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  • It’s Miller Time at the New York Times : Target Iran
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    They’re back ! The New York Times , that Old Gray Skank , is churning out lies about Iran in order to whip up the American people into yet another war frenzy. They are not alone but serve as the lead dog - going where the other lapdogs are soon to follow.
    Journalists William J. Broad and David Sanger ,the ever dutiful stenographers for the Bush administration, dredged up this absurd nonsense about a so called Iranian laptop computer whose files contained thousands of pages of details (…)

  • Nuclear War, Iran & Michel Chossudovsky
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Below is the transcript of a radio interview with Chossudovsky on the topic of Iran. Another version of his thinking can be seen on rense.com: http://rense.com/general69/nuke.htm
    rkm Interview with Michel Chossudovsky - Jan. 2, 2006 - Monday Brownbagger
    Programme, Co-op radio, CFRO 102.7 FM, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    Interviewer: Don Nordin Guest: Michel Chossudovsky
    I have on the line today Michel Chossudovsky, see and . He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, (…)

  • Warning to SE Asian countries about Iran war and monsoon rains depositing radiation in environment
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Warning to SE Asian countries about Iran war and monsoonrains depositing radiation in environment Bob Nichols
    This is a deadly message to Southeastern Asian Countries about the upcoming IRAN War and the monsoon rains depositing deadly radiation in the environment. The message is from Leuren Moret, a world famous geoscientist and radiation expert and myself, Bob Nichols, newspaper correspondent and writer. I request that you send this to everyone in your address book and that you "Be the (…)

  • Iran bans CNN journalists after presidential misquote
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working in the country after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.
    CNN’s simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad’s lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran’s right."
    In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency (…)

  • Dr. Tamimi post From Aljazeerah
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a re post of an article from Aljazeerah and brought to my attention by a friend. The Author, Dr. Tamimi has recently authored a plea for the release of four peace activists captured by the Sword of Rightesnous in Iraq. The captives are Baptists.
    The hope of peace transcends the realities of war.
    Collapsing behind a wall by Dr Assam Tamimi Thursday 30 October 2003 7:20 AM GMT
    Dr Azzam Tamimi
    The founding fathers of Zionism would, if revived today, not recognise Israel as (…)

  • Rolling their eyes
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Haaretz Editorial
    It is difficult to know what eventually led the government to discuss the chopping down of Palestinian olive trees by thugs from the settlements. Perhaps it was the media coverage, or the change of guard at the head of the cabinet table. Or maybe it was the complaints filed by the Yesh Din human rights organization on behalf of the Palestinian victims that ended up on the table of the attorney general, or the fact that the chopping down of olive trees - as opposed to (…)

  • IDF cantonizes W. Bank, sealing in Palestinians
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amira Hass
    For a month now, since the second week of December 2005, the Israel Defense Forces has severed the northern part of the West Bank from other sections, and prohibited residents from traveling toward Ramallah and points southward.
    The ban applies to some 800,000 people, residents of the Tul Karm, Nablus and Jenin provinces. Until January 2, the ban applied just to residents of Jenin and Tul Karm. Since then it has been extended to Nablus area residents.
    The IDF did not (…)

  • MERKEL’S US TRIP : Berlin To Offer Increase in Iraq Aid
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be heading to Washington empty handed on her inaugural visit to the White House this week. Keen to improve ties with the United States, she is reportedly going to offer to expand Berlin’s commitments to Iraq.
    George W. Bush has got to be pleased. Finally rid of that irksome Gerhard Schröder — whose staunch opposition to the war in Iraq strained trans-Atlantic ties — the United States president can look forward to a visit from a much more amicable (…)

  • Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Economists say official estimates are far too low New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
    by Jamie Wilson in Washington
    The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
    The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

  • American Terrorists Strike Again
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    18 innocent people killed in air strike
    ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — (OfficialWire) — 01/14/06 — Acting on local intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targeted and killed at least 18 innocent civilians including women and as many as five children.
    While American TV channels reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target of a CIA air strike Friday in Pakistan Bajur tribal region and may have been among those killed, the reality is quite the opposite.
    What really happened is that (…)