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Are We Fighting a Real War on Terror at All?
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The Potemkin Commission
Bush's decision to appoint a commission to examine why government officials averred with certainty that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" underscores the political side of globalization, and, as such, is not too surprising. After all, he had a model on the other...
Is the UN Returning to Iraq as US Front?
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will send an electoral team to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June. But some observers doubt the world body will be able to present an unbiased perspective of the view...
US Lawmakers Say Iraqi Council Plan Would Cut Women’s Rights
Iraq's governing council has quietly approved a plan to replace some existing legal rights of women with Islamic law or "Shariah," according to 44 U.S. lawmakers, who warn Washington of a "brewing women's right's crisis" in the U.S.-occupied country. In a letter sent...
Britain: Tories, Civil Rights Groups Lead Strong Opposition to Secret Trials
A proposal for secret trials for suspected terrorists has run into a wall of opposition in Britain. Civil rights groups, lawyers, the opposition Conservative Party and even Labour leaders have strongly opposed new proposals outlined by Home Secretary David Blunkett...
The Slow Strangulation of Democracy in Slovakia
"Invitations to NATO are open to all countries that have democratic systems of government, market economy, civilian control over military, and where there is a sign that the democratic system is working." ~ U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright NATO and...
Linking the Occupation of Iraq With the ‘War on Terrorism’
Reuters is one of the more independent wire services. So, a recent news story from Reuters – flatly describing American military activities in Iraq as part of "the broader U.S. war on terrorism" – is a barometer of how powerfully the pressure...
Kurd Bombing Adds New Uncertainty
The suicide bombing Sunday in the normally tranquil north of Iraq has brought new uncertainty five months before the United States is due to cede political power to Iraqis. The bombing at the offices of two Kurdish groups allied closely to the United States spread...
WMD-gate: Bush Wants to Scapegoat CIA
Badly wounded by the total collapse of its prewar contentions that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the administration of President George W. Bush has embarked on a strategy of diversion and delay. It hopes to divert...
Beyond Wall and Propaganda:
One can hardly overlook the reverberation of triumph in the words of Ariel Sharon's own chief spokesman, Ranaan Gissin on Thursday, January 29. When commenting on a suicide bombing that killed 10 Israelis and wounded others in Jerusalem, Gissin exhorted: "This...
