Category: 2001-2006
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Crude Vision
It’s the fall of 1983. Michael Jackson is riding high with Thriller; Ronald Reagan is obsessed with a red menace in the jungles of Central America; humiliated U.S. troops have just retreated from Beirut; and America’s newest nemesis, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, is locked in a vicious conflict with America’s soon-to-be ally, the secular “socialist” dictator…
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Money, Politics and War
A nation decides to go to war for many reasons. Whatever one may think of the wisdom of President George W. Bush’s decision to embark on war with Iraq, hopefully we can agree that the debate over going to war should not be skewed by powerful special interests and their ability to purchase access and…
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Big Brother Awards 2003 – USA
On April 3, 2003, Privacy International announced the winners of the 5th Annual US “Big Brother” awards to the government and private sector organizations that have done the most to invade personal privacy in the United States.
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Angry, Very Angry
“At least 14 civilians were killed and 30 injured today after coalition air strikes hit a market in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.” – Independent (UK), 3/25/03
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Un-Embedded Journalist: Robert Fisk
Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist: Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’
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The Long View: America’s Illegal War
“We Americans, including our military, are now in the position of witnessing our government carrying out a massive crime against the peace.” – Daniel Ellsberg
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Deep Concerns – by Noam Chomsky
At this grim moment, we can do nothing to stop the ongoing invasion. But that does not mean that the task is over for people who have some concern for justice, freedom, and human rights.
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When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
an interesting history lesson about an unelected leader who began a crusade against terrorists…
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Disobey by John Pilger
How have we got to this point, where two western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against a stricken nation with whom we have no quarrel and who offer us no threat: an act of aggression opposed by almost everybody and whose charade is transparent?