Lawmaker expresses "dismay" that White House allegedly wrote Allawi speech

September 30, 2004 by element115
In a letter to the White House, a leading US Senate Democrat expressed "profound dismay" that the White House allegedly wrote a large portion of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress last week.

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5 Iraqi children killed in Falluja

September 30, 2004 by element115
Five Iraqi children were killed in the overnight US jet fighters bombing in the restive Fallujah city, west of Baghdad.
Al-jazeera tv said five Iraqi children, all members of a family were killed last night, along with their parents in the US insurgency on the Iraqi city.

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The true face of Iraqi resistance

September 30, 2004 by element115
The occupation forces have admitted that the attacks on them by the resistance rose last month to 2,700. And how many of these 2,700 attacks a month were claimed by Zarqawi? Six. Six headline-grabbing, TV-dominating, stomach-churning moments.

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Sanatized Slaughter

September 30, 2004 by element115
Considering the abundance of horror photos on the Internet showing our military's success in terms of air strike attacks upon civilian targets causing a staggering loss of life, and showing small children who have lost arms and legs, and the endless photos of dead babies who never had a chance at life thanks to America?s selfless zeal to bring democracy to the Iraqis, one needs to demand: Where are the mainstream media accounts of these atrocities?

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Bush's Toxic Campaign Mix: God, Country And Perpetual Fear

September 30, 2004 by element115
It was revealed last week that the Republican Party has sent out an incendiary mass mailing warning that, if elected, "liberals" will try to - I kid you not - ban the Bible.
The full-color flyer features a picture of the Bible with the word "Banned" stamped across it, and a photo of a man, on bended knee, placing a wedding band on the hand of another man, accompanied by the word "Allowed."

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Strike while the irony is hot

September 30, 2004 by element115
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." No, I don't believe George W. Bush misspoke when he uttered these words at the United Nations last week.

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For Israel, it's even all right to spy on the US!

September 30, 2004 by element115
There are indeed some supporters who are ready to go to the limits of even suggesting that Israeli spying on the United States is harmless and really not worthy of making any fuss about and even suggesting that the United States is just as guilty of spying on Israel: Lee Smith assures us, "it is almost certain that, despite official denials, Israel spies on the United States-just as U.S. clandestine services in turn spy on Israel and other allies".

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Ashcroft 'to defend' Patriot Act

September 30, 2004 by element115
US Attorney General John Ashcroft says the Justice Department is likely to appeal against a court ruling attacking the Patriot Act as unconstitutional.

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Daughter of Soldier Contaminated with Depleted Uranium in Iraq Born with Deformities

September 30, 2004 by element115
In a major expose in the New York Daily News, Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez uncovered the story of how a new-born baby may have suffered deformities because her father was exposed to depleted uranium while deployed as a soldier in Iraq.

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Free Radio Santa Cruz RAIDED by the FCC and US Marshals

September 30, 2004 by element115
At 8:20 AM on Wednesday, September 29, armed US Marshals and FCC Agents raided the house from which Free Radio Santa Cruz broadcasts. Agents entered with guns drawn, showing the warrant to a couple of residents but not serving the warrant to anyone at that time. All residents, some wearing only their bathrobes and PJ's, were herded to the sidewalk in front of their house.Cruz was airing Democracy Now! at 37 watts as the FCC Agents and US Marshals (we counted at least 16) worked to get into the studio....the signal was taken off the air. Listeners of FRSC heard the sound of static for the first time ever due to governmental interference.

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Free Radio Santa Cruz RAIDED by the FCC and US Marshals

September 30, 2004 by element115
At 8:20 AM on Wednesday, September 29, armed US Marshals and FCC Agents raided the house from which Free Radio Santa Cruz broadcasts. Agents entered with guns drawn, showing the warrant to a couple of residents but not serving the warrant to anyone at that time. All residents, some wearing only their bathrobes and PJ's, were herded to the sidewalk in front of their house.Cruz was airing Democracy Now! at 37 watts as the FCC Agents and US Marshals (we counted at least 16) worked to get into the studio....the signal was taken off the air. Listeners of FRSC heard the sound of static for the first time ever due to governmental interference.

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A funny thing happened on the way to 'The Truth'

September 30, 2004 by element115
conservative Republican writes--->...who has come to the conclusion over the past 12 months that I would not vote for Bush Cheney 2004 under bribe, duress or at gunpoint. I have come to that conclusion for many reasons that are well documented and in some instances is information that is known only to myself and several executives that I work with.

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Syria wants Israel expelled from UN over its "terrorist" policy

September 30, 2004 by element115
An official Syrian newspaper called Thursday for the country's archfoe Israel to be sanctioned over its "terrorist" policies and expelled from the United Nations.
"It is high time Israel is sanctioned for its terrorist record and its odious crimes which threaten the stability of the region and international security," the Ath-Thawra newspaper said.

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Israel Plans Large-Scale Gaza Operation

September 30, 2004 by element115
Israel's defense minister decided Thursday to launch a large-scale, open-ended military operation in the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border towns, an Israeli radio station reported.

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Pentagon in contract scandal

September 30, 2004 by element115
The Pentagon has awarded more than 40% of contracts since 1998 without bidding, said a study released on Wednesday by the Centre for Public Integrity (CPI).
"Over the past six years, the Pentagon has awarded some $362bn to companies without competitive bidding," said the report.

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Threat to world peace

September 30, 2004 by element115
Israeli researcher Ronen Bergman recently wrote a book published in occupied Palestine in which he discussed the decisions made by the Zionist regime over the years about using nuclear weapons against Arab countries.
Excerpts of the book were reprinted last week in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.

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Portion of Patriot Act on Phone Records Struck Down

September 30, 2004 by element115
A judge struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act requiring Internet and telephone companies to surrender customer records sought in terrorism investigations and barring notice to clients that their data was handed over.

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Tests show no nuclear activity at Iran's site

September 30, 2004 by element115
Tests of soil samples have shown no signs of nuclear activities at a site in northern Iran, a diplomat in Vienna said Tuesday.
The diplomat said the soil samples of the Lavizan military establishment showed "negative," meaning that the samples contained no traces of nuclear materials.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not commented on the results so far. But some diplomats in Vienna said the results will support Iran's claim that the razed military site, a former military research laboratory, had nothing to do with atomic- related activities.

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Sharon says U.S. should also disarm Iran, Libya and Syria

September 30, 2004 by element115
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after Iraq. "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve," Sharon said to a visiting delegation of American congressmen.

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24 dead in Gaza violence

September 30, 2004 by element115
Despite the deaths of at least 21 Palestinians and three Israelis in one of Gaza's bloodiest days in months, the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, will meet senior ministers later today to consider expanding his army's offensive in the territory.

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U.S. volunteers escorting Palestinian children attacked

September 29, 2004 by element115
The assailants beat the volunteers and robbed them. The two were evacuated by Israeli ambulance to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.
The attackers, numbering four or five, were dressed in black and wore masks. They spoke English and were carrying chains and clubs.

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Scientists stop Big Brother listening in to your mobile phone conversation

September 29, 2004 by element115
A team of University of Surrey scientists led by Professor Ahmet Kondoz has developed new technology which will enable companies and organisations to ensure that their GSM mobile phone conversations are totally secure and confidential.

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Something rotten in the state of Florida

September 29, 2004 by element115
Pregnant chads, vanishing voters... the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House. You'd think they'd want to get it right this time....no, the democratic process is more flawed than ever

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Computer scientists slam e-voting machines

September 29, 2004 by element115
The world's oldest professional society of computer scientists on Monday took aim at electronic voting machines, recommending they not be used in elections unless they provide a physical paper trail.

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US bombs Falluja

September 29, 2004 by element115
...pictures

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"Terrorists" Better Understood Through Context Of History

September 29, 2004 by element115
Almost every day, American helicopters bomb civilian areas somewhere in Iraq. "Fifteen Iraqis killed and 50 wounded" in Baghdad, in only one attack this week! Talk is now growing about whether to try to "take back" recalcitrant cities like Fallujah and Ramadi.
But it's all right, the White House and the Pentagon keep assuring us: After all, these people are "terrorists" -- and the only way to deal with terrorists is to kill them.

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Operation American Repression?

September 29, 2004 by element115
An Army Reserve staff sergeant who last week wrote a critical analysis of the United States' prospects in Iraq now faces possible disciplinary action for disloyalty and insubordination. If charges are bought and the officer is found guilty, he could face 20 years in prison.

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A mole called Mega

September 29, 2004 by element115
Shortly before George Tenet retired as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in June, he alleged that an Israeli agent was operating in Washington. Tenet was challenged to identify the agent but for reasons that were never explained apparently did not do so. For years, the FBI has been convinced that there is at least one high-level Israeli mole in Washington.

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Security or Just Criminalization under a Different Name?

September 29, 2004 by element115
That the "laws" they keep passing in congress have little, if anything at all, to do with "securing the homeland" as much as they do with "securing the citizens" is also becoming more clear with each passing day, and each new "law."

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Operation Hollywood

September 29, 2004 by element115
How the Pentagon bullies movie producers into showing the U.S. military in the best possible light.

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Suspected Israeli spies deported, PM confirms

September 29, 2004 by element115
The two Israeli men accused of spying in New Zealand have been deported, Prime Minister Helen Clark's office confirmed today.

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Growing Pessimism on Iraq

September 29, 2004 by element115
People at the CIA "are mad at the policy in Iraq because it's a disaster, and they're digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper."

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War Plans 'Were Drawn Up Before Vote'

September 29, 2004 by element115
Britain was involved in planning for war in Iraq for at least nine months before MPs approved military action, according to a document apparently leaked from the Pentagon.

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Israel says it will consider everything to stop Iran

September 29, 2004 by element115
Israel's defense minister says his government will consider "every option" to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
He also tells an Israeli newspaper the country must be prepared to deal with what he called the Iranian "threat."

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Russia against UN taking up Iran's nuclear issue

September 29, 2004 by element115
Russia is against bringing up Iran's nuclear program at the UN Security Council and thinks the issue should be handled by the body's nuclear watchdog, a top official said Wednesday, Agence France Press (AFP) reported.

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Israel Kills 3 Palestinians in Big Gaza Incursion

September 29, 2004 by element115
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, including two teenagers, on Wednesday after storming into the northern Gaza Strip.

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Iran not seeking nuclear bomb, but will defend itself

September 28, 2004 by element115
Iran is not trying to build a nuclear bomb, but it has developed long and medium-range missiles to defend itself against potential threats, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told CNN television.
Asked if Iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons, Kharrazi replied: "Not at all. We are against (a) nuclear bomb. And it's not part of our defense strategy."

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Billionaire George Soros intensifies his anti-Bush campaign

September 28, 2004 by element115
"This is the most important election of my lifetime," Soros writes in the brochure. "I have never been heavily involved in partisan politics but these are not normal times. President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests and undermining American values. That is why I am sending this message."

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Kidnappers release CNN hostage

September 28, 2004 by element115
Palestinian gunmen freed an Israeli Arab producer for CNN television unharmed a day after kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip.
Riad Ali said his captors told him they were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant off-shoot of Palestinian President President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
A spokesman for the Brigades has denied involvement.
"Of course I do not know if they were really from al-Aqsa or not," Mr Ali said of the abductors who snatched him from a CNN car they stopped in Gaza City.

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Several hostages have been released

September 28, 2004 by element115
A wave of hostages have been freed in Iraq in the last 24 hours.
They include two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq earlier this month.

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U.S. casualties grim cost of Iraq war

September 28, 2004 by element115
At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.

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The Orwellian US

September 28, 2004 by element115
When the novel was first published in 1949, few people could conceive of such a society. Most felt that citizens simply wouldn't allow it. Of course, if the state had attempted to implement a totalitarian society overnight, angry citizens might have prevented it. But the state cautiously enacts its takeovers incrementally, so as to not arouse the public. Also, it is able to persuade people that the agenda it is pursuing is for their own good or for the betterment of society. Consequently, little resistance is offered.

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National ID card a terrible idea

September 28, 2004 by element115
"I've always been concerned about a universal ID card or system, somewhat like in Nazi Germany," he added. "That?s scary. We value our privacy and freedom and are very concerned about the power of the U.S. government. A universal ID number is easy to track and record. You would need to tighten up the (Social Security card) system, to make it foolproof. I don't know who's that smart."

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Disabled Palestinian killed in raid

September 28, 2004 by element115
Israeli occupation forces have killed a mentally-ill Palestinian and detained up to 20 people in the West Bank

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Truths Worth Telling

September 28, 2004 by element115
Understandably, the American people are reluctant to believe that their president has made errors of judgment that have cost American lives. To convince them otherwise, there is no substitute for hard evidence: documents, photographs, transcripts. Often the only way for the public to get such evidence is if a dedicated public servant decides to release it without permission.

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America's new strategy in Iraq

September 28, 2004 by element115
Part of the plan is to use brutal air power that can annihilate buildings or whole city blocks in an effort to convince residents and leaders that the cost of resistance is simply too high.

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Falluja takes more US hits

September 28, 2004 by element115
At least four people have been killed in the latest US onslaught on the Iraqi town of Falluja overnight.

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Minister: N Korea Has Nuclear Weapons

September 28, 2004 by element115
North Korea has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said

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Mainstream Media Assaulting Internet News Services

September 28, 2004 by element115
How could they not? As web-log pioneer Dave Winer once said, "Internet publishing can be more powerful than print journalism, given its immediacy and lack of corporate or governmental filters. "The big news organizations would have you believe that such "filters" either don't exist, or have no influence on their reporting, but this is a proven lie.

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Finally It Broke My Heart

September 28, 2004 by element115
by Former CIA Analysts Random Impressions from Palestine

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The Middle East and the beginning of conflict

September 28, 2004 by element115
All countries fight amongst themselves - that is man's nature. Left to their own devices, man and the disagreement will be settled. That is IF they are left to their own devices.

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Gaza's tragic classroom casualties

September 28, 2004 by element115
Nine-year-old Raghda al-Assar died last week after being hit by Israeli fire while sitting at her school desk in the Gaza Strip - the fourth child hit in similar circumstances in 18 months.

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Democracy: It's for the Dogs

September 28, 2004 by element115
Once upon a time, there was no such thing as a Federal Reserve Note. Oh, there were forms of currency, of course, but back then folks were known to trade real things of value, too. Gold was a hot item?hard as it was to fit in one?s wallet. But they could also trade services as modern in concept as medical benefits. A little less than a hundred years ago, this system was swapped for a system of credit, and a 16th Amendment was added to the Constitution?thus creating an income tax and providing our leaders with virtually unlimited funds. Everyone?s owed something to someone ever since.

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US buys town for terror training

September 28, 2004 by element115
The United States Department of Homeland Security is buying an entire town in the south-west US for use in its anti-terror training.

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Establishment Media Plagued by 'Coincidence Theorists'

September 28, 2004 by element115
In his eyewitness account of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," author William Shirer, who lived in Nazi Germany throughout most of the 1930s, described a phenomenon that will, in 2004, seem disturbingly familiar to Americans who dissent from the policies of the Bush regime.

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"We've Been Misled"

September 28, 2004 by element115
Springsteen talks about his conscience, and the nature of an artist and his audience
...I felt they had been fundamentally dishonest and had frightened and manipulated the American people into war. And as the saying goes, "The first casualty of war is truth." I felt that the Bush doctrine of pre-emption was dangerous foreign policy. I don't think it has made America safer.

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Israel's 'immoral' actions

September 28, 2004 by element115
Four senior officers of an elite Israeli air force unit hit out at the military's "immoral" policies in the occupied territories in a letter published by Israeli newspapers on Tuesday. They said they wanted to spark debate about particular sorts of operation which they said amounted to "harassment of innocent civilians".

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Seven Palestinians killed in Mideast unrest

September 27, 2004 by element115
Seven Palestinians were killed in a series of violent incidents across the occupied territories as Israel warned Syria to stop harbouring "terrorists" after the slaying of a Hamas leader in Damascus.

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US bombing of Iraq city of Kut kills 75, wounds 148

September 27, 2004 by element115
Many of the dead and wounded were women and children, said Kut hospital director Khader Fadal Arar.

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The Unfeeling President

September 27, 2004 by element115
...by the novelist E.L. Doctorow ...this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the weapons of mass destruction he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man.
He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
...you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an emotion which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. He does not feel a personal responsibility for the 1,000 dead young men and women who wanted to be what they could be.

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Europe's quieter fight against terror

September 27, 2004 by element115
European countries have expressed a more quiet but collective resolve to work within an international consensus to fight terrorism. In the eyes of many European counterterrorism specialists and officials, the Bush administration's reliance on conventional military means can serve to provoke more terrorism.

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Israel: Report claims gov't discrimination against Arabs

September 27, 2004 by element115
The report focuses mainly on standards of living in three pertinent categories: income, education, and health, and also spotlights the uneven distribution of Israel's budget to Arab and Jewish communities

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Washington turns its back on Haitian catastrophe

September 27, 2004 by element115
The total aid package, valued at $60,000, drew a shocked response from around the world. Foreign government officials and directors of humanitarian aid agencies rubbed their eyes in disbelief at the miniscule figure.

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Politics and sleaze envelop Orlando

September 27, 2004 by element115
As the presidential campaign approaches its showdown, the Republicans in the state run by George Bush's brother are up to their tricks again.

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Persecuted, in chains, in the United States

September 27, 2004 by element115
In jails and prisons across the United States, thousands of people are detained who have never been accused of crimes. The guards treat them like criminals, and the criminals they bunk with often abuse them. They are held for months, sometimes even years, but unlike the criminals, they do not know when their sentences will end.
The Homeland Security Department, which took over immigration matters from the Immigration and Naturalization Service 18 months ago, says it detains only those who pose a security threat or who intend to disappear. But there are countless cases of asylum seekers who are detained even when they clearly pose no risk, have friends or relatives in America who will post bond, and are unlikely to skip out on their asylum hearings. They include Tibetan nuns, religious minorities from Africa, an Afghan woman persecuted by the Taliban for running a girls' school, Ukrainian grass-roots activists and others. These people are often the most noble in their society. They come here chasing America's promised liberty, and they end up in chains.

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Political hate speech in the American politics

September 27, 2004 by element115
Republican Party spin doctors are creating yet another 'acronym' - political hate speech
This new term, though, applies only when someone speaks critically of Bush.
Being a Republican and trashing your opponent is acceptable and part of the political process. If you are a Democrat and launch into your opponent is hate speech.

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President Arnold Schwarzenegger

September 27, 2004 by element115
The Republican effort to make Arnold Schwarzenegger president of the United States has begun.

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Anti-Semitism proposal

September 27, 2004 by element115
Rep. Tom Lantos of San Mateo scored a major breakthrough Tuesday on a bill that would require the State Department to establish an office to combat anti-Semitism and report annually on anti-Jewish trends around the world.


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CNN Producer Seized by Armed Men in Gaza

September 27, 2004 by element115
Armed Palestinians seized an Israeli Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza City on Monday after asking for him by name.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

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Will US and Israel Use Hamas as Pretext for Iran Attack?

September 27, 2004 by element115
There are indications that the US government is planning to use Hamas as a pretext for a potential attack against Iran.
A couple of very interesting reports were published last week in the London-based pan-Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, that of course have received no attention whatsoever in the US media.

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Israeli Border Police Arrested for Alleged Abuse of Palestinians

September 27, 2004 by element115
Officials say according to the complaint, the policemen took the two men to an abandoned building at gunpoint. Then, one of the policemen allegedly urinated in a bucket and threw it at the face of one of the Palestinians.

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All This to Keep Israel Middle East's Reigning Nuclear Power?

September 27, 2004 by element115
Israel has the bomb. We need to ask now, before battling Iran: Are a thousand dead Americans, and thousands more to come, 'worth it' to keep Israel the Middle East's reigning nuclear power?

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Blair's betrayal sent our troops to death

September 27, 2004 by element115
In an impassioned attack, he said thousands of innocents had lost their lives. "We are now, this very minute, creating sworn enemies of the very people we purported to set free as we ride roughshod over their sacred places."

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Next War ?

September 27, 2004 by element115
...from Newsweek----> Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says.

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Carter fears Florida vote trouble

September 27, 2004 by element115
Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic international requirements" and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says.

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Spy imagery agency takes new role

September 27, 2004 by element115
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about 100 employees of a little-known branch of the Defense Department called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -- and some of the country's most sophisticated aerial imaging equipment -- have focused on observing what's going on in the United States.
Their work brushes up against the fine line between protecting the public and performing illegal government spying on Americans.

...Trust us. Our intentions are good.

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Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) charges go on

September 27, 2004 by element115
Page after page of so-called analysis of documentaries and current affairs programs continue the obsessive AIJAC theme. Any program that features a strong Palestinian perspective or eyewitness critical of Israeli Defence Force (IDF) activity receives the same charge of anti-Israeli libel.

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North Korea warns U.S., Japan of 'nuclear sea of fire'

September 27, 2004 by element115
In an unusually explicit threat to its neighbor yesterday, North Korea warned that Japan would be immersed in a "nuclear sea of fire" if the United States were to attack the North.

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Tears Death And Israeli Terror

September 27, 2004 by element115
------> CBC Video

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BBC Video: Dead In The Water

September 27, 2004 by element115
During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats.
Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship. The American government accepted the explanation.
For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable to rebut it convincingly. Now, Dead in the Water uses startling new evidence to reveal the truth behind the seemingly inexplicable attack. The film combines dramatic reconstruction of the events, with new access to former officers in the US and Israeli armed forces and intelligence services who have decided to give their own version of events.
Interviews include President Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara, former head of the Israeli navy Admiral Shlomo Errell and members of the USS Liberty crew.

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Iraq: The Massacres Continue as "Democracy-Building"

September 26, 2004 by element115
The indiscriminate slaughter of Iraqi citizens in Fallujah, Najaf, Baghdad, Tel Afar, Kut and other Iraqi cities, the outrageous treatment of Iraqi prisoners of war and civilian detainees, and the destruction of the nation of Iraq have not registered in the Moral consciousness of the "civilised" Western world.

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Secrets Of Unit 1391

September 26, 2004 by element115
... From Newsweek ----> Uncovering an Israeli jail that specializes in nightmares

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Hamas threatens to target Israelis abroad

September 26, 2004 by element115
...notice the headline...and then in the body: 'A Hamas representative in Lebanon denied that the group had taken a decision to attack Israeli targets abroad.He and a spokesman in Damascus said Hamas would launch attacks only inside Israel and the Palestinian territories. '

...I wonder how many people get informed by reading headlines only.

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Israel Claims Killing of Hamas Operative

September 26, 2004 by element115
In a hit claimed by Israeli security officials, a senior Hamas operative was killed in a car bombing Sunday outside his house in Damascus, the first such killing of a leader of the Islamic militant group in Syria. Analysts said the killing appeared designed as much to warn the Syrians as to keep Hamas off balance. "This is not the first warning" Israel has tried to convey to Syria, Haj Ali said. "What happened indicates that Israel's aggression has no limits." The killing, he said, "was meant to deliver a message to the entire world that says: 'We (Israelis) are capable of striking anywhere in accordance with the Israeli agenda.'"

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Iraqi civilian casualties mounting

September 26, 2004 by element115
That suggests that more aggressive U.S. military operations, which the Bush administration has said are being planned to clear the way for nationwide elections scheduled for January, could backfire and strengthen the insurgency.

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Unacceptable norms

September 26, 2004 by element115
Without mincing words, the study reveals that underlying the project were principles of ethnic discrimination, demographic phobia, and the concept that the country's Arab citizens are not equals but constitute a threat to its existence.

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Neo-Con Spies

September 26, 2004 by element115
Kwiatkowski said that between May 2002 and April 2003, she "observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neo-conservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. This seizure of the reins of U.S. Middle East policy was directly visible to many of us working in the Near East South Asia policy office, and yet there seemed to be little any of us could do about it."

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Zogby Poll

September 26, 2004 by element115
Should AIPAC be asked to register as an agent of a foreign government and lose its tax-exempt status?

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Maybe "The Spies Who Aren't", Really Are

September 26, 2004 by element115
Now that Dan Rather and CBS have lost most of their credibility due to their admission that they made a mistake on Bush Air National Guard story, the Israeli spy story appears to be losing out also. The logic is something like this. CBS can no longer be trusted on 'breaking news', so their story on Israeli espionage can't be trusted either.

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Video: Fallujah Massacre

September 26, 2004 by element115
"The 'tell' is in the audio. When the pilot asks permission to fire, he reports a large number of people - not armed people. People. And permission is granted instantly. This is an indication that the mission guidance is to shoot anyone who is in the street. This is a clear war crime, and one that begins with the commander's stated intent in the operations order. The pilot's exclamation of satisfaction, "Aw dude!" at the end just underlines how this casual sadism comes to dominate the psyches of those who are part of a military occupation force, and how the ground reality become 'race war.'"

...war crime?

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Israeli millionaire to purchase 50% of Al-Jazeera shares

September 26, 2004 by element115
Israeli businessman Haim Shiban intends to acquire 50% of shares of Qatar-based satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera. The information has been reported Saturday by a Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustakbal with reference to Israeli sources.
Shiban has purchased a portion of American company Fox for $1.5 billion USD. In addition, last year he's become a shareholder of a German company Bru Sat 1 for 225 million Euro. He also owns 23% of shares of second Israel's channel

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Rumsfeld mulls withdrawal from Iraq

September 26, 2004 by element115
A day after saying more US soldiers may be needed in Iraq, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has indicated the possible withdrawal of American troops from the country.

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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

September 26, 2004 by element115
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

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None Dare Call Them Neo-cons

September 26, 2004 by element115
The catastrophic success of the neo-cons in escalating America?s unprofitable conflicts in the Middle East to a war of civilizations should create serious questions in serious minds about the national origin of their neo-conservative ideology.

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70% Of America Is Confused By George W. Bush Lies

September 26, 2004 by element115
How many times have you told your children that not telling the truth is the same as telling a lie? Should George W. Bush be held to a lower standard than your children when it comes to telling the Truth? Is it right for the President of the United States to let this lie live on simply because it will cause many voters to cast their ballots for George W. Bush in November based on this lie? Would you not punish your children for not coming out and telling the truth? Shouldn?t the voters punish George W. Bush as they would their own children by not voting for him because he is not telling the truth? These are some of the questions American voters should be asking themselves before casting their vote for President of the United States

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The Legacy of Bush: Women and children obliterated by Bush's illegal invasion force

September 26, 2004 by element115
Screaming engines. Screaming civilians. The screech of artillery tearing into Iraqi homes. The screech of terrified women and children cruelly disfigured by shrapnel. The howl of shells ripping through the air. The howl of babies who have seen their mothers' bodies ripped apart in the name of Freedom and Democracy. The Legacy of Bush, Chapter Seven.

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UN Expert: Israel's Apartheid Wall Aims at Grabbing Palestinian Lands

September 26, 2004 by element115
United Nations human rights expert John Dugard believed that the Israeli Apartheid Wall being built on Palestinian lands and cutting deep through the West Bank, is intended at grabbing vast areas of Palestinian lands, not to prevent infiltration of Palestinian suicide bombers into Israeli territories.

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UN official out for comparing Bush to Osama

September 26, 2004 by element115
An official from the corruption probe into the UN's "oil-for-food" programme in Iraq resigned following reports she had compared US President George W Bush to Osama bin Laden.
"With defenders like (Bush) and Berlusconi, largely unchecked by a sycophantic media, who needs bin Laden to destroy culture, personal freedom, respect for other human beings, integrity, and the rule of law -- all the things that make our lives worthwhile?" she wrote.

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A Draft After the Elections?

September 26, 2004 by element115
While President Bush has thus far never said whether or not he would bring back the draft (Sen. John Kerry stated that he opposed a draft on Sept. 22, 2004 in West Palm Beach, Fla.), there are increasing rumors and speculation that it will be reinstated after the election, perhaps as soon as 2005. There is no hard evidence that this is so nor that it is imminent, but lots of people on both sides of the political aisle are rightly concerned.

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CBS Nixes'60 Minutes' Story on Iraq War

September 26, 2004 by element115
CBS News has shelved a "60 Minutes" report on the rationale for war in Iraq because it would be "inappropriate" to air it so close to the presidential election, the network said on Saturday.

...shouldn't it be the other way around?
...why not inform the voters?

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Securing The Elections

September 26, 2004 by element115
With the election five weeks away, U.S. counterterrorism officials are obsessed with reports from multiple sources that terrorists hope to disrupt the campaign. "Nobody can give you date, time or place, but everyone is absolutely convinced we're going to get hit," says a top counterterrorism hand

...Bush stays in power if "hit" happens.
...what would be the terrorists gain?

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One-Party State: The Republican Monarchy.

September 25, 2004 by element115
Under the Bush Cartel, we have experienced a de-revolution based on deception and cynical sloganeering in which the word liberty becomes the actuality of suppression, in which freedom becomes big brother monitoring, in which economic opportunity becomes "Royal Court" cronyism, and in which accountability becomes replaced with serial lying.

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Bush's America asks: Why us?

September 25, 2004 by element115
If, in the president's view, the goodness of Americans and the nobility of their mission are self-evident, then the failure of peoples around the world to see the resistance against the occupation in Iraq in the same way, means that they are "enemies of freedom".

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Palestinian killed in Israeli strike

September 25, 2004 by element115
A 60-year-old Palestinian man has been killed and five people wounded in an Israeli air strike on Khan Yunis...a missile was launched on Saturday by an Israeli helicopter which landed near a mosque. After the missile strike, 14 tanks and three bulldozers moved into the camp and began tearing down houses.

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Civilians killed in US 'precision strike'

September 25, 2004 by element115
The pounding of the city Falluja began overnight and continued into the early hours of Saturday, hospital officials told Aljazeera.
Dr Dhiya al-Jumaili of Falluja General Hospital said at least eight people were killed and 15 wounded, including women and children.
The US military said it had carried out a "precision strike" on a building where supporters loyal to "al-Qaida-linked" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were believed to be meeting.

...the same answer over and over again!
...murderers!

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Contra Campaign

September 25, 2004 by element115
John Kerry once took a shot at Miami's Felix Rodriguez for his part in the Iran-contra scandal. Now the Bush family friend is shooting back.
The life of Felix I. Rodriguez provides a tour through the dark heart of America. From the Bay of Pigs fiasco to Vietnam to the El Salvador death squads to the Iran-contra scandal, the Cuban exile and self-described "CIA hero" was there. His most famous assassination mission came in 1967, when he led the Bolivian army group that captured and summarily executed leftist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He's worked closely with right-wing terrorists, and some of his associates were involved in the Watergate break-in.

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The Meaning of Security

September 25, 2004 by element115
Now we have the Department of Homeland Security, a gargantuan agency that administers foreign and domestic spying, sends hither swarms of agents to harass us at airports, conduct drills in the event that the government decides that martial law is the only option, and generally suppress any and all signs of insurrection wherever they might appear. Here too the term security means submission, control, compliance, obedience, and stability for the state.

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The Truth-Telling Project

September 25, 2004 by element115
The Truth-Telling Project encourages whistleblowing in the national interest. It urges current and recently retired government officials to reveal the truth to Congress and the public about governmental wrongdoing, lies and cover-up. It aims to change the norms and practices that sustain the cult of secrecy, and to de-legitimize silence that costs lives.

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Looking Into the Eyes of the Enemy

September 25, 2004 by element115
The War You Won't See on TV

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Iran to U.N.: U.S. to blame for terrorism

September 25, 2004 by element115
Iran's Foreign Minister at the United Nations Friday described the United States as extremist and said its use of unbridled militarism causes terrorism.

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Cat Stevens to take legal action

September 24, 2004 by element115
Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, is taking legal action after he was refused entry into the US.

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Saddam to Declare Candidacy for Iraqi Elections

September 24, 2004 by element115
Overthrown Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was arrested by US forces last December, reportedly plans to run as a candidate in the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 2005.
...a recent Gallup poll indicates that 42 percent of the Iraqi people want their former leader back.

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Nevermind

September 24, 2004 by element115
If you've followed the government's claims in the Yaser Esam Hamdi case, you would think the guy was some unstoppable, lethal killing machine, the Taliban's own Hannibal Lecter-a man so evil, he requires permanent warehousing down a bottomless hole. So the Bush administration's decision to release Hamdi is stunning, given that only months ago he was so dangerous that the government insisted in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and the world that he could reasonably be locked up for all time, without a trial or criminal charges.
...they let him go. Because Hamdi was, of course, never really the Taliban's Dr. Evil, or even its Mini-Me.

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If Americans Knew

September 24, 2004 by element115
...what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

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Blair accused of 'secret pact with Bush' over Iraq

September 24, 2004 by element115
"This is a man who buried the information that was inconvenient, manipulated the intelligence that was convenient and entered into a secret pact with the American president to go to war come what may."

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Powell refuses to rule out attack on Iran

September 24, 2004 by element115
The timing of Powell's remarks, shortly after it became known that the US had decided to sell Israel a large quantity of "bunker busting" bombs, immediately made observers judge that Washington was stepping up pressure on Iran.

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US aircraft, artillery fire pound Falluja

September 24, 2004 by element115
US artillery and aircraft fire have pounded sectors of the Iraqi town of Falluja, sending up clouds of smoke.

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Websites boast 'slaughter' of women

September 24, 2004 by element115
Concern was mounting last night over the fate of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad more than a fortnight ago, after two separate statements appeared on the internet claiming that the women had been killed.

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Abuse, Torture and Rape Reported at Unlisted U.S.-run Prisons in Iraq

September 24, 2004 by element115
American legal investigators have discovered evidence of abuse, torture and rape throughout the US-run prison system in Iraq

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Bush Upbeat as Iraq Burns

September 24, 2004 by element115
As the situation in Iraq moves from bad to worse, the president, based on his public comments, seems to be edging further and further from reality.

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The Face of Iraqi Democracy

September 24, 2004 by element115
Iraq's appointed leader, Ayad Allawi, put on an impressive performance yesterday in Washington. Addressing Congress and then holding a joint news conference with President Bush, he thanked America in the name of the Iraqi people for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Challenging the news reports that Americans get daily, Mr. Allawi claimed that security is improving, economic reconstruction is progressing and democratic institutions are taking root. It was everything the Bush re-election campaign could have asked for. Unfortunately, most of it was wrong.

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Humiliated and impotent, every Iraqi is a hostage now

September 24, 2004 by element115
The US authorities cannot let Dr Germ go - she knows too much

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Like Dogs In The Night

September 24, 2004 by element115
It's time for Americans -- both Democrat and Republican -- to wake up and face the truth -- we are struggling under the heel of a morally bankrupt, rabid right-wing, pre-World War II Germany facist cult.

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Hepatitis spreads in 2 Iraqi districts

September 24, 2004 by element115
A virulent form of hepatitis that is especially lethal for pregnant women has broken out in two of Iraq's most troubled districts, Iraqi Health Ministry officials said in interviews here this week, and they warned that a collapse of water and sewage systems in the country is probably at the root of the illnesses.
The disease, called Hepatitis E, is caused by a virus that is often spread by sewage-contaminated drinking water.

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Poisonous Legacy

September 24, 2004 by element115
Flash presentation. - WARNING - This movie presents pictures of the human effects of Depleted Uranium and should only be viewed by a mature audiance.

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Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem should be rezoned for Jews, says mayor

September 24, 2004 by element115
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski wants to rezone a neighborhood of Wadi Joz, in the eastern section of the capital, for the purpose of settling Jews in the area. The neighborhood in question was zoned and planned a number of years ago by the Housing Ministry for Arab residents.

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Big Brother sends in the hit squads to clean up national security threat

September 24, 2004 by element115
Patricia Wilkie is a nurse in Tamworth. Her brother David is a teacher in the same town. Her other brother recently published a book.
Two weeks ago a team from the federal Attorney-General's Department turned up to "cleanse" Patricia and David's home computers of material said to be so sensitive that it could jeopardise the very security of the nation. A Sydney documentary maker, Carmel Travers, also got a visit, as did a small Melbourne publishing company, Black Inc, and the Melbourne academic and Herald columnist Robert Manne.

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The Deceivers

September 24, 2004 by element115
How many times must the truth be told before it conquers the lies? Again and again, the brutal realities behind the rape of Iraq -- that it was planned years ago, that the aggressors knew full well that their justifications for war were false and that their invasion would lead to chaos, ruin and unbridled terror -- have been exposed by the very words and documents of the invaders themselves. Yet the reign of the lie goes on, rolling toward its final entrenchment in November.

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NZ troops ready to fly home

September 24, 2004 by element115
New Zealand's military personnel in Iraq will be home tomorrow, Defence Minister Mark Burton said yesterday.

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Study: Bush Budget Adds $1.3T to Deficits

September 24, 2004 by element115
Responding to an election-season request by Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Thursday that some of President Bush's budget policies plus other costs would add $1.3 trillion to federal deficits over the next decade.

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Hell

September 24, 2004 by element115
Three years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, attacks in which they played no part, the people of Iraq have been liberated from one tyranny only to be remanded to another: continuous urban warfare, religious extremism and a contagion of fear.

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Army's War Game Recruits Kids

September 24, 2004 by element115
Your kids can download the "America's Army'' video game for free. Well, it is free for them. You have already paid for it with your tax dollars. In the game, kids get to kill people with cool weapons that look and respond like the real things. They get to ambush terrorists and, when caught in a firefight, they can hear bullets whistle past their ears and even hear the shell casings from their M-16s clatter onto the concrete floor.
The only thing better would be an actual war with actual weapons!
Which is pretty much how the Army hopes your kids will respond.

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His Excellency

September 24, 2004 by element115
The UN moderator introduced Bush yesterday, this way:
"On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honor to welcome to the United Nations "His Excellency" Mr. George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America and to invite him to address the Assembly."
The term 'Excellency' should be used only for royalty, and never for an elected person representing a so-called free Republic - but then Bush wasn't elected, so maybe the moderator was only catering to another of this outlaw's fantasies?

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The American Gulag

September 24, 2004 by element115
Whenever a neocon defends governmental acts of tyranny, despotism, and brutality (a defining characteristic of a neocon) it?s a sure bet that he will eventually "justify" such acts by invoking the image of the "sainted" Abraham Lincoln. If "Father Abraham" did it, the argument goes, then it must not only be accepted but celebrated.

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Allawi, Bush & Cheney Are All Lying About Conditions in Iraq

September 24, 2004 by element115
The puppet PM of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, his sponsors, President Bush and VP Dick Cheney are all lying to the American public about the real situation in Iraq. They say things are getting better, that most of Iraq could vote in an election tomorrow and that ?democracy and freedom will prevail, without a doubt.? Nonsense! Out and out lies.

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Neo-Con Spies III

September 24, 2004 by element115
Wolfowitz left the DoD during Bill Clinton's term, and kept working for Israel from abroad. In 1998, Wolfowitz was a co-signer of a public letter to the President organized by the "Project for the New American Century." The letter, citing Saddam Hussein's continued possession of "weapons of mass destruction," argued for military action to achieve regime change and demilitarization of Iraq.

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U.S. to transfer high-tech arsenal to Israel

September 24, 2004 by element115
Amid growing concern that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's budding nuclear program, the United States is moving ahead with the transfer to Israel of 5,000 heavy, precision-guided bombs, including 500 "earth-penetrating" 2,000-pound bombs designed for use against underground facilities.

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Israel demands change to IAEA resolution, threatens boycott

September 24, 2004 by element115
Israel threatened Thursday to boycott an international conference on a nuclear-free Middle East sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, if a resolution branding Israel a nuclear threat is not removed from the agenda.

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Sharon has not dismantled a single outpost in West Bank

September 23, 2004 by element115
An Israeli journalist has accused the Israeli premier, Ariel Sharon, of lying to the United States, EU and the international community when he says Israel has dismantled settlement outposts in the West Bank.
The journalist, Uri Glickman, pointed out in an article in the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday that "so far, not a single illegal outpost has been permanently dismantled."

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Educators fear effect of copyright changes

September 23, 2004 by element115
Educators across the country are gearing up for battle, fearing proposed changes to Canadian copyright law could hinder Internet use in the classroom. They say extended blanket licensing as proposed by a parliamentary committee on Canadian Heritage last spring, could create a costly pay-per-use system that might cause schools to deny students access to the Internet entirely.
"Why should we pay for access to public information?" said Robert Schad, a University of Regina administrator and member of the Council of Ministers of Education.
"It's not about the fee. It's about access to information and control of the Internet.''

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US Tactic In Fallujah: Bomb Cars - Then Bomb Rescuers

September 23, 2004 by element115
The US military said it had struck heavy construction equipment used to build fortified fighting positions on the outskirts of Fallujah and every effort had been made to spare civilian lives.
Air strikes near Fallujah killed 44 people on Thursday

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Palestinian resistance hits Israeli army

September 23, 2004 by element115
Palestinian resistance fighters have killed at least three Israeli soldiers guarding an illegal Jewish settlement in the occupied Gaza Strip.

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Israel and Palestine, Choosing Sides

September 23, 2004 by element115
The most monumental cover-up in media history may be the one I?m about to describe. In my entire experience with American journalism, I have never found anything as extreme, sustained, and omnipresent.

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UK archives reveal Palestine plan

September 23, 2004 by element115
top-secret Colonial Office file from 1943 shows that Mr Churchill favoured a plan to try to bribe King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, with £20m and the leadership of a new Arab confederation, in exchange for the Saudi monarch's help in handing over Palestine to the Jews.

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UK hostage's 'release sabotaged'

September 23, 2004 by element115
The brother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley says the US has "sabotaged" his brother's release by refusing to free a detained woman scientist in Iraq.

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"Thank you America"

September 23, 2004 by element115
Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi declared Thursday that his country is moving successfully past the war. "The insurgency in Iraq is destructive but small, and it has not and will never resonate with the Iraqi people," Allawi said.

...an evil puppet.

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Israel Charges Iran Replaces Saddam as Terror Exporter

September 23, 2004 by element115
Israel charged on Thursday that Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's primary exporter of "terror, hate and instability."
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom challenged the U.N. General Assembly to "end its obsession" with the Jewish state and focus instead on "the active involvement of Iran and Syria in terrorism."


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Iran Would React to Israeli Nuclear Action

September 23, 2004 by element115
"But be sure, any action by Israel certainly will be reacted (to) by us, most severely," Kharrazi said after he met British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's ministerial meeting.

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Mugabe: Bush Acts Like 'Political God'

September 23, 2004 by element115
Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe on Wednesday warned of world dominated by one superpower, accusing President Bush of acting like a "political god" and calling British Prime Minister Tony Blair "his prophet."

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N. Korea May Be Preparing Missile Launch

September 23, 2004 by element115
Japan said it has obtained intelligence indicating that North Korea may be preparing to test fire a short-range missile.

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Gorbachev Says Iraq War 'Undermined' Law

September 23, 2004 by element115
"I regard the invasion of Iraq as undermining international law and undermining democracy because millions of people spoke out against it," said the Nobel Peace Prize laureate during a visit to London. He added the war "was done without the mandate of the U.N. Security Council."

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Globalization or Protectionism?

September 23, 2004 by element115
Is globalization an internationalization of opportunities or the creation of reservoirs of endemic poverty which perpetuate a have/have-not scenario?

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Army Sits On Chem Attack Antidote

September 23, 2004 by element115
A New York City police department physician thinks she has found a promising antidote for emergency workers to use if terrorists launch a chemical weapons attack, but the federal government won't let the city buy it - even though the U.S. Army can.

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British MP furious at treatment by Israel

September 23, 2004 by element115
British MP who was held in an ambulance at an Israeli military checkpoint for more than an hour after he suffered a stroke. Palestinian ambulances are frequently delayed or turned back at checkpoints. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says at least 43 people have died in the past four years because ambulances were stopped or delayed. More than a dozen women have been forced to give birth at checkpoints, resulting in at least five stillbirths.

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An Attack on Democracy

September 23, 2004 by element115
Unless America wakes up and gets this man out of office this time around, it may be too late to maintain democracy in the future.

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The Hypocrisy Over Beslan

September 23, 2004 by element115
...if the Bush administration is smart enough to figure out the underlying causes of terrorism in Russia, how come it?s not smart enough to understand why America was attacked? The answer is that of course the administration does understand, but it cannot admit it. Doing so would open a national debate on decades of U.S. policy towards Arab and Muslim nations.

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Former CIA agent says Bush to blame for 9/11

September 23, 2004 by element115
"It wasn't a bipartisan commission; it was more like a bipolar commission," McGovern said. "To say that no one could prevent 9/11 was a bold-faced lie. It basically let the president and everyone responsible off the hook."

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Counting the civilian cost in Iraq

September 23, 2004 by element115
Human rights groups say the occupying powers have failed in a duty to catalogue the deaths, giving the impression that ordinary Iraqis' lives are worth less than those of soldiers. Unofficial estimates of the civilian toll vary wildly, from at least 10,000 to more than 37,000.
"Imagine the US not investigating exactly who died on September 11, it is unthinkable"

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US jet sent 600 miles to keep Cat Stevens away

September 23, 2004 by element115
American officials diverted a transatlantic flight 600 miles in the belief that the presence of Yusuf Islam, the charity worker and pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, posed an imminent threat to national security

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Warning on super flu pandemic

September 23, 2004 by element115
Scientists working for the World Health Organisation fear that the arrival of the flu season in Asian countries could see the human flu virus merge with a lethal strain of bird flu that is already in circulation, producing a more deadly flu virus that could rapidly infect humans, leading to a global outbreak.

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Bush fails to raise Jewish support

September 23, 2004 by element115
George Bush has failed to win over any of the traditional Jewish backing for the Democrats, despite the unwavering White House support for Israel and a vigorous campaign by the Republican party.
In a poll released yesterday by the American Jewish Committee, Jewish voters preferred John Kerry to Mr Bush by a margin of nearly three to one: 69% to 24%.

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Russia braces for tough new terror laws

September 23, 2004 by element115
Sweeping counter-terrorism laws were debated in the Russian parliament yesterday, including proposals that would allow the country to declare itself at war and impose tight restrictions on travel and the media.
Under the plans, Russian television and radio journalists would not be allowed to report on a siege until the situation had been resolved.

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Carter Ties U.S. Presence, Iraq Bloodshed

September 23, 2004 by element115
``A lot of political analysts have said that one of the main reasons the Bush-Cheney administration went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base there,'' Carter said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``I think this arouses a great deal of unnecessary opposition.''

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U.S. Says Cat Stevens May Have Terror Ties

September 23, 2004 by element115
The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, U.S. officials said Wednesday in explaining why a London-to-Washington flight carrying the peace activist was diverted.

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House May Revive Parts of Patriot Act II

September 23, 2004 by element115
House Republicans plan to revive portions of the Justice Department's ``Patriot Act II'' draft in legislation to address the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations to strengthen America intelligence capabilities, The Associated Press has learned.

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Swift Boat Swill

September 22, 2004 by element115
From the National Archives: New proof of Vietnam War atrocities

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The enemy is us

September 22, 2004 by element115
In war, you deny information, spread lies and use psychological warfare. An expert on military information operations explains how Bush has mastered this technique -- and used it against the American people.

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End all links with Arafat: Bush

September 22, 2004 by element115
US President George W. Bush asked world leaders Tuesday to end all support for any Palestinian leader who "fails his people and betrays their cause," a lightly veiled reference to Yasser Arafat.

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Millions Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election

September 22, 2004 by element115
Millions of U.S. citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal barriers, faulty procedures or dirty tricks, according to civil rights and legal experts.

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House Approves Penalties for False Web Records

September 22, 2004 by element115
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would increase jail time for identity thieves and other fraudulent Web users who register sites under false identities.

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How a Palestinian widow and her trees are a threat to Mofaz

September 22, 2004 by element115
The grove is her main source of livelihood and consists of orange, tangerine and guava trees. And unfortunately for her, it is next to the guardhouse built for the guards who protect the defense minister's home, part of the security fence around Kochav Yair.

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Bush running scared

September 22, 2004 by element115
George Bush went to the UN building knowing full well that the eyes of the world would be resting upon him. What ensued was a clinical demonstration of hypocrisy and a perpetuation of the web of lies that his regime has spun.

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Palestinian film festival slammed

September 22, 2004 by element115
Matas and other members of the Jewish community have raised objections to the Canada-Palestine Film Festival, which premieres in Winnipeg this weekend. Matas claims some of the films could fan the flames of hatred and divisiveness and wonders why a publicly funded organization such as the Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) would agree to host such a festival.

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US launches Sadr City strikes

September 22, 2004 by element115
"Right now we are in there. We are fighting the terrorists so we can re-establish civil-military operations and get back to the reconstruction projects that the people of Sadr City want," said Army spokesman Major Philip Smith.

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The crisis in Darfur: This wolf is real, and nobody's listening

September 22, 2004 by element115
...the Security Council procrastinated, preoccupied as it was with Iraq. And the secretary of state stayed silent, even visiting the scene of the crime without saying the word "genocide."

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Analysis: Baghdad - Where to from here?

September 22, 2004 by element115
A number of analysts will agree that Bush and his advisers largely ignored recommendations from the State Department on how to govern post-war Iraq. They chose instead to head the counsel of the Defense Department -- who had masterfully planned the invasion -- but came a day late and a dollar short of properly administering the post-combat phase of the war. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

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The spoils of another war

September 22, 2004 by element115
In the 1999 Nato bombing campaign, it was state-owned companies - rather than military sites - that were specifically targeted by the world's richest nations. Nato only destroyed 14 tanks, but 372 industrial facilities were hit - including the Zastava car plant at Kragujevac, leaving hundreds of thousands jobless. Not one foreign or privately owned factory was bombed.

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Illegal Orders give the US a Lock on Iraq's Economy

September 22, 2004 by element115
Officially, the U.S. occupation of Iraq ended on June 28, 2004. But in reality, the United States is still in charge: Not only do 138,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the "100 Orders" of L. Paul Bremer III remain to control the economy.
These little noticed orders enacted by Bremer, the now-departed head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, go to the heart of Bush administration plans in Iraq. They lock in sweeping advantages to American firms, ensuring long-term U.S. economic advantage while guaranteeing few, if any, benefits to the Iraqi people.

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Former CIA director sees slow creep toward nationwide fingerprinting

September 22, 2004 by element115
Taking a high-level overview of the challenges facing the United States in pursuing terrorists globally, Woolsey said biometric technologies will play a key role in striking a balance between security and liberty.
"I would imagine something like that is coming," he said.

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Ashcroft Continues to Seek New Powers

September 22, 2004 by element115
The latest proposed legislation -- "Tools to Fight Terrorism Act of 2004" (S. 2679) -- would increase the government's powers to secretly obtain personal records without judicial review and limit judicial discretion over the use of secret evidence in criminal cases. It would also eliminate important foreign intelligence wiretapping safeguards and allow the use of secret intelligence wiretaps in immigration cases without notice or an opportunity to suppress illegally acquired evidence.
The legislation would also grant the Department of Justice expanded administrative subpoena power -- the authority to seize records and compel testimony in terrorism cases without prior review by a court or grand jury. This would erode already diminished judicial oversight, and would allow access to confidential records without individual suspicion of wrongdoing.
Furthermore, this legislation would expand the use of the death penalty -- a step that would hurt efforts to coordinate anti-terrorism activities and extraditions with those countries that oppose capital punishment.

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If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?

September 22, 2004 by element115
President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country.

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Prisoner Abuse Timeline

September 22, 2004 by element115
The Administration claims to have been blind-sided by the abuse of prisoners in Iraq. In May 2004, Bush told Arab television that he believes the abuse to be "a serious matter which we will fully investigate." The White House was aware of problems in Iraqi prisons for six months, yet did nothing.

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Neo-Con Spies II

September 22, 2004 by element115
The strangest thing in the scandal of spying for Israel is the existence of a scandal in the first place; the people involved in it have been accused of spying for Israel for decades. The scandal is that they are allowed to be in key positions within the U.S. administration, after having been subject to investigations that are exactly like the current one, concerning the accusation of leaking secret information to Israel.

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Former pop star Cat Stevens denied entry to U.S.

September 21, 2004 by element115
Yusuf Islam, formerly known as folk-rock singer Cat Stevens, was taken off a London to Washington airliner on Tuesday and denied entry into the United States. The United Airlines flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, where it landed. Islam was taken off the plane, questioned and refused entry into the country.

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DNC Chair points to Republican Conspiracy

September 21, 2004 by element115
In today's New York Post, Roger Stone, who became associated with political "dirty tricks" while working for Nixon, refused to deny that he was the source the CBS documents.

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US loses war games in simulated conflict with Iran

September 21, 2004 by element115
US spy agencies have played out "war games" to consider possible pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, and concluded that strikes would not resolve Washington's standoff with Tehran, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday.
"The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating," an unnamed air force source told the magazine in its latest issue.

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The Voice of the White House

September 21, 2004 by element115
This afternoon, while schmoozing a minor aide, I saw a copy of a Pentagon memo concerning the forthcoming draft. I could not copy this and it took me about twenty minutes, in brief segments, to read it through. The White House and the Pentagon have worked out a plan to call up all reservists and National Guard units if and when Bush is reelected. The moment that the election results are poured in concrete, orders, now drawn up and waiting, will be issued throughout the United States. I am not speaking of a few units but all US Guard and Reserve units. On the same subject, the pending Universal Draft is also a done deal. Everything is place awaiting the President?s signature. This is planned for June of 2005 and contains some real shockers. Women will be called up as well as men. There will be absolutely no deferments of any kind permitted. Persons with medical problems such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, chronic asthma, physical deformities such as a club foot or hunch back, vision problems, etc. will be called up! If a draftee has a medical problem but can move around, they are subject to the draft but will be assigned to non-military positions such as clerk-typists, maintenance positions and so on. There will be absolutely no deferments for someone with a family to support or who is enrolled in any kind of a school. Students may be permitted to complete their semester and will then be compelled to report at once to their nearest enlistment center

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CBS's memo becomes a free pass for Bush

September 21, 2004 by element115
Does nothing stick to this guy, who has yet to come clean about his alkie, Vietnam-evading past? After all, the basics of the CBS story were true, reported five years ago by Greg Palast and other real don't-just-play-one-on-TV reporters

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The Lynching of Dan Rather

September 21, 2004 by element115
"It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions," the aging American journalist told the British television audience.
In June 2002, Dan Rather looked old, defeated, making a confession he dare not speak on American TV about the deadly censorship -- and self-censorship -- which had seized U.S. newsrooms. After September 11, news on the U.S. tube was bound and gagged. Any reporter who stepped out of line, he said, would be professionally lynched as un-American.

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Rare Video Footage

September 21, 2004 by element115
From Inside The World Trade Center On 9/11

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Uri Avnery: The New Cult of the Temple

September 21, 2004 by element115
Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: that a Jewish terror group will bomb the mosques on the Temple Mount.
Years ago, a Jewish underground organization was preparing to do exactly that. It was uncovered before it could carry out its plans. Now similar plots are afoot.

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Outposts financed during Barak's tenure

September 21, 2004 by element115
Between 1999 and 2000 during the Barak administration, government ministries approved the transfer of tens of millions of shekels to finance illegal outposts and new neighborhoods in West Bank settlements, according to official documents obtained by Haaretz.

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Haaretz : U.S. to sell Israel 5,000 smart bombs

September 21, 2004 by element115
The funding will come from the U.S. military aid to Israel, and the bombs range from airborne versions, guidance units, training bombs and detonators. The bombs are guided by satellite, in a system already in the Israel Defense Forces arsenal. The guidance unit receives a signal from a satellite, correcting the bomb's course to the target.
The Pentagon told Congress that the bombs are meant to maintain Israel's qualitative advantage, and advance U.S. strategic and tactical interests.

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Der Spiegel: The US Is Arming Israel Against Iran

September 21, 2004 by element115
"These are not weapons, which can be used at the Palestinian front. Security sources report that Israel could use the "Bunker Breakers" against Iran or possibly Syria, thereby confirming a report in the newspaper "Haaretz". Neither the US Embassy in Israel nor the Israeli Ministry of Defense were willing to comment. "Bunker Breakers" are bombs which weight about one ton, are able to penetrate deep into the ground and to pierce up to two meter thick concrete walls. These could possibly enable Israel to destroy Iranian underground atomic plants.
From Israeli government circles it was reported that the arms deal went through without any political difficulties.

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Proliferation treaty

September 21, 2004 by element115
Of course Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons - and has the legal entitlement to do so

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Annan condemns US abuses in Iraq

September 21, 2004 by element115
Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, today cited the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US forces as an example of how fundamental laws were being "shamelessly disregarded".

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So Far, You Can Fool Most of the People Most of the Time

September 21, 2004 by element115
The Bush administration has been responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 U.S. service personnel, the wounding of 7,000 more and the deaths of perhaps 10,000 Iraqis (a crude estimate because the Pentagon refuses to release figures) in an unneeded war that was sold on false pretenses. If a war is unnecessary, then the perpetrators must assume responsibility for even unintended casualties and destruction (what the U.S. military euphemistically calls "collateral damage") and horrific excesses, such as the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.
And the ever-gullible American voter is apparently willing to believe Bush.

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Bush Links Democracy, Human Rights To Global Security

September 21, 2004 by element115
U.S. President George W. Bush has urged UN members to support U.S.-led efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they are crucial to the spread of democracy and stability in the world. Bush also defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq as justified by Security Council resolutions. But the president's speech focused on broader initiatives on welfare and human rights. Moments earlier, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the assembly that what he called a "shameless disregard" for rule of law had become widespread.

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Why Americans back the war

September 21, 2004 by element115
In the United States, an uneasy electorate keeps its distance from all of this. Polls show that most Americans maintain faith in the Bush administration's handling of the war, while others greet reports of the disasters more with resignation than passionate opposition. To the mounting horror of the world, the United States of America is relentlessly bringing about the systematic destruction of a small, unthreatening nation for no good reason. Why has this not gripped the conscience of this country?

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The Flame-Throwers

September 21, 2004 by element115
...does Bush really believe what he is saying? Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more evident that Bush has so completely lost touch with reality that he actually believes what he is saying.

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Cheney may have 'stretched Iraq intelligence'

September 21, 2004 by element115
President George W. Bush's choice for intelligence chief on Monday said the administration had, on at least one occasion, overstated information it had tying Iraq to al-Qaeda and the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Al Qaeda seen planning for 'spectacular' attack

September 21, 2004 by element115
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded recently that al Qaeda -- fearing its credibility is on the line -- is moving ahead with plans for a major, "spectacular" attack".

...suuuuuuuuuure

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A strident minority: anti-Bush US troops in Iraq

September 21, 2004 by element115
"For 9 out of 10 of the people I talk to, it wouldn't matter who ran against Bush - they'd vote for them," said a US soldier in the southern city of Najaf, seeking out a reporter to make his views known. "People are so fed up with Iraq, and fed up with Bush."

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Latin America Has Had Enough of Bush

September 21, 2004 by element115
"No More Bush": it has become a slogan echoed with increasing frequency, on signs and banners carried by protesters and painted on walls throughout Latin America.

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The Hidden Agenda is Oil

September 21, 2004 by element115
The United States and Britain are playing the ethnic cleansing and genocide cards. Again. This time in Sudan.

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Israel Paralyzed by General Strike

September 21, 2004 by element115
The strike by 400,000 public-sector employees over a pay dispute was the latest in a battle between a right-wing government determined to push forward with free-market reforms and unions trying to prevent job losses due to spending cuts.

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Your Media is Killing You

September 21, 2004 by element115
The American mainstream television news media, in whole and in part, has catastrophically failed the American people and is singularly responsible for the untimely deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.

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Iraqi militants claim Bush wants 'greater Israel' in Mideast

September 21, 2004 by element115
Bush has a "treacherous plan to establish the greater Israel to the two rivers [Euphrates and Tigris]," the narrator said. "Our blood and bodies is between you and your deceitful dreams, and you will see from the heroism of the sons of Islam what will not please you."

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Baghdad Year Zero

September 20, 2004 by element115
Torturers believe that when electrical shocks are applied to various parts of the body simultaneously subjects are rendered so confused about where the pain is coming from that they become incapable of resistance. A declassified CIA "Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual from 1963 describes how a trauma inflicted on prisoners opens up "an interval ? which may be extremely brief - of suspended animation, a kind of psychological shock or paralysis ... At this moment the source is far more open to suggestion, far likelier to comply." A similar theory applies to economic shock therapy, or "shock treatment," the ugly term used to describe the rapid implementation of free-market reforms imposed on Chile in the wake of General Augusto Pinochet's coup. The theory is that if painful economic "adjustments" are brought in rapidly and in the aftermath of a seismic social disruption like a war, a coup, or a government collapse, the population will be so stunned, and so preoccupied with the daily pressures of survival, that it too will go into suspended animation, unable to resist. As Pinochet's finance minister, Admiral Lorenzo Gotuzzo, declared, "The dog's tail must be cut off in one chop."

by one and only...Naomi Klein

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Is there a connection between Bush and the makers of the electronic voting machines?

September 20, 2004 by element115
Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold, and Sequoia, are the companies that are making and distributing the new electronic voting machines. These machines are being programmed by a man who some have suggested has a significant number of legal entanglements.
The machines are programmed with two sets of books and no paper trail. With the use of a two digit code, the election committees can change the voting tallies in favor of one candidate. For example, if a majority voted is for Kerry, enter the two digit code and all the votes go to Bush.

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US runs low on soldiers

September 20, 2004 by element115
A draft would apply to all males between 19 and 25.
Recruits would be chosen by a national lottery, starting with 19-year-olds and working up. Following a 1981 Supreme Court decision women are exempt, although this could change.
Despite official claims that a draft isn't contemplated, there is growing concern at the grassroots.

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Journalist Seymour Hersh tears into the Bush team's foreign policy

September 20, 2004 by element115
His charges, many first filed in investigative reports in the New Yorker magazine, where he has worked since 1998, include dereliction of duty, conspiracy, conflict of interest, perjury, torture and war crimes.

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Neo-Con Spies

September 20, 2004 by element115
Nobody could even claim that all those Jewish Americans (Israelis) found themselves at the same place by coincidence, that all of them erred in evaluating intelligence information also by coincidence, and that they exaggerated or lied about this information in order to push the U.S. into a war where the number of American victims exceeded the 1,000 this month, also by coincidence.

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America is going backwards

September 20, 2004 by element115
When Toni Morrison talks, America listens. And now that the Nobel prize-winner and friend of Oprah sees racism on the rise again, she's certainly not going to keep quiet

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Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S

September 20, 2004 by element115
In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.

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US Forces Hold Iraqi Women As "Bargaining Chips"

September 20, 2004 by element115
"The coward Americans demanded Iraqi resistance fighters in the area to lay down their arms and hand themselves in to release the four female hostages."
"We vow to teach the US troops a lesson for such a cowardly act unless they set the four free and unharmed," read the statement.

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US dollar may devalue further

September 20, 2004 by element115
The dollar is likely to be devalued to deal with the booming trade deficit in the United States, raising the prospect of global financial instability.

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Wake Up, America

September 20, 2004 by element115
The Republicans have set up a private detention camp for their political prisoners that can hold 1000 under inhumane and unsafe conditions!?

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Saudi Professor Sentenced for Speaking Out

September 20, 2004 by element115
A Saudi court sentenced a university professor to five years in prison Sunday on charges of sowing dissent after he compared U.S. killings of Iraqi civilians to Osama bin Laden's terror attacks.

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Innocents die in 'precision' US attack

September 20, 2004 by element115
The US military said..."a successful precision strike on a confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist meeting site".
.....In one ward, Fatima Taha Shneiter, 8, lay on a bed, her hair and clothes covered in mud, maimed for life. A large area of flesh below her right knee was missing and the bone protruded. She moaned, repeating the words "There is no Allah but Allah" over and over again in her pain.
"I was running away with my mother to hide from the bombing and they hit us," she cried. "A man grabbed me and my brother and sister and threw us into the little spring to protect us, and the helicopters hit us then. The man protected us, but he was killed and all of us were injured."
She did not yet know that much of her extended family had been wiped out, including her father Taha Shneiter and at least three of her uncles. Her mother Jinan and sister Shaimaa, 6, were in a coma. Only her youngest brother Mohamed, 4, escaped injury.

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Incident on Haifa Street

September 20, 2004 by element115
"When the Americans fire back, they don't hit the people who are attacking them, only the civilians," said Osama Ali, a 24-year-old Iraqi who witnessed the attack [in Baghdad]. "This is why Iraqis hate the Americans so much. This is why we love the mujahedeen."

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A hierarchy of suffering

September 20, 2004 by element115
Since 9/11, America has used its victimhood to demand a monopoly on the right to feel and to inflict pain

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Search for a New World Order

September 20, 2004 by element115
The US is fast becoming a totalitarian, militaristic society, increasingly intolerant of different economic and political systems. Washington's policy of pursuing the elusive goal of absolute national security is in fact making both America and the world more and more unstable and dangerous.

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Senior Sunni clerics assassinated in Iraq

September 20, 2004 by element115
Two senior members of an influential Islamic authority in Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars, have been assassinated.

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US to Get a Taste of Its Own Medicine in November Elections

September 20, 2004 by element115
A team of 20 independent democracy experts from 15 countries and five continents has arrived in the United States in order to observe this year's presidential election campaign.

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Pentagon Acknowledges Censoring Casualty Sites

September 20, 2004 by element115

Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because of its content categorization:
"Extreme;Politics/Religion"

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CIA Rewards in English Removed

September 20, 2004 by element115
The CIA has removed the page after it became a source of amusement world over. Now, only the Arabic version of the page remains.

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Microwave gun to be used by US troops on Iraq rioters

September 20, 2004 by element115
"The skin gets extremely hot, and people can't stand the pain, so they have to move - and move in the way we want them to," said Col Wade Hall of the Office of Force Transformation

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Israeli intelligence helped creating the fake Iraqi threat

September 20, 2004 by element115
Israeli intelligence helped the U.S. and British services in painting a "false" picture, said the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. "Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the U.S. and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability," said the author of the report, retired Brigadier General Shlomo Brom. "It badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed."

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Download the Evidence NOW

September 20, 2004 by element115
It's starting to look as if the internet as we know it will soon be gone, and replaced with a regulated version known as "internet 2." People in our government are really beginning to worry about the advances made by the 9-11 truth movement, especially since the Zogby poll commissioned by 911truth.org revealed that 50% of NYC residents now believe there was US government complicity in the events of 9-11. "Internet 2," the regulated version, will probably be introduced as soon as our government can make a seamless switch, which will put an end to the free speech we currently enjoy.

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Detective Columbo asks: Was 911 an inside job?

September 20, 2004 by element115
Crimes are committed for many reasons. Columbo always sought a motive, taking nothing for granted. Neither was anyone--no matter how powerful--exempt from suspicion in Columbo's mind. Although they would dismiss him as an "annoying little man," the chief mistake the rich and powerful perpetrator always seemed to make was to take detective Columbo too lightly.
You see, governments would prefer we all just go away and not ask any questions. Ever.

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AIPAC's Power Or America's Cowardice?

September 20, 2004 by element115
The second fear Americans have is an open and honest debate about the Middle East. The fist fear is the Holocaust. To debate the Holocaust in many major European nations is illegal. Yet there is still more courage in these major European countries to debate the issues concerning the Middle East than in the United States.

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US aircrafts hysterically bomb village, massacring at least 44 Iraqi villagers.

September 20, 2004 by element115
American F-16 and F-18 fighter bombers as well as Apache helicopters carried out continuous and hysterical bombing from 3:30am until 5:00am local time Friday morning of the Ridwaniyat Zawbi? area in the village of Zaydan, 20km south of al-Fallujah. The area is home to members of the Zawbi? tribe. The local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the American aircraft dumped more than 14 massive anti-personnel container bombs as well as napalm on the rural community. Each container bomb consists of about 2,000 bomblets that blast apart near the ground to kill any and all living things.
Forty-four Iraqi civilians were massacred in the savage American bombing at last count, but the figure was expected to rise considerably in view of the massive scale of the damage inflicted on the little village. Of those, 15 of the dead were children, 10 women, and nine were elderly persons. Seven children are in critical condition, and eight women and five men were also wounded.

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Britain to cut troop levels in Iraq

September 20, 2004 by element115
The British Army is to start pulling troops out of Iraq next month despite the deteriorating security situation in much of the country.

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Leave Your Children Behind, You Are Both Going to Iraq

September 20, 2004 by element115
In a most immoral way, the American government is now requiring both parents of young children to be deployed to Iraq. This is an ominous turn in our country?s history. It means that politicians and their wars are more important than the health of the nation and the psychological well being of future generations.
Juxtapose this with the failed and failing ?No Child Left Behind? bogus program and one can see that children and parents are being misled and abused in abnormal and deceptive ways.

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Embarrassing find

September 20, 2004 by element115
Here comes another huge nuclear embarrassment for Washington.
UN nuclear inspectors just caught close U.S. ally South Korea enriching small amounts of plutonium and uranium to weapons grade.
This revelation comes when the Bush administration's neocon hawks are clamouring for war against Iran over its unproven nuclear weapons program. These are the same hawks who raised a hue and cry over Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruct

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Sharon okays firing at residential areas if warning given in advance

September 19, 2004 by element115
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this (Sunday) afternoon that firing at Palestinian residential areas should be carried out if terrorists use area to stage attacks and if a warning is given prior to a response.

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Israel kills Hamas leader in Gaza

September 19, 2004 by element115
The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday its air force attacked a car in Gaza City, killing a Hamas field commander.

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Move to impeach Blair gains ground

September 19, 2004 by element115
Members of the UK parliament mounting an attempt to impeach Tony Blair for allegedly misleading the country over the war with Iraq on Thursday expressed confidence they could secure enough support to force a debate early next year.
The organisers, who launched the campaign last month, have the backing of 21 MPs. By January they hope to secure 50 supporters to revive this antiquated parliamentary device.

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America and the Global Ruling Class

September 19, 2004 by element115
When they call for a 'New World Order,' these bizarre agents of death and change, what they mean is always a lot different than the idea they manage to project into people's heads. Since Poppy Bush said it a bunch of times during his presidential term, they kind of stopped using it. In its place has come the subtle and friendly sounding 'Globalization.' The result is the same, as we said before, continuing, cementing and wielding of Global ruling class power that has gone on in the West for hundreds of years. All in the name of 'free markets' nationhood is compromised and governments are subverted to allow for wealthy multi-national corporations to prey on the residents and the land. Always the forces of the elite are the same, the money and the bank.

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Journalism Under Fire

September 19, 2004 by element115
...this speech, given by Bill Moyers at a Society of Professional Journalists conference on Sept. 11, 2004, will be referred to for years to come by those who are worried about the state of journalism. It's a true classic: "I believe democracy requires 'a sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works."

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