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  • We Must Take America Back
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    Speech delivered at the Sierra Summit 2005 San Francisco, California
    I want to tell you how proud I am to accept the William O. Douglas Award.
    Two of my most poignant memories as a child involved Justice Douglas. One of them was when I was 11 years old I did a 20 mile hike with my little brother David and with Justice Douglas and my father, which was a bird watching hike on the C & O Canal which he played a critical role in protecting. We started at (…)

  • Congressional Coalition Calls For Expansion Of Plame Investigation to Bush’s Uranium Lies
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional Coalition Calling For Expansion Of Plame Name Leak Investigation
    Forty-One Members Of Congress Ask Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald To Examine Bush Administration’s False Uranium Claims That Led To Disclosure Of CIA Operative’s Identity To Determine If Additional Federal Laws Were Broken Washington, D.C. - Troubled by what they see as violations of federal law that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (…)

  • Many Iraqis believe ’suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. "I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth." Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.... many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman (…)

  • WEST IS FANNING SECTARIAN DIVIDE IN MUSLIMS TO PROMOTE ITS CLASH OF CIVILISATION AGENDA
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The West is promoting clash of civilisation to manufacture a new conflict. After the fall of Soviet Union Wester ruling classes need a new enemy to creat fear among western public. Terms such as political Islam and terrorism were coined in the early 1990s with a purpose. Western security forces, big businesses and the media have joined hands in promoting this policy of hatred and fear. The war Iraq is just an example. The media and politicians both sell lies coming from security forces sadly (…)

  • THE IRAN TRAP
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Scott Ritter Sunday 11 September 2005, 18:06 Makka Time, 15:06 GMT
    In the complicated world of international diplomacy surrounding the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, there is but one thing that the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the so-called EU-3 (Germany, France and Great Britain) and Iran can all agree upon:
    Iran has resumed operations of facilities designed to convert uranium into a product usable in enrichment processes. From that point forward (…)

  • US The New Saddam
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US The New Saddam Eric Margolis September 04, 2005 The most important news from Iraq last week was not the much ballyhooed constitutional pact by Shias and Kurds, nor the tragic stampede deaths of nearly 1,000 pilgrims in Baghdad.
    The U.S. Air Force’s senior officer, Gen. John Jumper, stated U.S. warplanes would remain in Iraq to fight resistance forces and protect the American-installed regime "more or less indefinitely." Jumper’s bombshell went largely unnoticed due to Hurricane (…)

  • After Israel withdrawl, Gaza to be gigantic prison surrounded by high-tech wall
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Officials promise that the state-of-the-art security fence constructed around Gaza will bring unprecedented security. The double security fence, surveillance cameras, robotic jeeps and remote-controlled machine guns are expected to provide a formidable barrier to terrorists, as are the low-tech pits and trenches. Officials explain that these measures will permit the IDF to maintain a low profile in the area without compromising Israel’s security interests.
    At a cost of over NIS 1 billion, (…)

  • An Open Letter to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Open Letter to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
    On Loyalty:
    by Stan Goff
    I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
    I thugged around in eight (…)

  • To: The 95 countries that helped Katrina victims!
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: The 95 countries that helped Katrina victims!
    On behalf of myself and the American people we humbly thank you all for your generous support during these trying times of disaster relief for all of the victims that
    were directly and indirectly affected by the Katrina Hurricane. We also humbly thank you as well as others who are helping to save our dear friends, the animals that are always forgotten in time of distress but yet are always our true friends. We are keenly aware as are (…)

  • New Katrina Contracts Awarded; Include Fluor, Bechtel, Halliburton
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again, the same massive corporations that have screwed up the Iraq reconstruction, screwed up numerous US projects, and been fined for overcharges and wage and safety violations, have been rewarded by the Bush Administration.
    FEMA reports today that 5 of the nation’s major corporations have been contracted to “speed emergency housing relief” to the Gulf Coast. “Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it (…)