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  • Robert Fisk: Who Benefits from a Civil War in Iraq
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lateline Video: Robert Fisk
    TONY JONES: Well, Robert Fisk is one of the most experienced observers of the Middle East and in his latest book, ’The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East’, he draws on almost 30 years of reporting from his base in Lebanon to look at the forces which have shaped current events and conflicts Robert Fisk, thanks for being there.
    ROBERT FISK, WRITER & JOURNALIST: You’re welcome.
    TONY JONES: Now, unless you’ve changed your position (…)

  • Fearing Reprisal, Baghdad official who exposed executions flees: New Pigs are just like the Old Pigs
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
    "The vast majority of bodies showed signs of summary execution - many with their hands tied behind their back. Some showed evidence of torture, with arms and leg joints broken by electric drills," said John Pace, the Maltese UN official. The (…)

  • Air Force Col Robert Bowman Running for Congress (FL)
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Col Robert Bowman is running for Congress! A True Patriot and exactly what America needs in DC.
    For a quick intro to Col Bowman, check this out:
    This war in Iraq has nothing to do with National Security or freedom or democracy or human rights or protecting our allies or weapons of mass destruction or defeating terrorism or disarming Iraq. It has to do with money, it has to do with oil, and it has to do with raw imperial power. And it’s based totally on lies.
    If you like that mp3, be (…)

  • New Iraq Reconstruction Funds Devoted Solely to Prisons
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In other news, the State Department quietly announced this week it has requested $100 million dollars for Iraqi reconstruction - all of it for prisons. The Bush administration initially promised $20 billion dollars to reconstruct Iraqi infrastructure. But much of the money has been diverted to security. State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey said the $100 million dollar prison project was the lone new reconstruction effort the US government will undertake over the next year. (…)

  • Deportation to Laos by the Thai police of 26 adolescents belonging to the Hmong ethnic group
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Written question (E-0675/06) 10 February 2006, by Marco Pannella to the European Commission:
    On 29 November 2005 26 adolescents, Christians belonging to the Hmong ethnic group, who were seeking asylum and living in a refugee camp in north-east Thailand under the protection of the local office of the UNHCR, were separated from their families and sent to Laos by Thai police forces. UNHCR sources in Thailand and independent sources in Laos have confirmed that the 26 refugees were in Laos in (…)

  • They used to burn the flag, now they Burn Bush
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Back in the late 70’s when the Ayatollah Khomeni was the "Evil Arab tyrant" of the day, burning the American flag was like the national pastime for Iran. I say this facetiously of course, but still I do recall many images from my childhood of crowds burning American flags.
    There are two major differences today.
    1. It’s not just Iran that’s seething with anger, it’s the whole world. 2. Clearly they don’t hate America- they just Hate Bush
    They hate Bush’s illegal war.
    They hate the (…)

  • Most U.S. troops in Iraq support withdrawal, poll finds
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Nearly three out of four American troops serving in Iraq think U.S. forces should withdraw within a year, and more than one in four say the United States should leave immediately, according to a new poll published Tuesday.
    The poll, conducted by Zogby International and the Center for Peace and Global Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., was a rare effort to determine the views of American troops serving in a ground war.
    Twenty-nine percent of the troops surveyed (…)

  • MARCH -1 THE NEWS FROM WAYNE MADSEN
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 1, 2006 — Dubai — the emirate has the smoking gun evidence tying the Bush criminal cartel to arms trafficking, Viktor Bout, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda.
    Internal documents from the UAE Central Bank in Dubai detail huge money laundering operations in the UAE according to financial industry insiders. Moreover, the Sharjah branch of HSBC Holdings PLC was tied to international arms trafficker Victor Bout, indicted in Belgium for money laundering and named in various UN reports as a chief (…)

  • Off the Radar: What we can’t afford to discuss
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As time goes by, in the natural order of things, the public quickly forgets about the last big story as new ones come along. That’s just human nature.
    But human nature can be irresponsible. Case in point, the violations by the U.S. of many Geneva accords.
    1. When we invaded Iraq we bombed water and sewage systems, oil piplelines (albeit by mistake in that case),schools, hospitals, libraries,and electic facilities. We also bombed "accidentally" many religious institutions including (…)

  • Farce : The Saddam War Crimes Trial
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Who should really have to answer to the Bar of Justice for war crimes conducted against the people of Iraq? 1) What about Democrat Zbigniew Brezinski ? As part of his genocidal doctrine to stir up "Islamic fundamentalism" ; a catspaw to counter the "Soviet Threat" , this war criminal was not only the key architect of of the Iran-Iraq War but it’s corrrelative madness , the Arab-Afghani war against the Soviet Union. 2 ) What about Democrat Madeline Albright ? Asked if the (…)