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Archive for the Month of January, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 376 through 450 of 480.
- Today, only few Western journalists remain impartial and objective in their duty to report on the U.S. war crimes and the destruction of Iraq and the Iraqi society. However, those few independent and objective journalists who challenge power are endangered species, and may soon extinct if they remain unprotected. - Working class people, especially progressives, must come to understand that our interests are not being served by hitching our political wagons to either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Republicrats represent a capitalist system that has given rise to class division, the unequal distribution of wealth, private ownership, and a system of wage slavery that does not serve democracy, but plutocracy. It condemns workers to being the property of their employers. - When troops are cut, we'll still be bombing the hell out of the place - The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency [?!?], as well as the development of a plan to react to a [Bush-created] national emergency, the company said. - ...figures showed nearly 36,000 people were stopped and searched under the emergency powers last year. The number of people stopped and searched each year has soared since the Act came into force in 2001, when 10,200 people were stopped. It rose to 33,800 in 2003-04. - it was "highly unlikely that European governments or at least their intelligence services were unaware" of "hundreds" of CIA flights and more than 100 renditions on European soil or passing through European airspace. - The arms trade makes big money for the richest nations while fuelling conflict across the world. - Iran has accused the UK of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the restive south-western city of Ahwaz on Tuesday. - In a police state, no one can hear you scream...
- Nearly three years after the US-led invasion-turned-occupation of Iraq, more Iraqis are falling prey to grinding poverty and countless others are terrified in the insecurity-marred country. - ...the most powerful sections of Canada’s corporate elite threw their support behind the Conservatives with a view to pushing government policy sharply right. This shift was reflected in the editorial support given the Conservatives by the country’s leading dailies... - None of this snooping has anything to do with terrorism. It has to do with American citizens opposed to the Bush administration and the mass murder schemes of the Straussian neocons. - The Islamic group Hamas has won a huge majority in parliamentary elections as Palestinian voters rejected the long-time rule of the Fatah Party. - Developed by multinational agribusinesses and the U.S. government, Terminator has the effect of preventing farmers from saving or replanting seeds from one growing season to the next. - The long historical racist mentality, accentuated through the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, has allowed countless political types and racist individuals like Jack Abramoff to defraud Native tribes of billions of dollars. - Within the confines of hidden, top-secret installations around the globe, tests on human subjects -- from torture to physiological degradation -- occurs in the name of National Security, medical research, or some new and arcane acronym just coined by the Department of Homeland Terror and its corporate cohorts. - Hamilton Bank, ex-CIA operatives, and 9-11 hijackers. - The problems with the 1997 privatization of the Office of Federal Investigations (OFI), which ultimately became U.S. Investigations Services (USIS), now owned by The Carlyle Group, were known to members of Congress, according to a former OFI official. - According to Professor Bruce Lawrence, you fake a tape of Osama... - Don't talk about it, mention it only in passing, get the facts wrong, refuse to investigate. - by Scott Ritter - Iraq has come to this: a human and social disaster of enormous scale, where unified central governmental authority is not only non-existent, but unachievable under current conditions. - The Venezuelan government says several military officers have been caught passing state secrets to the US. - Congress folk from both sides of the aisle have seen with their own eyes what happens to those who stand up to the Bush Crime Family. It’s not just the ballot box or place of employment where people who oppose the Bush Mafia lose. People in positions of power are eliminated. Consider... - We are well down the road of sacrificing our country to a flaccid and corrupt government in bed with profit-obsessed, amoral corporations. - Color me naive, but when I hear talk of cages, detention and/or concentration camps, my mind usually wonders in devious directions. I haven't seen anywhere in history where detention centers and so forth were used as freedom enhancing tools. - Yesterday, news emerged that an Iraqi journalist was killed by US troops in Ramadi. The journalist's body was riddled with bullets - some 20 of them. - A major problem anybody confronts when trying to sort fact from fiction in the news—aside from any confusion that occurs in trying to figure out if anything the mainstream media "reports" is "news" or merely opinion posing as fact—is the sheer volume and consistency of the coverage, which ultimately depends on specific words and phrases that come pre-loaded with meaning through their repetitive use over years of news coverage.
- At 450,000 excess dead per year, this constitutes one of the gravest humanitarian crises in the world. Unfortunately, it gets virtually no attention -- unlike the all-important "war on Christmas," which garnered 58 spots on Fox News in the course of a single week. - The overarching WSF theme "Another World Is Possible" and opposition to "imperialism" and war are the common denominators among the broad range of organisations and individuals gathered in Caracas this week, where one of this year's three Forums is taking place. - The Israelis birthed and nurtured their Islamist nemesis. - Mark Crispin Miller talks about how the right stole the 2004 presidential election -- and how they'll do it again unless we stop them. - Although lower level military are taking the rap for Abu Ghraib abuse, critics contend Rumsfeld authorized the rape of Iraqi children. - Recent studies of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveal that the media reported Israeli children’s deaths at rates 7 to 40 times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths. Some typical examples... - In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife." - A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. - An FBI source has confirmed the destruction of public records by Jeb Bush may be in response to the ongoing criminal proceedings against GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff... - ...no one in the corporate media...seems to have noticed this glaring self-indictment. - The Bolivian new left-wing President, Evo Morales, has cut his salary by more than a half to a little over $1,800 (£1,012) per month. - ...WHITE HOUSE MEDDLING IN ABRAMOFF CASE REQUIRES APPT OF INDEPENDENT OUTSIDE COUNSEL - Oilfield services conglomerate Halliburton Co. swung to a profit in its fourth quarter on robust sales and increased rig activity, and called last year the best in its 86-year history. - Neo-Con mouthpiece government shills Sean Hannity and Newsmax simply don't know when to stop. - Blacks and the poor were disproportionately affected by Katrina, according to the study led by Brown Professor John R. Logan. The analysis concludes that the difficulty in moving back to the city could mean a massive loss of population, overwhelmingly among blacks. - U.S.-SUPPLIED aircraft played a crucial role in enabling the Indonesian military to crush East Timorese resistance to its invasion and occupation of the territory in the late 1970s, a report by an East Timor commission has claimed. - The upcoming soccer World Cup continues to be utilized as a showcase for the police state, as all major sporting spectaculars are these days.
- Information Operations Roadmap - Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, has warned he could jail US Embassy officials caught spying after accusing them of links to Venezuelan officers suspected of espionage for the Pentagon. - 15 Facts - It may still be January, but the Arctic region is reportedly experiencing record, summerlike temperatures. - And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. - Saint Patrick’s Four jailed for non-violent protest against the illegal Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. - The U.S. is readying fresh sanctions against North Korea over the regime’s alleged financial crimes that will be significantly more severe than the ones already in place. - ...to object to Iran's nuclear future without pressuring and bringing Israel into open and honest negotiation about its arsenal including forthright inspections, seems either absurd or outrageously insulting not only to the Arab world but to the world in general. - Hamas capitalized on the failure of the "international community" to protect the Palestinians from Israel’s daily terror - Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. Fox "News" and right-wing talk radio are the worst, but with propagandistic outlets setting the standard for truth and patriotism, all of the media is affected to some degree. - "We believe that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11," the group says in a statement released Friday announcing its formation. "We believe these events may have been orchestrated by the administration in order to manipulate the American people into supporting policies at home and abroad." - Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site... - Well, somebody’s up to something again. - These are recent pictures from Baghdad, drowning in rain water...This is a list of Iraqi academics killed by US, Iran and the zionists...
- A Libyan official said this week he expected oil firms to help normalize US ties. - How many more crimes will the US military stand accused of? - Chevron Fourth-Quarter Earnings Rise 20 Percent to Company Record of $4.14 Billion - It is sincerely disgusting to read the corporate media spun "news" about the "election" victory of Hamas. First, in the occupied areas of Israel as in the occupied areas of Iraq, it is important for the criminal occupiers to hold "elections" so as to provide a patina of legitimacy for what is essentially a massive felony and crime perpetuated against humanity... - It was also disclosed that Correa was member of the Central Intelligence Agency with the highest rank in Venezuela, and was linked to the April 2002 coup. - New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 accelerated in the first year that President Bush and Congress cut taxes on capital. - Homeland Security bureaucrats just look at pornography all day, a startling new government report suggests. - The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. - Can't pay your student loan on time? The fat cats at Sallie Mae are so glad to hear it. - In truth, the Palestinians represent an incredibly persistent "local difficulty"; a thorn in the side of countries interested in running the Middle East to their own advantage. While the UK pays lip service to international law, it’s actually busy helping Israel to get away with murder. - The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss"... - Special Branch "altered record" in attempt to switch the blame for de Menezes shooting - Anti-ID cards campaigners accused the Home Office yesterday of misleading parliament and the public over plans to include radio tracking devices in ID cards. - Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has appointed a coca grower to oversee his country's efforts to combat drug trafficking. - The move, included in a little-noticed provision of the 2006 National Defense Authorization Act passed last month, marks a legislative victory for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld... - The report maintains that insurers then used the overstated figures to justify increases in doctors' premiums and pressure legislators to enact lawsuit restrictions. - ...already, Dyncorp uses these planes to dump poison on coca growers in Colombia...
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