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  • There is Only One Way to End The War in Iraq, Part I
    3 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 7, 2006, the American public voted for a New Direction for our Iraq policy. That direction is—out. As Democrats prepare to take the majority for the first time in twelve years, Democrats now have the responsibility to act on the overwhelming mandate issued by the American public.
    Will that new direction mean an exit from Iraq? Because, if not, America will be held hostage by the skyrocketing cost of the war in Iraq even as President Bush leaves office at 11:59 am on January (…)

  • Iraq: Civil War or "Divide and Conquer"
    30 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyday the US Corporate Media bombards America with the "huge spike in violence" that inevitably means that Iraq is descending into civil war. We’re told there are two choices, it’s a civil war, or its "al Qaeda" - but there is a third option the corporate media refuses to utter.
    Even high-school slackers have heard of the age-old strategy "Divide and Conquer". Is it possible that there are outside forces working this strategy in Iraq today? Perhaps rogue elements inside some (…)

  • Journalist Mohammed Omer on the Hell that is Gaza
    30 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” - Theodore Roosevelt
    Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, Mohammed Omer, a 22-year-old Palestinian journalist/photographer, shared his eyewitness account of living and working in Israeli-Occupied Gaza, a densely population area that 1.4 million people call home. He was raised there in the Rafah refugee camp, located near the border with Egypt. He had the opportunity to know and admire Olympia, WA-based peace (…)

  • Bush is to blame and not the Iraqi people and we must remember that
    29 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush is to blame and not the Iraqi people and we must remember that By Mary MacElveen November 29, 2006
    In the American criminal justice system victims of rape, sexual harassment is often blamed by the defense attorney representing the rapist. As I was reading this Washington Post column As Iraq Deteriorates, Iraqis Get More Blame the same can be said for blaming the Iraqi people for the strife and civil war that now surrounds them.
    I would say, let us put the blame squarely where it (…)

  • Bush has no right to be called Commander in Chief
    28 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush has no right to be called Commander in Chief
    By Mary MacElveen
    November 28, 2006
    President Bush just does not get it especially as one reads Bush says U.S. won’t pull out of Iraq. This mad man states, "There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," Your illegal mission, President Bush was set to fail right from the beginning since there is NO WINNING the war on terrorism. Besides that, any terrorist (…)

  • OJ and Dubya: Both in Denial, Both Unrepentant
    28 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The hardest tumble a man can make is fall over his own bluff.” - Ambrose Bierce
    President George W. Bush is in denial about the hell-on-earth that he and his Neocon cronies have created in Iraq. O.J. Simpson is in denial, too, about his supposed involvement in a sensational, grisly double murder. The two episodes are, of course, beyond any comparison. The issue of O.J. and Bush’s refusals to see their own personal culpability in these matters, however, is a trait that they both share in (…)

  • The Media’s ‘Irreparable Harm’ to our soldiers and to the Iraqi people
    28 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Media’s ‘Irreparable Harm’ to our soldiers and to the Iraqi people By Mary MacElveen November 28, 2006
    While I wish to congratulate NBC news for labeling this war over in Iraq a ‘Civil War’, it does not take back the irreparable harm done upon the Iraqi people as well as our soldiers. The reason I chose the terminology of irreparable harm is because that was the phrase used in the Bush V. Gore case in which a the counting of votes during that presidential campaign would be seen as an (…)

  • Vilest People in US Corporate-Controlled Media
    27 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The launch of the English-language version of Al-Jazeera Television in the United States was met with glee by America’s corporate-controlled media. At first this reaction seemed curious, particularly since another English-language news channel would also mean another option for viewers in the highly competitive “information” industry.
    But soon the source of this glee became evident: No cable or satellite television service in the United States is carrying Al-Jazeera. Although America’s (…)

  • THE NEXT ACT The Next Act: Is a Damaged Administration Less Likely to Attack Iran, or More?
    23 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? At that point, according to someone familiar with the discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties, (…)

  • Two U.S. men charged with broadcasting Hezbollah TV
    23 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities brought terrorism charges against two men for providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah television channel al-Manar to U.S. customers, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday.
    Saleh Elahwal, 53, and Javed Iqbal, 42, were charged with providing material support to al-Manar — branded by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization in March — the indictment said. Each faces a maximum of 110 years in prison if convicted of all 11 counts. (…)