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Thursday 2/24/2005
'No charge' over Falluja killing 2/24/2005 BBC: "A US marine filmed apparently shooting dead an injured Iraqi in a Falluja mosque last year may not be formally charged, according to media reports."
Chávez to Bush: Back off 2/24/2005 Progreso Weekly: "We were startled on Sunday when we read Hugo Chávez's statement that he would blame George W. Bush for any attempt on his life, "whether it's successful or not." We were even more surprised when The Miami Herald downplayed the Venezuelan president's revelation, yet stressed his warning that, in the event of an assassination attempt, Venezuela would halt its supply of crude oil to the United States…. What did Chávez say that wasn't reported in The Herald? We are indebted to several news agencies, Venezuelan newspapers and the informative website Venezuelanalysis.com for the partial transcripts of the Venezuelan leader's words.
"I am sure that my death is being planned in Washington," Chávez said. "If I am assassinated, there is a major culprit on this planet: the president of the United States, George W. Bush."
Chávez's accusation echoed a statement made Feb. 12 by Fidel Castro, in which the Cuban president cautioned that "If Chávez is assassinated, the responsibility will lie entirely with the president of the United States."
"Fidel Castro already said it some days ago," Chávez said Sunday. "Now I shall say it. Neither Fidel Castro nor I speak nonsense. If something happens to me, I blame the president of the United States of America.""
Wednesday 2/23/2005
 Aristide, one year later - Exclusive interview with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa 2/23/2005 SF Bay View
LDF files brief in support of Voting Rights Act claims in Muntaqim v. Coombe 2/23/2005 SF Bay View: "A panel of all active 2nd Circuit judges is expected to rehear the appeal in Muntaqim in April. The court will examine whether the Voting Rights Act of 1965 can be used to challenge New York’s felon disfranchisement law. A successful challenge to this statute will impact challenges to felon disfranchisement statutes across the country.
Muntaqim is one of four felon disfranchisement cases pending in federal courts. Each challenge maintains that state felon disfranchisement statutes have a disproportionate discriminatory impact on Blacks and Latinos with felony convictions. Some challenges also assert that such statutes, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, diminish the voting power of Black and Latino communities."
Stories from Fallujah 2/23/2005 SF Bay View: "“One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old,” he says of one of the testimonies he videotaped recently. “She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered, she was in her home with her father, mother, 12-year-old brother and two sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything.”
The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and witnessed the war crimes first-hand.
“They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head,” he said. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead.
“She continued hiding after the soldiers left and stayed with her sisters because they were bleeding, but still alive. She was too afraid to call for help because she feared the soldiers would come back and kill her as well. She stayed for three days, with no water and no food. Eventually one of the American snipers saw her and took her to the hospital,” he added before reminding me again that he had all of her testimony documented on film."
Tuesday 2/22/2005
Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record 2/22/2005 FAIR
What Did I Really Say? And Why Did I Say It? By Ward Churchill 2/22/2005 Znet
Monday 2/21/2005
Scripps Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Proximate Cause of Ocean Warming 2/21/2005 Insurance Journal
Friday 2/18/2005
Disarmament, Extradition and Amnesty - The Future of Colombia's Paramilitary Death Squads 2/18/2005 Counterpunch: "Born and raised in the slums of Medellín, Diego Fernando Murillo became known in the crime world as a ruthless killer. In 1992, he narrowly escaped Colombian authorities when his boss, Pablo Escobar, went into hiding. The resulting manhunt eventually killed Mr. Escobar but launched Diego Murillo's career in the Colombian drug world. After switching alliances between various drug cartels, he has arrived at the top of the pyramid power structure of Colombia's right wing paramilitary forces, known as the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)." [Kinda like the career of his ally President Uribe, who is reported by the DIA to have been a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar.]
Thursday 2/17/2005
Iran envoy: We helped US in Iraq polls 2/17/2005 Al Jazeera
Threat of Draft Will Tame Warlike US Populace 2/17/2005 Black Commentator: "From the beginning of the aggression, there has been precious little empathy for Iraqis among American whites. A Zogby-Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted in February 2003, six weeks before Shock and Awe commenced, found that 62 percent of whites and 60 percent of Hispanics supported an invasion, but only 23 percent of African Americans did. But the most revealing responses came when Zogby pollsters asked: “Would you support or oppose a war against Iraq if it meant thousands of Iraqi civilian casualties?” As we reported in BC:
"A solid majority of white men answered in the affirmative, as did more than a third of white women. Only seven percent of African Americans favored a war that would kill thousands. Hispanics lost some of their bloodlust when confronted with the prospect of mass Iraqi civilian casualties; only 16 percent are willing to support such an outcome."
Wednesday 2/16/2005
A Game As Old As Empire 2/16/2005 Alternet: "John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, worked for years as chief economist at an international consulting firm in Boston called Chas. T. Main. His job was to persuade countries that are strategically important to the U.S. - such as Indonesia, Panama, Ecuador, Iran and Saudi Arabia – to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and then to make sure the lucrative projects were contracted out to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts they couldn't possibly repay, these countries came under the control of the U.S. government, the World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks, dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission."
Washington Amps Up the Rhetoric - Oil-Flush Chavez Begins to Strut His Stuff 2/16/2005 Counterprunch
Chávez-Uribe Summit leads to new stage in Colombia-Venezuela relations 2/16/2005 Granma
Jaafari: "Islam to be Source of Legislation" 2/16/2005 Juan Cole: "Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports that Adil Abdul Mahdi, the interim finance minister and representative of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has withdrawn his name for consideration as prime minister, "for the sake of the unity of the alliance." SCIRI and the al-Dawa Party are the two leading parties in the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of 11 largely Shiite fundamentalist groups.
Al-Dawa campaigned vigorously for the presidency to go to Ibrahim Jaafari, but that so far largely ceremonial post seems likely to go instead to Jalal Talabani of the Kurdish Alliance. Since al-Dawa was denied the presidency, they really wanted the prime ministership. Abdul Mahdi's candidacy, moreover, may have been damaged by his close working relationship with the Americans and his advocacy of privatizing the petroleum industry. For most of the SCIRI and Dawa politicians, getting control of the state-owned petroleum industry would be an important part of their victory, and they would hardly want a PM who wanted to just give it away to some new economic mafia.
If this speculation turns out to be correct, Jaafari's victory over Abdul Mahdi may be the second largest Bush defeat after that of interim PM Allawi."
Haiti’s coup regime slammed at World Social Forum in Brazil 2/16/2005 SF Bay View
Former Fed chief warns that nation is facing 'huge imbalances and risks' 2/16/2005 Stanfrod Report
CIA Classifies Venezuela as Top "Potentially Unstable Country" 2/16/2005 Venezuela Analysis
Tuesday 2/15/2005
A Corrupted Election - Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right 2/15/2005 In These Times
U.S. contractors in Iraq allege abuses - Four men say they witnessed shooting
of unarmed civilians 2/15/2005 NBC
Spreading the virus 2/15/2005 Orcinus: "I think, thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it is now clearer to everyone that the Washington Times not only dallies with racists, it is, at its core (as Atrios suggests), a racist propaganda organ, being led from the top by neo-Confederates and similar kinds of right-wing extremists, its staff similarly riddled with the like-minded.
As if to erase any doubts remaining in the wake of the SPLC's devastating report, the Times recently ran a "special report" warning that immigrants were also bringing with them a fresh tide of "imported diseases""
Haiti: Human rights situation critical 2/15/2005 Washington Times
Monday 2/14/2005
Castro warns of assassin plot 2/14/2005 AFP: "VENEZUELA'S President Hugo Chavez, adding to his growing barrage of charges against the United States, accused the George W. Bush administration of plotting his assassination and thanked his Cuban ally Fidel Castro for warning him of about it."
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security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
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