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  • U.S. democrat senator Joseph Lieberman says military action in Iran possible
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. senator says military action in Iran possible
    By Reuters
    06/10/07 " — — WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a long-time supporter of the Iraq war, said on Sunday military force might be necessary to stop Iran from training and equipping extremists who are killing U.S. troops.
    "I think we’ve got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," the Connecticut independent said on CBS’ "Face the (…)

  • Details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
    Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
    Former collaborator discloses details of US-ordered assassinations, sectarian bomb attacks targeting Iraqi civilians
    Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
    May 11, 2006
    An Iraqi who asked not to be identified had disclosed some of the US activities such as assassinations and bombings in markets that aim at sparking (…)

  • Diplomacy with Iran Must Happen
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.—Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
    Unfortunately, nuclear-powered submarines were his idea too...also known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
    However, he said this in his old age:
    "I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of (…)

  • 400 million people in 25 countries affected by unexploded cluster munitions
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A BAN ON CLUSTER BOMBS Jonas Gahr Store http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=37960
    JUNE 2007 (IPS) - According to a new report from Handicap International an estimated 400 million people in 25 countries are directly or indirectly affected by unexploded cluster munitions, writes Jonas Gahr Store, Foreign Minister of Norway.
    Wars and conflicts always hit civilian populations hardest. Certain types of weapons, such as landmines and cluster munitions, affect civilians particularly (…)

  • OUR COMPASSIONATE OCCUPATION
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world knows that George W. Bush has always touted "compassionate conservatism". He’s out to prove it now with a brand new proposal for the future of Iraq.
    Bush and his gang of military advisors including thinktank professors, generals and "yes" men, have concluded that what’s best for Iraq is a task force of caring and concerned troops to stay in the Green Zone and on various large bases for the forseeable future and beyond...waaaay beyond!
    This has been our pattern in the past; we (…)

  • Voice of the White House June 8, 2007
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TBR News.org – June 8, 2007
    I have two subjects of general interest to discuss today. The first concerns the flap over the Turkish threats to invade northern Iraq in the wake of Kurdish terrorists cross-border murderous activities inside Turkey and the second deals with a very serious problem with rising sea levels and genuine economic chaos for our east and gulf coasts. First, let’s look at what could very well become a major political disaster. To reduce the problem to basics, the Kurds (…)

  • Israel and the Refugees Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession By SAMER ASSAD (CounterPunch)
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel and the Refugees Fifty-Nine Years of Dispossession
    By SAMER ASSAD
    For Palestinians, 15 May represents the date when they lost 78 percent of their historic homeland and the date that turned them into the world’s oldest and largest refugee population. Palestinians refer to 15 May as the al-Nakba, or catastrophe, to describe their dispossession when over 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled prior to, during and after the 1948 war. This May, Palestinians memorialize 59 years of (…)

  • IRAQ : The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr By PATRICK COCKBURN
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trap That Backfired The Secret US Plot to Kill Sadr
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    Baghdad.
    The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
    The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in (…)

  • Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later
    9 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Anybody who couldn’t identify the [USS] Liberty could not tell the difference between the White House and the Washington Monument!” - The late Admiral Thomas Moorer
    Arlington, VA - On a beautiful, but very humid morning, Friday, June 8, 2007, I joined about two hundred others at the National Cemetery, located here, on the south side of the Potomac River, opposite Washington, D.C. My invitation card read: “No Greater Love: The 40th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony: Honoring the 34 (…)

  • Palestine, non violent resistance: Bil’in Habibti - Bil’in my love (film)
    8 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    – http://www.bilin-village.org