Abizaid Calls for Internet Controls

November 30, 2004 by element115

"Why is it that people have the right to get on the Internet and spread this hatred and insanity without there being some curb, some law?" said Gen John Abizaid, the chief of the US Central Command.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Lawyers in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes in Iraq

by element115

Democracy Now interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who is filing a criminal complaint charging a group of U.S. officials with war crimes in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

If The Ukraines Can Demonstrate in the Streets Over a Stolen Election, So Can We

by element115

Ukranian democracy gets help from the rest of the world. But not American democracy. After all, who helps the bully when he?s getting the crap kicked out of him? Who will stand up to help the playground that the bully rules? With Bush and his criminals in control of the US military, it would probably be foolish for even the most powerful nations to stand up to Bush

Posted in | 0 Comments »

How To Take Back A Stolen Election

by element115

...although evidence of fraud and vote rigging in the 2004 US election is mounting today, there was no widespread mobilization like the ones we encouraged in other nations or saw in Florida in 2000. Thus, it's extremely unlikely national institutions like the mainstream media, Congress, or the Supreme Court will seriously challenge or even expose to the general public the many deficiencies of this election.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

An Interview with an Anti-war Veteran from the Iraq War

by element115

Jim Talib is an antiwar vet who served in Iraq earlier this year for nearly seven months. He has recently begun speaking out against the war and occupation.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

China forges free trade pact with ASEAN countries; seen as challenge to U.S.

by element115

Rising power China moved Monday to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the United States, signing an accord with Southeast Asian countries aimed at creating the world's largest free trade area by 2010 - a sprawling market of nearly two billion people.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Anti-Berlusconi strike cripples Italy

by element115

Millions of workers across Italy have observed a general strike in protest against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Government.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

by element115

Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The lost "terror drill"?

by element115

A research focus on "wargames" only, is misleading and confusing. It becomes now pretty clear, that some "wargames" during the week of Sep11th had been arranged to distract from the "terror drills", because one of these drills was "9/11"...

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraq health care 'in deep crisis'

by element115

Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ohio recount: Stealing votes in Columbus

by element115

It's compiled by Richard Hayes Phillips, of New York; he has done an exacting and fascinating series of calculations analyzing wards, precincts and voting machines with various ratios and runnings of the data. The calculations indicate that the refusal to supply adequate voting machines to democratic and minority areas was a deliberate strategy.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ridge to Resign, Sources Say

by element115

Tom Ridge is resigning as secretary of homeland security, ABC News has learned.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Canadian authorities arrest US president George W. Bush : Humor

by element115

Canadian authorities have arrested US president George W. Bush in Ottawa. He has been charged with several offences under Canada's War Crimes Act. Vice-President Dick Cheney has mobilized the American military and all border crossings between the two nations have closed. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has urged for calm in a short radio and television broadcast to the Canadian people immediately after the arrest.

....If Only It Were True News

Posted in | 0 Comments »

GI threatens suicide over return to Iraq

by element115

A serviceman, apparently distraught over the prospect of being sent back to the war in Iraq, threatened to kill himself as he stood naked and screaming outside his house.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Court convicts top Rabin aide of fraud, breach of trust

by element115

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and State Prosecutor Eran Shendar welcomed the Supreme Court's Monday conviction of Shimon Sheves, former director general of the Prime Minister's Office under Yitzhak Rabin, who was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust in what prosecutors called an important victory in the fight against corruption.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Rumsfeld facing war crimes case in Germany

by element115

Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will today file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle US Secrecy

by element115

To combat the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy, U.S. citizens have been forced to unearth new sources for information they once read in their daily newspapers. But thanks to a few dedicated individuals and not-for-profit groups ? and the Internet ? such material is easier to come by than ever before.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantanamo

by element115

The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Protesters Push Through Fence at Ukraine Parliament

by element115

Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko broke through a fence surrounding Ukraine's parliament Tuesday, massing around its main door after the chamber failed to debate a no confidence vote in the government.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Army trainees gang-raped: U.K. Report reveals

November 29, 2004 by element115

The controversy surrounding the death of four Army recruits at Deepcut barracks was re-ignited yesterday as a leaked report revealed 170 allegations, including gang rape, bullying and sexual harassment.
The Surrey Police report, passed in confidence to the Commons Defence Select Committee, details claims of violent and sexual abuse as well as degrading treatment and racism towards army trainees.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Waiting For A Rain

by element115

Amazing antiwar short from Poland.
Many awards @ international festivals

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Prince Neil Bush & Silverado

by element115

That 45 days extension cost taxpayers a bundle. According to Wilmsen, the "cost of that delay is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In late September, regulators estimated the cost of Silverado's closure to be between $400 million and $600 million. When the thrift was finally closed December 9, it cost $1 billion."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Sharon government faces crisis after double blow in Israeli parliament

by element115

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced a fresh political crisis after the secular Shinui party threatened to quit the ruling coalition and he suffered two symbolic defeats at the hands of parliament.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Could a Spray Stop the Spread of Flu, TB, SARS?

by element115

Simply inhaling a saltwater spray could help prevent the spread of diseases including flu and tuberculosis, U.S. and German researchers reported on Monday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Terrorism: No Name Death from the Sky

by element115

This nation under the Bush cabal has launched a brutal, senseless and bloody war. Not against a state, but against a tactic-terrorism. The result has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. Iraq is now what it never was, ground zero for fools and fanatics-ours as well as "theirs" whoever they may be.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount

by element115

Preaching to a packed, wildly cheering central Ohio citizen congregation, Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the presidential election back into the national headlines Sunday. Jackson said new findings cast serious doubt on the idea that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio November 2. A GOP "pattern of intentionality" was behind a suspect outcome, he said. At stake is "the integrity of the vote" for which "too many have died."
"We can live with losing an election," he said. "We cannot live with fraud and stealing."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Challenge the Silence

by element115

Has the opposition been permanently muted? Do we just sit back and watch the endless war go on? Do we pretend it is no longer our concern? Do we become one with the warmongers? Do we watch in silence as Death rides unfettered through the streets of Iraq?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Actress Redgrave Launches Rights Party

by element115

Actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother and the father of a Guantanamo detainee on Saturday launched a new political party devoted to human rights.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Filled with so much hate

by element115

Six representatives from Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kan., marched across sidewalks and held signs saying "God Hates Fags" and "Your Pastor Is Lying."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Bhutan Bans Tobacco Sales, Public Smoking

by element115

Next month, this idiosyncratic Buddhist nation of 700,000, nicknamed Shangri-La, will become the first country in the world to ban all smoking in public and all sales of tobacco.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ottawa prepares for anti-Bush protests

by element115

They're protesting everything from capitalism and corruption to criminality, and they're blaming it all on U.S. President George W. Bush.
Thousands of activists are expected to march on the capital Tuesday, clogging streets and shouting complaints over all manner of perceived wrongs - imperialism, racism, elitism, torture, treaties and terrorism.
One group, Lawyers Against the War (LAW), wants Bush arrested and charged with war crimes.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Judges step into Ukraine crisis

by element115

Ukraine's Supreme Court is considering claims of massive fraud in the presidential elections, amid calls to prevent the country breaking up.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US keeps nuclear pressure on Iran

by element115

The US has said it could still refer Iran to the UN Security Council, even though nuclear inspectors said Tehran had fully suspended uranium enrichment.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pakistani soldiers abandon search for bin Laden

by element115

Pakistan will withdraw soldiers from tribal region considered hiding place for Al Qaeda leadership

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Neocons join the lynch mob for 'arrogant' Rumsfeld

by element115

"What remains to be done is to announce new leadership for the department of defence," wrote Kristol. "This, surely, would be an important opportunity for a strong, Bush-doctrine-supporting outsider, someone who of course would be a team player, but someone who could also work with the military and broaden support for the president's policy."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pictures of "Liberation"

by element115

Top general warns Iran not to underestimate U.S. military

by element115

A top U.S. commander is warning Iran and others against thinking they can exploit the U.S. military because its ground troops are fighting two major missions in Iraq and Afghanistan

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pro-Bush think-tank claims greenhouse effect 'may benefit man'

November 28, 2004 by element115

Climate change is 'a myth', sea levels are not rising and Britain's chief scientist is 'an embarrassment' for believing catastrophe is inevitable. These are the controversial views of a new London-based think-tank that will publish a report tomorrow attacking the apocalyptic view that man-made greenhouse gases will destroy the planet.
The network, which has links with some of the President's advisers, has received cash donations from the US oil giant ExxonMobil, which has long lobbied against the climate change agenda.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

21st Century American Revolution

by element115

If there were any doubts remaining that the United States of America is no longer a functioning democracy, those doubts disappeared in the presidential election of 2004. The uncomfortably open-ended question we are left with is: where do we go from here?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Outlook is for war, then more war

by element115

Powell's successor, the ghastly Condoleezza Rice, will be telling Bush only what he wants to hear, just as Donald Rumsfeld does from the Pentagon, which is that the US is locked in a struggle between good and evil which can be won only by fire and sword and, when that doesn't work in a hurry, by more fire and more sword.

Posted in | 1 Comment »

I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds

by element115

Fallujah will enter history as the place where US imperialism carried out an offense of heinous proportions this November, a monstrous crime far beyond any possible forgiveness.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Canada: Pull Welcome Mat for 'War Criminal' Bush?

by element115

While activists prepare to put down their unwelcome mats, lawyers have been sharpening arguments to hold the president accountable for his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. But amid the flurry of legal briefs flying across the country, the police, the immigration authorities, and the Minister of Justice seem to be unprepared for a brewing collision between Canadian law and political expediency.

Gail Davidson, a Vancouver lawyer and co-chair of Lawyers Against the War, says the prime minister should rescind his invitation to Bush, because the president is a "major war criminal." Her arguments are familiar. The extent of civilian deaths during the American conquest of Iraq?currently estimated at 100,000 ?are chief among them.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

PM says Ukraine on brink of catastrophe

by element115

Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich says Ukraine's disputed presidential election has pushed the country to the brink of catastrophe, urging his supporters to avoid bloodshed.
"Do not take any radical steps. I repeat, none ... When the first drop of blood is spilled, we will not be able to stop it."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pro-Russian Eastern Ukraine Threatens to Secede

by element115

Deputies from Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, where the disputed winner of the country?s presidential poll Viktor Yushchenko gained much of his votes, have threatened to call a referendum on the formation of an autonomous republic if opposition protestors favoring pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko get their way.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Getting to the boss

by element115

...the military system - and the entire Israeli public - dealt with "the affair of confirming the kill" of the girl, Iman al-Hamas, from Gaza. This "mishap" (in the words of the golden-tongued Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon) seems to have shocked and disturbed people not so much because of the incident itself, but because of the "embarrassment" (in the words of Israel Defense Forces spokesmen in the media).

Posted in | 0 Comments »

UK knew details of E. Guinea plot in advance

by element115

Britain was given details of a plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea -- including names, dates and details of arms shipments -- several months in advance, the Observer newspaper says.
It said on Sunday Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who has told parliament he was first informed of the plot in January, had failed to warn the government of the oil-rich African country.
The Observer said it had seen confidential documents about the suspected coup, led by former SAS officer Simon Mann. Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been accused of helping to finance the plot.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The Mysterious Murders of the AMS Clerics

by element115

Is it a coincidence that US puppet Allawi is calling for the death penalty to be administered to the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) Sunni clerics who oppose elections, while, at the same time two of these clerics have been gunned down by unknown forces? This coincidence seems to be more intentional than coincidental. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out that these two men were killed by death squads employed by the US and its client government in Baghdad. John Negroponte, the current US ambassador to Iraq, organized such death squads while he was the ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Central America and was quite successful at the endeavor. It is not a real stretch of the imagination to assume that he and his employer are up to the same thing in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Counting cost of crime and chaos

by element115

6,635 bodies in Baghdad mortuary. Shot, stabbed, blown up, burnt: the bodies of Iraqis killed in Baghdad lie piled in overcrowded refrigerators at the city?s central mortuary, their ever-increasing number overwhelming both staff and storage space in a wave that marks the city?s descent into a Hobbesian world of crime and brutality.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Russians suggest foreign help in attack

by element115

The head of a parliamentary commission investigating the September hostage seizure at a school in southern Russia said there is evidence of involvement by a foreign intelligence agency, the Interfax news agency reported

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Electoral fix: never mind the Ukraine, both the UK and the US are anti-democratic states

by element115

As the people of the Ukraine were discovering last week, the right to vote does not guarantee you the president of your choice. All political systems are crooked to some degree, whether by design or corruption, but the demonstrators in Kiev who believed they were being robbed were learning one of the oldest lessons there is: democracy only works if it is allowed to work, and even then it rarely works particularly well.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Russia 'will back force' by Ukraine president

by element115

RUSSIA has offered to back the Ukrainian government if it uses force to crush pro-democracy demonstrators who have taken control of the capital and other cities, it was claimed last night.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah

by element115

The U.S. military is secretly using banned napalm gas and other outlawed weapons against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, eyewitnesses reported.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

SC orders more touch-screen voting machines

by element115

New touch-screen voting machines are expected to be shipped next month to the state's remaining 31 counties.
State Election Commission Director Marci Andino said she was satisfied with their performance in 15 counties during the general election earlier this month.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

UK troops in Iraq face new court threat

by element115

In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that European troops who are in control of a foreign country can be prosecuted under human rights law for breaching the civil rights of local people.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Republicans in threat to block overseas aid

by element115

Republicans in the United States Congress have moved to block hundreds of millions of pounds in economic aid to foreign nations, unless they agree to shield American personnel and troops from any possible prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The Voice of the White House

by element115

A projected trip to Canada with a Bush speech to the Canadian Parliament had to be scrapped when the Canadian authorities learned that members of that body fully intended to not only boo the President?s speech but to stand in a body with their back to him as a mark of repudiation for his comments.

His last speech to the UN was not greeted with boos but the media had to put in taped applause on their film of the speech because no one applauded Bush as a token of their dislike of him and his policies.

Motor trips were also scrapped when Canadian officials decided that they were unable to protect Bush from expressions of public anger and that US counterproposals to supply large numbers of heavily armed US security forces was ?totally unacceptable? to the Canadian government.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Class-action suit filed on R.N.C. arrests and Pier 57

by element115

A group of protesters and bystanders who were arrested during the Republican National Convention in late August and early September on Monday announced the filing of a class-action lawsuit against New York City, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and numerous police officials.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

America Is Embarrassing Itself

by element115

I don't the hate the U.S., but increasingly, I feel embarrassed by and for her. She has become the drunken friend at a party dancing naked on a table, and you want desperately to cover her nakedness and restore her dignity. You pity her, yet at the same time, she is pissing you off, and you're tempted to walk out the door and pretend not to know her.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ukrainian Police Use Tear-Gas Against Demonstrators

by element115

Police in the Ukrainian city of Chernigov used tear-gas against demonstrators supporting the opposition contender for president, Viktor Yushchenko

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Lawyers accuse US of trying to 'get rid' of Saddam

November 27, 2004 by element115

Saddam Hussein's defence lawyers on Thursday charged that leaked medical reports about the ill health of the Iraqi dictator were proof that US forces and Iraq's interim government may try to "get rid" of the prisoner.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

India, China and other countries start dumping US dollar and buy Euro

by element115

That put a very serious pressure on US Dollar. Chinese and Indian central bank officials denied such reports. But Foreign exchange traders say they are quite convinced of Indian and Chinese moves. According some traders, there are many other countries specially oil rich Middle Eastern countries running away from dollar.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Dalai Lama's Russian Visa Raises China's Ire

by element115

China today indirectly criticized Russia's decision to agree in principle to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Beijing does not approve of countries allowing visits by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraqi Election Commission Will Not Delay January Election

by element115

Electoral officials in Iraq say they do not have the authority to postpone the nation's January elections, as demanded by leading Iraqi political groups.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Putin, Chavez Meet in Moscow

by element115

Officials from Russian's Lukoil company and Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA oil company signed a memorandum of understanding on a joint oil exploration venture in Venezuela.
Mr. Chavez said Caracas will buy 40 military helicopters and 100,000 submachine guns from Moscow.
Mr. Putin and Mr. Chavez signed an agreement announcing Venezuela's support of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization. The two leaders also discussed a joint energy production project.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Marines get big bucks to re-enlist

by element115

With the prospect of continued fighting in Iraq, the Marine Corps is offering bonuses of as much as $30,000 ? in some cases, tax-free ? to persuade enlisted personnel with combat experience and training to re-enlist.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

We Cannot Sleep

by element115

Texas State board of education and their successful move to get textbook publishers to change language in health texts so they refer only to husbands and wives and never use the word partner. They also are seeking to have disclaimer stickers put on science textbooks that discuss evolution saying that it is only a theory.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Government lays down law to BBC on reporting news

by element115

The Government is facing a dispute over the BBC's new royal charter which will, for the first time, lay down tough new standards of impartiality and accuracy in news and current affairs.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Calendar to the Iraqi elections

by element115

Najaf was bombed in August. Samarra was bombed in September. Sadr City was bombed in October. Fallujah was bombed in November. Mosul may be bombed in December. And Kirkuk may be bombed in January.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iran gives in on nuclear demands

by element115

IRAN backed down in the face of fierce international pressure yesterday and dropped its demand for concessions in a key agreement designed to reassure the world that Tehran does not want to develop its own nuclear weapons.

far away@Texas ranch: ...well...plan B?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

WMD? 911? Al Qaeda? Oil?

by element115

25,000 US Casualties in Iraq;
9% of Troops Put in Hospital or Killed;
Over 2000 Iraqis Killed in Fallujah

Why are all these American kids (not to mention the Iraqi people) being killed and crippled?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ukraine's parliament declares presidential election invalid

by element115

Ukraine's parliament declared the country's disputed presidential election invalid Saturday amid international calls for a new vote, fueling what has become a political tug-of-war between the West and Moscow over the future of this former Soviet republic.
Parliament's vote, which was symbolic and has no legal standing, came as representatives of the two presidential rivals sought a solution in talks mediated by European envoys. Demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev in freezing weather for a sixth straight day, alleging the Nov. 21 vote was rigged and robbed their candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, of victory.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Thugs, Racketeers Counting American Votes

by element115

...evidence indicating the crisis of democracy in Kiev is hardly more serious than the one taking place in Washington, D.C.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

What Were the Odds That Bush Would Win?

by element115

University of Pennsylvania researcher Steven Freeman, in his November 2004 paper, "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy," concludes:
"The odds that the discrepancies between predicted [exit poll] results and actual vote counts in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania could have been due to chance or random error are 250 million to one."
So the unavoidable hypothesis is that they were caused by "systematic fraud or manipulation."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Is America heading toward fascism?

by element115

It turns out that a lot of people are wondering the same thing. It's hard to find a definition acceptable to both the right and the left. Fascism falls somewhere on the conservative side of the political continuum. It is reactive, nationalist, militaristic, unilateralist and often racist. It comes in many forms. Fascism is hawkish and tends to rely on a leader who projects a charismatic and authoritarian style. Fascism in a nation seeks to modify the basis of international relationships. The belief that the group has an historic destiny trumps thoughtful reason. It is pretty clear what a mature fascism looks like; it is not so clear what picture an emerging fascism would present.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pictures that tell the truth versus the Pentagon's productions

by element115

...video showed Al-Zarqawi's Fallujah headquarters to which embedded journalists were taken on a guided tour.
So nice of the terrorist to put up an al-Qaeda sign on the wall just in case his visitors were confused about where they were, and it was even nicer of him to leave behind computers bursting with intelligence goodies so that all his friends and associates can be traced.
Shades of the Jessica Lynch show, courtesy of Pentagon Productions, or evidence that America's enemy No. 2 is deficiency of gray matter?
You decide.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The algebra of infinite justice

by element115

The trouble is that once Amer ica goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.

...this article was published in 2001, 18 days after 911

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Turn Your Back On Bush

by element115

We're calling on people to attend inauguration as they are: members of the public. Once through security and at the procession, at a given signal, we'll all turn our backs on Bush.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Dean website 'Democracy for America' hacked with Nazi imagery

by element115

The website which branched from Howard Dean's campaign for the presidency, "Democracy for America" was hacked early Saturday morning and replaced with Nazi imagery.
The root page of the site displayed a backwards swastika and included the words "Fuck America" in red and blue print, in a handwritten type. The swastika was placed in the middle of the page.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ukraine state TV in revolt

November 26, 2004 by element115

Journalists on Ukraine's state-owned channel - which had previously given unswerving support to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - have joined the opposition, saying they have had enough of "telling the government's lies".

...American Media!...go...learn from them

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Tensions still high as Ukraine presidential rivals end talks

by element115

After three hours of closed-door talks in Kiev, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko gave the Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who won the controversial poll, a few days to come up with a solution or face action.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Abbas Gets Boost in Bid for Palestinian Presidency

by element115

Mahmoud Abbas's nomination for Palestinian Authority president received a boost from reports that a jailed Fatah party leader, Marwan Barghouti, wouldn't challenge his bid and had endorsed his candidacy.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Turk lawmaker says US in Iraq worse than Hitler

by element115

"The occupation has turned into barbarism," Friday's Yeni Safak newspaper quoted Mehmet Elkatmis, head of parliament's human
rights commission, as saying. "The U.S. administration is committing genocide...in Iraq.

"Never in human history have such genocide and cruelty been witnessed. Such a genocide was never seen in the time of the pharoahs (of ancient Egypt), nor of Hitler nor of (Italy's fascist leader Benito) Mussolini," he said.

"This occupation has entirely imperialist aims," he was quoted as telling the human rights commission on Thursday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Press Routinely Undercounts U.S. Casualties in Iraq

by element115

As the toll of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq in November approaches record levels for one month in this war, is the press only telling part of the story?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations

by element115

One of the nice things about pirate radio is an ordinary person off the street can become a radio show host there, which also provides the listener with viable alternatives to that typical radio DJ voice, comatose NPR announcers or the proliferation of advertising that saturates mainstream radio so often.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

A Question of Honor

by element115

Open Letter to Europeans

Posted in | 0 Comments »

LAW sends letter to Martin in an attempt to bar Bush from Canada

by element115

Dear Prime Minister Martin:
Surely you are aware of the many grave crimes against humanity and war crimes for which President Bush stands properly accused by the world, starting with the Nuremberg Tribunal's 'supreme international crime' of waging an aggressive war against Iraq in defiance of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and including systematic and massive violations of the Geneva Conventions Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. As recently as November 16, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour called for an investigation into crimes against the Geneva Conventions in the assault by US forces on the densely populated city of Fallujah

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Canada: Protesters gear up for Bush

by element115

Sporadic graffiti heralds what could be a nasty reception as he starts a two-day visit to Canada.
The black scrawl spray painted across a walkway near Parliament Hill uses a familiar obscenity to tell Bush to stay away.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Israel faces Russian brain drain

by element115

"But nobody here cares about your professional skills. Israelis just see Russians as people who have come over to clean their houses, look after old people or sweep the streets."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev

by element115

The operation - engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience - is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US Jewish Groups Press Mideast Peace

by element115

A growing number of American Jews believes that major changes in U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian policies are essential to the resumption of any meaningful negotiations for peace ? but they are fighting an uphill struggle because of President George W. Bush's support for the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

by element115

According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Congress Seeks to Curb International Court

by element115

The Republican-controlled Congress has stepped up its campaign to curtail the power of the International Criminal Court, threatening to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to governments that refuse to sign immunity accords shielding U.S. personnel from being surrendered to the tribunal.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Home Office 'linked to discredited claim of al-Qa'ida plot'

by element115

The Home Office is suspected of being behind discredited media reports on the eve of the Queen's Speech that an al-Qa'ida plot to fly planes into London skyscrapers had been foiled.
Supporters of David Blunkett were accused of trying to exploit public fears in an attempt to help the Government introduce anti-terrorism legislation.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraq parties want polls to be put off

by element115

Leading Iraqi political parties, including the group led by former presidential candidate Adnan Pachachi and the two main Kurdish parties, have signed a petition calling for the planned 30 January elections to be delayed.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

EU and six others gain go-ahead for sanctions against US

by element115

The move by the European Union, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico and South Korea -- which had already been authorised in principle in August -- was given the ultimate green light by a meeting of the WTO's disputes' settlement body in Geneva, a trade official said.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

President Bush, I need some advice regarding God's Laws and how best to follow them

by element115

I do need some advice from you regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how best to follow them.
Leviticus 25.44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not to Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraqi Lullaby

by element115

Video
Paid for by your tax dollars.

George.W.Bush you WILL burn in hell.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah

by element115

"They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud," Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. "Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Baghdad not to accept wounded persons from al-Fallujah

by element115

The patriotic Iraqi website albasrah.net reported Thursday that the puppet so-called ?Iraqi health ministry had issued instructions in the last two days to hospitals in Baghdad not to accept wounded persons from al-Fallujah for what it called "security reasons."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Crowds blockade Kiev government

by element115

Thousands of demonstrators have laid siege to government buildings in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, in protest at the presidential election results.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Media Blackout on Election Fraud by Media News Group

by element115

To those of us on the inside of this issue, it seems inconceivable that our local newspapers would offer a front page story on election fraud in Ukraine while ignoring stories of the same right here at home in the United States. But to most of America, it is just the opposite. We trust our local papers to report honestly and fairly. But what many of us don't realize is that our local newspapers are not so local after all.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Two More Top CIA Officials Resign

by element115

Two more top officials at the CIA's clandestine unit are retiring in the latest sign of upheaval in the agency under its new director Peter Goss, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Is the Annexation of Canada part of Bush's Military Agenda?

by element115

Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures is also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.

At this critical juncture in our history and in anticipation of the visit of George W. Bush to Canada on November 30th, an understanding of these issues is central to the articulation of a coherent anti-war and civil rights movement.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

What Vote Fraud?

by element115

Dems Pocket $52 Million,
CNN Ignores Evidence,
and Officials Stonewall...

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Did Dubbya rig the election?

by element115

One's immediate reaction is that such large-scale fraud is implausible. But look at the history of the Republican Party, and its willingness to go to extraordinary lengths to manipulate the popular vote, and the idea seems all too likely.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

One gulp, and Bush was gone

by element115

Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future George W Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.

Bush appeared distracted, and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where secret service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said: "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Top Zarqawi Aide Captured in Iraq

by element115

A lieutenant of Iraq's most feared insurgent leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was captured this week, the country's national security minister said Thursday, and U.S. forces unearthed the largest cache of weapons yet -- ranging from grenades to parts of missile batteries -- in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

...see...mission accomplished and justified.
...now...shut up about killing "innocent" and "unarmed"

Posted in | 0 Comments »

...it's like...

by element115

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Smoking while Iraq burns

by element115

Naomi Klein ---> Its idolisation of 'the face of Falluja' shows how numb the US is to everyone's pain but its own

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.N. Body Rejects Censure, Threatens Revolt

November 25, 2004 by element115

The 191-member U.N. General Assembly, the largely ignored policy-making body of the United Nations, is threatening to derail a slew of mostly Western European and U.S.-inspired resolutions condemning human rights violations.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Betting on apocalypse

by element115

The "Left Behind" series, the best-selling novels for adults in the United States, enthusiastically depict Jesus returning to slaughter everyone who is not a born-again Christian. The world's Hindus, Muslims, Jews and agnostics, along with many Roman Catholics and Unitarians, are heaved into everlasting fire: "Jesus merely raised one hand a few inches and ... they tumbled in, howling and screeching."
Gosh, what an uplifting scene!
If Saudi Arabians wrote an Islamic version of this series, we Americans would furiously demand that sensible Muslims repudiate such hatemongering.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.S. Regime Change, Torture, and Murder in Chile

by element115

What mattered to U.S. officials was not democracy in Chile but rather the same thing that matters to them today in Iraq ? the installation of a ruler, brutal or benevolent, democratically elected or not, who was friendly to the U.S. government. If that meant supporting a cruel and brutal military dictator whose forces killed, tortured, or disappeared his own people, so be it.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

War on terror 'vanishes from agenda'

by element115

...while Iraq and Iran may top the list, you hear almost no talk - at least at the moment - about Washington's "war on terror" against al-Qaeda.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery

by element115

Why did the exit polls taken on election day in the battleground states differ so starkly from the final tallies in those states?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Russian Political Scientist Blames Polish Conspiracy for Ukraine Election Crisis

by element115

Renowned Russian political scientist Sergei Markov told reporters in Moscow on Thursday that the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine was in fact a Polish conspiracy with the aim of imposing Polish patronage over Ukraine and thus raising Polish influence within the European Union.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Barghouthi to Run for President - Fatah Official

by element115

Firebrand uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi has decided to run for Palestinian president from his Israeli jail cell, an official of his Fatah faction said on Thursday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Clear Channel political public service billboard graces Orlando freeway

by element115

A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling photograph of President Bush with the words "Our Leader" is raising eyebrows among progressives who feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by tyrannical regimes.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Al-Jazeera TV to launch English-language service

by element115

Al-Jazeera television announced that it would launch an English-language satellite channel in late 2005 to rival established 24-hour international news stations.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

North Korea May Test Missile Capable of Hitting U.S., CIA Says

by element115

North Korea may be ready to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile capable of reaching parts of the U.S. with a "nuclear-weapon-sized payload,'" the Central Intelligence Agency said in a report to Congress.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Legislators want more time to read bills

by element115

There's a dirty secret on Capitol Hill: Legislators usually vote on bills that could radically change constituents' lives without reading them.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

State Department Official Dies in Iraq

by element115

Secretary of State Colin Powell announced on Wednesday that a State Department education specialist was killed in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Chief of U.S. Prisons in Iraq Is Reassigned

by element115

The two-star Army general who ran the U.S. military prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and later took over the U.S. military prison system in Iraq has been reassigned to a senior staff job in the Pentagon.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Planeloads of Russian Special Forces Land in Ukraine

by element115

According to Ukrainian media and Viktor Yushchenko's presidential campaign, two Russian aircraft landed at the Kiev's Boryspil international airport today carrying military personnel of the "Vitiaz" submarine special forces unit.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Fears of violence grow as face-off intensifies

by element115

Ukrainian authorities defied growing pressure from the West and the demands of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters yesterday by declaring Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Russia candidate, the winner of bitterly-disputed weekend elections.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraqi people must be master of Iraq: Putin

by element115

Russian President Vladimir Putinsaid on Thursday in The Hague that the Iraqi people must be the "master in their own land".

Posted in | 0 Comments »

When America kills children, is God on its side?

by element115

How do you reconcile the wholesale slaughter of human beings much like yourselves in light of your Good Book's proclamations? It seems that I recall something about "thou shalt not kill," and a bit about "blessed are the peacemakers." Didn?t those passages make it into your Reader's Digest versions?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ralph Nader-requested recount to resume Monday

by element115

A recount requested by independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader in some New Hampshire towns is scheduled to resume Monday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ukraine

by element115

Everything you need to know about the country in which thousands have taken to the streets to protest over the disputed presidential election

Posted in | 0 Comments »

FBI Interviews Halliburton Whistleblower

by element115

FBI agents recently spent a day interviewing the Army contracting officer who raised concerns that the Pentagon improperly awarded contracts without competition to Halliburton Co., Vice President Dick Cheney's former company.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

A Few Thoughts Before We 'Liberate' Iran

by element115

Meanwhile, the drumbeat for an attack against Iran continues more stridently than ever. Elements within this administration are opening a propaganda campaign designed to sabotage the European Union?s attempt to negotiate an agreement with Iran concerning its nuclear weapons program. Rumors and innuendo are being spread about the deceit of the Europeans, the duplicity of the Iranians, and the impotence of diplomacy as a means to solve this dispute.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

European consumers ignore most famous US brands

by element115

The US government is suffering losses not only in Iraq. Cult American brands such as Marlboro, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Ford and others are currently experiencing a decline on the European market, particularly in Germany in France.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US 'alienating' world's Muslims

by element115

The US is losing "the war of ideas" in the Islamic world, a Pentagon advisory panel has warned.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Election 2004: Still Not Over

by element115

The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to investigate the ?security and accuracy of voting technologies? used on Election Day. But in three states, delays have left voters in the dark as to what really happened on Nov. 2.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Uranium 'green light' for Brazil

November 24, 2004 by element115

The Brazilian Government has announced it will start producing enriched uranium from next month.
The Government insists the material will be used for peaceful purposes and it has approval from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Tanks are Going Towards Kiev

by element115

They are moving North towards Fastiv highway, having already crossed Odessa highway. They are using detour roads.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pssst. Wanna see some dirty pictures?

by element115

Those of us who fell for the neocons' con at the time failed to realize that lofty rhetoric always accompanies any imperial resort to force, any grand strategy by a big power to maintain a unipolar world in which it accepts no peer competitor, no state or coalition of states that could challenge it as a global leader, protector and enforcer.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

All UK Citizens to be 'Chipped'

by element115

It was announced in the Queenly Speech yeaterday that Tony 'Borg' Blair's latest madcap jester scheme is to 'chip' the entire UK population

U.K. biometric ID card plan unveiled in the Queen's Speech

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Neocongress To 9/11 Widows: Drop Dead!

by element115

Bush43.2 is a lot like the Inquisition, but with Hummers and country music. The Neocons are quickly moving to take America back -- back to somewhere between the 1950s and 32 AD, with a quick stop in 1930's Germany. Relax, it's the same folks who gave us the Dark Ages.

Modernity and enlightenment are as poisonous to our Evangelicals as they are to the Taliban. There's really no limit to the mischief afoot amid this orgy of zealots and fools.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Three ugly weeks

by element115

Second Bush term goes from bad to worse

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Democrats say election investigation in the works

by element115

A group of high-ranking congressional Democrats who had called for a federal probe of the November election announced Tuesday that the Government Accountability Office would investigate irregularities with voting machines and provisional ballots nationwide.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School

by element115

Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

On executions, beheadings, and other propaganda operations

by element115

The pattern has been consistent and obvious. Every news report or scandal that has been detrimental to the Bush/Anglo-American war agenda has been followed, within hours, with shocking executions (real and staged) that are attributed to "terrorist insurgents," despite questionable circumstances, non-verifiable evidence and unreliable sources, such as "unnamed" intelligence and military officials.

The parties responsible for these acts have not and likely will not be identified, thanks in large part to deliberate US/Pentagon blackouts of reporting from war zones, and disinformation-laden and Bush-controlled corporate media.

What is clear, regardless of the identities of the perpetrators, is that the results have exclusively benefited the US/Bush administration war machine, while completely undermining the political and public relations objectives of anti-US/anti-occupation opposition movements and groups. The methods used in the kidnapping and murder of Margaret Hassan, Nick Berg and others neatly fit the profile of classic western intelligence and counterinsurgency operations.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Dollar Sinks to New Low Against Euro

by element115

The U.S. dollar sank to another record low against the euro in European trading Wednesday morning. Gold prices rose.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Mob In Mexico Burns Two Federal Agents Alive

by element115

A crowd angry about recent child kidnappings cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school on Mexico City's outskirts and burned the officers alive.
In the video, the agents, blood streaming down their faces, spoke into the cameras before the burning, saying they were federal anti-terrorism agents who had been sent to the area on official business.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

How your government gets away with murder

by element115

At this point, it becomes a matter of do you have genuine integrity or don't you? As we all know, the first requirement of true integrity is admitting your own faults. I think there is no question in anyone's mind at this moment that America has no integrity (hell, you just need to look at the Indian treaties to realize that). Certainly the mainstream American media has absolutely no integrity, in that it's obvious to everyone the real stories about the Iraq war, depleted uranium, public corruption, fixed elections, and on and on ad infinitum are never mentioned by the hateful robots you see reading the "news" on TV.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Repressive MEMRI

by element115

Israeli military intelligence is used to being able to censor the Israeli press and intimidate journalists, and it is a bit shocking that Carmon should imagine that such intimidation would work in a free society.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Protesters gear up to greet U.S. leader

by element115

Thousands of Canadians will be on hand to greet George W. Bush when he visits Ottawa later this month.
"We're hoping to make Dubya feel uncomfortable. Dubya should feel uncomfortable. Dubya is responsible for slaughtering thousands and thousands of people for no reason at all," said Sid Lacomb of the Canadian Peace Alliance.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Judge Denies Demand for Early Ohio Recount

by element115

A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by third-party presidential candidates who wanted to force a recount of Ohio ballots even before the official count was finished.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Miami County, Ohio. Fraud or incredible coincidences?

by element115

Is all of this a long-shot coincidence? Or, were the revised vote counts scaled up by using the ratios from the first set of results? Was a database or the voting machines programmed to cough up results in preset ratios?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Bush Wants to Bolster CIA but Doesn't Offer Specifics

by element115

President Bush has ordered what may be a major expansion of the CIA, calling for the beleaguered agency to add thousands of analysts and spies as part of an ongoing buildup in the war on terrorism, according to a White House memorandum

Posted in | 0 Comments »

'Surgical' U.S. Raids Go on South of Baghdad

by element115

Thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi forces pursued a campaign of raids on suspected guerrilla bases in Sunni Muslim towns and villages south of Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ukraine Opposition Leader Calls for Strike

by element115

Election officials declared on Wednesday that the Kremlin-backed prime minister won Ukraine's bitterly disputed presidential vote, prompting opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to call for a nationwide strike to protest what he and Western nations have labeled widespread vote fraud.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Former Israeli army chief Rafael Eitan drowns

by element115

Eitan, who became an outspoken rightist politician who once said "Arabs should be placed in a bottle like drugged cockroaches," was swept into stormy seas at the Ashdod port on Tuesday where he was working as an adviser to a construction company.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Economic Crisis a Question of When, Not If

by element115

The economic policies of President Bush have set the country on a dangerous course that will likely end in crisis, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman told Reuters in an interview.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraqi Journalist Tells of U.S. Captivity

by element115

An Iraqi journalist who stayed in Fallujah to report on the battle for his hometown says he and hundreds of other civilians who eventually turned themselves in to escape the violence suffered tough, sometimes humiliating, treatment from American and Iraqi guards.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Rebels' killings intensify in Mosul

by element115

Insurgents are kidnapping and killing Iraqi soldiers and national guardsmen with shocking regularity in Mosul, the third-largest city in Iraq and the scene of a ferocious insurgent uprising two weeks ago that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Falluja.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Dead-Check in Falluja

by element115

The head of at least one occupant was visible in the truck, but I couldn't determine if he was moving or not. Nor did I see any weapons. As our Humvee stopped behind the truck, a Marine in the vehicle ahead of us leapt out, pointed his rifle into the window of the pickup and sprayed it with gunfire. It was a cold-blooded execution.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians

by element115

Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Fallujah Refugees

by element115

"Doctors in Fallujah are reporting there are patients in the hospital there who were forced out by the Americans," said Mehdi Abdulla, a 33 year-old ambulance driver at a hospital in Baghdad, "Some doctors there told me they had a major operation going, but the soldiers took the doctors away and left the patient to die."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

It is the destiny of democracy to renounce torture

by element115

From a lecture at the British Institute of Human Rights, London, by the law professor and barrister, Philippe Sands

Posted in | 0 Comments »

'Democracy' and Mendacity

by element115

From Iraq to the Ukraine, 'democracy' marches on - crushing the popular will.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman"

by element115

Why hasn't this been reported in the major media?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child

by element115

An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Powell: U.S. Rejects Ukraine Vote Results

by element115

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the United States cannot accept the results of elections in Ukraine, which the opposition says was marred by fraud.
Powell warned "there will be consequences" for the United States' relationship with Ukraine as a result of the developments in the former Soviet bloc nation.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Another round of misery for the children of Iraq

November 23, 2004 by element115

This is the third time that Iraqi children have been victims of war in that country's recent history.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Going Nuclear: The Coming Wars with Iran and North Korea

by element115

Learning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Loss of Historical Memory?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

16,000 Protest US-Run 'School of the Assassins'

by element115

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon addressed the group Saturday, and Martin Sheen, who plays the president in NBC's "West Wing" TV series, delivered a fiery speech Sunday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Second Sunni cleric gunned down in Iraq

by element115

Sheikh Ghaleb al-Zuheir was a member of the Muslim Clerics Association, which aims to speak for the once dominant Sunni minority and which has called for a boycott of January's Iraqi election.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Fallujah

by element115

...in Pictures

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Independent aid convoy enters Fallujah, forced to turn back

by element115

The international Red Cross says the ambulances and trucks were hoping to reach a mosque, expecting to find wounded people and civilians in urgent need of relief supplies. But a spokesman says the convoy had to turn back because of "the security conditions." He says the workers didn't deliver any aid.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

No one is taken in by the US lies

by element115

The graves of Falluja show the reality of Iraq's occupation

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

by element115

CRAWFORD: "We're often wimps in the media. And we wait for other people to make charges, one political party or another, and then we investigate it. But this is the time to do this. There's still time before the [2004 election] results are certified. It doesn't mean it will change the outcome. But it is good and I congratulate you for looking at some of these [voting] irregularities.

OLBERMANN: "I congratulate you for joining me on the crap list for saying that there are wimps in the media. Amen, brother.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Dan Rather to Leave 'CBS Evening News'

by element115

Dan Rather announced today he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" on March 9 - 24 years to the day after his first broadcast as the network's anchor.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Peak Oil, Stolen Elections, Energy Wars

by element115

The concept of Peak Oil seems to exist in a strange parallel universe where, despite the term having been affirmed by the likes of Cheney, Bush, and numerous oil company executives, it has not reached the popular imagination. Peak Oil broken down to its simplest form is the observation that oil production is limited and that we already are or are about to experience a decline in oil availability that, coinciding with ramped up oil demand in China and India and your local Hummer dealership, will be the end of globalism and the precarious prosperity we've built on the resources of the Third World. If you were among the first to know about a coming economic calamity, would preserving the status quo for as long as you could be worth fixing elections and starting energy wars in the Mideast? Would it be worth orchestrating the demise of some of your own citizenry? Perhaps you might even feel that you must be a ruler by divine mandate. It takes a rare individual to face such an enormous predicament without some crutch of faith.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

USA has become drunk on the cup of vengeance, arrogance, and terror

by element115

The Bolivarian project is anti-imperialist in nature ... it offers a more humane mode of development. It is a tremendous threat to US empire.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

World Bank: Palestinians Live in Poverty

by element115

Despite a slowdown in fighting, the Palestinian economy remains crippled by four years of violence with Israel, with nearly half the population living in poverty on less than $2 a day, the World Bank said in a report released Tuesday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Anti-Bush activists vow massive turnout

by element115

Organizers say they're expecting a huge turnout of protesters during the visit to Ottawa by U.S. President George W. Bush next week.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Conservative Republican group urges UN's expulsion from US

by element115

A right-wing Republican group launched a television campaign calling for the United Nations to be kicked out of the United States, alleging the world body is a "safe harbor" for terrorism.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Economic 'Armageddon' predicted

by element115

Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish.
But you should hear what he's saying in private.
Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity.
His prediction:America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic "armageddon."
Press were not allowed into the meetings.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Saddam will go on trial by year-end

by element115

Toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will go on trial on charges of crimes against humanity by the end of the year, the country's Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan said.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

NBC News producer Dan Abrams says Geneva convention should be discarded while killing Iraqi's.

by element115

Is it time for the U.S. to admit that the Geneva Conventions cannot and should not apply in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and when it comes to international terrorists?

Posted in | 0 Comments »

White House seeks study on whether to transfer CIA forces to Pentagon

by element115

The White House has requested that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon study whether the Defense Department should take over CIA paramilitary operations, as recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

United States of Hypocrisy points finger at Vote Fraud in Ukraine

by element115

I know our media in censored, and our government corrupt....but this takes the cake. Here in the US, when our polls showed the opposite of the election results, our ?challenger? rolled over and said why don?t we just shut up about it.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Denver Election Protest Rally

by element115

You Have The Right To NOT BE SILENT.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iran is Not a Nuclear Threat!!!

November 22, 2004 by element115

Now that most of you have apologized for sitting on your duffs while the neo-cons planned and executed the totally unnecessary war against a toothless regime in Baghdad, I suggest you get off your duffs in regard to the neo-con plot to war against Iran.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.S. Troops Open Fire on Iraqi Bus, Killing 3

by element115

American troops opened fire on a bus carrying Iraqis in Ramadi, killing three people in an incident the U.S. military described as self-defense.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents

by element115

Next time you make a printout from your color laser printer, shine an LED flashlight beam on it and examine it closely with a magnifying glass. You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printer there that could be used to trace the document back to you.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Each Candidate Claims Victory in Ukraine Election

by element115

A political crisis erupted here Monday as official results showed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych winning a bitterly contested presidential election, while opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko brought supporters into the streets to press his own claim of victory.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The Human Cost of Hegemony

by element115

Though recent American presidents have pursued a policy of global hegemony, the Bush administration has pursued world dominance with a vengeance. The administration's National Security Strategy, for example, calls for preemptive wars against potential threats to American security and commits America to forcefully preventing other countries from attempting to match it militarily. Many Americans are proud of America's commitment to controlling the rest of the world. On numerous occasions, I have heard people say things like, "Well, someone has to police the world." Others, like the neoconservative William Kristol, argue that America should dominate the rest of the world in a period of "benevolent global hegemony." All ignore the human cost and arrogance of American hegemony.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

O'Reilly: Marine who shot insurgent acted rationally

by element115

But the so-called human rights groups are calling it a "possible war crime." What a bunch of bull! The Marine made a decision that was reasonable.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Worse than Watergate? Yep. Worse Yet: Worse than Hitler

by element115

The Bush phenomenon is a seismic holocaustal menace to the planet. The Colossus. Celcius 3/11, the Meltdown. It is the world's worst nightmare.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US 'Star Wars' missiles will be in Europe in five years

by element115

The Pentagon has also already decided to prepare for a major new missile interceptor base in Europe and is starting detailed studies to find the best site - including possible bases in the UK.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Colombia Deploys 15,000 Troops for Bush

by element115

About 15,000 Colombian security forces - backed by warplanes, helicopters, battleships and two submarines - will safeguard Bush's four-hour trip to discuss the nation's war on drugs. That is the same number of American troops deployed in the Fallujah offensive in Iraq

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Plane that crashed was on its way to pick up former President Bush

by element115

A small passenger plane that crashed along Beltway 8 this morning, killing all three crewmembers on board, was on its way to pick up former President Bush and fly him to Ecuador.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

189 Arrested As Police And Demonstrators Clash

by element115

Santiaguinos returned to work today after three days of mass protests and violence in the Chilean capital that saw 189 arrests and numerous injuries.
50,000 people took to the streets for a march organized by the Chilean Social Forum under the slogans "another world is possible" and "Santiago is ours."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Push For NY Grand Jury Over 9/11

by element115

...a new press release regarding the massive effort to get Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York to convene a grand jury to study the evidence that has been gathered and to use the power of subpoenas to get what is being hidden from we the people.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US risks a downhill dollar disaster

by element115

George Bush's foreign policy is simple: don't mess with America. The same, it appears, applies to economic policy as well. On Friday, the dollar fell sharply against the euro. That was unsurprising, since the downward lurch followed comments from Alan Greenspan which - by his own cryptic standards - were unambiguous.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The conspiracy game: JFK's assassination is turned into computer entertainment

by element115

For years, experts have argued over who killed President John Kennedy and whether it was the work of a lone gunman.
Now, after four decades of endless speculation, a Scottish-designed computer game has been accused of plumbing new depths by turning one of the most controversial political killings in history into "interactive entertainment".

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Rules of War Are Ignored in Iraq, Says Red Cross

by element115

The International Committee of the Red Cross is "deeply concerned" about the killing of noncombatants in Iraq, operations director Pierre Kraehenbuehl said in a statement.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Saving Your Right to Vote

by element115

...if a state can't manage to run a fair election, that state loses Senators or Congresspeople.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iran Attack in Less than Six Months

by element115

Six months. In the meantime, get ready for a whole lot of lies - same caliber of lies used in the lead-up to the Iraqi invasion.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

School orders boy to cover his T-shirt

by element115

...with the words, "The Real Terrorist Is In The White House," written in black on the front, and "End the Tyranny" written on the back.
School officials told him the shirt was inappropriate and if he didn't cover it up, he would be suspended.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

by element115

The real mass media are basically trying to divert people. Let them do something else, but don?t bother us (us being the people who run the show). Let them get interested in professional sports, for example. Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems or something like that. Anything, as long as it isn?t serious. Of course, the serious stuff is for the big guys. "We" take care of that.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Another War Crime

by element115

Take a close look at these dead bodies. Many have been stripped to the waist, and the body on the right is clearly wearing handcuffs.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Read the WSJ, If You Can Stand It

by element115

But to declare this liberation? Declare this a victory? It really leaves one morally stunned. Who would say such a thing? The devil perhaps, or the willfully blind or the heartlessly cruel. But these editorialists dash off such comments, sitting in their plush Manhattan offices, with no concern for truth or anything. The level of their abstraction is what chills you.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Bush might not address House

by element115

The White House is leaning against having President George W. Bush address Parliament when he visits Ottawa, citing fears the U.S. president would be heckled during his speech.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

FaithSats and Lunar Crucifices

by element115

As the ultimate faith-based initiative, we could task NASA with emplacing a huge cross in lights stretching across the face of the Moon.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

It Ain't Just the Morals, Baby

November 21, 2004 by element115

Well-known Protestant leaders have declared the Iraq war a joint venture between religion, the state and its military incursions.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

World eschews Rice

by element115

Eric Margolis ---> Condoleezza Rice may be the apple of U.S. President George W. Bush's eye, but in Europe her nomination as Secretary of State is being met with disappointment and dismay.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Bush plays action hero in security row

by element115

He may not be his party's most famous action hero, but George Bush bolstered his tough-guy credentials on Saturday night when he waded into a melee in Santiago to rescue one of his secret service bodyguards.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Blunkett gets tougher on drugs

by element115

Legislation will allow police to test suspects on arrest and make it an offence to have drugs in bloodstream

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Aids drug hailed a breakthrough

by element115

A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Bush warns Iran and North Korea

by element115

US President George W Bush is stepping up pressure on North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear weapons programmes.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraq Sets Election Despite Fresh Violence

by element115

Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Not What You Think

by element115

With all of the political hoopla and heifer dust that is spread about the Middle East, you might think we are totally dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
Actually, we are not.
The United States imports about 62 percent of its oil and other petroleum products. Only about 11 percent of domestic usage comes from the Persian Gulf countries.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Virtuous Violence Is Upon Us

by element115

If President Bush?s neoconservative administration were rational, the US would never have invaded Iraq. If Bush?s government were moral, it would be ashamed of the carnage and horror it has unleashed in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Audio: Terror In The Mosque

by element115

"They have shot and killed at least 4 of the people while they were praying, and at least 20 are wounded now! I cannot believe this! I can?t let them see me calling you. I am on my stomach now and they have our guns on everyone, there are at least 1,500 people inside the mosque and it is sealed. We are on our bellies and in a very bad situation."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Falluja women, children in mass grave

by element115

"We buried them here, but we could not identify them because they were charred by the use of napalm bombs used by the Americans," said one resident of Saqlawiya in footage aired on Aljazeera on Sunday.
Residents of a village neighbouring Falluja have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of 73 women and children who were burnt to death by a US bombing attack.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The Crushing of Fallujah

by element115

The US mass media 'reports', the style, content and especially the language echo their Nazi predecessor of 70 years ago to an uncanny degree. Coincidence? Of course! In both instances we have imperialist armies conquering countries, leveling cities and slaughtering civilians--and the mass media, private in form, state appendages in practice, disseminate the most outrageous lies, in defense and praise of the conquering 'storm troopers'--call them SS or Marines. Both in Nazi Germany and contemporary US, we are told by the mass media that the invading armies are "freeing the country" of "foreign fighters", "armed terrorists", who are preventing "the people" from going about their everyday lives. Yet we know that of the 1,000 prisoners there are only 4 foreigners (3 Iranians and 1 Arab); Iraqi hospitals report less than 10% of foreign fighters. In other words over 90% of the fighters are Iraqis--most of who were born, educated, and raised families in the cities in which they are fighting.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

How I Stole Your Election - By George W. Bush

by element115

Did you ever hear the media complaining about how inaccurate the exit polls were in prior elections? No. That's because they basically ARE accurate. But this election, the exit polls showed Kerry WAY ahead.
No problem.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Sit-in ends with UW students' arrests

by element115

"This is the start of pressure on the Army Recruitment Center. This is only the beginning."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Falluja troops told to shoot on sight

by element115

"You are killers, not murderers. You are warriors not war criminals. Don't cross that line."
Those were the words of a US officer to his men before they took part in the recent assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Formal State Dinner Canceled at APEC

by element115

The dinner planned for Bush and 200 others by Chilean President Ricardo Lagos was reportedly scrapped after Chile was unwilling to accept security measures sought by the U.S. Secret Service, including a demand that all guests pass through metal detectors.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pentagon reviewing military action against Iran

by element115

Pentagon hawks have begun discussing military action against Iran to "neutralise" its nuclear weapons threat, including possible strikes on leadership, political and security targets, The Observer reported Sunday.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Lawsuit Challenges Ohio Presidential Results

by element115

Ohio's 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced.
"The objective is to get to the truth," said Columbus Ohio lawyer Cliff Arnebeck, coordinator of the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign. "What's critically important, whether it's President Bush or Sen. Kerry, whoever's been elected actually elected, is to know you won by an honest election. So it's in the interest of both sides as American citizens to know the truth and have this answered."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The October Fake Surprise Video

by element115

...maybe next time, if they fix these problems, they can get it perfect.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Thousands Protest Bush Before Chile Summit

November 19, 2004 by element115

Riot police used water cannons and tear gas Friday to break up a demonstration by hundreds of rock-throwing protesters before more than 20,000 people marched to vent their anger at Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush.
While some protesters said they oppose the APEC summit, which they likened to a rich man's club that does nothing for the poor, much of the rage was aimed at Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Albright Backs Foreigners for Presidency

by element115

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Friday that foreign-born citizens should be allowed to run for president, a reform that would require amending the Constitution.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

New York Times Re-Writes Fallujah History

by element115

In three recent reports about the military invasion of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the New York Times has misreported the facts about the April 2004 invasion of the city and the toll it took on Iraqi civilians.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Conservatives rail against MSNBC's Olbermann

by element115

Media conservatives have labeled MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann a "voice of paranoia" and accused him of perpetuating "idiotic conspiracy theories" for his sustained spotlight on the numerous local news reports of voting irregularities during the November 2 presidential election.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

CRTC approves Fox News for Canada

by element115

Canadians already have access to the main Fox network, but not the right-leaning, 24-hour news channel, with its trademarked slogan of "fair and balanced."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Pentagon offers Pakistan $1.2B arms deal

by element115

Some see the offer as a reward for Pakistan's support in the U.S. war on terror.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Activists Await Bush at Pacific Summit in Chile

by element115

A number of anti-Bush and anti-globalization protests are planned. On Wednesday, President Ricardo Lagos' government took the unusual step of announcing that Bush would have diplomatic immunity during his visit. The declaration was made after activists filed a court complaint against Bush, claiming he and other U.S. officials were guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
Under Chilean law, local courts can take measures to enforce compliance with international treaties to which Chile is a signatory, including the Geneva Convention and the Convention Against Torture.
"We want [Bush] to be ordered to appear before a judge and answer to the complaint," Ortiz said. "If he does not show up, the judge should issue an arrest warrant."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Species disappearing at an alarming rate, report says

by element115

Current extinction rates are at least 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural rates found in the fossil record, the report stated. The data were released as 3,500 delegates gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for a World Conservation Union conference focused on halting what's deemed an extinction crisis.
The report concluded that humans are the main reason for most species' declines.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Karl Schwarz' "extra package" to AG Eliot Spitzer

by element115

Schwarz' package also included information that "could explain the technology sources that made 9-11 possible", another "package from a german attorney" with a scientific evidence list , information about a software that is "used in Red Team Canada and Blue Team USA war games" and again, that "software could easily explain how NORAD thought it was just a drill and all USAF units were in stand down mode while those planes were allowed through to their intended targets", a letter by Sibel Edmonds

Posted in | 0 Comments »

The Failure of the Corporate Media's Coverage in Iraq

by element115

While most reports on US networks focus on what they call the house to house fighting in Fallujah, Arab media are showing images of bodies piled on the streets, dead children and corpses covered by flies, decomposing. One of the few unembedded correspondents in the city-an Arab reporter from the BBC- has described a stench in areas of Fallujah from the dead bodies.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

CIA Director Porter Goss to agency

by element115

Full statement

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Fiasco in North Carolina

by element115

Thousands of votes missing; 2 statewide elections unresolved

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus'

by element115

A prominent national Islamic civil rights
and advocacy group today called for an apology from the MSNBC cable television network over comments on its "Imus in the Morning" program that referred to Palestinians as "stinking animals" and suggested that they all be killed.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US Media Propaganda-Phase II

by element115

Are you ready for some more bloodshed? Pop the corn and pass down a cool one! Amerika and its partner in war crimes, Israel, are getting ready to sock it to Iran

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Fallujah Video has congressman calling for reporter ban

by element115

Texas Democrat Sylvestre Reyes says it's time to rethink the presence of embedded reporters in combat zones.
During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, Reyes compared it to a football game, saying "we don't want to know everything that's going on on the field."
Reyes says this is not censorship. In his words, "We should not be providing the Al-Jazeera the kind of propaganda they've had the last couple of three days."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

There Is No One Left to Stop Them

by element115

John Bolton is to be Deputy Secretary of State. Bolton is the person who wants the U.S. to invade Iran. The few officials who are not warmongers, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, are leaving the Bush administration. Right before our eyes, the CIA is being turned into a neoconservative propaganda organ as numerous senior officials resign and are replaced with yes-men.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Margaret Hassan execution

by element115

...we still do not know who allegedly killed Hassan, since no group has claimed responsibility.
Of course, the corporate media and the Bushcons want you to believe it was the Iraqi resistance. As I said when Hassan was abducted, if the resistance killed her they are the stupidest resistance movement in recent memory. It makes absolutely no sense for the resistance to kill a "humanitarian worker known around the Mideast for her concern for Iraqis?particularly during the years of U.N. sanctions, whose effects on children she vocally denounced," as the AP notes.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Ring of Fire

by element115

So while Americans saw stories of rugged "Marlboro Men" winning the day against Satan, they were spared shots of engineers cutting off water and electricity to the city -- a flagrant war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Nor did pictures of attack helicopters gunning down civilians trying to escape across the Euphrates River make the television news, despite the eyewitness account of an AP journalist. Nor were tender American sensibilities subjected to the sight of phosphorous shells bathing enemy fighters -- and nearby civilians -- with unquenchable chemical fire, literally melting their skin, as The Washington Post reports. Nor did they see the fetus being blown out of the body of Artica Salim when her home was bombed during the "softening-up attacks" that raged relentlessly -- and unnoticed -- at the close of George W. Bush's presidential campaign, Scotland's Sunday Herald reports.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Turkish security report reveals Israel's policy in Iraq

by element115

Israel has been adopting an active policy since the summer of 2003 through purchasing land and buildings in Iraq, the report said, referring to the purchase of a 6,000-donum land in Kirkuk, 500 houses in Mosul and 2000 donums and 30 buildings in Irbil.
This policy is based on a number of elements that includes establishing a political and economic power in northern Iraq so that it could operate independently and away from the Baghdad administration, the report said.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Britain's Foreign Office Censures Israel

by element115

"We remain deeply concerned by Israel?s failure to respect the human rights of ordinary Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, and by the impact of Israeli occupation and associated military operations on their lives," the report says.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

CIA plans riskier, more aggressive espionage

by element115

Director Porter Goss told his new chief of spy operations this week to launch a much more aggressive espionage campaign that would use undercover officers to penetrate terrorist groups and hostile governments such as North Korea and Iran, according to a senior U.S. official with direct knowledge of Goss' plans.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

GOP Vote Suppression Is a Coup Against U.S. Constitution

by element115

"Voter suppression?that's tyranny!" LaRouche charged. "That's dictatorship.... What is pouring in, in terms of evidence, day by day, is the evidence of a massive fraud by the Republican Party, which amounts to practically a criminal conspiracy."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.S., Iraqi Troops Storm Baghdad Mosque

by element115

Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said. Another raid overnight at a hospital allegedly used by insurgents in Mosul led to three arrests, the military said.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Linda Ronstadt, hummin' an outraged tune

by element115

"People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," she says.
Of Iraq in particular, she adds, "I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat.
Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Another Christmas at war

by element115

And to the people who still believe all the Bush lies: Keep listening to CNN and Faux news channels. Bury the truth under the rug, although it may get a bit crowded with all those dead Iraqi civilians! And go buy Christmas presents, 'cause all you good Christians need something to give each other for being such good little "do as you're told" patriots!

Posted in | 0 Comments »

George W. Genocide and the divine engine of war

by element115

Are you an environmentalist? Are you pro-choice? Are you anti-war? Are you anti-ignorance? Are you anti-poverty? Are you any of a number of progressive ideas and ideals? You are lumped into the category of "social terrorist" by those in power. Prepare to be neutered. Resistance is futile... you will be sterilized and assimilated.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

How U.S. turned its back on poisoned WWII vets

by element115

It's adamsite, what the troops come to know as puke stuff, a vomiting agent. The soldiers cower. They flop on their bellies and retch. Wolfson rises to leave, but can't. He pounds and pounds and screams for the doctors, but he can't leave. He can't get out!

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Turning ugly image on its head

by element115

These are the true images from "Operation Phantom Fury," not video of some scared and jumpy American kid who obviously thought he was doing the right thing or otherwise he wouldn't have done it with a camera on his tail.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

War Criminal as Attorney General?

by element115

Prof. Francis A. Boyle ---> As White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales originated, authorized, approved, and aided and abetted grave breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949 (e.g., torture and Gitmo kangaroo courts), which are serious war crimes.
In other words, Gonzales is a prima facie war criminal. He must be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions and the US War Crimes Act.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida

by element115

"On the porch was a garbage bag," Bev said, "and so I looked in it and, and lo and behold, there were public record tapes."

Posted in | 0 Comments »

U.S. Government Assassination Plots

by element115

...a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Speaking of War Crimes

November 18, 2004 by element115

The predictable backlash from Bush sympathizers is aimed at Kevin Sites, rather than the Marine who did the killing. They say that Sites is "aiding the enemy". They say he is no better than "the terrorists". Pray tell, how in the world does a journalist aid the enemy by reporting the uncensored news? Are we supposed to believe that "the enemy" had no idea that American troops were capable of this type of incident? I guess we're supposed to believe that Iraqis in Fallujah haven't heard yet about the torture at Abu Ghraib. Does uncensored news really aid the enemy? Only if the enemy is a large group of Americans who have become accustomed to whitewashed spin-cycle "news"; a healthy dose of uncensored news is the very aid that they need.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

United Nations Body Set up to Make Recommendations on Governing Internet

by element115

The United Nations has established a working group on Internet "governance", to prepare for a decision on the issue to be made at the World Summit on the Information Society (second phase), to be held in Tunis in November 2005.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

US media applauds destruction of Fallujah

by element115

Not a single major voice has been raised in the American media against the ongoing destruction of Fallujah. While much of the world recognizes something horrifying has occurred, the US press does not bat an eye over the systematic leveling of a city of 300,000 people.

Posted in | 0 Comments »

Real Christian

by element115

As a part of the War on Terrorism I really think we need to reprint our Bibles, and remove these shamefully cowardly passages. They could possibly dampen the spirits of our fighting men and women.

...real stupid

Posted in | 0 Comments »

How Dare Families and Survivors of 9/11 Question Government Version!

by element115

For three plus years, families of those murdered on September 11, 2001, and survivors of that horrible day have been raising legitimate, valid questions about what really happened. They have done so, along with more and more Americans, because there are unanswered questions that have been met with silence and stonewalling. Because upon closer scrutiny, there are more holes in the official version than a mountain range of Swiss cheese. Yet, other Americans, primarily those who describe themselves as Christian conservatives, call anyone who raises questions about 9-11 traitors, wackos, off the wall and so forth.

Posted in | 0 Comments »