Fables of Freedom and Democracy
Posted: Friday, February 25, 2005

Army awards Halliburton subsidiary millions in bonuses
The Army announced Thursday that it has approved $9.4 million in bonus payments to a Halliburton Co. subsidiary on more than $1 billion in work supporting the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the government hasn't approved final costs and terms of the contracts.

Russia ordered to pay for Chechen deaths
Russia faced fines and sharp censure over its Chechen conflict yesterday as the European court of human rights found Moscow guilty of killing civilians and bluntly ordered it to pay compensation of more than €135,000 (£93,000).

How Long Can Bush Get Away With Lies?

A Pattern of Deception
Let's look at two recent instances of political violence directed against a popular figure who has come to symbolize the democratic hopes of his people: the similarities between the death of Rafik Hariri and the attempted assassination and disfigurement of Viktor Yushchenko are remarkable. In both cases, we have a plethora of non-evidence pointing to the preferred culprits: in the first case, the Syrian government (and its Lebanese allies), and in the second, Russia (and its Ukrainian allies).

Jewish settler runs over two Palestinian children near Qalqilia

Iran is way different than Iraq
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible. In short, it has no rational Iran policy.

Lost in Europe
President Bush has reached a dead end in his foreign policy, but he has failed to recognise his quandary. His belief that the polite reception he received in Europe is a vindication of his previous adventures is a vestige of fantasy.

The third crusade
The only problem with this sophistry is that it is too late in the day; millions of people around the world already know that when Bush says freedom, he means occupation; when he says liberation, he means liberation from life through carpet bombing; when he says democracy, he means a Bushy democracy that grows in the green zones of the occupied cities where his soldiers erect barbed wire around the fortified fields, and where innocent civilians are shot dead simply because they did not step aside when his soldiers decided to roam the streets.

Annan denies Syria pullout demand
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman has denied an Al-Arabiya television report that Annan had demanded Syria withdraw from Lebanon by April or face sanctions. "The secretary-general never set an April deadline for a withdrawal nor did he support sanctions if the pullout didn't happen by then,"

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