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  • Message from a Vet of My Lai Time : "Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun" By TONY SWINDELL
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Message from a Vet of My Lai Time
    "Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun"
    By TONY SWINDELL http://www.counterpunch.org/
    A few weeks ago we got a friendly letter from Tony Swindell, a newspaper editor in Sherman, Texas. "Begin paying attention," Swindell urged, ’’to stories from Iraq like the very recent one about U.S. Marines killing a group of civilians near Baghdad. This is the next step in the Iraq war as frustration among our soldiers grows — especially with multiple tours.
    ’’I served (…)

  • Ahmadinejad: Lost in translation
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Today’s Little Red Email It was October last year when we came home, flicked on the radio and listened aghast to the news that the Iranian president denied the Holocaust had happened and said the state of Israel should be wiped off the map. ‘Christ,’ we thought, ‘this nut job’s playing into their hands with this kind of rhetoric.’ Since then “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion” as one US academic has described the Iran/US imbroglio has ratcheted up to high alert with Seymour Hersch (…)

  • With the Turns of the hope...
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It y’ has a part of the world which is unaware of an other part of the world. The rich part is unaware of the poor part. And from time to time the poor one tries to recall the rich person who it exists, it too. That it has right, it also, with happiness and good things. This time the recall is striking, of force and imagination. Will the genius of poor awake T-it it rich...? The rich person is impressed, but necessarily not awaked. ’ ’ Awaye.. Light the riche’ ’. It does not light. At least (…)

  • Iran Freedom Support Act to Pass US Senate with 21 Democratic Cosponsors
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thank you to the WhatReallyHappened reader who has alerted me to the fact that Rick Santorum has already introduced the “Iran Freedom Support Act” in the US senate and with 58 cosponsors the vote is only a formality. It turns out we have 21 democrats to thank for this act’s easy passage and wouldn’t you know it the AIPAC
    website has the list of cosponsors. The following Democrats COSPONSORED this bogus legislation including the infamous Barbara Boxer, known as the only Democrat in the (…)

  • Bolton Stonewalling Questions on Troops in Iran: US Is Prepared To Act With or Without The UN
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At House Government Reform Subcommittee Hearing UN Ambassador Bolton Refuses To Answer Kucinich’s Questions About US Troops In Iran States That US Is Prepared To Act With or Without The UN Washington, May 2 -
    Despite numerous public reports stating that US troops are currently conducting operations within Iran, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) refused to answer repeated questions by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) about US troops in Iran, today at a House (…)

  • What an Odd Bird that Elie Wiesel Is!
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Saints should always be judged guilty before they are proved innocent...” - George Orwell
    On March 18, 1991, not long after 88,500 tons of lethal cluster bombs, guided missile, BLU-82s, and smart bombs had stopped falling on the Iraqi people in the first Persian Gulf War, a surreal ceremony took place inside the White House. Elie Wiesel, the celebrity Jewish Holocaust survivor, was there. He presented an award to Dubya’s daddy, George H.W. Bush, aka "Bush I." The prize acclaimed the (…)

  • Cheney laid out Iran War plan Aug ’05: terror attack here then bomb Iran
    3 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and (…)

  • Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be Empowered to Investigate the President’s Role
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    petition here
    Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be Empowered to Investigate the President’s Role in Manipulating Intelligence on Iraq Now that the White House has acknowledged that it was President Bush who ordered the selective leaking of classified intelligence in order to justify his invasion of Iraq, will he be held accountable for what he has said and done?
    Please join me in demanding that Attorney General Gonzales expand the special prosecutor’s mandate on (…)

  • Psyops Prelude to Nukes on Iran (laughs included)
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before we bomb Iran with nuclear weapons, a short inventory of the mentality that made it possible...
    War on Terror’s Hit Parade An Islamophobia Retrospective by Trish Schuh, USA
    It was the potshot heard round the world that touched off a counter-crusade. Packaged in western free speech cliches, and marketed as innocent satire, the newspaper Jylland-Posten’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist/suicide bomber with a ticking bomb for a turban was "provocation-entrapment" (…)

  • ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home (4/27/2006)
    ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture > Complete Report (PDF) > Executive Summary (French, Spanish PDFs) > Contents (with Audio Commentary) > Audio Commentary > F.A.Q. - Committee Against Torture > Statement - Anthony D. Romero > Press Statement
    LEARN MORE > Government Torture and Abuse
    TAKE ACTION > Sign Our Petition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org ACLU Submits Report to U.N. (…)