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  • DEVASTATION OF BABYLON : US colonel offers Iraq a formal apology
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US colonel offers Iraq an apology of sorts for devastation of Babylon By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 15 April 2006
    In an act of at least partial contrition, an officer in charge of the US military occupation of Babylon in 2003 and 2004 has offered to make a formal apology for the destruction his troops wrought on the ancient site.
    Colonel John Coleman, former chief of staff for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq, said yesterday that if the head of the Iraqi (…)

  • Bush won’t exclude Iran nuke strike
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
    Bush said he would discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with China’s President Hu Jintao, who has been cool toward sanctions, during his U.S. visit this week.
    Asked if his options included planning for a nuclear (…)

  • United for Peace & Justice: ’Don’t Attack Iran’
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UFPJ: ’Don’t Attack Iran’
    United for Peace and Justice opposes any military action against Iran, as well as covert action and sanctions. We reject the doctrine of "preventive war." All diplomatic solutions must be pursued.
    Send a clear message to the Bush Administration: Don’t Attack Iran! As a first and immediate step, we urge you to add your signature and comments to AfterDowningStreet’s petition to President Bush and Vice-President Cheney opposing an attack on Iran.
    Many UFPJ member (…)

  • Environment in crisis: ’We are past the point of no return’ (The Independent UK)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lovelock: The Point of No Return is Behind Us
    Environment in crisis: ’We are past the point of no return’
    Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind’s abuse of the environment is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already insoluble, (…)

  • IRAQ : Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily by Dahr Jamail
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Iraq
    Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily by Dahr Jamail ; dahrjamailiraq.com; April 15, 2006
    BAGHDAD, Apr 14 (IPS) - As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies. *
    The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS on condition of anonymity.
    "The average is probably over 85," said the employee on the morning of April 12, as scores of (…)

  • Palestine cries out for help (Online Journal)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Palestine cries out for help By Linda S. Heard Online Journal Contributing Writer
    Apr 19, 2006, 01:17
    Israeli policy makers and their allies, the US and the EU, are determined to bring the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to its knees. This “Axis of Double Standards” touts its moral high ground even while it bullies, bombs and blackmails countries that refuse to mold themselves in its image.
    This uncompassionate triad merrily spends billions on wars and selectively sprinkles largesse to (…)

  • China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust Apr 18 3:17 PM US/Eastern Email this story By JOE McDONALD Associated Press Writer
    BEIJING
    Beijing will use artificial rainmaking to clear the air after a choking dust storm coated China’s capital and beyond with yellow grit, prompting a health warning to keep children indoors, state media said Tuesday.
    The huge storm blew dust far beyond China’s borders, blanketing South Korea and reaching Tokyo.
    The storm, reportedly the worst in at (…)

  • Why Oppose the Israel Lobby? By Gabriel Ash (Dissident Voice)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Oppose the Israel Lobby? Comments on Mearsheimer and Walt Gabriel Ash, www.dissidentvoice.org
    April 18, 2006
    Two academics from the Chicago University Political Science Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University shocked the tender sensibilities of the chattering classes when they published a damning study of how and to what extent "the Israel Lobby" influences U.S. foreign policy.
    The paper has been dissected and criticized, often hysterically, by both (…)

  • The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806J.shtml
    Tuesday 18 April 2006
    The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public (…)

  • Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    electronicIraq.net
    Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    Report, IRIN
    18 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - Orphans in Iraq, who often lack protection, food supplies and medical assistance, require urgent assistance, according to officials at the Orphans Houses Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
    "Orphaned children have become a very serious issue," said department director Abeer Mahdi al-Chalabi. "We have 23 orphanages with limited capacity, capable of housing only (…)