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: 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.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: 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://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 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://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
2006-12-24 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 Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806A.shtml http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/relatedstories/160717.php Published: 12.17.2006 Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine Some kept visiting schools for 3 years after FBI caught them on tape By Carol Ann Alaimo ARIZONA DAILY STAR A Midtown strip mall that should have housed the best of the best served as Corruption Central in Tucson. Two … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6182125.stm Blair defends Saudi probe ruling The SFO was investigating claims that Britain’s biggest defence firm BAE had paid bribes to secure an arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. BAE has always denied the claims. ‘Effectively blackmailed’ But on Thursday the attorney general said the investigation was … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122006J.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121900880.html?nav=rss_email/components U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time President Plans to Expand Army, Marine Corps To Cope With Strain of Multiple Deployments By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 20, 2006; A01 President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122006R.shtml Bush “Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons” for Offensive Use By Sherwood Ross t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Wednesday 20 December 2006 In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806L.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/17/ap/politics/mainD8M2R0JG0.shtml Reid: Brief Troop Increase OK in Iraq Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he would support temporary troop surge in Iraq WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2006 By HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer (AP) The Senate’s top Democrat offered qualified support Sunday for a plan to increase U.S. … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121806HB.shtml http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/45530/ Corporate Agribusiness Is Behind Our Deadly Food Supply By Sally Kohn, AlterNet Posted on December 18, 2006, Printed on December 21, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45530/ First it was spinach. Now it’s green onions at the Taco Bell. What’s next? The growing anxiety over our nation’s food supply is enough … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121806LB.shtml http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16226231/ MSNBC.com US Army might break Goodyear strike By Bernard Simon in Toronto Financial Times Updated: 10:12 p.m. ET Dec. 15, 2006 The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their jobs at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas in the face … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121906B.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801477.html White House, Joint Chiefs At Odds on Adding Troops By Robin Wright and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 19, 2006; A01 The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121606Z.shtml http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/cooperweb About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal by MARC COOPER [posted online on December 16, 2006] For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506A.shtml http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/45518/ John McCain’s Shameless Call for Escalation in Iraq By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast Posted on December 15, 2006, Printed on December 21, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45518/ “I understand the polls show only 18 percent of the American people support my position. But I have to do what’s right… In … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121906D.shtml http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/16250266.htm Posted on Sun, Dec. 17, 2006 Desperation in the White House BY JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY •••@••.••• The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor’s nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122006F.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/opinion/20wed1.html December 20, 2006 EDITORIAL Only the Jailers Are Safe Ever since the world learned of the lawless state of American military prisons in Iraq, the administration has hidden behind the claim that only a few bad apples were brutalizing prisoners. President Bush also has dodged the full … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/washington/16gitmo.html December 16, 2006 Military Taking a Tougher Line With Detainees By TIM GOLDEN GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba, Dec. 10 ‹ As the first detainees began moving last week into Guantánamo¹s modern, new detention facility, Camp 6, the military guard commander stood beneath the high, concrete walls of the compound, … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer/print Rollingstone.com Paul Krugman on the Great Wealth Transfer The Great Wealth Transfer It’s the biggest untold economic story of our time: more of the nation’s bounty held in fewer and fewer hands. And Bush’s tax cuts are only making the problem worse PAUL KRUGMAN Why doesn’t Bush get … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121606Y.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/world/middleeast/16military.html December 16, 2006 Options Weighed for Surge in G.I.¹s to Stabilize Iraq By DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 ‹ Military planners and White House budget analysts have been asked to provide President Bush with options for increasing American forces in Iraq by … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6190279.stm US defence chief warns over Iraq New US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that failure in Iraq would be a “calamity” that would haunt the United States for many years. Mr Gates spoke after taking his oath of office from Vice-President Dick Cheney. Mr Gates, who replaces … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806N.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/16/AR2006121600791.html Talk of Satellite Defense Raises Fears of Space War U.S. Says Attacks on Crucial Systems Are Possible, Warns It Would Respond Forcefully By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 17, 2006; A12 For a U.S. military increasingly dependent on sophisticated satellites for communicating, gathering intelligence … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: “There is no way to describe what will be necessary other than as a revolution. Energy use is intertwined with virtually every institution of industrial society, as Monbiot’s book makes clear and specific. There is an immediate and urgent need to dramatically reduce energy use and rapidly change over … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506O.shtml The Cuban Five and US Terrorism By Michael Parenti and Alicia Jrapko t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributors Friday 15 December 2006 December 2006 marks five years since the Cuban Five were sentenced to prison. In 2001, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122006C.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901659.html Repeat Iraq Tours Raise Risk of PTSD, Army Finds By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 20, 2006; A19 U.S. soldiers serving repeated Iraq deployments are 50 percent more likely than those with one tour to suffer from acute combat stress, raising their risk … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121706Z.shtml http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06346/745523-84.stm Despite a $168B budget, Army faces cash crunch Tuesday, December 12, 2006 By Greg Jaffe, The Wall Street Journal FORT STEWART, Ga. — With just six weeks before they leave for Iraq, the 3,500 soldiers from the Third Infantry Division’s First Brigade should be learning about Ramadi, … Read more
2006-12-21 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806K.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel18dec18,0,3935943.story?coll=la-home-headlines U.S. seeks to rein in its military spy teams Special Forces units work in allied countries and clash with the CIA. By Greg Miller Times Staff Writer December 18, 2006 WASHINGTON ‹ U.S. Special Forces teams sent overseas on secret spying missions have clashed with the CIA … 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
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 “..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://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 “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 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 …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 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 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 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