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  • Sibel Edmonds: Translator caught in web
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Sibel Edmonds was a young girl, her father, a physician in Iran, was asked to falsify an autopsy finding. Angrily, he refused, daring the authorities to retaliate.
    At home, he told his family: "Things like this do not happen in truly democratic civil societies - like America."
    Sibel still clings to her father’s words, but her Kafka-esque encounter with the U.S. government is challenging her faith.
    She wanders a wonderland of classified documents and covert hearings, waiting to see (…)

  • CNBC’s Ron Insana Propaganda Exposed on Live Radio
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anyone listening to Ron Insana’s radio program today heard Ron, with his 2 guests, US Generals Francona and Downing, field callers questions about the situation in Iraq.
    I called in and asked 3 quick questions. To paraphrase the questions:
    1. On Supporting the Troops: I noted that the Generals expressed the need for more money to be allocated by Congress to the occupation, and I asked how can we give them more money when much of it goes missing. I asked about Halliburton and the missing (…)

  • Abu Ghraib guard tells of worse abuse
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A US soldier convicted of humiliating and abusing Iraqi prisoners has said she knew of "worse things" happening at Abu Ghraib.
    Former private first class Lynndie England also insisted on Sunday that military commanders were fully aware of what was going on in Iraq’s infamous jail. In her first post-court marshal interview, England contradicted assertions by top Pentagon officials that a small group of out-of-control soldiers was responsible for abuse at Abu Ghraib and said that (…)

  • Why I No Longer Support The Military! They Have Betrayed Us!
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I can no longer support the military and let me tell you why. By “military” I mean the higher echelon, the generals, - the commanders, - those who are using our enlisted troops as fodder. Our enlisted men and women are the pawns sent to bleed and die in the Bush wars, and have become the fall guys who take the blame for the horrors in this illegal and immoral war.
    I have spent every day of my life for the past 3 years fighting for my nation and fighting for our troops. Yes, I have fought (…)

  • Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Bacon
    On April 9, 2003, U.S. tanks pulled up to Basra’s huge, dilapidated oil refinery. “We were coming out early, at the end of our shift, and there was the American army,” recalls Faraj Arbat, one of the plant’s firemen. The soldiers trained their guns on the oil workers. The head of the fire department made the mistake of questioning the troops, and he was ordered to lie facedown on the ground.
    “He did as he was ordered,” Arbat recalls. “But then an American put his foot on (…)

  • Melting Planet
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Species are dying out faster than we have dared recognise, scientists will warn this week. The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south
    By Andrew Buncombe in Anchorage and Severin Carrell in London
    The polar bear is one of the natural world’s most famous predators - the king of the Arctic wastelands. But, like its vast Arctic home, the polar bear is under unprecedented threat. Both (…)

  • Iraq’s President Calls for PM to Step Down
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s Kurdish president called on the country’s Shiite prime minister to step down, the president’s spokesman said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
    President Jalal Talabani has accused the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which holds the majority in parliament, of monopolizing power in the government and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds, the resettlement of Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk.
    The time has come (…)

  • Clueless Americans on Democracy
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 2nd, 2005
    “The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of the University of Maryland,” writes Jim Lobe. “Only 35 percent of the 808 randomly selected respondents said they favored the use of military (…)

  • For No Good Reason
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You never want to say that brave troops in Iraq died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of inept politicians. But what else did they die for?
    For No Good Reason By Bob Herbert
    Monday 03 October 2005
    "You can keep the flowers blooming on their graves forever. It won’t change the fact that they died for nothing." Anti-war protester, circa 1969 It’s finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The (…)

  • In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Torture
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 3, 2005 In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - James J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, says in a new book that military authorities knowingly created an atmosphere in which guards would feel free to abuse prisoners.
    Mr. Yee, 37, is a former Army captain and a West Point graduate who was arrested and imprisoned in 2003 on suspicion of espionage. It was a case that, in the end, proved (…)