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  • Let’s call the Israel lobby THE ISRAEL LOBBY
    28 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOLLY IVINS
    Austin, Texas
    "Let’s call the Israel lobby the Israel Lobby"
    One of the consistent deformities in American policy debate has been challenged by a couple of professors, and the reaction proves their point so neatly it’s almost funny.
    A working paper by John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, professor of international affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, called "The Israel Lobby" was printed in the (…)

  • House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act”
    27 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ‘hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.
    After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 ‘Representatives’ gave Bush the go ahead on attacking Iran. Only 21 Patriots voted (…)

  • IGNORING ALL EVIDENCE : IRAQ WARGATE SCANDAL GROWS
    27 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our Unitary dictator was well aware that the allegations he proffered against the state of Iraq in the lead up to the war were a farrago of brazen lies....... GOD’ told him to invade and , listening to these inner voices, he dispatched his US armada to invade and occupy a sovereign nation state that did not pose the United States the slightest danger ..........GOD’ is now telling him to nuke Iran ......... Oh brother ............ What did Bush know and when did he know it ? ......... (…)

  • Australia funded Saddam & insurgency, US, UK intelligence KNEW - did Bush & Blair KNOW & BETRAY?
    27 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australia funded Saddam Hussein and thence the Iraqi insurgency to the tune of US$250 MILLION via a wheat sale kickback scam by monopoly company AWB (Australian Wheat Board). However despite the fact that everybody else involved, including Australian Intelligence, knew about the Iraqi kickback system, the Australian Government STILL denies having known. According to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley (a longstanding, loyal friend of America but opposed to the Iraq War): "I’m embarrassed as an (…)

  • Swiss president criticizes Europe for boycott of Palestinian govt
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Swiss president criticizes Europe for boycott of Palestinian govt
    24.04.2006, 00.33
    AL KUWAIT, April 24 (Itar-Tass) — Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger criticized European countries for their boycott of the Hamas Palestinian government in a Sunday interview with the Qatari satellite television channel Al Jazeera.
    The new Palestinian government should be given a chance instead of being forced to abide by preliminary conditions, he said.
    Hamas took the office through democratic (…)

  • Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by the Independent / UK Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction by Jonathan Brown
    Spring is being keenly awaited on Sakhalin in Russia’s far east after another long winter. But when it finally comes in June it offers little prospect of a thaw in relations between environmentalists and Shell.
    With the melting of the ice after eight months, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant is set to enter a crucial offshore (…)

  • IRAQ : The Long War Posture
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Baltimore Sun The Long War Posture by Gregory D. Foster
    The American public is being lulled into a false sense of insecurity. And insecurity, constructed or real, is what gives those in power - our purported protectors - their self-righteous aura of indispensability.
    President Bush; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace; the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. John P. Abizaid; (…)

  • CHERNOBYL Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Freepress (Columbus, Ohio) Chernobyl Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills by Harvey Wasserman
    While children continue to die twenty years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, an out-of-touch (and often corrupt) fringe advocates a "rebirth" for the failed technology that is killing them.
    These pro-nuke die-hards seem unable to face the solution to both global warming and our economic future: the exploding revolution in renewable energy and (…)

  • Iran Threatens Global Retaliation if US Attacks
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0426-03.htm
    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by Agence France Presse
    (sorry, no AFP on Bellaciao please...)

  • CHERNOBYL : Hell on Earth, the world’s worst environmental disaster in 1986
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Hell on Earth Chernobyl was the world’s worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet
    by John Vidal
    Twenty years ago today, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 (…)