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  • Rwandan : World Day Against the Death Penalty
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Paul Kagame
    This letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
    World Day Against the Death Penalty
    Dear...,
    We are pleased and honoured to address you and the Rwandan people. We want to assure you that we are in solidarity with the efforts of all Rwandan citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights after a long period of terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a spirit of deep friendship and humility that we request that you do your best to achieve, as soon as (…)

  • Rachel was bulldozed to death, but her words are a spur to action
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is disturbing to see our daughter played on stage, but it drives home the impact she has had since her killing in Gaza
    by Cindy and Craig Corrie
    When our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza strip on March 16 2003, an immediate impulse was to get her words out to the world. She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organisation, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells. Her (…)

  • The Left, the Enemy of My Enemy, and Liberation: The Case of the Iraqi Resistance
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Factions on the Left have called for "Support for the Iraqi Resistance" and criticized those who don’t endorse the call. For example, at this year’s Left Forum, Anthony Arnove and Tariq Ali debated Stephen Shalom and Joanne Landy on this issue, with the first two arguing for supporting the resistance. Some commentators even refer to this resistance as "freedom fighters in Iraq." My sympathies are with the other side. While one might argue for some abstract "right to resist occupation," what (…)

  • Climate Change and Human Health
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul R. Epstein
    In 1998, Hurricane Mitch dropped six feet of rain on Central America in three days. In its wake, the incidence of malaria, dengue fever, cholera, and leptospirosis soared. In 2000, rain and three cyclones inundated Mozambique for six weeks, and the incidence of malaria rose fivefold. In 2003, a summer heat wave in Europe killed tens of thousands of people, wilted crops, set forests ablaze, and melted 10 percent of the Alpine glacial mass.
    This summer’s blistering heat (…)

  • U.S. ’Intercepts’ Terrorist Correspondence-Convenient Timing and Rhetoric Suggest Gov’t Propaganda
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday October 7, 2005 1:31 PM
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has obtained a letter from one terrorist leader to another that discusses plans to force a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, create an Islamic state there and then spread war to neighboring countries, Pentagon officials said.
    Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would only broadly characterize the intercepted letter, which he said was written by Osama bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab (…)

  • Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty to giving classified info to Israeli official
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A top Pentagon analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro- Israel lobbying group.
    Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with the government and that he had hoped the two members of the lobbying group could use their connections at the National Security Council to influence U.S. policy.
    He also admitted giving classified (…)

  • Iran: Blair begins to fix the intelligence
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." - US General Douglas MacArthur (One of the most decorated soldiers in the history of the United States military)
    Thu Oct 6th, 2005 at 13:34:40 PDT
    As with Iraq, UK Prime Minister Tony (…)

  • Iraq Prime minister: Iran not interfering in Iraq
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Someone give Cheney the memo before he invades.
    Iran not interfering in Iraq-Iraqi prime minister 06 Oct 2005 13:12:13 GMT
    Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, background)
    TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Thursday rejected accusations that Shi’ite Muslim Iran was interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs.
    Asked about accusations that Iran was interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq, Jaafari told Iranian state television: "Such accusations are baseless (…)

  • George Bush: ’God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace
    Ewen MacAskill Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian
    George Bush believes he is on a mission from God, according to the politician Nabil Shaath. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
    George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the (…)

  • General: U.S. ’Lacks Moral Authority’ In Iraq
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The only way to be sure Iraq does not become the threat it was posited to be before the war, a safe haven for terrorists, is to raise the standard of living and the expectations of the people, creating a country of "haves" who don’t tolerate terrorists and thugs, and who have confidence their government and security force will back them up. by Pamela Hess
    UPI Pentagon Correspondent Baghdad (UPI) Oct 05, 2005
    "I don’t know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat (…)