NEWSWEEK'S KORAN IN THE TOILET STORY

Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post, and nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded...

FPF-may 18th 2005 - After the Abu Ghraib pictures, [http://tinyurl.com/2stce] the illegal invasion*, shooting, bombing, napalming [CNN*], jailing, raping, torturing and the killing of so many human beings in so many countries, the US neocons think we believe their and Rice's rant about RESPECT? - [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bk243] -

This following story is informative enough to understand their scared rant: 'Newsweek Got Gitmo Right' - by Calgacus:

"Contrary to White House spin, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States. Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Koran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.

Prior to the Newsweek article, the New York Times reported a Guantanamo insider asserting that the commander of the facility was compelled by prisoner protests to address the problem and issue an apology. - [end quote] Pls. read more at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfll3

'Accuracy in Media' Urges Housecleaning at Newsweek

May 16, 2005 - WASHINGTON - Accuracy in Media (AIM)* said today that blood is on the hands of Newsweek magazine for its unsubstantiated "Koran in the toilet" story that sparked anti-American global riots. AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said that, "Sixteen people were killed and more than 100 were wounded as a result of Newsweek's rush to get this story into print. But nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded."

Kincaid said Newsweek's correction will never catch up with the original false report and that countless Americans may die as a result.

Newsweek has also done enormous damage to the cause of democracy in the Middle East, he added.

AIM noted that Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post company and that Post chairman Donald E. Graham has a duty to clean house at the newsweekly.

Ironically, noted Kincaid, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas has been teaching a course at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on "the ethical, moral and practical issues that recur in news delivery."

Kincaid commented, "It looks like he flunked his own course."

Accuracy In Media (AIM) is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2b88

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s office is suppressing data, showing that the number of major resistance attacks against the US worldwide exploded from 175 in 2003 to 625 in 2004, the highest number since the Cold War began to wane in 1985. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c8fwd

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan in a BBC interview: txt+video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* CNN confirms use of Napalm by Coalition Forces - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3ycjf

* Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies: Url. http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3

* Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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VENEZUELA: Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!

FPF-fwd.: Jeff Cohen - CommonDream

Published in Venezuela too - by 'Vheadline.com' - Url.:
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=34409

Click here http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp
to find one near you.

CommonDreams.org-by Jeff Cohen - Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
And tell your friends!

Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."

Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US.

By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.

Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela.

A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day.

With a mass movement behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela.

That's why large majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to overthrow Chavez.

So this is the opposite of a boycott.

Call it a BUYcott.

Spread the word.

Of course, if you can take mass transit or bike or walk to your job, you should do so. And we should all work for political changes that move our country toward a cleaner environment based on renewable energy.

The BUYcott is for those of us who don't have a practical alternative to filling up our cars.

So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.

Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (www.jeffcohen.org)

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* Published in Venezuela too, by Vheadline.com - Url.:
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FPF: SHELL boycott - Argentine president Nestor Kirchner called for a “national boycott” against the multinational oil company Shell - Url.: http://americas.org/item_18603

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein -

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