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The tyranny of George II John O'Farrell Friday July 4, 2003 Among the brightly coloured bits of plastic at the bottom of a toy box I recently came across a little plastic doll. It was a miniature Barbie that had come free from McDonald's and in tiny writing on the back it said "Made In...

Britons to face Guantanamo Bay military trials Press Association Friday July 4, 2003 British detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be among the first to face trial and possible death sentences by secretive military tribunals, it emerged today. Moazzam Begg, 35, and Feroz Abbasi, 23, are on...

Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments: Gen. says White House pushed Saddam link without evidence Sunday morning talk shows like ABC's This Week or Fox News Sunday often make news for days afterward. Since prominent government officials dominate the guest lists of the programs, it is not...

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A police state exists when federal and state police mechanisms: Serve the central government instead of serving the citizens Enforce the policies of the central government...

MOHAMMAD BIN MUSA AL-KHAWARIZMI (Died 840 A.D.) Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn Musa al-Khawarizmi was born at Khawarizm (Kheva), south of Aral sea. Very little is known about his early life, except for the fact that his parents had migrated to a place south of Baghdad. The exact dates of his...

The captives of liberation Brian Whitaker describes the messy collision of US occupation policy and Iraqi expectations Wednesday July 2, 2003 "American soldiers," the New York Times lamented the other day, "sometimes infuriate Iraqis by running afoul of time-honoured tradition."...

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Re-Lighting the Torches of America's Soul Bernard Weiner Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers June 30, 2003 What happens when individuals or whole societies damage -- or even temporarily lose -- their soul, their spiritual anchor, their sense of themselves as moral entities? Oh, I know...

Iraq: Everyone Now Needs Food Aid by Ricardo Grassi ROME -- The war in Iraq has made the entire population of 27 million dependent on food aid, leaders of aid programs say. Before the war that the U.S. and Britain launched March 20 to remove the Saddam Hussein regime, 60 percent of...

W promised a wonder - the disarmament of Saddam W delivered a miracle - the liberation & democratization of Iraq who is W - Freddie N. or God ?

"Promise wonders. Deliver miracles." -- Freddie N. Logical Confirmation of Miracles. The logic behind a miracle being used to confirm a religious truth claim goes like this: 1. If a theistic God exists, then miracles are possible. 2. A miracle is a special act of God. 3...

Quote from Freddie N.: Refugees and exiles are returning to Iraq and Afghanistan in the millions - it's hard to offer any other reasonable explanation for the phenomenon other than that they think they have a chance to build better lives for themselves following the removal of those odious...

Weapon of Mass Deception What the Pentagon doesn’t want us to know about depleted uranium. In the weeks leading up to the war on Iraq, TV screens across America were crowded with images of U.S. soldiers readying for upcoming battles with a crazed dictator who would stop at nothing. One...

US proposes world peacekeeping force Rumsfeld floats proposal to end Bush doctrine of unilateralism David Teather in New York Saturday June 28, 2003 The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is discussing the idea of an international peacekeeping force which could be dispatched to...

U.S.: Incarceration Rates Reveal Striking Racial Disparities (New York, February 27, 2002) Human Rights Watch today released the first state-by-state incarceration rates for whites, blacks and Latinos based on actual correctional facility counts. The figures, compiled from census data for...

Our troops are paying the price for a quick-win war Bad planning and over-confidence have left a dangerous legacy Martin Woollacott Friday June 27, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld said in a speech before the Iraq war that nation building was like setting bones: if you got it wrong, the result...

Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd June 24, 2003 "The Road to Coverup Is the Road to Ruin" http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_speeches/byrd_speeches_2003june/byrd_speeches_2003june_list/byrd_speeches_2003june_list_1.html

Cover Your Hair By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - NY Times BASRA, Iraq Still no luck in my quest to help the administration find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But meanwhile, I'm getting the impression that America fought Saddam, and the Islamic fundamentalists won. For a glimpse of the...

Denial and Deception By PAUL KRUGMAN - NY Times Politics is full of ironies. On the White House Web site, George W. Bush's speech from Oct. 7, 2002 — in which he made the case for war with Iraq — bears the headline "Denial and Deception." Indeed. There is no longer any serious doubt...

Meacher attacks US motives in Iraq Matthew Tempest, political correspondent Friday June 20, 2003 Sacked environment minister Michael Meacher has joined the growing chorus of scepticism over Saddam Hussein's weapons programme, saying that the US president, George Bush, invaded Iraq...