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  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist (The Guardian UK)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    · Economists say official estimates are far too low · New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • Cancer in a Can By Terry J. Allen
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2567/
    Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, “Trust us.” Its scientists had found benzene, a known carcinogen, in some sodas and fruit drinks. The same levels in drinking water would have triggered mandatory action and public notification through newspaper, radio and TV ads. Yet the FDA neither sounded the alarm nor required the beverage industry to fix the problem.
    Instead, it cut a private deal. FDA chemist Greg Diachenko (…)

  • Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lies, Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics How an archaic measurement keeps millions of poor Americans from being counted
    By Christopher Moraff
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2513/
    Standing before the House rostrum on the night of January 31, President George W. Bush beamed as he recounted the state of the country’s economic health.
    “Our economy is healthy,” the president declared during his State of the Union address. “Americans should not fear our economic future, (…)

  • The Israel Lobby and its Discontents (in theese times)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Israel Lobby and its Discontents
    By Salim Muwakkil http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2590/
    An 83-page study, published by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, forcefully argues that pro-Israel partisans within the U.S. government’s policymaking apparatus, including think tanks, politicians, journalists, academics and professional lobbyists, are manipulating America’s foreign policy.
    A working paper by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen (…)

  • How GI Resistance Changed History (Alternet)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine Posted on April 6, 2006, Printed on April 6, 2006
    http://www.alternet.org/story/34532/
    When actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland organized an anti-war review, touring U.S. military bases and towns around the world, the GI rebellion against the war in Vietnam was already in full force. In one theatrical episode, evoking laughter and applause from thousands of soldiers and Marines, Fonda played the part of an aide to President Richard Nixon. (…)

  • Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz : Trillion Dollar War "The War Is Bad for the Economy"
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, 63, discusses the true $1 trillion cost of the Iraq conflict, its impact on the oil market and the questions of whether the West can afford to impose sanctions on Iran.
    By Frank Hornig and Georg Mascolo
    04/06/06 "Spiegel" — — Professor Stiglitz, at the beginning of the Iraq war, the United States administration was hoping to almost break even in terms of the costs ...
    Stiglitz: ... they truly believed the Iraqi people could use their oil (…)

  • Retired CIA Official Ray McGovern Says Bush Is A War Criminal
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Retired CIA Official Says Bush Is A War Criminal
    04/03/06
    An in-depth interview with former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern; McGovern talks about his work as an advisor to Bush 1 and his belief that Bush 2 is a war criminal and should be tried for crimes against humanity.
    Listen to the interview :
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12628.htm

  • When Will Americans Wake Up? get on Message with the Sissy French (CounterPunch)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    When Will Americans Wake Up?
    Get on Message with the Sissy French
    By DON MONKERUD
    Why aren’t young people here aren’t taking to the streets along with their French counterparts to demand better treatment from employers and the government. A second question might be why the U.S. labor movement isn’t out on the street with them.
    French young people are angry that they face 20 percent employment, and they’re angry that the government’s "solution" to this crisis is a law that would allow (…)

  • Argentina and Uruguay Shun US Military Academy (the Guardian / UK)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
    by Duncan Campbell Two Latin American countries are to stop sending troops for training to a controversial military academy in the US.
    The move was welcomed by groups that have been campaigning against the academy since it was accused, in its previous incarnation, of training Latin American soldiers in illegal interrogation techniques.
    The defence ministers of Argentina and Uruguay have decided to stop sending soldiers to train at the Western (…)

  • Silence In Class
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?
    By Gary Younge
    After the screenwriter Walter Bernstein was placed on the blacklist during the McCarthyite era he said his life "seemed to move in ever-decreasing circles". "Few of my friends dropped away but the list of acquaintances diminished," (…)