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Scan and Ridicule for Allawi's US Speech to Congress
Greater Political Censorshp Comes to France and U.S. and EU
Arab League - No Real 'Peace Process'
Israel's Latest Land Grab
Abbas Says Wall Must Go or No Peace
Former U.S. Attorney General Joins Saddam Defense Team
If Baptized No Return to Jewish Families - WWII Pope
Vanunu Now Under Town Arrest - Cannot leave Jerusalem or Israel
Bush and Blair Keep Right on Fronting for Israel
Israel Arrests Palestinian Candidate #2
UK Freezes Assets of Prominent Saudi Dissidents
Sri Lanka Rejects Israeli Aid
The Israelis have a long history of using such 'international aid' for both propaganda and spying purposes. And that of course is in addition to thei ...
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Stingy Americans Says Senior U.N. Official
To Lay or Not to Lay
Even in death they all still need to deal with Yasser Arafat. Uri Avnery 25.12.04 A Wreath For Blair “The curious incident is the bar ...
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Uri Avneri on Ariel Sharon's Imaginary World and Rhetoric
Uri Avnery 18.12.04 The Mountain and the Mouse Ariel Sharon’s speech at the “Herzliya Conference”, an annual gathering of Israel’s financial, polit ...
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Join Russian and China Joint Military Exercises Expanding
Kerry et. al Funnies 2004
Palestinian Establishment Calls for End to Armed Intifada
4th 9/11 Plane Shot Down That Day After All?
America's Two Colonial Realities in Today's Middle East
Israeli Realities, Sharon Peres Deceptions
Israelis: 'This Is The Whole World's Fight Now'
Top Iraqi General - President Bush Misinformed
Hamas Whips Fatah
It doesn't look like such a big victory until one realizes that the powers that be purposefully chose to have the first part of the municipal election ...
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U.S. Pushes to 'Adjust' Iraqi Vote
London's 'Peace Conf'
Americans Prefer God To Reality...
And this of course helps explain why they also have elected George Bush as their President.
Sharansky's New 'Democracy' Book
The Post-Arafat Arafat Campaign
Arafat's Maryland Bowling Alley
Abbas Campaign Begins With Arafat Tribute
More Tom Friedman Red-Baiting Simpleness
LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - 23 Dec 2004: There has been so much violence in Iraq that it's become hard to distinguish one sensele ...
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American Scare Tactics in Iraq
Massive Outpouring Greets USA Today Call for Iraqi Withdrawal
Cleansing History - Most Important Transcripts Destroyed
The most important part of this front-page Washington Post story is not in the headlines but rather in the fact that these most important discussions ...
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American Jews Sitting on the Sidelines
Israelis Greet Palestinians with Candy at Roadblocks
Strong Hamas Showing in Palestinian Municipal Elections
US Has no Real Control in Mosul and other Iraqi Cities
Blair soft-pedals one-day Mideast peace parley
Allawi Concedes? Or Election Ploy?
Blair bowed to Israel, say Palestinians
The Lies We Bought - Columbia Journalism Review
Judith Miller - 'The Source of the Trouble'
* Judith Miller - Quasi-Israeli Lobbyist Dressed As Journalist (w/links to key articles)
The Wash Post on U.S. War Crimes
Wash Post Editorial Support Iraq War and Bush Policies
Major Magazine Article Critical of Judith Miller of 'NY Times'
'Washington Post' Reconsiders 'Postwar' Label
Military Fears Telling Truth to Power
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Arafat's Successor Declares Again 2-Stage Strategy
Arafat's successor: Palestinian state will replace Israel SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 22, 2004 The new leader of the ruling Fa ...
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USA TODAY Founder Calls for U.S. Pullout from Iraq
Warning: Prepare for Upheaval in N Korea
Bush of Arabia: I'll bring peace to Middle East
Blair unveils plan for London peace summit
Think Again: Yasir Arafat
Blair's peace talks take back seat
Abbas off to bad start, says Israel
American Jewish 'Terror Victims' Sue Arab Bank
AIPAC Grand Jury Probe Postponed Till New Year
'Geneva' Propaganda Campaign Takes to TV and Radio
Top Jewish Pentagon Neocons Create Little Furor with Israel
The New Brits Now Want to Control the Holy Land Once Again as the Old Brits Did
Russia and China Teaming Up for Oil and...
It was just a few weeks ago that Russia and China had their first ever military exercises. China is also playing it's Iran card. And all that is hap ...
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Orange Jewish Stars Appear Again - This Time from the Ultra Zionists
More Severe U.S. Torture Allegations Surface
New F.B.I. Files Describe Abuse of Iraq Inmates By Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston The New York Times Tuesday 21 December 2004 WASHINGTON ...
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Stolen Fraudulent U.S. Election?
Investigating Ohio By Tim Grieve Salon.com Tuesday 21 December 2004 Rep. John Conyers isn't ready to declare the election stolen, but he ...
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Upbeat Sharon in the Wash Times
U.S. Warns U.N. To Cease and Desist or Else
This is just one of those cases where the word gets out about what the Americans are doing. In most cases the public never finds out. Indeed, it wa ...
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U.S. Threatens U.N. Over Middle East Report
How a Liberal Jew Saw the Light - Wash Times
Osama's new strategy
Leading Neocon Calls For Free Speech Restrictions
I will bring peace to Middle East, Bush promises
Two States, and Only Two States, Says Peres
Shimon Peres: "The Two-State Solution Is the Only Option" By Patrick Saint-Paul Le Figaro Saturday 18 December 2004 The Labor par ...
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Mosul Erupts in Protests and Bombings Against U.S.
Radical 'Settlers' Compare Withdrawal to Holocaust
Prisoners Wrapped in Israeli Flag and Tortured
Even FBI Complained of Prisoner 'Abuse'
Arafat Mourning Ended
More Damning Quantanamo Allegations Surface - Worse Than Ever
Saddam From Prison Calls For Greater Resistance and Unity
N Korea Threats to build greater 'deterrent force'
Resist Say Israeli Settler Leaders
Sharon Says NO to London and International Conference
Unconditional Right of Return
> From: JP BARROIS
> To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:19:26 +0100 > > > Permanent International ...
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What Has Bush Learned? Joe Sobran
What Has Bush Learned? December 2, 2004 Freud once described neurotic behavior as persisting in doing the very thing that caused the problem in ...
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CIA's Gulag Prison Within a Prison
Another Washington prediction of a Diplomacy Comeback - David Broder
'All for Peace' Radio in Jerusalem
Further Pentagon 'Intelligence' Grab
Musharraf Breaks Promise, Keeps Army Control
American Regimes in Jordan and Iraq fearful of Iran, Syria
* Fomenting Iraq's New Civil War
How Iran is winning Iraq
Bloodiest Sunday in Iraq
Israel's Fifth Column
BUSH Prepares for Germany
Bugging Not Found at Geneva U.N. HQ
Battle of Fallujah not likely to be like Battle of Algiers
Like Black Hawk Down Hollywood will make heros and money out of the American war machine.
House of Saud Weakens Further
From India to the U.S. about Bin Laden
How Iran Will Fight Back
Neocons on the Road to Damascus
Evildoers Here We Come
UN Keeps Resisting Going Back to Iraq in force
U.S. 'Writes off' Iraqi Debt and Tells Others To Do So
With most Iraqi debt to Gulf Oil States, Europe, and Russia, the U.S. is trying to manipulate this major issue as well.
Intifada Three
'Year of Peace' from the 'Man of Peace'
It was non other than the American President who last year declared Ariel Sharon to be a 'Man of Peace'. And now this long-accused Israeli war crimin ...
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Israel's Redressed 'Force Checkpoint'
Bin Laden's Latest
Nearly Half of Americans Belief Govt Should Restrict 'Muslim American' Rights
N Korea Missile Threat Used To Justify Massive Unproven Star War Anti-Missile Program
Bad Reviews for U.S. 'Democracy Conference' pushed off
Moyer's Departs - Big Warning Overlooked
You'd think that when someone of the stature of Bill Moyers finally retired...and he's been on the scene since he was White House Press Secretary inth ...
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'Super Iran' Looming?
Stirring up fears of Iran is the last way the Americans and their 'Interim' Iraqi Regime are hoping to salvage something political as the long-promise ...
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Now U.S. designates media as 'Terrorist'
Abbas Warns Sharon Policies a "Disaster"
Saudi Peaceful Protestors Won't Give Up
Chile's Latest New Newspaper
Sharon's Army Raids Kills Again in Gaza
Sharon Predicts 2005 'Breakthrough' with Palestinians
MER Article Causes Conf Cancellation as Prof Khalidi abruptly backs out
The organization it seems then quickly changed the homepage of it's elaborate website, removing the main lead picture at the top which showed members ...
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Address at the Herzliya Conference - 16 Dec 2004
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Address at the Herzliya Conference December 16, 2004 Good Evening, I heard the things you have asked of me here. Perh ...
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New U.S.-Israel 'Crisis' Over Arms to China
U.S., Israel in dustup over weapons upgrade for China SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 16, 2004 TEL AVIV — Defense relations between ...
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'Historic Progress' Ahead Says Sharon
Stephen Cohen's 'Peace Process' April 2003 Conference Call
Peace Conference Confusion and Doubts even before it is announced
Rummie Must Go
Trent Lott is the second major Senator, the first being non other than John McCain, to call for Rumsfeld's departure ikn the past few days. Clearly s ...
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Bin Laden Blasts Saudi Rulers
Pop Art Hitler Show Causes Uproar
Blair Wants to Be Clinton - London to be Camp David
Michael Moore - We Almost Won!
America's 'Cultural Ambassador's Hearing Mostly the Good...rather than all the bad and the ugly
Churches Finally Challenge Israeli Policies
Bush to Middle East like Nixon to China?
Thousands of War Resisters - Resistance Growing
Brits Laughed at Him and Kicked Him to Death
December 15, 2004 - The Independent "They Laughed at Him and Kicked Him More" Who Killed Baha Mousa? By ROBERT FISK The Independent Baha Mousa, 26 ...
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"Holy War" Recruitment Networks Are in Place
"Holy War" Recruitment Networks Are in Place By Gérard Davet Le Monde Wednesday 15 December 2004 Iraq is not yet a jihad country, bu ...
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War funding request may hit $100 billion
Prof Rashid Khalidi helps Israeli and American Jewish Zionist Propaganda Groups
New Era of M E Opportunity they are declaring
Israelis Now Pushing for International Conference
Sensing the time is ripe to push the Palestinians over the edge into a disguised surrender agreement legitimizing Israeli occupation, the Apartheid wa ...
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Chevy Chase Dumps Big Time on Bush at Kennedy Center
Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing at Kennedy Center Wed Dec 15 2004 21:59:28 ET Even Hollywood liberals were left reeling after Chevy Chase's ...
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Washington Israeli Lobby Plots the Course
Ehud Ya'ari: Staying the Course Ehud Ya'ari The outlines of the second Bush adiministration's approach to the Middle East began emerging from an Amer ...
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Netanyahu warns against 'Oslo trap'
Dec. 15, 2004 2:34 Netanyahu warns against 'Oslo trap' By AVI KRAWITZ Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned against following in the footsteps ...
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Palestinian Islamic Clash Looms
Palestinian Pre-Election Shake-Up
Carter To 'Supervise' Palestinian Elections
Vanunu Elected Rector of Glascow U
Larsen Defends U.N. at Tel Aviv U
Israelis Want NATO Ticket and Shield
Even Egyptian Journalists Break With Mubarak Over Israel
Arafat's "Mystery Death" Continues In Doubt
New Constant Space Surveillance for the Empire
Liberation to be bought in part by Rothschild
Berlin's Holocaust Monument
How Arafat Died - No Way To Go
British Govt Insures Against Downfall of Saudi Regime
Protests Against Saudi Rulers Planned for S.A.
The oil-for-food 'scandal' is a cynical smokescreen
The oil-for-food 'scandal' is a cynical smokescreen By Scott Ritter 12/12/04 "The Independent" -- United States Senators, led by the Republican Norm ...
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So Little Time, So Many Regimes to Change
Germany's Jewish Memorial
Back to the 'Road Map'
The Insurgents - Better and Better, More and More
Crazy Control-freak Bernie - The Man Bush Wanted to head up Homeland Security
Iraqi Resistance Makes Speech to the World
Attempt to Assassinate Top Sistani Aide Failes
Egypt pushed and bribed into Economic Sex with Israel
Since the first Camp David Middle East summit estimates are that overall, including economic, military, CIA, and AID American monies, Egypt has recei ...
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Political Poisons
Even so...the corporate media refuses to deal with the story, widely believed in Palestine, that the Israelis possibly with CIA helped, poisoned and k ...
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Abbas' PA 'Softens Tone' About Israel on the Air
Iraq and Iran - So What Will the U.S. and Israel Do About This?
US mulling military options against Syria
Washington is filled more than ever with lobbying and propaganda organizations...many with various kinds of ties to the government and/or to former g ...
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Open Letter from American Jewish Groups Working With Israeli Establishment
Dear Mr. President,As the newly elected President of the United States, you assume the leadership of our nation at a critical time in our history. As ...
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Egypt Acts as Front Man for another round of 'Middle East Peace Process'
Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed
Rigging the Ohio Vote - Questions Remain Unanswered
PA Calls for International Conference in Egypt
U.S. Iraqi Regime Accuses Syria and Iran
Fearing Attack Hamas Cancels Anniversary Celebration
Lieberman Playing Hard To Get
Year After Saddam...And Much The Worse in Iraq
Zogby on 'An Opportunity?'
An Opportunity? Dr. James J. Zogby Monday 13 December 2004 In the past month, following the U.S. election and the death of Yasser Arafa ...
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Foreign dislike of Bush spreads to Americans
Hitchens on Powell
Al-Sadr Returns to Push for U.S. Withdrawal Post Election
Republican Witchhunt Charges Annan's Son
Egypt and Israel Sign Economic Deal Pushed by U.S.
Bush Medals, Franks, Tenet, Bremer
U.S. Forces New Economic Arrangements on Egypt
Half of Palestinian People not allowed to vote - Abbas/Ala/Shaath Regime Running Fast
In a few weeks the U.S. and Israeli approved and financed 'election' will take place. The most credible and respected Palestinian leaders are gone. ...
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American Hero Done In By His Own and then a Pentagon Coverup
World's Reading Material To All Be On Line Free - Digital Global Library Looms
Pentagon Wants Emergency $80 billion more for Iraq/Afghanistan - Total Now $230 billion and counting
Pentagon Emergency: Additional $80 Billion For Iraq, Afghanistan Tue Dec 14 2004 10:23:54 ET Pentagon officials said they will ask the Bush administr ...
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Israel's 72-Hour 'Election' Withdrawal
Abbas in Kuwait Calls For End of Intifada
Now U.S. Pushes for 'Economic Reforms'
Moves toward moderation in Mideast
Britain's Blackwatch come home as Fallujah's homeless lanquish
All-time low for BBC
Europe's Rich Jewish Culture
Israeli land-grap races ahead
After all the Israelis have been doing this for decades now and they've always gotten away with it. After all the godfather of this approach is none ...
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* How To Approach Iran - 7 Former Foreign Ministers Warn of Critical Situation
'Iraqi Hitler' Could Result Warns U.S. installed Iraqi Interim President
McCain Tells Rumsfeld To Quit
The Boss Has Gone Crazy
Uri Avnery 11.12.04 (Dec 11, 2004) The Boss Has Gone Crazy When the fruit sellers at the Tel Aviv market shout “the boss has gone crazy!” ...
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Weapons of Mass Deception from the U.S. Pentagon as well as CIA
Pentagon Weighs Use of Deception in a Broad Arena By Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt The New York Times Monday 13 December 2004 Washi ...
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Al-Manar Censored by the French
Clinton Angle to U.N. oil-for-food scandal
Why should we be so surprised that what may turn out to be the biggest financial scandal of them all involves the big money guys of the Democratic par ...
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Israelis Further Help the Abu Mazen/Shaath Palestinian Regime
Israelis Botch Damascus Assassination
It came just a day after the brazen long-planned Palestinian Hamas attack in Gaza that killed five Israeli soldiers. As they usually do, especially w ...
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Bush 'Wise Men' Nativity Scene Smashed to Pieces
Latest Washington Israeli Spy Scandal Escalating
There are some in Washington who think that the current spy investigations, possibly now expanding further, can be used to put a little pressure on th ...
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Syria Warned to Get on the 'Peace' Train
FBI Investigation of AIPAC and Israeli Spying Continues
China, Russia Will Hold First War Games
U.S. policies are having reactions throughout the world. The Europeans are going their own way more and more, heading toward their own military force ...
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Sharon Blames It All on the Palestinians
MER Track Record and the Assassination/Coverup of Yasser Arafat
Now, this weekend, two new developments. First the long-time Palestinian U.N. Representative, for the first time in public, has now declared that Ar ...
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Pakistan Denies CIA Bases in Country
The AIPAC Raid And The Escalating Spy Wars
AIPAC Raid Spotlights Escalating Spy Wars by Jeffrey Steinberg 12 December 2004: On Dec. 1, FBI agents raided the Washington office of AIPAC (Ameri ...
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Deserters: We Won't Go to Iraq
Deserters: We Won't Go to Iraq CBSNews.com Wednesday 08 December 2004 The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war s ...
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Tariq Aziz et. al. said to be on hunger strike
U.S. Warplanes Strike Fallujah
Think Again: Yasir Arafat - Dennis Ross in 2002
Think Again: Yasir Arafat By Dennis B. Ross Page 1 of 4 July/August 2002 In 1974, Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P ...
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Egypt desperate to get in on the action
Middle East Gatecrasher - Blair of Arabia
Enough Mubarak!
Saddam's Trial Still Uncertain
Powell's Last Hurrah Push in the Middle East
Arab reform dreams run aground
Arafat file fails to halt rumours
Unmanned US supplied 'Spy Assassination' Planes now Flying over occupied territories
US Gives Millions to Abu Mazen Regime to win election
Barghouti Out!
Abbas Appologises to Kuwait
Revenge Attack for 'Arafat Assassination'
Revenge Attack #1 for Assassination of Arafat
More U.S. Spying on the U.N.
Spying on the Security Council and on the U.N. Secretary-General, right in his own office, has been reported before. Now this...
Ukrain's Yushchenko poisoned almost to death
Relative Says Arafat Killed -- 'Died of Unnatural Causes'
Palestinian Hopes High - Just in time for upcoming January election
Egyptians forced to deny deal with Israel and U.S.
Arab and Islamic Countries 'Commit to Reforms' under U.S. pressure
Nephew: Suspicions About Arafat's Death - Al-Kidwa Now 'Admits' Arafat Died of 'Unnatural Causes'
AMERICA the TITANIC
From the heart of the Washington Republican 'National Security' establishment, Harlan Ullman warns that the U.S. has sailed into very dangerous times ...
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Powell Turning to Commentator - Oh My God!
Saddam Trial No Where Near Ready
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943
Palestinian refugees applaud leaders on 'right of return' pledge
Palestinian refugees applaud leaders on 'right of return' pledge Thu Dec 9,12:43 PM ET RASHIDIYEH, Lebanon (AFP) - Several thousand refugees treate ...
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'Corruption' rampant at the top in Israel; and Israelis know it
Palestinians Voting on 23 December for municipal councils; not since 1976
They got Azzam back alive; now they want Eli Cohen back dead
Peres Still Faces Revolt from Within as he merges again with Sharon
Poisoning the lead candidate in the Ukraine - they almost got him dead like Arafat
Sharon and the new Israeli world upside down
Harvard's New Torture Professor of Law
Long-time friends Sharon and Peres unite -- but for peace or war?
In the long history of 'National Unity Government' in Israel they have been formed not in times of peace prospects, but in times of war. Sharon has n ...
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More Government Powers to invade former liberties and protections
New Palestinian Leaders Dancing Fast and Hard
Column One: The wisdom of the fathersCaroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 10, 2004This week saw Arafat's heirs, PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Palest ...
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Halliburton Iraq: $10billion and Counting
Rep. Henry A. Waxman Ranking Minority Member Committee on Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives December 9, 2004 Fact Sheet Ha ...
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The Big Palestinian Push
Sharon's Daring Appologists and Propagandists
Excerpt: The Haaretz interview [with Weinglass on "freezing" the peace process] was published about a month before the US elections, a date that rank ...
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The Embedded Reporter Strikes; the Defense Sec Squirms
RUMSFELD SET UP; REPORTER PLANTED QUESTIONS WITH SOLIDER Thu Dec 09 2004 11:49:38 ET Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Edward Lee Pitts is embed ...
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Embedded Question Gets Reporter in Trouble
Micro Financing Terrorism
Palestinian author reclaims the past for generations of Arab women
New Palestinians Declare Loyalty to Arafat even as they declare Intifada over
The Most Moral Army in the World: Sharon Declares
America's Arab 'Forum for the Future'
Shaath Asks for another $4.5 billion!
Allawi's 'Staggered' 'Election'
Arab League Urged to support Al-Manar
Abbas Declares Intifada Over...but...
Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Again - Final Part III
Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Part III: The Perils of a Pentagon or Israeli Response By Steve Weissman Thursday 09 December 2 ...
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Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Again - Part II of III
Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Part II: And Now a Word from the Wolf By Steve Weissman Thursday 02 December 2004 What ar ...
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Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Again - Part I of III
Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf Again Part I: Four More Wars By Steve Weissman Thursday 25 November 2004 Somewhere in the M ...
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Cheney Did It! Smoking Gun Court Case Revealed
In this eye-opening story today about a very unusual court case brought by a former senior CIA analysis which could serve as the smoking gun that the ...
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The future of crowd control
The future of crowd control Dec 2nd 2004 >From The Economist print edition Security technology: Should a more high-tech approach to keeping the pe ...
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The CIA's tough task in recruiting spies
Nixon and China, Bush and the Middle East?
'Unknowns' stirring Palestinian race
Listening to Syria
Israel's Suicidal Left
Israel's Land Grab Makes real P State impossible
Saudi Nukes on the way?
Barghouti Being Pressured to withdraw
The pressures, the threats, the bribes, the inducements, the promises of this and that -- they all must be substantial. Not to mention that the poor ...
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Israeli Propaganda About the Killing of Palestinians
Target Pakistan - Reactions to Washington's approach
================================================= Publisher: INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com America's Daily International Newspape ...
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The American Conservatives and the U.N. - Safire Vs Kofi Annan
Backing Abbas
One can only imagine the kinds of pay-offs, threats, and inducements that are involved in what is going on. But in the end the real test is going to ...
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Rallying to Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan in Trouble By Stephen Schlesinger UNITED NATIONS -- 8 December 2004 / www.MaximsNews.com / The attacks by right-wing Republi ...
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Top Sistani Aide working on election arrested by American Troops
More Craziness - 2 to 3 week election under consideration
That's not a misprint... 2 to 3 weeks...not 2 to 3 days!
Annan Gets Standing Ovation - Being Attacked by the Americans has some rewards
Vietnam and 'Evil Empire' Ghosts
More and more even in Washington circles these days one hears...but in spoken whispers certainly not in the corporate print or TV media..."police stat ...
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Myopia and Fear of Power on Capitol Hill