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  • Absalom, O Absalom: ’Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history’
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Saltz
    The irony couldn’t be sharper, the justice more poetic: What America calls "the Vietnam War," Vietnam calls "the American War." Perhaps the Iraq war will be one day be called "the American War" as well. For his powerful, almost anonymous outing at White Columns, Portland-based Harrell Fletcher, a quiet strong point in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with his video project of a group of mechanics and their customers reading snippets of James Joyce’s Ulysses, has installed 90 images (…)

  • When AWOL Is the Only Way Out
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around ’like a soccer ball’ made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.
    By Peter Laufer
    The following text is an excerpt from Peter Laufer’s new book, "Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq" (Chelsea Green, 2006).
    "We was going along the Euphrates River," says Joshua Key, a 27-year-old former U.S. soldier from Oklahoma, detailing a recurring nightmare — a scene (…)

  • Liberators as Murderers. The Way Americans Like Their War
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT FISK
    Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave?
    The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of the United States’ army of the slums go further?
    I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city’s senior medical officials, an old friend, told me (…)

  • If Iran is ready to talk, the US must do so unconditionally
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is absurd to demand that Tehran should have made concessions before sitting down with the Americans
    by Jonathan Steele
    It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof of aggressive Soviet intent.
    Doves who pointed out that the full quotation gave a less threatening message were drowned (…)

  • Kevin Zeese: “Both Parties Selling Country to Highest Bidder!”
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baltimore, MD - On Sunday afternoon, June 4, 2006, a Forum, which dealt with the topic of “Iraq, Iran and Militarism,” was held at the Cork Gallery. It is located near the historic Greenmount Cemetery. (1) The event was sponsored by the “Generations for Peace and Democracy,” a progressive group. The speaker at the affair was the popular anti-war activist, Kevin Zeese.
    Zeese said, “We know that both parties are selling the country to the highest bidder. So, in a historical context, where (…)

  • The Bush Iran Policy for Dummies
    1 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A quick primer, so simple anyone can understand.
    THE BUSH IRAN POLICY
    1. Insist that Iran stop all uranium enrichment programs.
    2. Refuse to talk to them, period.
    3. Agree to talk IF Iran will first agree to stop all enrichment.
    4. Ask UN for sanctions,and when Russia and China abstain or say "no".....
    5. Institute independent sanctions in conjunction with some of the "Coalition of the Willing"
    6. Sanctions are said not to work and Cheney and Co. insist Iran is only a few weeks (…)

  • NO to the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement! Protest Sunday, June 4th in Washington, DC!
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear A.N.S.W.E.R. friend,
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition is one of many organizations across the U.S. endorsing and mobilizing for the June 4-9 Week of Protests in Washington DC opposing the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement during negotiations that will be taking place throughout the week.
    It is of vital importance that the anti-war movement demonstrate its opposition to all of the tactics utilized by the U.S. government in pursuit of neocolonial domination, whether its war and occupation or (…)

  • Massacre at Haditha: how the occupation turned an Iraqi town into hell
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Simon Assaf
    The Iraqi town of Haditha will now forever be linked with the blood and terror of the US occupation. For many it will be Iraq’s equivalent of Vietnam’s My Lai, a symbol of the violence of imperialism.
    Before the war the sleepy town of 70,000 on the banks of the River Euphrates was known mainly for its date growing.
    Now it is known for a massacre. And that massacre has underlined the much wider process of invasion, and the urgent necessity for every one of the US and (…)

  • U.S. policy was to shoot Korean refugees
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA
    More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s chaotic early days has come to light - a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
    The letter - dated the day of the Army’s mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 - is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in (…)

  • Fresh evidence of ’executions’ by rogue US marines in Iraq
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New photographs lend weight to allegations of revenge killings by US unit under attack in which 24 unarmed civilians died
    by Paul Harris in Washington and David Smith in Basra
    Fresh photographic evidence seen by US investigators is believed to reveal that some of the 24 unarmed Iraqis killed in the Iraqi town of Haditha after an American died in a roadside bomb in November were in effect executed, it was reported yesterday.
    According to Congressional and defence officials quoted by the (…)