I C HThe elite power brokers enrolled to open doorsThu May 8 19:30:36 2003208.152.73.229The elite power brokers enrolled to open doors http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3279.htm George Bush Sr05/08/03: (The Times) George Bush Sr, the former US President, has been advising Carlyle Group since the mid-1990s. It has never been revealed how much he earns for his advice, although Mr Bush is reported to pocket between $80,000 and $100,000 (£62,000) every time he makes a speech for Carlyle. He is said to be paid with stock in the companies in which the private equity firm has invested. Mr Bush, who was defeated by Bill Cinton in 1992, built his fortune by forming the Bush-Overby oil company in 1950 with partner John Overby in Midland, Texas. Four years later he co-founded and became president of the Zapata Offshore Company. Even compared with the formidable list of former politicians who advise Carlyle, Mr Bush has a distinguished contacts book. He is widely credited with paving the way for $1 billion worth of investment made by Carlyle in Korean firms in 1999.George W Bush, Mr Bush’s son, also worked with Carlyle Group in the early 1990s when he joined the board of Caterair, an airline catering company that had recently been acquired by Carlyle.James A. Baker IIIJames Baker has served as a senior counsellor at Carlyle since 1993, and brings a wealth of political contacts after working in the US Government under three Presidents. Shortly before joining Carlyle, Mr Baker was US Secretary of State under George Bush Sr, a position he held for three years from 1989. Mr Baker also served as the Secretary to the Treasury between 1985 and 1988 in the Reagan Administration. Before that he was President Reagan’s White House chief of staff from 1981 to 1985.Mr Baker, a graduate of Princeton University, is also a partner in Baker Botts, a global law firm headquartered in Texas, with more than 600 lawyers. The firm represented one of the defendants, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Defence Minister, in the September 11 victims lawsuit. Mr Baker serves on the boards of both Rice and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has won a number of other awards including Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award and The American Institute for Public Service’s Jefferson Award.Frank CarlucciFrank Carlucci joined Carlyle in 1989, and acted as its chairman from 1993 to 2002. He is now Carlyle’s chairman emeritus, which sees him providing advice to the company’s management and employees. A good friend of Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, and the Defence Secretary himself between 1987 and 1989, Mr Carlucci has provided an invaluable connection between Carlyle and the defence industry.A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Business School, he is also chairman of Nortel Networks and chairman of the board of directors of Neurogen Corporation, the biotechnology company.He also sits on the boards of United Defense, Texas Biotechnology Corporation and Pharmacia Corporation. Before serving as the US Defence Secretary, Mr Carlucci was chairman and chief executive of Sears World Trade, a business he joined in 1983.Before that he held government service positions including Deputy Secretary of Defence (1980-82), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1978-80) and Ambassador to Portugal (1975-78).John MajorJohn Major has been busy since he resigned from the Conservative party after Labour’s victory in 1997. His seven years as Prime Minister left him with top-level contacts that firms have been keen to exploit.In his most high-profile position since leaving office, Mr Major earned more than £100,000 a year for three years as a non-executive director at Mayflower, the bus and automotive engineering group. He stepped down last month because of “international comitments”, weeks after the company was forced to restate profits for 2001.He joined Carlyle’s advisory board in 1998 and in 2001 became its European chairman, a position in which he lobbies businessmen and makes speeches on behalf of the buyout giant.Mr Major is chairman of the European advisory council of the Emerson Electric Company, the US electronics maker, chairman of the council of the Ditchley Foundation and on the international advisory boards of the Peres Center for Peace in Israel, the InterAction Council in Tokyo and the Baker Institute in Houston. He is president of Surrey County Cricket Club.Arthur LevittArthur Levitt joined Carlyle Group as a senior adviser in May 2001. He also sits on the boards of Bloomberg, the financial information firm, Neuberger Berman, the US money manager, and CCBN, which helps public companies use the internet to communicate with investors. He also serves as an advisory board member of M&T Bank Corporation.Before joining Carlyle Mr Levitt was the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, serving under President Clinton for nine years until 2001, the longest time that office has ever been held and putting him in touch with an enviable list of powerful individuals. Before becoming SEC chairman, Mr Levitt owned Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Washington’s Capitol Hill. Mr Levitt worked as chairman of the New York City Economic Development Corporation between 1989 and 1993 and was chairman of the American Stock Exchange from 1978 to 1989. He also serves as an advisory board member of M&T Bank Corporation.He is the author of the best-selling book, Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know.============================US IMPERIAL URGE DID NOT BEGIN WITH GEORGE BUSH: “Ever since the 13 colonies, nestled east of the Allegheny mountains, relentlessly marched west to acquire and control the continent, expansionism and imperialism have been part of the American ideal.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3283.htm ============== THE SECRET GOVERNMENT: Bill Moyers, documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3281.htm SUPPORT INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE: Information Clearing House is funded solely by donations from readers. More http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm ================== Stop demolishing Palestinian homes: Since the start of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands in 1967, more than 10,000 Palestinian civilian homes have been demolished, only 600 of which were the homes of people accused of security offenses. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3280.htm ============== FROM THE ARCHIVES: TEARS, DEATH AND ISRAELI TERROR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/tears_death_israeli_terror_video.htm ============ SADDAM PREPARES FOR GUERRILLA WARFARE WITH 40,000 FIGHTERS. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3276.htm ============ NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS IN IRAQ: CITIZENS STOLE URANIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS MATERIALS: "The U.S. and other countries in the world spend hundreds of millions of dollars to store and dispose of radioactive materials, now they are in the homes of simple poor people, and they are dumped in the river..." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3275.htm ============ SCARING AMERICA HALF TO DEATH: The State Department has announced that terrorism is at its lowest level in 33 years. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3278.htm ============ AL-QAEDA PREPARING NEW ATTACK IN US "ON SCALE OF SEPTEMBER 11": REPORT http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3274.htm ============ KARL ROVE: COUNTING VOTES WHILE THE BOMBS DROP: Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3277.htm ============ AUTOPSY OF BRITISH CAMERAMAN SHOWS HE WAS KILLED BY IDF FIRE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3273.htm ============= A U.S. GULAG FOR CHILDREN: Our state of enlightenment regarding human rights is on a par with Somalia's, the only U.N. member state — other than the United States of America — that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3272.htm ============= BASRA SUFFERS CHOLERA OUTBREAK: HEALTH officials fear a cholera epidemic has broken out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, caused by a shortage of clean water and sanitation. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=524162003 ============= SHARON DEMANDS : Palestinians must renounce the right to return to their original homes in Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3268.htm ============= ALL MAPPED OUT: "I am very much at home among the Christians who support Israel," Elon stated proudly. "These are people who are wild about Israel and believe in the annexation of Judea and Samaria and even in the transfer of Palestinians from the soil of the Land of Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3269.htm =========== DON'T LOOK FOR DEMOCRACY: PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3270.htm =========== IRAQI CIVILIANS SUE GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS FOR WAR CRIME: Democracy Now! Interviews Jan Fermon, Belgian lawyer who is filing a complaint against General Tommy Franks. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3271.htm ========== US TERROR TACTICS IN IRAN THE US military reached a ceasefire agreement with an Iraqi-based Iranian group, declared by the US and British members of the "coalition of the willing" as terrorist. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE08Ak01.html ========== WHO'S GONNA TAKE AWAY WASHINGTON'S LICENSE TO KILL? http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cox1.html =========== MANUFACTURING EVIDENCE AND SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: How the Rumsfeld Cabal produced evidence to support an invasion of Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3265.htm ============= AMERICA'S WEAPONS EVIDENCE FLAWED, SAY SPIES: A small number of powerful neo-conservative ideologues in the Pentagon were so determined to prove the existence of a banned weapons programme and links to al-Qaeda that they manipulated intelligence. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3266.htm ========== A NAZI IN THE (POCKET) IS WORTH FOUR IN THE BUSH (FAMILY) What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm =========== BUSH IS NOT A NAZI, SO STOP SAYING THAT - Flash presentation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1051.htm =========== GERMAN ENVOY DUBS US A POLICE STATE http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-670840,00.html ============ U.S. TO TRACK VISITORS WITH BIOMETRIC SCANS: The new program is designed to allow U.S. officials to track the comings and goings of tourists, students and business travelers from overseas. http://www.charleston.net/stories/043003/ter_30homeland.shtml ============= SADDAM ALIVE!: Saddam Hussein is safe in Iraq preparing to organise resistance to US-led occupation forces. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3263.htm ============= NEW TAPE: THE VOICE OF SADDAM: "I don't want to talk in details about the occupation and why and how, and I am going to focus instead on how to face these invaders and kick them out from Iraq," http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3260.htm ============ FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SADDAM TAPE: Through this secret means I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3261.htm ============== U.S. W.M.D. INTELLIGENCE "DEFECTIVE OR MANIPULATED," SAYS U.S. SENATOR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3262.htm ============= BYRD RIPS BUSH'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER USE: "To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=7&u=/ap/20030506/ap_on_go_co/iraq_bush_byrd ============= "REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES" – A SUMMARY: Some people have compared it to Hitler's publication of Mein Kampf, which was ignored until after the war was over. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm ============= DOLLAR PLUNGES AS EURO SURPASSES $1.14: The dollar also hit a four-year low against the Swiss franc, a five-and-half-year low versus the Canadian dollar and three-year lows against the Australian dollar. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/5799277.htm ============= RUMSFELD PUSHES FOR PENTAGON TOTAL CONTROL: A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN THE MAKING. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3259.htm ============= IN THE ETHNIC FOODS ISLE: "What’s it all about?" he asked. I said "what do you mean?" - "The Arabs, why do they hate us so much?" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3258.htm ============ LAWMAKER RIDICULES HALLIBURTON, SAYS IT HAS LINKS TO "AXIS OF EVIL" COUNTRIES: Halliburton, the oil services giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has done business in Iran, Iraq and Libya for years despite US embargoes. The dealings "appear to have continued during the period between 1995 and 2000, when Vice President Cheney headed the company; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3257.htm ============= BLANK-CHECK AID TO ISRAEL COSTS US TAXPAYERS $10 BILLION: Congress skillfully gives Israel $10 billion a year, in a manner that hides the amount from U.S. taxpayers. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3256.htm ============ ISSUE BRIEF FOR CONGRESS: (pdf) Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance. On March 25, 2003, the President sent to Congress a request for a supplemental appropriations that included $1 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and $9 billion in loan guarantees for Israel. http://www.fas.org/asmp/resources/govern/crs-ib85066.pdf ======================== STRONG MUST RULE THE WEAK, SAID NEO-CONS' MUSE: Is U.S. foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral and hostile to democratic government? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3284.htm ============== HOWARD ZINN: MY COUNTRY: THE WORLD: As a patriot, contemplating the dead GIs, should I comfort myself (as, understandably, their families do) with the thought: "They died for their country." If so, I would be lying to myself. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3285.htm WEB SITE ADDRESS: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ MIRROR HERE. http://informationclearinghouse.literati.org/ 200 PATRIOTS NEEDED — David Codrea, Thu May 8 23:14
I C HThe elite power brokers enrolled to open doorsThu May 8 19:30:36 2003208.152.73.229The elite power brokers enrolled to open doors http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3279.htm George Bush Sr05/08/03: (The Times) George Bush Sr, the former US President, has been advising Carlyle Group since the mid-1990s. It has never been revealed how much he earns for his advice, although Mr Bush is reported to pocket between $80,000 and $100,000 (£62,000) every time he makes a speech for Carlyle. He is said to be paid with stock in the companies in which the private equity firm has invested. Mr Bush, who was defeated by Bill Cinton in 1992, built his fortune by forming the Bush-Overby oil company in 1950 with partner John Overby in Midland, Texas. Four years later he co-founded and became president of the Zapata Offshore Company. Even compared with the formidable list of former politicians who advise Carlyle, Mr Bush has a distinguished contacts book. He is widely credited with paving the way for $1 billion worth of investment made by Carlyle in Korean firms in 1999.George W Bush, Mr Bush’s son, also worked with Carlyle Group in the early 1990s when he joined the board of Caterair, an airline catering company that had recently been acquired by Carlyle.James A. Baker IIIJames Baker has served as a senior counsellor at Carlyle since 1993, and brings a wealth of political contacts after working in the US Government under three Presidents. Shortly before joining Carlyle, Mr Baker was US Secretary of State under George Bush Sr, a position he held for three years from 1989. Mr Baker also served as the Secretary to the Treasury between 1985 and 1988 in the Reagan Administration. Before that he was President Reagan’s White House chief of staff from 1981 to 1985.Mr Baker, a graduate of Princeton University, is also a partner in Baker Botts, a global law firm headquartered in Texas, with more than 600 lawyers. The firm represented one of the defendants, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Defence Minister, in the September 11 victims lawsuit. Mr Baker serves on the boards of both Rice and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has won a number of other awards including Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award and The American Institute for Public Service’s Jefferson Award.Frank CarlucciFrank Carlucci joined Carlyle in 1989, and acted as its chairman from 1993 to 2002. He is now Carlyle’s chairman emeritus, which sees him providing advice to the company’s management and employees. A good friend of Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, and the Defence Secretary himself between 1987 and 1989, Mr Carlucci has provided an invaluable connection between Carlyle and the defence industry.A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Business School, he is also chairman of Nortel Networks and chairman of the board of directors of Neurogen Corporation, the biotechnology company.He also sits on the boards of United Defense, Texas Biotechnology Corporation and Pharmacia Corporation. Before serving as the US Defence Secretary, Mr Carlucci was chairman and chief executive of Sears World Trade, a business he joined in 1983.Before that he held government service positions including Deputy Secretary of Defence (1980-82), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1978-80) and Ambassador to Portugal (1975-78).John MajorJohn Major has been busy since he resigned from the Conservative party after Labour’s victory in 1997. His seven years as Prime Minister left him with top-level contacts that firms have been keen to exploit.In his most high-profile position since leaving office, Mr Major earned more than £100,000 a year for three years as a non-executive director at Mayflower, the bus and automotive engineering group. He stepped down last month because of “international comitments”, weeks after the company was forced to restate profits for 2001.He joined Carlyle’s advisory board in 1998 and in 2001 became its European chairman, a position in which he lobbies businessmen and makes speeches on behalf of the buyout giant.Mr Major is chairman of the European advisory council of the Emerson Electric Company, the US electronics maker, chairman of the council of the Ditchley Foundation and on the international advisory boards of the Peres Center for Peace in Israel, the InterAction Council in Tokyo and the Baker Institute in Houston. He is president of Surrey County Cricket Club.Arthur LevittArthur Levitt joined Carlyle Group as a senior adviser in May 2001. He also sits on the boards of Bloomberg, the financial information firm, Neuberger Berman, the US money manager, and CCBN, which helps public companies use the internet to communicate with investors. He also serves as an advisory board member of M&T Bank Corporation.Before joining Carlyle Mr Levitt was the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, serving under President Clinton for nine years until 2001, the longest time that office has ever been held and putting him in touch with an enviable list of powerful individuals. Before becoming SEC chairman, Mr Levitt owned Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Washington’s Capitol Hill. Mr Levitt worked as chairman of the New York City Economic Development Corporation between 1989 and 1993 and was chairman of the American Stock Exchange from 1978 to 1989. He also serves as an advisory board member of M&T Bank Corporation.He is the author of the best-selling book, Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know.============================US IMPERIAL URGE DID NOT BEGIN WITH GEORGE BUSH: “Ever since the 13 colonies, nestled east of the Allegheny mountains, relentlessly marched west to acquire and control the continent, expansionism and imperialism have been part of the American ideal.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3283.htm ============== THE SECRET GOVERNMENT: Bill Moyers, documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3281.htm SUPPORT INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE: Information Clearing House is funded solely by donations from readers. More http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm ================== Stop demolishing Palestinian homes: Since the start of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands in 1967, more than 10,000 Palestinian civilian homes have been demolished, only 600 of which were the homes of people accused of security offenses. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3280.htm ============== FROM THE ARCHIVES: TEARS, DEATH AND ISRAELI TERROR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/tears_death_israeli_terror_video.htm ============ SADDAM PREPARES FOR GUERRILLA WARFARE WITH 40,000 FIGHTERS. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3276.htm ============ NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS IN IRAQ: CITIZENS STOLE URANIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS MATERIALS: "The U.S. and other countries in the world spend hundreds of millions of dollars to store and dispose of radioactive materials, now they are in the homes of simple poor people, and they are dumped in the river..." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3275.htm ============ SCARING AMERICA HALF TO DEATH: The State Department has announced that terrorism is at its lowest level in 33 years. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3278.htm ============ AL-QAEDA PREPARING NEW ATTACK IN US "ON SCALE OF SEPTEMBER 11": REPORT http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3274.htm ============ KARL ROVE: COUNTING VOTES WHILE THE BOMBS DROP: Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3277.htm ============ AUTOPSY OF BRITISH CAMERAMAN SHOWS HE WAS KILLED BY IDF FIRE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3273.htm ============= A U.S. GULAG FOR CHILDREN: Our state of enlightenment regarding human rights is on a par with Somalia's, the only U.N. member state — other than the United States of America — that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3272.htm ============= BASRA SUFFERS CHOLERA OUTBREAK: HEALTH officials fear a cholera epidemic has broken out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, caused by a shortage of clean water and sanitation. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=524162003 ============= SHARON DEMANDS : Palestinians must renounce the right to return to their original homes in Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3268.htm ============= ALL MAPPED OUT: "I am very much at home among the Christians who support Israel," Elon stated proudly. "These are people who are wild about Israel and believe in the annexation of Judea and Samaria and even in the transfer of Palestinians from the soil of the Land of Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3269.htm =========== DON'T LOOK FOR DEMOCRACY: PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3270.htm =========== IRAQI CIVILIANS SUE GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS FOR WAR CRIME: Democracy Now! Interviews Jan Fermon, Belgian lawyer who is filing a complaint against General Tommy Franks. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3271.htm ========== US TERROR TACTICS IN IRAN THE US military reached a ceasefire agreement with an Iraqi-based Iranian group, declared by the US and British members of the "coalition of the willing" as terrorist. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE08Ak01.html ========== WHO'S GONNA TAKE AWAY WASHINGTON'S LICENSE TO KILL? http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cox1.html =========== MANUFACTURING EVIDENCE AND SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: How the Rumsfeld Cabal produced evidence to support an invasion of Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3265.htm ============= AMERICA'S WEAPONS EVIDENCE FLAWED, SAY SPIES: A small number of powerful neo-conservative ideologues in the Pentagon were so determined to prove the existence of a banned weapons programme and links to al-Qaeda that they manipulated intelligence. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3266.htm ========== A NAZI IN THE (POCKET) IS WORTH FOUR IN THE BUSH (FAMILY) What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm =========== BUSH IS NOT A NAZI, SO STOP SAYING THAT - Flash presentation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1051.htm =========== GERMAN ENVOY DUBS US A POLICE STATE http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-670840,00.html ============ U.S. TO TRACK VISITORS WITH BIOMETRIC SCANS: The new program is designed to allow U.S. officials to track the comings and goings of tourists, students and business travelers from overseas. http://www.charleston.net/stories/043003/ter_30homeland.shtml ============= SADDAM ALIVE!: Saddam Hussein is safe in Iraq preparing to organise resistance to US-led occupation forces. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3263.htm ============= NEW TAPE: THE VOICE OF SADDAM: "I don't want to talk in details about the occupation and why and how, and I am going to focus instead on how to face these invaders and kick them out from Iraq," http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3260.htm ============ FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SADDAM TAPE: Through this secret means I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3261.htm ============== U.S. W.M.D. INTELLIGENCE "DEFECTIVE OR MANIPULATED," SAYS U.S. SENATOR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3262.htm ============= BYRD RIPS BUSH'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER USE: "To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=7&u=/ap/20030506/ap_on_go_co/iraq_bush_byrd ============= "REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES" – A SUMMARY: Some people have compared it to Hitler's publication of Mein Kampf, which was ignored until after the war was over. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm ============= DOLLAR PLUNGES AS EURO SURPASSES $1.14: The dollar also hit a four-year low against the Swiss franc, a five-and-half-year low versus the Canadian dollar and three-year lows against the Australian dollar. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/5799277.htm ============= RUMSFELD PUSHES FOR PENTAGON TOTAL CONTROL: A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN THE MAKING. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3259.htm ============= IN THE ETHNIC FOODS ISLE: "What’s it all about?" he asked. I said "what do you mean?" - "The Arabs, why do they hate us so much?" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3258.htm ============ LAWMAKER RIDICULES HALLIBURTON, SAYS IT HAS LINKS TO "AXIS OF EVIL" COUNTRIES: Halliburton, the oil services giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has done business in Iran, Iraq and Libya for years despite US embargoes. The dealings "appear to have continued during the period between 1995 and 2000, when Vice President Cheney headed the company; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3257.htm ============= BLANK-CHECK AID TO ISRAEL COSTS US TAXPAYERS $10 BILLION: Congress skillfully gives Israel $10 billion a year, in a manner that hides the amount from U.S. taxpayers. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3256.htm ============ ISSUE BRIEF FOR CONGRESS: (pdf) Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance. On March 25, 2003, the President sent to Congress a request for a supplemental appropriations that included $1 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and $9 billion in loan guarantees for Israel. http://www.fas.org/asmp/resources/govern/crs-ib85066.pdf ======================== STRONG MUST RULE THE WEAK, SAID NEO-CONS' MUSE: Is U.S. foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral and hostile to democratic government? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3284.htm ============== HOWARD ZINN: MY COUNTRY: THE WORLD: As a patriot, contemplating the dead GIs, should I comfort myself (as, understandably, their families do) with the thought: "They died for their country." If so, I would be lying to myself. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3285.htm WEB SITE ADDRESS: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ MIRROR HERE. http://informationclearinghouse.literati.org/
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