Archive for December, 2005

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War, Peace, and the Net

During the Cold War, the pretext was promoting peace and freedom by fighting Communism. But peace and freedom were stood on their heads. Nearly any regime, no matter how murderous, was a candidate for U.S. assistance as long as it was anti-Communist. The U.S. even financed and trained some of the terrorists that are now its enemies in the War on Terror…..

EU concealed deal with US to allow ‘rendition’ flights

The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport “criminals” in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of “rendition” flights by the CIA…..

Iraq war was ‘blatant state terrorism’: Nobel laureate Pinter

“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,” Pinter said in a pre-recorded lecture broadcast by the Swedish Academy…..

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