bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
War on terror: Colossal failure
It is clearer now more than ever that the so-called "WAR ON TERROR" has not, in fact, made the world safer.
"Stopping terrorism is simple. Just quit screwing around with other people's countries and the terrorists will go home. But the government of the United States wants to go on screwing around with other people's countries, refuses to stop, indeed views it as Manifest Destiny for the United States Government to persist in screwing around with other people's countries, and views the inconvenience, increased tax burden, loss of civil liberties, and even deaths among the American people as just another cost of doing business."
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10476
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Of The Evil Empire: Imperialist Devastation of Peoples and the Evils Done in our Names
The world burns while we live lives of consumption and production, happy worker bees stuck in hour long commutes working most of our productive lives. We live in peace and harmony at home, distracted from reality by our television screens and movie theatres, by our lavish lifestyles and wasteful society. In the land of the individual the communality of peoples is an alien principle. Content, conformist and passive thanks to our nation of plenty, we care not for peoples outside our borders. We have everything we need, after all, and a plethora of distractions in our daily lives prevents us from even considering that a larger world exists beyond our shores.
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=575&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Are We Really a Dictatorship? You Decide. (Poll)
Remember that government class you took in high school? You know, the one where you learned about all the world's different forms of government and how they work and how they're ruled? Remember? Yeah, neither do I.
Still, I've been determined to figure out if, in fact, the United States has become a dictatorship, as we're all so fond of alleging in our diaries and comments. So, I spent my lunch hour on Wikipedia in search of truth, learning all over again about all the different forms of government.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/11/15492/6537
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Fascism then. Fascism now?
When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132960211791&call_pageid=970599119419
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Amnesty International releases accounts of Gitmo abuse, torture
Amnesty International has released accounts alleging new prisoner torture and abuse in Guantanamo Bay and Kandahar, Afghanistan to RAW STORY Tuesday.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Amnesty_International_releases_accounts_of_Gitmo_0110.html
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Guantánamo: 4 years too many - New torture testimonies
On the 4th anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International made public new testimonies of the use of torture and ill-treatment against prisoners in the US detention centre and further details on the cases of other detainees.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510082006
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More claims of US detainee torture
AMNESTY International released fresh claims today of the alleged torture and ill-treatment of terrorist suspects on the fourth anniversary of detainees being taken to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17790128%255E1702,00.html
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US Army now raping babies in Iraq!
Remember, Stephen Harper wants us to have even closer ties with America based on "shared values." We are not interested in becoming a nation of bady rapists.
http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?montrealmuslimnews+6780
T.O. teen 'terrorist,' U.S. insists
Prosecutor says Khadr deserves life, Hearing begins today in Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO , CUBAÑCalling Toronto-born Omar Khadr a terrorist and mocking news stories that describe him as a tortured teenager, the chief U.S. military prosecutor says he wants to see Canada's only detainee on this naval base locked up for life.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1136933413430&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&pubid=968163964505
see also: How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11508.htm
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UKGovernment 'buries' UN criticism of Terrorism Bill
London , UK, January 11 Despite being warned in late November 2005 by Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, that proposed anti-terror legislation posed grave challenges to human rights and risked breaking international treaties, the UK government has only just made the advice public.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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FLAME Out
The FLAME ad in question, 'Arabian Fables (I)', published in the back of the January 9/16, 2006 issue of The Nation magazine, repeats a number of times the notion that pro-Arab propagandists attempt to "persuade" and/or "sway" a "misinformed" and/or "uninformed" world away from the truth by endlessly repeating myths and lies that have no basis in fact.
http://twains_ghost.typepad.com/my_blog/
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Muslim bashing seemingly in vogue
What in the world do dietary supplements have to do with turbans and terrorism?
That political head-scratcher confronted at least some vitamin buyers around the nation who found a flier with their mail-order nutrients carrying the bold headline, "Get a Turban for Durbin!"
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/13F9C09A89E25508862570F2001FA09C?OpenDocument
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Calls for impeachment of Blair over Iraq war
Speaking to the BBC, an ex-United Nations commander in Bosnia, Gen. Sir Michael Rose, said Blair should be impeached for going to war on IRAQ on a false basis and that he had to be held to account for his actions.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_ID=10494
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Neocons Considered Planting WMD Evidence in Iraq?
A recent Raw Story report by Larissa Alexandrovna suggests that the notorious Office of Special Plans didnt just stovepipe cherry-picked "intelligence" to the White House and press. It also sent teams into Iraq after the invasion began, which, after it became apparent that there were no abundant WMDs, examined the possibility of planting such weapons in order to help the resident avoid embarrassment.
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=19412&hd=0&size=1&l=x
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Francis Boyle offers expert's analysis of Iraq war as "Pure Evil"
"Not surprisingly, the mainstream American media did not give Boyle's book anything near the coverage it deserves. But one day, his expert witness testimony, along with others, could be used in a court of law, or by historians, to identify who is/was behind this pure evil. It may take years, but that day will surely come."
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/25095
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How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003?
President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million.
http://www.counterpunch.com/andrew01092006.html
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To: special rapporteur on summary executions at UNHCHR in Geneva and international Human Rights & Law organisations
URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE IRAQ'S ACADEMICS.
A little known aspect of the tragedy engulfing Iraq is the systematic liquidation of the country's academics. Even according to conservative estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many hundreds more have disappeared. With thousands fleeing the country in fear for their lives, not only is Iraq undergoing a major brain drain, the secular middle class - which has refused to be co-opted by the US occupation - is being decimated, with far-reaching consequences for the future of Iraq.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html
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Sunni Iraqis protest mosque raid
Sunni leaders accused US soldiers of desecrating the mosque . Sunni Muslims have protested against a raid on a Baghdad mosque by US and Iraqi forces looking for kidnapped American journalist, Jill Carroll.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4598936.stm
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Israel pulls plug on Pat Robertson deal
Officials angry over evangelical leader's comments about Sharon's stroke
JERUSALEM - Israel won't do business with Pat Robertson after the evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was divine punishment, a tourism official said Wednesday, putting into doubt plans to develop a large Christian tourism center in northern Israel.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10802750/
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To Palestinians, Sharon was a man of war, not peace
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4389.shtml
Hamas will profit as Arabs reject cautious leadership
When, in 2001, Ariel Sharon took office there was no great contrast between Arab governments and their publics in what they had to say about it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1682744,00.html
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Abramoff and the Israeli Connection
Washington sleazebag funneled money to Israel's "settler" movement
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8372
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First real evidence on CIA secret jails
The CIA held 23 people in a secret prison in Romania and maintained similar detention facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo, according to allegations contained in an Egyptian government fax obtained by Swiss Security services.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10491
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Case Dropped Against U.S. Officer in Beating Deaths of Afghan Inmates
Posted Jan 11, 2006 07:04 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/international/asia/08bagram.html?adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1136897491-EP LStsFs8RACnn13r6v4A
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National Security Agency mounted massive spy op on Baltimore peace group, documents show
The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, according to documents released during litigation, going so far as to document the inflating of protesters' balloons, and intended to deploy units trained to detect weapons of mass destruction.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/National_Security_Agency_spied_on_Baltimore_0110.html
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U.S. can open private mail
U.S. officials can open personal mail arriving from abroad
"Customs and Border Protection is charged with making sure that terrorists and terrorists' weapons don't enter the country," said Suzanne Trevino, a spokeswoman for the customs agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11510.htm
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ABC's SCOOP: "MILLIONS" OF AMERICANS' PHONE CALLS TAPPED BY N.S.A. (with video)
ABC's "Nightline" last night aired a terrifying scoop: a former senior insider at the National Security Agency said that the agency has illegally spied on "millions" of Americans who make telephone calls overseas. As ABC's excellent Brian Ross reported
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/01/abcs_scoop_mill.html
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Where Spying Starts and Stops: Tracking an Embattled C.I.A. and a President at War
With regard to Iraq, Mr. Risen writes, it was the hard-line Israelis that Mr. Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul D. Wolfowitz, were listening to, not the cautious C.I.A. "Israeli intelligence officials frequently traveled to Washington to brief top American officials," he writes, "but C.I.A. analysts were often skeptical of Israeli intelligence reports, knowing that Mossad had very strong - even transparent - biases about the Arab world." After their visits, C.I.A. officials would often discount much of what the Israelis had provided. "Wolfowitz and other conservatives at the Pentagon became enraged by this practice," Mr. Risen writes.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/nyt212.html
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CIA document 'must be followed up'
The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe said the purported Egyptian government document naming countries where such prisons existed is a new lead which must be followed up.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=47462006
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Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcos and Paramilitaries
Internal Justice Dept. Document Alleges Drug Trafficking Links, Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Murder
The drug war is supposed to follow a very clear script: According to the official screenwriters, the U.S. justice system is pitted against corrupt players in foreign countries who are trying to flood American streets with illicit drugs. The narco-traffickers, crooked cops, and thieving politicians in the drug war are always over there, in Latin America, and elsewhere, and U.S. law enforcers and government officials are always the good guys battling these forces of evil.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue40/article1543.html
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