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Sunday  8/1/2004

VANUNU SPEAKS  8/1/2004 AFP: ""My view is that Kennedy was assassinated because of his strong opposition to [Israeli prime minister] Ben Gurion," Vanunu said. At the time, Ben Gurion was working to create a nuclear arsenal for Israel. The group that was involved with Ben Gurion in developing and protecting Israel's nuclear arsenal "was behind the assassination of Kennedy," Vanunu said."

Venezuela army officers arrested  8/1/2004 BBC: "A Venezuelan court has ordered the arrest of 59 military officers on charges of conspiracy, civil rebellion and instigating insurrection. The men took part in a protest against President Hugo Chavez in October 2002 by taking over a square in Caracas and urging civil disobedience. Some of those charged by judge Rita Hernandez also backed a failed coup against Mr Chavez in April 2002."

Florida knew of voter list problems  8/1/2004 Miami Herald: "Well before they abruptly discarded it, Florida election officials knew they had significant problems with a database of felons they planned to use in removing voters from the rolls. Just a week before they directed local election chiefs to begin purging ineligible voters from the list of 48,000 convicted felons, state officials documented two years of failures and breakdowns with the $2.7 million contract with database vendor Accenture."

Notorious Niger uranium documents  8/1/2004 Talking Points: "What wasn’t clear at the time, however, was that SISMI hadn’t washed their hands of this Niger Embassy employee at all. She remained a SISMI asset. In fact, the relationship which the SISMI officer had set up was intended to serve as a conduit through which SISMI could conceal its role in the dissemination of what proved to be disinformation. This was how the forged documents came into the security consultant’s hands."

US forces hunt down al-Qa'eda in Sudan  8/1/2004 Telegraph 


Saturday  7/31/2004

"The Savage Extreme of a Narrow Policy Spectrum" Five Questions with Noam Chomsky  7/31/2004 Counterpunch: "On the eve of the 2000 election, about 75% of the public regarded it as largely meaningless -- prior to Florida shenanigans, the Supreme Court, etc., which were mostly an elite concern. In 2004, more appears to be at stake and interest is greater, but there is a continuation of the long process of disengagement mainly on the part of poor and working class Americans, who simply do not feel that they are represented. The Harvard University project that monitors these matters currently reports that "the turnout gap between the top and bottom fourth by income is by far the largest among western democracies and has been widening.""

BAHAMIAN CULTURE FROM A WORKING CLASS PRESPECTIVE  7/31/2004 Zongoo, Bahamas: "For centuries the culture of the Bahamian people has been under attack. Our ancestors were torn from their African homelands, with their rich traditions of political and economic development, fine art, and beautiful music and rhythms. They were taught to regard Africa as a wilderness of primitive savages, to whom the European brought the gift of civilization. They were turned into human cattle, subjected to slavery and degradation. More recently, American influence has become pervasive, and today there is no aspect of Bahamian life that is not permeated by foreign tastes, values and ideologies."


Friday  7/30/2004

US, China in tiff over Niagara incident  7/30/2004 CSM: "A weird and unfortunate incident involving a US border guard who beat a female Chinese tourist at Niagara Falls last week is getting increasing play in China's state-run media as a high-emotions story, with the public receiving continual images of the woman's grotesquely wounded face in newspapers, on the Internet, and on TV talk shows. For state media to feature so prominently a racially sensitive story, and to stoke the flames of considerable anger felt on the street here yesterday, suggests some cooling on the Chinese side of Sino-US relations, analysts say. After being phoned by Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Secretary of State Colin Powell vowed to conduct a full investigation into the matter."

The armed horsemen of Darfur  7/30/2004 Indian Express: "It is a startling coincidence that just when ONGC and Reliance are considering massive investments in Sudan’s oil, the images beamed at us by western networks are of “armed horsemen” looting and killing in the country’s Darfur province. Words like “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are being commonly used. President Bush, who once did not know the name of India’s prime minister, is today pronouncing “Janjaweed” with expert ease. The word actually means “an armed devil on a horse”, though most images are of armed men on camels."

Spinning “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” - Venezuelan Pollster’s Deceit Failed to Rob Chávez of His Base Among the Poor  7/30/2004 NarcoNews 


Thursday  7/29/2004

Colombia: Paramilitary Commanders Address Congress  7/29/2004 AntiWar.com: "Three senior paramilitary leaders wanted for mass killings of civilians and drug trafficking addressed a congressional hearing in Colombia Wednesday while protesters and supporters clashed outside. Although previous Colombian governments have stuck to the official position of considering members of the paramilitary militias criminals who should be brought to justice, right-wing President Alvaro Uribe is following a different strategy, engaging in negotiations with the main umbrella group. Salvatore Mancuso, Iván Roberto Duque and Ramón Isaza, three of the most wanted men in Colombia, spoke in Congress Wednesday in the midst of tight security, after receiving a safe-conduct pass."

Building Bridges with Cubans  7/29/2004 Black Commentator: scroll down for this article - "In every U.S. city, including Sacramento, the infant death rate for black babies is at least twice that of other babies. When I realized that Cuba has better healthy birth outcomes than the U.S., plus that island nation has a 66 percent African-based population, I was amazed. I had to go see Cuba for myself."

Sullen, depressed president retreats into private, paranoid world  7/29/2004 Capitol Hill Blue: "Bush’s erratic behavior and sharp mood swings led White House physician Col. Richard J. Tubb to put the President on powerful anti-depressant drugs after he stormed off stage rather than answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Richard J. Lay, but White House insiders say the strong, prescription medications seem to increase Bush’s sullen behavior towards those around him. “This is a President known for his ability to charm people one-on-one,” says a staff member to House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert. “Not any more.” "

Hail, the Conquering War Criminal Comes! What Kerry Really Did in Vietnam  7/29/2004 Counterpunch 

Florida GOP Playing Games with Voting Machines  7/29/2004 People for the American Way: "With new doubts about the reliability and accountability of electronic voting machines and daily revelations of continuing chaos in the Florida elections process -- including a Republican Party mailing questioning the ability to recount votes cast by electronic voting machines -- People For the American Way Foundation is calling for the immediate establishment of voter-verifiable audit trails in Florida to ensure that every vote will count, and can be recounted if necessary."

GOP flier questions new voting equipment  7/29/2004 St Petersburg Times: "As Gov. Bush defends touch screen machines, his party urges using absentee ballots to "Make sure your vote counts." "

'Terror' Against the Press  7/29/2004 Village Voice: "It looks like the FBI's Boston field office faked a threat of domestic terrorism just before the start of the Democratic National Convention by leaking "unconfirmed" reports of white supremacist groups readying an attack against media vehicles in Boston. Fox News, for one, reportedly was wildly trying to disguise its trucks by covering up its logos."


Wednesday  7/28/2004

Officials: Democrats’ Biggest Money Man Has Mob Connections  7/28/2004 ABC 

The real reasons Bush went to war  7/28/2004 Guardian, UK: "There were only two credible reasons for invading Iraq: control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Yet the government has kept silent on these factors, instead treating us to the intriguing distractions of the Hutton and Butler reports."

Bestselling Author and Former L.B.J. Attorney Barr McClellan Featured on PBS Program 'Who Killed J.F.K.' Broadcast Tonight  7/28/2004 Hannover House: "Author and attorney Barr McClellan will present powerful evidence of involvement by Lyndon Baines Johnson in the assassination of J.F.K. during a program airing tonight on PBS stations nationwide. The broadcast entitled "Who Killed J.F.K." was produced for PBS by the Foundation For Responsible Television and the McCuistion Program. Other panelists featured include Walt Coughlin of the U.S. Secret Service, David Perry, a J.F.K. Researcher, G. Robert Blakely, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School and author Gerald Posner who attempts to defend the widely criticized Warren Commission Report."

NARC PARTY - This is your convention on drugs.  7/28/2004 NY Press: "One of the constants of the Kerry plane was a guy named David Morehouse, who is a senior political advisor to Kerry. Morehouse, like Weiner, is a former ONDCP heavy. He was once the number-two man in the agency behind Barry McCaffrey. Just a few days after Super Tuesday, he explained to me with pride that he had been involved with the planning of many of the ONDCP's most celebrated p.r. campaigns. "Like the fried-egg thing?" I said. "Well, yes, the fried-egg thing, and some others," he said. Morehouse said he left the ONDCP before the plan to plant hidden anti-drug messages in the scripts of tv shows like Friends and E.R. went into action, but admitted he had been there during the planning of these programs."

The Secret File of Abu Ghraib  7/28/2004 Rolling Stone: "New classified documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners."


Monday  7/26/2004

Sudan warns against foreign intervention  7/26/2004 AFP 

CARICOM leaders won’t recognize Haiti  7/26/2004 Final Call 

U.S. "outposts" hold line in Ramadi, Iraq  7/26/2004 LA Times: "On Wednesday, a Marine convoy was attacked here with a roadside bomb and as many as 100 insurgents unleashed a barrage of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in rolling firefights that lasted for much of the day. Thirteen Marines and one soldier were injured, and the U.S. military reported killing 25 fighters." Injuries in Iraq are more serious than in previous wars, due to bullet-proof vests, with a higher percentage of head wounds.

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots: suspicion." -- Demosthenes