China-Russia relations at “record high” – Chinese President

2006-05-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://en.rian.ru/world/20060530/48842885.html China-Russia relations at “record high” – Chinese President 30/ May/ 2006 MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) – Relations between China and Russia are at their highest level ever and the countries are seeing massive increases in trade, the Chinese president told a Russian newspaper Tuesday. “Through mutual effort, … Read more

Chavez says Russia to help Venezuela make rifles

2006-05-31 Richard Moore Interesting example here of Matrix doublespeak: Washington denies it plans to invade Venezuela and says Chavez is destabilizing the region. In reality, Chavez’ mission could be described as _stabilizing the region: in opposition to the destabilizing forces of globalization and US imperialism more generally. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-31T021856Z_01_N30135886_RTRUKOC_0_US-VENEZUELA-RUSSIA.xml Chavez says … Read more

Morales sworn in as Bolivia’s first indigenous president

2006-05-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4636190.stm Bolivia’s new leader vows change Evo Morales has been sworn in as Bolivia’s first indigenous president, pledging to end “500 years” of injustice against his people. “We’re here to change our history… we’re taking over,” Mr Morales said. He reaffirmed his pledge to “recover” the country’s natural resources … Read more

Gunfight at Capital Hill Corral??

2006-05-31 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/Feds3Dead.htm This article comes from Tom Flocco.com http://tomflocco.com/ Feds: 3 dead as U.S., French agents seized British evidence in covered up Capitol Hill gunfight Date: Wednesday, May 31 Feds: 3 dead as U.S., French agents seized British evidence in covered up Capitol Hill gunfight Police, media silence sought as … Read more

Analysis: U.S. Braces for Marine Scandal

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iraq-Killing-Crisis.html May 28, 2006 Analysis: U.S. Braces for Marine Scandal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:14 a.m. ET BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. military is bracing for a major scandal over the alleged slaying of Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha — charges so serious they could … Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Harper attempts to muzzle the press

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/harp-m27.shtml World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org Canadian Prime Minister Harper attempts to muzzle the press By Keith Jones 27 May 2006 Canada¹s new Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is refusing to meet the country¹s national press. Harper announced Wednesday that he will no longer give press conferences for the … Read more

Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/world/middleeast/29haditha.html May 29, 2006 Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and MONA MAHMOUD BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 28 ‹ Hiba Abdullah survived the killings by American troops in Haditha last Nov. 19, but said seven others at her father-in-law’s home did … Read more

Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/washington/29strike.html May 29, 2006 Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON, May 28 ‹ The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an … Read more

US urges Russia to reconsider missile export to Iran

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/27/content_4606825.htm US urges Russia to reconsider missile export to Iran www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-27 05:09:45 WASHINGTON, May 26 (Xinhua) — The United States on Friday urged Russia to reconsider its decision to honor its commitment to sell Iran the Tor-M1 air defense missile system. “We would hope that Russia would take … Read more

USA: military draft: legislation submitted

2006-05-29 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4752 109th U.S. Congress (2005-2006) H.R. 4752: Universal National Service Act of 2006 Introduced: Feb 14, 2006 Sponsor: Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY] Status: Introduced (By Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]) This text was automatically converted from PDF format. Formatting glitches are a result of that process. Return to Bill Status … Read more

LA Times: Civilians Slain Execution-Style

2006-05-28 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-marines27may27,1,1672056.story From the Los Angeles Times THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ Photos Indicate Civilians Slain Execution-Style An official involved in an investigation of Camp Pendleton Marines’ actions in an Iraqi town cites `a total breakdown in morality.’ By Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes Times Staff Writers May 27, 2006 … Read more

GOP Heavy Hitters Pressuring White House to Talk With Iran

2006-05-28 Richard Moore Friends, Recall our earlier posting: 10 May 2006 * Engdahl: USA’s ‘geopolitical nightmare’ * http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1137&batch=16&lists=cj Now, two weeks later, we see his analysis – of power shifting to the ‘realists’ – being verified in mainstream sources (LA Times, below): A decision to talk to the Iranians would be a dramatic departure from … Read more

Blair urges United Nations reform

2006-05-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5020358.stm Blair urges United Nations reform Watch Blair’s speech UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the reform of the United Nations in a key foreign policy speech in the US. He said the UN secretary general should be given greater powers to improve the organisation’s ability to … Read more

Putin: We’ll Defend Ourselves as We See Fit

2006-05-27 Richard Moore What Putin says here makes a great deal of sense. Again, as with Chavez, it is refreshing to see statements from leaders that are not double-talk – like we always get from Anglo-American politicians. When Cheney, for example, refers below to “democratic reforms”, he is really talking about ‘economic liberalization’, which in … Read more

U.S. Is Debating Talks With Iran on Nuclear Issue

2006-05-27 Richard Moore What a strange article. If the US agrees to talk with Iran, we are expected to take that as a sign that Washington has “gone the extra mile” to avoid a confrontation. In fact, the record clearly shows that the US has been going the extra mile to provoke a confrontation. If … Read more

Gonzales Said He Would Quit in Raid Dispute

2006-05-27 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/washington/27inquire.html May 27, 2006 Gonzales Said He Would Quit in Raid Dispute By DAVID JOHNSTON and CARL HULSE WASHINGTON, May 26 – Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that … Read more

Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/23/us.mideast/index.html Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked Talks between U.S., Israel leaders focus on borders, Iran, Hamas WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush said Tuesday that the United States would come to Israel’s aid if it were attacked by Iran and welcomed the Jewish state’s plan to define its … Read more

Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/world/middleeast/26haditha.html May 26, 2006 THE INVESTIGATION Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians By THOM SHANKER, ERIC SCHMITT and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. WASHINGTON, May 25 ‹ A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of … Read more

UK: Demonizing immigrants

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5007148.stm Immigration system unfit – Reid Home Secretary John Reid has damned his department’s immigration operation as “not fit for purpose” with “inadequate” leadership and management systems. Other failings showed the Home Office could be “dysfunctional” and “wholesale transformation” was “probably” needed. Although he did not rule out splitting … Read more

UK: Doctors attack ‘bogus’ therapies

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Some of Britain’s leading doctors have urged NHS trusts to stop using complementary therapies and to pay only for medicine “based on solid evidence”. I consider this article to be a good example of how the Matrix works. We are presented with a certain scenario – the Prince vs. the Doctors – … Read more

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: 9/11 Commission report is a lie

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/270284_connellyrebut16.html SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/270284_connellyrebut16.html 9/11 Commission report is a lie Tuesday, May 16, 2006 RICHARD CURTIS GUEST COLUMNIST Writing about a speech by one of the members of the 9/11 Commission, P-I columnist Joel Connelly claimed: “Each of us needs to understand why we are doing what we are … Read more

Zogby Poll: 70 Million Americans Support New 9/11 Investigation

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060522/bs_prweb/prweb388743_4 Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation Mon May 22, 8:00 AM ET Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 — Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby … Read more

Jim Hightower: zealots taking us back to a pre-1776 world

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052406E.shtml Go to earlier original: http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/articles/May06_v8_n5/May06_v8_n5_1.cfm Inside Donnie Rumsfeld’s Orwellian Pentagon By Jim Hightower Hightower Lowdown Wednesday 24 May 2006 While claiming that they must “secure'” America for a post-9/11 world, the BushCheney zealots are taking us back to a pre-1776 world. In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that … Read more

NY Times: Armed [by USA] Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos

2006-05-26 Richard Moore As usual, when ‘exposes’ occur in the mainstream media, we are encouraged to interpret the episode as ‘bungling’ or ‘inefficiency’. Never do we see any hint of the possibility that the episode was intentional policy, and that the results are precisely what was intended. In this case, based on much evidence we’ve … Read more

Russia: RTS bourse to start trading oil, oil products, gold on June 8

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Friends, In this article, from a Russian source, we see Russia establishing its own financial / energy-trading institutions, in competition with traditionally dominant Anglo-American institutions. I suggest that these developments are very relevant to the Iran scenario. The benefits to Anglo-American elites, of an Iranian conquest, would be greater control over oil … Read more

Poverty Rates In Venezuela: Getting The Numbers Right

2006-05-26 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.cepr.net/publications/venezuelan_poverty_rates_2006_05.pdf Issue Brief * May 2006 Center for Economic and Policy Research 1611 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20009 tel: 202-293-5380 www.cepr.net Poverty Rates In Venezuela: Getting The Numbers Right BY MARK WEISBROT, LUIS SANDOVAL, AND DAVID ROSNICK Introduction Over the past year, the statement that poverty … Read more

Has Poverty in Venezuela Fallen or Risen Under President Hugo Chavez?

2006-05-26 Richard Moore This article provides another example of Matrix vs. Reality. In this case, as in many, the Matrix (that which “has appeared in scores of major newspapers”) does not actually lie, but presents information in such a way as to imply the opposite of reality. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_052506P.shtml The full … Read more

911 Truth going mainstream?

2006-05-25 Richard Moore ——————————————————– To: MUJCA 5 From: Kevin Barrett <•••@••.•••> Subject: MUJCA News: Truth Marches On! Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:48:21 -0500 BREAKING NEWS! Col. Robert Bowman, Ph.D., the former head of the “Star Wars” Missile Defense Program, has just confirmed that he will participate in the upcoming conference in Chicago, 9/11: Revealing … Read more

Is the “Ranger Testimony” a fake?

2006-05-23 Richard Moore original URL: http://www.peacefilms.org/ ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:27:45 +0200 From: “Torstein Viddal” <> To: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: access to – Testimony from a former U.S. Army Ranger Richard, the interview can also be seen on Google Video, e.g here: http://cphinterpretation.blogspot.com/2006/05/ex-us-ranger-slaughtering-civilians-in.html http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13140.htm http://novakeo.com/?p=591 ——– Torstein – thanks – rkm ——————————————————– From: … Read more

Dahr Jamail: “Easily Dispensable: Iraq’s Children”

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052206A.shtml Easily Dispensable: Iraq’s Children By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 22 May 2006 Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. – Joan Ganz Cooney If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and … Read more

Fitzgerald update: Libby knew

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101024.html Libby Prosecutor Focuses on CIA Officer’s Status Filings Say Ex-Cheney Aide Knew That Plame Was Classified, Giving Him Reason to Lie to Grand Jury By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 22, 2006; A04 The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame … Read more

Former Pilot Says ‘Jet Blast’ Dismissal Doesn’t Fly

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/230506doesntfly.htm Former Pilot Says ‘Jet Blast’ Dismissal Doesn’t Fly Contradicts facts of previous story about Flight 77 knocking cars off Pentagon highway Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 23 2006 Following the publication of our article questioning claims that wake turbulence or jet blast could have thrown cars around … Read more

NGO Letter to the Security Council on Iraq

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unrole/2006/0519iraqletter.htm NGO Letter to the Security Council on Iraq May 19, 2006 From: Arab Commission for Human Rights; ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives); Center for Constitutional Rights; Economists for Peace and Security; Former UN Humanitarian Coordinators in Iraq; Global Exchange; Global Policy Forum; Hague Appeal for Peace; … Read more

U.S. Is Proposing European Shield for Iran Missiles

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/world/middleeast/22missiles.html New York Times May 22, 2006 U.S. Is Proposing European Shield for Iran Missiles By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON, May 21 ‹ The Bush administration is moving to establish a new antimissile site in Europe that would be designed to stop attacks by Iran against the United States … Read more

Will Your Vote Count in 2006?

2006-05-23 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12888600/site/newsweek/ MSNBC.com Will Your Vote Count in 2006? ‘When you’re using a paperless voting system, there is no security,’ says Stanford’s David Dill. By Steven Levy Newsweek May 29, 2006 issue – Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the voting booth, here comes more … Read more

* Testimony from a former U.S. Army Ranger *

2006-05-22 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:46:45 -0600 To: •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• Subject: Iraq Dispatches: Testimony from a former U.S. Army Ranger ** Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail Iraq website http://dahrjamailiraq.com ** ** Website by http://jeffpflueger.com ** Jessie Macbeth, a Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran … Read more

An Interview with John Dean

2006-05-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://progressive.org/mag_wx052006 An Interview with John Dean By Matthew Rothschild May 20, 2006 Here is a transcript of an interview with John Dean of Watergate fame. Dean was Nixon¹s White House counsel for three years and then testified again him. He is the author, most recently, of ³Worse than Watergate: … Read more

Brzezinski on Iran: “Been there, done that”

2006-05-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-brzezinski23apr23,0,3700317.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions From the Los Angeles Times Been there, done that Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war. By Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Brzezinski was national security advisor to President Carter from 1977 to 1981. April 23, 2006 IRAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT that … Read more

Gregory F. Fegel: The Godfather USA

2006-05-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/79790-fascism-0 The Godfather USA 03.05.2006 To be an American citizen is very much like being the child of a wealthy and unscrupulous criminal ‘Godfather,’ who appears to be kind and generous to his own children at home, but is unflinchingly treacherous and murderous in conducting his family business, which … Read more

Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig

2006-05-22 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-pig-patent-111 Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig Greenpeace researcher uncovers chilling patent plans 02 August 2005 The Earth is flat, pigs were invented by Monsanto, and genetically modified organisms are safe. Right. GENEVA, Switzerland ‹ It’s official. Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world’s food supply, … Read more