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Dreaming Of WMDs Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2005
A New Campaign of Lies
Iran did not buy uranium from mine: Namibia Records show Namibia’s Rossing mine has not sold uranium to Iran, accused by the United States of secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, in the past 15 years although Tehran has a stake in the firm, Namibia said on Wednesday.
Iraq Media Coverage
Hugo Chavez Superstar The vast crowds gathered in Porto Alegre for the World Social Forum heard Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, dressed in a red Che Guevara T-shirt, denouncing George Bush, Tony Blair and neo-liberal economics. And instead of the polite applause accorded to Stark from a near-empty hall, Chavez got the kind of reception that even Bono might be embarrassed to receive. Porto Alegre confirmed that Chavez is now the indisputable leader of the global poor, a Simon Bolivar of his age, engaged in a mammoth populist experiment to redistribute wealth and land.
Utopian cul-de-sac
$80 Billion For What?
Why America does not win hearts
Aristide seeking return as president
Flashback Sharon: Iran Next on War List Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the U.S. war on terror shouldn't end with Iraq. Iran is just as dangerous and a top priority for a regime change, Sharon said this week. He argued that although Iraq is an "insane" regime, Iran is a "center of world terror."
22 killed in new Iraq violence
963 Palestinians killed in 2004
Fraud Rife In Baghdad Elections In order to provide its readers with coverage of the sham elections taking place in Iraq under US insistence on Sunday, Mafkarat al-Islam correspondents went out and they documented numerous cases of fraud. The correspondents found that the Iraqi Communist Party, a lackey organization of the US invaders, and the National Accord Party, which is led by puppet “prime minister” Iyyad ‘Allawi, hired groups of women, children, youths and unemployed persons to work for them. These people were trotted before television cameras several times on Sunday to claim that there was “heavy voter turnout” at the polling places.
Dreaming Of WMDs Let’s not forget that the reason Bush gave Americans for invading Iraq was not to battle tyranny. It was to protect us from a Saddam Hussein armed with weapons of mass destruction—which were never found. And now that the weapon search has quietly been called off, administration lackeys still maintain Hussein posed a threat.
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