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"US Compromises at UN but Keeps Control of Iraq Oil"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2776083
"The United States is asking the Security Council to authorize it to do a
series of things that would otherwise violate international law under the
guise of ending sanctions," said Morton Halperin, a former State Department
official and director of the Open Society Institute in Washington.
"The purpose of this resolution is to relieve the United States of both its
obligations and the limits of what it can do as an occupying power under
international law by having the Security Council supersede the requirements
of the Geneva Convention," he said in an interview.
[Edit: It was never about the oil. The writer is obviously a leftist hack!
As soon as the Iraqis come to their senses and agree to all of our demands,
they will be free to do as we please.]
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"Noted scientists reject nuclear quest
U.S. research would give legitimacy to others to develop low-yield bombs,
letter says"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/20/MN280778.DTL&type=printable
"The United States should be seeking to increase the barriers to using
nuclear weapons, not decreasing them."
[Edit: Another leftist jerk posing as a journalist! The U.S. has the god
given right to nuke whomever it wants to in the name of securing energy
rights and making the world free to choose U.S. endorsed puppet governments.]
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"Congress curious about Iraq deals
Members from both parties want details on awarding of contracts"
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/20/MN148811.DTL&type=printable
Democrats such as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, a presidential
candidate, and Rep. Sherrod Brown of Ohio expect that their calls for an
investigation will be dismissed as attempts to score partisan points by
embarrassing President Bush. But GOP Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, usually a
firm Bush ally and chairman of the House International Relations Committee,
said he is concerned with the "lack of transparency" that has surrounded the
reconstruction program for postwar Iraq.
[Edit: Let's face it -- these guys are just angry that they didn't get their
cut. Bush is not wrong to take kickbacks, he just needs to learn to share
them out better.]
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"Hit 'Em Where It Hurts"
http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=15954
Jason Mark, the clean car campaigner for Global Exchange, suggests that in
order to enforce that demand, "Instead of going to the government and saying
'no blood,' we should be going to Detroit and saying 'no oil.'"
[Edit: Bah! Clean air never gave anyone a job! Corporations give you jobs.
The solution to unemployment is to never question the motives of
corporations -- just kneel and lick the boots of those that feed you.]
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"Acts of Hope"
http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=15952
The level of mistrust has risen so high that an entire website
(mediahorse.com) has been devoted to taking "an unbiased, in-depth look at
the vast myriad of whores who call themselves 'journalists.'" This site
"casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television,
the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy
print media 'journalists.'" The website "set out to bring the media to their
knees, but found they were already there."
[snip]
All of which might lead you to the conclusion that making things up for a
living is easier and more lucrative than telling the truth. In fact,
disgraced "New Republic" journalist Stephen Glass plays on this theme in an
"autobiographical novel" about his misadventures in creative writing called
"The Fabulist," due out in bookstores this week. Which may begin to explain
the motives of Jayson Blair, a seemingly gifted and extraordinarily
fortunate young reporter for the New York Times, who created his own bizarre
twist on "all the news fit to print."
[Edit: If the story is good enough for big business --it's good enough for
you. Why does no one question the veracity of cold, hard, cash?]
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-- Hop-Frog
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