Related article: https://uncensored.co.nz/archives/2005/08/23/wag-the-dog/ Wag the Dog By Michael T. Klare TomDispatch.com Tuesday 15 November 2005 Crisis scenarios for deflecting attention from the President’s woes. In the 1998 movie Wag the Dog, White House spinmeister Conrad Brean seeks to deflect public attention from a brewing scandal over an alleged sexual […]
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telegraph.co.uk By James Orr and Nina Goswami To early morning joggers, the sight of a man drawing buckets of water from a boat midstream in the River Thames may have seemed a little unusual. On board were a team of three scientists, experts in their field, who were for the […]
Movies and Dreams… By Riverbend 11/05/05 “Baghdad Burning” — — My parents, like many Iraqis of their generation and educational background, discouraged too much tv. When E. and I were younger, they were vigilant about the type of shows and movies we were allowed to watch. They didn’t like for […]
Torture means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle, and died after 10 days of agony By Craig Murray 10/27/05 “The Independent” — — The Government has been arguing before the House of Lords for the right to act on intelligence obtained by torture abroad. It wants to […]
freemarketnews.com Sunday, October 16, 2005 An extraordinary documentary produced by Australian public television, “Inside Indonesia’s War on Terrorism,” will be rebroadcast again on Monday, October 17 at 1PM. In the program which first aired on October 12, the blind, former President of Indonesia – reportedly more trusted than any other […]
informationclearinghouse.info More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing […]
By Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch.com Wednesday 26 October 2005 Bush’s October surprise. Those in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War were later termed “premature antifascists.” Perhaps, in the same spirit, I might be considered a premature Bush-administration implodist.
By Sheila Samples 10/28/05 “ICH ” — — Remember the “Hey, Mikey” TV commercial with two brothers refusing to eat Quaker Oats’ new Life cereal until their little brother, Mikey, who supposedly “hates everything” tried it first? Well, I’m not saying I get up every morning and yell, “Hey, Harkavy!” […]
Source: tomflocco.com Date: Monday, October 24 Washington, DC Earlier today the District of Columbia Appellate Court threw out a Bush administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictments against White House officials. The White House’s initial attempt to obstruct justice […]
Source: rense.com WASHINGTON (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources. This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the […]