Might Bush's Blank Check for War Bounce If
He Deceived Congress? September 22, 2003
by Thom
Hartmann On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, George W. Bush said what virtually
every other senior member of his administration had been going out of
their way to refute. "We've had no evidence,"
he told CNN's John King, "that Saddam Hussein was involved with
the September the eleventh. No." This came as a shock to the 70 percent of
Americans who support the invasion and occupation of Iraq because they
believed Saddam was a mastermind of 9/11 or that Iraqis were among the
pilots who hijacked our planes. But the bigger shock may be to members of
Congress, who, hearing that, may now conclude that Bush just admitted he
had explicitly misled them. thepeoplesvoice.org
Cheney's Role In 911 Put On Center Stage By
British MP September 22, 2003 By Mark Burdman Executive Intelligence Review. For
the first time, a prominent British political figure has aired his suspicions,
that the group around U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may have intentionally
caused, or allowed to happen, the mega-terrorism in New York and Washington on
Sept. 11, 2001, to set into motion an era of neo-imperial wars. Labour Party
Member of Parliament Michael Meacher wrote a major feature focussing on Cheney's
Project for a New American Century grouping, in the London Guardian on Sept. 6. rense.com
Plan to cripple government on course
September 22, 2003 By Dave Zweifel Those of
you who are fretting over the state of our national budget -- trillions in
projected debt and dozens of unmet domestic needs -- ought to read New York
Times' columnist Paul Krugman's essay in last Sunday's Times' magazine. Krugman
has long insisted that the demolition of the budget is all on purpose. And, says
the Princeton economics professor, everything is going according to plan,
spurred on by huge tax cuts on top of spiraling military costs. The bottom line
is to make it impossible to afford social programs and eventually shrink
government to a fraction of its current size. "The astonishing political
success of the anti-tax crusade has, more or less deliberately, set the United
States up for a fiscal crisis," he writes. "How we respond to that
crisis will determine what kind of country we become." madison.com
Who Was Albert Pike? September 22, 2003
By Arthur Cottrell Very few
outsiders know about the intimate plans of the architects of the New World
Order. One such architect was Albert Pike, who in the 19th Century, established
a framework for bringing about the One World Order. Based on a vision revealed
to him, Albert Pike wrote out a blueprint of events that would play themselves
out in the 20th century, with even more of these events yet to come. It is this
blueprint which we believe unseen leaders are following today to engineer the
planned Third and Final World War. thetruthseeker.co.uk
Say Goodbye To Bar Codes And Hello To RFID Big Brother Technology Getting A
Little Too Real
September 22, 2003 By Jeremy Rogalski Right now Frito Lay is
working on embedding an RF chip into the paint of a bag of chips with the
metallic packing serving as a huge antenna. And that can store your personal
information long after the bag is thrown away. With all the wizardry comes a
warning. "The scary part of the use of that tag is it exists after we buy
the product," says Adams. So the sweater you buy at the store to the shoes
you walk out with to the car you drive away could all be traced specifically to
you just with that tiny chip inside. "I think potentially," says
Adams. "This could be a Big Brother problem." Orwellian concerns over
privacy may no longer be just Hollywood hype. The future may soon be staring us
in the face. rense.com
US approval for Bush falling September
22, 2003 Oliver Burkeman in Washington and Luke Harding in Berlin Monday For the
first time since the war in Iraq began, less than half of Americans say they
approve of the way President George Bush is handling the situation, according to
a poll published today.The Newsweek poll, which also shows a 14-point fall in Mr
Bush's overall approval ratings, comes at a critical point for the White House,
as it girds for UN talks to win a new resolution followed, the president hopes,
by offers of troops and money. guardian.co.uk
Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned
to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York
September 22, 2003 Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President Hugo
Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York (to deliver a
speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by security services who say
they have "overwhelming evidence" of a CIA-backed plan to "bring
down" the Chavez Frias' airplane during the scheduled flight to the United
States from Caracas. Sources in Venezuela's Military Intelligence
Directorate (DIM) have told VHeadline.com that "presented with overwhelming
evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential flight, it was
decided that the President's personal security was preeminent and that he should
not go!" vheadline.com
Nine Israelis face deportation September
22,
2003 By JOHN STEINBACHS and ANDREW SEYMOUR Ottawa Sun Spy agency suspects they
may be foreign agents. NINE Israeli nationals -- who[m] CSIS suspects are
possible foreign agents -- were arrested by Immigration and Ottawa police
tactical officers last Friday, blocks from Parliament Hill. An Ottawa police
source said police were told members of the group were possible agents from
Mossad, Israel's spy agency, but given no further information by CSIS. CSIS
declined to comment yesterday. cryptome.org
Thermal activity in Yellowstone sparks increased monitoring
September 22, 2003
WHT Norris Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park has long been recognized as
the hottest and most changeable of Yellowstone's famous hydrothermal wonders.
This summer, Norris lived up to its hot, unstable reputation as scientists and
visitors alike have seen significant changes in many geysers and increased
ground temperatures in the western part of the basin. Porkchop Geyser, which
sprang to life from a small hot spring in 1971, erupted in July for the first
time since 1989. westhawaiitoday.com
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Bush
steps up fight against European safety testing
September 21, 2003 By Geoffrey Lean Environment Editor President George
Bush is mounting an intensive campaign to force European countries to drop
safety tests expected to save thousands of lives each year, internal US
government documents seen by The Independent on Sunday reveal. Britain, which
has been generally supportive, last week denounced the measures as
"disastrously wrong". The documents - which include diplomatic cables
signed by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell - show that the Bush
administration has threatened Europe with trade sanctions if it goes ahead with
the tests, which are designed to protect workers and the public from highly
toxic chemicals. independent.co.uk
Cheney's spin wearing thin
Sept. 21, 2003 I saw Vice President Cheney on Meet
the Press, and it seems he is trying to run a dead horse into the ground. The
No. 1 problem with him is that he blames the deficit/poor economy on Sept. 11.
Most Americans have worked harder than ever since 9/11 and only seen their tax
dollars evaporate in the Iraq occupation and the search for weapons of mass
destruction. Poor decisions by Bush/Cheney and Congress have created a deficit.
Cheney insists that doubters are in error in the debate on our occupation of
Iraq, while his former company is raking in billions from a no-bid contract let
by the administration. azcentral.com
Dollar could plumb new lows, say traders
September 21, 2003 By Jennifer
Hughes The dollar could fall to fresh lows against the yen and weaken against
other currencies, foreign exchange traders said on Sunday, after G7 countries
called for more flexible exchange rates at the weekend. Japanese exporters would
suffer from a stronger yen, which could choke off a nascent recovery in the
economy. ft.com
Three U.S. Soldiers Dead in Iraq Attacks
September 21, 2003 By ROBERT H. REID Iraq (AP) Three American
soldiers died in a mortar attack and a roadside bombing west of the capital, and
coalition authorities appealed to Iraqis on Sunday for information to help
investigators track down those who tried to kill a prominent woman member of
Iraq's Governing Council. customwire.ap.org
Bush Covers Up Climate Research White House Officials Play Down Its Own
Scientists' Evidence Of Global Warming
September 21, 2003 By Paul Harris White
House officials have undermined their own government scientists' research into
climate change to play down the impact of global warming, an investigation by
The Observer can reveal. The disclosure will anger environment campaigners who
claim that efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being sabotaged because
of President George W. Bush's links to the oil industry. Emails and internal
government documents obtained by The Observer show that officials have sought to
edit or remove research warning that the problem is serious. rense.com
Jumpy U.S. soldiers
fire on official, reporters
September 21, 2003 Associated
Press BAGHDAD, Iraq In the last six days, U.S. troops have shot at Iraqi
police, journalists, a wedding party and a top Italian diplomat searching for
looted antiquities. The Americans are under increasing pressure as the guerrilla
resistance has stepped up its hit-and-run attacks and is bringing more firepower
and sophistication to the fight. marinij.com
Bush keeps Area 51 under veil of secrecy
September 21, 2003 Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. Invoking national
security, President Bush has renewed an exemption allowing the Air Force to keep
mum about top-secret operations at a southern Nevada base. Bush’s memorandum
said it was of “paramount interest” to exempt the Groom Lake base about 90
miles north of Las Vegas from disclosing classified information. Also known as
Area 51, the mysterious base sits on a dry lake bed and is heavily patrolled.
The area is in a no-fly zone. The secrecy has fueled speculation about UFOs,
aliens and other strange occurrences around Area 51. Residents of the nearby
town of Rachel say the UFO talk began years ago when a Nevada Test Site worker
claimed he saw alien ships there. montanaforum.com
Bolivia: the "Gringo" kills,
the people resist
September 21, 2003 translated by Zapata On Saturday, a combined operation by the bolivian military
and police has led to the killing of at least 5 Aymaran peasants in Achacachi
when the so-called "caravan of rescue", commanded by defense minister
Calrlos Sanchez Berzaín, tried to run the blockades that were put up some days
ago in the region of the plateau. All this took place in the context of a
national uproar caused by the plans of president of Bolivia, the
"gringo" Sanchez de Lozada, to hand out the gas to the transnational
companies. argentina.indymedia.org
Moon lights up
Arctic homes September
21, 2003 REUTERS OSLO:
Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on
Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of the
tide. A tidal current in a sea channel near the town of Hammerfest, caused by
the gravitational tug of the moon on the earth, started turning the 10-m blades
of a turbine bolted to the seabed to generate electricity for the local grid.
The prototype looks like an underwater windmill and is expected to generate
about 700,000 kilowatt hours of non- polluting energy a year, or enough to light
and heat about 30 homes. indiatimes.com
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KAMINSKI:
ARREST THE PRESIDENT NOW! Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison
thousands (Will the U.S.A. survive this crisis?)
September 20, 2003 By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
On September 11, 2001, the most infamous day in American history, the tallest
buildings in New York were not knocked down by airplanes hijacked by Arabs —
they were destroyed by demolition charges. This is no longer wild conspiracy
theory — it is a series of provable facts, deftly presented on a website that
every American should not only read but possibly memorize, so they can repeat it
verbatim to every law enforcement officer in the country. The web site is
located here. http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/
Briefly synopsized, the site outlines a terrifying proposition: if the collapse
of the Twin Towers were caused by demolition, the entire official story about
that sad day collapses like the house of evil cards so many Americans and people
around the world already suspect it is. The site, WTC7.net, backs up its
conclusions with a devastating play-by-play of what actually happened on 9/11,
and what could not possibly have happened according to universally accepted
engineering principles.The official story collapses under scrutiny, the site
insists. It lists five stunning assertions:
1. Fires have never destroyed steel buildings.
2. The collapses were not investigated.
3. The physical evidence was destroyed.
4. The official explanations are ludicrous.
5. The evidence indicates demolition.
6. Demolition is provable. rumormillnews.com
Arrogance, or Something Darker?
September 20, 2003 By John David Rose Carolina Morning News September 20,
2003 If you want to know why 9/11 was allowed to happen you may not have to look
any further than the Oval Office. A little more than a month before the attack,
in his Aug. 6 daily intelligence briefing, Bush was "told that morning of
the al-Qaida terror network's interest in conducting a strike within the U.S.,
and that it might involve highjacked airplanes," reports the Wall Street
Journal (7/24/03.) Why didn't he order airlines to be alerted, inform the
Federal Aviation Administration of the threat, put the military air commands on
a high level of readiness and tell the FBI, CIA and INS to be super vigilant? He
brushed the warning aside. sumeria.net
September 11th And The Bush
Administration September 20, 2003 Compelling
Evidence for Complicity Walter E. Davis, PhD Clearly, one of the most critical
questions of the twenty-first century concerns why the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001 were not prevented. As I outline below, there are numerous
aspects regarding the official stories about September 11th which do
not fit with known facts, which contradict each other, which defy common sense,
and which indicate a pattern of misinformation and coverup. The reports coming
out of Washington do very little to alleviate these concerns. informationclearinghouse.info
Big lie on Iraq comes full circle September
20, 2003 BY ANDREW GREELEY
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (director of communications, in the
current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big
lie. That may be good advice, but the question remains: What happens when people
begin to doubt the big lie? Herr Goebbels never lived to find out. Some members
of the Bush administration may be in the process of discovering that, given
time, the big lie turns on itself. suntimes.com
September
20, 2003 , Summary: The count
of US soldiers killed in Iraq nears 300 this week, with more than 1,500
confirmed wounded by the military, and 6,000 wounded reported by the Washington
Post ...veteransforcommonsense.org
America's rich get richer thanks
to tax-cutting Bush September 20, 2003 By
Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles America's richest people have seen a 10 per
cent increase in their net worth over the past year, the latest list of
individual fortunes in Forbes magazine reveals. The latest Forbes 400 list is
further evidence that the affluent are thriving under President Bush even as
unemployment continues to rise and the income of average workers remains
stagnant. independent.co.uk
Congress Declares War Against Disabled
Veterans September 20, 2003 WASHINGTON
The House majority leadership has shown callous contempt for the sacrifices of
America's defenders by attempting to impose overly restrictive conditions that
would limit benefits for disabilities from military service, said the Disabled
American Veterans. dav.org
US auto union
sanctions mass layoffs and plant closings
September 20, 2003 By Jerry Isaacs The deal concluded by the UAW is the
largest concessions contract by the union since the severe recession of the
1980s and the near bankruptcy of Chrysler Corporation. Under the terms of the
agreement, the Big Three will shut down or sell a dozen plants, employing more
than 12,000 workers, and reduce increases in wages, health care benefits and
pensions. Analysts say the latest pact is will cost the auto makers $12,000 less
per worker than the last contract. wsws.org
Global Eye -- Vanishing Act September
20, 2003 By Chris Floyd It's a shell game, with
money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buyouts and bogus
fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants,
crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers -- and
presidential family members -- lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's
dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems
installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private
firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how the United States,
the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George
W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States -- no
matter what the people of the United States might want. themoscowtimes.com
/ informationclearinghouse.info
The Real Cost Of US Support For
Israel - $3 Trillion September 20, 2003 By
Christopher Bollyn While it is commonly reported that Israel officially
receives some $3 billion every year in the form of economic aid from the U.S.
government, this figure is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many billions
of dollars more in hidden costs and economic losses lurking beneath the surface.
A recently published economic analysis has concluded that U.S. support for the
state of Israel has cost American taxpayers nearly $3 trillion ($3 million
millions) in 2002 dollars. rense.com
Bush wants more anti-terror laws
September 20, 2003 By HELEN THOMAS President Bush wants more police
powers in the name of the war against terrorism but he's rubbing up against the
Fourth Amendment that protects citizens from unreasonable search. This amendment
was described by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as guaranteeing "the
right to be left alone." seattlepi.nwsource.com
U.S. Troops Mistakenly Target Italy Envoy
September 20, 2003 By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer ROME - A
U.S. soldier in northern Iraq mistakenly fired on a car carrying an Italian
diplomat heading up U.S. efforts to recover Iraq's looted antiquities, killing
the man's Iraqi interpreter, apparently because the driver wasn't following
orders fast enough, the diplomat said Friday. news.yahoo.com
Americans draw a veil of secrecy as
casualties grow September 20, 2003 By
Robert Fisk in Baghdad No comment from the authorities while more and more
US servicemen and their families are demanding answers from George Bush. A
culture of secrecy has descended upon the occupation authorities in Iraq. They
will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not
comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their own Iraqi
interpreters yesterday - he was shot dead in front of the Italian diplomat who
was the official adviser to the new Iraqi Ministry of Culture - and they cannot
explain how General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former Iraqi minister of defence
and a potential war criminal, should now be described by one of the most senior
US officers in Iraq as "a man of honour and integrity". libertyforum.org
Hands Off, China Tells G7 on Eve of Talks
September 20, 2003 By Alan Wheatley, Asian Economics Correspondent DUBAI
(Reuters) - China bluntly told the United States on Friday not to make it a
scapegoat for its economic woes by pressing for a revaluation of the yuan at
this weekend's meeting of the world's leading industrial powers. abcnews.go.com
IMF warns trade gap could bring down
dollar September 20, 2003 Charlotte Denny
and Larry Elliott The International Monetary Fund yesterday warned that the
colossal United States trade deficit was a noose around the neck of the economy,
emphasising that the once mighty dollar could collapse at any moment. guardian.co.uk
Germany, France vow to
press ahead with EU military September
20, 2003 BERLIN (AFP) Germany
and France pledged Thursday to push ahead with plans to develop an autonomous EU
military capability, despite criticism that it would double up with NATO. spacewar.com
China, Russia Set Direction in
Future Space Exploration Cooperation
September 20, 2003 China
and
Russia
has defined the direction in their future cooperation in
space exploration and set down a new cooperation project in
Beijing recently.
The agreement was reached at the fourth meeting of the astronavigation
sub-committee with the Joint Commission for the Regular Meetings of Heads of
Government of China and
Russia
. china.org
Israel
Brings ‘Catastrophe’ to Palestine: UN GENEVA
September 20, 2003
A UN human rights expert is preparing to submit a report to the UN General
Assembly that charges Israel of triggering a “humanitarian catastrophe” in
the Palestinian territories, newspaper reports said yesterday. The UN Special
Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, said in a draft report that the
Israeli military is preventing Palestinians reaching food and water with
restrictions on movement in the territories, according to Swiss newspaper Le
Temps and news agency ATS. de.indymedia.org
What
happened to President Bush? September
20, 2003 By Dale McFeatters George
W. Bush came into the Oval Office an advocate of leaner, smaller government and
then enlarged it by one humongous new Cabinet department. A
foe of bureaucracy, he gave us the Transportation Security Administration.
Federal bureaucrats now paw your person and your belongings. caller.com
Cheney's conflict with the truth
September 20, 2003 By Derrick Z. Jackson ON "MEET THE PRESS"
last Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "Since I left Halliburton to
become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company,
gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in
Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now, for over three years." That is
the latest White House lie. Within 48 hours, Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg
of New Jersey pointed reporters toward Cheney's public financial disclosure
sheets filed with the US Office of Government Ethics. The sheets show that in
2002, Cheney received $162,392 in deferred salary from Halliburton, the oil and
military contracting company he ran before running for vice president. In 2001,
Cheney received $205,298 in deferred salary from Halliburton. The 2001 salary
was more than Cheney's vice presidential salary of $198,600. Cheney also is
still holding 433,333 stock options. boston.com
Utter Lies First,
Correct Later: Diplomacy, Neocon-Style
September 20, 2003 Robert Scheer It’s hard
to believe that it was just a slip of the tongue rather than a calculated lie
when US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz sullied the memory of those who
died on Sept. 11 by exploiting their deaths for propaganda purposes. The
brainwashing of Americans, two-thirds of whom believe that Saddam Hussein was
behind the attacks, is too effective a political ploy for the Bush regime to
suddenly let the truth get in the way. arabnews.com
An Occupied Country
September 20, 2003 By Howard Zinn It has become clear, very quickly, that
Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar
with the term "occupied country" during World War II. We talked of
German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of
Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the
Soviets, who occupied other countries. rense.com
Bush 9/11 Admission Gets Little Play
Story Doesn't Make Many Front Pages September
20, 2003 By Seth Porges For months leading up this year's war on Iraq,
the Bush administration implied that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks. The argument was well-received by Americans, and might have been
the single leading factor behind public support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
An oft-cited poll conducted by The Washington Post last month revealed that 69%
of Americans continue to believe it likely that Hussein was personally involved
in 9/11. mediainfo.com
The good news on
the job front? Wal-Mart's hiring September
20, 2003 By DIANE STAFFORD Bad
news dominates job front Downsizings. Offshorings. Outsourcings. Insourcings.
Plant closings. Maquiladora-ings. H1-B visa-ings. CEO nest featherings...Is
anything happening that's good news for the American worker? Locally, the latest
furor is that hundreds more Sprint jobs are being eliminated and some computer
work is being sent to less costly contract workers overseas. kansascity.com
Clark
Says He Would Have Voted for War September
20, 2003 By ADAM NAGOURNEY Gen. Wesley K. Clark said today that
he would have supported the Congressional resolution that authorized the United
States to invade Iraq, even as he presented himself as one of the sharpest
critics of the war effort in the Democratic presidential race. nytimes.com
Growing
World View US Govt Was Complicit In 911
September 19, 2003 Events marking the second anniversary of the World Trade
Center attacks held in Berlin, Germany and Manhattan featuring former Georgia
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this writer, and more than a dozen experts
highlighted an estimated fifty conferences, screenings and protests around the
US and the world, revealing growing popular support for the position that the US
government was complicit in those attacks. In a few short words I will try to
describe some of the biggest recent developments in a climate that has changed
dramatically since disclosure that the US and British governments falsified and
misrepresented intelligence to justify a now-failing occupation of Iraq. rense.com
9/11 - ARE AMERICANS THE VICTIMS OF A
HOAX? September 19, 2003 The time has come to
stop using the flag as a blindfold, to stop waving our guns and our gods at each
other, to take a close look at the facts which have emerged from the attacks on
the World Trade Towers and to recognize the very real possibility, indeed
probability, that We The People are the victims of a gigantic and deadly hoax. whatreallyhappened.com
The Big Lie
September 19, 2003 "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it," said Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's
minister of propaganda. To justify its invasion of Iraq, the administration
tried hard to link Saddam Hussein to the terrorist group al-Qaida and the
attacks of September 11. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who with his top
security clearance is presumably among the best-informed Americans on this
particular subject, said Tuesday he had no reason to believe Mr. Hussein had
anything to do with the attacks. But the administration's propaganda campaign
was so successful that a recent Washington Post poll showed 69 percent of
Americans still believe Mr. Hussein probably had a hand in the hijackings. How
can it be that the secretary of defense is in the minority of public opinion?
berkshireeagle.com
Kennedy Says Case for Iraq War Was Fraud September
19, 2003 By STEVE LeBLANC The case for going to war against Iraq was a
fraud ``made up in Texas'' to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward
Kennedy said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy also
said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4
billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the
unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops. guardian.co.uk
Gaffe Casts Doubts on Electronic Voting
September 19, 2003 By RACHEL KONRAD The strange case of an election tally
that appears to have popped up on the Internet hours before polls closed is
casting new doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines. excite.com
Saudis consider nuclear bomb
September 19, 2003 Ewen MacAskill and Ian Traynor Saudi Arabia, in
response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic
review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons, the Guardian has learned. This
new threat of proliferation in one of the most dangerous regions of the world
comes on top of a crisis over Iran's alleged nuclear programme. guardian.co.uk
8 American soldiers killed in attack in
Iraq September 19, 2003 Eight American
soldiers were killed in a fierce attack Thursday on the road to Khaldiyah, 80 km
west of Baghdad, Dubai-based Arabiya TV channel reported. The casualties were
not immediately confirmed by the US militaryin Baghdad. Witnesses said several
military vehicles were burned and the US soldiers returned fire in defense at
the scene. Bombs and rocket-propelled grenades were used in the attack on the US
convoy when it travelled from Fallujah to Ramadi, both restive towns where US
troops were frequently targeted. The incident followed a series of attacks on US
presence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul which started Wednesday night. news.xinhuanet.com
The coming first
world debt crisis September
19, 2003 Ann Pettifor The reckless financial
policies of leading western powers in the last two decades make it likely that
the next seismic debt crisis will be in America, not Argentina. It can be
avoided, says Ann Pettifor of the Real World Economic Outlook, only by serious
efforts to bring regulation and balance to the international economy.
opendemocracy.net
The end of American economic
supremacy? September 19, 2003 By Hussain
Khan Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest
writers to have their say. Please
click here if you are interested in contributing. It is beginning to appear
that the events of September 11, 2001 have had such an impact that it could end
American economic supremacy in the world. The peril to the US economy has been
compounded by fiscal actions taken by the administration of President George W
Bush. atimes.com
Layoffs crank
up again, chip away at economic growth September
19, 2003 By Gary Strauss Rising corporate layoffs are beginning to
undermine the nation's economic recovery, labor experts and economists say.
Wednesday, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco announced it was slashing 2,600 jobs, or about
40% of the No. 2 cigarette marketer's workforce. The long-rumored purge is the
latest in a string of post-Labor-Day layoff announcements at technology
companies and manufacturers that will eliminate thousands of jobs. usatoday.com
Neocons
and Dual Loyalist Jews in Washington, D.C. Now Hold... The Reins of Power in
U.S.A. September 19, 2003 Texe Marrs
President George W. Bush is merely the puppet and "go-for boy" of
powerful, behind-the-scenes, Marxist, neo-con, dual loyalist Jews. That's the
conclusion of people in the know in Washington, D.C. Bush's total cave-in to
these alien, Jewish foreign policy thugs is also well-known in Europe and the
Middle East, where top newspapers and magazines regularly talk about this and
frequently name and unmask the very Jews who lurk behind the closed doors of the
Bush White House. propagandamatrix.com
The courts, the California recall
and the crisis of the US political system
September 19, 2003 By Bill Vann The ruling by the Ninth Circuit of the
U.S. Court of Appeals postponing for five months the Oct. 7 recall election in
California has touched off a political firestorm. The recall’s right-wing
supporters charge that the three judges on the appellate panel—all appointed
by Democratic administrations—acted out of political allegiance rather than to
uphold the law. The civil rights groups that pushed for the postponement have
insisted that their concern was that every vote, and particularly those in
counties with large minority populations, is counted. wsws.org
WHY NO SANE PERSON SHOULD EVEN CONSIDER
CLARK FOR PRES September 19,
2003 Below, you will see many different articles from many different people,
convervative and liberal alike. They all think General Clark - Sir Wesley as he
is known in England where the Queen made him a Knight -- should NEVER be trusted
to be our President OR Vice President! rumormillnews.com
The Future of America under the
American-led Empire September 18, 2003
By Craig B Hulet A Realistic "Sense of it." Americans will see no benefits and neither share in its
triumphs nor its vision, its wealth nor its prosperity. You will share, many of
you worse than others, minorities, the poor, the weak, only in this regime’s
cruelty and wrath. I
was asked recently to make a short, or not so short, statement of what I thought
realistically may come about over the next, say, five plus years here on my
native soil, America.
informationclearinghouse.info
Handing Out Hardship
September 18, 2003 By E. J. Dionne Jr. Is this the Bush administration's idea of fiscal
discipline?
Let's get this straight: The administration wants $87 billion in new spending
for Iraq, refuses to contemplate rolling back any of its tax cuts to pay for it
-- and then proposes holding down new spending on child care for mothers trying
to leave welfare. Oh, yes, and on Sunday, Vice President Cheney insisted that
although he and President Bush have presided over a deficit that's reaching well
beyond $500 billion this year, we shouldn't worry. washingtonpost.com
Bush Would Use Mini-nukes, Prof Warns
September 18, 2003 by Dave Zweifel Is George Bush the most dangerous
president in U.S. history? If you ask Professor John Swomley, he is. Swomley, who teaches Christian ethics at the St. Paul School of Theology in
Kansas City, has authored an indictment of the Bush administration's foreign
policy that includes actual plans to use nuclear bombs as pre-emptive weapons. It is essential, he says in a magazine article, for Americans to understand that
the administration has directed the military to prepare plans to use nuclear
weapons against at least seven countries - China, Russia, North Korea, Syria,
Iran, Libya and Iraq. informationclearinghouse.info
Aid denied for ill nuclear workers
September 18, 2003 By Peter Eisler Scores of private factories that helped make the
nation's first atomic bombs stayed polluted for decades. And thousands of people
who later worked in them were exposed to radiation and toxins without knowing
it, federal records show. The
government is refusing to compensate workers who say they have illnesses from
the latent contamination. It says only those who had jobs while the weapons work
was going on are eligible for money. story.news.yahoo.com
What Bush Learned From Enron
September 18,
2003 By Daniel Gross How to hide an $87 billion debt by pretending it's off the
books. I guess President Bush was paying attention
during all those corporate scandals. After all, his latest budget strategy is
pure Enron: If you leave $87 billion in spending out of the budget, the
rest of your balance sheet will look a lot better—at least until the bill
comes due. Investors learned this the hard way from Enron, which hid billions of
dollars in liabilities on off-balance-sheet partnerships. msn.com
Either
Cheney is a Complete Liar or is Too Stupid to be Vice-President
September 18, 2003
BUZZFLASH Based on His
September 14th "Meet the Press" Interview. How
stupid does Cheney think we are? Apparently, pretty stupid. And maybe we are.
Under any normal circumstances (not being ruled by a Republican one-party
state), he should have been impeached -- and perhaps imprisoned -- a long time
ago. buzzflash.com
Bush's IQ
September 18, 2003 Frank Talamantes, Ph.D.
In a report published Monday, the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, detailed its findings of a four-month study of the intelligence
quotient of President George W. Bush.
Since 1973, the Lovenstein Institute has published its research to the
educational community on each new president, which includes the famous
"IQ" report among others. There have been twelve presidents over the
past 60 years. thetruthseeker.co.uk
The
Idiocy and Dishonesty of "Conservative" Talk Radio
September 18, 2003 by Doug Basham
Las Vegas Talk Radio
In
my never ending attempts to listen to both sides of every issue, I subjected
myself to some "conservative" talk radio the other day. One of the
callers mentioned a story they had seen on CNN concerning the low morale of our
troops. The
host immediately launched into this idiotic tirade, blaming the despicable,
anti-American, liberal media who will do and say anything to undermine this
president's war on terrorism, including searching high and low for disgruntled
soldiers and all but bribing them to say so on camera. By so doing, the media is
guilty of giving aid and comfort to the enemy and should therefore be charged
with treason, strung up in the middle of the desert, and urinated on as
frequently as possible before being gutted for the liberal traitors they are. opednews.com
Ashcroft bars the doors to democracy
September 18, 2003 By Carol Rose A HISTORIC exercise in democracy took place last week when more than 1,200
people gathered outside Faneuil Hall to speak out in defense of the Bill of
Rights while US Attorney General John Ashcroft delivered a
closed-to-the-public speech to some 150 law enforcement officials who were
locked inside the hall. While the meeting went on inside, people who were
locked out chanted: "This is what democracy looks like." Those who gathered outside the hall were ordinary people from across
Massachusetts: businesspeople, grandmothers, students, and elected officials.
They came from Amnesty International, the Massachusetts Library Association,
the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Justice, Centro Presente, the American
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the
ACLU, and a range of community groups. Speakers included a member of Congress
(Representative Michael Capuano), city councilors, booksellers, advocates, and
librarians. The common theme among the speakers was that the people of this country
demand -- and deserve -- a government that is truthful, open, and respects
basic liberties. boston.com
Remembering
Sabra and Shatila
September 18, 2003 By
Amal
Hamdan
The
piles of bloated corpses and the overwhelming stench of rotting flesh are still
crystal clear memories in Mahir al-Srour al-Marei’s mind.
It was
16 September
1982 in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, and the sounds
of gunfire echoed throughout the densely packed, impoverished area. english.aljazeera.net
Israel kills a 25-year-old Palestinian; uproots 2000 olive
trees in occupied East Jerusalem September
18, 2003 Israeli occupation forces shot dead today a 25-year-old Palestinian citizen
in the town of Dura, near the Hebron, the IPC reported.
Israeli tanks have intensively opened fire at the civilians houses preventing
any attempt of protest.
"Earlier on Monday, Israeli bulldozers uprooted more than 2000 olive trees
in the occupied East Jerusalem," Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported. "sraeli bulldozers uprooted hundreds of fruitful olive trees and razed
vast areas of arable land in the neighborhoods of Sawahra and Wadi Alnar, south
of the holy Jerusalem city," eyewitness, Mohamed MashÕhor told WAFA.
ÊIPC reported that "According to the Palestinian National Information Centre
(PNIC), at least 53,656 houses were destroyed while 94,0313 trees were uprooted by
Israeli occupation forces in the last 36 months." arabicnews.com
US actions in Iraq building a “well of
hatred” September 18, 2003 By Barbara
Slaughter Felicity Arbuthnot, a freelance journalist, has visited Iraq
nearly 30 times since the first Gulf War in 1991 and visited the country again
just prior to the recent war. Since the formal declaration of the end of the war
she has been able to speak to some of her many contacts in Iraq. She recently
spoke to Barbara Slaughter of the World Socialist Web Site. Arbuthnot explained
how US troops are helping to stoke enormous resentment in the Iraqi people. wsws.org
Secret slaughter by night, lies and blind eyes by day
September 18, 2003 Robert Fisk Sixteen demonstrators killed in
Fallujah? Forget it. Twelve gunned down by the Americans in Mosul? Old news. Ten
Iraqi policemen shot by US troops outside Fallujah? "No information,"
the occupation authorities told us last week. No information? The Jordanian
embassy bombing? The bombing of the UN headquarters? Or Najaf with its 126 dead?
Forget it. Things are improving in Iraq. thetruthseeker.co.uk
Blacks
sue Waffle House, claiming bias September 18,
2003 By Doug Gross More than 50 black
customers are suing
the Waffle House restaurant chain, claiming they were discriminated against
because of their race, lawyers said Wednesday. The plaintiffs say they were denied service, forced to wait for long periods
and subjected to racial slurs by Waffle House employees. "What happened to these 56 individuals ... was conduct that was blatant,
that was arrogant and that was hostile," said attorney Henderson Hill, who
is working on the cases with the nonprofit Washington Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. salon.com
Pop star's relations with
Bush turn sour September 18, 2003 By Rory
Carroll Africa President's promise of $15bn
for African Aids won new friends but now Bono complains events are moving too
slowly U2's lead singer emerged disappointed from the Oval Office after confronting
Mr Bush over a shortfall in promised funding to alleviate the HIV/Aids pandemic.
Bono said Washington was moving too slowly after raising expectations of a
mercy mission. His comments underlined growing unease among aid agencies that
much of the $15bn (£9.3bn) pledged by Mr Bush over five years for vaccines and
treatment would not materialise. guardian.co.uk
Iraqi Leader Says U.S. Troops Mistreat Civilians
September 17, 2003
By Daniel Flynn A member of Iraq's Governing Council Monday accused U.S.
troops of regularly mistreating Iraqi civilians so that the population had come
to regard American forces as an army of occupation. "There is widespread discontent with the coalition forces, the majority
of whom treat the Iraqi people with violence and contempt," Rajaa Habib
Khuzai told a joint news conference with Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio. "The opinion of the Iraqi people about the coalition forces is that they
are forces of occupation," said Khuzai the head of a maternity hospital in
the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya and one of 13 Shi'ite Muslims on the
25-member council. reuters.com
Commander: GIs in Iraq Face Revenge Raids
September 17, 2003
By TAREK AL-ISSAWI Iraq The commander of the U.S.-led
coalition in Iraq said in an interview published Wednesday that U.S. forces, already
under pressure from a guerrilla-style resistance, now face revenge attacks from
ordinary Iraqis angered by the occupation. yahoo.com
N Carolina
College Teacher Fired For Antiwar Remarks September 17, 2003
Carolina teacher Elizabeth Ito has appealed her firing from Forsyth Technical
Community College, which came after she made remarks critical of the conduct of
the war in Iraq. Her firing, which has been widely criticized by local anti-war
activists and free speech advocates, is seen as part of a larger crack-down on
dissent and academic freedom. "It is clear that Elizabeth didn't lose her
job because she expressed a personal opinion in the classroom," said Liz
Seymour, a member of the Ito Defense Coalition. "She lost her job because
of the opinion she expressed." rense.com
Democrats Question Cheney's Halliburton Payments
September 17, 2003
By Susan Cornwell Vice President Dick Cheney, a former CEO of
Halliburton Co., has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company
since taking office while asserting he has no financial interest in the company,
Senate Democrats said on Tuesday. The Democrats demanded to know why Cheney claimed to have cut ties with the
oil services company, involved in a large no-bid contract for oil reconstruction
work in Iraq, when he was still receiving large deferred salary payments. reuters.com
US veto gives
Israel ' licence to kill' September
17, 2003 (Aljazeera) There are fears Israel will
see America's veto at the United Nations as a "licence to kill" in the
Jewish state's bid to get rid of Yasir Arafat.
A war of words erupted between UN members within hours of the resolution -
demanding Israel neither harm nor deport Arafat - being tabled.
The resolution fell after America voted against the motion, while Britain,
Bulgaria and Germany abstained leaving the remaining 11 members voting for.
It takes just one veto from a permanent member to kill off any motion.
"It's a black day for the United Nations and for international law,"
said chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saib Uraikat on Tuesday.
"I hope that Israel will not interpret the resolution as a licence to kill
President Arafat." informationclearinghouse.info
Two incomes, one bankruptcy Reexamining the agony of the middle class September 17, 2003
By Christopher Shea EVERYONE
KNOWS that middle-class families are feeling the squeeze these days. But now a
Harvard law professor and her business-consultant daughter have come up with a
dramatically new way of framing the problem. You might think that two incomes
add up to more than one, but two-earner families, they say, have fallen into
their very own trap, and it's becoming harder and harder to pry the jaws loose.
Elizabeth Warren, who teaches bankruptcy law at Harvard, and her daughter Amelia
Warren Tyagi, a former consultant with McKinsey & Co., make their case in The
Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke boston.com
US Senate won't block bush nuclear weapons plans
September 17, 2003 The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to block President
George W Bush's plans to study new types of small nuclear weapons, which critics
say may spur a new arms race and heighten the risk of nuclear war. A similar effort also failed in May, when the Senate voted to lift a
decade-old prohibition on the study and development of so-called mini nukes --
though it did require Bush to get congressional approval before building any. http://www.nzherald.co.nz
A
chilling message to Muslims September 17,
2003 THOMAS
WALKOM When Sajidah
Kutty called the Star on Friday, she seemed more bewildered than frightened.
Her family, frantic to find out what had happened to her father Ahmad, had
finally received a phone call from him at 4:30 that morning.
I'm all right, he told them. The Americans were holding him and fellow Canadian
citizen Abdool Hamid in a Fort Lauderdale jail. And no, he didn't know why.
"You hear of this kind of thing happening to Muslims just because they are
Muslims," Sajidah told me. "But you never really expect it to happen
to you or your family." thestar.com
Christians Under Attack
September
17, 2003
By Michael Collins Piper
So-called "leaders"
of the Christian evangelical movement have agreed to give up spreading the
Gospel of Christ in the Holy Land in order to avoid being jailed under a
proposed Israeli law aimed at stamping out Christian missionary work in Israel.
Anti-Christian forces led by a wide-ranging group of high-ranking Israeli
officials won a major victory on March 30. Representatives of 50 different
international Christian evangelical groups entered into what was described as an
"unprecedented" joint statement promising not to carry out Christian
missionary work in Israel. whtt.org
Israeli Troops Shoot
Schoolboy September
17, 2003 Al Jazeera Occupation
soldiers have shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West
Bank. The
boy was killed overnight on Sunday near the Qalandiya checkpoint south of Ram
Allah, reported our correspondent. He
was shot in the heart during a demonstration in support of Palestinian
President Yasir Arafat, according to Palestinian medical sources. rense.com
US admits holding 10,000 Iraqi prisoners
September 17, 2003 US officials have admitted they are holding 10,000 prisoners in Iraq, double the
number previously reported, including six claiming to be Americans and two who
say they are British. "They didn't fit into any category," said
Brigadier General Janis Karpinski of the 3,800 extra people who have now been
classified as "security detainees." "We got an order from the Secretary of Defence
(Donald Rumsfeld) to categorise them" abc.net.au
CBS-Viacom merger redefines Jewish role in media
September 17, 2003 J.J. GOLDBERG There was a telling moment, midway through last week's press conference
announcing the CBS-Viacom megamerger, when one of the unmentionables of American
entertainment peeked through the veils for an instant. It came when a reporter asked CBS president Mel Karmazin why he wanted this
merger. His reply: "This is the deal I've wanted to make, I think, from the
time I was bar-mitzvahed." jewishsf.com
US-led exercise a prelude to nuclear war, says N Korea
September 17, 2003 The United States
has said the exercises were not specifically aimed at North Korea but few doubt
the target, with Washington and others accusing the isolated state of making
clandestine shipments of drugs, counterfeit cash and missiles. "This
is a wanton violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK and intolerable military
provocations as it was a prelude to a nuclear war," KCNA said in its latest
statement. jang.com
Titanics
of US economy are sinking September 17, 2003 Pillars of the US economy that have been the symbol of America-s power
for many years are currently collapsing like houses of cards. WorldCom, an
American telecommunication company with assets of over $100 billion, officially
announced its bankruptcy on Sunday. This is the largest bankruptcy in the
history of the USA. The Titanics are going down, which, at the same time,
results in the decline of the dollar and the hopes of investors for a revival of
the US economy. english.pravda.ru
Monkeys Show Sense Of Fairness, Study Says
September
17, 2003 by Sean Markey If you expect equal pay for equal work, you're not the only
species to have a sense of fair play. Capuchins received a better reward (a
grape, a more desirable food), for the same amount of work or, in some cases,
for performing no work at all. Brosnan said the response to the unequal
treatment was astonishing: Capuchins who witnessed unfair treatment often
refused to conduct future exchanges with human researchers, would not eat the
cucumbers they received for their labors, and in some cases, hurled food rewards
at human researchers. Those actions were significant. They confirmed that not
only did capuchins expect fair treatment, but that the human desire for equity
has an evolutionary basis. nationalgeographic.com
DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
August 16, 2003 by
Dan Dvorak This piece started out WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION but it ended quite
differently. Our first vacation in many years ended with the last few days
in
Washington
DC
, as tourists and with the help of a family friend and her husband, a Navy
Captain. Both of them high level Pentagon or something, the only thing
that was closed to any discussion what so ever was about their work or
position in politics.
We walked 25 miles in the few days were
there and the kids got to see a lot of things, but only a fraction in
reality. We saw the Lincoln Memorial with his words etched in stone, a
reminder of what a good president was capable of, then the
Washington
Monument
and the Jefferson Memorial. The greatness of these men so evident in
contrast with what now occupies the Whitehouse.
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