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  • My Fax to Bush After Reading: A SOLDIER OF TRUTH HAS FALLEN: In Memory of Specialist Doug Barber
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To President Bush,
    Every single day, I pray that we make it through the next three years with you ruling this country. I have serious doubts that this republic will survive. There are so many indications that it will indeed fall. But, I pray anyway.
    But tonight, my prayers are with Specialist Douglas Barber who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom although, I do not see signs of a free Iraq. Why are my prayers with him? It is because he took his own life while suffering from PTSD after (…)

  • Iran’s Oil Exchange Threatens the Greenback
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. is planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar.
    The claim (…)

  • Iranian official: UN sanctions may lead us to seal off Persian Gulf
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian news Web site said on Monday.
    This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a public statement on Tehran’s recent disagreements with the West.
    The news site, affiliated with the radical student movement in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once a member, quoted Mohammed-Nabi (…)

  • Bush commits US to defence of Israel in face of Iran threat
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon.
    The US president’s warning, issued in an exchange with students in Kansas, came at a tense time in relations with Iran, after Tehran vowed to restart nuclear research. The US is leading a diplomatic attempt to persuade other countries to refer Iran to the UN security council for failure to cooperate with United (…)

  • Excess death of Austrians, Bulgarians, Czechs, Estonians, Germans, Hungarians, Latvians & Ukrainians
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHAT IS KILLING HUNGARIANS? For millions of former subjects of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe the Cold War is still killing but is killing them softly. Thanks to lying mainstream media essentially nobody knows about this (except for specialist epidemiologists) - the silence is deafening. We are OBLIGED to INFORM EVERYONE about mass mortality and gross inhumanity.
    On 26 January 2006 a letter (reproduced below) was (with some slight changes) variously sent to governments and mainstream (…)

  • Rejecting Bin Laden And Cheney
    26 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rami Khouri
    Rami G. Khouri is editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune.
    Their faces flashed across my television screen at home in Beirut Thursday evening like multiple-choice answers to a quiz show question, "Which of these three images best personifies the future values you want to define the Arab world?"
    First there was Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, releasing another audio tape (…)

  • Stop the War Against Iran Before It Starts!
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every day new stories in the media add to an increasingly horrifying trend preparing world opinion for a military onslaught against Iran. The propaganda war against Iran ”based on blatant untruths, half-truths, double standards and distortions” acts as a basis to confuse the public and intimidate potential voices of opposition against a new war in the Middle East. In the absence of strong opposition to their threats against Iran, the governments of the US and Israel speak openly of military (…)

  • RUSSIA’S NEW NGO LAW: A CONTRARY VIEW
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Virtually all human rights groups have condemned Russia’s new law governing non-governmental organizations, but the leader of one major NGO disagrees.
    “Although the parliament has softened somewhat its original draconian bill, the legislation still obliges offices of foreign NGOs to inform the government registration office about their projects for the upcoming year, and about the money allotted for every specific project. Russian government officials would have an (…)

  • Fearing Social Unrest, China Tries to Rein in Unbridled Capitalism
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With a fast-graying population, increasing pollution and environmental damage and the absence of a real social system, Beijing is now seeking to check unbridled capitalism and quell flaring social tensions.
    Not so long ago, nouveau-riche Chinese could be seen standing in lines several hundred yards long. They were registering to purchase luxury condos in Shanghai — such was the demand. Hoping that prices would continue to rise — as they have over the past four years, by a full 74 percent — (…)

  • Pity the Orphan
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    IT WAS a colorful day in Bil’in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village for a long time. This week, the protest against the Fence was interwoven with Palestinian electioneering.
    I was happily marching along in the wintry sunshine, holding high the Gush Shalom emblem of the flags of Israel and Palestine (…)