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Signs of the Times for Tue, 20 Jun 2006

Getting Rich From Phony Terror

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
20/06/2006

Ever wondered how the Bush administration keeps the money flowing in?...

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America deaf to Palestinian screams

Fareed Taamallah
The Electronic Intifada
19 June 2006

The screaming of 11 year old Palestinian Huda Abu Ghalia from Gaza seems not to have reached American officials. Huda's parents and five siblings were killed before her eyes last week when Israeli artillery crashed onto the beach as they picnicked. The US was the only major power which not only refused to condemn the incident, but described it as "self defense." Afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israel's army the "most moral" in the world.

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The Assassins

June 19, 2006
Antiwar.com

From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda.

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Speech at the University of Barcelona

Kawther Salam
March 28, 2006

Good Morning

It is a great pleasure to be here in the University of Barcelona with you today, for a speech organized by Faculty of Philosophy. I want particularly to express my sincere appreciation to you and to the faculty of Philosophy at Barcelona University for this invitation.

In the next few minutes, I will give you a brief report about my experience working as a journalist in the area of the conflict under the Israeli occupation.

I became a political refugee in Austria as a direct result of my work as a journalist in the conflict area during the last 23 years. But, while I will talk today about my own experience, I am not an exception.

In fact, it is the case that journalism is a profession of troubles everywhere. When journalists carry out their mission in society and do their work, when they expose the violations of human rights, the corruption, the scandals in the official organizations, governments and other powerful groups, they will, as a rule, attract problems to themselves. In this respect it is not different to be a journalist in a dictatorship than in a democracy.

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Why Is the U.S. in Iraq?

June 18, 2006
by Rodrigue Tremblay
New American Empire

"We know where [the weapons of mass destruction] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." [ABC 'This Week', March 30, 2003]

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

"It's obvious. [the Iraq War] was a mistake. And I've said this from the very start. I mean, you had no weapons of mass destruction, you had no connection with al-Qaeda, there was no danger to our national security. We don't put young people in harm's way unless we have a threat to our national security."

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), MSNBC- Meet the Press, June 18, 2006

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd American President

Journalists keep asking the above question but are frustrated they never receive a straight answer. It has become more and more obvious to them that, from the start, the official story on Iraq never made sense. Last April, political commentator Chris Matthews of MSNBC-Hardball tried again to elicit an answer when he interviewed Republican Congressman Vin Weber, a card carrying member of the Project for the New American Century. Here is one exchange:

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Darkness and Light

By Gabriele Zamparini
The Cat's Blog
18/06/2006

When international law and science are silenced, the only outcome is darkness...

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