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  • Iraq In Turmoil
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD, 12 April 2007 (IRIN) - BAGHDAD, 12 April 2007 (IRIN) - All three of Saleh Rabia’a’s children have been killed in different incidents since the US-led invasion of Iraq began in 2003. As a result, his wife Samya developed mental problems. Living alone since Samya was taken to a mental hospital, 34-year-old Rabia’a, an engineer, is struggling to control his emotions and keep his own sanity.
    "I never imagined that the violence would come to my home. I’ve worked hard over the years to (…)

  • Paying for your gassing with your own gold teeth
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday, April 12, 2007
    There is a Palestinian farmer named Mohammed Abdel Aziz Sabatin who faces daily harassment from Israeli settlers from Bettar Illit. He has already lost much of his land due to the fact that it was confiscated to build the illegal settlement. Now, the settlers spend much of their time engaging in traditional Jewish cultural activities, like burning down his olive trees. The last time they tried it, the fire got out of hand, and the settlement itself had to send (…)

  • Iran May Be The Greatest Crisis Of Modern Times
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a cover piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger evokes the memory of Germans ’looking from the side’ at Bergen-Belsen to describe the challenge facing us in the West as the Bush/Blair ’long war’ becomes ’perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times’. The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. "They were sick and some were dying," she says. "Then my mother saw these German women (…)

  • Wren Turney’s Knickers & the Royal Navy at War
    12 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The aftermath of the captured Brit sailors business descended first into farce and then into a nauseating performance by pseud celebrity WRN, Faye Turney, denouncing the behaviour of her captors —"I thought they were measuring me up for a coffin" when they were measuring her for new clothes— and excusing her earlier confession by claiming, "I decided to play the dumb blonde."
    She didn’t have to try very much.
    Watching this spoilt, self-possessed, obese brat declaring to the world how she (…)

  • Squeezing Palestinians into Impossible Mission
    11 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    The Israeli 40-year old military occupation and the more than a year old economic siege are eroding the national existence of Palestinians and squeezing the Palestinian leadership into an almost impossible mission of securing law and order by practically renewing an old plan thwarted because, in the end, it could not secure individual safety in the absence of national safeguards.
    Controlling the security chaos is the second most important priority after lifting the (…)

  • WHEY THEY FIGHT: US troop makeup
    10 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (No ethnic slurs are intended here, only phrases used by actual soldiers are revealed for the sake of honesty)
    Most people can’t understand WHY U.S.soldiers would go to Iraq and risk their very lives or at very least their limbs or their sanity. Here is a rough breakdown which explains it all.
    39% Go because they come from impoverished and undereducated backgrounds. They seek good pay, education and a possible pension (if they live that long!)
    18% go because they come from (…)

  • Rewrite
    8 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eschaton catches the Washington Post in blatant media manipulation of the war in Iraq, manipulation so bad it can be called lying. The original Reuters story contains the following paragraph concerning an American attack on the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, quoting American military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl:
    “Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced ‘explosively formed penetrators’ (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of (…)

  • BBC: "Keep taking the Blue Pills!"
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BBC News 24, the international version of Blair TV’s media war machine, has just announced a decision by the British Ministry of Defence to ’allow’ the 15 navy ex-detainees to sell their stories to the press. This will only be permitted after the stories are vetted by their commanding officers!
    What blatant propaganda from the British corporate state!
    No intelligent person is going to believe that this is anything but another seedy attempt on behalf of the Blairite war party to sell the (…)

  • Send Sen. Mikulski to Iraq, Not the MD National Guard!
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 20 percent of the Maryland National Guardsmen are being called up for service in Iraq. They will be part of the Bush-Cheney’s Gang’s insane “Surge” strategy in that over-four-year old, no-win, no-end conflict. We’re talking about 1,300 Army and Air National Guard from the state, whose lives will be put at risk in a war based on serial lies and which can not be won militarily. (1) The mobilization order means deployment by this summer. (2) Some of these soldiers have been there before. (…)

  • Can you say "VICTORY"? Bush can’t define it.
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "Bushie" hardliners make no bones about it; "Victory" is what they’re after in Iraq, and be hanged with any dissention from the peanut gallery (read: U.S.Democratic Congress). Of course, the Neoconers have never even vaguely attempted to qualify or quantify what is meant by victory. Is it a strong, honest, representative government,dedicated to equanimity? Fat chance. The Maliki government is corrupt,biased toward the Shia (and their militias),and in all respects greedy.
    Perhaps (…)