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  • Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin.
    The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old.
    Nor was it as nauseating as the pictures in an Israeli (…)

  • Inside the Clouds of 9/11
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Catalyst for Perpetual War
    What remains today of the entity once known as the United States can be seen by escaping the still-omnipresent hypnotic fog that spans the land of the free and the home of the brave, from coast to coast, spawned by the smoldering inferno and avalanching debris of three years ago, when the human species once-more entered into dimensions familiar and frequent yet malicious and frightful, where all semblance of reality seemed to disappear (…)

  • Abu Ghraib, Caribbean Style
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by New York Times
    Ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the Bush administration has claimed that the abuses depicted in those horrible photos were an isolated problem that was immediately fixed. The White House has repeatedly proclaimed its respect for the Geneva Conventions, international law and American statutes governing the treatment of prisoners.
    An article in The Times on Tuesday by Neil A. Lewis showed how hollow those assurances are. According to the International Committee (…)

  • Kerry and the Gift of Impunity
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old Marine from Appalachia who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by prowar pundits and "The Marlboro Man" by pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows Miller "after more than twelve hours of nearly nonstop deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody scratch on his nose, and (…)

  • Commissar Aaronovitch : Ex-commie takes aim at Antiwar.com - and misses
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Justin Raimondo
    They don’t have neocons in Britain: over there, they’re called Blairites, or New Labourites. But it’s essentially the same thing: they love the State, they love themselves, and, most of all, they love war - in the name of idealism, you understand, which, in Blairite circles, amounts to what passes these days for "humanitarian" internvetionism. In any case, I suppose it was inevitable that the British wing of the species would one day deign to notice Antiwar.com’s (…)

  • Wounded Soldiers contract rare blood infection
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Doctors at Walter Reed, Landstuhl medical centers work to stem antibiotic-resistant bacteria
    by Chris Walz
    An unexpectedly high number of Soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, antibiotic-resistant blood infection, Army officials said Friday. A total of 102 Soldiers tested positive for the bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii between Jan. 1, 2002 and Aug. 31, 2004.
    Doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, in (…)

  • Petri Dish Culture
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    By now, most people have been sickened by the brawl involving the Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons and the drunken hooligans that pose as Piston’s basketball fans. We looked on in horror as muscle-bound Pacer’s star Ron Artest leapt into the stands - followed by a few of his teammates - to attack terrified basketball buffs after he was hit by a cup of beer. We watched in dismay as the scene escalated into violent chaos and mayhem.
    Appropriately, National Basketball (…)

  • Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance...
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance, and Corporate Scandal
    by Jason Leopold
    Off the Record is the story of the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance told by Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse and petty crime and went on to become one of the most highly regarded investigative reporters of the last few years, uncovering some of the biggest scandals of corporate America, the office of the governor of (…)

  • Lords of the flies
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Hakim Mirzoev
    Together with Americans the flies invaded the city. They are millions. The whole city seems to be under their power. The flies cover the corpses. The older is corpse, the more flies are upon it. First they cover a corpse as by some strange rash. Then they begin to swarm upon it, and then a gray moving shroud covers the corpse. Flies swarm upon some ruins as gray monstrous shadows. The stench is awful.
    The flies are everywhere. In the hospital wards, operating rooms, (…)

  • 6,635 bodies in Baghdad mortuary: counting cost of crime and chaos
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anthony Loyd
    SHOT, stabbed, blown up,burnt: the bodies of Iraqis killed in Baghdad lie piled in overcrowded refrigerators at the city’s central mortuary, their ever-increasing number overwhelming both staff and storage space in a wave that marks the city’s descent into a Hobbesian world of crime and brutality.
    “Our morgue was designed to cope with between five and ten bodies a day,” explained Kais Hassan, the harrassed statistician whose job it is to record the capital’s suspicious (…)