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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
America : Fascists and Power - A Quick Follow Up On Fascists and Power
A few thoughts relating to my article(follows the following) from yesterday. Karl Rove didn't start out to be a nazi, or a fascist or....as amazing as it may seem today....even evil. He just wanted power.
George Bush CERTAINLY didn't want to become a nazi....them uniforms look dag gum uncomfortable!
All George really wanted was a nice easy job somewhere to keep Laura and his Mom off his back so he could golf and clear brush. Then something mysterious happened and George found god and pretended to stop drinking. George wanted power too, now.
So George never said to Karl, "Hey Karl, lets become Fascists!"
They just wanted power. But Karl was a very smart man and a very good student. if you want to achieve something historic, you look to history for guidance, and that's what Karl did.
http://www.theponyexpress.org/wordpress/
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Killing in the Name of Democracy
The U.S. governments first experience with forcibly spreading democracy came in the wake of the Spanish-American War. When the U.S. government declared war on Spain in 1898, it pledged it would not annex foreign territory. But after a swift victory, the United States annexed all of the Philippines.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14787.htm
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A Democratic Dictatorship
Amidst all the discussion and debate about whether President Bush has violated the law by ordering the National Security Agency (NSA) to record telephone conversations, we must not overlook an important fact: the United States is now traveling in uncharted waters, ones in which the ruler of the nation is exercising omnipotent power over the American people. A more appropriate word would be one that offends some Americans when it is applied to their system of government: dictatorship. But as uncomfortable as that term might make Americans, the fact is that ever since 9/11 Americans have been living under dictatorial rule.
What is a dictator? A dictator is a ruler whose powers are omnipotent, that is, unconstrained by external or superior law. A dictator has the power to take whatever actions he wants without concerning himself about whether they are legal. Anything the dictator does is legal because he is the law.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0605a.asp
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"Fascism" Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press
The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14792.htm
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Dictatorship : Fascists? Look who's talking
The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W Bush to depict US foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI02Ak04.html
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LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM LEBANON
Now that the 32-day Israeli war against Lebanon has been superseded by a precarious ceasefire, it's time to reflect on the lessons it can teach
everyone involved. Here are the top ten:
1. Low tech weapons can stand up to high tech ones.
2. Israel is the world's most aggressive state in relation to its size.
3. Israel's neighbors must include commando units as part of their permanent armed forces.
4. Israel cannot sustain a militant society forever.
5. There is no freedom of the press; freedom is reserved for media owners.
6. The U.S. is no friend to any Middle Eastern nation, including Israel.
7. Arab states should learn from South Korea.
8. Ceasefires are for Israel to violate.
9. Most Jews still subscribe to Zionism.
10. Conflict in the Middle East is political, not religious.
(Dr. Mohamed Elmasry is national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Israel: Beyond Good and Evil?
The ordinary rules of morality don't apply to the IDF: Gillerman and his government are explicitly rejecting international moral norms, asserting that Israel has the right to commit any atrocity in the name of "self-defense." And if their "defense" requires the reduction of Lebanon to rubble, then so be it. Such is the creed of the new Israeli Overman.
n normal society, individuals who live by this Nietzschean code of anti-ethics are called sociopaths. Most wind up behind bars. Others find employment in the various branches of government.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9636
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Is Hamas a Terrorist Organization?
Removing Hamas from the State Departments list of terrorist organizations is a win-win situation for everyone. It legitimizes the Palestinian election, it moves Israel closer to a negotiated settlement with the PA, and it elevates the Bush administration in the eyes of its critics. Washington can still play a central role in this long-running conflict, but it will take bold action and perseverance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14794.htm
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The humiliation of occupation
Israeli military court sends "captured" Hamas leaders for trial :
Speaker of Palestinian parliament is shackled : The group, 12 of them elected members of the parliament, appeared in court at Ofer Camp on
the occupied West Bank.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14781.htm
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Rupert Murdoch's Victims - The Life and Crimes of a Global Goebbels
In the editorial pages of Murdoch's antipodean flagship, The Australian, the bombing of Beirut is presented as "Israel doing Lebanon a favour" and restive Arabs are described as "Nazis". None of this should be surprising, as Murdoch revealed to the Hollywood Reporter that his media ventures are "not as important to me as spreading my personal political beliefs"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14795.htm
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The price of Israel
Israel's war on Lebanon has exposed once and for all that its security will be bought even at the cost of war crimes and mass destruction. This immoral situation must come to an end, writes Lamis Andoni
Once again Israel wreaks havoc and destruction and the world's main response is to seek ways to "guarantee the security of Israel". This is the essence of the present diplomatic flurry, of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, and most alarmingly the premise underlying the dominant Western, and to a lesser extent Arab, political discourse.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/810/op12.htm
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Dershowitz's Moral Barbarism
As Israel's military bravely fires away shells and missiles to lay waste the fragile human and physical infrastructure of Lebanon, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, waging battle on a second front to legitimize Israel's criminal aggression, bravely fires away op-eds from his foxhole at Martha's Vineyard to lay waste the fragile infrastructure of international law. These are but the latest salvoes in Dershowitz's long and distinguished career of apologetics on behalf of his Holy State.
http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein08122006.html
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The case against collaboration between India and Israel
After thirty-four days of relentless aerial bombardment and a ground invasion, Israel's brutal assault on Lebanon's civilian population has come to a halt, at least temporarily. As the dust from the rubble of Lebanon's ruined cities, villages, and infrastructure settles, and as bodies of victims are recovered and buried, and the human losses mourned by the people of Lebanon, serious questions are being raised about India's increasingly cozy relationship with Israel. It is increasingly apparent that the Indian government cannot continue to expand military and economic ties with Israel, and still expect to be untarnished by this association in the eyes of the world.
More than a thousand Lebanese were killed by indiscriminate Israeli bombardment, the vast majority of them civilians. At the height of the Israeli assaults in early August, at least 45% of the dead were children. Approximately a million had been forced to leave their homes from an entire swathe of that country which Israel unilaterally and illegally declared its zone of operations, a virtual free-fire zone.
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10862§ionID=107
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Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemn Christian Zionism
Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism
Statement, Patriarch and local heads of churches in Jerusalem
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5643.shtml
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Holy Land churches condemn Christian Zionism
The Vatican's envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14789.htm
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Uncensored Video News Reports From Across The Middle East
- Warning - This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14655.htm
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How Israel Casts Its Dark Shadow Over Horn of Africa
There also has been an inclusive agreement between the two countries that was signed officially in March 1993 by Israels Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Eritrean President Afewerki.
http://tinyurl.com/p4zqz
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Khartoum rejects UN troops in Darfur
The UN security council has approved a resolution authorising the deployment of up to 17,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, with the Sudanese government swiftly rejecting the plan.
http://tinyurl.com/mz6kp
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Under fire from UN, Israel defends use of weaponry in Lebanon
Government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said that all fighting was regrettable but that Israel had acted in accordance with international norms.
"Israel does not break any international laws in the type of armaments it uses," she told The Associated Press.
"Their use conforms with international standards."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757245.html
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German Jewish leader accuses Merkel minister of anti-Semitism
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of German Jews, has been angered over calls by Development Aid Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul for a United Nations probe into Israel's use of cluster bombs in military strikes on Lebanese and Hezbollah targets.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756732.html
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Criticize Israel? You're an Anti-Semite!
How can we have a real discussion about Mideast peace if speakinghonestly about Israel is out of bounds?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14780.htm
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9/11 : The truth about the "Terror Plot".... and the new "pseudo-terrorism"
I am disappointed to say that so far there has been very little serious critical discussion, grounded in factual analysis, of the alleged "Terror Plot" foiled on the morning of Wednesday, 10th August 2006. Except for a few noteworthy comment pieces, such as Craig Murray�s critical speculations published by the Guardian 18th August., the mainstream media has largely subserviently parroted the official claims of the British and American governments. This is a shame, because inspection of the facts raises serious problems for the 10/8 official narrative.
No Imminent Plot!
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1158.shtml
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War Crime Speaking : Speaking from his home in clouded cuckoo land
Bush says Iraq the central front in war on terror:
We will fight the terrorists overseas so we dont have to fight them here at home, he told the veterans and current military personnel in
attendance at the Salt Palace.
http://tinyurl.com/zsjce
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Iraq : Goats and Hussars: A British Harbinger of American Defeat
"British forces evacuated the military headquarters without coordination with the Iraqi forces," Dhaffar Jabbar, spokesman for the Maysan governor, told Reuters on Thursday, as looters began moving into the camp in the wake of the British withdrawal. A unit of Iraqi government troops mutinied when told to keep order at the base - and instead attacked a military post of their own army.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14785.htm
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Iraq WMD inspector accuses Govt of cover up: Video report
The second Australian scientist who worked on the fruitless hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has broken his silence. John Gee has followed Rod Barton in claiming he gave the Government early warning in 2004 that no weapons would be found.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14783.htm
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A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole
This week Defense Secy. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq war to Nazi appeasers prior to WWII. He said we have not "learned the lessons of history."
A yes, history. Such a funny thing: Rumsfeld's handshake deal with Saddam is indeed a history lesson more Americans need to remember.
http://mrdtalk.com/story/2006/8/30/13640/7175
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The true Iraq appeasers
The appeasement of Saddam Hussein by the Reagan and first Bush administrations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14782.htm
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Kurdish leader bans Iraqi flag
The leader of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has ordered officials not to fly the Iraqi national flag, in a further sign of the country's separatist tensions.
http://tinyurl.com/kh9pk
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Halabja: Anger boils in Iraq's "town of martyrs"
They said Kurdish leaders had exploited Halabja for their political ends, and that donations and investment from outside had not translated into better schools, roads or services.
http://tinyurl.com/flquv
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At least 5 killed in as U.S. occupation continues
A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi policemen in Baghdad's southern Doura district on Friday, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/zudzc
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Two U.S. occupation forces soldiers killed in Iraq
An Army specialist from Minneapolis was among four soldiers killed when a bomb exploded while they were on a foot patrol in Iraq.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/15410604.htm
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U.S. force in Iraq at 140,000
The United States has expanded its force in Iraq to 140,000 troops, the most since January and 13,000 more than five weeks ago, the Pentagon said on Thursday, amid relentless violence in Baghdad and elsewhere.
http://tinyurl.com/kfn2f
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 31 August 2006.
- American snipers kill four more Iraqi civilians in ar-Ramadi Thursday, bringing total death toll by US sharpshooters in the city to 33 civilians gunned down in cold blood in one week, more than half of them women and children.
- In cold blood: US Marine in Baghdad sniper shoots elderly Palestinian woman in the back, killing her midday Thursday.
- US soldier reported killed in highway bombing south of Baghdad.
- Iraqi Resistance mortars blast Shii sectarian gunmen near torture center Buratha Mosque in Baghdads at-Talibiyah district.
- Resistance pounds US base with Grad rockets.
- Resistance bomb destroys US vehicle in Hit Wednesday evening.
- US forces wreck Palestinian sports club in Baghdad, arrest seven Palestinian youths.
- 52-year-old Palestinian kidnapped by Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen found dead.
- Blast rocks Shii area of Baghdad.
- Iraqi Resistance mortars blast Shii sectarian gunmen near torture center Buratha Mosque in Baghdads at-Talibiyah district.
- Bomb targets British diplomatic convoy in Baghdads al-Mansur district.
- Resistance bomb targets US military column at western entrance to Baghdad.
- Resistance mortars blasts joint US-Iraqi puppet army headquarters in Samarra.
- Resistance fighters ambush puppet National Guard Patrol at northern outskirts of al-Mushahadah.
- Resistance bomb targets US vehicle west of al-Mawsil.
- Resistance bomb targets puppet police in al-Mawsil.
- Resistance bombards joint British-Iraqi puppet army headquarters in al-Basrah.
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_310806.htm
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U.K. Occupation Forces Soldier Killed in Southern Afghanistan
A British soldier was killed and another was seriously wounded in an "insurgent" attack in southern Afghanistan, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said.
http://tinyurl.com/r9mr6
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Militant Attack On Afghan Town Sparks Intense Fighting
The militants used mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns in the attack on Naw Zad, in volatile Helmand province around 8:00 a.m., said Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi.
http://tinyurl.com/qofxq
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Opposition leader: Canadian troops out of Afghanistan
The leader of an opposition party has called for the withdrawal of Canadian troops fighting a "George Bush-style counterinsurgency war" in Afghanistan, saying the conflict kindles insecurity here.
http://tinyurl.com/mp525
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Russia rejects Iran sanctions
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Finland, want further dialogue with Iran rather than sanctions after Tehran defied Thursday's UN deadline to stop work that the West fears could be a prelude to making a nuclear bomb, officials said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3784142a12,00.html
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For Whom the Heart Bleeds Not
Can we take seriously the Democrats concern with Alaskan wolves when Democrats voted overwhelmingly to support Israels massacre of Lebanese women and children and the Bush regimes massacre of tens of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14793.htm
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The Mayor and the President; A View in Salt Lake City
Mr. Bush knows that unlike the story of the boy who cried wolf too many times, he can drive home his message successfully. It is the repetitiveness of his messages that will eventually give them authenticity. Once the people hear them often enough, they will not question their veracity. He is beating the drums another war more WMD to be destroyed, he claims. Bush is taking us to war again. More lies, more deaths.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14796.htm
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Dictatorship : Pentagon moves toward monitoring media
The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media.
http://tinyurl.com/r6com
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Channel 4 courts controversy with mock Bush assassination
Channel 4 is set to spark a furore in the US this month when it unveils a documentary-style film in which George Bush is assassinated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1862524,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
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