http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ARCHIV/ZF_135b/T03.HTM


Quelle: http://www.impf-report.de/jahrgang/2005/25.htm

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1722259.php


Informant: Milo

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1722086.php


Informant: Milo

In a bombshell that reverberated throughout the country, Congressman John Murtha called Thursday for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. "The US cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily," Murtha said. "It is time to bring [the troops] home.... They have become the enemy." Phillis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies says there is a civil war raging in Iraq, but not a conflict between Sunni and Shi'a. It is a clash between those who support the occupation and those who oppose it. She estimates there are only about 1,000 armed terrorists that target civilians. If the US ended its occupation, the Iraqi resistance forces would continue to fight each other for a while, but they would isolate the hardcore terrorists.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105Z.shtml

Fox News
by Andrew J. Coulson

11/19/05

Supporters of the theory of human origins known as 'intelligent design' want it taught alongside the theory of evolution. Opponents will do anything to keep it out of science classrooms. The disagreement is clear. But why does everyone assume that we must settle it through an ideological death-match in the town square? Intelligent design contends that life on Earth is too complex to have evolved naturally, and so must be the product of an unspecified intelligent designer. Most adherents of this idea would undoubtedly be happy just to have it taught to their own children, and most of my fellow evolutionists presumably believe they should have that right. So why are we fighting? We’re fighting because the institution of public schooling forces us to, by permitting only one government-sanctioned explanation of human origins...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176081,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson

11/19/05

The White House is so deluded, it actually believes it can turn a soaring hawk into a scrounging chicken. Stung by the call by US Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania to pull out of Iraq, Scott McClellan, President Bush's press secretary, said this week, 'It is baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party.' Talk about playing the chicken-hawk card. A White House where most of the architects of war avoided combat in their own lives dared to associate two people who are worlds apart in world views. Moore made the anti-Bush 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' which infuriated the right wing by breaking box office records for a documentary film. Moore was booed at the 2004 Republican National Convention...

http://tinyurl.com/8cka7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

11/18/05

A CIA leak to be investigated and maybe punished ... What! Not again! Now, as with the leak of the identity of covert agent Valerie Plame, the offense is the leak, not what was leaked. In the case of Valerie Plame, the news was that her husband, Joseph Wilson, had been sent to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium to make a nuclear weapon, and had returned with word that there was no evidence of this. This was embarrassing to a White House, which had taken America to war on the assertion that we were in imminent danger from unconventional, possibly nuclear, arms. But that issue was buried in the quest to find out who had leaked...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1118/p09s01-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Forward Magazine
by Benjamin Ferencz

11/18/05

'We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow,' Chief Justice Robert Jackson warned at the opening session of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, on November 20, 1945. 'To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.' As we mark the 60th anniversary of the Nuremburg trials this week, it increasingly appears that Jackson's warning is falling on deaf ears in America...

http://www.forward.com/articles/6903


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Nuremberg: BBC and Supreme International Crime
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=96197;show_parent=1

WolfesBlog
by Silver

11/19/05

Reading Gibbon's masterpiece feels like being hit in the face with a 2x4 over and over again. The parallels of the decaying Roman empire with those of modern America are frequent, obvious, and always dismaying. It is simply astonishing that a work written in the 1770’s about events that occurred nearly 2,000 years ago should so frequently, and devastatingly, describe our plight. The passage I quoted above is not the best, it is simply the last one I read. It is rare to read as much as 10 pages without encountering something equally sobering. What I find remarkable is not the painful parallels, which many learned and eloquent writers have been pointing out for decades. My airport discussions have invariably turned to the subject of the declining American empire. When I mention the striking similarity of decaying Roman society to our own, the response is always: 'Yes, but the fall of the Roman empire took four hundred years'...

http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/00001813.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Las Vegas Review Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz

11/20/05

It's widely asserted we're fighting a 'war on terror.' But that's absurd. Terror is a tactic -- an attempt to undermine the morale of a much stronger foe, whom the 'terrorists' know they cannot defeat in traditional battle. ... Making war on a tactic is just silly. Imagine the New York Yankees taking the field against the Baltimore Orioles, and announcing their opponent this night was not the Orioles themselves, but that instead they were waging a 'battle against the bunt.' They could bring all of their players well inside the base paths and pretty successfully stop the bunt. Of course, the Orioles would circle the bases like merry-go-round ponies after hitting what would otherwise be easily-caught flies to the outfield. But darn it, the bunt would be defeated!...

http://tinyurl.com/7df2x


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp