bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
History of United States imperialism
At its start, the United States was a collection of small colonies on the eastern seaboard with little international import. What was to become the United States had existed for almost two centuries as part of the British Empire. The emergence of independent nations through the American Revolutionary War was a rejection of this colonial relationship. Over the next two centuries the United States first spread across the North American continent and then rose to become the world's most dominant power. Some argue that the means by which the United States expanded and asserted its authority were classic examples of imperialismthe United States was simply in a situation like that of Russia, where it had its empire touching its borders, unlike the European powers who could expand their borders only at the expense of other European countries and otherwise had to go overseas. Such a definition of imperialism could, however, result in a great many countries being defined as "imperialist"China, Russia, Canada, modern Japan, perhaps even Indonesia, and so onsince it would simply mean that a nation has expanded its territory in some way in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_imperialism
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Massachusetts governor criticized by Muslims
Muslim groups and civil libertarians demanded an apology from Gov. Mitt Romney on Friday for his comments about wiretapping mosques and monitoring foreign students, but the governor stood by his words, saying he was only advocating for improved security. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126837398165
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I want all Arabs to be stripped naked & cavity-searched ...": US columnist
UNC-Chapel Hill columnist fired for "journalistic malpractice"
(CHAPEL HILL) - From radio to newspapers to television, a UNC-Chapel Hill student columnist has been in the spotlight after she was fired from the school newspaper. Some would say it was her harsh remarks about racial profiling that cost Jillian Bandes her job. But editors with The Daily Tar Heel say that's not the case.
I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport, read the column from former columnist Jillian Bandes.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=74527&SecID=2
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Biases regarding Muslims incorrect, hurtful
Every day, we are bombarded by news media images of Middle Eastern and Islamic anger and violence. This encourages stereotypes regarding Islam, especially since the news media so often use "Muslim" or "Sunni" as modifiers for "terrorist" or "insurgency."
The stereotype of the "Muslim terrorist" has been further reinforced by entertainment media, ranging from serio-comic films like "True Lies," in which Arnold Schwarzenegger defeats a Muslim terrorist nuclear threat, to television dramas like "24," in which Kiefer Sutherland fights against insidious Islamic terrorists who threaten the American way of life.
http://www.thenews.org/media/paper651/news/2005/09/16/Opinion/Biases.Regarding.Muslims.Incorrect.Hurtful-987243.shtml
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The PR campaign for Brand America
"The USA; the sweetest-smelling conquerors since the Mongol Hordes!"
No? Ummm, okay, how about ...
"Bringing Democracy to the world, whether they want it or not!"
Okay then... "USA: The people who used to be able to go to the moon!"
or "USA: Raining radioactive debris all over the planet for the last half-century!"
or "America: All elections should be run like ours!"
No? Okay. I'll get back to you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1572298,00.html
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A fatal flaw at the heart of Bush and Blair's democratic crusade
President Bushs new security doctrine stretches US self-defence to cover defence against not just actual, but potential threats. A nuclear weapons programme (or even a civil nuclear energy programme) can be seen as a threat. So can a dictatorship. When the two are combined you have a case for preventive war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10136.htm
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An Elementary Moral Truism
What is right for us is right for others: if it is right for our, Western governments to reserve the right to attack a sovereign nation for either perceived crimes committed or possible future crimes, then it is right for the enemy to do the same. In this case, Iran would be well within their rights to attack the US, pre-emptively, now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10312.htm
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Has the world forgotten Sabra and Shatila massacre?
Few days ago was the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, but theres another September tragedy the worldwide media has ignored the bloody massacre of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon.
In September 1982, Lebanese Maronite Christian militias were sent by Israel to Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon, to find PLO members and kill Palestinian refugees.
Thousands of people, including Palestinians, Lebanese, Pakistanis, Iranians, Syrians and Algerians were killed in Beirut camps, which were externally surrounded by Israeli soldiers.
The Palestinians asserted at that time that between 3,000 and 3,500 were killed, and described the action as "genocide". But the Israeli intelligence and the Lebanese police said that the number of those killed range from 460 to 700-800.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9661
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How to Identify Misinformation
How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false? There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.- Does the story fit the pattern of a major media outlet or government agency?
- Does the story fit the pattern of an urban legend propogated by viral marketers?
- Does the story contain an obviously bias revelation about a highly controversial issue?
- Is the source trustworthy?
- What does further research tell you about how power manipulates information?
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We Must Take America Back
Two of my most poignant memories as a child involved Justice Douglas. One of them was when I was 11 years old I did a 20 mile hike with my little brother David and with Justice Douglas and my father, which was a bird watching hike on the C & O Canal which he played a critical role in protecting. We started at four oclock in the morning and walked all day. Then I did a 10 day pack trip with him. He took my whole family up to Olympic Range and the San Juan Peninsula and went camping for almost two weeks when I was eight years old.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Z.shtml
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What Noble Cause?
It has been one month, one week, and 4 days since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas. My request was very simple: I wanted to speak to the man who has sent over a million of our young people over to fight, kill, and die in a country that was absolutely no threat to the United States of America. I wanted to ask him: "What is the Noble Cause that you keep talking about?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Y.shtml
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A Letter to All Who Voted for Bush from Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=185
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Nuke 'em if ya got 'em:
Given the Bush Doctrine's fondness for shooting first and asking questions later, it's not surprising that the military brass drafted a document titled "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" that incorporates nuclear weapons into the mix. But outside the insular mind-set of the Pentagon, American citizens ought to be shouting, "Don't even think about it!"
http://snipurl.com/hrbk
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In case you missed it:
Propaganda and War: Iraq and Beyond
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9274.htm
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How Long Can The Pentagon Lie About Depleted Uranium?
Posted Sep 17, 2005 10:56 AM PST - Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS
http://www.rense.com/general67/redb.htm
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Residents flee Iraq's Samara city:
Hundreds of families from the Iraqi city of Samara were fleeing their town Saturday in fear of a massive military campaign.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20050917-073044-4209r.htm
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IRAQ: Katrina II Ravages the Sunni Triangle!
If you think hurricane Katrina would cause Iraqis to breath the sight of relief, think again!
If you think that the large deployment of US troops in the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in response to Katrina's devastation would ease the suffering of the Iraqis, think again.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=OSS20050908&articleId=910
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US attack on Tal Afar virtually ignored :
While the world has been falling all over itself to remember the victims of 911 and digging deep in its pockets to aid the wealthiest nation on the planet recovering from a natural disaster, a ferocious man-made onslaught on a town in northeast Iraq is being virtually ignored.
http://snipurl.com/hrbh
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Cheney Revives Parvus 'Permanent War' Madness
It was never a secret that the ranks of today's Washington neo-conservative war-party are filled with former first and second generation Trotskyistspersonified by Irving Kristol, the former Shachtmanite Trotskyist, self-described "Godfather" of the entire neo-con apparatus, and the father of Weekly Standard editor William Kristol.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3237cheney_parvus.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 16 September 2005 :
- Seven American soldiers reported killed in car bomb attack on US checkpoint in Rawah Friday morning
- Eleven US troops reported killed in Resistance attacks in Baghdad area Friday
- Five mercenary security contractors working for US military killed in bomb attack near Baqubah
- Resistance fighters blow up house over US troops, reportedly killing 13 Americans in Tall Afar
- Resistance bombards US base in agricultural area east of al-Fallujah early Friday
- Bodies of five Iraqi National Guard puppet troops found dead Friday morning, al Qa'im
- Three US troops reported killed in bombing in ar-Rashidiyah late Friday morning
- Four US troops reported killed in morning bombing near at-Taji
- Four US troops reported killed in morning bomb attack in western Baghdad
- New Norwegian Labor government to pull its 20 troops out of Iraq
- Resistance fighters ambush US truck convoy near Samarra leaving three trucks ablaze
- Two US troops reported killed in roadside bombing near Balad early Friday morning
- Eleven Iranian illegal border crossers captured with drugs, cash
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0905/iraqiresistancereport_160905.htm
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U.S. Soldier Killed:
Lance Cpl. Shane C. Swanberg, 24, of Kirkland, Wash., died Sept. 15 from an explosion resulting from indirect fire at Forward Operating Base, Camp Ramadi, Iraq
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050916-4761.html
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U.S. Soldier Killed By IED:
Sgt. Alfredo B. Silva, 35, of Calexico, Calif., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 15
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050916-4762.html
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Suicide car bomb hits joint US-Iraqi convoy :
All the soldiers aboard were either killed or wounded, he said,adding that the blast also killed a civilian and wounded two others.
http://snipurl.com/hrbg
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US Marine dies in Iraq explosion
A US Marine has been killed in the volatile western Iraq province of al-Anbar in a secondary explosion, the US military says.
http://seven.com.au/news/worldnews/107668
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U.S. worries about the toll Iraq is taking, poll finds :
Ninety percent of those surveyed, including a majority of Republicans, disapprove of Washington cutting spending on domestic programs to pay for the war
http://snipurl.com/hrbi
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In 4-Year Anthrax Hunt, F.B.I. Finds Itself Stymied, and Sued
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 - Richard L. Lambert, the F.B.I. inspector in charge of the investigation of the deadly anthrax letters of 2001, testified under oath for five hours last month about the case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/politics/17anthrax.html?ei=5094&en=1c9edeb3f8997ff5&hp=&ex=1127016000&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1126998346-cdzR47/doCuh8iLejvIaGw
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Police chief and soldiers killed in Afghan capital :
The district police chief and two soldiers of Mosawi district were killed during an ambush Friday night in Afghan capital Kabul, an Afghan official said Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/hrbl
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Sharon fears arrest if he visits London
BRITAIN is desperate to avoid a diplomatic row with Israel after Ariel Sharon apparently snubbed an invitation from Tony Blair to visit London, claiming that he feared arrest.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1784018,00.html
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Sharon snubs Blair over war crime warrants :
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, has confronted Tony Blair about recent attempts by British human rights lawyers to have senior Israeli Defence Force generals arrested as they arrive in the UK, it was reported today.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1783749,00.html
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Sharon Undermining Abbas Efforts to Enforce Law, Order?:
Ariel Sharons government has taken three measures that would inevitably undermine President Mahmoud Abbas declared determination to bring law and order to the Occupied Palestinian Territory .
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=990
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Electricity Turned On In New Orleans Neighborhood For Bush, Turned Off When He Left
The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to certain conclusions.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/170905power.htm
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The New York Times and Bushs New Orleans speech:
What brings the leading voice of the liberal media together with the ultra-right president? Both defend the interests of the narrow layer of wealthy families at the top of American society.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/times-s17.shtml
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The new face of New Orleans:
The city that emerges over the next decade will likely be a lot smaller. And chances are that it will be a lot whiter.
http://tinyurl.com/7cvy3
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Katrina? Don't Give to Hurricane Bush
Montreal: As a general rule, lending a helping hand to one another is an obligation upon every citizen of Earth. The aftermath of Katrina, however, has complicated things - in more ways than one - much to the already unfortunate situation of its victims.
Undeniably, the United States of America has a pool of more than adequate financial resources to take care of the victims of Katrina and its fallout. However, those resources have been invested in an evil investment: terrorizing poor people all over the world.
FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/katrina.htm
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Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims
In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10314.htm
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Real Reports of Katrina Relief:
"It's Not That the Government Isn't Responding, They are Obstructing the Response"
http://www.counterpunch.org/archer09162005.html
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British aid is held up in US fiasco:
THE United States held up British emergency rations worth £4 million for five days because of fears about the safety of European meat.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23889-1773364,00.html
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Georgie, Youre Doing a Heck of a Job :
The last few weeks have been irrefutable proof that America is being wrecked and mismanaged by the most incompetent, dangerous and out of touch boobs ever to obtain power.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave3_035.htm
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-muslim voice-
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