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  • Iraqi Troops Are Turning on Their American Counterparts
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friendly Fire Ambush
    By MARJORIE COHN
    Sergeant Patrick R. McCaffrey, Sr. and First Lieutenant Andre D. Tyson died on this day two years ago in Balad, Iraq. Back then, military officials reported that enemy insurgents ambushed them. The Army subsequently conducted an investigation and learned the men were targeted and killed by Iraqi troops they were training.
    Although the Army completed its investigation on September 30, 2005, it failed to clarify the initial notification to the (…)

  • SANTORUM TOUTS `WMD FIND"
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday the Neocon extremist , Sen . Rick Santorum (R-Pa), appeared before the floor of the United States Senate and proceeded to make quite the ass of himself .... Little Ricky , down 18 % points in his pathetic ’06 re-election bid , claimed tidings of great joy : WMD found in Iraq ! ..... The ’pro-life’ Senator failed to note the small detail that the miraculous discoveries’ were , in point of fact , nothing more than the chemical residue contained within severley decayed (…)

  • Troops Echo Frustration Over War In Iraq
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Troops Echo Frustration Over War In Iraq By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer June 21, 2006, 7:58 AM EDT JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - While Staff Sgt. Randy Myers was dodging roadside bombs in Iraq, his congressman was calling the war a lost cause.
    Sixteen-term Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Vietnam veteran and military hawk, has become the face of the Democrats’ anti-war movement since he called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops last fall. His oft-repeated criticism of the Bush (…)

  • Is This Really War?
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is This Really War? By Sheldon Richman June 16, 2006 In 1985, Wilson Goode became the first U.S. mayor to bomb his own city. In an effort to rid a West Philadelphia neighborhood of a ragtag, violent, back-to-nature organization called Move, which had engaged in a shootout with police, Goode ordered explosives dropped on the Move house from a helicopter. The whole block of row houses burned, 61 homes in all. Eleven people were killed, five of them children. Some 250 people lost their homes. (…)

  • Unexpected Guest Drops In On Iraq’s Prime Minister
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unexpected Guest Drops In On Iraq’s Prime Minister Dave Lindorff Thursday, June 15, 2006 I don’t know which is more pathetic and embarrassing: the president’s cowardly trip into the Green Zone in Baghdad, in which he didn’t notify Iraq’s prime minister of his "visit" until five minutes before the ostensible leader of Iraq was ushered in to meet the great Decider, or the fawning way the American media covered this farce.
    The visit itself was hardly the bold stroke it was portrayed as. (…)

  • Four Years After Daniel Pearl Was Brutally Murdered In Pakistan, Questions And Concerns Remain
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Open Case Four Years After Daniel Pearl Was Brutally Murdered In Pakistan, Questions And Concerns Remain By Abi Wright Posted May 2006 Coming in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue On the evening of January 11, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a hotel near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and was introduced to a man who called himself Bashir. Pearl thought he was meeting a potential source who could help him get access to a radical Islamic cleric for a story on (…)

  • The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit By Robert Parry June 13, 2006 Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors - both politically and financially - while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise. Indeed, the newest disclosure about Moon funneling money to a Bush family entity bears many of the earmarks of (…)

  • Seeking a Better Debate
    21 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seeking a Better Debate By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Tuesday 20 June 2006
    The Republican majority in Congress labored mightily last week to derail and distract any discussion of an exit strategy from Iraq. In the House of Representatives, a debate aimed at whether or not to establish a timetable for withdrawal collapsed under a rhetorical onslaught from the Right. In order to adequately describe the experience of watching the so-called House "debate" on June (…)

  • Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dahr Jamail and Ali Fadhil
    *RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city.*
    A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, reveals that residents are suffering from lack of water, electricity, cooking gas and medical supplies for the hospitals. The streets are eerily empty, and it appears that many people (…)

  • Darkness and Light. When international law and science are silenced, the only outcome is darkness
    20 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabriele Zamparini (*)
    Introduction
    There was a time when the arbitrary act of the powerful was the unquestioned rule and the abuse of the prince was called the ‘art of government’. The word ‘justice’ was used to describe the prince’s magnanimity or the reward for the suffering of this life, because... justice is not of this world.
    Centuries of darkness and misery are now called the history of civilization.
    During this history, women and men have constantly rebelled and struggled (…)