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"Torah-true
Jews wish to live in peace..."
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Jews versus Zionism STIFLING IMPORTANT DEBATE April
7,
2004 By Ted Lang
No area on Earth is more volatile as is the socially and politically
unstable Middle East. The on-going conflict between Arab and Jew
threatens to engulf the entire world in nuclear conflict. The
recent terrorist activities, even in the repressive regime of
Uzbekistan, and in Pakistan also, both currently allies of the United
States, as well as the increasing friction between Mainland China and
Taiwan, exemplify the potential hotspots all over the world. And
never mind the continuing terrorist plots uncovered here in the US as
well as the UK. thepeoplesvoice.org
Report From the Real Iraq April
7,
2004 Anonymous soldier "It's like a charnal house over
there. We're arresting and/or assassinating everyone who stands up to oppose us.
Hundreds of villages have been turned into defacto concentration camps. It's
like something out of Nazi Germany. And the casualties are much, much higher
than is being reported. When I go back, I don't expect to come back alive."
libertyforum.org
Exposing Bush the
liar, the mass murderer, the war criminal April
7,
2004 The crude and cruel facts about what George W.
Bush and his evil regime has done in Iraq, making the US troops and civilian
workers hated among the people who were supposed to welcome them with open arms.
We expose the lies and present the truth, based on media reports and eye witness
accounts. english.pravda.ru
130 SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ April 7,
2004 A Pentagon source has said up to 130 US troops
have been killed in fierce fighting in Iraq. The large
scale battle, described as "intense", has taken place in the town of
Ar Ramadi, 20 miles west of Fallujah. Sky News' David
Chater said: "None of this is official yet - none of it is confirmed."
But he added: "It sounds very much like this is being
carried out by men who are militarily trained." Chater
described the attack as "highly sophisticated". sky.com
Iraq war becoming a quagmire April
7,
2004 By HELEN THOMAS It was supposed to be a cakewalk for the
American troops invading Iraq. The Iraqis were to throw flowers as the
conquerors marched in and took over their country. seattlepi.nwsource.com
No more troops to Iraq: PM April
7,
2004 Australia is unlikely to send more troops to Iraq despite fresh
outbreaks of violence, Prime Minister John Howard said today. theage.com.au
Nader calls for Bush impeachment April
7,
2004 AP CHICAGO Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader
called Tuesday for President Bush to be impeached for "deceiving the
American people night after night after night" about U.S. involvement in
Iraq. "When you plunge our country into war on a platform of fabrications
and deceptions, and you bring back thousands of American soldiers who are sick,
injured or dead, and that war is unconstitutionally authorized to begin with,
Mr. Bush's behavior qualifies for the high crimes and misdemeanor impeachment
clause of the Constitution," the 2000 Green Party presidential nominee said
to applause from about 200 students at Columbia College Chicago. Nader said
President Clinton was impeached for "far less of an offense." billingsgazette.com
New
Report Reveals $6 Trillion in Hidden Spending in Bush Budget April
7,
2004 Who is Going to Pay for the
Bush $6 Trillion Spending Spree? Widening
the White House’s growing credibility gap, a new report released today by John
Kerry for President reveals that President Bush has proposed or passed $6
trillion in new, unpaid initiatives during the first three years of his
administration. noticias.info
Bank of America to Cut 12,500 Jobs April
7,
2004 By Jonathan Stempel Bank of America Corp., the No. 2 U.S.
bank, on Monday said it plans to cut 12,500 jobs over the next two years as a
result of its $48 billion purchase of FleetBoston Financial Corp. finance.myway.com
"If Royko were here today, he would convulse with
laughter at the evil silliness of it all."
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IF ROYKO WERE HERE
April 6, 2004 By Sheila
Samples I often wonder what Chicago's late, great Mike
Royko thinks about "Boss" Dick Cheney literally snickering up his
sleeve at the direction he's managed to steer the Independent 9-11
Commission to effectively cover up what he and others in the administration knew
before 9-11. I suspect the acerbic renegade columnist would be quick to
point out that the Commission is working pretty hard on its own to
make Cheney's job easier. He'd probably tell us the Commission's "bipartisan" members are
arguably the only group of people in this country -- maybe even the world
-- who don't know exactly what this entire bunch knew -- and when they knew
it. thepeoplesvoice.org
U.S.
Soldiers Contaminated With Depleted Uranium Speak Out
April 6, 2004 Listen to: Segment
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Transcript A special investigation by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez
of the New York Daily News has found four of nine soldiers of the 442nd Military
Police Company of the New York Army National Guard returning from Iraq tested
positive for depleted uranium contamination. They are the first confirmed cases
of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the current Iraq conflict. After
repeatedly being denied testing for depleted uranium from Army doctors, the
soldiers contacted The News who paid to have them tested as part of their
investigation. Testing for uranium isotopes in 24 hours' worth of urine samples
can cost as much as $1,000 each. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, three
of the contaminated soldiers speak out. democracynow.org
Operation Iraqi Bloodbath: US prepares
reprisals against uprising
April 6, 2004 By James Conachy The invasion of Iraq last year was
christened “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in an attempt to deflect from the
utterly predatory and criminal character of US ambitions in the Middle East.
Twelve months later, as American troops prepare to close in on the Shiite youth
who have taken up arms against them in Baghdad and other cities, and marines
prepare reprisals against the city of Fallujah, a more apt name would be
“Operation Iraqi Bloodbath.” wsws.org
I Won’t
Kill For You April 6, 2004 After
King George II and his court of murderous thieves steal the presidential
election in November, again, the slumbering American public will awake to the
fact that the reinstatement of a military draft is the only way these bastards
can continue their crusade against terror. Think about it, the United States
military has been in Iraq for over a year now, and there is no end in sight.
Despite the recent publishing of positive letters from American soldiers in many
of the Republican run corporate media outlets, the morale of American soldiers
is extremely low. So far, 34 of the nearly 100,000 soldiers who have served in
Iraq have committed suicide. This is triple the usual rate, and a much higher
rate than any estimates during the Vietnam War. 44 percent of currently enlisted
soldiers said that they do not plan to reenlist, and at this point reserves are
all but dried up. The draft is not only inevitable, steps are being taken right
now to guarantee that it will be fully operational by June 2005. media.humboldt.edu
The Ultimate Betrayal
April 6, 2004 That was Jeremy Feldbusch, twenty-four years old, a sergeant
in the Army Rangers, who was guarding a dam along the Euphrates River on April 3
when a shell exploded 100 feet away, and shrapnel tore into his face. When he
came out of a coma in an Army Medical Center five weeks later, he could not see.
Two weeks later, he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, but he still
could not see. His father, sitting at his bedside, said: "Maybe God thought
you had seen enough killing." duckdaotsu.org
Poll: Support Erodes for Bush on Iraq
April 6, 2004 WILL LESTER AP Bush's overall
job approval is at 43 percent, a low point for his presidency, according to a
poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Forty-seven percent disapprove of Bush's job performance. sunherald.com
Kennedy Compares Bush to Richard Nixon
April 6, 2004 By LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP) Iraq has become ``George
Bush's Vietnam,'' Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Monday, calling the president
deceitful and for the first time comparing him to former President Nixon, who
resigned in disgrace. guardian.co.uk
The Star and the Swastika
April 6, 2004 by Douglas Herman Certainly,
forcing families of impoverished Palestinians into internment camps may not
equate with the liquidation of the Jews at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but
how close must the similarities be before people see the parallels?
And when does heroic resistance become terrorism, or when does an uprising
become an act of cultural survival? strike-the-root.com
Coalition
press office packed with Republican loyalists
April 6, 2004 JIM KRANE AP Critics say it's an
outpost of Bush's re-election effort. Inside the marble-floored palace hall that
serves as the press office of the US-led coalition, political operatives from US
President George W Bush's Republican Party lead a team of Americans who promote
mostly good news about Iraq. jamaicaobserver.com
Kerry accuses
Bush of spending $6 trillion April
6, 2004 By Stephen Dinan Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign charged yesterday that President
Bush's enacted and proposed spending will carry a $6 trillion price tag in the
next decade. "As opposed to President Bush trying to claim he is fiscally
responsible, he has really fiscally failed," said Sen. Jon Corzine, New
Jersey Democrat and a member of the Senate Budget Committee washtimes.com
Boriska-boy from Mars
April 6, 2004 Sometimes, some children are
born with quite fascinating talents, unusual abilities. I was told the story of
an unusual boy named Boriska from members of an expedition to the anomaly zone
located in the north of the Volgograd region, most commonly referred to as
"Medvedetskaya gryada". "Can you imagine, while everyone was
sitting around the campfire at night, some little boy (about 7 years of age)
suddenly asked everyone"s attention. Turned out, he wanted to tell them all
about life on Mars... english.pravda.ru
Sibel Edmonds trying to provide input to 9-11 commission
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Desperately Seeking Sibel
WHERE'S THE LIBERAL MEDIA?
April
5,
2004 By Ted Lang Where's the "liberal" media when you
really need them? Haven't the popular talk radio shows and their
anti-liberal agenda consistently offered that the media is liberal and
anti-Bush? Aren't they consistently criticized as always serving anyone
and everyone that opposes the Republican Party and its sole mission to return US
to constitutional government? thepeoplesvoice.org
Rioting Across Iraq Kills Nearly 60 April 5,
2004 By HAMZA HENDAWI, AP BAGHDAD,
Iraq - The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared
a radical Shiite cleric an "outlaw" Monday after his supporters rioted
in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis,
eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier. http:yahoo.com
Shiite uprising erupts against US occupation of Iraq
April
5,
2004 By James Conachy Seething resentment against the US-led
occupation has exploded into a popular Shiite uprising in Baghdad and major
cities across southern Iraq. At least seven American troops were killed and over
20 wounded in fighting last night in the eastern working class “Sadr City”
suburbs of the capital. The US military used tanks and helicopter gun-ships to
retake control of Baghdad police stations that had been seized by Iraqi
militiamen loyal to the Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. wsws.org
Poisoned? Shocking report
reveals local troops may be victims of america's high-tech weapons
April
5,
2004 By JUAN GONZALEZ Four
soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are
contaminated with radiation likely caused by dust from depleted uranium shells
fired by U.S. troops, a Daily News investigation has found. nydailynews.com
More
Jobs—But Only New Immigrant Groups Need Apply
April 5, 2004 So
you thought there was good news on the job
front—finally? According to Friday’s announcement, slightly more than 300,000
jobs were created in March. That’s the biggest monthly rise in four years.
But look
again: The job gains are stunningly skewed—toward Hispanics
and Asians.
And a significant number of them immigrants.
/ vdare.com
Lies, bribes and
hidden costs April
5, 2004 By
Eric Boehlert Bush's
Medicare quagmire -- and the striking parallels to Iraq.
Last year as the Bush White House tackled overhauling Medicare and invading
Iraq, it used strikingly similar political methods for both. Today the two
would-be victories have morphed into mirror-like crises and scandals. Both are
subjects of widening investigations. salon.com
How seas gave birth to
dust bowl April 5,
2004 John Vidal In 1931 it stopped raining on the great plains of the
American west and started blowing clouds of dust. Towns were engulfed, the crops
withered and died, and over the next eight years at least 1bn tonnes of topsoil
was blown away and 2 million desperate people fled in the greatest mass
migration of US history. guardian.co.uk
A Different View of the War On Terror
April 5, 2004 By Henry
Makow, Ph.D. All wars are really secret attacks on humanity by the
world financial elite. The "War on Terror" is no exception. The recent
media warnings of terrorist attacks on trains and buses this summer can be
seen in this context. The financial elite is relatively small, cowardly and
furtive. It needs us to fight its battles. It needs us to destroy ourselves and
to get further into debt. (This is how it enslaves us.) thetruthseeker.co.uk
Malevolent
media April 5, 2004 By Bev Conover To
use one of George W. Bush's favorite words, the behavior of the US corporate
media has gone beyond criminal to pure evil. What
else can you call them but evil when they can laugh at jokes linked to death and
destruction; when they refuse to ask the hard questions about 9/11; when they
express no outrage over the loss of our freedoms, the incarceration and even
torture of people not charged with any crime, the absence of weapons of mass
destruction the administration insisted Saddam Hussein had, the mountain of lies
the Bush administration has told and keeps telling about everything
onlinejournal.com
US
Government Documents Show 160 Saudis Flew from the US
April 5, 2004 documents obtained under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act
(“FOIA”) detailing the departure of 160 subjects of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, “including but not limited to members of the House of Saud and/or
members of the Bin Laden family,” between September 11, 2001 and September 15,
2001 propagandamatrix.com
The Shadow of Zog
April 5, 2004 Israel
Shamir In
Luc Besson's delightful film, The Fifth Element, an absolutely evil force, the Shadow,
Messenger of Death, comes from Outer Space to destroy human life on our planet.
It is impervious to bombs and missiles, and regardless of what people do, it
closes in, and its cover ever thicker upon the earth. Yet in order to succeed
the Shadow needs some human help. Who will, for personal profit, assist the
satanic Shadow in his quest to destroy our Mother Earth? In the best
tongue-in-cheek tradition of Swift, Besson gave the monstrous volunteer, that
servant-of-profit, a scary name: Zog.
israelshamir.net
U.N. cites police for being too forceful at
rally Oakland police accused of violence
against activists April 4,
2004 By Ian Hoffman Here's a
distinction Oakland didn't need: A United Nations report lists police firing of
wooden plugs and shot-filled beanbags at antiwar demonstrators last April
alongside the world's worst cases of government defamation and violence against
activists in 2003. In her 166-page report, Hina Jilani, a Pakistani human rights
lawyer and investigator for the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights,
suggests that Oakland police used excessive force on protesters at the Port of
Oakland. oaklandtribune.com
White House has final say on 9/11 report April
4,
2004 By Barbara Slavin The White House
will review the text of a report examining whether the Sept. 11 attacks could
have been prevented and could determine when the report will be released. usatoday.com
Sadr
Urges Followers To "Terrorize Enemy" April
4,
2004 U.S.-led occupation forces
killed 20 of his supporters in An-Najaf and two others during a raid on his
office in Baghdad, Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr urged his followers to
"terrorize the enemy" because protests have become useless. "There
is no use for demonstrations, as your enemy loves to terrify and suppress
opinions, and despises peoples," Sadr said in a statement distributed by
his office in Kufa, south of Baghdad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). islam-online.net
US tanks crush Iraqi protesters April
4,
2004 At least two followers of Shiite Muslim radical leader
Moqtada Sadr have been killed after throwing themselves in front of US tanks
during a demonstration in central Baghdad. abc.net.au
Bush's administration is worse than
Nixon's, says Watergate aide in Washington April
4,
2004 By Julian Coman John Dean, Richard Nixon's legal counsel who was jailed for his part in
the Watergate scandal, has accused the Bush administration of trumping even the
Nixon regime in secrecy, deception and political cynicism. telegraph.co.uk
Fallujah atrocity and the genesis of hate April
4,
2004 By Robert Fisk On Friday morning,
I sat in a Baghdad home with a poor old man and his daughter who were mourning
their son and brother, who was killed by American soldiers. Now, you may ask why
I do not write about Fallujah and the atrocities which occurred there three days
ago: the cruel and atrocious murder of four Americans who were dragged from
their sports utility vehicles, burned, mutilated, dragged through the streets of
that dangerous city and then hanged naked from a decaying British railway bridge
over the Euphrates river. iol.co.za
Uzbekistan: the next Iraq? April
3, 2004 Ali Abunimah, Chicago Tribune, When asked
recently if the deaths of more than 500 U.S. service personnel in Iraq were
"worth it," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld exclaimed, "Oh,
my goodness, yes." Because there
were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Bush administration hopes
Americans will believe that the noble goals of liberation, democracy justify the enormous sacrifices in human life that have
resulted from the Iraq war. But the administration's tight new embrace of one of
the world's most repressive regimes--in Uzbekistan--shows that this is cynical
at best. Uzbekistan is a Central Asian nation bordering Afghanistan. It's about
the same size as Iraq and also has 25 million people. It lies in the center of a
region with rich, untapped oil and gas reserves that U.S. energy companies are
eager to exploit. electroniciraq.net
US jobless rate climbs to 5.7 percent in
March April 3, 2004 By
David Walsh The official unemployment rate in the US climbed to 5.7 percent
in March, from 5.6 percent the month before. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
reported that while the economy created 308,000 jobs, the largest one-month jump
in four years, 179,000 people entered the labor force last month and 182,000
became unemployed. wsws.org
Deadly Attacks Across
Iraq April
3, 2004 (CBS/AP) A suicide bomber blew up a car near a hotel in the
southern city of Basra as a British military patrol passed by, killing three, 15 people were wounded, three
seriously. Mortars fired at an Army base next to the Baghdad
International Airport and at a Marine outpost near the Syrian border killed
three U.S. soldiers. In northeastern Iraq gunmen opened fire
on a minibus, killing three Iraqi journalists and wounding nine other employees
of a coalition-funded TV station. Meanwhile, rescue crews called
off their search for survivors of a massive suicide bombing of a hotel in
Baghdad. The military had earlier said that 27 people were killed in the Baghdad
bombing. cbsnews.com
Resistance takes 3 Americans prisoner
April 3, 2004 Sources
close to the Iraqi Resistance in al-Fallujah report that the Resistance managed
to capture three US occupation troops in one of their clashes with the invader
forces. An Islamic News Agency dispatch quoted by al-‘Arab
al-Yawm stated that the prisoners include one US officer and two enlisted men. mathaba.net
Iraq Downs U.S. Helicopter, Destroys 3
Tanks DOHA, April
3, 2004 (IslamOnline.net & News
Agencies) - Scoring more military gains against the invading troops, Iraqi
forces downed Thursday, March 27, a U.S. Apache helicopter and destroyed three
American tanks and an unmanned aircraft. islamonline.net
The real lessons of Fallujah
April 3, 2004 By Barry Grey History is replete with examples of occupied peoples, in the face
of the systematic brutality and overwhelming military superiority of foreign
invaders, giving vent to their indignation and outrage in acts of
retribution. No one has less of a right to adopt a posture of moral superiority
than those in the American political establishment, military brass and media who
are responsible for the brutalization of an entire society, carried out for the
most crass and sordid economic and political ends. The US takeover of Iraq is,
in every sense, a criminal enterprise. Everything connected to it is foul and
degrading. It marks one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the
United States. wsws.org
Hotbed of Resistance: An Iraqi Discusses
Fallujah Violence April 3,
2004 Listen to: Segment
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128k stream GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: This incident happened in Fallujah where two
days before that, the American army shot many many people, women and children,
on the streets, and --- in a bizarre shooting incident that was unjustified,
killing many people. Fallujah has been a place where the US Army has actually
used brutal force to suppress the people there, including using the F-15s, and
F-16s to attack villages. democracynow.org
Getting Worse It's
not just a 'spike' or an 'uptick' in violence
April 3,
2004 by Robert Fisk marine vehicle
blown off the road near Fallujah, a marine killed, a second attack with
small-arms fire on the same troops, an attack on an Iraqi paramilitary
recruiting station on the 14th July Road, a soldier killed near Ramadi, two
Britons hurt in Basra violence, a suicide bombing against the home of the Hillah
police chief, an Iraqi shot at a checkpoint, US soldiers wounded in Mosul ...
All this was just 17 hours before Fallujah civilians dragged the cremated
remains of a Westerner through the streets of their city. zmag.org
Two Police Chiefs Killed in 24 Hours in Iraq
April 3, 2004 By
Fiona O'Brien BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a police chief in Baghdad on
Saturday, the second to be shot dead in 24 hours and the latest in a growing
list of security officers killed by insurgents who target anyone linked to
Iraq's occupiers. reuters.com
The Weapons of American Terrorism:
April 3, 2004 Cluster bombs are one of the
most savage and inhumane weapons in the arsenal of the United States Corporate
Mafia Government and military. These instruments of bloody terror are used for
the gruesome slaughter of both military and civilian people around the world.
Each cluster bomb is composed of 200 to 700 bomblets. When each bomblet explodes
it fragments into about 300 pieces of jagged steel — sending out virtual
blizzards of deadly shrapnel. People are decapitated, arms, legs, hands and feet
are severed from their bodies — anyone and anything alive in the immediate
vicinity is shredded into a bloody mess. freespeech.org
Broken US troops face bigger enemy at home
April 3, 2004 Suzanne Goldenberg A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit
soldiers back to Iraq long before they are ready to serve again. All Jason Gunn
ever wanted was to be a soldier. He put on the uniform three days after high
school graduation, and served six years with distinction. But in the last real
conversation he had with his mother he swore he would never go back to Iraq. The
army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the Humvee he
was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire left side of
Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was shattered and, as he lay
in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was tortured by nightmares. guardian.co.uk
Powell Expresses Doubts About Basis for Iraqi Weapons Claim
April 3, 2004 By Glenn Kessler
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell voiced new doubt yesterday on the
administration's assertions of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, saying the
description in his U.N. presentation of mobilen biological weapons laboratories
appears to have been based on faulty sources. washingtonpost.com
Ex-Bush National Security Council Member:
How Bush Bungled The War on Terror April
3, 2004 Listen to: Segment
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128k stream A year after resigning from the National Security Council, Flynt
Leverett talks about how Bush pulled U.S. special forces from the hunt for Osama
in March 2002 to focus on Iraq, how the U.S. lost Syria as a source on
intelligence on Al Qaeda and the role of Elliot Abrams in shaping the country's
Middle East policy. We also talk to Col. Patrick Long (Ret.), former head of the
Middle East section of the Defense Intelligence Agency. [includes rush
transcript democracynow.org
'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with
aeroplanes' April 3, 2004 By Andrew Buncombe Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The
Independent A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance
says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September
attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US
with aircraft months before the strikes happened. news.independent
Bush Administration Steals Money from Tortured American POW's
April
3, 2004 Dr. Dennis Cuddy On Nov. 23, CBS'
"60 Minutes" aired a segment on American POWs tortured during the
first Gulf War who had recently been awarded by a court nearly $1 billion from
frozen Iraqi assets in the United States. The amazing part of this story is that
the Bush administration took those assets and sent them to Iraq for
reconstruction, thus denying the tortured POWs the court award. propagandamatrix.com
A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of
Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting
April 3, 2004 When
U.S. warplanes strafed [with AC-130 gunships] the farming village of
Chowkar-Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on October 22-23rd,killing at least 93
civilians, a Pentagon official said, "the people there
are dead because we wanted them dead." The reason? They sympathized
with the Taliban. When asked about the Chowkar incident, Rumsfeld replied, "I
cannot deal with that particular village." cursor.org
Americas trade
plan 'dead' -Venezuela's Chavez April
3, 2004 (Reuters)
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday a U.S.
plan to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas was "dead" after the
suspension of scheduled talks on the project he fiercely opposes. "It's
a fact, the FTAA is dead," Chavez said during a ceremony to mark the
signing of planned economic projects in Venezuela involving Chinese and
Portuguese companies. "Rest in peace, thank
God, it's for the good of our people," the left-wing Venezuelan leader
said. He has long condemned the hemisphere-wide trade plan as an
"imperialist" plot to extend U.S. domination across Latin America. forbes.com
E-Voting Don't Count Un-RECOUNTABLE Votes
April 3, 2004
By Rob Kall It's that simple when it comes to electronic or e-voting. If you
can't re-count it, don't count it in the first place. Voting is a process
integral to democracy. Any invention or experiment that attempts to toy with or
experiment with such a basic component of democracy is straight out, totally,
purely, completely unacceptable. The threats of electronic voting have been
widely discussed. opednews.com
Products
Worldwide Made by Falun Gong Slave Labor April 3, 2004
The Chinese "reform
through labor" camps have become privatized. They are small enterprises
that sign contracts with big companies and export products to overseas shopping
malls. It is a
place where torturers get rich, and where Falun Gong practitioners slave to pay
for the purchase of the electric batons that will shock them if they slow down.
These are places where
persecution drives profit. These
are places where sleep and food deprivation, filth, stench, beatings, heat,
cold, and toxic odors are daily routines. clearwisdom.net
Former mine safety
official says Bush administration covered up Kentucky slurry spill
April 3, 2004 W.Va.
(AP) The former head of a federal mine safety school alleges that Bush
administration appointees halted an investigation of a coal mine sludge spill
that polluted about 100 miles of creeks and rivers along the Kentucky-West
Virginia state line. sfgate.com
Benson's Economic & Market Trends The financial markets are leveraged
for a crash
April 3, 2004 The only question is when? The
financial press has been noticing that the small investor is still putting
massive sums of cash into stock mutual funds, while corporate insiders are, on
average, selling like crazy. The average investor, who benefited from increased
stock prices through January 2004, is just like the major hedge funds who are
sitting on "pins and needles". They have one finger on the buy button
and another finger on the sell button and are ready to jump one way or the other
at a moment's notice. gold-eagle.com
Speculators send silver and gold soaring
April 3, 2004 By Kevin Morrison Silver
prices rose on Thursday to a 16½-year high, driven by speculators who also
helped push gold prices near to a 15½-year peak. news.ft.com
Kean's oil company
continued a corporate relationship with an oil company
backed by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, a
past financial benefactor of George W. Bush.
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Smoke Gets in Their Lies COMMISION'S
EMISSIONS April 2, 2004
By Ted Lang
Investigative reporter, Tom Flocco, on his website, TomFlocco.com, has
highlighted two very disturbing aspects of the 9-11 Kean Commission proceedings.
First, Flocco in a March 24th release identifies a former FBI employee, a
translator fluent in Farsi and Turkish languages, as having been intimidated and
threatened with imprisonment by both the FBI and the Department of Justice for
attempting to help the 9-11 commission. thepeoplesvoice.org
Iraqi
Resistance Sources: US Lost More Than 20 Soldiers In Fallujah
April 2, 2004 Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free
Arab Voice Iraqi Sources close to the Resistance
in al-Fallujah report that the toll of dead US aggressors killed in the fighting
in and around that town from last Thursday and Friday, 25 and 26 March 2004
exceeded 20 dead. The sources told QudsPress on Monday that during the battles
of al-Fallujah, the Resistance was able to destroy eight US tanks and six
Humvees. jihadunspun.com
As
death toll mounts, Americans change views on Bush, war April 2, 2004
BY LAURA KURTZMAN
Leo Diaz, a young Marine from Texas based here
at Camp Pendleton, went to Iraq full of faith in the president who sent him.
Today, he is burdened by the horror of what he saw and shocked at Bush's
"frat boy" mentality in starting the war. kentucky.com
White House
withholding Clinton files April 2, 2004
By Rodney Dalton THOUSANDS
of pages of documents outlining the Clinton administration's efforts to counter
al-Qaeda have not been turned over by the White House to the 9/11 commission.
The independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks has called on
the Bush administration to explain why the foreign policy and counter-terrorism
documents have been withheld, according to a report in The New York Times. townsvillebulletin.news.com
Condoleezza Crimes April 2, 2004
The esteemed Dr. Rice revealed that she is as stupid as anyone in the
White House – with the possible exception of George.Although the 9/11
Commission will not lay a glove on her, Condoleezza Rice is finished as a Black
political asset of the White Man’s (War) Party. Colin Powell, a much smarter
and cagier opportunist, will likely escape this administration still clutching
his devalued aura, having hoarded some small measure of political capital for
himself. This is not true for Condoleezza Rice. Her complete and abject
identification with her master leaves Rice with nothing of her own to claim. blackcommentator.com
Condi Rice's other wake-up call April 2, 2004
Former Sen. Gary Hart says he, too, warned Rice about an imminent terror attack
on two occasions before 9/11. salon.com
Bush Hits Workers with Chemical Weapons
April 2, 2004 By CHRIS FLOYD A warning to readers: this column is
obscene. It relates details of an act so depraved that young children should not
be exposed to it; even adults will be debased by the contact. The characters
described herein exhibit all the human enlightenment and moral engagement of
monkeys idly scratching their groins on a hot day at the zoo. Last November, in
one of the innumerable, unnoticed little corruptions that belch forth daily,
even hourly, from the geyser of graft that is the Bush Administration, the man
who calls himself the president decided that some of the lowliest laborers in
America should be left to sicken or die from forced exposure to filthy rags
dripping with toxic waste. Why? Because their bosses paid him money. counterpunch.org
Whistleblower the White House wants to
silence speaks April 2, 2004 By Andrew
Buncombe 'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with
aeroplanes' A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security
clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11
September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to
attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened. independent.co.uk
USA In "Financial Anguish" April 2, 2004
By Sherman H. Skolnick In a telephone interview, Skolnick shared his
insights on the U.S. economic situation. Forget most mainstream financial
commentators, Skolnick advises. They may be nice-enough people, but they are not
too smart. "Prosperity is just around the corner," is their drumbeat.
But what the average person doesn't realize is that that phrase,
"prosperity is just around the corner," originated with President
Herbert Hoover and was followed by years of economic depression "It can't
happen here, not in the USA," is the implicit faith of many. Yet in
Skolnick's own solidly working-class neighborhood there is "an epidemic of
home foreclosures." "Where do these people go when they lose their
homes?" Skolnick asked. "What becomes of them?" shout.net
US TV Avoids Graphic Iraq Images
April 2, 2004 Seen Worldwide Contrast the way the US media avoids broadcasting
images of recent killings in Falluja, with its treatment of the killing of
Saddam's two sons. Images of the mangled remains of Uday and Qusay were
broadcast from coast to coast and around the world, thereby underlining the end
of Saddam's power. Admittedly these photos from Falluja are gruesome but the US
media is being very selective in how it applies its professed standards. And
there is a marked difference in how it treated images of the remains of Saddam's
two sons to these photos. In the end analysis, the media has become a weapon of
war, a psychological weapon to control populations in warring nations, shaping
and conditioning their perception of the conflict. thetruthseeker.co.uk
Iraq: the DU dust settles
April 2, 2004 Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the
incidence of radioactive contamination on Iraqi territory is being linked to the
use of depleted uranium (DU) in munitions used by Coalition forces. JID's
weapons specialist reviews the continuing political fall-out for Washington and
its allies. DU has created controversy since it was used in the 1991 Gulf War.
Activists and veterans' groups blame US weapons containing DU as the prime cause
of 'Gulf War syndrome', an elusive combination of maladies that has affected
more than 50,000 US veterans. Iraqi medical authorities also claim that
increases in child cancers and birth defects were caused by DU contamination
from tank battles on farmland west of Basra. janes.com
US officials threaten
Latin America April 2, 2004
This week, US officials insisted in previous allegations
about Cuba's alleged weapons of mass destruction program.Quoting baseless
reports, Bush administration says Cuba may hide weapons of mass destruction;
Venezuela may aid terrorists in the Caribbean island of St. Margarite; Brazil,
Argentina and Paraguay may hold a terrorist sanctuary on their triple border and
are a source of instability due to their "left wing populist
rhetoric". english.pravda.ru
The Pentagon Plan
to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
April 2, 2004 by CHRIS FLOYD This column stands foursquare with
the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that
there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and
civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S.
Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter
of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld,
U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks
against the American people and civilization at large? Because these attacks
will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S.
Secretary of Defense. counterpunch.org
Demand for beef speeds destruction of
Amazon forest April 2, 2004 John Vidal
Europe's demand for beef made last year one of the worst ever for Amazonian
deforestation, according to an international research report which quotes
Brazilian government figures due to be released soon. Last year satellite
pictures showed that almost 10,000 square miles of the world's largest
continuous forest was lost, 40% more than in the previous year. GUARDIAN.CO.UK
"Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951"
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The German Connection THE
PROFITS OF WAR April 1, 2004 By Ted Lang
It's not only a rock-solid fact - it is absolutely terrifying! Previous
comparisons to the present-day political environment of the United States of
America and that of 1933-1934 pre-war Germany wax similar by the day. The
stark comparisons between competing forms of socialism - National Socialism or
Nazism and international socialism, identified as communism - continue to
struggle for control of America. thepeoplesvoice.org
If
Kerry Wins, Bush And His Advisors Know That They Are Vulnerable To Potential
Prison Terms April 1, 2004 A
BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL As Americans are burned and desecrated by
"liberated" Iraqis, revelations about the Bush administration's
"slash and burn" campaign against patriot Richard Clarke continue to
emerge. The Washington Post revealed that White House Legal Counsel Alberto
Gonzales [LINK]
placed calls to some Republican members of the 9/11 Commission before they tried
to discredit Clarke buzzflash.com
Condoleeza's Nonsense
About Democracy April
1, 2004 By John Chuckman Condoleezza Rice wants to bring democracy
to the Middle East. Ms. Rice, an expert on what is now an obsolete subject, the
Soviet Union, believes this can be done the way the United States brought
democracy to Chile or Iran or Afghanistan - that is, by violently overthrowing
governments. rense.com
Why OPEC Is Cutting Its Production April
1, 2004 Sam Hamod Many have asked why OPEC is cutting its
production when the price is already over OPEC’s projected market design
price. This has caused consternation in the Bush administration, upset Kerry and
allegedly puzzled many American financial analysts who think the price is
already too high for America’s and the world’s economies. The answer is
simple: the OPEC countries are tired of Bush and his administration trying to
tell them how to run their countries—from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait to
Venezuela—they are all tired of Bush trying to be the dictator and government
framer of the world. informationclearinghouse.info
There Are No Words ... Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
April 1, 2004 By
Bob Nichols The uranium cannot be removed,
there is no treatment, there is no cure. The uranium will long outlast the
Veterans' and the Iraqis' bodies though; for, you see, it lasts virtually
forever. dissidentvoice.org
White House blocks Medicare testimony
April 1, 2004
By Tony Pugh KNIGHT
RIDDER Aide cannot speak about benefit's cost.
Citing executive privilege, the White House
refused to allow President Bush's chief health-policy adviser, Douglas Badger,
to testify today before the House Ways and Means Committee about early
administration estimates that the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit would
be far more costly than many lawmakers thought when they voted for it. tallahassee.com
Tax cuts boost joblessness, encourage outsourcing
April 1, 2004 By THEODORE SETO What exactly
did the Bush tax acts do to create this problem? They granted an enormous tax
cut to big business in the form of "bonus depreciation." Under bonus
depreciation, the more corporations spend on equipment, the less tax they have
to pay on the same economic income. And that's exactly what they've been doing.
Business spending on equipment has skyrocketed, corporate tax collections have
plummeted and no one's being hired. ajc.com
Pay soars for Wall Street CEOs
April 1, 2004 By Jamie Chapman While
over two million US workers received pink slips last year, Wall Street chief
executives treated themselves to some of their fattest pay packages ever.
Leading the pack was Citigroup’s Sanford Weill, who was paid $44.6
million—$122,000 a day wsws.org
Creepier than Nixon
April 1, 2004 By David Talbot The man
who brought down Richard Nixon says Bush and "co-president" Cheney are
an even greater threat to the country. salon.com
More
Killings, Death Threats and Closure of Paper Deepen Iraq Media Crisis April
1, 2004 Report, IFJ More
media deaths in Iraq - seven killings that bring the toll since the war began a
year ago to close to 40 - and death threats to reporters working for
international media have sparked new calls for international solidarity with
journalists in Iraq. The
International Federation of Journalists today said journalists' safety was an
"urgent priority" and warned the occupation authorities against
actions that "smack of censorship" and further weaken the Iraqi media
community. electroniciraq.net
Dead
Americans mutilated and dragged through Fallujah streets April
1, 2004 By James Conachy In ugly scenes captured by television
cameras, crowds of Iraqi men hacked apart and lynched the bodies of four
Americans killed yesterday in the restive city of Fallujah. According
to witnesses interviewed by Associated Press (AP), a convoy of three unmarked
civilian SUVs was ambushed as it travelled along a Fallujah street. Iraqi
resistance fighters threw hand grenades into two of the vehicles and raked them
with machine gun fire, setting them ablaze and killing the four men inside. wsws.org
Kean’s
pre-9/11 oil links to bin Laden’s brother-in-law April
1, 2004 (TomFlocco.com) Were severed just prior to appointment and FBI
translator’s letter and calls to chairman charging security and espionage
breaches were unanswered for a year. Kean may yet have to explain why his oil
company board of directors continued to maintain a corporate relationship with
an oil company backed by Osama
bin Laden’s brother-in-law, who was reported to be a past financial benefactor
of George W. Bush. / tomflocco.com
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