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  • U.S. troops in Dominican Republic By G. Dunkel
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published Apr 2, 2006 5:51 PM http://www.workers.org/2006/world/dominican-republic-0406/
    The United States hoped sending a heavily armed brigade of several thousand troops to Barahona, a small city on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic 50 miles from the Haitian border, would go unnoticed.
    But the progressive movement in the Dominican Republic held a series of demonstrations in late February exposing this potential threat to Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, to the elections (…)

  • How the US ’lost’ Latin America By BBC
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12622.htm
    It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
    While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
    Virtually anyone paying attention (…)

  • U.S. Support for Aggressive Zionism, the Real Problem in the Middle East by Albert Doyle, LL.B., LL
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Passionate Attachment:
    U.S. Support for Aggressive Zionism, the Real Problem in the Middle East
    By Albert Doyle, LL.B., LL.M.
    “So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, (…)

  • Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From DEMOCRACYNOW !
    AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
    JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
    NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)

  • US will Find Another Excuse to Target Iran
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ahmet Dinc http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12615.htm
    04/02/06 "Zaman" — — The United States is firm in its plans to launch a military operation against Iran, said Kazim Jalali, a spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s Commission of Foreign Affairs, adding the United States would find another reason for its military operation even if the nuclear plants were immediately shut down.
    There are peaceful motives behind the nuclear projects in Iran, said Jalali, when he (…)

  • Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb
    By The Associated Press http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12626.htm
    04/03/06 "AP" — — OSLO, Norway ? Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement.
    Blix, attending an energy conference in western Norway, said he doubted the U.S. would resort to invading Iran.
    "But there is a chance that the U.S. will (…)

  • Government in secret talks about strike against Iran by Sean Rayment ("Telegraph")
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
    By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
    04/02/06 "Telegraph" — — The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
    A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
    It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran’s ability (…)

  • How the GOP Became God’s Own Party by Kevin Phillips ("Washington Post")
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    04/02/06 "Washington Post" - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12617.htm
    — Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush’s conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
    We have had small-scale theocracies in North America before — in Puritan New England and later in Mormon Utah. Today, a leading power (…)

  • The New Definition of Military Valour - Saying No To Politicians, The Guardian/UK
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, April 3, 2006 by Max Hastings
    Francis Fukuyama’s Iraq recantation has received keen attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Like many US conservatives, he now distances himself from what has been done in the neocons’ name by the Bush administration. Of course, we welcome every sinner that repenteth, but the people who seem most deserving of respect are those clever Americans who got it right in the first place. Most of my US military acquaintances opposed the (…)

  • Coalition troops will be there for the long term by Andrew Buncombe (the lndependent/UK)
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Sunday, April 2, 2006 by the lndependent/UK US and UK Forces Establish ’Enduring Bases’ in Iraq Despite talk of withdrawal ’when the job is done’, there are signs that coalition troops will be there for the long term
    by Andrew Buncombe in Washington
    The Pentagon has revealed that coalition forces are spending millions of dollars establishing at least six "enduring" bases in Iraq - raising the prospect that US and UK forces could be involved in a long-term deployment in the (…)