamo :
U.S. authorities in late 2001 forcibly transferred an Australian citizen to Egypt, where, he alleges, he was tortured for six months before being flown to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay
http://207.44.245.159/article7630.htm
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New Guantanamo abuse cases surface:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released newly obtained documents on Wednesday, one of which included a disturbing account of an interrogation in late 2002.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E177F1F5-6024-450A-AE6C-4D81828C53AD.htm
http://snipurl.com/btnj
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U.S. Torture: What Did Rumsfeld Know?:
ACLU releases documents of U.S. torture of detainees by more than 'a few bad apples'
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0501,hentoff,59732,6.html
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Aussie official saw abuse: Habib:
AN Australian consular official watched US guards aggressively subdue and then take "trophy" photographs of alleged Australian terrorist Mamdouh Habib in Pakistan in October 2001, according to US court documents.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11873271%255E421,00.html
http://snipurl.com/btnk
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Ray McGovern: Torture: It's Just Plain Wrong:
My professional credentials are in intelligence, but I believe the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for attorney general is first and foremost a moral issue, so I will address it from a moral perspective.
http://207.44.245.159/article7631.htm
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White House Won't Release Gonzales Papers :
The White House refused Thursday to provide senators additional documents on attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales' role in the decision to allow aggressive interrogations of terrorism detainees.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4715334,00.html
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Alberto Gonzales has blood on his hands :
Why in the world should the United States be saddled with an attorney general who, from the White House, framed cockamamie legal policies that sought to make it permissible for American forces to commit war crimes?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5170989.html
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US troops 'laughed as Iraqi died' :
An Iraqi civilian has testified that US soldiers forced him and his cousin to jump into the River Tigris and laughed as his relative was swept to his death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4150429.stm
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Revealed: flawed intelligence exposes the scandal of Belmarsh detainees:
The case against the foreign terror suspects imprisoned in Britain without trial for three years is partly founded on flawed and inaccurate intelligence, court papers seen by The Independent reveal.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=598178
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Iraq’s Fraud Elections:
“We are occupied. That is a fact. The occupiers have a team of Iraqis willing to work with them. The coming elections will be completely rigged. - After extensive meetings with many parties and people we came to the conclusion that contesting the elections would contribute to the process of legitimising the occupation.
http://207.44.245.159/article7637.htm
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Televise the funerals and flag-draped coffins :
The injured and dead must appear on television. The media must televise the reality of what this war is about: the flag draped caskets, the funerals, the grieving, the pain, the crying, and the destruction.
http://207.44.245.159/article7636.htm
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Grisly killing in Iraq leads to lawsuit:
Families of the civilian contractors killed, burned and strung up on a bridge last March in a grisly display seen round the world are suing the N.C.-based security company that hired them.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/10573467.htm
http://snipurl.com/btoa
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What about the Children of Iraq?:
My question is simply this, where is the worlds concern for the tens of thousands of Iraq's children that have been so completely decimated by the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq?
http://207.44.245.159/article7632.htm
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Iraq extends emergency powers ahead of poll:
The country has seen an upsurge in violence in the last week resulting in the deaths of almost 100 people, mostly policemen.
http://www.itv.com/news/world_2112725.html
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The Army Reserve, "is rapidly degenerating into a 'broken' force:
"The purpose of this memorandum is to inform you of the Army Reserve's inability to meet mission requirements" in Iraq and Afghanistan "and to reset and regenerate its forces for follow-on and future missions,"
http://snipurl.com/bsrp
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US seeks to buy ammunition from Taiwan as stocks run low after Iraq: report:
The United States is planning to buy hundreds of millions of bullets from Taiwan in the first such deal as its supplies are running low after wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a report said Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/btno
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Journalists told to keep quiet on Aceh skirmish:
AUSTRALIAN journalists who witnessed a confrontation between Indonesian soldiers and alleged separatists in tsunami-ravaged Sumatra yesterday were ordered to leave the area and warned not to report on the incident.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11873415%255E2703,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bto6
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Bush quake aid group to be dissolved:
The “core group” of nations announced by US President George W. Bush to channel aid to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami will be dissolved on Thursday after only eight days as the United Nations takes control of the international relief effort
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f94c32b6-5f00-11d9-8cca-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/btnu
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Sidney Blumenthal: The neocons have a hand in Aceh, too :
US support for Indonesia's army is compromising its relief effort
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1384082,00.html
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Why did US base escape tsunami?:
Following the tsunami, conspiracy rumours have been circulating on the internet of how the US base at Diego Garcia managed to avoid casualties while other islands suffered huge losses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4149637.stm
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Israel: 'Settlers to attack holy sites':
The head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency issued a dire warning yesterday of possible violent attacks on Israeli soldiers and Muslim sites by settler militias.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11863386%255E601,00.html
http://snipurl.com/btnv
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Dangers of questioning government actions:
It has been almost a month since he died and I haven't been able to get Gary Webb out of my mind. You remember Gary Webb, don't you? He's the investigative reporter who in 1996 produced a series of stories, on the connections between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Nicaraguan contras.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0501060112jan06,0,5603781.column
http://snipurl.com/btnx
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Attorney Lynne Stewart Blasts Gv't. Terror Case Against Her:
She is accused of conspiring to assist terrorists in a case that is being watched closely by lawyers around the country. She faces up to 45 years in prison. Lynne Stewart joins us in our firehouse studio.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/152255
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Five Senators and Eight House Members to Challenge Election:
Four Senators Join Boxer, Seven House Members Join Conyers
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1445&newlang=eng
http://snipurl.com/btny
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Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results :
A small group of Democrats agreed Thursday to force House and Senate debates on Election Day problems in Ohio before letting Congress certify President Bush's win over Sen. John Kerry in November.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050106/ap_on_go_co/electoral_vote
http://snipurl.com/bto0
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Wash. GOP Demands New Governor Election :
State Republicans Wednesday charged that hundreds of provisional ballots may have been counted on Election Day without being verified.
http://snipurl.com/bto3
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Liberty for Haitian priest – justice denied other political prisoners :
After a demonstration calling for Haiti’s return to democracy, the pro-Aristide activist had been arrested, beaten by police and needed medical attention. But health care’s not easy to come by in a Port-au-Prince jail.
http://207.44.245.159/article7635.htm
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Bush Pushing for More Faith-Based Funds :
President Bush has succeeded in opening the checkbooks of five federal departments to religious organizations. Now he's setting his sights on money doled out by the states.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4708670,00.html
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They Say They Can Lock You Up for Life Without a Trial:
http://207.44.245.159/article7625.htm
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Rethinking Middle East Security:
Israel, has been brutalised by its occupation, turning it into a racist, quasi-fascist state, in the grip of religious fanatics.
http://207.44.245.159/article7622.htm
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Peace & Joy - Tom Feeley
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