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  • Why Norman Podhoretz - a Ranking Chickenhawk - is Eager for WWIV
    1 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
    Hannah Arendt
    For viewers eager to catch-up on rebroadcast C-SPAN2 interviews this past weekend, they had a chance to get a glimpse of the working logic of the formidable Neocon architect, Norman Podhoretz, who recently wrote "World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism." The one-time liberal radical illustrates how, when you make a 180 degree political turn, you’ll probably remain dizzy for (…)

  • IRAQ study: 1,220,580 murdered since invasion by Opinion Business Research
    1 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq study: 1,220,580 murdered since invasion Written by Opinion Business Research
    In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.
    Previous estimates, most noticeably the one published in the Lancet in October 2006, suggested almost half this number (654,965 deaths). These findings come from a poll (…)

  • UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran by Peter Symonds (Global Research)
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran
    By Peter Symonds
    Global Research, September 30, 2007 WSWS - 2007-09-24
    The UN General Assembly meets this week under the shadow of menacing demands by the US and its allies for tough new UN sanctions against Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programs. The Bush administration’s “diplomacy”, in which the French government has been playing a very visible role, is aimed in the first instance at bullying Russia and China (…)

  • Shifting Targets - The Administration’s plan for Iran
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Seymour M. Hersh
    In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training Iraqis to carry out attacks on our forces and the Iraqi people,” Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in August.
    “The attacks on our bases and our troops by Iranian-supplied munitions have (…)

  • Cheney, Super-Secret US Society Set Plan For World Apocalypse
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney, Super-Secret US Society Set Plan For World Apocalypse
    September 29, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Troubling reports are coming from the United States today that according to FSB reports state that the American Vice President Dick Cheney has met with the ‘super secret’ Council for National Policy, which has been confirmed by the Salt Lake City Tribune News Service, and which says:
    "Vice President Dick Cheney has departed Salt Lake City today (…)

  • 4 MILLION post-1990 Iraq excess deaths per anti-Arab anti-Semitic Bush Wars, Sanctions - now IRAN?
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was recently reported by Mainstream media that George Bush had rejected a pre-Iraq War offer by Saddam Hussein to leave with a mere $1 billion (see: (see the circa 27-28 September 2007 UK Daily Mail: , UK Telegraph: ), and the Washington Post: ).
    Decent folk are OBLIGED to examine the human and financial cost of the Iraq War in comparison with this $1 billion offer that could have prevented it if Bush were not INTENT on invading and occupying Iraq for OIL and HEGEMONIC CONTROL. (…)

  • Sarkozy candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Strauss-Kahn’s candidacy was first proposed by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in July and the campaign soon gained momentum with the support of the EU, which collectively holds 32.09 percent of IMF voting rights, and the US, the single largest contributor with 16.83 percent.
    France’s Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    29.09.2007
    The International Monetary Fund has named Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its managing director at a time when the (…)

  • The Iran War is on the Front Burner
    29 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
    The war that Dick Cheney has been planning against Iran, has moved from the back burner to the front, and those who do not see this are either blind or complicit.
    Military deployments are in place, as laid out in detail in a Sept. 16 feature by Michel Chossudovsky in Global Research, while the statements of intent to wage war, issued by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, have been hyped in British and American news outlets.
    The fact that war is high on (…)

  • IRAQ : Making a Killing y Jeremy Scahill
    29 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, September 28, 2007 by The Nation
    Making a Killing
    by Jeremy Scahill
    It’s being described as “Baghdad’s bloody Sunday.” On September 16 a heavily armed State Department convoy guarded by Blackwater USA was whizzing down the wrong side of the road near Nisour Square in the congested Mansour neighborhood in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi police scrambled to block off traffic to allow the convoy to pass. In the chaos, an Iraqi vehicle entered the square, reportedly failing (…)

  • IRAN : Ellsberg Calls for Actions to Prevent War
    29 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Yoder
    ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - The date Aug. 4, 1964 still haunts Daniel Ellsberg, despite the passage of more than 40 years.
    He was a 33-year-old on his first day at the Pentagon as special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton. It also was the day the North Vietnamese navy allegedly fired 21 torpedoes at U.S. naval vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.
    Ellsberg was one of 100 people who saw top secret transmissions later in the day saying the attack never (…)