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In This Edition: Just Whose Revisionist History Is That George? - Revisionist History Is Code For Holocaust Denial -
And Does George Really Want To Remind Us About The Holocaust? - Why Then Would Bush Risk Such An Association?
Many Americans are suggesting that the Patriot Act (and its proposed "improvements" in Patriot II) is totally new in
the experience of America and may spell the end of both democracy and the Bill of Rights. History, however, shows
another view, which ...
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State Akasaka Prince Hotel Tokyo, Japan June 10, 2003
One by one, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are falling into line and voting to join the European Union. In
all cases, the pattern is basically the same.
As delegates to the Somalia Peace and Reconciliation Conference begin, in the coming days, to choose an interim
parliament, Amnesty International calls on them to ensure that the new members of parliament, and of the interim
government it will subsequently ...
ROD DONALD (Co-Leader—Green): I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. We submitted this question to the Prime Minister
because we believed that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is coordinating the Government’s sustainable
development ...
The following speech by Sen. Jim Jeffords was delivered at the National Press Club on June 5, 2003 to commemorate the
second anniversary of his decision to leave the Republican Party and become the Senate's only Independent.
1. Hon ROGER SOWRY to the Minister of Maori Affairs: Does he have confidence in the chief executive of Te Puni Kokiri;
if not, why not?
U.S. free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore are the most comprehensive and modern trade agreements the United
States has concluded and will serve as catalysts for future free trade initiatives, says Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative Peter Allgeier.
With insecurity threatening to derail Afghanistan's entire political process and the country's drug production turning
the old Silk Road into a new "opium-paved road," two top United Nations officials called on the international community
...
President Bush and virtually the entire American power structure lied to the whole world when they said Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction that were an imminent threat to the safety of the so-called free world.
LIBERIA 1-2 Ceasefire/President Taylor Committed to Leaving Office 1-2 Changes in Government/Hope for Democracy 2 Human
Rights Violations Accountability
Commenting on the Australian Government’s listing of Al Aqsa Foundation as “an entity involved in terrorism”, the Head
of the General Palestinian Delegation to Australia and Ambassador of Palestine to Vanuatu, Mr Ali Kazak, criticised the
Australian government’s ...
An image of Turoa Skifield's Giant T-Bar taken this morning. In recent days a fair amount of snow has fallen on the
mountain, setting it up for the planned opening of the field this Friday.
Why mince words? These are the facts: 1) President George W. Bush is a liar. 2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a
liar. 3) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar. 4) National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is a liar.
A 4-year-old Palestinian girl was critically wounded when an Israeli settlers’ bus ran her over near the southern West
Bank city of Bethlehem while another child was wounded in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invasion of the Fara’a
refugee camp, ...
Prior to attacking Iraq, the Bush administration was warned by everyone from CIA Director George Tenet to stereotypical
anti-war demonstrators that any such invasion would lead to an increase in terrorist acts against the U.S. and its
interests.
The US has bribed and bullied over thirty countries to help it cripple and if possible destroy the ICC, but the great
majority of nations (including many of the bullied ones) consider it a major advance in international cooperation.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. investigators said they want to send to America a sample of the illegal radioactive
cesium-137 seized from a Thai smuggler in a hotel parking lot, amid fear that it may have been destined to create a
"dirty bomb".
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two European journalists said they were arrested in Laos with an American pastor after Lao troops
killed an ethnic Hmong guerrilla in a jungle ambush, according to a Canadian teacher who met them near the scene.
New Zealand First says ACT is as guilty as sin over the way it used taxpayers’ money to fund an electorate office and
staff but the Auditor General’s hands were tied because of loose parliamentary rules about the use of resources.
On June 13 the cabinet approved the involvement of armed forces personnel in support of Operation ARTEMIS, an EU-led
peacekeeping mission in the Congo. Through its involvement the German government wants to assist in the process of
stabilizing the Republic ...
"Ex-British cabinet ministers Robin Cook and Clare Short are revealing the dishonest basis for the attack on Iraq led
by the Bush administration. It is important for the integrity of international law that the same path is not taken with
Iran, ...
Charles Ries, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Remarks at the XXI German American
Conference, Atlantik-Bruecke and The American Council on Germany Berlin, Germany June 13, 2003
UN Radio: Liberian Truce – Monrovia Refugee Camps – Afghan Peace Process – UN Official Meets Kurd Leader – Drought and
Desertification World Problem
SECRETARY POWELL: Thanks for joining us on this longest of all trips. I think we ve been in the air for about three
days, as best I can figure it out. But it is an important meeting, to have the opportunity to, for a day and a half, sit
and talk ...
Michael Cullen Address to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce: Economic Outlook and what it means for Wellington.
Former policy adviser in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Tony Baldwin, is returning to professional
life after an extended sabbatical helping with family matters.
Perhaps you remember the "fun houses" that were once part of old big-city amusement parks? They were filled with mazes,
frights, and surprises. Often, these included a hall of mirrors, a maze of rooms walled with mirrored doors. The
confusion ...
It's a relief to get back inside and sit down at my typewriter... I've just been standing in the sun for three hours at
a local park. Patti Smith and her band played for a large part of that time and the concert was broadcast live on KPFA,
Pacifica ...