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High crimes and misdemeanours Posted: Friday, August 27, 2004
'Coup bid ringleader' Briton found guilty
Thatcher family had bags packed ready to flee to US, police say
The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
The Pen and the Sword in Venezuela
What Venezuela's Opposition Does Not Understand And when I saw Chavez driving the vehicle when he went to vote on August 15, I turned and looked at the faces of the people surrounding me. They were awestruck. I don’t think it was because they had just been close to Chavez—his car passed by rapidly. It was because he was driving the car—just as they might do. He knows how to drive a car, he knows how to play baseball, he likes to eat an arepa—that essential part of most Venezuelan’s diets.
Hey Big Media, Connect the Dots
Iraq is now more dangerous to the US than when they went to war There was no "imminent threat" to the United States from Iraq. Then there was no strategy for building a new Iraq."Hubris and ideology" ruled. Now, "Iraq is more dangerous to the US potentially than it was at the moment we went to war".
UN condemns Israel's use of Palestine school as detention center A leading UN humanitarian agency on Thursday "strongly protests" Israel's use of Palestine refugee schools as detention and interrogation center for hundredsof suspects. The abuse is "a flagrant violation of UN privileges and immunities," The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugeesin the Near East (UNRWA) said in a press release issued at the UN headquarters in New York.
Out with American self-censorship
'Why did you bring us? This is a slaughter'
Cry havoc
High crimes and misdemeanours Tony Blair was not merely wrong about Iraqi WMD in retrospect. Thanks to Butler, it is now possible to show that his statements clashed with the state of knowledge within the intelligence community at the time. It is possible to demonstrate that the Prime Minister was guilty of at best a culpably negligent failure to acquaint himself with the true state of affairs, at worse mendacity and bad faith. Tony Blair at no stage gave the British people the chance to make up their minds ahead of the war, because the relevant evidence was manipulated and in some cases suppressed.
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