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  • Bush at West Point: Vows Long Middle Eastern War, Spreads the Fallacy of the Cold War Analogy
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild At West Point’s graduation ceremony, President Bush gave a none too subtle hint that the United States will be waging war in the Middle East for years and years to come. And not just in Iraq.
    “So long as the Middle East remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place where terrorists foment resentment and threaten American security,” he said. He added, a few sentences later, “The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future (…)

  • The Great Iraq Oil Grab
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The official reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq don’t hold water. So, as the man said, follow the money ... straight to the oil fields.
    By Joshua Holland
    There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Pentagon planners wanted to name the invasion of Iraq, "Operation Iraqi Liberation." Only when someone realized that the acronym — O.I.L. — might raise some uncomfortable questions, was "Operation Iraqi Freedom" born.
    Supporters of the Iraq war airily dismiss chants of "no blood for oil" as a (…)

  • Iran offered ’to make peace with Israel’
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Gareth Porter
    WASHINGTON - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel’s 1967 borders, according to a secret Iranian proposal to the United States.
    The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-US agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by Inter Press Service (IPS), was conveyed to the US in late April or early May (…)

  • Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Uranium as a force multiplier Bob Nichols
    May 27, 2005
    It always pays to listen, and to listen exactly, to what the senior U.S. military officials say about fighting wars. In 1991, Gen. Colin Powell sent 500,000 men with Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, lots of 70-ton Abrams Tanks and other soldier equipment for a 100-hour war against a weak third world country - Iraq. It was called the Powell Doctrine and required a quick enemy defeat by "overwhelming force," "defined goals" and an "exit (…)

  • Iran Top Secret: Everything You Know Is Wrong
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IRAN TOP SECRET: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
    What if everything that you think that you know for certain about Iran is wrong? After 27 years of status quo, why do you believe that the Brits and the Yanks really want to get rid of the Islamic regime in Iran? Is it possible that the oft-stated slogan of “regime change in Iran” is cloaking a naked, 27-year-old status-quo truth? Is it possible that the British and American emperors are wearing no clothes?
    Recent warnings about an (…)

  • World is blind to real situation in Iraq: activists
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OSAKA — An Iraqi journalist and a Japanese human rights activist said the public has a poor idea of the situation in Iraq and warned of an impending health catastrophe as more Iraqis contract cancer from exposure to depleted uranium shells used by the U.S. and Britain.
    Speaking at a public gathering Thursday evening in Osaka, Isam Rasheed, a freelance journalist, and Fumikazu Nishitani, head of Osaka-based NGO Rescue the Iraqi Children, gave an update of what was going on in the Middle (…)

  • Baghdad ER induces tears and outrage
    27 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I saw "Baghdad ER" on HBO last night (Sunday, May 21). I’d heard that the Defense Dept. had issued warnings urging servicemen and women back from Iraq to be wary of watching as it might trigger PTSD symptoms. Perhaps they hoped those about to go wouldn’t watch as well, for fear they might not show up.
    "Baghdad ER" is a documentary about a "CASH," a Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. I recommend it for every American, but the queasy be warned: it is excruciating. I cringed at the gore, (…)

  • Bush pedocide - complicity in 0.1 million US &1.6 million Iraqi & Afghan avoidable infant deaths
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For decent human societies the worst imaginable crimes involve the killing of children (paedocide, or pedocide in America) or the killing of infants (infanticide) - and unthinkably before Nazism, the Jewish Holocaust and other 20th century genocides from Armenia and Namibia to Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Timor Leste - mass paedocide (mass pedocide) and mass infanticide. As outlined below, the Bush Administration - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Dr Rice aka Dr Death - are complicit in the (…)

  • High-ranking Rep cuts off AIPAC: Lobby threatens to defeat Minnesota Democrat
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC: A hero of our times.
    This is one for the record books. For the first time a US politician stands up to the Israel lobby. Watch for AIPAC’s attempts to destroy her politically.
    "A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said that the supporter told her chief of staff that “Congresswoman McCollum’s support (…)

  • Bipartisan Support for Iran Freedom and Regime Change: Congress works for AIPAC!
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a time when the Republican Party is divided on immigration reform and when the Democrats and the Republicans are positioning themselves for the mid-term elections on such issues as gay marriage, Congress is demonstrating alarming bipartisan unity on Iran.
    On April 27 the House of Representatives passed the Iran Freedom Support Act by a vote of 397 to 21. The bill tightens sanctions imposed on Iran under the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) of 1996 and tightens sanctions on companies that (…)