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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Confronting
the Empire - Noam Chomsky
Speech
We are meeting at a moment of world history that is in many ways unique – a moment that is ominous, but also full of hope. The most powerful state in history has proclaimed, loud and clear, that it intends to rule the world by force, the dimension in which ...
2:
Iran
& North Korea Will Be Next Targets -
Mahathir
Kuala Lumpur (Tribune Correspondent, Sunday the 24 Feb ): Western powers are using terrorism as a pretext to conquer the world and will target Iran and North Korea once they succeed in Iraq, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday. ...
3:
Exposing
Bush and His "Techniques of
Deceit"
President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Rumsfeld
pushes big lie on human shields in
Iraq
Hi everyone, according to Donald Rumsfeld (the man that war criminal Henry Kissinger described as "the most ruthless man I've ever known") I am a war criminal. (click here to read the article).
5:
UQ
Wire: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq,
1980-1984
The Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) was one of a series of crises during an era of upheaval in the Middle East: revolution in Iran, occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by militant students, invasion of the Great Mosque in Mecca by anti-royalist Islamicists, ...
6:
France’s
''Non'' On Iraq Is The First Of
Many
As obnoxious as many Americans find the current behaviour of French President Jacques Chirac, there is clear method behind his apparent madness. It is true that during past crises, France has usually ended up alongside its American and British counterparts ...
7:
With
Liberals Like These, Who Needs
Conservatives!
With “Liberals” Like These, Who Needs Conservatives: How Powell wowed Mary McGrory and Richard Cohen, the crème of the Washington Post’s credulous crop By Dennis Hans
8:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 26
February
1. MARC ALEXANDER to the Minister of Police: Does he consider that the police have adequate resources to deal with the cyanide terrorism threats sent to the Australian High Commission, British High Commission, United States Embassy and an Auckland newspaper; ...
9:
Guest
Opinion: Iraq's Nuclear
Non-Capability
As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the efforts of the American and British governments, serious doubts arise as to the credibility of their intelligence sources, particularly the issue of Iraq's nuclear capability. ...
10:
New
Zealand Territorial Force Faces
Crisis
ACT New Zealand Defence Spokesperson Ken Shirley today released responses to written Parliamentary Questions revealing the parlous state of New Zealand's territorial services.
11:
Jason
Leopold: Powell Changes Tune On War Sans
UN
Powell Warned Bush Last Year Of Bloody War With Iraq Without UN Suport By Jason Leopold
12:
US
Arms Control Hypocrisy is the Real
Threat
John Bolton was in Israel last week doing his job, fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Bolton is the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control. But the way he was doing his job is enough to make you laugh -- and cry.
13:
In
The Spirit of Nigerian Spam – An Email From
GWB
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON ...
14:
Gats
2000: Request From The EC To New
Zealand
[SCOOP EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a copy of the leaked European Commission GATS 2000 requests to New Zealand. This document was published yesterday by the Polaris Institute, see... http://www.polarisinstitute.org/gats/main.html
15:
Clampdown
On Illegal Street Racing
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road in Otara and ...
16:
Here
We Go! Nth Korea Launches Missile Into
Sea
North Korea launched a missile that crashed into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan on Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Tuesday.
17:
Why
We Must GoTo War, Richard Perle
Explains
The document that follows was authored by a group of US Hawks including the king of all Hawks, Richard Perle, a senior adviser to the current Bush Administration. It was addressed in a recent column by Robert Fisk of The Independent - ( The case ...
18:
Sweden
Offers Free-speech Refuge To U.S.
Officials
STOCKHOLM - Blaine Williams hasn't stopped grinning since he arrived in Sweden two weeks ago. Several times a day he'll approach a complete stranger, offer a handshake and a smile, introduce himself as a former CIA analyst from America, and proceed ...
19:
Matthew
Reid: "Carter In '04"
Scoop's newest columnist is sure to raise a few eyebrows among the Scoop readership. His views- as he says himself - tend to be,'' in diametric opposition to most of what is published on scoop.co.nz.''
20:
PeopleSoft
Flies Past Competition at Air NZ
PeopleSoft have announced an agreement with Air New Zealand (NZSE: AIR) to supply and implement a suite of enterprise application software.
21:
Scoop
Image: How Americans Teach
Geography
The world according to the United States of America, submitted by a reader, origin unknown.
Forget trying to convince France and Germany to support our ersatz need for a War in Iraq, our mighty adhesive ally is all the security this nation needs in time of crisis.
23:
Questions
Of The Day Transcript - 25 February
2003
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Is it correct that she tried to stop Hon John Tamihere from circulating a speech which said that the “Welfare as presently practiced in this country literally kills [Maori] with ...
24:
Firas
Al-Atraqch: The Rush to War
There are many reasons why the phrase 'rush to war' is apt in describing the current socio-political environment. However, the rush has little to nothing to do with the fact that Iraq has allegedly not disarmed in 12 years, or that Iraq has allegedly ...
The immigration detention business is booming. The global reach of the top players in the security industry is astounding. They are truly transnational corporations in every sense. And in our struggles against the neoliberal agenda, just like other ...
26:
ACC
Repeatedly Cuts Compensation For Disabled
Boy
The severely disabled Christchurch boy who was mauled by a dog as a baby, only to have compensation stopped last month, has had an uphill battle with ACC since his 1993 injury. His case has been to review several times.
27:
Leaked
documents show poor countries
targetted
“Today’s massive leak of the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiation documents exposes the so-called Doha ‘development’ round as the sham we've always said it was," says Professor Jane Kelsey from the Action, Research ...
28:
Meeting
The World's Leaders - A Letter From
Davos
The following is a letter from a reporter who managed to get heavy credentials for the Davos conference. It was posted on the Psychohistory bulletin board – it appears here on Scoop after being transmitted via Sam Smith's indomitable Undernews @ http://prorev.com
29:
Colin
Powell Press Conference In China
SECRETARY POWELL: (Applause) Clearly not the American press, but that's all right! Well, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Let me begin by saying it is a great sight to be back in China. This is my third visit to Beijing since becoming Secretary and ...
30:
LOTR
director gets behind organ donation
awareness
Peter Jackson has offered his support for the “GiveLife” campaign, which was sparked by the plight of Andy and Janice Tookey’s 17 month-old daughter Katie, who suffers from a rare liver disease. Katie will need a liver transplant at some stage, in the ...
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