Abizaid Calls for Internet Controls

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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How To Take Back A Stolen Election

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Anti-Berlusconi strike cripples Italy

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

November 30, 2004 by element115

Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration.

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The lost "terror drill"?

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Iraq health care 'in deep crisis'

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Ohio recount: Stealing votes in Columbus

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Ridge to Resign, Sources Say

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Canadian authorities arrest US president George W. Bush : Humor

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

....If Only It Were True News

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GI threatens suicide over return to Iraq

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Court convicts top Rabin aide of fraud, breach of trust

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Rumsfeld facing war crimes case in Germany

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle US Secrecy

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantanamo

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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Protesters Push Through Fence at Ukraine Parliament

November 30, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Waiting For A Rain

November 29, 2004 by element115

Amazing antiwar short from Poland.
Many awards @ international festivals

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Prince Neil Bush & Silverado

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Sharon government faces crisis after double blow in Israeli parliament

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Terrorism: No Name Death from the Sky

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Challenge the Silence

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Actress Redgrave Launches Rights Party

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Filled with so much hate

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Bhutan Bans Tobacco Sales, Public Smoking

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Ottawa prepares for anti-Bush protests

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Judges step into Ukraine crisis

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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US keeps nuclear pressure on Iran

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Pakistani soldiers abandon search for bin Laden

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Neocons join the lynch mob for 'arrogant' Rumsfeld

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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Pictures of "Liberation"

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

November 29, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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21st Century American Revolution

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Outlook is for war, then more war

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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

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PM says Ukraine on brink of catastrophe

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Pro-Russian Eastern Ukraine Threatens to Secede

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Getting to the boss

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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UK knew details of E. Guinea plot in advance

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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The Mysterious Murders of the AMS Clerics

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Counting cost of crime and chaos

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Russians suggest foreign help in attack

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Russia 'will back force' by Ukraine president

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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SC orders more touch-screen voting machines

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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UK troops in Iraq face new court threat

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Republicans in threat to block overseas aid

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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The Voice of the White House

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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

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

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

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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America Is Embarrassing Itself

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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Ukrainian Police Use Tear-Gas Against Demonstrators

November 28, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Dalai Lama's Russian Visa Raises China's Ire

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Iraqi Election Commission Will Not Delay January Election

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Putin, Chavez Meet in Moscow

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Marines get big bucks to re-enlist

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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We Cannot Sleep

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Government lays down law to BBC on reporting news

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Calendar to the Iraqi elections

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Iran gives in on nuclear demands

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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

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WMD? 911? Al Qaeda? Oil?

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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

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Ukraine's parliament declares presidential election invalid

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Thugs, Racketeers Counting American Votes

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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What Were the Odds That Bush Would Win?

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Is America heading toward fascism?

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Pictures that tell the truth versus the Pentagon's productions

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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The algebra of infinite justice

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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

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Turn Your Back On Bush

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Dean website 'Democracy for America' hacked with Nazi imagery

November 27, 2004 by element115

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

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Ukraine state TV in revolt

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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Tensions still high as Ukraine presidential rivals end talks

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Abbas Gets Boost in Bid for Palestinian Presidency

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Turk lawmaker says US in Iraq worse than Hitler

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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

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Press Routinely Undercounts U.S. Casualties in Iraq

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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A Question of Honor

November 26, 2004 by element115

Open Letter to Europeans

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

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Canada: Protesters gear up for Bush

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Israel faces Russian brain drain

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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US Jewish Groups Press Mideast Peace

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Congress Seeks to Curb International Court

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Iraq parties want polls to be put off

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Iraqi Lullaby

November 26, 2004 by element115

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Paid for by your tax dollars.

George.W.Bush you WILL burn in hell.

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'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Baghdad not to accept wounded persons from al-Fallujah

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Crowds blockade Kiev government

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Media Blackout on Election Fraud by Media News Group

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Two More Top CIA Officials Resign

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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What Vote Fraud?

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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Did Dubbya rig the election?

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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One gulp, and Bush was gone

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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Top Zarqawi Aide Captured in Iraq

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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

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...it's like...

November 26, 2004 by element115

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Smoking while Iraq burns

November 26, 2004 by element115

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

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U.N. Body Rejects Censure, Threatens Revolt

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Betting on apocalypse

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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War on terror 'vanishes from agenda'

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Russian Political Scientist Blames Polish Conspiracy for Ukraine Election Crisis

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Barghouthi to Run for President - Fatah Official

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Clear Channel political public service billboard graces Orlando freeway

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Al-Jazeera TV to launch English-language service

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Legislators want more time to read bills

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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State Department Official Dies in Iraq

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Chief of U.S. Prisons in Iraq Is Reassigned

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Planeloads of Russian Special Forces Land in Ukraine

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Fears of violence grow as face-off intensifies

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Iraqi people must be master of Iraq: Putin

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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When America kills children, is God on its side?

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Ralph Nader-requested recount to resume Monday

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Ukraine

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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FBI Interviews Halliburton Whistleblower

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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A Few Thoughts Before We 'Liberate' Iran

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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European consumers ignore most famous US brands

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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US 'alienating' world's Muslims

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Election 2004: Still Not Over

November 25, 2004 by element115

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

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Uranium 'green light' for Brazil