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Archive for the Month of January, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 451 through 480 of 480.
- Saddam's chief lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said the US-sponsored court was illegal and "run by the Americans". - He (Blair) offered his total support for the war at a secret White House summit as Mr Bush displayed his contempt for the UN, made a series of wild threats against Saddam Hussein and showed a devastating ignorance about the catastrophic aftermath of the war.
- by David Ray Griffin - Why the Official Account Cannot Be True - ...in the end, it is the Russerts that hurt journalism and betray their nation far more than a Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly. The ideologues come and go in our society. The Kissingers, Rumsfelds, Russerts and other soulless practitioners of power long survive them. - In the past weeks media reports have speculated that Washington is "thinking the unthinkable," namely, an aggressive, pre-emptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, by either the United States or Israel, to destroy or render useless the deep underground Iranian nuclear facilities. - Vanunu is on trial again for state secret's violations, charges he says are trumped-up and make no sense. Released in 2004, he originally was jailed for trying to tell the world about Israel's 1986 nuclear stockpile... - President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father that the Democratic former president is like a member of the family. - Alito presents a Rockwell- like demeanor of a normal American or at least the ideal of one: calm, reasoned, and assured. His demeanor is soothing like a good hit of Prozac, but like Prozac, there are serious side affects. - ...Bush is presiding over a self-serving delusion, in concert with a self-emasculating Congress, his partners as would-be war profiteers. Anticipating tomorrow night, one could say Bush will, on this question, be lying to the American people again. But that would presume he is not first lying to himself. State of war? No. State of the Union? Catastrophe, pure and simple. - "The Americans always give excuses for Israel," said Samir. "Israel is like a spoilt son. They never pressure them. They kill our children and no one says anything. If there is a reaction by Palestinians to these incidents they call us terrorists." - Jackboots of the Church - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proclaimed "socialism or death" in finishing his rousing speech to a rally of around 10,000 people at the Polihedro Stadium on January 27. The rally was a feature of the Latin American section of the Sixth World Social Forum held in Caracas on January 24-29. - Hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden's latest release, an audio tape that boosted George W. Bush's poll numbers despite it being described as a probable fake by bin Laden expert Professor Bruce Lawrence, Ayman al-Zawahri has popped up on the eve of the State of the Union to hand Bush all the ammunition he needs to threaten American citizens for a sixth consecutive time. - It’s considered a crime when someone picks your pocket, but if that someone is the U.S. government, and they’ve invaded your country to steal your oil, that’s different. - US Plan for the "Great Middle East" - Farmers in Mali, the fourth poorest country in the world, have told their government they do not want to see genetically modified crops being grown on their land, after Africa's first "farmers' jury" debated the issue. - Surging profits topped off a record year for Exxon
- Why are the World Bank and British government conspiring in top-level fraud, spelled out in a whistleblower's dossier? - Southern California coastal waters have warmed in recent decades to their highest level in 1,400 years, according to a study of fossilized plankton published this week in the journal Science. - An informal International Women's Tribunal, meeting at the sixth World Social Forum in the Venezuelan capital, found "imperialism" and U.S. President George W. Bush guilty of violating the human rights of people in countries like Iraq and Cuba. - Appalling new evidence reveals that female soldiers serving in Iraq made fatal decisions in their attempts to avoid rape. - by Michael Parenti - A central function of the corporate capitalist state is to maintain and advance the capital accumulation process. This it does by (a) taxing the many to subsidize the few; and (b) privatizing the public wealth, specifically the land, airwaves, mineral deposits, and other natural resources that are nominally the property of the American people. - The 2006 federal election has set the stage for a possible dismantling of Canada's distinctive social and economic fabric. The newly evolved Conservative Party, in many respects a chilling echo of the USA's Republican Party, is poised for a two-stage attack to reshape Canada in line with its Canadian version of America's neoconservative ideology. - The coming "final status talks" on Serbia's southern autonomous province will complete the Western conquest of the Balkans. - The poll also found that 80 percent of Iraqis think the United States plans to maintain permanent bases in the country even if the newly elected Iraqi government asks American forces to leave. - The Bush administration, in its war on terror, stresses that anyone who aids and abets a terrorist is as guilty as the terrorist. By this standard, the U.S. government was guilty of enabling the Indonesian government to terrorize the Timorese people. The Timorese victims of U.S.-backed aggression received far less than 1 percent of the attention than have American victims of terrorist attacks. - Think the federal government is too intrusive? You ain't seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications. - Environmental group contends drivers, passengers are breathing dangerous chemicals found in car interiors; calls for new regs. - ...(2) The tape of interviews of air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 was intentionally destroyed by crushing the cassette by hand, cutting the tape into little pieces, and then dropping the pieces in different trash cans around the building... - Up to $100m campaign enlists balls, bumper stickers in terror fight
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