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  • Agent Orange: The Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Jeremy Laurance reports from Ho Chi Minh C
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Independent/UK
    Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation.
    On a table in the dimly lit room lay a small white bundle, tied with a silver ribbon. With a brilliant smile and a barked order, Professor Nguyen Thi Phuong had directed me to the morgue (…)

  • ANTIWAR : War and Protest - the US in Vietnam (1972-1975) BBC
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The American movement against the Vietnam War was the most successful antiwar movement in US history. During the Johnson administration, it played a significant role in constraining the war and was a major factor in the administration’s policy reversal in 1968. During the Nixon years, it hastened US troop withdrawals, continued to restrain the war, fed the deterioration in US troop morale and discipline (which provided additional impetus to US troop withdrawals), and promoted congressional (…)

  • War Against Iran, April 2006 Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292 by Jorge Hirsch
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 1, 2006
    H istory repeats itself, but always with new twists. We are back to the good old days when a Declaration of War preceded the start of a war. Such declaration occurred on March 16th, 2006. Reversing the old order, we are now in the "Sitzkrieg", to be followed shortly by an aerial "Blitzkrieg" in the coming days.
    In the old days, Congress declared war, and directed the Executive to take action. In the new millenium, the Executive declared war last March 16th, then Congress (…)

  • War Making 101: A User’s Manual From Democracy to Tyranny
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman March 25, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    I’ve lived through seven decades and can remember the late 1930s before WW II began. In fact, I began my formal education in kindergarten within days of when Hitler sent his Wehrmacht across the Polish border in an act of illegal aggression and began that near six year horror. I was too young to understand it then, and I can barely remember that fateful "first Pearl Harbor" on December 7, 1941. Franklin Roosevelt wanted in on that (…)

  • PHOENIX RISING : IRAQ IN ASHES
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    1) ITEM: "RUMSFELD HAS CREATED A KILLER ELITE THAT HAS BEEN COMPARED FAVOURABLY BY ONE OF IT’S KEY US ARCHITECTS , LT. GENERAL JERRY BOYKIN, WITH AMERICA’S HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL PHOENIX PROGRAMME , WHICH SECRETLY ERADICATED ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT JUDICIAL PROCESS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR." ( "SAS MEN SETTING UP TARGETS FOR RUMMY’S KILLERS", THE SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON , 2/12/06 ) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2035979,00.html 2 ) ITEM: "US Military Still Runs (…)

  • Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932
    28 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism - he was editor of Avanti, a socialist newspaper - to the leadership of a new political movement called "fascism" [after "fasces", the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome].
    Mussolini (…)

  • Hamdan vrs Rumsfeld: A REMINDER TO THE SUPREME COURT! AND FEDERAL JUDGES
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    with all of busheys marbles; (for unitary dictatorial unconstitutional internationally illegal and immoral assumptions that he can push his misgided agenda around the world and convince complicit judges to endorse this psychotic agenda) riding on the Hamdan vrs rumsfeld case up before the United States Suprem Court, a gentle reminder that everything Hitler and his compliant judges deemed legal in Germany were in fact rendered to justice at the international Nuremberg Trials. FAIR WARNING has (…)

  • Secret Societies & Occult Politics - Dream of the Sages
    26 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Secret Societies & Occult Politics Dream of the Sages
    By Robert Richardson
    To students of history, religion, or the occult, a pattern of individual names and esoteric movements appears on the canvas of time like a sudden flash of light, then just as quickly vanishes. A group of disparate people - sometimes famous, sometimes obscure, sometimes solitary, sometimes united, but always engaged in some amorphous activity - spontaneously surfaces. Just as suddenly their traces evaporate, (…)

  • Rest Easy, Bill Clinton Slobo Can’t Talk Any More By JEREMY SCAHILL (Counterpunch)
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 13, 2006
    Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic’s final revenge, that he "ended up cheating history" by dying before judgment was passed. But the world has already passed judgment on Milosevic and what is being cheated by his death is history itself.
    What the corporate (…)

  • The march of folly, that has led to a bloodbath The Iraq War: Three Years On By Robert Fisk
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/20/06 "The Independent"
    It is the march of folly. In 1914, the British, French, and Germans though they would be home by Christmas. On the 9th of April 2003, corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, 4th US Marine Regiment - the very first American to enter Baghdad - borrowed my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. "Hi you guys, I’m in Baghdad," he told his mother. "I’m ringing to say ’Hi, I love you. I’m doing fine. I love you guys.’ The war will be over in a few days. I’ll (…)