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  • Gaza on brink of implosion as aid cut-off starts to bite
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The end of Western funding and Israel’s crossing closure sharpen Palestinian divisions, reports Conal Urquhart in Gaza City
    An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza’s economic lifeline, the Karni crossing into Israel, which is supposed to handle 1,300 containers of merchandise and food per day in order to sustain 1.3 million people.
    But nothing is entering or leaving Gaza, and (…)

  • Blair refuses to back Iran strike
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday.
    Amid increasing tension over Tehran’s attempts to develop a military nuclear capacity, the Prime Minister has laid bare the limits of his support for President Bush, who is believed to be considering an assault on Iran, Foreign Office sources revealed.
    US Secretary of State (…)

  • PRISONS AND TORTURE IN IRAQ
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sarah Meyer
    There is, at present, confusion about the closure date of Abu Ghraib. The United States is uncomfortable under the global spotlight on its prisons and torture policies in Iraq. Rather than moderate their policies to accommodate democratic and legal guidelines, they are, instead, planning to move ‘detainees’1 to newly built prisons which they hope will be less visible.
    In February ’04, The International Red Cross published its (January) “Report on the Treatment by the (…)

  • AGENT ORANGE VIETNAM: Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andre Bouny
    1) Historical context - Decision.
    2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
    3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
    4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
    5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
    This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

  • Stop Bush before he attacks Iran
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jesse Jackson
    Here we go again. The administration says ’’regime change’’ is needed. Warnings are issued about the threat posed by the ’’madman’’ who leads the oil-rich country. Alarming intelligence estimates are leaked about nuclear weapons programs. The vice president warns ’’monumental consequences’’ if the alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons are continued. Neoconservatives call for military action. Administration operatives express scorn for international monitoring. The (…)

  • From Bolivia to Iraq, "Trickle-Down Economics" a Total Failure
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlie Cray
    While it’s hard to see it here in the U.S., "trickle- down" economics is beginning to be confronted by popular democratic movements, which are bubbling up in communities across the country as well as all over the world in countries like Ghana and Bolivia, where fierce resistance to the privatization of water not only pushed big water multinationals like Bechtel out of the country , but led the government of Bolivia to begin pushing the world’s international financial (…)

  • Iraq, Vietnam, and the Bloodbath Theory
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Laderman
    Mr. Laderman is Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
    By now we have all seen the analogies drawn between the present war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam decades ago. Some of these analogies have been insightful. Some, to put it charitably, have not. Nearly all, however, have focused on how the United States entered and fought both wars. Little attention has been heeded to what the Vietnam war might tell us about the United States getting out (…)

  • THE IRAN PLANS
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
    The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been (…)

  • Why Iraq Was a Mistake: A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed i
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LIEUT. GENERAL GREG NEWBOLD (RET.)
    Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:
    In 1971, (…)

  • MEDIA BLACKOUT : UN INSPECTIONS OF IRAN ’NUKES’
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The media sycophants , having learned nothing from the disaster that it is Iraq, are now refusing to inform the American people that Iran has cooperated with UN inspectors for over 3 and 1/2 years......The UN ’S nuclear watchdog agency , the IAEA, has scowered the Islamic republic up one-side and down the other and has found no credible evidence - ZERO- that Iran is attempting to produce nuclear weapons...... This important deveopment has been blacked out.... We continually hear the (…)