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  • Lebanese Banned Entry to US for Dissenting Against US Policies in Lebanon
    30 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary of the White House June 29, 2007
    Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Responsible for Policies and Actions That Threaten Lebanon’s Sovereignty and Democracy A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
    White House News
    In order to foster democratic institutions in Lebanon, to help the Lebanese people preserve their sovereignty and achieve their aspirations for democracy and regional (…)

  • Bush cites Israel as model for Iraq
    29 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I guess the fate or Arab countries is to be re-made in the image of the one country in the region with no borders that continues to expand at will.
    – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628...
    If Israel is the model, it would follow that all Arab countries must be allowed to obtain and develop nuclear weapons without being signatory to the NPT or the necessity of inspectors to verify their arsenal. All Arab countries are free to violate any and all UN Resolutions. And all Arab countries are (…)

  • THE WORD WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED
    28 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Mainstream Media loves to report about bombs in Iraq, about pundit’s opinions, about Generals assessments, about success stories (limited thought they are), about paraplegics coming home to overcome challenges...and even return to Iraq to fight!, about services for heroes, and about the cost of war.
    However, the one word you won’t hear is one which exemplifies the entire situation. In fact it could be called the KEY reason why we attacked and occupied Iraq. The fact is, though, it’s (…)

  • US-Vietnam Group Tackles Toxic Agent Orange Legacy
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ford Foundation is coordinating the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange. The group’s aim is to build a bipartisan humanitarian approach to cleaning up "Agent Orange." It says past diplomatic efforts have been difficult.
    One member of the group, Todd Whitman says the time is right for the two countries to address the chemical’s legacy and to bring discussion of the unresolved issue into the mainstream.
    Agent Orange was used by the U.S. military to strip jungle cover in (…)

  • Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge: Iraq’s sorry September Song
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    So here we are, already in Summer. Mild enough in the US hinterlands but pure grade AAA Hell in Iraq.
    Back home on the hill, Washington pundits are tired of the same old, same old...gutter sniping by Congress, the endless battle over illegals, dominance by religio-fascists still pushing stereotypes and genocide across the globe, the EIGHTEEN ’08 presidential dunces, and of course the pending Summer vacation for Washington elites, which they will spend taking potshots from the great (…)

  • CHINA’S NEW WEAPONS
    25 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 25, 2007
    CHINA’S NEW WEAPONS
    This is an excerpt from What’s It All About? The Decline of the American Empire by John Chuckman published by Constable & Robinson Ltd, London. Available from Indigo Books, Canada.
    John Chuckman
    In military matters, China has taken America by surprise a number of times recently, and surprises of this nature are not things with which Americans deal well, some portion of America’s political establishment becoming irritable and uncomfortable. It is (…)

  • Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange Frida
    24 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange
    Friday, June 22nd, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1459211
    U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled. We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives and why they’re suing over three (…)

  • Iraq war refugees– Undocumented in Jordan By Kathleen McQuillen
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
    Date: 20 Jun 2007 Iraq war refugees– Undocumented in Jordan >
    By Kathleen McQuillen, Iowa Program Director
    "There are 750,000 Iraqis living in Jordan with all of the horrors of refugees – and none of the benefits." Noah Merrill, consultant to AFSC’s Middle East Task Force, spoke to audiences in Des Moines and Iowa City recently about the people and the stories he encountered during the six weeks he spent with refugees from the Iraq war (…)

  • JIMMY CARTER : Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JIMMY CARTER DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST... OPENING CANS OF WORMS
    Jimmy Carter has done more for the Palestinian cause in the past year then he did while he was President of the United States from 1977-1981. The publication of his book, ’Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’, initiated discussions and forums throughout the world on the question of the policies of apartheid in the state of Israel. Zionists throughout the world, the US in particular, became outraged with his candidness and honesty. (…)

  • Putin’s War-whoop: The impending clash with Russia Mike Whitney
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Putin’s War-whoop: The impending clash with Russia Mike Whitney
    June 21, 2007
    "What is a ’unipolar’ world?
    It is world in which there is one master, one sovereign--- one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.
    It has nothing in common with democracy, which is the power of the majority in (…)