Year: 2006

2006-12-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606T.shtml http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061225.wiranoil1225/GIStory/ BREAKING NEWS FROM THE GLOBE AND MAIL Iran’s oil revenue running dry, analysis shows BARRY SCHWEID Monday, December 25, 2006 WASHINGTON ‹ Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could virtually disappear by 2015, according to … Read more

2006-12-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606R.shtml http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061226/D8M8M7480.html Biden Vows to Fight Any Iraq Troop Boost Dec 26, 1:01 PM (ET) By ANNE FLAHERTY WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Joseph Biden, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he will fight President Bush if the administration decides to send more U.S. troops to … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122306E.shtml http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asGYyD8czwU8&refer=home UN Imposes First Sanctions on Iran’s Nuclear Program (Update5) By Bill Varner Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations Security Council voted 15 to 0 to impose sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program for the first time, including a ban on acquisition of materials and technology … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore The state has declared that Democrat Christine Jennings lost to Republican Vern Buchanan by 369 votes. But 18,000 Sarasota County electronic ballots did not record a choice in the race, and Jennings contends that the number is abnormally high and that the machines lost the votes. ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122106S.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Florida-Election.html … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://newenergymovement.org/olearygore.aspx Open Letter from Brian O’Leary to Al Gore December 2006 Dear Mr. Gore, I am a former astronaut, Cornell professor, physics faculty member at Princeton University and visiting faculty member in technology assessment at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Mo Udall’s energy advisor and … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15983.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Impending Police State in America Interview with Professor Francis Boyle Francis A Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration camps are in place and US citizens are the targets CLICK PLAY … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman12042006.html December 4, 2006 The Price of Imperial Overreach The Withering of the Bush Dynasty By STEPHEN LENDMAN The Bush family has been characterized in various ways including the Bush dynasty, crime family or syndicate. George Bush is just the latest in a line of unsavory characters but clearly … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: It was “outrageous that the president has repeatedly stated the greatest threat to U.S. national security is a nuclear Iran, yet explicitly rejects Congress’ declaration that it shall be the official policy of the United States that India will not use its nuclear technology to help develop Iran’s nuclear … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/africa/25somalia.html December 25, 2006 Ethiopia Hits Somali Targets, Declaring War By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Dec. 24 ‹ Ethiopia officially plunged into war with Somalia¹s Islamist forces on Sunday, bombing targets inside Somalia and pushing ground troops deep into Somali territory in a major escalation that could turn Somalia¹s … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: Investment in home building declined at an 18.7 percent rate — even more than previously estimated — and was the largest cut in 15 years. ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122106E.shtml http://www.startribune.com/535/story/890387.html Last update: December 21, 2006 ­ 8:40 PM Housing stall remains a drag on the economy By Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6208549.stm Ethiopia attacks Somalia airports Ethiopian jets have bombed two airports in Somalia in a widening operation against an Islamic militia group. Jets hit the international airport in the capital, Mogadishu, and another at Balidogle, in the south of the country. The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has been … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606A.shtml http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/12/26/military_considers_recruiting_foreigners/ Military considers recruiting foreigners Expedited citizenship would be an incentive By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | December 26, 2006 WASHINGTON — The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks — including disputed proposals to open recruiting … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html December 25, 2006 U.S. Is Holding Iranians Seized in Raids in Iraq By JAMES GLANZ and SABRINA TAVERNISE BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 ‹ The American military is holding at least four Iranians in Iraq, including men the Bush administration called senior military officials, who were seized in a pair … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122106D.shtml http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/45721/ Saudi Royals Snub Bush, Fund Opposition to U.S. Troops By Jeffrey Klein and Paolo Pontoniere, New America Media Posted on December 21, 2006, Printed on December 26, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45721/ Early in November, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, in a memo leaked to the press recommended that Saudi … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/message/2172 Report from “Xochitl”; an American doctor in Oaxaca Dear friends and family, After about a week of traveling around Mexico, on the run after our arrest, we returned to Oaxaca for a few days before leaving the country. It was a beguiling, heart-wrenching and stressful time. Beguiling, because … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122206C.shtml Carter: US “Prime Culprit” in Nuclear Proliferation By Sherwood Ross t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 22 December 2006 Ex-President Carter warns: Bush betrays Reagan goals. Former President Jimmy Carter says by “rejecting or evading almost all nuclear arms control agreements negotiated … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/6207319.stm Sunday, 24 December 2006, 11:23 GMT Ahmadinejad rejects UN sanctions Iran’s president has rejected UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran, insisting his country would press ahead with its nuclear programme. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the resolution passed on Saturday was a “piece of paper” adding that the 15 countries … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.halturnershow.com/ChinaToDumpUSDollars.html Published December 15, 2006 7:27 PM EST *** BREAKING NEWS *** CHINA TO DUMP ONE TRILLION IN U.S. RESERVES! Tells visiting Bush administration officials they will not sit back and lose their shirts as U.S. Dollar collapses; they are getting out fast and large! BEIJING, CHINA — Sources … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122606P.shtml http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports Published: 24 December 2006 Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122106P.shtml http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,453906,00.html SPIEGEL ONLINE – December 12, 2006, 04:45 PM A CURRENCY IN DECLINE How Dangerous is the Dollar Drop? By Christian Reiermann Is an end of an era looming in the foreign exchange markets? The dollar has been depreciating against the euro for weeks. Currency experts and the … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122206R.shtml http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1387 Stop the Presses: Press Ignores the Generals’ A. Alexander, December 22nd, 2006 The Joint Chiefs of Staff and practically every actively serving General strongly opposes George W. Bush’s proposed Iraq “Surge” Plan, but you’ve probably not heard too much about the Generals’ general discontent. The average American … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122206B.shtml http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/21/143259 Thursday, December 21st, 2006 Target Iran: Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change The Pentagon has announced plans to move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:23:57 -0800 From: •••@••.••• Subject: MidEast Dispatches: U.S. Troops Raid Hospital Again ** Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail website http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** ** Website by http://jeffpflueger.com ** U.S. Troops Raid Hospital Again *Inter Press Service* Dahr Jamail and Ali … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122106K.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/middleeast/21navy.html December 21, 2006 U.S. and Britain to Add Ships to Persian Gulf in Signal to Iran By THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 ‹ The United States and Britain will begin moving additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region in a display of military resolve … Read more

2006-12-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/world/middleeast/22haditha.html December 22, 2006 Marines Charge 4 With Murder of Iraq Civilians By PAUL von ZIELBAUER and CAROLYN MARSHALL Correction Appended Four marines were charged yesterday with murder in the killings of two dozen Iraqi civilians, including at least 10 women and children, in the village of Haditha last … Read more

2006-12-24 Richard Moore Seasons greetings, As many others have recognized, and I have often written, we are now in the midst of a global Great Transformation. By some strange coincidence, this Great Transformation seems to be synchronized with our calendar — coinciding more or less with the beginning of a new millennium. ‘New Millennium’ is … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore pop·u·list n. 1. A supporter of the rights and power of the people. – thefreedictionary.com It ain¹t left or right. It¹s up and down. Here we all are own here struggling while the Corporate Elite are all up there having a nice day! ‹ Carolyn Chute, author of ‘The Beans of Egypt … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/lebowitz171206.html “It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want to”: Chavez Moves Forward by Michael A. Lebowitz Caracas, 16 December 2006 Was it my imagination or were there lots of sad faces at last night’s meeting at the Teresa Carrena theatre — the site of so many Bolivarian … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/business/17drug.html December 17, 2006 Eli Lilly Said to Play Down Risk of Top Pill By ALEX BERENSON The drug maker Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia, according to hundreds of internal Lilly documents and … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121906J.shtml Winning by Losing? By William Fisher t r u t h o u t | Columnist Tuesday 19 December 2006 Daniel Sutherland, head of the civil-rights division of the Department of Homeland Security, says the government needs the help of American Muslims and Arab-Americans to fight terrorism at … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore An interesting article that stops short of being useful. It is based on the false assumption that public opinion influences government policy. Yes, we are the solution, but we need to address elite rule before we can do anything real about global warming or anything else. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121506EB.shtml … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Here we have Gore grandstanding on an easy popular issue. Gore, who fought to bring us the NAFTA disaster, and who mocked the black Congressmen and women who protested the theft of the 2000 election. Does anyone really think he could or would do anything meaningful about global warming? When he starts … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore This article should come as no surprise. There are only three reasons for the Guantanamo detentions: 1) to support the lie that terrorism is a threat to the US 2) to confine prisoners who know the CIA runs Al Qaeda 3) to establish a precedent for concentration camps in the USA rkm … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore …while preserving a fig leaf. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121406R.shtml http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003476629_detainees14.html Thursday, December 14, 2006 – 12:00 AM Federal judge issues split decision on new Military Commissions Act By David G. Savage Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON ‹ In the first legal decision on a federal law that denies access to U.S. … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore What a surprise. How strange that the Democrats, who voted for most of Bush’s policies, had no suspicion what was going on. How convenient to blame it all on the Republicans. Someone should teach Congress how to use the Internet, so they can stay informed. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121406E.shtml http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16232888.htm … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore “In the early 1990s, a Japanese doomsday sect used airborne anthrax to attack Tokyo, but it wasn’t effective. That was the only known terrorist-type use of the warfare agent until weaponized anthrax, suspected to have been used by domestic laboratory fearmongers, killed five Americans in 2001.” Did you ever wonder why there … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6179275.stm Diana death a ‘tragic accident’ An official UK police inquiry into the Paris car crash which killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed has found no evidence the couple were murdered. Lord Stevens, who led the three-year investigation, said the 1997 crash was a “tragic accident”. The inquiry … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore “..Article 186 in the Brazilian constitution stipulates that private property, including land, must serve a social function.” ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=48&ItemID=11580 ZNet | Brazil Brazilian Governor Moves to Expropriate Land From Agribusiness Multinational Syngenta by Isabella Kenfield; December 08, 2006 Curitiba, Brazil – On November 9th Roberto Requião, Governor of the … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2006/walkup/ [as of 19 Dec 2006] Who Should Be Person of the Year? TIME’s Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits … Read more

2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121606A.shtml http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-12-16T043904Z_01_N15422822_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUDGET-PENTAGON.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-2 Pentagon eyes $468.9 bln budget for fiscal 2008 Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:39 PM ET By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has approved a $468.9 billion budget for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2008, a six-percent increase over last year’s request, … Read more