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  • ’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Joannides served as the chief of psychological warfare operations in the Agency’s Miami station at the time of Kennedy’s assassination. Using the alias "Howard," he was the case officer for a Cuban exile group whose members had repeated contact with accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in August 1963 — rendering any records of Joannides’ secret operations at that time potentially relevant to the JFK assassination story.
    by: Jefferson Morley Posted October 22, 2007 05:10 PM (EST)
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  • Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Millions of historical documents seized by US occupation forces from Iraqi archives remain held in the United States by the CIA and the Pentagon and must, under international law, be returned to Iraq, Dr. Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive in Baghdad, told an audience at Columbia University in New York City on November 12.
    wsws.org By Sandy English 17 November 2007
    Eskander stressed that the taking of these documents threatened the Iraqi people with (…)

  • When Two Wrongs Make a Right
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Two Wrongs Make a Right By David Glenn Cox
    So here we are, living on the precipice between dark and light. Between faux prosperity and economic catastrophe. With a government that is both fascist and inept, two parties fighting for control only so that they might hijack the vehicle for their own purposes.
    The people want impeachment the government says no, the people want these wars to end the government says no. The people want the end of corporate rule the government says no. All (…)

  • Gunmen loot 3,500-old Sumerian site
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Attacks like these have increased recently amid reports that contraband trade in Iraqi antiquities scratched by illegal diggers from ancient sites was booming.
    Azzaman, November 13, 2007
    Tall Asmar, the famous ancient Sumerian settlement, has been stripped of its contents and digging implements, the Antiquities Department said in a statement.
    The site in the restive and violent Diyala Province is Iraq’s most important and significant Sumerian settlement in central Mesopotamia.
    Known (…)

  • THE MAN WHO BOMBED HIROSHIMA
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anthony Gregory
    The man who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away last week at the age of 92. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. did not die from war wounds or violently at the hands of other people, years before his time. He died in hospice care, in a bed, from heart problems and strokes.
    In stark contrast, the more than 100,000 civilians who were killed at Hiroshima 62 years ago were burnt, melted, vaporized, in an apocalyptic act of warfare. Many died (…)

  • Remembering on ‘Remembrance Day’: Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have a ‘Remembrance Day’
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.”
    How unfortunate that we have a need (…)

  • The Russian Revolution: 90 years on. An analysis
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
    It would be perhaps more correct, from a historical viewpoint, to remember the centennial of the First Revolution of 1905/7 while we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution, whose implications were vast and whose objectives were victoriously achieved, both in Russia and in the internationalization of the Socialist ideals.
    Lenin died and went to Hell. Three days later, the Devil, desperate, telephoned Saint Peter, begging for an (…)

  • “Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Annihilation Of The Armenians?”
    14 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ruminant With A View
    SANTORINI, GREECE — (OfficialWire) — 10/14/07 — Elizabeth Boleman-Herring“I have issued the command—and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad—that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness . . . with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish (…)

  • Imperial Playground : The Story of Iran in Recent History
    5 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew G. Marshall
    Global Research, October 4, 2007
    PART 1
    In recent months and even years, the United States and it’s close allies have been stepping up efforts to display Iran in a very negative light, labeling it as a terrorist nation bent on developing nuclear weapons to use against Israel and other allies of the United States in the Middle East, and possibly further outside of the region, or to deliver those nuclear weapons to the hands of terrorists hoping to use them against (…)

  • ORB Survey & 1.2 million Iraqi deaths IGNORED by UK-US-Oz anti-Arab anti-Semitic Holocaust Denial
    19 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Holocaust Denial is a criminal offence in much of Europe. Thus denial of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust in Austria will deservedly attract up to 10 years in prison. Recently the German Government proposed that the EU pass legislation to criminalize denial of contemporary genocides and holocausts. My view is that such legislation would be very useful but to prevent any negative effects on free speech there should be a no fine or custodial punishment (i.e. “no penalty criminalization”) but (…)