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[Saddam,] castigated by President George W. Bush as one of history's most "brutal dictators" was actually on the CIA payroll....https://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0420-05.htm … [Read more...] about -Ex-U.S. Official Says CIA Aided Baathists

What Ritter and others now allege, with increasing confidence, is a pattern of false information emanating from both Washington and London since last September ?Elies and distortions that launched a major war and are only now beginning to be widely exposed.....https://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0420-01.htm … [Read more...] about -Anthrax, Chemicals and Nerve Gas: Growing evidence of Washington Lying

With U.S. troops occupying Iraq and the Bush administration making bellicose noises about Syria, let's consider some rarely mentioned words from the most revered writer in American history.Mark Twain was painfully aware of many people's inclinations to go along with prevailing evils. When slavery was lawful, he recalled, abolitionists were "despised and ostracized, and … [Read more...] about -Mark Twain Speaks to Us: “I Am an Anti-Imperialist”

As of last July, the United States, backed by the Blair government, was wilfully blocking humanitarian supplies worth $5.4bn, everything from vaccines and plasma bags to simple painkillers, all of which Iraq had paid for and the Security Council had approved.Last month's attack by the two greatest military powers on a demoralized, sick and largely defenseless population was … [Read more...] about -The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war

....Americans have been cheated, Iraqis have suffered impossibly and Bush looks like a cowboy. On matters of the gravest importance, constitutional principles have been violated and the electorate lied to. We are the ones who must have our democracy back.https://www.commondreams.org/views03/0420-04.htm … [Read more...] about -Give Us Back Our Democracy: Edward Said