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  • Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinian prisoners at risk of being killed by Israeli forces
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the safety of Palestinian detainees in Jericho Prison. The prison is currently surrounded by Israeli forces who have threatened to kill detainees who refuse to surrender to them.
    The detainees most at risk are Ahmad Saadat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and four other Palestinians who have been detained at Jericho Prison since 2002 despite a court decision ordering their release. While detained under (…)

  • Iran: Where do we go from here? By Mike Whitney
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/14/06 "ICH"
    The Bush administration has run into a rock wall at the Security Council. Neither Russia nor China will agree to any resolution that condemns Iran for “noncompliance” with its treaty obligations. In fact, there is general agreement that Iran has not violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) so the point is moot. This eliminates any chance that punitive action will be taken against Iran or that sanctions will be applied.
    So why did the Bush administration take the (…)

  • Lessons of Iraq War start with U.S. history by Howard Zinn
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/14/06 "The Progressive" — — On the third anniversary of President Bush’s Iraq debacle, it’s important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war.
    I believe there are two reasons, which go deep into our national culture.
    One is an absence of historical perspective. The other is an inability to think outside the boundaries of nationalism.
    If we don’t know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals (…)

  • Iraq: American Contractor Arrested with Explosives in Car
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American described as a security contractor arrested by police in a northern Iraqi town was carrying weapons in his car, a provincial official said.
    Abdullah Jebara, the Deputy Governor of Salahaddin province, told Reuters the man was arrested in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Monday. He was removed from the provincial government building by U.S. forces on Tuesday, Jebara said.
    The Joint Coordination Center between the U.S. and Iraqi military in Tikrit said (…)

  • THE RAPING OF IRAQ
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE RAPING OF IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    March 14, 2006
    Years ago, in Central Park, a young woman was jogging when a gang of thugs waylaid her. They beat her, then raped her, and stole whatever she had of value. They felt victorious and gleefully encouraged their companions to rape her again. A truly jolly crew.
    They were eventually brought to justice, but meanwhile no jogger felt safe.
    There is an analogous situation with the Bush cabinet and Iraq. The Bush thugs waylaid Iraq, beat (…)

  • High-ranking member of Saddam’s regime alleges abuse
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    High-ranking member of Saddam’s regime alleges abuse MATTHEW SCHOFIELD, Knight Ridder Newspapers
    March 13, 2006
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein’s former vice president testified Monday that U.S. troops kicked and beat him for two weeks after his arrest in August 2003, in an effort to force him to tell them where Saddam was hiding.
    Taha Yassin Ramadan, who’s being tried with Saddam and five others for murder and other crimes, said interrogators also forced him to walk continually, (…)

  • The superhawk’s big flap
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - Love him or hate him, Frank Gaffney is effective.
    The founder and president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy (CSP), a small think tank funded mainly by US defense contractors, far-right foundations and right-wing Zionists, Gaffney was among the first to seize on the government’s approval of a Dubai company to manage terminals at six major US ports and helped blow it up into a major embarrassment for President George W Bush.
    Indeed, it was (…)

  • Nuclear panic
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan Power
    LONDON Proliferation Lost somewhere in the mists of history is the knowledge that it was the pro-American Shah of Iran who initiated Iran’s quest to build a nuclear bomb. And it was the anti-American revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini that initially suspended work on the bomb.
    Fanning the panic of proliferation has been a mainstay of the Bush administration, supported in the wings by the British government and more recently France’s president, Jacques Chirac. It is (…)

  • Danish Cartoons: Racism Has No Place on the Left
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Deepa Kumar
    I’ve just about had it. I cannot watch one more episode of the Daily Show which makes racist jokes about Arabs and Muslims. I am sick and tired of people who see themselves as part of the left writing articles that put a liberal gloss over what is, in essence, a right-wing "clash of civilizations" argument. And I am fed up with an anti-war movement in the United States that will do nothing to defend Muslims against all the attacks they have faced both domestically and (…)

  • Democrats may unite on plan to pull troops
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Klein
    WASHINGTON — After months of trying unsuccessfully to develop a common message on the war in Iraq, Democratic Party leaders are beginning to coalesce around a broad plan to begin a quick withdrawal of US troops and install them elsewhere in the region, where they could respond to emergencies in Iraq and help fight terrorism in other countries.
    The concept, dubbed ’’strategic redeployment," is outlined in a slim, nine-page report coauthored by a former Reagan administration (…)