28 January, 2004
Chief
US Inspector Admits Iraq Had
No WMD Stockpiles
By Peter Symonds
The admission by the CIAs top weapons adviser
in Iraq, David Kay, that the country possessed no stockpiles of so-called
weapons of mass destruction nor related production facilities is a devastating
refutation of the lies used by the Bush administration to justify its
illegal invasion and occupation
Power, Propaganda
And Conscience
In The War On Terror
By John Pilger
The University of Western Australia Extension Summer
School Lecture
22 January, 2004
Bushs
State Of The Union:
Threats, Lies And Delusion
By Bill Vann
In his third State of the Union address since his
installation as president, George W. Bush spelled out an election-year
agenda consisting of stepped-up global militarism, the continued looting
of the economy to augment the fortunes of Americas super-rich
and an appeal to social and religious backwardness
Dilemmas Of
Colonialism:
The Democracy Problem
By Rene L. Gonzalez Berrios
The dilemma of colonialism has presented itself:
proclaiming democracy (or civilization, or upliftment, or whatever other
high-noble is given to the venture) while the "liberated"
subjects denounce your noble actions
11 January, 2004
Saddam's
Ouster Planned Before 9/11
By CBS News
The Bush Administration began laying plans for
an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days
of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months
later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported
10 January, 2004
The
World's True Rogue States
By Dr. Marwan Al Kabalan
The only two states which qualify for the title
"Rogue State" are the US and Israel. Both countries defy international
laws and violate the UN Charter, not out of security requirements, but
in pursuit of supremacy and material gains
09 January, 2004
American
Terrorist
By John Pilger
Across the world, the slaughter in Iraq, the destruction
of democratic rights and civil liberties in the west and the preparation
for the next invasion are "normalised"
29 December, 2003
America's
War For Global Domination
By Michel Chossudovsky
The antiwar and anti-globalisation movements must
be integrated into a single worldwide movement. People must be united
across sectors, "single issue" groups must join hands in a
common and collective understanding on how the New World Order destroys
and impoverishes
06 December, 2003
Iraq:
The Next Afghanistan
By Philip Adams
Look at Afganistan - the warlords are back in business,
the opium poppies are blooming, heroin sales are booming and the country
is returning to the same level of corruption and dysfunction that brought
about the rise of the Taliban in the first place. This could be the
path Iraq is heading
28 November, 2003
Blood,
Oil, Guns And Bullets
By Aziz Choudry
Weapons production and the maintenance of US military
and economic might across the world depends on massive consumption of
oil and petroleum. In turn, massive defense and security spending boosts
an ailing US economy, and is a boon to the profits of its defense and
security corporations
Guantánamo:
A Monstrous Failure Of Justice
By Johan Steyn
How prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have been
treated we do not know. But what we do know is not reassuring
27 November, 2003
The
Moral Myth
By George Monbiot
Superpowers act out of self-interest, not morality,
and the US in Iraq is no different
Western
Powers Redefine 'Democracy'
By Linda S. Heard
Those halcyon days when "democracy" really
meant "for the people, by the people" are tragically over
in countries which purport to expound this ancient method of governance.
In its place comes a system which spies on, categorises, labels and
restricts "the people" for the benefit of governments
26 November, 2003
Sorrows
Of Empire
By Chalmers Johnson
U.S. has indeed crossed the Rubicon and there is
no way to restore Constitutional government short of a revolutionary
rehabilitation of American democracy
23 November, 2003
I
Know When Bush Is Lying: His Lips Move
By John Pilger
"Now we know that no other president of the
United States has ever lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably
. . . The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's
saying anything."
The Bubble Of American
Supremacy
By George Soros
A prominent financier argues that the heedless
assertion of American power in the world resembles a financial bubbleand
the moment of truth may be here
21 November, 2003
Dark
Heart Of The American Dream
By Ed Vulliamy
Texas, the most polluted state in the planet's
most powerful country. Ed Vulliamy goes into George Bush's backyard
to reveal how big oil got in bed with big politics and the price paid
by the little people
11 November, 2003
Riyadh:
A New Front Against US
By John R Bradley
The attack is a clear sign to the Saudi rulers
and military that al-Qa'ida is willing and able to attack in the heart
of the kingdom, despite asecurity clampdown and co-operation between
the CIA and Saudi intelligence services
Saudi regime
v al-Qaida: Only one survives
By Shaheen Chughtai
The deadly bomb attack on a housing complex in
Riyadh represents the latest battle between the Saudi Arabian monarchy
and its armed opponents in a war to eliminate the other
07 November, 2003
Iraq
Said Tried To Reach Last-Minute
Deal To Avert War
By James Risen
New York Times reports that Saddam Hussein wanted
to make a deal with America just before the beginning of the war
03 November, 2003
Bush
Says God Chose Him To Lead America
By Paul Harris
A new book written by Stephen Mansfield details
numerous incidents where Bush's faith has been shown to be at the centre
of his political thinking