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The proposed EU Constitution is
slanted towards business, and away from democracy.
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A network of planespotters are tracking the movements of the plane
that the CIA uses
to bring people to various countries that will torture them.
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The last article in that same page shows that even FBI agents objected to Bush regime torture policies. The responsibility for torture leads straight to the White House--starting with Clinton, but Bush made things much worse.
When Bush is convicted of crimes against the peace and war crimes, he'll spend his life in prison. It might seem irrelevant to try him for these acts of torture too, but it must be done.
Bush claims to want to improve women's rights in Iraq, but as usual, it is a lie.
How the Israeli army treats Palestinians at checkpoints.
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The National Endowment for Democracy is an organization funded mainly by the US to buy and distort elections, and sometimes overthrow governments. Strangely, the AFL-CIO has a history of helping in such efforts.
A town in Pennsylvania decided to require teaching "intelligent
design", which is
biblical creationism disguised as science.
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Exit polls and election fraud accusations,
in Venezuela, the US and the Ukraine.
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The families of dead US soldiers have
raised 600,000 dollars for Fallujah refugees.
This is the real spirit of charity.
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Fighting continues in Falluja--even though
much of the city has been destroyed,
it has not been taken. Refugees mostly cannot return.
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Coal miners in Wales bought their mine as it was about to close, and have run it profitably for ten years now.
Another
water revolt is beginning in Bolivia.
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Debunking Bush's "Healthy Forests Initiative":
It won't fight forest fires, it will just sell out.
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A US dentist has been imprisoned 7 years without trial, and labeled
crazy. Why crazy? Because he says he has been tortured in prison.
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Former Spanish president Aznar
destroyed records relating to the Madrid bombings
before he left office.
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Bush and Musharraf:
is Bush serious about WMD, or Al Qa'ida, or anything
relevant to protecting the US from attacks?
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It seems that sonar systems give whales the bends, which can kill them.
A UK union leader, a backer of the Labor Party, is accused of election fraud.
It would not surprise me. After all, how could a supporter of Blair's policies win an honest union election?
The ACLU has proof that torture has widespread in the Bush
regime, and it ties high officials to the practice.
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These officials will probably tell the judge that nobody's allowed to tie them to anything--after all, that would be torture ;-}.
The Bush regime
continues to disregard the Supreme Court rulings
in favor of those detained without trial, and continues to argue
that no one has any legal rights.
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Wal-mart won the Grinch of the Year award, with Cinta and Comcast
as runners-up.
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NIH researchers have been taking money from drug companies,
and selling them the NIH's prestige--and its decisions.
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The only way the NIH can be honest is by completely forbidding its employees to accept either employment or gifts from the drug companies.
A report that the Bush forces
have been unable to capture Fallujah,
that the resistance continues even though the city is half destroyed.
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A small amount of bombing can make a building or a city uninhabitable for civilians, but often soldiers can keep fighting for a long time in the ruins. This happened in World War II in Monte Cassino and Stalingrad.
UK government agencies are working overtime to destroy documents before a new law gives the public the right to see them.
Merck's Merry Christmas
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Subcontracting the war seemed like a clever idea to Bush until things started getting dangerous. Now the contractors are finding it hard to recruit mercenaries too.
If there are
3.5 million homeless Americans, that means
over 1% of Americans are homeless.
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The US plans sanctions against Sudan.
The Iraqi resistance's most effective attack yet on the
Bush forces
appears to have been a
suicide bombing based on very accurate
intelligence.
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This article says we should disbelieve the statement that this was a
suicide bombing.
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It doesn't present any evidence that the statement itself is a lie, and I am not convinced; but it does seem to show Bush is spinning the story, so as to falsely link the Iraqi resistance with terrorism in general.
Attacking the troops of an occupying army is not terrorism, it is simply war. Bombing hospitals and using napalm is terrorism.
The EU could not agree on fishing limits.
If they were together in a lifeboat, they would argue about who should bale how much water, while it sank under them.
Developing fetuses are very sensitive to air pollution.
The Republican party wants to protect fetuses from the fate of not being born. But it has no interest in protecting them from being born with a high likelihood of cancer, which I think is worse.
The Bush administration recognizes it is losing the war for the hearts
and minds of the rest of the world.
Its answer: plant lies to
discredit people that tell the truth.
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American journalist Stephen Vincent visited Iraq pretending to be
Yugoslavian,
and got a good picture of how Iraqis hate the occupying forces.
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(Note, I think he has underestimated the fraction of Iraqi Arabs that are Sunnis. According to my vague memory, it is more like 30% or 40%.)
A committee of British MPs concluded it will take ten years to
stabilize Iraq. That's assuming the Iraqi resistance loses.
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On the average, in the US, it takes three times the minimum wage to
afford a two-bedroom apartment. This means that a couple that both
work at the minimum wage can't afford one--unless they both work 60
hours a week.
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Sikhs protesting violently in England
shut down a play that they felt
insulted the Sikh religion. Police tried to stop the violence, but
the UK government has done little to prevent this blatant crime.
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Having seen the text of the play, I can understand why Sikhs might feel offended by it. It strikes me as somewhat unfair, too. That is no excuse for trying to censor it.
When Mohan Singh suggests that a theater company should not dare to offend 600,000 Sikhs in Britain, he endorses censorship. No group, no matter how numerous or powerful or deserving, is entitled to forbid what offends it--not Sikhs, not Jews, not Muslims, not Christians, not businessmen, not even Atheists and Free Software developers deserve such privilege.
Shame on Mohan Singh, and shame on any Sikh who will not denounce what he said.
Report from Iraq: civilians wounded by the Bush forces.
Some of the lawyers representing the people imprisoned on suspicion
under British anti-terrorism law have decided to resign in protest
against Blair's decision to ignore the Law Lords.
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The FBI referred to "torture" of prisoners in December 2003 and the
information also
suggests that Bush directly authorized it.
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The Dutch government tried a
dirty trick to pass the EU software patents directive
in a meeting about fisheries. It looked like
their trick was going to succeed, but it was blocked by Poland.
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Those challenging the Ohio vote have begun court cases, and hearings
reported
a whole host of Republican cheating, including throwing away
ballots, and moving votes from one candidate to another.
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Meanwhile, the Republicans who run the Ohio elections have blocked and sabotaged the recount that was demanded weeks ago.
Privatization of the railways in UK was supposed to make them better. But government-run trains are running better than privately operated trains.
Railway privatization has been a complete failure, but Bliar continues to pretend it is a success.
Blair, defying the Law Lords, insists on maintaining the
preventive imprisonment policy.
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For Blair, abolishing human rights is so important that he will fight anything that gets in his way.
A Hamas leader suggests Hamas could agree to a cease-fire for the sake of the Palestinian elections.
Bush is once again tapping the UN's phones, this time hoping to find
some excuse to discredit Mohamed El Baradei, head of the IAEA.
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Baradei has done his job honestly, and hasn't pandered to Bush's desire to make Iran look bad. In Bush's view, anyone that doesn't pander to him ought to be replaced with someone who will.
If Bush succeeds in finding some flaw, any flaw, in El Baradei, he will urge the world to be aghast. Bush himself, however, is always supposed to receive the benefit of the doubt even when there's no doubt.
Israel is confiscating Palestinians' land to expand settlements, despite claiming it has a policy not to do so.
When the Border Police (who have a reputation for cruelty) attacked a peaceful protest, they noticed that someone was filming them. So they attacked her, then threw her in prison, where she was given a deportation order without a hearing.
In a state based on lies, telling people the truth is the worst crime.
In the UK, a Christmas TV program (on a commercial channel) is going to tell the public what scholars have known for decades about how the Bible was written and how much of its historical statements might be inaccurate.
Unocal settled a lawsuit filed by Burmese refugees because of Unocal's
disrespect for human rights in its operations in Burma.
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Iran is
executing mentally ill girls who were put into prostitution by
their parents.
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The policy seems to be similar to California's "three strikes and you're out" policy, but even more cruel.
Australia has unilaterally announced a plan
control all shipping and stop ships within 1000 miles.
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I suspect this has little to do with real concerns of terrorism, and everything to do with stopping refugees from arriving by ship.
Papua New Guinea and Indonesia are both less than 400 miles from Australia, so in effect Australia has demanded control over their territorial waters. I hope Indonesia gives a firm public response.
A
10-year-old girl in Philadelphia was arrested for bringing scissors
to school.
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The excuses that the policemen were simply following rules or acted "in good faith" are irrelevant. Cruelty doesn't have to be personally directed to be wrong. Tyranny often functions through rules; if the rules are cruel, applying them is wrong.
US and Russian
nuclear missiles are still on hair-trigger readiness.
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I can understand why Putin feels it is necessary to develop more advanced nuclear missiles. While Son of Star Wars is a complete failure today, he cannot count on that to be true forever.
Terrorism in various European countries has been linked to secret NATO
cold war armies.
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I don't know whether the September 11 attacks were organized by the US government to manipulate US politics, but it appears that this has already been done in Europe.
Get America Working proposes that the US should tax employee payroll
less, and natural resources more. This would encourage companies
to conserve natural resources while hiring more people.
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The idea makes sense, but we need to note that a substantial part of the problem in the US is because workers depend on employers to pay for their health care. This isn't officially part of payroll tax, but it acts economically as if it were. There are only two ways to solve it: take away people's health care (which is what companies are trying to do), or set up a national health care system (which Democrats used to be in favor of, but Bush is hardly likely to want to do).
Whatever Bush says his plans are for tax reform, I expect his real aim will be to cut taxes even more for the rich, while eliminating social programs that benefit everyone else.
The Inuit are accusing the US of
destroying their homes and way of life
by failing to act to reduce global warming.
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How Halliburton gets no-bid contracts--by subcontracting to minority-owned businesses.
For more information about Halliburton, see here.
The UK's Law Lords ruled that UK's Guantanamo Lite is illegal because it violates human rights requirements.
The Pentagon seeks authorization to
trample the environment and public health.
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The Ukrainian opposition candidate was apparently poisoned with dioxin.
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A new election has been set by Ukraine's Supreme Court.
1/4 of all bird species will be extinct or nearly extinct in a
century,
according to a study that examined the specific situations of
each species.
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Eyewitness testimony of an incident in Ohio that looks like
vote-counting fraud.
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Programmer Clint Curtis claims a Florida congressman
asked him to write software for voting machine fraud.
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Many journalists in the US are in prison or threatened with prison
to
force them to reveal confidential sources.
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If this practice catches on, people won't talk anonymously to journalists, which means even further suppression of such news.
A former US marine says the Bush forces
soldiers
shot civilians indiscriminately--not just once, but regularly.
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This doesn't surprise me, because the Bush forces mostly despise the Iraqis, and when armed men despise certain people they tend to shoot those people.
The Kyoto treaty is
too weak to do its job.
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The idea of removing CO2 from the atmosphere is attractive, but is there any basis to believe it is feasible?
Blair admits he has
failed to reduce greenhouse gas emission. Higher
gasoline taxes are an obvious solution, but Blair prefers to spend a
lot of money surveilling the movements of all cars.
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The counterargument by the CBI is typical business tokenism: "Please judge that the small good some of us do compensates for the great harm the rest of us do."
CIA Agent
Says Bosses Ordered Him To Falsify WMD Reports.
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The US has
become a net importer of food.
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Maybe it is good that food is grown elsewhere instead, since US farming uses a large amount of petroleum. Other producers use much less oil for the same quantity of food produced.
The paramedics who found Dr. Kelly's body say
they
don't believe he committed suicide.
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An Israeli was convicted for participating in a terrorist group that aimed to kill Palestinians.
This is the tip of the iceberg--for instance, it is normal practice for settlers to shoot at any Palestinian that they can see.
The UNHCR says that Iraq is so dangerous that refugees should not return there. But Blair can't afford to admit that attacking Iraq has made it a dangerous place, so he forces Iraqi refugees to return home where they can be killed.
A Pentagon report admits the truth: Iraqis in general and
Muslims in general
see
the Bush forces as a conqueror, and recognize Bush talk of supporting
freedom and democracy as bullshit.
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(Bush can't recognize freedom or democracy even when they finally bite him.)
It is noteworthy that this article was published by a UK newspaper. When I read it, I suspected that US newspapers would not cover this, because the US press is too subservient to admit these facts. That seems to be mostly true.
5,000 soldiers have deserted from the
Bush forces.
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Americans who escaped to Canada rather that fight in Iraq are
citing torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions to justify
refugee status.
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Bush policies of using some Iraqi groups to fight others is bearing
fruit, in the form of
incipient civil
war.
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Many Shi'ite groups have formed a joint electoral list. If Shi'ites participate in the election while Sunnis fight against the occupation, this leads in the direction of civil war.
Iraqis should remember who their common enemy is. If they let Bush divide them, that could give Bush a victory he could not otherwise have gained.
France is adopting a law that would
prohibit sexist
remarks.
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It is wrong to prohibit the expression of any opinion, even a bigoted opinion.
Gary Webb, the reporter who broke the story of the CIA involvement
in drug trafficking, was
found
dead in an apparent suicide. It looks fishy.
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I doubt that anyone would have killed him now because of what he wrote in 1996--if someone was motivated enough, I don't see why he would have waited 8 years. I wonder what Webb was investigating now.
Senator Byrd rebuked the US Senate for
not paying enough
attention to the bills it is passing.
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Hamas has stopped attacks against Israel for the sake of the Palestinian elections, and offers a longer truce.
Fighting continues in the ruins of Fallujah.
Over 10% of the Bush forces
in Fallujah were killed or wounded.
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Desmond Tutu criticized South African president Mbeki for
tolerating tyranny in Zimbabwe.
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Mbeki is a terrible disappointment. Of course, one could not ask for him to be the equal of Mandela, but he has supported a long series of disastrous, cruel and undemocratic policies.
In June 2003, a soldier in the Bush forces
tried to report
on the torture he had seen. His superiors had him declared
"mentally unstable" to shut him up.
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This doesn't surprise me. Bush sets the tone for the people that work for him: the truth is unimportant, power is all that matters.
Fighting between Sunnis and Kurds is
heating up in Northern Iraq--and
Bush forces
policies are partly responsible for this move towards
civil war.
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Of course, those who work with Bush will be treated as collaborators--what else should they expect?
When Bush brings in Kurds to suppress the resistance of Sunnis, the more politically astute will think, "The empire is practicing divide-and-rule". But many who are less educated and prone to racism will think, "The Kurds are our enemies, now as always". Perhaps that is what the Bush forces hope for: to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines, and use some groups to rule the rest. Unity among Iraqis gives them strength; division could make them weak. Maybe Bush hopes that Kurds will be the permanent occupying force of the Sunni parts of Iraq.
A UK commission says 1/3 of UK waters must be placed off limits to
fishing, so fish stocks can recover.
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Here's the
report's summary.
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Chile's government accepted responsibility for the
torture committed by the US-supported military dictatorship.
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When will the Bush regime accept responsibility for its systematic acts of torture?
20 amazing facts about voting in the US election.
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Pinochet, former US-installed dictator of Chile, will stand trial in Chile for one of the murders his regime committed.
In the 1980s, a leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal killed and
damaged thousands.
Another leak now ties the parent company in the US
to responsibility for the deaths.
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Dow, which bought this business from Union Carbide, has denounced a
hoax in which a prankster, claiming to speak for Dow, said that Dow
took responsibility for the disaster of Bhopal.
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(I have a feeling that this denunciation is also a hoax.)
Evidence that most of the discarded ballots in Ohio were probably
votes for Kerry.
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The Bush forces are using napalm bombs in Fallujah, and burning phosphorus shells.
I seem to recall that using chemical weapons against civilians was one of the things Saddam Hussein was accused of doing. As with the torture rooms and rape rooms that Bush said he was going to get rid of, all he did was change the names on the door.
The deadly hot summer of 2003 has been
tied to human activity. But
that was just a foretaste: by the end of this century most summers
will be even hotter.
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The Chinese regime
executed a Tibetan after a secret trial, and
threatens to execute another Tibetan, a popular religious leader, also
after a secret trial.
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These secret trials are the Chinese equivalent of the Bush regime's practice of labeling people as "enemy combatants". Without a real public trial, governments can imprison anyone they dislike and pretend the reason is for crimes.
Israel is not allowing
students from Gaza to attend universities in the West Bank and other
countries. They are being arbitrarily prevented from leaving.
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The UK embassy says the road to Baghdad airport is
"too dangerous to use".
In other words, the resistance is gaining ground against the
Bush forces,
along the standard trajectory of a guerrilla war.
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The Telegraph, which accused MP George Galloway of treason and being paid by Saddam Hussein, lost a libel case.
It looks like most of the evidence produced against Galloway was fraudulent, and the rest of it doesn't really mean he did anything wrong.
Red-State America Against Itself
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When Liberalism can no longer appeal, all that's left is a battle between two kinds of Conservatives.
A leaked ICRC report accuses Bush of
increasing
repression in Guantanamo, and criticizes doctors for aiding
torturers.
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A new organization aims to
end torture in South Asia.
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There is no word on when this organization will extend its operations to the US.
Police in Nepal arrested a 15-year-old girl, apparently because she
witnessed rapes committed by the army. Her parents are now
convinced she was killed, but they cannot get a straight story about
when or where. It sounds like a Nepalling experience.
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As Blair threatens $4000 fines for not getting a mandatory biometric ID card, opponents report many are saying they'd rather go to prison than accept these cards.
Three Cheers! With determination to fight for freedom, people can defeat the tyranny of Big Brolair.
A study found that
marijuana can cause psychosis in certain people, especially if
they start using it in their teens.
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Australia seems to have bullied Vanuatu into replacing its prime minister by threatening to cut of aid.
I have seen
various stories about the motive for this. Australia
claims it is demanding reforms to end corruption, but that claim is
unbelievable.
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Vohor has only had 6 months in office; if there is a serious problem with corruption, it must have developed over more than 6 months, so why the precipitous action now? Meanwhile, Australia surely would not take action so quickly about a mere issue of corruption.
I've also seen a claim the reason is simply that Vohor rejected an Australian hegemony policy which involves stationing police in countries in the region and dictating their policies. I do not know.
Ohio has not finished counting the votes, and the Republican
in charge (who is also a part of the Bush campaign) is
trying to impede the process.
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A doctor's eyewitness report from Fallujah:
thousands of civilians wounded,
and that counts only the ones that could be brought to his
hospital.
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Two kinds of antisemitism, against Jews and against Palestinians,
end up looking similar.
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The US plans to increase the use of coal to generate electricity, which would greatly increase global warming.
If scarcity of oil leads to more burning of coal, it could mean that global warming increases world-wide. We have already seen positive-feedback in atmospheric CO2; natural processes add to the CO2 that humans release. The result is likely to be disaster.
Here are my responses to the consultation in this link. They might interest some readers.
A scandal has broken in Germany as army recruits were treated to Bush-style abuse.
An earlier note points out that the torture methods used in Abu Ghraib were derived from army training methods.
Somerville, Massachusetts, aldermen
discuss divesting from Israel.
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Republican Challenges Presidential Election
Based on Exit Polls!
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Israeli soldiers were talking about the "10-year-old girl"
before they shot her.
But the killers face only light charges.
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The Bush forces regularly
shot civilians in Fallujah, even civilians
carrying white flags.
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An
Iranian exile group claims that Iran is developing a
nuclear missile.
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As events have shown that nuclear missiles are the only way to be safe from Bush, I wouldn't be surprised if it is true. It would be only sensible for Iran to develop such a weapon. But this also sounds suspiciously like the phony intelligence that Bush contrived in the case of Iraq.
Does anyone know if this exile group is real, or funded by Bush?
In the future, supermarkets and any stranger who wants to know
may be able to
use a radio scanner to tell what you have in your pockets.
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I don't see any problem in using RFIDs on wholesale drug bottles, but it needs to be illegal to use them for retail sales.
Some US churches, led by the Presbyterian Church, have adopted plans
for divestment of stock in corporations that do business in Israel and
profit from the occupation. As usual, supporters of the occupation try
to paint this as "antisemitism"; but this time, they are also
threatening to burn churches.
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An Israeli supports the call for disinvestment, and
denounces the
smear campaign.
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Here's the
actual statement of the Presbyterian Church.
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Barghouti was persuaded to withdraw from running for president of the
Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas, the candidate that the US wants,
says he could
stop attacks against Israel. But will Israel stop attacks against
Palestinians?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Gush Shalom published this ad:
Sharon has promised the Americans and the Europeans not to sabotage the Palestinian elections.
And in practice?
* The members of a regional election committee were held up for six hours at a checkpoint between Yata and Hebron.
* Instead of setting prisoners free, the army continues every night to arrest activists of all factions, including people active in the election campaign.
* While the Fatah leadership in Ramallah is discussing the elections, Fatah activist Muhammad Rassan and two of his colleagues were killed in a Ramallah suburb.
* The Israeli army continues to shoot without warning at Palestinian policemen who are carrying arms, calling them `terrorists'. These are the same policemen who are supposes to maintain order during the election campaign.
Under such conditions, free elections are impossible. We are warning again: Don't listen to what Sharon is saying, look at what Sharon is doing!
Gush Shalom ad published in Ha'aretz November 26, 2004
Lexmark printers
spyon the
users' printing activity
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
A California lawsuit against Diebold for its voting machines was
settled prematurely with a
slap on
the wrist.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The band Wilco has found success through
cooperating with file-sharing.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
More information is coming out on how Dr. Khan in Pakistan arranged to
provide nuclear weapons know-how and equipment
to
other countries.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The preceding article in that page is, I suspect, an example of black propaganda. Bush probably told the CIA to prepare the way to invade Iran.
The Republicans have quietly
cut a
large part of government support for college education.
Increasingly only Americans with wealthy backgrounds
can afford to go to college. The rest will be kept ignorant.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
College education tends to make people less provincial, and gives them more exposure to a variety of views. The Republicans would probably prefer to reduce the number of Americans who have such exposure.
A man
tortured by police in Sri Lanka was murdered before he could
testify against them.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Blunkett explains your terror nightmares - be very afraid.
Civil liberties groups
condemned Blunkett's plans for
new forms of repression in the UK.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bill Moyers, the main progressive show host on PBS TV is
retiring and
being replaced by someone accustomed to viewing everything through the lens of business.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Brancaccio's show, Marketplace, takes an attitude of looking at all aspects of life in terms of its effect on business, as if nothing else mattered. After hearing it a few times, I took such a disgust to it that I began switching my radio off before it could start.
The WTO is planning to
commit mass murder, by forcing India to stop
making cheap anti-AIDS drugs. Any person who dies as a result will
have been murdered by the WTO. The WTO is the enemy of humanity and must be
destroyed at any cost.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I support the people who oppose this cruel plan, but I wish they would stop playing into the enemy's hands through use of the enemy's propaganda terms, "intellectual property" and "protection".
Many obscene amendments weakening environmental laws
have been added to an appropriations bill in a congressional conference
committee.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Conservatives killed the intelligence reform bill that proposed to
attack civil liberties and impose new forms of surveillance. Not
because they care about civil liberties or surveillance, but to
support the Pentagon.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Reports that the Bush forces
regularly shot civilians
in Fallujah while they were carrying white flags.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Allawi, who Bush appointed to rule Iraq, is following in the
footsteps of Saddam Hussein, and is now becoming
just as hated
in Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush, are you listening? Shall we invade Iraq to liberate Iraqis from their tyrannical ruler?
The UN General Assembly is starting to
reject US-sponsored
resolutions about violations of human rights out of disgust
for other US actions.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I sympathize with those who condemn the US for its contempt for human rights, but rallying behind the dictators and murderers that the US criticizes is the wrong way to fight back. Instead of opposing the US when it is right, people should fight the US when it does wrong.
US institutions have honed a technique to help opposition candidates
beat unfriendly strongmen in democratic elections--and to overcome
attempts to rig these elections.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Will they ever be able to bring these methods home, and restore democracy in the US?
The FDA, which is supposed to regulate drugs and ensure they are safe,
has been captured by the drug companies to the point where it
suppresses results they don't like. Now it is trying to
squelch one of its own scientists who still tries to do his job.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
This is not an isolated incident; the US government as a whole has been captured by business, except in the areas where it has been captured by religious nuts. This is why it works so hard to nullify democracy both at home and abroad. What we see here is simply an example.
However, a reason is not an excuse. Each act of corruption or cruelty that the US government commits is no less wrong for being part of a systematic pattern of corruption and cruelty.
Blair is planning new attacks on civil liberties, which are being strongly condemned.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem
calls for the resignation of Israel's army chief of staff, for granting
soldiers impunity for killing civilians.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
400 protestors against Coca Cola company were arrested violently in India.
The campaign against the spread of AIDS is failing to keep women from
being infected, because men
won't let them refuse sex or insist on condoms.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
However, one point in the article seems like an anomaly. It says that in South Africa, women who have sex only with their husbands are in more danger than women who have many sex partners, because they can't convince their husbands to use condoms. However, if women get AIDS at the highest rate from their own husbands, it would seem that keeping men from getting infected would also protect their wives.
Millions
Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election (through various kinds of dirty
tricks).
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
There are additional signs of election misconduct in Ohio,
but a Republican leader there says it is an
"insult" to
raise the issue.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Paramilitary murderers, citing the name of President Uribe,
have made death threats against various union leaders in
the Coca Cola plant in Colombia. They have killed union
leaders before.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
This is part of the reason for boycotting Coca Cola Company.
Behind the apparently fraudulent election in the Ukraine is a power struggle between the US and Russia. The US and its proxies worked hard to support the opposition candidate.
Melting arctic ice is driving polar bears to extinction, and there are
signs of changes in ocean currents and melting ice in Greenland that
could cause disaster to humanity too.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
A marine in the Bush forces shot a prisoner,
which
triggered an investigation.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I'm glad that the marines investigate such crimes, but cases which can be investigated are the tip of the iceberg. The same bitter callousness that probably led this marine to murder a prisoner has surely led many others to kill civilians, but only rarely is there proof.
Ukrainians
took to the streets after a Bush-style election to
denounce fraud and reject the results.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Too bad Americans didn't.
A
writer projects that, if Sistani and Iraqi Shi'ites participate in
Bush's elections while Sunnis boycott them, this could lead to civil
war between the two groups.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Hollywood and the record companies are pushing a new bill combining many attacks on Americans' freedom to use published works.
It's called the "Intellectual Property Protection Act", and the fact that it uses the propaganda term "intellectual property" shows it's likely to be bad.
Nader offered to cooperate with the Kerry campaign in attacking Bush--but Kerry decided he'd rather beat Nader instead.
Nader has called on the chairman of the Democratic National Committee to resign.
Americans must recognize the Bush forces are committing war crimes, and oppose their actions.
Even soldiers have a duty to refuse to carry out illegal orders, such as to commit war crimes. Civilians certainly should not support such crimes. But any Americans who says he "supports" the "troops", without qualifying the statement, is supporting the war crimes too.
However, I think that merely putting qualifications on this support does not go far enough. The war itself is a crime (in Nuremberg, German leaders were convicted of "crimes against the peace" for launching wars of conquest). Bush's war of aggression does not deserve any sort of support, only condemnation and opposition.
Global warming is destroying several UNESCO World Heritage sites, and environmental campaigners are trying to use this to pressure for measures to reduce global warming.
Amnesty International says Russia and China are selling arms to Sudan,
which uses them for
massacres.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
India is considering
satellite
tracking of sandalwood trees to prevent illegal logging.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
This is one use of tracking technology I can support, because it only tracks wrongdoers, not honest citizens.
Red Cross Estimates 800 Iraqi Civilians
Killed
in Fallujah.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I've read reports that the Bush forces dropped cluster bombs in residential neighborhoods. People can't return there or there will be more casualties.
Police in the Ukraine, speaking anonymously, say they were
ordered to fix the election.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Quebec police arrested protestors
en masse and violently.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Bush forces took Falluja, and present this as a victory, but it just shows the insurgents are following standard guerrilla principles: melting away when attacked in strength.
The civilian casualties probably number in the thousands, but Bush will not allow them to be counted, so there will only be unofficial estimates that he can deny. The resistance will increase.
When Babar Ahmad tried to prosecute the UK police who had injured him
gravely while arresting him falsely, they
cooked up evidence to frame him
and send him to the US.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Avnery: As the Palestinian Authority moves toward elections, Sharon
needs to sabotage them,
without appearing to do so.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I hope that Avnery is right. However, it could be that Sharon can do no wrong in Bush's eyes. Bush's crazed religious supporters want Israel to build another temple, thinking this will trigger the apocalypse.
An Indonesian human rights activist was
poisoned with arsenic on a flight.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Refugees from Fallujah are crowding into other cities and
cannot get food and water.
They talk of wounded dying in the streets.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
43 Cuban performers have asked for asylum in the US, after the Cuban government tried to make it hard for them to perform in the US.
A US judge ruled against military trials for Guantanamo prisoners, saying they should be treated as POWs.
Reports of fighting in Mosul and Ramadi, and atrocities by the Bush forces in Fallujah--when they attacked the hospital, they tied up and brutalized the doctors. And worse.
The article also says that a photojournalist, escaping from Fallujah, saw the Bush forces shooting anyone who tried to cross the river, including a family. It sounds like the Serb snipers in Sarajevo.
A doctor from Fallujah talks about how the Bush forces attacked his hospital, how patients and doctors were killed by bombs, and how he saw many people die that he could do nothing to save.
The US House of Representatives
passed a bill to punish universities
if their faculty criticize Israel. (The bill is now in committee in
the Senate.)
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The reasons why Nader ordered a recount in New Hampshire:
to investigate the cause of a
suspicious
pattern in the results.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Confessions of an
economic hit-man.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The krill population near Antarctica has gone down 80% due to climate change, which endangers the animals that eat krill: penguins, seals and whales.
Barghouti to Run for Palestinian Leader
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
When the Smoke has Cleared Around Fallujah, What Horrors will Be Revealed?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The EU human rights commissioner
condemned the anti-terror laws of many countries, and in
particular the UK.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Islamic extremists are a real danger, particularly those who believe nobody has a right to criticize Islam. (There is nothing so great that people don't have a right to criticize it.) They threaten other people's freedom--but they cannot do as much damage as our own governments can do.
Just as the Bush forces have destroyed Fallujah in order to save it, they are destroying our freedom in order to save it.
Here's what FDR had to say about corporate power:
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power."
The Presidential Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938, Item 59 Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. April 29
Robert
Fisk on Arafat, the history of 90s peace negotiations, and how
Bush and Blair distort the situation so they can support Sharon.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Florida Republicans gave out false information about vote counts, and tried to destroy records.
Nine US states are
starting a
system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, similar to the Kyoto treaty.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Kerry won Ohio:
Just count the ballots at the back of the bus.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Ohio Voters Tell of
Election Day Troubles at Hearing. This document also says that the Green
Party has raised the funds for a recount in Ohio.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
A recount could help correct for fraud in the counting process. However, it cannot do anything to bring back the votes of the eligible voters who were threatened and intimidated not to vote, or given false information about where to vote, or who had to leave to work rather than wait hours (because Democratic precincts were systematically given too few voting machines). The resulting figures will still overestimate Bush's real support.
Falluja is in ruins after the Bush forces conquered it. Civilians are trapped in their houses, afraid they will be shot if they emerge. But some resistance remains.
I suspect Bush meant this as a deliberate example, a threat to destroy all of Iraq's cities. That's the sort of logic conquerors learn to use.
An executive of Underwriters Laboratories, which certified the steel
used in building the WTC, says that
the fire
could not have been the cause of their failure.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
30 Israeli policemen invaded a church to arrest Mordechai Vanunu.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Marwan al-Barghuti plans to run for president of Palestine
while in an Israeli prison.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Russia stated it will not be the first country to militarize space.
Perhaps this implicitly includes a threat to be the second, if the US is the first. I hope it does some good.
Students are organizing in the US to fight unjust copyright laws.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
However, either Pavlovsky or the article's author undermines this campaign by saying they are not "advocating ripping off the entertainment companies". (It is not clear whose words these are.) The idea that sharing copies is equivalent to "ripping off" someone is the central element in the publishers' propaganda campaign, which is what enabled to pass their unjust copyright laws. To prevent more such laws, we have to reject this notion.
Uri Avnery on the
death of Yasser Arafat.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
In an interview,
Avnery explains how the US and Israel, by forcing
Arafat's secular Palestinian nationalism into defeat, left nowhere for
Arabs to turn except to the Islamist fundamentalism of bin Laden.
Congratulations, Dubya.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
It looks like the Bush forces
are
systematically attacking medical facilities in Fallujah.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
They are also
keeping the Red Crescent doctors out of Falluja, where civilians are dying
because doctors cannot help them.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
It makes sense. What's the use of bombing and capturing the hospitals if other doctors can get in and treat the injured?
Republicans tried to intimidate voters in many places in Detroit. (Search for
"Detroit" in the
article to find that part.)
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The people who did it appear to have been organized and taught an approach that was often illegal. So I wonder who organized them.
A movement to
impeach Blair for lying about Iraq is getting started.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
If it doesn't succeed in impeaching Blair, it may help prevent him from winning in the next election, which I believe is due in less than a year.
The Nader campaign has
demanded a recount in
New Hampshire, while the Green and Libertarian candidates
plan to
demand a recount in Ohio.
[References updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
links
were broken.]
Even more
signs that voting in Ohio wasn't done right.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Other information about election dishonesty, including examples of the bogus flyers that were used to intimidate voters in some neighborhoods.
Cuba's medical system presents
a
superior model for how
to prevent the spread of AIDS.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I do not support the government of Cuba, which imprisons people without trial for political opposition. However, the government of the US can no longer claim to be better; it imprisons people without trial for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and sometimes tortures them.
Statistical
evidence of voting machine anomalies in Florida.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Ukrainians protest
alleged election fraud.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
They seem to take election fraud more seriously there.
Votergate 2004:
We
Don't Need Paper to Prove Fraud.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Stan Goff reports
on his debate with a prominent neocon.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I disagree with Goff on one point: Bush is stealing Iraq's oil indirectly, by making Iraq pay billions in reparations (often to corporations) and privatizing its assets for his cronies. This theft may not be profitable for the US, given how much the continuing war costs, but it is profitable for Halliburton. It might have been a profitable conquest for the US also, if there had been no resistance, as Bush expected.
US Generals May Deliver Fallujah to Bush and Blair,
but
Not Fallujahns.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
This article illustrates why it will be hard for nonviolent protest to prevail against the Bush forces--they respond by shooting the protestors. By the way, a similar shooting of protestors was the trigger for the American Revolution. It was called the Boston Massacre.
Bev Harris says TV stations have told their reporters not to talk about voter fraud.
Witch Hunt at Columbia: a campaign backed by lots of money
is trying to intimidate professors, labeling criticism
of Israel as "anti-semitism".
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Evidence of a Second Bush Coup?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
An air attack on Falluja by the Bush forces completely destroyed a hospital. No one knows how many sick or injured people were killed there.
Is this what they mean by a "surgical strike"?
It Will
Be Months Before we Learn the Truth About Fallujah.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
A Dutch filmmaker who criticized Islam's treatment of women was murdered on the street--reminding us that the Christian fanatics in the US aren't the only dangerous ones.
Many US electronic voting machines were certified as secure by
an organization that
decided to skip the security testing.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
More Evidence of Vote Rigging: Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?
We're All Israelis Now.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Arundhati Roy supports the Iraqi resistance.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
No patriotic Iraqi could tolerate or legitimize the conquest and colonization of his country.
I think Roy's suggestion for nonviolent resistance may be unrealistic, given the cruel practices of the Bush regime and its effective control of US media. It may be a good to try it in parallel, but I would not ask Iraqis to stop responding to bombs with bombs.
Blair plans to prohibit protests outside Parliament during daytime,
to get rid of an embarrassing war protestor.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Criticism can be unpleasant, but listening to protest is part of what democracy mens. To adopt the principle that citizens have no right to make their leaders feel uncomfortable is to establish tyranny. To ban or remove protest on the excuse that a terrorist might be hiding among protestors threatens democracy worse than any terrorist.
Bush plans to ignore treaties against weapons in space, and is dragging the UK along.
If China and Russia make it clear that they will follow suit unless the US agrees to arms control, maybe Congress will recognize how foolish this is.
Isn't it sad that we have to hope that those countries, neither of them really democratic, will restrain US imperial designs.
Why Kerry Conceded Defeat despite Electoral Fraud
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I'm glad I did not give way to the pressure to support a candidate who was so far away from the principles of civil liberties, peace, justice, and shared prosperity.
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Massive Voter Suppression and Corruption in Ohio
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
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link was broken.]
Michael Ruppert's response to the election.
Kerry won't challenge the election results, but reports are that Nader is thinking about it, so send him a fax as described in the Urgent Action note. Not with the idea that it would put Kerry in the White House, but because election fraud calls for legal action.
Exit poll figures during election day changed in ways that were
mathematically impossible--proving that
something fishy was happening.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I am not sure that fiddling was the only possibility, but this is something that the networks and their polling organizations owe us an explanation for.
Fewer foreign students want to study at US universities, and the universities are feeling the decrease in applicants. The AAAS expressed their concerns.
The AAAS proposal is directed solely at reducing the practical inconveniences of visa processing. Perhaps some foreign students are concerned only about these superficial matters, but others disapprove of US policies, are unwilling to be fingerprinted at the border, or fear even worse treatment. They will continue to stay away.
Two days ago, in Germany, a university teacher told me he knows many students who want to stay away from the US. After I encouraged him, he launched a campaign for students to state publicly that they will not go to the US.
The Choice between War
and More War.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
(This cites evidence of voting machine malfunctions in Ohio.)
What will it take for Americans to reject the war on the world?
If the votes had all been counted in Ohio and New Mexico, Kerry
would
probably have won the election.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
In other words, Bush didn't win this time either; he cheated again.
I did not support Kerry, because he was not different enough to be worth it. However, this similarity does not excuse a fraudulent election, nor make Bush a legitimate president.
There is evidence of possible tampering using electronic voting machinesin a primary election in Washinton State last September.
Brazil's government is
trying to end a
long tradition of slavery in the rainforests.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Bush forces
paid no attention to explosives in Al Qaqaa, just as they paid no attention
to the treasures of history in the national museum, or the papers in the Iraqi
ministries (except the oil ministry), or the archeological sites of Sumer.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
A US court rebuked
Bush's continuing resistance to letting the Guantanamo prisoners meet their lawyers.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The EU is researching a plan to put RFIDs into banknotes. This could mean total government tracking of finances. It might also enable thieves to count the money in your wallet while it's still in your pocket.
It would not raise any particular issues if banknotes contained RFIDs that only say "I am a real banknote". That would impede counterfeiting without any harmful effects. The real problem happens when they broadcast the bill's serial number, or hold memory of who saw the bill previously. Then they become a tool for tyranny.
We need a convenient portable RFID-destroying appliance, that we can use to fry the RFIDs that may be in various things that we use or own.
14 characteristics of fascist states:
how does your government stack up?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
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As a consequence of the Bush invasion, Iraqi scientists are
working
with insurgents to develop chemical weapons.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The danger that Bush lied about is real because of his dishonesty. It's poetic justice--too bad all the rest have to suffer too.
Sharon
persuaded parliament to vote for pullout of settlements from Gaza.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
Maybe he really intends to do it. But is this a step towards peace, or just an excuse for annexation elsewhere?
Rumsfeld ignored
warnings that
attacking Falluja would explode.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
While it could be that he simply exercised bad judgment in this issue, I think Bush set a tone for his men about ignoring news they don't want to hear.
The Democratic party is
actively fighting Republican vote-suppression campaigns--including filing
lawsuits against untrustworthy electronic voting systems. If these suits
succeed, they could do some permanent good.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
Uzbek opposition parties praise the former UK Ambassador, who was just removed from the office. He explained how Uzbek torturers manufactured confessions to manipulate Bush and Blair, and apparently was punished for that.
Four Britons have sued Rumsfeld and other US government officials for torturing them in Guantanamo.
Many voters complained that touch-screen voting machines recorded
the wrong choice.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Bush regime is trying to limit voters' rights to
sue to enforce voting rigts laws.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
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link was broken.]
What else could have been bought with the $225 billion Bush spent on
trying to conquer Iraq?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
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The question is useful to consider, but it's not the primary question. War is killing, and killing is wrong unless there is a very good justification for it. This war is a war of aggression, and it would be wrong if it didn't cost a dime.
Colin Powell is saying privately that the Iraqi resistance is
defeating the Bush forces.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I will be glad to see Bush lose a war of aggression, even if the regime that takes power in Iraq is one I would denounce as a dictatorship. Even Saddam Hussein would be an improvement over the Bush forces' occupation.
A large US civil rights group confronted the Republican Party directly about voter suppression.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
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link was broken.]
By the time this is posted, perhaps people will know what actually happened in the election.
I decided to stay away from the US until after election day in case Bush did something violent to manipulate the election, or as an excuse to cancel it--or in case Al Qa'ida did it because Bush is convenient for them.
It looks like no such thing occurred. Bush chose fabricated smears plus voter-suppression as the way to cheat, and Al Qa'ida choose to give a hint of endorsing Kerry (unless it was the Bush people who made that tape). I'm glad that my fears turned out to be wrong, but the electin is nonetheless unfair.
Baghdad's main children's hospital says things are
worse than before the Bush occupation.
Disease is rampant, and there is not enough
medicine.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Day of the Dead:
The Haunting of the White House
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old
link was broken.]
In Burma, where the record "For the Lady" is banned,
the punishment for playing it is 7 years in prison.
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old
link was broken.]
Thousands of Florida students were tricked into signing duplicate voter registration forms that could invalidate their real registrations.
A NYC firefighter says he
helped the
FBI find three "black boxes" from the crashed airliners--boxes that the
FBI says were never found.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
I would trust his word more than the FBI's word.
There is no doubt that FBI officials will lie when ordered to.
Israel and the Palestinian olive harvest.
Brutal Trap
of Nepal's Civil War.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
12 ways Bush is trying to steal the vote in Ohio.
Michael Moore criticized repressive
copyright laws, saying he believes it is legitimate to share videos
nomcommercially, including his own Fahrenheit 9/11.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush
whitewashes the crimes of the dictatorship of Uzbekistan,
to avoid the embarrassment of
being seen to support a dictator.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
When the US government wants to destabilize a country, it says that government doesn't respect human rights. When it wants to support a dictatorship, it denies the dictator's crimes. They are both lies, and they reflect a propensity to lie which can be compared with the Soviet Union.
Kerry did this too in his "lesson for Latin-American democracy". I wish I could believe he would be more honest if elected.
A nonviolent political activist in the UK faces
losing her
home--as if being gravely injured by a policeman wasn't enough punishment
for participating in democracy.
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old
link was broken.]
Julian Bond, head of the NAACP,
speaks about voter
suppression, in the past and today.
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old
link was broken.]
The NAACP is being
investigated by
the IRS for posting a speech criticizing Bush policies.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-08 because the
old
link was broken.]
Perhaps the NAACP should not have done this. However, ISTR that there have been many churches which campaigned heavily for Republican candidates, and the IRS has not been very eager to make them stop. Bush wouldn't be the first Republican president to politicize the IRS.
Terror Alerts vs. Bush's poll numbers.
An election report from Florida, where early voting is already
set
up to be unfair.
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old
link was broken.]
Halliburton has a long series of corrupt deals with the Cheney regime.
The Health Care Crisis in America--Clinton's historic surrender
made it worse.
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old
link was broken.]
Arguing that the "bin Laden video"
is
a fraud; that is,
propaganda from the Bush regime.
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old
link was broken.]
That a communication from bin Laden would help Bush does not, in my view, prove it is fake or that he made a mistake. Bush helps bin Laden gain support, just as bin Laden helps Bush gain support; I don't know whether Bush is smart enough to see this, but bin Laden surely is.
However, some of the text as reported so far seems to be designed for US domestic consumption. It makes no sense that bin Laden would say such things.
There is a lot of talk about al-Zarqawi, but
no evidence
connecting him to any of the things he is supposed to have done,
or even showing that he is still alive.
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old
link was broken.]
The UN condemns
US policies of
mistreating prisoners.
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old
link was broken.]
The US Army disregarded regulations and its own officials to give
Halliburton a big contract extension. Now the
FBI is
investigating what happened.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
It may be hard to tie this corruption directly to Cheney, but he is surely responsible for it.
100 prominent Americans and 40 relatives of 9/11 victims
now call for a thorough investigation of how the attacks took
place.
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old
link was broken.]
Bush is trying to help overseas military personnel vote, while not helping civilians.
He thinks the military personnel will vote for him, but they may not. He has a pattern of treating them very badly.
This soldier reports that most of the troops he knows
want
Bush out.
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old
link was broken.]
My absentee ballot has not come, so it appears I can't vote this year. This web site will be my only contribution to the election.
Support the Simultaneous Policy.
I disagree with their pessimism about the prospects for one country to resist corporate pressure. As Venezuela shows, sometimes countries can do this; they only need leaders with spine. However, it can't do any harm to push for simultaneous adoption of globally beneficial policies in parallel with local adoption.
Computerized voting systems in Florida
lose
votes of Blacks but not those of Whites. This is due to
differences in equipment and training in places where mainly Whites
live and places where mainly Blacks live.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
How
the explosives in Iraq were
looted
after the invasion.
[References updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
links
were broken.]
Iraq is full of arms caches, and Bush only has enough troops to guard a few of them.
As a result, there is no practical way of preventing the resistance from getting as much explosives as it can possibly use.
The
resistance is gaining even now in some areas of Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
It is not surprising that resistance is tied in sometimes with criminals. Plenty of Iraqis would like a government to control criminals, but no government could do so if it is perceived as a stooge of an occupying colonizing foreign power.
The CIA secretly
moved prisoners
out of Iraq, which violates the Geneva Conventions.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
As usual, Bush negates US commitments to human rights by reinterpreting them in a way that is vacuous. When Bush says that he upholds the Geneva Conventions, it is a meaningless statement.
The Bush forces
have allowed looting in
Iraq--of ministries, of museums, of archeological sites...and also of
explosives useful for terrorists.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
When Bush found out, he first tried to keep it secret.
Yes Bush Can changes
its mind and opposes Bush.
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old
link was broken.]
(I think this is related to our friends the Yes Men.)
Papers presented in court in the UK show that Bush
planned the date for
invading Iraq 5 months in advance, when there was still a debate about
whether the UN weapons inspectors were finishing the job, and an
attempt to get support from other countries, and when the public
was told that the attack was waiting for this.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
100,000 Iraqis have been
killed by the Bush's war.
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old
link was broken.]
This autumn, Israelis are again helping Palestinians harvest olives.
But the annexation wall has prevented many of them from tending their
trees, so
they have few olives to harvest.
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old
link was broken.]
A number of prominent Republican women are publicly opposing Bush.
Public Citizen reports that Bush has paid little or no attention to real security vulnerabilities involving dangerous chemicals and nuclear power plants.
I think the reason is that the goal of Bush security measures is to look tough while eliminate human rights. He will spend millions to do that; but security measures that would prevent threats without trampling freedom are of no interest to him.
On the other hand, maybe Bush knows there is no plan to attack these vulnerable spots, so protecting them would be a waste of money. I can imagine various ways that might be true.
Most Bush supporters
still believe discredited Bush lies about
Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
This show why Bush continues to follow the big lie strategy: because he does not get punished for lying. With the help of the supportive mass media, he can drown out the truth.
In the US, voting computers are already failing in early voting. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying dirty tricks to stop people from voting and to prevent recounts, often using absurd interpretations of election laws.
There remains the danger that the Supreme Court will use this as an excuse to select its own candidate.
Arguing that what is happening in the Sudan is real genocide.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Sgt Frederick has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.
Since he blew the whistle on this widespread practice, I think he should get a lesser sentence--in exchange for helping to convict the higher-ups who asked the soldiers to do this. If the Army fails to prosecute anyone higher up, it will mean Frederick is a scapegoat for them.
Long before Bush invaded Iraq,
his men were planning how to rewrite all its laws and steal
all its assets.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Large US bases have been established in many countries near
Afghanistan,
under secret agreements.
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old
link was broken.]
One of these countries is Uzbekistan, whose practices of tyranny and torture were critized by the UK ambassador (who was recently removed for doing so). Why doesn't Bush want to oust this dictator?
Greg Palast, who broke the story on how Bush blocked some 50,000 Florida voters from voting, now reports on additional voter-suppression practices.
It is clear that the Republican Party hired people to brainstorm every possible way they could block Democrats from voting. By my book, this makes them the enemies of Democracy.
First Amendment Does Not Exist
The First Amendment to the American Constitution cannot be found.
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old
link was broken.]
Boston's Killer Cops
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old
link was broken.]
There are times when police need to use force. And usually-nonlethan weapons such as pepper spray will sometimes kill people even when not deliberately aimed at someone's eyes. But the bigger danger is that police will shoot pepper spray or live bullets when there was no reason to do so. Police have a constant tendency to do this, so the job of public officials is to hold them firmly and constantly in check.
We can't afford to have mayors that are soft on police.
The Israeli officer
who callously murdered a Palestinian child has
been excused for this by the Israeli government. They ruled he had
real grounds to suspect she was a threat. How can a wounded girl
lying on the ground be a threat to anyone? The Israeli army has
contempt for truth.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
You could hardly have a clearer example of wanton and unjustified murder than this. But it is not unique. It is part of a systematic and clear pattern.
Comparison of media reports shows conflicts in the reports
about who perished in flight AA 11 on September 11.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
A real investigation has to include reporting the complete passenger list.
The Israeli High Court made a judgment that merely being Palestinian is
grounds for suspicion
that someone is a terrorist, and that their rights can be taken away on
these grounds alone.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
This makes a mockery of the concept of rights. It shows how Israel has established a system of apartheid (as many have already said) in which Palestinians have no rights.
Paid Republican political activists systematically
tricked students into
registering as Republican.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
This in itself has no direct effect on election results, but it is a sign of the systematic dishonesty of the religious fanatics that now make up much of the Republican Party. They have convinced themselves that they cannot be wrong, and that any form of lying or violence is justified as long as it serves their cause.
I predict that they won't feel the slightest bit of guilt, they will just support one lie with another.
William Rodriguez saved hundreds of lives in the World Trade Center
after the attacks. Now he has
sued
Bush and others
accusing them of complicity in the attacks.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Bush regime has
increased its harrassment of political opposition this month.
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old
link was broken.]
1/3 of all species of amphibians are endangered, mostly because of
pollution caused by
humans.
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old
link was broken.]
Global warming is now one of the
principal threats to
the world's poor.
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old
link was broken.]
Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children While Arresting Priest
These police work for the gangsters that
Bush put in
charge in Haiti.
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old
link was broken.]
The making of the terror myth: a BBC TV program dares to question the basic assumptions about Islamic terrorism and Al Qa'ida.
Is Bush
planning a sudden attack on Iran as a way to manipulate the
election?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
This report might be just a rumor, but I would not put it past Dubya to start another war for purposes such as this. I've been expecting Dubya to do something drastic to manipulate the election, and why not this? But if people place enough heat on this plan, it may dissuade them.
Official statements about fighter interception on September 11
conflict with each other, are incomplete, contradict known facts, and
contain clues suggesting
fabrication.
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old
link was broken.]
In Israel the religious
fanatics are preparing for civil war if the state tries to rein in
their attacks on Palestinians.
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old
link was broken.]
The conflict between the religious fanatics and secular Jews in Israel has existed for a long time, but in the past it was mostly carried out peacefully, demographically. I used to joke about looking for a homeland for non-fanatic Jews, once the religious fanatics take over Israel and impose their way of life there. I didn't expect it to turn into violence.
I have a speculation. Perhaps the talk about civil war is being spread by the fanatics themselves as a form of intimidation: "Allow us to attack and conquer in your name, or else we'll shoot you too." This is the way fanatics in Japan forced their country into a war of aggression--they assassinated several civilian leaders until the rest were too scared to oppose them.
"Support Our Mercenaries"--how's that for a bumper sticker?
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The reason I refer to the "Bush forces" in Iraq is to resist the attempt to manipulate Americans through our patriotism into supporting an immoral war of aggression. Some of the people in the Bush forces are American, and some of them are in the US Army, but they're not "our troops". They are Bush's troops and Bush's alone.
In the book 1984, past news reports were altered to fit the lie of the day. In today's US, the media simply disregard them to print official false history instead. They know they wil rarely pay a penalty for repeating official lies, even if those lies are caught out.
The Islamic fanatic Abu Hamza has been charged with incitement to murder non-Muslims. He was also charged with possessing a book with information "likely to be useful for terrorism".
To make it a crime to possess such a book is an act of tyranny, since it criminalizes a wide range of public information--and offers an easy excuse to arrest almost anyone. Don't you have some information that could be "useful to a person preparing" some kind of terrorism? A map of your town, for instance?
Abu Hamza may deserve to be imprisoned, but laws like this one are more dangerous than he is.
A US-government-supported Arabic propaganda station applies the
propaganda methods pioneered by
Faux News and the New York Times.
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old
link was broken.]
An Israeli army captain is under investigation for
shooting his whole magazine
into the body of a Palestinian child.
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old
link was broken.]
This is surely just one instance of a widespread practice which usually goes unpunished. The authorities only take notice when compelled to do so.
The spirit of bullying, against anyone who departs from the usual
patterns, breaks out in
surprising places.
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old
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A gene that promotes male homosexuality survives through evolution
because it also leads females to have more children.
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old
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Various civilian prison guards sent to run prisons in Iraq were
associated with
acts of torture extending as far as murder. The Iraqi
police torture Iraqis too--and the
Bush forces officials cover up for
them.
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old
link was broken.]
The US is pushing the UN to ban therapeutic cloning.
But it is running into opposition.
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old
link was broken.]
I don't think a treaty to ban reproductive cloning is right either. Present-day cloning technology is flawed, and the individuals that result tend to have defects. Using this on humans would be wrong. But if the technology improves in 20 years, why should it be forbidden? Meanwhile, in the mean time there is no problem that needs to be solved.
Once people realize that a cloned human is less similar to the original human than two identical twins are similar to each other, most of the motivation for wanting to clone anyone will disappear anyway.
A leaked email shows that the Republicans in Florida have continued trying to disenfranchize Democratic voters.
A Russian journalist in Belarus, who criticized the president for
election fraud, was
attacked on the street, then arrested and blamed
for the attack.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Blaming the victim for being attacked is a commonly-used technique for suppressing unwanted views. However, in the US, journalists aren't usually attacked or arrested, other than by police when they are covering a protest. Instead, they just know their jobs don't allow publishing certain sorts of things.
Sinclair Broadcasting Company's history of
political bias and smear.
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old
link was broken.]
Bush told a supporter there would be
no casualties in the war in Iraq.
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I can believe Bush believed this. Not only because he and his coterie believed there would be no opposition, but because he thought "god" would make sure of it.
Afghanistan is making
little progress.
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old
link was broken.]
The CIA is hiding a report
that details US government shortcomings in
preventing the 9/11 attacks, in an apparent attempt to shield Bush
from blame.
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old
link was broken.]
More dishonest Republican voter registration practices: a company hired by the RNC claimed to be nonpartisan in order to get permission to set up tables, then acted in a partisan way.
How military recruiters prey on students.
Peer pressure is no longer the most dangerous pressure that
they face.
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old
link was broken.]
Organizing parents to resist teach their children to resist this could be both useful now, and a good start towards resisting the draft if Bush or Kerry reintroduces it.
Witnesses report on Republican dirty tricks, such as throwing away
voter registration forms for potential Democratic voters.
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old
link was broken.]
A rich businessman was convicted of murder in a trial where his defense was conducted inadequately.
If even rich people get ridiculous trials, imagine what happens to everyone else.
Bush versus the "reality-based community".
The article is far too
gentle with this liar, but it explains some Bush's appeal to his
fellow religious fanatics.
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old
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Greenpeace is protesting the shipment of plutonium to be mixed with
uranium for use in nuclear power plants.
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old
link was broken.]
Election workers in part of California
are being told not to offer
voters the option of voting on paper.
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old
link was broken.]
The Republican leaders in Congress exerted all their political muscle to defeat a bill that would repeal one small part of the USA PAT RIOT act, the part that authorizes the FBI to spy on records of what you read.
Their opposition to this demonstrates that their agenda includes complete, totalitarian surveillance. Unfortunately, many Democrats support it too in all the other areas of life.
A former British diplomant, who resigned recently, says that the Prime
Minister's office "did not tell the whole truth" about Iraq.
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old
link was broken.]
The seizure of Indymedia servers can viewed as a
trial balloon for plans to suppress the use of the Internet
as a way to bypass the controlled corporate
media.
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old
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Vietnam is persecuting Christians, who are mostly minority peoples
whose lands were taken away for plantations.
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The US would be in a better position to criticize this double oppression if it were behaving in an upright way itself.
The UK government admitted its claims about Saddam Hussain's
chemical weapons
were false--but meanwhile it is trying to undermine
Hans Blix by publishing half-truths.
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Bush claims to have deployed an ABM system, but its developers have
never conducted a realistic test. Perhaps they know the system would
fail if it were ever really tested.
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old
link was broken.]
I think that missile defense systems are a good idea in principle, assuming the country that deploys them is not bent on aggression. However, that's no excuse for squandering money on ineffective systems.
Anarchists protested at the European Social Forum, claiming that government sponsorship had tamed it as an opposition force.
A leaked email shows that the Republicans in Florida
have continued trying to disenfranchize Democratic voters.
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old
link was broken.]
Human Rights Watch says that the systematic Israeli demolition of
homes in Gaza is not only against international human rights treaties,
it is also unnecessary and ineffective in its own terms.
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old
link was broken.]
There is new,
conclusive evidence that Bush gets prompting through his
earphone.
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old
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I am not sure this is necessarily something to criticize, except in debates where it is the equivalent of cheating in a sport. However, the lack of attention given to the story in the US media is a good measure of how effectively controlled it is.
Updates on several instances of Bush's trampling civil liberties. One
conviction was overturned because the FBI's evidence was fraudulent.
Aside from that, little has changed for the better.
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When Bush released Yaser Hamdi to Saudi Arabia, the regime not only showed that its previous claims that he was somehow dangerous. But by taking away his US citizenship, it showed its true spirit. Hamdi was guilty, in their eyes, of being stubbornly innocent. Once he came under suspicion, they could not let him go without punishing him somehow, because that would be admitting they are wrong.
When it comes to killing children, the Israeli army outdoes
the Palestinians 5 to 1.
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old
link was broken.]
(I think killing adults is just as bad as killing children, when there's no special reason to justify it.)
Bush has imposed US-style plant variety patents in Iraq, and is pushing genetically modified plants there.
This is just one of many ways that Bush plans to permanently suck money out of Iraq for his friends. (I've mentioned others here.)
All together, they mean that the only patriotic candidates in the coming Iraqi elections will be those that set out to eliminate the permanent bondage Bush has imposed on their country. However, to do that they would probably first have to tell Bush to take his troops out.
Bush lives in a never-never land, shielded from bad news, and appears to be gradually cracking up.
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World.
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It occurs to me that one other factor that may have contributed to Edwards' bias in the debate was that he too has been misled by the prevailing media bias, which gives a lot of publicity to the occasional Israeli children that are murdered, and much less to the many Palestinian children that are murdered.
Pharmaceutical companies misrepresent drug side effects when bribing
researchers to keep them quiet does not work.
They systematically distort science.
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old
link was broken.]
Next time someone tells you that drug companies must have patents to make big money to do research, show them this article about what kind of research they do.
This article, by an author who is Christian and does not like
abortion, points out how Bush has increased the rate of abortions
in the US with policies that impose hardship on most Americans.
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old
link was broken.]
I am generally in favor of abortion, and one reason is because the overpopulation of the Earth threatens to cause billions to die in pain while civilization and half the species of life die too. If the increased rate of abortions means slower population growth in the most resource-guzzling country on Earth, that could be the only good result of Bush's cruelty. It doesn't justify the cruelty, but it could partially compensate.
Remember the
Supreme Court ruling that said Guantanamo detainees had
the right to a court hearing? Bush is carrying this out in a way
designed to sabotage the decision.
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I think his prestige is so wrapped up in the claim that these people are dangerous terrorists, and that he is protecting America from them, that he can't ever admit they are not.
How companies are planning to raid pension benefits.
A government of the people, by the people, for the people could vigilantly block such moves, and ensure that companies put aside money in good years to cover their future pensions even if things go bad.
The CIA is still holding prisoners that it
refuses to let the ICRC visit,
and holding their children hostage.
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By the way, I wonder whether the anonymous sources quoted in the Editor's Note are people we ought to place credibility in. If they work for Bush, or Al Qa'ida, or both, should we expect them to tell the truth?
The sorry state of Iraqi hospitals and public health.
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old
link was broken.]
Israeli police arrested peace activists who wanted to help
Palestinians harvest their olives. They said they were afraid
that settlers would attack the peace activists.
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link was broken.]
Given the violence documented in this article, that concern may be well-founded. But wouldn't an honest police force protect the peace activists, and arrest the settlers?
Here's a small sample of what Israeli terror raids do.
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America has
lost this election. What we should do to have a chance
of winning one some day?
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Cockpit recordings show that
Bush forces fighter pilots fired
at Iraqis without even trying to find out who they were.
By luck, they were unarmed civilians. Oops!
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Burma's dancing dolphins are endangered--due to fishnets, and captures for display to the public.
The low morale of the Bush forces
shows when supply troops refused
to carry out orders which they term
suicidal.
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old
link was broken.]
Arrested war protestor Rosemarie Jackowski
speaks to the court.
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Where Did These Conservatives Come From?
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The puppet government of Iraq is borrowing money to pay reparations to various multinational corporations. The money being spent on "reconstructing Iraq" is less than what Iraq is being forced to pay out.
Afghan warlords with bloody pasts
may
get posts in the new government, as part of wheeling and dealing
organized by the US.
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old
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The UK ambassador to Uzbekistan says the Uzbek government uses torture to get false confessions for the CIA and MI6--false evidence designed to convince them of what the Uzbek rulers want them to believe.
The European Commission held a hearing on Digital Restrictions
Management--and arranged it so that the representatives of the public
ended up with zero minutes to speak. Only the media companies were
allowed to speak. This shows who side they're on, and it's not the
public's side.
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DRM is Theft!
Indymedia's servers were returned,
without any answers as to why they were seized.
Which means, in effect, that any
journalistic web site could be seized at any time.
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The EFF will go to court to try to get answers.
The Republican Party has paid a company to pretend to register voters--then throw the registration forms in the trash, so they will be unable to vote.
Corporations are paying tax-exempt organizations to do election
campaigning for them. (It is illegal for tax-exempt organizations to
campaign for or against a candidate.)
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More evidence that Bush gets tips through an earphone on what to say.
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I don't find this especially scandalous, personally. If presidents can have speechwriters, why not prompters? The problem with Bush is not that his speeches or policies were suggested to him by someone else. It is what those policies are. If he had thought of them all on his own, that would hardly be an excuse.
The fine print in a bill now in congress would exempt the FBI, the
Energy Department and the Treasury department (among others) from the
Freedom of Information Act.
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link was broken.]
The UK imprisoned an animal rights protestor for shouting at a person who works at a company that is the target of a protest campaign.
I do not support the animal rights movement; for instance, I eat meat and intend to continue doing so. But whether you or I agree with this protestor is a side issue. The issue is whether peaceful protest is allowed. This case is not unique, it is part of a pattern. When the UK treats peaceful protest as "crime", and imposes orders on the protestors that permanently forbid them to participate in the protest campaign, the effect is to harrass democracy. The UK government ought to take out an "antisocial behavior order" on itself.
The Taliban failed to disrupt
Afghanistan's election, but there are
accusations that the election was unfair.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Before Bush invaded Iraq, some equipment that could be used for making
nuclear weapons was kept under watch by the UN. But Bush kicked out
the UN weapons inspectors, and since the Bush invasion,
this equipment has been disappearing.
Nobody knows where it is now.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Israel admits that withdrawal from Gaza is an excuse to forget about
peace in the west bank.
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Uri Avnery has been saying this all along. Here he analyzes this, and how the photo-analyst's mistaking a stretcher for a rocket is just one example of a practice that frequently leads to shooting a rocket at civilians.
CO2 levels are rising faster and faster,
suggesting some positive feedback system
is accelerating global warming.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
This could mean that the chances of a catastrophic 100-foot rise in sea level is increased. How many feet above sea level do you live?
Is the UK government training Colombian military units to
kill union organizers and political activists?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
At every turn, Indymedia is getting stonewalled about why its
disks were seized.
Here are some reports that have been published
about possible reasons, and treaties that make it easy to attack
the press globally.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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Perhaps the reason why the corporate media do not fear that these treaties will be turned against them is that they are already so in bed with government that they know it will never want to do so.
Zelikow, who led the 9/11 commission's investigation, is now
complaining that people disbelieve the commission's report.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
The first step in winning people's trust in the report is to have an honest and thorough investigation and publish all the evidence.
Republicans in Ohio are trying many methods of "voter suppression".
US forces in Afghanistan are now saying it isn't important to capture
Osama bin Laden,
the exact opposite of their previous position.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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I agree that one shouldn't overestimate the importance of that one person; however, there's something orwellian about making a big fuss about a goal and then, after it is not achieved, pretending it was never presented as a priority.
An interview with James Kunstler about what peak oil might do to
suburbia.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Mexico's biggest oil field, the world's second largest,
is gradually going down in production,
due to depletion.
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Most US TV networks distorted coverage of the presidential debate in favor of Bush, on specific items that are precisely documented.
Bush has intensified the
closure of unlicensed radio stations.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
This fits in with a general policy of encouraging consolidation of the
mass media, which increases the
capability to suppress opposing views.
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Abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo has provided little useful intelligence, say some in the Pentagon and the FBI. But it has persuaded some prisoners to make false confessions.
Stanley Hilton is suing the US government on behalf of 400 relatives
of 9/11 victims,
alleging
that the Bush administration planned the hijackings and the
attacks. He is using subpoena power to give soldiers a legal basis to
spill the secrets they have been ordered to keep, and facing
government threats in return.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
The election is being held in Afghanistan, but some warlords are
trying to intimidate the voters--and
they run the
polling places too.
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How pollution was illegal in the US until business changed the law...back in 1876. And lots more.
A new book gives information about Operation Northwoods, the plan for faking attacks by Cuba against the US so as to excuse an attack on Cuba. The plan was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and rejected by President Kennedy.
It took decades for this information to become known. Will it take decades to learn what really happened on September 11?
The UK's detention-on-suspicion law is challenged in court.
British hostage Bigley was pleading for Blair to negotiate.
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If a nation is fighting a justified and necessary war, against an enemy that has done things that make war necessary, it would be ludicrous to forfeit any military advantage to save the life of a hostage. A British division in World War II would not have retreated because Nazis threatened to kill some civilians. But Blair cannot appeal to this principle, because people know his war was never justified, and far from being necessary to continue, it is a futile quagmire.
A conclusive determination that Saddam Hussein
did not have nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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The FBI seized Indymedia servers in the UK, through
a subpoena to its ISP's US office,
and refuses to say why.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Fortunately, Indymedia had backups (they had probably planned for such harrassment).
A car powered
by compressed air is going on sale in Spain.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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Compressing the air to run the car will use energy, of course, but it can easily be electricity, and that electricity can come from renewable sources.
Is There Still Time to
Impeach Bush?
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Dubya's rhetoric about "god" resembles that of another leader who launched wars of conquest.
The conquest of Iraq would fulfill a
30-year-old dream, if it succeeds.
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Instead of asking how Dan Rather got those documents about Bush,
let's demand
Bush give a straight answer about those facts.
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In India, even when Dalits manage to go to college, they face such strong prejudice that no one will hire them.
Bigoted businessmen faced with affirmative action proposals often pretend this would prevent them from hiring based on merit. However, the problem exists because they don't really judge these people on merit.
The UK Tory leader
accused Blair of lying about Iraq, and others are calling on him to resign.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
US publishers sue to
print works
from Iran and Cuba.
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In Samarra, the Bush forces
pretend that
everyone killed was a resistance fighter. In the morgue, the dead women and
children pile up.
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This is the persistent blatant lying of people who have learned to have no respect for truth.
Cat Stevens Slams U.S.
Deportation.
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My friend Nick Hill told me:
I suspect there is a feedback system where the amount of money pumped into the republican party by big business is related to how well the republican party are doing in the polls. If the republicans are ahead, business is un-inclined to pump money in. If republicans are lagging, they start pumping money in and turn up the propoganda. This explains how the parties are so often neck and neck in the polls.Therefore, a good democrat must tell pollsters he is voting republican or he is opening up the money tap to make more republicans to counteract his vote.
A peaceful protest against the annexation wall was met with violence from Israeli soldiers.
For statistics on the various forms of violence, see the B'Tselem web site.
Public Citizen beat Bush in court, requiring public rulemaking about nuclear plant rules.
More about a related case.
The Bush forces are gradually losing the war in Iraq.
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North Korea's state religion
worships the ruler,
whose family is treated as divine,
and natural disasters are blamed on the US.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
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They need not worry so much about letting Koreans have contact with the outside world. After all, a parallel system in the US manages to maintain itself even though many Americans openly denounce it.
With legal music downloading, the record companies get more than half
the money, as pure profit for no work.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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This result is symptomatic of the stranglehold that current copyright law has given the record companies over music listeners and musicians.
The Bush forces
reoccupied Samarra, an Iraqi city.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
The insurgents followed standard guerrilla tactics: when confronted with overwhelming force, they melt away so they can attack somewhere else later. Thus the occupying troops have really achieved nothing.
Voters
chose Aung San Suu Kyi as "Asia's hero 2004".
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
A soldier who fought in the Bush forces
committed suicide as a
result of what he did there.
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I would urge anyone who feels that bad about his life to lose it fighting for freedom rather than throwing it away.
EU arms export rules are
failing to block
exports to many countries with oppressive goverments.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Too bad that the US manufactures its own arms.
It can't be restrained from aggression this way.
Greg Palast evaluates the Bush-Kerry debate.
I think it's not just Saudis that need to be investigated carefully for connection with the 9/11 attacks, it's the Bushmen's cover-up.
The Bush forces
are
exaggerating their success at training Iraqi soldiers and police.
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This shortfall may be just as well for them, since the Iraqi soldiers
and police they train often fight or spy for the rebels. See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48707-2004Sep24 for
the background.
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Several elite Israeli military commanders
condemned the army's activities
in the occupied territory, and said that
razing of houses was immoral.
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Judges in Nevada
used legal
technicalities to reject the MPP's petition to legalize marijuana.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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Republicans are
pursuing
many parallel attempts to falsify Florida elections.
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Prominent Colombian Sociologist Assassinated-- by pro-government gunmen, it seems.
State terrorism, as carried out by the US, UK, Israel, and Russia.
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Bush and his cabinet are champions of flip-flop, on various issues.
A study finds that articles published in open-access journals tend to have more research impact.
I've been pushing for free redistribution of scientific articles for a decade.
With massive intimidation of voters, the election in Afghanistan
looks set to be a total failure.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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The Human Rights Watch report is in http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghanistan0904/.
Neither Bush nor Kerry
supports abortion
rights.
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I am getting mailings urging me to "save the Supreme Court" by supporting Kerry. I wish I could believe he would do so.
The
Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold.
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In the UK, children are being kept indoors and denied the freedom to
move
about independently.
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I've seen the same overprotectiveness in the US as well. It amazes me to think that children 10 years old are typically forbidden to walk to a park on their own. I walked to school in Manhatten at the age of 6, and so did everyone else in my class. It was normal. There is no reason it should not be normal today.
The death rate in Baghdad has more than
doubled
since the war,
and are rising still.
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As Al Qa'ida become decentralized,
Bush doesn't have a clue about how
to fight it.
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Democrats approve Bush tax breaks for corporations
Book review: Secret Evidence.
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Only 30% of the "Iraq reconstruction" funds benefit Iraqis.
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Cheney persistently tries to give a false impression that there was a
connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qa'ida, while
avoiding
actually saying so (since he doesn't want people to be able to
catch him in a specific lie).
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At Bush rallies, reporters are
not
allowed to talk to the audience!
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If I were his opponent, I would do the same thing too, putting reporters in a cage, when the rally starts. But later, during my speech, I would tell the reporters that it is wrong to keep them locked up, and that they are free to leave the cage and mingle with the crowd.
Who is more dangerous--
bin Laden or Dr Khan?
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Bangladesh is doing a better job at health and education for the general public than India is, partly because it has decided to spend more money on these things and less on the army.
Amnesty International says the Sudan government is
still supporting
the Janjaweed militias.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Amnesty International called for an
arms embargo to
Sudan in July.
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What would the actual conditions in Iraq look like if they were in the
US?
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The FBI
never really tried to investigate the origin
of the forged documents that gave Bush "proof" that Saddam Hussein
was buying uranium.
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We can guess why. We now know that the only uranium in Iraq is that which was exploded there by the Bush forces during the war; Saddam was not buying any. But Bush wanted an excuse for his war, and these papers provided it. Perhaps that was no accident--perhaps the Bushmen arranged for these papers to turn up. Perhaps the FBI is not investigating their origin because Bush or Cheney told them "we already know".
Bush's ten positions on Iraq
(nine flip-flops).
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If it is true that Kerry voted for the war as an act of support for Bush, I think that is discreditable in itself.
Al Qa'ida
boasts of controlling Afghanistan.
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The UK released one of the aliens imprisoned without trial. He
never found out why he was imprisoned, and doesn't know why he was
released.
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link was broken.]
I am glad they are willing to release these people when they learn more about the situation--it is better than if they were NOT willing to consider that a past decision was mistaken. We often see that in the US.
Diebold computerized voting systems have a back door in the central
tabulating system that
makes it easy to alter vote counts.
This can be done remotely by telephone.
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You can tell the real purpose of police from looking at their priorities.
This was written about police in Ireland, and the examples cited are from there, but I'd expect that it's the same for police in the US or anywhere.
As Bush destroys the living population of Iraq with dirty uranium bombs, looters and the Bush forces are destroying the ancient cities of Sumer, where civilization began.
You could see a lot of irony in this, but the tragedy hurts me too much for any sort of amusement.
Congressman DeLay's top aides were indicted for illegal fund-raising.
Interview with Daniel Gross,
leading the Starbucks unionization effort.
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A protest temporarily stopped construction of the Annexation Wall,
although
protestors were attacked with gas and other weapons.
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Destroying the National Guard:
morale is
crumbling among soldiers mobilized to fight a war they know is
unjust.
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Civilian casualties in Iraq are caused
2/3 by the Bush forces
and 1/3 by the Iraqi resistance.
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The Bush forces say, "We only kill civilians because the insurgents are fighting us--it is their fault for not accepting the conquest of their country." The resistance turns that around and says, "We only kill civilians because the Bush forces are occupying our country--it is their fault."
These statements are mirror images, but the situation is not symmetrical. The Bush forces are fighting to conquer Iraq; the resistance is fighting to liberate their country. Therefore, all these casualties are the fault of the Bush forces.
Terrible
v. Worse
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The US Army is developing video war games to attract young people to join up.
I don't think this is quite as sinister as the writer puts it--for boys to play at war is nothing new. These games might have helped recruiting in previous conditions, but I don't think that video games will convince many people to risk their lives in an unjust war of conquest.
I wish that the Army would release these games as free software, with the source code. Then I could install them and play them myself.
Mothers of troops killed in the
Bush forces
are starting to
fight back against Bush.
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link was broken.]
Concealing Pakistani
involvement in
the 9/11 attacks.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber
killed
two members of the Israeli Border Police. The Border Police have a
reputation for particular cruelty.
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I don't know whether the woman's decision to the Border Police was a last-minute expedient or a prior plan. If she decided from the beginning to attack armed occupation forces, that is a very different thing from attacking civilians.
An investigation in Iraq has found many previously unknown Bush-run prisons, and evidence of torture (including rape) throughout them.
Meanwhile, the Bush forces continue employing the company whose employees ("contractors", according to the Bushmen) were caught abusing prisoners.
Burmese exiles are on hunger strike in front of the UN, calling for the UN to take action against the Burmese military dictatorship.
A former Northern Ireland police informer plead guilty to murdering a lawyer who defended IRA suspects. The police knew the murder was planned and did nothing to stop it. There is pressure now for a public inquiry into the whole business.
Ashcroft's
phony war on terrorism.
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link was broken.]
How does Bush plan
to get more
troops to feed into Iraq?
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Only a few percent of these troops will be killed or wounded in combat, but a large fraction of them are likely to get sick from Dirty Uranium bombs.
How anti-trust law in the US
has become
ineffective.
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The case for impeachment: There is no doubt Blair misled parliament over the war.
Indigenous protestors and trade union members were beaten by police, then arrested, in Oaxaca.
The original spanish.
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link was broken.]
Later I read that the police had published doctored photos trying to hide how they had beaten the arrested people. This link points to an article about the police doctoring the photos.
The NATO administration of Kosovo is imposing privatization. And perhaps privatization was a secret motive for the NATO intervention in Kosovo.
How millions of Black Americans are being
stopped from voting.
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link was broken.]
Some of the methods involve intimidation that plays on the consequences of being poor in America.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is trying to hamper the use of absentee ballots by Americans that are outside the US.
Doug Rokke commanded the US Army's Dirty Uranium decontamination team
after the first Gulf War. He found that
decontamination was nearly impossible
and said DU should be banning, so the army fired him.
Before Dubya attacked Iraq, he warned of the danger from DU.
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30 of his 100-man team had already died in 2002, just 10 years after they did their work. Rokke is badly sick from the uranium he inhaled.
Here is a speech made by Rokke.
Warning: the US is moving towards imposing fingerprinting of everyone.
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I love what the US used to stand for, but I would rather leave the country and go into exile than submit to that demand.
Experience in other countries shows that such measures do not prevent terrorist attacks, not even those which are not sponsored by a government.
Edwards
promises no return to the draft.
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There is a
new attempt to challenge the constitutionally of changes
in the US copyright law, that have made many out-of-print works
into orphans, unable to move forward to the computer age.
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Double standards: documents about Bush that are not certainly
authentic, vs the documents Bush used for war that were certainly
fake.
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Further injustice in the Moussaoui case.
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Challenging Bush and his friends to take a vacation in Iraq.
Howard Dean challenges Bush to say
whether he will impose conscription.
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Republican senators are criticizing Bush for "mistakes".
However,
they are not prepared to admit that attacking Iraq was a mistake (and
illegitimate), or that continuing the occupation is a mistake.
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This article analyzes what would be needed for the Bush forces to win.
It does not point out that this would be a cruel and inexcusable act of imperial conquest.
Putin
accuses 'complicit' West of harbouring Chechen terrorists. A Chechen rebel
leader has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Beslan school.
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Even though the Russian troops have committed many more atrocities in Chechnya, that doesn't excuse the butchery of Beslan. Surely Chechen rebels can find ways to fight Russia without murdering children.
Embarrassing find: comparing South Korea's WMD program with Iran's.
Why the West is
Losing.
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Bush pretends not to see global warming, but
his brother can't
avoid the hurricanes.
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How Bush is shifting
taxes from the rich to the middle class--step, so people won't realize
where it is leading.
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A Republican proposal would use a forest fire as an
excuse to open a large wilderness area to logging.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
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link was broken.]
Here's how I learned of the plan:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/09/1695695.php
The Bushmen changed their story about the copters that fired at the crowd in Baghdad, but the new story is false too.
Rumsfeld is reported to have had a secret plan drawn up for provoking terrorist groups to carry out attacks against the US, so that they would provide an occasion to attack these groups.
Secret papers show Blair was warned a year in advance that invading Iraq would lead to chaos, and that any new Iraqi government would be likely to get the same WMDs that Saddam was claimed to have.
In other words, Bliar has been faking all along when claiming that the invasion would improve things, either for Iraqis or for the West.
Meanwhile, here's information on Allawi's background of bombings in Iraq.
I don't think it was wrong to plant bombs to attack Saddam's forces--he was a dictator, and a dictator is never legitimate. As long as the bombs were not aimed at civilians, I would not call them terrorism, just as bombing the Bush forces or Iraqi police collaborators is not terrorism. The article gives conflicting claims about whether Allawi's bombings included terrorism.
Former UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali blames Bush for increasing world terrorism, and says the Bush forces should leave Iraq.
American Jews have
started a
campaign to support the next US president in pushing for peace
between Israel and the Palestinians. Although they support Israel in
general, they reject the Israel-can-do-no-wrong lobby exemplified by
AIPAC.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
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link was broken.]
Baghdad's Thriving
Kidnapping Industry.
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Perhaps one of the reasons Bush has diverted "reconstruction" funds to security is that it's impossible to do any reconstruction with the situation as it is. However, no one working with the Bush forces could ever restore security in Iraq, except through massive butchery. Anyone attempting this would be despised by most Iraqis as a collaborator.
Medical doctors
argue with the evidence that was
used to argue that David Kelly committed suicide.
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The CIA has
fewer people searching for bin Laden now than on
11 Sep 2001.
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Putin is
using terrorism as an excuse to eliminate election of
state governors. How would this make anyone safer?
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Bush criticizes Putin's plan:
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Some would criticize Bush for this, since it is hypocritical given Bush's own policies. I disagree; even though it is tragic that Bush opposes democracy in the US, it remains better for him to support it in Russia than oppose it there. Bush is indeed a hypocrite, but let's criticize what he does that is wrong, rather than what he says that is right.
A court decision in Alaska ruled that possession of small amounts of
marijuana is legal under state law. Meanwhile, the MPP, which
helped in this court case, has put a referendum on the ballot
to treat marijuana like alcohol.
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The government of India has decided to repeal the unjust "anti-terrorism" law.
The party now in power went to the mat to oppose this law when it was passed by the previous government, and is prepared to act on its opposition now that it is in power. I wish the US had an opposition party that was committed this much to freedom and justice.
A study of
"friendly AI"--how to design artificial intelligence so
that it won't threaten humanity's freedom and existence.
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Who really kidnaped Italian and Iraqi aid workers in Baghdad?
Police in various parts of the UK have been authorized to impose blanket curfews on people under 16, with no recourse. A teenager is going to court against this.
Police in London are stopping and questioning people
in the underground just because they look foreign.
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Mordechai Vanunu has received the LennonOno
Grant for Peace.
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An
Autopsy of the American Dream
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Police in California attacked a nonviolent sit-in by
putting pepper in the protestors' eyes, one person at a time.
Now they are on trial.
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The Pentagon's casualty counts of Americans in the
Bush forces are an
undercount. They list 7000 wounded but do not count 17000 others who
were also wounded.
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800 of them are psychotic--that's almost as large as the number that have been killed.
More evidence that Bush fled his National Guard duty because
he was abusing drugs and would have failed the physical exam.
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The Bush Drug Lottery
Flops.
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Retired US generals and military strategists are saying that Bush has lost the war in Iraq--and they say that the commanders realize this. One reports that Bush is planning to exterminate the population of Falluja, just after the election.
Soldiers understand keeping secrets or lying about tactics in order to defeat an enemy. But when they are ordered to lie to their country about whether they have won or lost, the effect is to corrupt them--perhaps permanently.
Meanwhile, the US army reserve and national guard are
being used up.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
Even Newsweek is starting to admit that Bush's plan is
falling apart--although it pretends that Iraqis "hate the
insurgents" and that the resistance is "unfortunate".
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
What's unfortunate in Iraq is that the country was invaded by a jerk who is prepared to keep up the lie no matter how threadbare it gets.
Librarians are
organizing the largest opposition to the USA PAT RIOT act.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
However, it is not enough to exempt libraries from unreasonable searches for information about you. Your civil liberties should be respected fully, not just when you're in a library.
Costa Rica asks to be
removed from the list of countries in the Bush
coalition. While this will not withdraw any troops from the Bush
forces, it is still good to reduce even symbolic support for wars of conquest.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
California to Sue Diebold
over False Claims regarding electronic
voting machines.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The US Census Bureau reports that poverty is rising in the US.
Bush is using deceptive accounting measures to disguise the fact that he is running the national debt past the limit approved by Congress. He has added 1.3 trillion dollars to the debt in 4 years.
Palestinian and Jewish activist organizations have launched
a campaign for sanctions against Israel as long as the
occupation of the Palestinian territories continues.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The UN Secretary-General has said that the Bush invasion of Iraq was illegal, and that he doubts the planned elections can really be held.
The report says he has been saying similar things all along, though in softer words.
Oil prices
continue to rise, as demand exceeds the maximum supply.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The coming new oil fields referred to here may be those described elsewhere in another article as the last few left to be developed.
The Clinton administration lied to Congress and trained Indonesian army units that were connected with massacres in East Timor.
The UK was also involved.
The ACLU has taken up the case of people who arrested for
wearing
unfriendly shirts at a Bush rally.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
There are many other instances of
silencing and punishing Americans for criticizing Bush.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Clarence Darrow is quoted as saying, "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with pleasure." I don't think people should be executed for crimes, even huge crimes such as Dubya's. However, reading Dubya's obituary would be a pleasure, if it comes soon enough to make a difference. Not as much as Cheney's, though!
Building a wall between Palestinian
children and
their schools.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Polution from the burning World Trade Center 'could
cause more
deaths than attack'.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Comparing Sudan and other forms of terror.
(This article says that the victims in massacres in Darfur are Muslim;--the other reports say they are non-Muslims and their persecutors are Muslim. I don't think this changes the conclusions, though.)
Israel has put a peace activist in prison without a trial, citing "secret evidence" (which often means "lies"). This resembles the practices of the apartheid government of South Africa.
For reference, see the third article in this page:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/93/44/200409131113.9a65341f.html
"I am dismayed that the most effective anti-Kerry ad was the one that
highlighted the one time in his life
he
told the unvarnished truth ."
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Bush regime is indeed
considering
attacking Iran.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The goal of preventing nuclear proliferation is important, but the Bush regime has shown little respect for this goal except when it suits their other goals. The invasion of Iraq is the greatest impetus for a country such as Iran to seek nuclear weapons.
I would have greater respect for US policies, and probably so would Iran's government, if they were applied more uniformly, including Israel's nuclear weapons too.
New Scientist: Copyright is hampering our basic freedoms, by Danny O'Brien
The way my friends in New York say it: "DRM is theft".
Book review: The War on Civil Liberties.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
A journalist's dying act:
televise the Bush forces' attack
on a crowd in Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World --
Fisk
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Arguing that Kerry should withdraw and give someone more spirited a chance
to run against Bush.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
While I don't support Kerry, I am not convinced that someone else would have a better chance to beat Bush. Bush and his men control most of the media--and most is enough to do the job--and they have the skill, the will and the money to make a mountain out of any molehill in a shadow of a shade of a flaw in whoever they wish to discredit.
How Do You Say
"Death Squad?"
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
See www.killercoke.org for more information about their exploits.
The Israeli army contains units of religious students (the Jewish
equivalents of the Taliban) who obey specific rabbis. These rabbis
have just authorized
killing civilians for the sake of security. Rabbis for Human
Rights refuted their reasoning, but the students won't care about
that.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Ashcroft has taught police in the US to
treat protest as an occupying army would--never
mind laws--and taught the FBI to
assume "that dissident speech and associations should be prevented
because they were incipient steps towards the possible ultimate
commission of an act which might be criminal."
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
If they really believe in shutting down associations that might lead to crime, they ought to close down all corporations first. It's not unusual for corporations to engage systematically in crime; Think of Enron, and Coca Cola Company. Not every corporation engages in crime, just as not all protestors do; but if that's not enough excuse to permit protest, why should it be an excuse for corporations?
A former Black Pather Party organizer, who was convicted of murder
(but claims to have been framed),
is being kept in prison illegally
despite laws saying he is now entitled to parole.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Several Black Panther Party organizers were convicted of murder in trials that smell bad.
Richard Clarke is condemning the invasion of Iraq, saying it "made people hate us." Amen to that.
However, I think it is just as well that steps have not been taken to "protect" trains and stores from bombings, because (1) there hasn't been another bombing in the US in 3 years, so the danger is pretty small, and (2) so-called "protective" measures are likely to be tyrannical as well as protective. They would be the sort of intrusions that make people feel they are being protected instead of really protecting anyone.
AMTRAK's policy of demanding identification from passengers is already going too far, and therefore I don't use AMTRAK--I take buses instead. I am worried by the reported plans to try to "protect" city subways, which can't possibly be effective unless they turn cities into police states. All this to protect against a minor cause of death. 4,000 Americans die in road accidents every month; instead of paying for more police on subways and buses, let's run more subways and buses, so that more people leave their cars home. That would really save lives.
Specifics of how
Bush
told the FBI not to investigate bin Ladens, Dr. Khan, etc.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Interview
with Putin regarding Chechnya.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
During School Siege,
Russia Took
Captives in Chechnya
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
I'm encouraged by the openness Putin shows now towards changes in the policy towards Chechnya.
Should Russia be willing to negotiate with Chechens? The Russian troops have committed acts equally brutal and much more in number in Chechnya, and we still think that Chechens should be willing to negotiate with the Russian government. So it seems fair to apply the same principle in the other direction and say that Russians should negotiate with the Chechen leaders (who have condemned the raid on the school).
1000 Americans in the Bush forces have died in Iraq, but Iraqi casualties are uncounted.
The WWF says that many species (including fish and trees) are threatened
as a result of global trade.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush is against terrorism, except when it involves
killing
tourists in Cuba.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Chile's endangered alerce tree faces extinction, although protected,
because of weak
law enforcement.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Even as the physical evidence of what happened to the World Trade
Center was being destroyed, people were objecting, trying to stop it.
Dubya
and his men
must have intended to destroy the evidence.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Millions will die due to climate change.
The CIA has
held as many as 100 secret prisoners in Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Now that documents have been found to discredit Bush's phony National Guard service, his supporters are fabricating excuses to call them false.
This is an example of how Bush treats any unpleasant truth (including the truth that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and the truth of global warming): mobilize people to lie to discredit it.
As Bush fights to grab Iraqi oil, minor hoods
fight over the
oil of Equatorial Guinea.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The UK and US governments used various dirty tricks and lies to remove the population of the Chagos Islands, about 35 years ago. Many committed suicide, having nowhere to live and nothing to eat, but some went to court. They won a ruling allowing them to go home to some of the Chagos Islands, but Bliar has sabotaged it.
I partly disagree with some of the views expressed by the author about other issues, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but those don't negate the article's main point.
A Canadian province risks nullifying its
privacy laws
by letting a US company handle its health data.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
It appears that the school-attackers in Russia
were not
Chechens at all. (Who were they?)
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The US is pursuing research into
scientific
techniques to control people's minds. Some techniques may actually
be used today, though it is hard to be sure just how far they work.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Did the 9/11 investigation look at why and how weapons were prepositioned on other planes that day?
Free software enabled Indymedia to
organize large
protests against the RNC.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Neocons in the US are supporting Chechnya against Russia,
simply because they want to weaken Russia.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
I disagree with this author on several points. From what I have heard, Putin does more or less control the media in Russia; he may not have imposed strict Soviet-style censorship, but opposing candidates could not get coverage. The Chechen situation is clearly a political issue. Meanwhile, we should not let our disgust for the atrocities committed (by whomever it may have been) against Russian children lead us to condone the larger atrocities committed by Russian troops in Chechnya.
Building a DNA database of everyone in the US,
for surveillance.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Optimism of Uncertainty,
by Howard Zinn
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Representatives of the megacorporations are opposing a UN plan to hold them accountable for respecting the human rights of people.
The warning that this would "discourage investment" in poor countries--which is really rather a threat than a warning-- constitutes an admission that what businesses "invest" in, in poor countries, is the opportunity to trample people's rights.
No country ought to welcome, or even tolerate, this kind of investment. "If you intend to treat workers like that, not in our country!" should be the position of each and every national government. However, "free trade" lures them into a foolish competition for a larger share of "investment", where each country tolerates more and more abuse of human rights (and of the environment), hoping to win "investment" away from other countries. If only one country did this, it might profit (though at terrible expense). But when they all do it, none of them gains anything, and the only result is increased abuse everywhere. A UN standard could be the answer.
The objections of the megacorporations don't prove that the plan is flawless, but they do suggest it is on the right track. If a plan doesn't make them squeal, it's surely not going to solve the problem.
"Decontextualizing" terrorism--but only the part that isn't committed by armies.
Prison conditions in the UK are driving increasing numbers of prisoners to commit suicide.
I would expect it is worse in the US, though I don't have an article in hand to substantiate it.
Dalits have been sentenced to execution for resisting massacres by upper-caste armies.
Senator Graham's book gives details on
the
lies that were used to justify attacking Iraqa, and on how aspects
of the 9/11 investigation were suppressed. It also shows that the army
was preparing to attack Iraq a year before the war took place.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The Iraqi puppet government has excluded Al Jazeera permanently from
reporting in Iraq, citing
objections to their "editorial policy".
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
This shows what Bush means by "freedom and democracy".
The Bush forces
are
abandoning more Iraqi cities.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Perhaps their strategy is to hold only the oil fields and pipelines and supply lines, and let cities alone, as an excuse for not rebuilding the damage they did.
Dude,
where are the Arabs?
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
How
Israel sabotages nonviolent resistance and opposition.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
A protestor's experience in NYC,
being arrested along with bystanders, kept in jail illegally, etc.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush plans
to undermine Social Security.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Miloshevic has been
denied the right to represent himself.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
The crimes he is accused of (and, I think, guilty of) are grave, but this doesn't justify denying him a fair trial. Meanwhile, "political grandstanding" is what judges say when any accused person tries to raise larger issues that the judges would like to suppress. Anyone accused should have the opportunity to criticize his accusers.
Israel has refused to let UK journalist Ewa Jasciewicz enter the country to write about the Israeli peace movement.
The US also excludes UK journalists.
Ashcroft is proposing to establish
concentration
camps for "enemy combattants".
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush is trying to
privatize social security again.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The result would be
disaster.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The facts show that
national ID cards do not prevent terrorism.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
An Israel spy scandal is
damaging the influence of AIPAC.
It may have to do with jockeying
about whether to invade Iran.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Bush says there is no plan to resume conscription, but seems to be arranging to do so.
The argument that conscription will restrain wars of aggression is not just theoretically flawed. Historically, it didn't work. The draft did not stop the US government from entering the Vietnam War--it just manufactured a fraudulent excuse. It did not stop various US interventions in other American countries.
Police in New York City arrested 1000 protestors during the Republican Convention, including the press, and often acted indiscriminately.
The police held these protestors in jail so long that a judge found the city in contempt and fined the city government. This looks like an attempt to prevent them from participating in protests. It wasn't the first (see previous notes for other dirty tricks).
One person was
charged with attacking a policeman who was, at the time, wantonly
attacking protestors with his motorcycle. I hope that he succeeded in
preventing the cop from hurting innocent people.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Through all this, Mayor Bloomberg chose the side of the police rather than that of democracy.
One of Schwarzenegger's favorite stories is about how he was
influenced by a presidential debate between Nixon and Humphrey.
There never was such a debate.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
However, while we consider what this falsehood says about Schwarzenegger's character, and that of the journalists that make light of it, we should not get distracted from the more basic deceptions underneath. For instance, Schwarzenegger equates the welfare state with socialism, and right-wing commentators label cruelty as "compassionate".
The War Neither Kerry Supporters or Critics Want to Talk About:
The
Real Vietnam
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
A secret government
report says that Bush forces
soldiers raped prisoners in Iraq, and
committed other kinds of physical cruelty. It also ties the torture to
higher-ups.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Evidence that Cheney was involved in managing the 9/11 attacks.
Witnesses report that additional bombs were used in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
Arab-Americans should
not
waste their votes on Kerry.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Police arrested union organizers
for no reason, as they held a rally
against Starbucks Coffee's union-busting.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
Open Letter to Congress from 25 Nobel Laureates
(to provide free access to scientific literature).
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The athletes in the Iraqi olympic soccer team
used their moment in the limelight to condemn the Bush occupation
of Iraq.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Increasing the level of political intimidation in the US, Bush is trying to subpoena logs to find out who posted info about delegates to the Republican Convention.
If I were participating in the Republican Convention, I wouldn't want anyone to know it.
Why the Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike.
The peak oil extraction rate
seems to be already past.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
>From now on, available oil will decrease.
A whistleblower in the INS has exposed visas-for-bribes corruption that is related to the 9/11 attacks. For this service to the public, she has been punished by her employers.
NPR Leads the Charge for War Against Iran
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Ten years ago I used to give money to my local public radio station, but I stopped when I heard them broadcasting commercials. (They don't admit these are commercials, they call them another name, but they are commercials.) But the right-wing attitude that I heard in their political reporting even in the Clinton years bothered me too.
Islamist terrorists--either real or fake--
are holding French journalists hostage in Iraq,
and making demands about French schools.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
The article argues that these are fake Islamists, working for Bush, and that their goal is to manipulate French public opinion in support of Bush. I would not put this past the Bushmen. On the other hand, I can believe that real Islamists might do this, thinking that the French government will not have the courage to stand firm.
I hope that the French government and French people stand firm, and refuse to let this act of terrorism influence them in any fashion. That way, it will fail in its aims regardless of what those aims really are.
A
poll finds that half of New Yorkers believe the Bush administration
knew about the 9/11 attacks and consciously let them happen.
Two thirds demand a real investigation.
[Reference updated on 2018-08-27 because the
old
link was broken.]
I can't draw such specific conclusions and be confident of them. However, the reluctance to investigate carefully what happened on that day shows that Bush has something dirty to hide.
The Palm Beach election supervisor is
excluding poll-watchers from her
own election vote count, and using this lack of supervision to
arbitrarily rejecting absentee ballots cast by Democrats.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the
old
link was broken.]
Palestinian protestors
climbed the Israeli annexation wall
to prove it is mainly a barrier against the weak and helpless.
[Reference updated on 2018-05-06 because the old link was broken.]
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