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  • Sovereignty or Slavery
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sovereignty
    By Peter Fredson
    December 29, 2005
    When I become confused by lies I often turn to my Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary that has been my companion since 1950. Today I read some articles published since 2004 about Iraqi Sovereignty put out by the Neocoms of the Bush Administration and the more I read the more I was confused.
    The meaning to the Bush thugs of Sovereignty is similar to the meanings of Liberty, Democracy, Freedom, and Constitution. That is, those words mean (…)

  • Michael Berg Changes His Story About Nick and Moussaoui
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com In May 2004, after his son Nick was decapitated in Iraq, Michael Berg told a very strange story to CNN to account for the fact that Nick’s University of Oklahoma computer password had come into the possession of Al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, who spent six months in Norman in 2001. In 2005 Moussaoui pled guilty to all six counts of an indictment charging him with terrorism. The elder Berg said that while his son (…)

  • Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Lasseter
    KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
    Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and (…)

  • IN TRUTH
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kevin and Monica Benderman
    “”George W. Bush
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States? Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad? I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can (…)

  • Leaders of Tehran Bus Company Arrested, The Union Dissolved
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Safa Haeri
    PARIS, 24 Dec. (IPS) In its first major social challenge and in continuation of the crackdown of all freedoms in Iran, the new Government under the Islamo-populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrested at least 14 members of the Single Bus Company of Tehran and Suburbs (SBCTS), informed sources reported on Saturday.
    The order for the arrest, detention and seizure of all documents of the arrested men was issued by Judge Sa’id Mortazavi, the Prosecutor for Tehran and (…)

  • Who Made America Right?
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    War — Guns, tanks, chemical weapons, killing, devastation, inhumanity.
    Why do we go to war? Why does anyone pursue another to the point of war?
    Forget who instigated it. At war - both sides kill. Soldiers are told their side is right - they are given guns and ordered to kill as many on the other side as possible because the “other side” is wrong.
    WHO exactly tells us we are right?
    Who is it that has decided that our side is right?
    Some blame a president. (…)

  • Dishonest Brokers
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    The European Union (EU) should be ashamed of itself. It has thrown aside the principals of democracy for partisan politics and hypocrisy. In the run up to the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the EU has addressed Palestinian politics and made threats in the process.
    On December 19, the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana stated, “All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by (…)

  • Optimism Brings Victory
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Optimism Brings Victory By Large Signs
    By Peter Fredson
    December 28, 2005
    George and Dick don’t really need any more victories, any more assaults on Iraqi civilians and their homes, any more “advisors”, mercenaries, proselytizers, or even any more troops to declare victory. Victory is declared by George Bush with big smiles, strutting, swaggering, staring intently into the cameras, bobbing his head, making stiff gestures with his hands to show the world that he is winning whatever war (…)

  • PDA Report on International Peace Conference in London
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    London, England, December 10, 2005—Fellow PDA National Board Member Steve Cobble and I participated in an historic international peace conference in London on December 10 and in various related events the same week. We met with several Members of Parliament and will be working to facilitate teamwork and future events with them and members of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus.
    The conference, hosted by the Stop the War Coalition, was a great success. About 1,500 (…)

  • The Root Causes of Tragedy : The Ethical and Legal Challenges Facing Palestine
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By OREN BEN-DOR
    Today we hear a lot about legal challenges mounted against the wall in the West Bank. I would like to reflect upon a different wall, a metaphorical wall, the wall which remains ethically and legally unchallenged and whose foundations are actually, albeit unwittingly, being fortified by many of the very people who legally challenge the real, physical wall. The heart of the matter is what we might call the "wall within", the psychic wall of unquestioned identification and (…)