Democracy: dollars determine who wins
Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004

The 50 lies, exaggerations, distortions
and half truths that took Britian to war
Whatever the outcome of the Hutton inquiry and the vote on top-up fees, the central charge this paper has consistently made against Tony Blair is that he took this country to war in Iraq on a false pretext.

Wary UN returns to Iraq

War Party Puts Syria in Its Sights

Syria rejects WMD charge

Saddam's WMD hidden in Syria, says Iraq survey chief

Powell fudge on Iraqi WMDs
Existence of WMD an "open question": Powell

Democracy: dollars determine who wins
"Polyarchy", Chomsky says, best describes a political system "of elite decision and periodic public ratification." Applying it to what passes for politics in the USA, he recalled in a recent interview that in the presidential elections of 2000 in the US, "about 75 per cent (of the population) regarded it as mostly a farce having nothing to do with them, a game played by rich contributors, party bosses, and the public relations industry."

Twelve dead in Iraq resistance attacks

Female GIs reporting rapes by U.S. soldiers

Halliburton tells US of suspected Iraq-work kickback



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