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  • Heat, drought take rising toll on southwest China
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Heat, drought take rising toll on southwest China 01 Sep 2006 05:15:58 GMT
    BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The worst drought to hit southwest China in more than a century is spreading to neighbouring provinces with temperatures reaching record highs, state media said on Friday.
    The densely populated municipality of Chongqing and eastern parts of Sichuan province have been plagued by repeated heatwaves and have seen no significant rainfall since early July.
    The drought is the worst (…)

  • Making Sense of the Nonsense: the Islamic Riddle Decoded
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge. "Analects" Confucius
    Notice how many shows on the History Channel now promise to decode a given phenomenon? Here and there you see the term sprinkled into headlines. Hollywood jumped on board. Soon, no doubt, Calvin Klein will manufacture - Decode: a Mist for the Ages. Not since the Nazi Enigma system has decoding become so fashionable. Unlike (…)

  • Selective Prosecution Of War Crimes
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Selective Prosecution Of War Crimes By Ivan Eland Thursday, August 31, 2006
    In Saddam Hussein’s war crimes trial for the 1988 Iraqi “Anfal” campaign that gassed Kurdish villages, his defense lawyers have argued that Iraqi forces were really attempting to strike Iranian forces and the Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga militias that were in and supported by the hamlets. In other words, the lawyers are asserting that the innocent Kurds who were killed were collateral damage in an effort by the Iraqi (…)

  • Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie. "Terror Is Glamour"
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie "Terror Is Glamour" By Erich Follath August 28, 2006, 04:20 PM Salman Rushdie, 59, has spent many years thinking and writing about terrorism. He spoke with SPIEGEL about why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion, and whether the US has turned into an authoritarian state.
    SPIEGEL: Mr. Rushdie, as an expert on terrorism you ...
    Rushdie: What gives me that honor? I don’t see myself as such at all.
    SPIEGEL: Your book (…)

  • Why Are We In Iraq?
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why Are We In Iraq? By Michael S. Rozeff August 30, 2006 Defeat In Iraq
    Have the President and his men accomplished their objectives in Iraq? Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to Saudi Arabia or the region. However, since he was contained before the war, little has been gained on that score. Oil is no more secure than before. In fact, Iran threatens to disrupt supply. Oil prices have risen sharply. The U.S. has not yet restored Iraq’s oil production, and issues relating to restoring (…)

  • You Break It, You Own It
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    You Break It, You Own It By Munir Daair, Yemen Times August 24 - 27 Issue In his book ‘Plan of Attack’, Bob Woodward wrote that Colin Powel warned George Bush of the consequences of occupying Iraq. Powell called it the pottery barn rule, ‘you break it, you own it’. But then, military generals advising politicians is anathema, especially draft dodging politicians. One wonders how General John Abuzaid manages around Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Especially with American laser bombs falling on (…)

  • Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer Marian Wilkinson August 31, 2006 A DAMNING six-page letter on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, according to a former senior diplomat.
    Dr John Gee, a world-renowned expert on chemical weapons, worked with the US-led weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group, after the war and wrote the critical letter when he decided to resign.
    In it he warned the Australian Government the hunt was (…)

  • The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism CNN.com August 30, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.
    Bush used the term earlier this month in talking about the arrest of suspected terrorists in Britain, and spoke of "Islamic fascists" in a later speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Spokesman Tony (…)

  • Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up Warwick McFadyen August 25, 2006 "WE’RE not leaving, so long as I’m the President." There in nine words is the exit strategy for the United States involvement in Iraq. Depending on your viewpoint, it’s either a commitment or an admission of defeat.
    George Bush has another 26 months to run on his presidency, which means that by November 2008, the US will have been in Iraq for almost six years. In a couple of months, America (…)

  • Our Lesson From Rummy (transcript?)
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday, Aug 30th 2006, Donald Rumsfeld delivered an erudite and foreceful speech to the Republican Veterans of War (membership 16 men). Here is a transcript:
    Good Evening:
    Today we are fighting a new kind of war. We went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq to strike back at those who attacked us on 9/11,and to find and destroy WMDs, which we know are still to be located beneath the burning sands. These monsters in turbans, these Neo-Nazi Muslim extremist Islamo-Fascists use terrible (…)