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  • Severely Wounded Troops Tormented By Rumsfeld’s Bill Collectors
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It Was Like I Was Being Abandoned. I Was No Good To The Military Anymore”
    At his home near Middletown, N.Y., Robert Loria plays a keyboard. He lost his left hand in a bombing in Iraq. (Dominick Fiorille - Middletown Times Herald Record)
    His hand had been blown off in Iraq, his body pierced by shrapnel. He could not walk. Robert Loria was flown home for a long recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he tried to bear up against intense physical pain and reimagine his life’s (…)

  • UW-Madison News Release—Flu virus drug/pandemic
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CONTACT: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, (608) 265-4925,
    FLU VIRUS REPORTED TO RESIST DRUG ENVISIONED FOR PANDEMIC
    MADISON - An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic.
    Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with colleagues in Vietnam and (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • Harold Pinter: Torture and misery in name of freedom
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature
    The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.
    But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral (…)

  • Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman
    Give us three minutes and we can find an op-ed piece in a U.S. newspaper calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, or arguing that they should stay. The arguments are varied and numerous: If the U.S. leaves, anarchy will ensue. Occupation forces are a target for foreign terrorists. Bush should set a timetable for withdrawal. Setting a timetable would embolden those using violence in Iraq. And so on. What is missing from this picture? Any (…)

  • Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate a car bomb
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate a car bomb in a residential neighborhood of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district on Tuesday.
    A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
    Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice (…)

  • Please Don’t Support My Troop
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My son returned from Iraq last weekend after a year’s service. I confess to breathing much easier now that he is out of that quagmire.
    I have a personal request for all of you George W. Bush supporters and Christian warhawks: please do not support my troop. I have visions and aspirations of having him around, seeing him settle down and start a family at some point, and being near as I grow older. Your support would mean that he would be sent back to this war started and continued on lies (…)

  • What Iraqis Really Think About The Occupation
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The lack of critical media coverage at the beginning of the Iraq War is widely acknowledged. But the media’s failure to cover Iraqi voices of opposition is arguably a greater default.
    The mainstream media convey the impression that there are two categories of Iraqis—the handful of fanatical jihadist terrorists and the majority who showed their yearning to be free during January’s election. In this paradigm, our troops are seen as defending, even cultivating, a nascent democracy. Not (…)

  • Iran: Imperialism’s second strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AIJAZ AHMAD
    U.S. President George W. Bush on the lawns of the White House.
    IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran’s highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from Iran vote against it, they might face retaliation. When India did vote with the European Union troika (E.U.-3) that has been fronting for the United States, the Iranian (…)

  • Israel to lease Kinneret shore land to Evangelicals
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Irit Rosenblum
    Along the northeastern edge of Lake Kinneret, the landscape is quiet, the wind blows gently and the Korazim River meanders tranquilly, much as it did in the time of Jesus, but this undisturbed vista may not last much longer. Plans are underway to develop an evangelical Christian center in the area - a mini-Israel of sorts and perhaps a biblical theme park.
    As part of the project, Israel will initially lease 125 acres (500 dunams) in the area between Capernaum, Tabgha (…)