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David J McKnight
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Tue Jan 11 13:02:29 GMT 2005
“...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.” : Noam Chomsky
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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort." : Marshall McLuhan - (1911-1980)
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." : John Adams - (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
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Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
By Chris Hedges
FRITZ STERN, a refugee from Hitler's Germany and a leading scholar of European history, startled several of his listeners when he warned in a speech about the danger posed in this country by the rise of the Christian right.
http://207.44.245.159/article7643.htm
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Iraq: The Devastation
Dahr Jamail
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I'm still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this.
http://207.44.245.159/article7644.htm
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Baghdad Police Station Blast Kills Eight:
A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle outside a police station south of Baghdad Monday morning, killing eight people, including three police officers.
http://wpmi.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=CA3602BF-B4A4-417D-BF56-096536DA2568
http://snipurl.com/bwp3
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Iraq deputy police chief and son shot dead :
The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead today, an interior ministry official said.
http://snipurl.com/bwp4
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Bomb Destroys U.S. Tank, Kills Two Soldiers in Iraq
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050110/us_nm/iraq_soldiers_deaths_dc&cid=1896&ncid=1478
http://snipurl.com/bwp5
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El Salvador-style 'death squads' to be deployed by US against Iraq militants:
Under the so-called “El Salvador option”, Iraqi and American forces would be sent to kill or kidnap insurgency leaders, even in Syria, where some are thought to shelter.
http://207.44.245.159/article7645.htm
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America's Death Squads : They're murdering innocents in Iraq :
Six months in jail – for a wanton murder. That's fair, now isn't it? It is if the victim is Iraqi, and the murderers are four American soldiers – that's what a military court recently decided, and it's a verdict that tells us everything we need to know about the "liberation" of Iraq.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4308
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US rejects AMS' poll conditions:
The influential Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq has met a senior US embassy official and offered to call off an election boycott in return for a US timetable for troop withdrawal.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9A9E25C9-D187-43D4-87E2-E4FBEAE38032.htm
http://snipurl.com/bwp9
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Coble suggests pullout in Iraq :
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, dean of the state's congressional delegation and an avowedly strong supporter of President Bush, says it's time for the United States to consider withdrawing from war-ravaged Iraq.
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/cobleiraq_010905.htm
http://snipurl.com/bwpb
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Ukraine orders troops home from Iraq:
Ukraine's outgoing president has ordered officials to draw up plans to withdraw the country's 1,600 troops home from Iraq in the first half of 2005 after eight of its soldiers were killed in a blast.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050110/325/f9zyw.html
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Electoral Board in Iraqi province resigns, saying vote is impossible :
In another significant blow to Iraq's upcoming elections, the entire 13-member electoral commission in the volatile province of Anbar, west of the capital, resigned after being threatened by insurgents, a regional newspaper reported Sunday.
http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=94819
http://snipurl.com/bwpd
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Internal US poll shows Sunnis not likely to vote in Iraq election:
A new internal US State Department poll on Iraq obtained by AFP shows 88 percent of Sunni Muslims saying the threat of violence would keep them away from voting centres.
http://snipurl.com/bwpe
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‘We do not condone torture’:
Judge Richard Leon asked Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle whether detention is legal if the evidence on which detainees are being held was extracted entirely through torture. “Torture is illegal,” said the judge. “We all know that.”
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=14&ID=202054&r=0
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Guantanamo: Three years on:
Today is the anniversary of the founding of America's prison camp for 'enemy combatants', And despite evidence of systematic abuse and widespread international condemnation it looks set to stay open
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=599278
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Mahmud Abbas wins landslide victory in Palestine:
Abbas got 62.3 per cent of the votes.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1628738&PageNum=0
http://snipurl.com/bwpf
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Abbas says independent Palestine must be within 1967 borders:
Abbas said the Palestinians could not accept an agreement that gave them less than a state on the land which was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and with east Jerusalem as its capital.
http://snipurl.com/bwph
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Palestinian Elections "Taking Place Under Continued Heel of Israel's Military Tyranny"
Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the Palestinian presidential elections this weekend. We speak with Ali Abunimah, founder of Electronic Intifada, who says, "Many Palestinians fear this is another setup so when the inevitable failure brought about by Israeli intransigence occurs, this will be another opportunity to blame the Palestinians, and accuse them of missing an opportunity once again."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/10/1456224
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Israel : Illegal Settlement population rose by 6 percent in 2004 :
The number of people living illegally in the West Bank and Gaza settlements increased by 6 percent last year, according to statistics published Sunday by the Interior Ministry's Population Registry.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/524998.html
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Six killed in car bomb blast in Afghanistan :
Six soldiers of the coalition forces have been killed after the car carrying them was destroyed by a car bomb blast in the Khost province of Afghanistan.
http://www.geo.tv/main_files/world.aspx?id=58780
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Cocaine now cheaper than a cappuccino :
The failure of the government's policy to stem drug imports is revealed today by research which shows that Britain is awash with cheap drugs, with a line of cocaine now costing less than a cappuccino.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,1386240,00.html
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Halliburton wins drilling tender in Iran:
A US grand jury issued a subpoena to the Texan firm in July, seeking information about its Cayman Islands unit’s work in Iran, where it is illegal for US companies to operate.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-1-2005_pg4_17
http://snipurl.com/bwpi
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India finds a $40bn friend in Iran:
India's oil diplomacy took a giant leap forward on Friday when New Delhi unveiled a multibillion-dollar deal with Iran and Russia that will be crucial to India's long-term energy security
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GA11Df07.html
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China oil firm 'plans Unocal bid' :
Chinese energy giant CNOOC is planning a major acquisition which could hugely boost its Asian assets, reports say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4154563.stm
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Congress passes `doomsday' plan:
With no fanfare, the U.S. House has passed a controversial doomsday provision that would allow a handful of lawmakers to run Congress if a terrorist attack or major disaster killed or incapacitated large numbers of congressmen.
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=62564
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Max Hastings: Phoney war:
It’s about time our leaders stopped playing political games and accepted that ‘international terror’ cannot be defeated by conventional military means
http://207.44.245.159/article6746.htm
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Let Bin Laden stay free, says CIA man:
THE world may be better off if Osama Bin Laden remains at large, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s recently departed executive director.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1431539,00.html
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F Company Soldiers Describe Mistreatment in Iraq:
The war story you are about to read was originally authored by a handful of junior enlisted soldiers from F Company, 425th Infantry, Michigan Army National Guard, who are currently serving in Iraq
http://snipurl.com/bwpj
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Bush's $6 trillion botch :
The urgency of President Bush and congressional Republicans to barge ahead with "fixing" Social Security is understandable. If they let too much time pass, people might wise up to the appalling botch they made in supposedly fixing Medicare and then rein them in before they can deliver the Social Security "reforms" their Wall Street backers want.
http://www.courierjournal.com/cjextra/editorials/2005/01/04/opin-bot0104-2947.html
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Mary Pitt : The Big Gap in Privatization:
There is at least one little "chink" in the plan of the Bush adminiistration to "privatize" Social Security that does not appear immediately and may not sound terribly important to those who are young, able-bodied, and absolutely convinced of their indestructability and their prospects of growing very rich before becoming old and ill.
http://207.44.245.159/article7647.htm
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In case you missed it:
U.S. ranks 27th in world social progress: In the U.S., Estes, who has researched world social development for 30 years, found the pace of social development to be "on hold" since 1980, putting the U.S. on the same level as Poland and Slovenia in the current "report card."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/uop-ur2071703.php
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Bush 'the king' blows $50m on coronation :
President's lavish inauguration is 'obscene' when US troops are dying in Iraq war, say critics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1386231,00.html
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US military admits it hit wrong target after bomb kills 14 Iraqis:
Fourteen Iraqis were reported killed and five injured early yesterday morning after an American war plane obliterated a family house in the north of the country. The military said it was a mistake.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=599108
http://snipurl.com/bwpn
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Ukrainians, Iraqis killed in clashes:
Eight Ukrainian soldiers and one Kazakh have died in an explosion in Iraq while US troops have killed two Iraqi policemen and two civilians south of Baghdad.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9E814D3C-5241-473C-80EC-2A64AA29E56D.htm
http://snipurl.com/bwpo
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Troops Kill 8 Iraqis After Convoy Bombed :
U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second mistaken American attack in two days to have deadly results.
http://snipurl.com/bwpp
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5 Iraqis die in gunfight near Baghdad :
Two Iraqi policemen and three Iraqi civilians were killed south of Baghdad during a gunfight that a senior Iraqi spokesman on Sunday initially blamed on U.S. troops but later said was of unclear origin.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5177334.html
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Party leader assassinated in Iraq :
The manager of the Iraqi National Accord party, headed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, was assassinated Sunday near his home in Baghdad.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqEc6ueidAxjHCs12Aw9Szw5Jzq
http://snipurl.com/bwpq
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U.S. Marine Killed In Fallujah:
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050113.txt
http://snipurl.com/bwpt
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Iraqi police chief assassinated:
The acting police chief in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra has been assassinated by gunmen.
http://www.itv.com/news/world_498117.html
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U.S. Soldier Gets Six Months for Murdering An Iraqi
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7272417
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U.S. Officer Tells of Order to Lie in Abuse Probe:
A senior U.S. Army officer ordered soldiers to lie to investigators probing an incident in which two Iraqi civilians were pushed from a bridge and one may have drowned in the Tigris River, an army major testified
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7259429
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‘The Salvador Option’:
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/
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UN observer, Israeli officer killed:
A French member of a UN patrol has been killed in an Israeli air raid in south Lebanon after a roadside bomb killed an Israeli officer and wounded three soldiers in a disputed area on the Lebanese frontier.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20A81125-D1B5-4187-9971-8A20E26DBF83.htm
http://snipurl.com/bwpu
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The right to rule ourselves :
For nearly a century, democracy has been denied to the Arabs by the west. There is little sign of that changing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1385058,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bwpw
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Gulf War victims overpaid by $5 billion: UN auditors:
The United Nations overpaid by as much as $5 billion to individuals, companies and Gulf states for losses in Iraq’s 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, auditors’ documents showed on Sunday.
http://snipurl.com/bwpy
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Gonzales is unfit to be AG:
Gonzales has condoned a relaxation of the legal definition of the word torture so that such torments as half drowning a man, setting needles under his fingernails, or locking him on a concrete floor in a fetal position for 24 hours or longer are no longer considered to be torture in a legal context.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2005/01/09/gonzales_is_unfit_to_be_ag/
http://snipurl.com/bwpz
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Gonzales: Not with a bang but a whimper:
As the protest against Bush's certification fell flat and they rolled over for Gonzales, it was a day of humiliation and futility for Democrats.
http://207.44.245.159/article7642.htm
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Gonzales failed first truth test :
Once again The Republic has missed the point. It is not the memo that Alberto Gonzales wrote to President Bush that disqualifies him as attorney general. It is his chronic denial of responsibility for the Abu Ghraib atrocity and all the backlashes it generated.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0109sunlets092.html
http://snipurl.com/bwq1
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Gonzalez confirmation hearing ignored US / Jordan torture links and legislative junket to Israel to witness 'anti-terror' exercizes
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=105
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Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib Abuses?:
It was Gonzales who helped craft some of the administration’s worst domestic decisions, including the indefinite detention, without access to lawyers, of US citizens Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi.
http://207.44.245.159/article7641.htm
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Penance or Benevolence?:
With their country preparing for the presidency of the G8, British officials are on a marathon for depicting their country as a caretaker of the interest of the world poorest nations
http://207.44.245.159/article7640.htm
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Colin’s Crocodile Tears for Sumatra:
I can’t wait for Colin Powell to disappear. He will do so in a couple weeks, probably to reemerge sometime in the future as a presidential candidate or a front man for the plutocrats who rule Congress. In the meantime, we have to endure the corporate media circus that quotes Powell as he witnesses the devastation of Indonesia
http://207.44.245.159/article7638.htm
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The 'tsunami' victims that we don't count:
In Iraq we kill off thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of innocent civilians with our own hands, and we reject any attempt to comprehend what we have done. Countless Iraqi civilians are homeless. We call it liberation.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/07/the_tsunami_victims_that_we_dont_count?mode=PF
http://snipurl.com/bwq3
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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