Freedumb of Speech on the March

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Sunday August 28, 2005 · 9:24 AM PDT

2005/08/28 · 09:24

Both La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera reported yesterday that the Farnesina Palace, home to the Italian Foreign Ministry, denied visas to Iraqis invited to speak at the Anti-Imperialist League's rally scheduled for October at the resort of Chianciano Terme. Read More

Lance Armstrong in Deep S**t

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Tuesday August 23, 2005 · 7:43 AM PDT

2005/08/23 · 07:43

Bad news. More lies. Proof has come out that Lance Armstrong cheated by using performance-enhancing substances:

French sports newspaper L'Equipe has published the findings by the French National Anti-Doping Laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry that the "characteristic, indisputable and consequential presence of EPO (erythroprotein) have been detected in Armstrong's urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France. Read More

Schlock site worse than Abu Ghraib

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Sunday August 21, 2005 · 10:51 AM PDT

2005/08/21 · 10:51

Apparently Don Rumsfeld's orders banning cellphone and digital cameras exists on paper only. Today's headlines in La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera concern a website where US troops upload their images from Iraq of the burnt and mutilated corpses of their Iraqi and Afghani enemies. The damage may be worse than the Abu Ghraib scandal because accompanying the images are the most inhuman and cynical comments.

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Cindy Vigil in Brighton, New York

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Wednesday August 17, 2005 · 7:33 PM PDT

2005/08/17 · 19:33

We had 200 to 300 people at Twelve Corners in Brighton, New York. Every car that passed hi-fived us, which was very encouraging! Bush is a dead duck around here.
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Colombian death squads deployed to Iraq

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Friday August 12, 2005 · 7:54 PM PDT

2005/08/12 · 19:54

Isn't there enough murder, torture, extortion and bombing in Baghdad without this?? [Via AFP].

A US firm based in Ecuador has announced that it has hired 1,000 Colombian ex-military and police as mercenaries in Iraq at one-half the cost of US mercenaries. Read More

Breaking: Italian fascist spy network possibly linked to US intelligence

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Friday July 01, 2005 · 10:49 AM PDT

2005/07/01 · 10:49

Negroponte. Ledeen. Boykin. North. Kerek. If these figures make you uneasy, they should. An Italian investigation has uncovered an underground, parallel police network with possible links to the CIA which may be involved in the slaying of Niccola Calipari and Il Diario reporter Enzo Baldoni, the extraordiary rendition of Abu Omar and Nigergate.

The investigation is ongoing. On the surface, it looks like a scam. But somehow, it has the same perfume of the deliberate quasi-legality we saw in Iran-Contra.
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Dispatch from La Paz

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 10:43 PM PDT

2005/06/08 · 22:43

La revolución continues. And no Che! Had this happened under Nixon, there'd be slaughter. As bad as Bush is, the US government has lightened up on people power.

LA PAZ.- Thousands of Bolivian miners have traveled from the highlands to the city of Sucre, the Constitutional capital of the country, to force Congress to call early general elections. Read More

Church and State: Spectre of the Spanish Civil War

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Tuesday June 07, 2005 · 3:56 PM PDT

2005/06/07 · 15:56

Some of you may be aware of the tremendous crisis looming in Spain. Against the backdrop of a bloody civil war, 50 years of Franco's rule, and post-Franco reconciliation, a momentous struggle is about to occur whose outcome may affect us. Premier Zapatero has introduced measures to permit gay marriage, ease divorce and end religion classes in school. Aznar is back, commanding the right on the barricades. The battles resemble our own, faced with Republican control of our government and provide more proof than suggestion that Bush and the Religious Right are un-American. Read More

Peer Review: French Military Looks at US Performance in Iraq

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 8:36 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 08:36

Le Monde's military correspondent Laurent Zecchini reports on a French study of the performance of the US military in Iraq. Not only were US forces were completely unprepared for insurgent war but applied the tactics of "massive reconnoitering" borrowed from William T. Sherman's March to the Sea. Unlike the British, US forces don't make the slightest attempt to respect the locals. The French analysts think that prevailing Protestant beliefs in predestination may have only increased the mayhem and bloodletting. Read More

Uzbekistan: Islamic Revolution Now!

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 9:04 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 09:04

With the Central Asian thugs in cahoots with the CIA to harsh on their own people as if they were Bin Laden in the flesh, I can't say I blame them for raiding a high-security prison and springing 2000 inmates, mostly political prisoners. Read More

Sgrena: The Italian report is a whitewash.

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Wednesday May 04, 2005 · 11:40 AM PDT

2005/05/04 · 11:40

A hard-hitting opinion piece in yesterday's La Repubblica by Giuseppe D'Avanzo informs us the Italian report, while claiming to refute the findings of the US investigators, is nothing but a whitewash. The "infantile" and "capricious" report was "a cross between a traffic cop's diary and billed time for a ministerial bureaucrat's input." Read More

Sgrena/Calipari Report: The Digital Trap

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Sunday May 01, 2005 · 7:04 AM PDT

2005/05/01 · 07:04

Yesterday, I posted a link to La Repubblica which had .pdf file of the US version of the investigation into the shooting of Major-General Nicola Calipari.

There's something about a pdf file, which the Pentagon has learned to its surprise. All the information in the digital document can be decrypted even if portions of the text have a black backgound when presented to the reader.

Ah yes, the most technologically advanced military in the world... Read More

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