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  • Who Killed Margaret Hassan?
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state” (Noam Chomsky)
    by Yamin Zakaria
    There are truths; there are lies; there is then the middle ground of half-truths: propaganda. Those who engage in its dissemination are malicious criminals. And those who are subjected to it are the victims. Propaganda is consumed innocently, like drinking a glass of milk that has been contaminated with small drops of urine; the taste, color, odor of the milk is sustained, so the (…)

  • Mordechai Vanunu : long walk to freedom
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mordechai Vanunu served 18 years in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Last week he was arrested again - but not before he had given Duncan Campbell the following exclusive interview
    by Duncan Campbell
    It was precisely noon in Jerusalem and the bells in the tower of St George’s Cathedral were echoing over the city. The short, trim man in the apricot shirt and dark trousers who was ringing them was smiling broadly. "Down there," he said, (…)

  • Mapping the Election
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Engelhardt
    Let’s start with an electoral map (scroll down) of the United States not long after George Bush beat a Massachusetts liberal for the presidency. If you take a quick glance at it, you’ll note that sea of blue stretching majestically from coast to coast with just a few isolated red states hanging off the northern border like the last ripe mangos of the growing season. Sound like the fabulous fantasy of some cockeyed Kerry supporter? Actually, it represents a distant reality (…)

  • Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week the US launched a major offensive on Fallujah using heavy artillery, bulldozers and tanks. The target was insurgents, but here one family reveals the horror of being caught in the conflict
    by Dahr Jamail
    She weeps while telling the story. The abaya (tunic) she wears cannot hide the shaking of her body as waves of grief roll through her. “I cannot get the image out of my mind of her foetus being blown out of her body.”
    Muna Salim’s sister, Artica, was seven months’ pregnant (…)

  • U.S. to Probe Shooting of Wounded Iraqi
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by STEVEN R. HURST
    The U.S. military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said.
    The dramatic footage was taken Saturday by pool correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded a day earlier in the mosque had also apparently been shot the next day by the Marines.
    The incident played out as the (…)

  • Amnesty: Rules of war violated in Fallujah
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rules of war that protect innocent civilians and combatants have been violated in the U.S-led offensive in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
    The London-based group, which has provided evidence of what it described as breaching war rules, demanded on Monday an investigation to be launched to study all violation cases and that those responsible be brought to justice.
    "All violations of international humanitarian law and human rights (…)

  • Chile: Pinochet crimes to be exposed for the first time
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Socialist President Ricardo Lagos is reviewing an official report containing over 35,000 testimonials of tortures
    by Hernan Etchaleco
    Shortly after Chile’s army acknowledged that tortures and political assassinations during Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing dictatorship were institutional, not excesses of a few individuals, country’s Socialist President Ricardo Lagos received on Wednesday a massive official report containing 35,000 testimonials of abuses providing details of such crimes. It (…)

  • The Enlightenment of Resistance
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Exorcising Our Demons
    Into the infancy of the 21st century has humanity somehow managed to reach, despite our insatiable addiction for violence and suffering that has for millennia been both endemic and devastating, in spite of the continued tribalism, now called the nation state, that fosters competition, ignorance, fear, hatred and war among the peoples of the world, even with the hierarchical need among peoples to perpetually follow corrupt, immoral and (…)

  • Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dahr Jamail
    It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad.
    Last night around 7pm the explosion occurred at a hotel compound which houses foreign contractors over near Firdos Square.
    Shortly there after the "Green Zone" took a sustained mortar attack which went on long enough for them to hit the blaring sirens which warn the inhabitants to take cover, long after the mortar rounds had stopped falling.
    Iraq’s borders (…)

  • Uri Avnery : rejoice not...
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    “Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.” This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far from being a “Jewish State”, as it likes to define itself. The disgusting filth poured out over Yasser Arafat during the last few days in practically all the Israeli media makes one ashamed to be an Israeli.
    The (…)