February 2003
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By Robert Fisk on February 28, 2003
A new CNN system of ‘script approval’ suggests the Pentagon will not have to worry about media coverage if it invades Iraq
Posted in The Media
By on February 27, 2003
WASHINGTON, 4 February 2003 — The US will go to war against Iraq two weeks after Haj, which is scheduled to end Feb. 13, a former deputy secretary at the US Defense Department told Arab News yesterday. “During this massive air attack, the last thing you want is cluttered airspace,” a former deputy secretary at [...]
Posted in Iraq
By Robert Fisk on February 27, 2003
Meanwhile, we are ploughing on to war in Iraq, which has oil, but avoiding war in Korea, which does not have oil
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 27, 2003
LONDON: A British man was arrested yesterday for daubing white paint on the walls of a television network in protest against a show in which a Chinese artist apparently ate a dead baby. Martin Wyness, a 45-year-old father of two, told Reuters he had driven through the night to London from the countryside to express [...]
Posted in The Media
By on February 27, 2003
The United Nations has raked in billions of dollars in plunder from Iraq’s oil revenues while crippling sanctions, described as “genocidal” by former UN officials, have devastated the Iraqi economy and brought extreme deprivation to the population. Iraq’s immense oil wealth and the role it plays in the thinking of the global planners at the [...]
Posted in Iraq
By on February 27, 2003
The United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq’s 11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council. The full extent of Washington’s complete control over who sees what in the crucial Iraqi dossier calls into question the allegations made [...]
Posted in Iraq
By on February 26, 2003
People from around the world are gathering in Iraq, young ang old, they are intent on acting as human sheilds for the beleaguered Iraqis.
Posted in Iraq
By on February 26, 2003
Last Saturday Bush united the people of the world against his irresponsible, greedy, pigheaded, destructive slouching towards mayhem.
Posted in Behind The "News"
By Israel Shamir on February 25, 2003
A Talk Given in Istanbul City Big Concert Hall on 22.02.03. Heavy snowfall blocks the mountain passes of Anatolia, lays thick Persian carpets on the streets, paints white the mosque domes, churches and markets of your City, the eternal capital of great empires. I came from Jerusalem al-Quds via Moscow, two places intricately connected to [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 24, 2003
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 24, 2003
“That which has a name exists” A Basque saying It was Friday, the day of rest. I watched Jamal sit in his usual place, on a chunk of shattered breezeblock at the centre of the swathe of open ground. His vantage point was sufficiently far up the slope to see across the roofs of the [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on February 24, 2003
Anti-war activists, of all descriptions, are converging on Baghdad to act as human shields and avert war
Posted in Iraq
By on February 23, 2003
An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews. — Joseph Sobran September 2002 I wanted to call this, “Why I am an anti-semite.” It is telling, indeed, that even I finally knuckled under and chose a less sensational title. The silence in America [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 23, 2003
Trauma based mind control is a clinical fact and, through frequent and fabricated ‘terror alerts’, it’s being used to instill a climate of fear
Posted in "The War on Terror"
By on February 22, 2003
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship …Voice or no voice, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous
By on February 22, 2003
A war is emerging, says Norman D Livergood, between those intent on exposing the truth and those who want to impose their illusions on the world
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 20, 2003
JERUSALEM. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after Iraq. “These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve,” Sharon said to a visiting [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 20, 2003
Earlier this year, six new highly specialized aircraft were delivered to a Royal Australian Air Force [RAAF] base located near Canberra,
Posted in Political Intrigue
By on February 20, 2003
“Middle class jobs are evaporating faster than Ariel Sharon can build another illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.” BALTIMORE (PC) – United has 81,000 employees and is the second largest airline in America. Recently, it asked for a $1.8 billion loan guarantee from Washington to avoid bankruptcy. The 9/11 tragedy, among other [...]
Posted in Behind The "News"
By on February 20, 2003
Heterosexuals have been targeted with a view to depopulation and emasculation with the ultimate aim of banishing love from the world.
Posted in Miscellaneous