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  • Daniel Pipes and the unfolding civil war in Iraq James Cogan, WSWS
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Daniel Pipes and the unfolding civil war in Iraq James Cogan, WSWS http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m22450&l=i&size=1&hd=0
    11 April 2006
    Daniel Pipes, the director of the neo-conservative Middle East Forum and a vociferous supporter of the invasion of Iraq, is not an inconsequential figure in the American political establishment. His writings consistently articulate and refine the views of the extreme right in the United States, a layer that exerts considerable influence over the (…)

  • U.S. military conducting a PSYOP program "to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq"
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060411&articleId=2256 April 11, 2006 Washington Post - 2006-04-10
    U.S. military plays up role of Zarqawi Jordanian painted as foreign threat to Iraq’s stability
    By Thomas E. Ricks The Washington Post Updated: 6:39 a.m. ET April 10, 2006
    The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the (…)

  • The Leaker-in-Chief By William Rivers Pitt (t r u t h o u t)
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_040706J.shtml (video)
    Friday 07 April 2006
    Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin? Joseph Addison
    "I don’t know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information," said George W. Bush on September 30, 2003. "If somebody did leak classified information, I’d like to know it, and we’ll take the (…)

  • KATRINA : In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_041106N.shtml
    In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions By Shaila Dewan
    Tuesday 11 April 2006
    New Orleans - When August Blanchard returned to New Orleans from Pennsylvania in late December, his mother was still missing. Family members, scattered across the country, had been calling hospitals, the Red Cross and missing persons hot lines, hoping she had been rescued.
    But Mr. Blanchard, 26, had a bad feeling. Twice, he (…)

  • Republican Raptures : the growing power of the Christian Right By Jan Frel, AlterNet.
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Raptures
    By Jan Frel, AlterNet. Posted April 11, 2006. http://www.alternet.org/story/34572/
    Author Kevin Phillips discusses the growing power that the Christian Right has over the Republican Party.
    Ever since former Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips published the bestselling "The Emerging Republican Majority" in 1969, the announcement that he’s written a new book has typically been first met by political observers and the press with a kind of hushed awe, and then a mad rush to (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0410-03.htm Published on Monday, April 10, 2006 Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the US ambassador and blamed him for triggering protests in which his car was pelted with tomatoes and eggs.
    "If you continue making provocations, you’re going to have to pack your bags, mister, because I’m going to throw you out of here, Ambassador (William) Brownfield," Chavez (…)

  • Paul Wolfowitz’s Heart of Darkness William Hughes (uruknet.info)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Paul Wolfowitz’s Heart of Darkness William Hughes
    April 11, 2006
    "He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land." - Joseph Conrad
    American policy maker Paul Wolfowitz reminds me a lot of Joseph Conrad’s character, Kurtz, from his seminal tome, "Heart of Darkness." Kurtz never allowed himself to be judged by the same standards as other mere mortals, nor has Wolfowitz. He seems manufactured in the image and likeness of another purveyor of malevolence - Henry Kissinger! (…)

  • Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0411-21.htm
    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Iraq, a country that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to free from fear and establish democracy. I have been visiting Iraq since 1978, but for the first time, I am becoming convinced that the country will not (…)

  • USA : Native Americans Want ’Bunker Buster’ Test Stopped
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by OneWorld.net Native Americans Want ’Bunker Buster’ Test Stopped by Haider Rizvi
    UNITED NATIONS - Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.
    The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ’’bunker buster’’ weapons capable of penetrating solid rock. Officials have suggested the test would (…)

  • Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. ’Democracy’ Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week Haider S. Kadh
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. ’Democracy’ Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week uruknet.info
    Haider S. Kadhum
    April 10, 2006
    Despite promises of democracy and safety, Iraq remains gripped by civil strife, death and terror three years after the American-led invasion of the country. A nation that was once united is now disintegrating. Security in Iraq under the occupation no longer exists. Going out to buy a newspaper could cost you your life. People are being killed as they are (…)