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Dear Editor:
I'm not representing my government or any
other group of my people in South Korea.
but I'm very impressed about your news.
and many many thanks to let us know the reality of this war.
Can't enough thank you for that. I
just wanted to drop a few lines. Keep up this great work!
Young jin Kim, South Korea
salam,
my name is ahmed akerele a viewer from nigeria thank you for
coverage of the war in afghanistan and iraq jazakumllahi khaira
my opinion is that we (muslim) cannot win any war with (usa) now
but we can only
pray for ALLAH'S help.
Subject: We all to be Blamed
Noah Feldman to write a
constitution for Iraq The very idea that US
like a conquering Super Nation is to engage on of its expert to write a
constitution for an Islamic country is most abhorrent fact, which should
be noted by all concerned. Those times have gone. The experts should
contribute, but for the sake of the dignity and self-respect of Iraq,
and for the US to win hearts and minds of not only Iraqi people, but
also all the entire Muslim world, US should refrain from even mentioning
the horrendous idea of writing up a constitution for a Muslim country
--- Like it did for Japan. Those times were different. US has defeated
Saddam, not Iraqi people. Muslim world will not find any such overt
high-handedness to go into their history at this point of time. This is
not to demean Feldman's credentials. But Iraqi not only should be the
people who should be in the forefront of their nation-building exercise.
Constitution is the first cornerstone. US must stop its hegemonical
obsession bordering on arrogan! ce and gross insensitivity. Ghulam Muhammed, India
Two faces of Rumsfeld
US and Britain seek to limit UN role in
Iraq
The proposal would end UN control over
Iraq's oil revenue and let the US-led coalition use the country's vast
oil wealth to help finance its reconstruction — with international
oversight.
photos testifying to the
suffering in Basra are available at Cholera: Kids throng
hospitals Liberation, one month on:
Chaos on the streets, cholera in the city and
Israel/PA: Roadmap Fails Rights Test
(Jerusalem, May 8, 2003) The “roadmap”
for ending Israeli-Palestinian violence will fail unless it includes
basic human rights safeguards, Human Rights Watch warned today, on the
eve of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to Israel and
the Occupied Territories.
Sent by Tim Stinson
Palestinians And Their
Supporters Counter Protest At Pro-Zionist Rally In
QUEBEC SUPERIOR COURT
SUSPENDS $100,000 HILLEL LAWSUIT!
Senate Broadens Powerful
U.S. Terror Surveillance Law
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BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--
Links to these
and other stories are found on our website at:
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news U.S. drafts a resolution to take control of Iraqi oil --The Bush dictatorship circulated a draft resolution among key Security Council members Thursday calling for the elimination of more than a decade of international sanctions on Iraq and granting the United States broad control over the country's oil industry and revenues until a permanent Iraqi government is in place. [Insert "Oh. I thought the W-ar in Iraq was not a war for oil" lament here. --Lori Price] U.S. and Britain want control of Iraqi oil --U.N. Security Council members are meeting to discuss a proposal by the United States and Britain to end 12 years of sanctions against Iraq and give them control over its oil revenues. EU Commissioner says U.S. out to seize Iraq's oil --A European Union commissioner said on Friday he believed the United States aimed to take control of Iraq's oil and was "on its way to becoming a member of OPEC". Iraq's Ragged Reconstruction --A Month After Baghdad's Fall, U.S. Efforts Founder --A month after U.S. forces seized Baghdad, the Pentagon's occupation authority remains plagued by insufficient resources and inadequate preparations, fueling complaints from Iraqis and doubts about the Bush dictatorship's promise to reconstruct the country swiftly and set its politics on a new, democratic course. Pentagon challenged over cluster bomb deaths --Iraq Body Count, a group that monitors the numbers of civilian deaths in the recent war and its aftermath, is challenging the Pentagon's claim that only one civilian was killed by a cluster bomb. US used deadly DU in Iraq --Several years after the 1991 Gulf War, Dr Salma Haddad started noticing more and more children at Baghdad's Al Mansur hospital with an aggressive form of cancer. Haddad, a leading Iraqi specialist, was especially alarmed since the disease, acute myeloblastic leukemia, is closely associated with exposure to radiation – and suspicion fell on the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions. Worries are growing that another surge in long-term health problems, for Iraqi civilians and soldiers on both sides alike, is on the way. Basra police to battle cholera --Many Iraqis have been unable to get enough drinking water because of the damage caused in the recent war in Iraq and have resorted to using contaminated water. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq because of problems with poor sanitation. The rape of Iraq (WSWS) "It is high time that what the US is doing is called by its real name. A criminal regime in Washington is carrying out the rape of Iraq. One month after the fall of Baghdad to the US military, the real reasons for the Bush administration’s illegal war against Iraq are coming clearly into focus. Behind Washington’s rhetoric about 'liberation' and 'democracy,' America’s financial oligarchy is preparing to enrich itself through the outright theft of an entire nation’s wealth." 'The guys who are running America now are basically just thugs' --The expected release this week of 20 to 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees does little to reassure Michael Ratner, who is alarmed at the erosion of civil liberties in the US --by Aaron Hicklin "For the past 18 months, the US has denied legal representation to more than 600 prisoners held without trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Some are as young as 14." Troops Overstretched on Iraq Security -US Officials --The top U.S. officials in Iraq acknowledged on Thursday troops were overstretched in parts of the country and looters and revenge killers were taking advantage of the postwar power vacuum. Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Iraq, three reported killed --Another Black Hawk helicopter has gone down in Iraq, and Pentagon officials say three U.S. soldiers were killed. The Black Hawk helicopter's
troubled history --Every time something goes wrong with a Black Hawk,
these two Sikorsky employees, who don't want their identities revealed,
wonder about the parts they've put on the helicopter. It's a situation,
employees claim, which began several years ago with layoffs and the
hiring of an outside firm to perform a crucial job- inspecting parts for
the Black Hawk, which Sikorsky buys from sub-contractors. Both
men say they and other Sikorsky employees have gone to management to no
avail with concerns the company is cutting corners in ways that
could compromise safety.
Mayor condemns Dictator Bush --London
Mayor Ken Livingstone has described U.S. Dictator George Bush as
"corrupt." He told a forum of 200 schoolchildren on
Thursday: "I think George Bush is the most corrupt president
[sic] since Harding in the twenties. He is not the legitimate
president." He added: "This (The U.S. administration) really
is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it
being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being
overthrown." [Goodness knows, ***I*** can't wait, either! --Lori
Price]
Livingstone attacks Dictator Bush --London Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an astonishing attack on US Dictator George W Bush, calling him "corrupt". He said he would get as much pleasure from Mr Bush being forced out of office as he had done from the downfall of former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein. 'Special courts' for Iraqi leaders --A special Iraqi court may be set up to try members of Saddam Hussein's government for crimes against the Iraqi people, a senior US advisor to the Iraqi justice ministry says. [Can we get a 'special court' to try American 'leaders' for committing crimes against the global population? --Lori Price] Two-Front Rumsfeld ('The Daily Outrage', The Nation, April 29, 2003) "Brace yourself. The Defense Secretary is pushing a 205-page bill through Congress that would -- take a deep breath: ...Free the Pentagon from dozens of requirements it report to Congress." The two faces of Rumsfeld --2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change --Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons. Japan studied attack on North Korea - report --Japan's Defence Ministry studied the feasibility of attacking a North Korean missile base after the North test-fired a Rodong ballistic missile in 1993, but decided that its forces were likely to suffer heavy casualties, a Japanese newspaper has reported. Israel wants strike on Syria while iron's hot --by Robert Novak "Coinciding with the Bush administration's tough talk about Syria, a senior Israeli official Monday exposed a smoking gun. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Tel Aviv newspaper Maariv: ''We have a long list of issues we are thinking of demanding of the Syrians, and it would be best done through the Americans.'" Israeli Army Raids Foreign Activists' HQ --Israeli troops raided a West Bank headquarters used by pro-Palestinian foreign activists on Friday, detaining three women and taking away computers and files, its director said. David Bloom's death tied to smallpox shot? NBC correspondent possibly victim of 'toxic vaccine' before war in Iraq --Is the death of NBC News correspondent David Bloom during Operation Iraqi Freedom the result of a vaccination he received before the war? That question is being raised in connection with a CBS News report which says the federal government is doing a sudden about-face and will let states stop administering the high-risk smallpox shot. Another first for the Bush regime? Combining biological and economic warfare --by Wayne Madsen "Evidence is mounting that the Bush administration may be engaging in a new form of warfare: bio-economic attacks against countries that either opposed the U.S. war on Iraq or were showing signs of surpassing the United States in economic vitality and growth. Revelations that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) does not occur naturally and that anthrax may have been introduced onto an Egyptian merchant vessel bound for Canada from Brazil has raised eyebrows among biological warfare experts." Body bags ordered Down Under --Aussie government takes precaution for terror attack --The Australian government is gearing up for a terrorist attack involving weapons of mass destruction by ordering thousands of body bags. [Prime Minister Poodle II recently met with Dictator Bush at his Crawford ranch... --Lori Price] FBI Still Watching Hatfill --Bio-weapons researcher Dr. Steven Hatfill, sources confirm, remains the FBI's number one suspect in the attacks, even though round-the-clock surveillance and extensive searches have failed to develop more than what even Justice Department prosecutors describe as a "highly circumstantial" case. Senate Deal Kills Effort to Extend Antiterror Act --Senate Republicans backed down today from an effort to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers in a 2001 act, clearing the way for passage of a less divisive measure that would still expand the government's ability to spy on foreign terrorist suspects in the United States. Murdoch gets warm reception from Congress --News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch's attempt to gain control of the nation's largest satellite television company was warmly received by the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee on Thursday as Republican reaction to the $6.6 billion deal fell just short of fawning. Report: Vendor of Miami-Dade voting machine failed to explain potential problems with devices --The provider of the touch-screen voting machines used in last year's botched primary elections misled officials about the equipment, a government study said. The 41-page draft report by the Miami-Dade office of the inspector general said Election Systems & Software's sales team ''conveniently left out'' vital information about the touch-screen device capabilities and in effect turned the election into a live test for the software. [*See: "Who makes the vote-counting machines?" Republicans Seek Rule Change on Bush Nominees --U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday sustained procedural hurdles against two judicial nominees and moved toward likely blocking a third as Republicans readied a proposed rule change to break the roadblocks. [Whenever the rightwing nutcases don't 'get their way' in the Senate, they either change the rules midstream or out-and-out cheat, such as with the coup d'etat in 2000, which combined both rule-changing and cheating.] Colorado GOP tries to redraw congressional map early --Republicans redrew Colorado's congressional districts just two years after the once-per-decade redistricting, in a rare move that would solidify the GOP's tenuous hold on a new U.S. House seat and bolster the party's majority in Congress. Cheney firm paid millions in bribes to Nigerian official --The reputation of Halliburton, the oil industry giant once run by Vice-pResident Dick Cheney, took a new blow yesterday when it admitted one of its subsidiaries had paid millions of dollars to a Nigerian official in return for tax breaks. Halliburton Says Gave Bribes in Nigeria --Halliburton Co., the world's No. 2 oilfield services company, said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it has disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it made about $2.4 million in improper payments in Nigeria. A year later, probe goes on at Halliburton --Halliburton, the Houston-based oil-field services company formerly headed by Vice pResident Dick Cheney, said federal investigators are still questioning witnesses a year into a probe of the company's accounting. State subpoenas 30 business elite --Regulators probe allegations insiders 'dumped' $71 million in IPALCO stock. Insiders include former IPALCO director Mitch Daniels, a former Eli Lilly and Co. executive who is now Dictator Bush's budget director. Daniels, who sold about $1.45 million in IPALCO stock in January 2001, on Tuesday announced he is resigning the federal post, leading to speculation he will run for governor here. Corporate greed a threat, chairman of SEC warns --Public disillusionment with Wall Street and corporate America after a string of scandals threatens the economy, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said Thursday. Into the Sunset --by Paul Krugman "The new tax cut plan echoes the 2001 scam in other ways. In 2001 a tax cut that delivered about 40 percent of its benefits to the richest 1 percent of families was marketed as a tax break for ordinary folks. The same is true this time. In fact, the extent to which the House bill favors the rich is breathtaking: the typical family would get a tax break of only $217 next year, but families with incomes above $1 million would get an average of $93,500 each." House passes jobs training bill with focus on religion --Religious groups that receive federal funds to provide job training services could refuse to hire workers with different beliefs under legislation the House passed Thursday. 13,000 would lose Medicaid under deal (MO) Republicans, who took over the Legislature this year, say they're inching closer to downsizing state government under a budget compromise hammered out Wednesday. Suit Says ChevronTexaco Dumped Poisons in Ecuador --A group of American lawyers representing more than 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the ChevronTexaco Corporation yesterday. The suit asserts that during two decades of operation, ChevronTexaco dumped over four million gallons a day of toxic wastewater, contaminated with oil, heavy metals and carcinogens into open pits, estuaries and rivers. Ecuadorean Court to Handle Villagers vs. ChevronTexaco --Lawyers representing some 30,000 impoverished Ecuadoreans are expected to sue ChevronTexaco Corp. today, accusing the second-largest U.S. oil company of contaminating the rainforest and sickening local residents. 10 universities cut programs for minorities --Several public and private universities, including Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have announced they will eliminate or alter summer programs and scholarships that accept only minorities. Bush's Harvest of Shame --One Million Black Children in Extreme Poverty (The Black Commentator) "An American kind of Hell is quickly descending on the poorest Black children, nearly one million of whom now live in 'extreme poverty,' according to a study by the Children's Defense Fund. ...The Bush regime is less than two and one-half years old, and already they have condemned hundreds of thousands of additional Black children to incarceration, moral degradation, and early death." George W. Bush Must Answer to the People (votetoimpeach.org) "The U.S. Constitution provides the means for preventing George W. Bush from engaging in a war of aggression against Iraq, and from advancing a first strike potentially nuclear preemptive war. It's called impeachment." - adapted from Ramsey Clark's address to the half a million demonstrators at the January 18th National March on Washington to Stop the War on Iraq organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush --by Francis A. Boyle Professor of Law Jan. 17, 2003 View the Articles of Impeachment, drafted by Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. [May 8 lead stories:] Graham Eyeing Evidence That Bush Blew 9/11 --Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bob Graham is reportedly sitting on damaging evidence that the Bush dictatorship could have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks - but he hasn't released the information yet because it's classified. September 11 Showdown --Will the White House block a terror panel’s access to critical documents? --NEWSWEEK has learned, Dictator Bush’s chief lawyer has privately signaled that the White House may seek to invoke executive privilege over key documents relating to the attacks in order to keep them out of the hands of investigators for the National Commission on Terror Attacks Upon the United States—the independent panel created by Congress to probe all aspects of 9-11. Some commission members now fear a showdown over the issue. Bush May Invoke 9/11 Executive Privilege and Secrecy --by Tom Flocco "Proof of prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks is continuing to trickle out of the purportedly 'leak-proof' White House, as more corroborative chickens of 9/11 are coming home to roost -- even as President [sic] Bush is considering invoking executive privilege to keep the clamps on evidence that could alter the political landscape for the nation’s conquering 'top-gun.'"
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