Home > Keywords > International > International

International

  • Sometimes I Wonder If There Will Be A Moment When Reality And Myth, Truth And Lies, Will Collide
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides
    by Robert Fisk
    It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their guns on all of us if we approach within 50 metres.
    In the weird, space-ship isolation of Saddam’s old republican palace, the Kurds and the Shia have been (…)

  • The Trillion-Dollar War
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LINDA BILMES
    Cambridge, Mass.
    THE human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting is over.
    The cost goes well beyond the more than $250 billion already spent on military operations and reconstruction. Basic running costs of the current (…)

  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey to hold hearing on strategy for disengagement from Iraq September 15
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Statesmanship, Less Salesmanship, Please . . . by Rep. Lynn Woolsey The war in Iraq, now entering its 30th month, seemingly brings a new atrocity or source of shame every day. The American death toll is approaching 2,000, with August on track to be one of the war’s deadliest months.
    And let’s not forget the wounded, the victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians senselessly killed so that their nation could be ‘liberated’.
    Throughout (…)

  • WHAT WOULD YOU DIE FOR?
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    By Peter Fredson
    Many people have willingly sacrificed their lives for unselfish or patriotic reasons. They throw themselves in the path of a truck to save a child, they drown in an effort to save a companion, or throw themselves on a live grenade to save their buddies. In 1941 after listening to reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the continuing reports of the deeds of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe, I hurried to the local Recruiting Office to volunteer for military service. The (…)

  • KARL ROVE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    KARL ROVE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
    A Satirical Rant
    By Peter Fredson
    August 21, 2005
    I just finished a long compilation of reasons why Bush invaded Iraq, using several hundred files from the past 5 years. There were many reasons alleged, some of them humorous, and others reaching the edge of criminality. The reasons seemed to shift and multiply as the administration gradually realizes things are not going as well as it had hoped. Then a fellow blogger asked me to identify the reason I (…)

  • War in Afghanistan has intensified
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    KABUL, Aug 20 (SANA): The Bush administration declared more than two years ago that major combat in Afghanistan was over, but despite this claim for the past four months, the U.S. paratroopers and other American units have been fighting a war thousands of feet up in the sun-blasted peaks and boulder-strewn defiles of one of history’s most grueling battlefields.
    They’re facing guerrillas who were born here, hardened by poverty and backwardness, and steeped in a centuries-old tradition of (…)

  • Family of slain Brazilian refuses compensation offer
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    The parents of the Brazilian man killed mistakenly by British anti-terror police in south London have reportedly turned down a compensation offer of 1 million pounds (1.8 million US dollars).
    Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, parents of 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, have reportedly rejected the offer as an insult, Sky news reported on Saturday.
    "We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced. This is not about money, this is about justice," they told the Daily Mail newspaper. (…)

  • Dead Wrong: CNN Offers An Excuse
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    7 comments

    Bush administration’s deception presented as ’honest error’
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/21/05 — Watching CNN’s program "Dead Wrong-Inside an Intelligence Meltdown", one is left with the impression that the Bush administration and the U.S. intelligence community were merely wrong; CNN called it a "meltdown" and referred to "mistakes", but throughout their hour-long PR-piece viewers are steered away from what really happened and encouraged to believe it [the (…)

  • DIPLOMATIC ASSURANCES - WORTHLESS
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    By William Fisher
    Countries that rely on ‘diplomatic assurances’ that other countries won’t torture transferred prisoners “are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a figleaf to cover their complicity,” a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges.
    HRW said, “There is substantial evidence that in the course of the global “war on terrorism,” an increasing number of governments have transferred, or proposed sending, alleged terrorist suspects to countries (…)

  • US met Taliban secretly before war
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States was "not out to destroy the Taliban," a US diplomat told the government just a year before a US-led invasion toppled Afghanistan’s Taliban government that had harboured al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
    US Ambassador to Pakistan William B. Milam held a secret meeting with an unidentified senior Taliban official in September 2000 and assured him that international sanctions on the Taliban would end if bin Laden were expelled from Afghanistan, newly declassified documents (…)