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Whitney: Hamdi's Deportation Case
Znet Article, October, 13 2004
Mike Whitney
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The Yasir Hamdi case has been resolved in favor of the Bush Administration, delivering a stinging blow to the Bill of Rights. For the first time in American history a citizen has been stripped of his citizenship and deported without ever having be...
Whitney: Removing Palestine
Znet Article, October, 07 2004
Mike Whitney
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"The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians… effectively this whole package called a Palestinian state has ...
Whitney: Zeroing in on Sudan
Znet Article, October, 04 2004
Mike Whitney
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“American warnings that Darfur is heading for an apocalyptic humanitarian catastrophe have been widely exaggerated by administration officials…Washington’s desire for regime change in Khartoum has biased their reports.âS...
Whitney: Yasser Hamdi And The Rule Of Law
Znet Article, September, 25 2004
Mike Whitney
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The three year detention of Yaser Hamdi was a total victory for the Bush Administration. By incarcerating Hamdi without due process, Bush and co. proved that an American citizen can be stripped of his constitutional protections and dispatched ac...
Whitney: Iran October Surprise
Znet Article, September, 17 2004
Mike Whitney
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"We categorically deny any nuclear-related testing at Parchin." Hossein Mousavian, Iranian delegate to IAEA "A prominent international expert said on Wednesday that new satellite images showed the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran m...
Whitney: Crackdown
Znet Article, September, 15 2004
Mike Whitney
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Even before the death of the seven Marines by a roadside bomb, the tensions in Iraq were beginning to mount. The US military command had quickly and unexplainably reversed itself on agreeing to a truce with the Shi'i cleric, Muqtada al Sadr; opt...
Whitney: Whistling in the Dark in Iraq
Znet Article, September, 11 2004
Mike Whitney
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In an interview on Sept. 5 with the "right-leaning" Washington Times Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked if he thought "the enemy (in Iraq) was getting weaker?" Rumsfeld’s answer was revealing: "There are people opposing the co...
Whitney: Al Sadr's Dilemma
Znet Article, September, 04 2004
Mike Whitney
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"I left my kids here and went to fight in Najaf. We are going to fight them until we throw them out of Iraq. Our country is our country." Itihad Jamil, 47 year old Iraqi woman, who left Baghdad to join the fight in Najaf. A poll conducted by th...
Whitney: NPR Leads the Charge to War (with Iran)
Znet Article, September, 02 2004
Mike Whitney
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"We are ready to do everything necessary to give guarantees that we won't seek nuclear weapons." President Mohammad Khatami When did “liberal†NPR become a champion of American aggression against Iran? Listeners to National Pub...
Whitney: Caving in to Sharon
Znet Article, August, 26 2004
Mike Whitney
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"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon; as Israeli Foreign Minister “When we ha...
Whitney: Afghanistan Down The Memory Hole
Znet Article, August, 23 2004
Mike Whitney
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Donald Rumsfeld’s trip to Afghanistan barely produced a yawn from a disinterested American media. America’s front pages are too busy sorting through every excruciating detail of John Kerry’s charge up the Mekong Delta som...
Whitney: Putting To Rest The "few Bad Apples" Theory
Znet Article, August, 21 2004
Mike Whitney
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No need to inquire about co-payments at Abu Ghraib prison facility. Rummy’s HMO will cover the whole thing. And, there’s no sense in worrying about those nagging medical malpractice suits either. American doctors can pursue their o...
Whitney: Guantanamo Mock Trials
Znet Article, August, 19 2004
Mike Whitney
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The basic purpose of the Law is to protect the individual from the violence of the state. Judges who refuse to defend this fundamental principle must be removed from the bench. Free societies simply cease to exist beneath the shadow of arbitrar...
Whitney: Mea Culpas at the Washington Post
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Mike Whitney
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Even as the bombs were dropping on Najaf, Nasiriya and Kut, the Washington Post was ladling out heaps of remorse for its abysmal coverage in the lead up to the war. "We did our job but we didn't do enough, and I blame myself mightily for not p...
Whitney: The Arbitrary Imprisonment of Jose Padilla
Znet Article, August, 11 2004
Mike Whitney
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"The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive." Judge Antonin Scalia The results of the Padilla case pose "a unique and unprecedente...
Whitney: Shifting the War to Iran
Znet Article, July, 29 2004
Mike Whitney
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Shifting the War to Iran
