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  • Bush Is About To Attack Iran - Why Can’t Americans See It?
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is About To Attack Iran - Why Can’t Americans See It? By Paul Craig Roberts 1-27-7
    The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq. This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue ­ the Bush Regime’s looming attack on Iran. (…)

  • Lebanon Crisis Fails Mediation, Plays into Israeli Hands
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    The crisis in Lebanon is rapidly accumulating the potential to plunge the country in a second civil war, while Israel is closely watching on the sidelines for the right moment to exploit the ensuing security vulnerability and finish the Lebanese divide off by intervening militarily to conclude what it officially describes as the “inconclusive” war last summer. Meanwhile, the most influential external potential mediators, regional and international, are more or less part (…)

  • Why American citizens WILL accept the use of NUKES
    27 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why will American citizens accept a Nuclear strike on IRAN?.........Because they "think "that no American soldiers will die in a nuclear airstrike.The fact that the middle east will become a radiation fallout zone(it already is-DU) dosen’t matter as long as they can continue to go to work,go to the mall,brink beer and watch t.v. The fact that thousands if not millions of innocent Middle Easterners will suffer horribly MEANS NOTHING!!
    The ONLY reason that American citizens are against (…)

  • Manila. On the 20th anniversary of the Mendiola massacre - January 22, 2007
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protesters clench fists as they march during the anniversary of the Mendiola massacre in Manila January 22, 2007. Demonstrators marked the 20th anniversary of the Mendiola massacre, commemorating 13 protesters who were killed and 80 wounded by a hail of bullets from policemen and soldiers
    Still No Land, No Justice
    Twenty years after the infamous Mendiola massacre, the victims and their families have yet to attain justice. The government did not give them any assistance even for burial (…)

  • Strain Theory in Iraq; an alternative strategy to militarism
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The death of dogma is the birth of reality. Immanuel Kant During the latter part of the 90s the Neocons distilled their intentions into dogmas and ideologies aimed to spread democracy and Capitalism across the globe, particularly in the Middle East. Consequently, democracy, which had previously existed as a largely non-ideological phenomenon and written with a lower case ’d’ became an ideological set of beliefs written with an upper case ’D’. From Greece to Rome to the hinterlands, where (…)

  • U.S.-tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, Consumers
    23 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guard against (…)

  • BAGDAD: Residents describe life as ‘hell’ in Haifa Street
    22 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hayder Amran
    Azzaman, January 20, 2007
    Life is turning into ‘hell’ for residents of Haifa Street and the surrounding quarters.
    Residents said the area was under siege by Iraqi and U.S. troops and scores of innocent civilians have been either killed or injured as a result of the ongoing clashes.
    U.S. and Iraqi troops have besieged the street and several other adjacent districts. The operation is seen as a prelude to a massive military push against Baghdad by Iraqi and U.S. troops. (…)

  • US plans attack on Iran
    22 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US plans attack on Iran
    01/21/2007 07:25 PM | Agencies
    Washington & Tehran: US contingency planning for military action against Iran’s nuclear programme goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former US intelligence analyst said on Friday.
    "I’ve seen some of the planning ... You’re not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department’s bureau of intelligence and research (…)

  • Iranian ambassador exposes U.S. double standards
    21 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    • Before the Islamic Revolution, Washington proposed the idea of developing nuclear energy to produce electricity, and now it is condemning Iran for doing just that, stresses Ahmad Edrisian
    BY ELSON CONCEPCION PEREZ—Special for Granma International—
    THE Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates the 28th anniversary of the triumph of its revolution on February 11, and is preparing to do so with significant advances in its economic development, its nuclear program for peaceful ends, its (…)

  • Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back
    20 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Thomas
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