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“I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world”
"Kennedy wanted the United States to lead by the force of example, not force of our weaponry...." Theodore C. Sorensen, speechwriter to John F. Kennedy
"What is happening? What is happening to us?" - Our nation is in peril, he says, threatened not by foreigners but by the Bush administration, which he describes as warlike, arrogant and elitist -- "an administration of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy." - U.S. Senator and patriot, Robert C. Byrd
The world views America as a big powerful arrogant bully. This was not the case prior to 2001. At least it was not as bad as it is now.
Bush and his PNAC pals end 50 years of progress in just over 2 years. The entire world stands united on issue after issue as Bush drags the US out of treaty after treaty. Did he tell us about this during his campaign?
The Bush administration has turned the US into an immoral, imperialistic, self centered nation dedicated to the well being of the ultra rich corporate entities. The people of the world and the health of the planet can go to hell as far as Bush and PNAC are concerned.
International relations are at an historical low. Anti-Americanism is at an all time high. Desperate people are becoming terrorists at a record pace. All of this is a result of a failed arrogant aggressive elitist PNAC designed foreign policy.
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 TvNewsLies.org Tracks Bush’s Assault on the Environment- TvNewsLies.org Tracks the US assault on the World Court and US War Crimes in Iraq.
- Bush: US Will Pull out of Missile Treaty
- Bush: Us Quits ABM Treaty
- Bush Pulls Out of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
- Bush Tries to Weaken Tobacco Treaty
- Cigarette Company Documents Outline Strategy to Derail Global Tobacco Treaty
- Cheney Chooses Pharmaceutical Companies; Hurts Worlds Poorest Nations
- Bush Reduces Access to Health Care for Women of the World
- Bush’s US Accused of Blocking Sunshine Policy
- Bush Has it Wrong on Koreas
- Bush’s Arrogant America
- America the Arrogant: Why Don’t We Listen Anymore?
- US Battling Image as Arrogant Superpower
- An Opinion From a Canadian
- Bush Blocks Sex Lessons: Experts Say This Could Fatally Undermine Battle Against AIDS
- Bush Lied About Aids Funding
- Bush Plays Shell Game With Aids Funding
- US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defense centre - To do so, the centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
$15 Billion AIDS Plan Wins Final Approval in Congress - TVNL points out the deception: ‘ And it is not without controversy; some advocates for AIDS patients say it provides too little money for a global fund to fight the disease, while others are upset about a provision that requires one-third of the prevention money in the bill to be set aside for programs that exclusively promote sexual abstinence until marriage.’ Gag Reflex - The prohibition on U.S. government funding of any organization that performs abortions or advocates for the liberalization of abortion laws in other countries nearly crippled President Bush's high-profile $15 billion AIDS initiative. Congress set to slash Africa aid - AS US President George W Bush proclaims his commitment to Africa during this week's five-day trip, his Republicans in Congress are planning on cutting back the money allocated to his much-vaunted plans to tackle HIV/Aids and encourage development.- TVNL comment: This is happening while Bush is in Africa and while he is telling them about the money he is giving them for HIV/Aids! The press is telling us how great this is but they are not telling us that he is full of crap! AIDS Activists Jeer Senior Bush Health Official - "Allowing Claude Allen, a man with such hostile viewpoints on the basic tenets of HIV prevention, to close the conference speaks volumes about the Bush administration's true agenda on these issues," said Terje Anderson, executive director of the National Association of People with AIDS. Bush AIDS policy “misleading and inaccurate” - President Bush has manipulated science to support his political ideology, according to a new report, producing an AIDS policy that is misleading and inaccurate. - While this has stretched over a broad range of topics, most frightening is the administration’s Stalin-esque control of AIDS information and sexual education, which the report claims has led to an “altering of performance measures” to highlight the importance of abstinence only sex education and to make it easier for programmes that emphasised this form of education to be effective. U.S. Cuts Off Financing for AIDS Program, Provoking Furor - he State Department has discontinued financing for a small but well-regarded AIDS program for African and Asian refugees because it contends that one of the groups involved in the project supports forced abortions and involuntary sterilization in China, officials said this week. - The decision to end the financing has raised a furor among AIDS and refugee groups. Relief workers fear that officials are bowing to pressure from anti-abortion factions within the Bush administration and allowing politics to interfere with desperately needed AIDS programs, assertions that the State Department denies.- The group, Marie Stopes International, offers abortion counseling and services. - State Department officials acknowledge that they have no evidence to suggest that Marie Stopes is involved in forced abortions or involuntary sterilization, and the group itself says it has been trying to end forced abortions in China and to expand voluntary family planning. As Millions Die - In America, we think of AIDS simply as an epidemic. In fact, like the Holocaust, it is a moral challenge to the world, one we are failing. - "It's mass murder by complacency," Clinton brokers landmark Aids deal - Four companies that produce generic Aids drugs have agreed to reduce the cost of the drugs for millions of people in developing countries under a deal brokered by former US President Bill Clinton. - Aids organisations have hailed the deal as a breakthrough, with the potential to save millions of lives. - While Bush/PNAC talk Clinton acts! - Bush Ends Environmental Fellowships
- Bush Abandons Population Agreement
- A mean-spirited America
- Bush Vows to Strike US Enemies First
- North Korea Urges Workers to be Prepared for War With U.S.
- U.S. Halts Cuba Access by Educational Groups
- US media blitz angers Castro - The Bush administration has stepped up anti-Castro propaganda with radio and TV broadcasts beamed to Cuba from an aircraft. - TVNL asks: What would we say if another nation did this to us?
- Thank you Führer - Cuba
- US Invasion Produces Human Catastrophe in Iraq
- Pentagon Dominates US Foreign Policy With Dubious Intelligence
- Bush May Lift Sanctions on His Own, Despite UN Opposition
- Background/ Bush the Despised
- Real American Agenda Now Becoming Clear
- The Virus That Has Infected the American Mind
- U.S. Tries to Rule World
- EU Gets Green Light to Impose Record Sanctions on US Trade - George W. Bush; Uniter not a divider, uniting the world against America.
- Diplomats on the Defensive
- Addressing the Global Image of the United States
- A Nation of Cowards
- My Country: The World
- London mayor compares Bush to Saddam
- Bush Is Seeking Newer, Smaller Nuclear Bombs
- US likely to develop new generation of nukes
- N. Korea Nixes '92 Nuke Deal - ‘Pyongyang claims it is justified in building up its armaments because of a hardening of U.S. policy.’
- 'Will Europe and Russia seek to check U.S. power?'
- Anti-Americanism 'dangerous'
Here's What's Being Said - The United States cannot turn back now. It has set itself on a path of no return. - Having stored up so many enemies, the bully must now remain forever a bully to ensure his own survival. - The Manipulation Of America
- US launches GM trade war
- IISS warns Europe must accept US predominance
- US Army Patents Illegal WMD Delivery System
- Anti-U.S. songs top pop charts in cities - Remember; Bush is a ‘uniter, not a divider’!”
- Iranian leader angry at US talks - Ayatollah Khamenei: Resuming ties with the United States would be tantamount to surrender
- Russia to Deliver Attack Against the USA: A Training One
France Says It Is Target of Untruths - What a shock! Do you realize that since 1986 France used it’s UNSC veto 3 times; the US used it 33 times; yet we now eat Freedom Fries and dump our French wine into the street at the behest of the hypocrites in the GOP! Boy does the media owe France an apology. I believe that the press should be liable for all economic losses due to slander. This is not an example of 1/2 a story is a complete lie, it is an example of 1/100 of a story is a complete lie! Japan ready to strike first if threatened: PM - TVNL Comments: This is the Bush/PNAC legacy; setting the world on edge. Having the most powerful military nation on the planet establish a first strike philosophy will go down in history as the single most destructive policy this planet has experienced to date. Foreign policy by pique - The Bush administration intends that where nations stood on Iraq will define America’s future military relations with them, as well as political relations. Warning to Bush from contrite cold war veteran - "If we can't persuade our allies and other comparable nations, we had better examine our reasoning," - Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban missile crisis and the first phases of the Vietnam war, has warned of the folly of American involvement in Iraq. US 'is an empire in denial' - The United States is a "danger to the world" because of its denial that it is a military and economic empire - America's critical weakness, however, was its fatal lack of self-knowledge Support for U.S. Fades, Survey Says - The war in Iraq has sent support for the United States to new lows in Muslim countries and significantly damaged the standing of the United Nations in those nations and elsewhere, according to a survey US will destroy its enemies, says Cheney - The United States will not pursue deterrence or containment policies in its so-called war on terrorism but would instead seek to utterly destroy its enemies, said US Vice-President Dick Cheney. - TVNL asks: Does anyone remember Bush’s campaign promises? What exactly did he mean by “compassionate conservatism?” Why did he say that America won’t be a bully? Why did he then go ahead and pack the administration with PNAC jerks like Cheney and Rumsfeld? North Korea threatens to counter US arms buildup - TVNL comment: Nice game you started Bush! Your wonderful approach to diplomacy has moved the world closer to all out war! Thank you. Your legacy will be fondly viewed by the ignorant and uninformed American populous thanks to the media and their dereliction of duty. The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal - By Harold Pinter - "If you are not with us, you are against us," President George W. Bush has said. He has also said: "We will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the world's worst leaders." Quite right. Look in the mirror, chum. That's you. US voted out of human rights body in symbolic rebuke - In a symbolic rebuke to the Bush administration, the member nations of the Organization of American States (OAS) have for the first time voted to exclude the US from representation on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, considered the most prestigious human rights monitoring body in the Western Hemisphere. America's imperial delusion - The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent - Domestically, the real danger for a country that aims at world control is militarisation. Internationally, the danger is the destabilising of the world.- TVNL comment: Bush/PNAC are on their way to achieving both! France Chides Washington Over 'My Way' World View- France's defense minister took a double swipe at the United States on Saturday, accusing her counterpart Donald Rumsfeld of American supremacism and U.S. industry of waging "economic war" on Europe. BBC poll shows disapproval of Iraq war - The US-led military campaign in Iraq and the policies of President George W. Bush have been condemned in an 11-country opinion poll conducted by the BBC. N. Korea Says Blockade Will Lead to War - North Korea warned Tuesday that any economic blockade by the United States and its allies against the communist state could lead to a war that would include Japan. - Rodong Sinmun: the United States is ``laying an international siege to the North and putting a blockade against it as a premeditated scheme to start a new war on the Korean peninsula.'' - TVNL comment: Bush; strong on international policy! The U.S. and the Escalating Threat to the World - The U.S. and its Coalition of the Morally Bankrupt have used their invasion of Iraq as a means through which to achieve many goals apart from its primary goal of gaining control of Iraq and its natural resources. This war has been a vehicle through which the U.S. not only elevated propaganda to new heights at the expense of the truth, but actually undertook the murder of independent journalists. Dangerously unpopular - Like all U.S. presidents, George W. Bush likes to say that for him it's all principle and steady-as-she-goes, and he pays no attention to opinion polls. But he had better pay attention to this one. A worldwide poll surveying opinions about the United States in 44 countries shows that the U.S. is widely feared and disliked. This is in striking contrast to the post-9/11 period when the people of the world admired and sympathized with America and Americans. What Is Happening In America? - It is unquestionably the most radical government in modern American history, one whose ideology and actions have become so pervasive, and are so unquestionably mirrored by the mass media here, that the population seems to have forgotten what "normal" is. EU 'has to play larger world role to avoid US domination' - The document also calls on member states to boost military capabilities: "The conclusion of the cold war has left the US in a dominant position," it says. It calls for efforts to make the UN more effective and advocates "pre-emptive engagement" to address security issues. Okinawa governor demands U.S. troops leave - Although U.S. bases give a major economic boost to Okinawa's struggling economy, crimes and accidents involving U.S. military personnel in recent years have intensified demands for U.S. forces to leave or be relocated to other parts of the country. - TVNL asks: Are these the troops that we are supposed to be supporting? Congolese War Called '9/11 Every Day' - Which war has claimed the most lives since World War II? Korea? Vietnam? - The answer is the continuing conflict in Congo. - The International Rescue Committee estimates that 3.3 million people have died throughout Congo, most of them from war-induced famine and disease. - And there is nothing resembling a weapon of mass destruction in the conflict. - Congo might receive more international attention if it were more strategically located. It is not a place where interests of the United States and other big powers intersect. -TVNL question: Well Mr. Bush, Well PNAC, where is your “compassionate” conservatism? When are we going to bring these people democracy? Hey George, were the Iraqi people in more need of our help than these people? Britain/US try to weaken UN deal on cluster bombs - Britain and the United States are attempting to weaken the provisions of an international treaty requiring belligerents to clear up unexploded cluster bombs after the end of any conflict, according to the group Landmine Action. - TVNL comment: OUTRAGEOUS! I am so ashamed to be an American with this administration in the White House! Mandela hints at Bush snub on Iraq - Mandela condemned Bush for launching the war against Iraq, saying he was wrong to bypass the United Nations and overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by force. - "Since the creation of the United Nations there has not been a World War since 1945. Therefore, for anybody, especially the leader of a superstate, to act outside the United Nations is something that must be condemned by everybody who wants peace," Mandela told reporters after a meeting with French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin. The perils of our US alliance - According to the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, "the policies that have recently prevailed in Washington seem to all outsiders so mad that it is difficult to understand what is really intended". - One explanation is that according to ideological vigilantes on the political right, it is not possible to criticise the policies of the Bush Administration without being "anti-American." America to build super weapons - US-based missiles to cover world - The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including huge hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory. - TVNL comment: The only thing that this administration wants to spend money on is Armageddon US and Europe set for clash over terrorist trials - The European Union's executive commission warned on Friday that applying the death penalty to any of the suspects detained at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba would risk undermining international support for the US-led war on terrorism.  Bush Vows Pre-Emptive Attacks Against Enemies - TVNL comment: Ladies and gentlemen, it is official, we have a mad man in the White House. This is now officially out of control. The U.S. has become the military version of the Warner Brothers cartoon character the Tasmainian Devil; where is Bugs Bunny when we need him?!THE NEW AMERICAN ORDER - From here, from Paris and from other capitals, it appears that the administration of George W. Bush is operating only in its own reality. And sometimes the American press seems to be doing the same thing. British and French correspondents are "dissing" the American press as just another branch of the U.S. government. - TVNL comment: Pay attention to this one folks. Have you ever been in a relationship where everyone around you sees that the person you are with is no good for you, but you don’t see it? You ignore them and you tell them that they do not understand your partner. Then after years of abuse you finally break it off only to realize that your friends were right all along only it is too late to prevent all the damage done. Well America, we better start listening to our friends! Even loyal Britain can no longer tolerate America's abuse of human rights at Camp X-Ray - The Bush administration is ignoring all protests about its attack on the judicial process. The American Bar Association pointed out US hypocrisy by reminding the administration that America has condemned other countries for using military tribunals in the past. They are also worried that the media -- a recognised watchdog which ensures a public and fair trial -- will not be allowed to witness the proceedings. U.S., Indonesian jets in standoff - JAKARTA, Indonesia - In a tense encounter above the Java sea, U.S. fighter planes went into attack mode and locked their missiles on Indonesian warplanes deployed to intercept them, an Indonesian air force official said Friday. - TVNL comment: The U.S. has become the death star of the world and Bush/PNAC are our Darth Vader. Bush pushes for next generation of nukes - In the 11 years since, the United States has worked to halt the spread of nuclear weapons around the world and has often touted its own self-imposed restraint as a model for other nations. - But the Bush administration has now taken a decidedly different approach. Canadians vote Bush least-liked president - U.S. President George W. Bush is the most unpopular American president in recent memory among Canadians, with more than 60 per cent saying they have an unfavourable opinion of him, according to a new poll by Environics Research Group Ltd. - TVNL comment: What a shock! What could make them dislike him? Could it be...clieck here. U.S. Policies Consistently Undermine Human Rights - Last year, President Bush removed the U.S. signature from the ICC treaty, which had been signed by former President Bill Clinton as one of his final acts before leaving office. This decision by the Bush administration clearly illustrated that Washington would only tolerate politically-motivated prosecutions that serve U.S. interests. By certifying that Colombia's human rights-violating armed forces can continue receiving military assistance for counternarcotics operations and by insisting that U.S. military and civilian personnel be provided immunity from the ICC, the Bush administration has once again undermined international human rights efforts. Dire States - Americans are used to resentment of their global dominance. Since the war on Iraq, however, this hostility has begun to hit them where it hurts: in corporate balance sheets. David Usborne reports on the backlash being felt in the boardrooms everywhere from McDonald's and Nike to Microsoft and Coca-Cola American-led Empire’s Planned Global Military Domination: - As the world grows more reluctant to follow Mr. Bush anywhere no matter what, fewer and fewer people believe we have been told the truth about Iraq’s WMD, and with Tony Blair now under full siege for misinforming the British Parliament Mr. George W. Bush Junior seems unaffected while pursuing the Oligarchy’s elite agenda for global hegemony. When America goes it alone, we all pay - WE ARE, they tell us, living in a unipolar moment, when the United States has decided to eschew liberal internationalism and multilateralism for a winner-takes-all, me-first strategy. The whole political and strategic framework of containment has been tipped over for an aggressive, pre-emptive, first-strike doctrine that gives the rest of us very little to be part of, or little to attach ourselves to. In Europe, Bush's America Is a Real Turnoff - "Bush wants to rule the world. He has big muscles, but the brain of a mouse." - "It was a betrayal of world opinion," - "We are much more doubtful of America's moral high ground." Critics Assail Bush's Strategy of Restraint in Liberia - President Bush built lofty expectations around the world about his willingness to help stanch the bloodshed in Liberia, and now is facing widespread criticism for sending only a handful of troops, with no promise of combat forces, after five weeks of delay. - "When we're telling countries they have to be for us or against us, it hurts our credibility if we are not responsive when the rest of the world is saying there's something they need us to do." America's worst side in Iraq - America is nearly two years into invasions in which we have killed more civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan than the number who died in the United States on 9/11. Yet we have no Osama, no Saddam, no weapons of mass destruction, no nuclear weapons plants, no peace. Finally Fascist - The word ‘fascist’ inevitably conjures up horrifying images of Nazi swastikas, concentration camps, packed political rallies, people screaming while a lunatic Hitler orates loudly and gesticulates wildly. Hard to imagine any strain of such a hideous disease infecting America - the world’s shining beacon of democracy, liberty, hope, and freedom. A Price Too High - "This is a dream for the jihad," said one high-ranking U.N. official. "The resistance will only grow. The American occupation is now the focal point, drawing people from all over Islam into an eye-to-eye confrontation with the hated Americans. US should set disarming example: Elbaradei - The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog has called on the United States to set an example to the rest of the world and cut its nuclear arsenal and halt research programs. - He also criticised US President George Bush's plan for a national missile defence shield, saying a small number of privileged countries want a nuclear protective shield. - He says the rest of the world would be left outside. - Elbaradei says if people do not stop applying double standards the world will end up with more nuclear weapons. Study Finds Europeans Distrustful of U.S. Global Leadership - Europeans are increasingly uncomfortable with the United States' global leadership, with majorities in almost every nation opposing the direction of American foreign policy, a new poll has found. - TVNL Comment: This proves that our coalition of the willing is comprised of nations where the people are coalitions of people who have no say in the matter! These nations that are behind us are mostly populated by people who are not! Iraq War Erodes World's Post-9/11 Sympathy for US - "After the war in Iraq, the United States looks to many like an occupying power in the region, which revives memories of European occupation in the early 20th century and further erodes any sympathy among people in the region," - Disquiet among U.S. allies in Europe centers on Washington's preference for pre-emptive action, its claim to military and economic primacy and its scorn for multilateral initiatives in areas including global warming and international justice. Reasons to fear U.S. - However, two years after 9/11, the United States has yet to confront the roots of terrorism, has waged more war than peace and has continually raised the stakes of international confrontation. - On 9/11, the world reacted with shock and horror, and sympathy for the victims. But it is important to bear in mind that for much of the world, there was a further reaction: "Welcome to the club." Rich and poor clash over farm aid - Europe and the United States have been accused of trying to break up a powerful new alliance of poor states bent on rewriting global trade rules. - The G21 is demanding the complete abolition of subsidies paid by rich countries to their farmers which, they say, locks the developing world out of international markets. - But aid agency Action Aid has accused the US delegation at Cancun of attempting to alternately cajole and bully poor nations into leaving the G21 - an accusation the Americans have denied. Saudis consider nuclear bomb - Until now, the assumption in Washington was that Saudi Arabia was content to remain under the US nuclear umbrella. But the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US has steadily worsened since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington: 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudi. - TVNL Comment: the Bush/PNAC administration, with it’s arrogance, has created a global nuclear arms race. There will be nations developing or obtaining nuclear weapons simply to deter the US. Bush steps up fight against European safety testing - President George Bush is mounting an intensive campaign to force European countries to drop safety tests expected to save thousands of lives each year - The documents - which include diplomatic cables signed by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell - show that the Bush administration has threatened Europe with trade sanctions if it goes ahead with the tests, which are designed to protect workers and the public from highly toxic chemicals. - The tests are designed to identify the most dangerous chemicals threatening Europeans, including cancer-causing and "gender-bender" substances, so that they can be controlled. U.S. Abortion Policy Hits Clinics Abroad -Study - President Bush's anti-abortion policy has hit clinics in poor countries hard, forcing some to close and leave entire communities without healthcare, according to a report issued on Wednesday. - Under the policy, known as the Mexico City rule by supporters and the Global Gag rule by opponents, foreign family planning agencies cannot receive U.S. funds if they provide abortion services or lobby to make or keep abortion legal in their own country. Ignore Muslim anger at your peril, Musharraf warns Bush - U.S. must quell hatred of the west through positive action, not invasion - "There's so much hate, so much anti-western, anti-U.S. feelings, we have to show a positive," Gen. Pervez Musharraf told the Citizen in an interview. - "If we show one more negative, in the form of a military operation against another Muslim country, I think it's going to be disastrous." London and World Protests Oppose Iraq Occupation - Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters staged demonstrations around the world on Saturday venting their anger at the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and calling for an end to the occupation. - Chanting "Troops out of Iraq and Blair out of Number 10," protesters in London demonstrated against Britain's continued military involvement. - Coordinated protests were held across western Europe and in Turkey and South Korea, but were only a faint shadow of huge pre-war peace rallies. No wonder America has so many enemies - ERIC MARGOLIS - President Bill Clinton was impeached by a Republican-controlled Congress for lying about sex. President George W. Bush and aides lied the United States into a stupid, unnecessary colonial war that has so far killed more than 305 Americans and seriously wounded more than 1,400. It has also cost many thousands of Iraqi dead, and $1 billion US weekly. - Lying about sex is an impeachable offence; lying the nation into war apparently is not. U.S. accuses Cuba of germ weapons program - The United States, yet to find evidence to back its charge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, issued a new accusation on Thursday that Cuba had a ''limited'' biological arms program. - TVNL Comment: Please don’t tell us that we are going to invade Cuba! Washington's Sour Sales Pitch - First, the government — not the broader American public — has been the main messenger to a world that is mightily suspicious of it. Further, the State Department, which oversees most efforts, seems to view public diplomacy not as a dialogue but as a one-sided exercise. The result is America speaking at the world, usually with simplistic and often offensive propaganda: US imposes sanctions on Syria - The United States' House of Representatives has passed legislation to impose sanctions on Syria for alleged ties to terrorist groups and attempts to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. - TVNL Comment: The US keeps making the same mistaks.Sanctions have never proved successful in any respect. They have clearly resulted in the death and suffering amon civillian populations. Sanctions are used to set nations up for invasion. They weaken the county that has the sanctions imposed on it and then it uses any violations of those sanctions as an excuse to attack them. Report: Unit Killed Hundreds in Vietnam - An elite unit of American soldiers mutilated and killed hundreds of unarmed villagers over seven months in 1967 during the Vietnam War, and an Army investigation was closed with no charges filed, The Blade reported Sunday. - Soldiers of the Tiger Force unit of the Army's 101st Airborne Division dropped grenades into bunkers where villagers -- including women and children -- hid, and shot farmers without warning, the newspaper reported. Soldiers told The Blade that they severed ears from the dead and strung them on shoelaces to wear around their necks. - William Doyle, a former Tiger Force sergeant now living in Willow Springs, Mo., said he killed so many civilians in 1967 he lost count. - The newspaper also said Army investigators learned about the atrocities in 1971 but took a year to interview witnesses. Two investigators pretended to look into the allegations while encouraging soldiers to keep quiet, soldiers told The Blade - TVNL Comment: But it is our freedom that terrorists hate! It is never our international policy or our military “intervention” or our support for brutal dictators all over the world or... Muslim Leaders Confront Bush - In an unusual meeting in Indonesia, they tell the president that the U.S. should act more democratically in its foreign affairs. - In a rare face-to-face meeting with critics, President Bush got an earful Wednesday from Muslim leaders who denounced his policies of occupying Iraq and siding with Israel against the Palestinians. Bush Shuts Off Beans to Cuba - Cuba is buying black beans from the U.S., but after the new Bush Administration initiatives, they won't be able to buy them from Michigan farmers. - "The U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba could be about $1 billion annually," - TVNL Comment: This hurts US farmers and the people of Cuba. America continues to punish the people of the world because we do not like their leader. AP: Iraq Expense Leaving Others in Cold - With Billions of Dollars Pledged for Iraq, Is Enough Left for Poor Countries, AIDS Sufferers? - The $33 billion for Iraq over the next four years, including $20 billion from the United States, is more than 10 times the U.N. Development Program's annual funds of $2.8 billion for all underdeveloped countries. The amount is also nearly 10 times the pledges to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which kill millions every year. US develops lethal new viruses - A scientist funded by the US government has deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering. - The new virus kills all mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them. - The work has not stopped there. The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way. Socialists Decry U.S. Domination, Greed - Left-leaning politicians from the around the world wrapped up a three-day congress Wednesday with a call for a new world order and an end to the unilateral policies of the United States. - It decried what it called attempts to ``dismantle all forms of global governance, to minimize the role of the United Nations, to undermine multilateral institutions, to promote unilateralism and the consecration of the market, and to impose the will of the powerful to decide the future of mankind.'' EU poll: Israel 'biggest threat' to world peace - U.S. beats out 'axis of evil' in causing global instability - Over half of Europeans think Israel poses the "biggest threat to world peace," according to a controversial poll commissioned by the European Commission. - The same survey has the United States beating out Iran, Iraq and North Korea – the trio dubbed the "axis of evil" by President George W. Bush – as well as Afghanistan in a ranking of what countries contribute most to world instability. Inuit battle to shut US air base - Inuit hunters are to ask Denmark's Supreme Court on Monday to close down one of America's most secretive and strategically important military base |
