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  • Niger: Reasons for a Disaster
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nathalie Funès
    "The world was deaf."
    A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
    The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)

  • Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad’s body count
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

  • Senate Intelligence chairman quietly ’fixed’ intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush issued an order to the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, and his cabinet members that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress.
    "The only Members of Congress whom you or your expressly designated officers may brief regarding classified or sensitive law (…)

  • The Evolution of Revolution, Part II: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Found this great essay at Manuel Valenzuela’s new blog which contains every damn essay he’s ever written. This guy is prolific, and very, very good. Pay the blog a visit, click through the archives, read a couple of articles. Good for the soul.
    www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    The Evolution of Revolution, Part II: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Imagine
    Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people, (…)

  • The grieving mother who took on George Bush
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s soldier son Casey was killed near Baghdad. Now her one-woman protest at the gates of the US president’s Texas ranch has become a metaphor for a nation’s increasing unease about involvement in an unwinnable conflict.
    By Rupert Cornwell
    Something strange is taking place deep in the heart of Texas, where the President of the United States is holed up at his Prairie Chapel ranch, a few miles from the town of Crawford. There, in the space of a few days, a middle-aged (…)

  • Cheap labor, cheap deal
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amira Hass
    Omar had a reason to laugh: Good people from Tel Aviv are agitated that the Evacuation Compensation Law passed by the Knesset discriminates against Palestinian and foreign workers, on the one hand, compared to Israeli workers. The good people are the Kav La’Oved organization and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which gave up on the idea of petitioning the High Court of Justice because it expected the court would not get involved in this piece of legislation.
    Omar (…)

  • Tomgram: Cindy Sheehan’s War
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy, Don, and George. On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road
    By Tom Engelhardt
    Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time Magazine: "The Army’s wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable strategic peril. It’s because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, I cannot retreat from my position."
    Cindy Sheehan testifying at Rep. John Conyers public hearings on the Downing Street Memo: "My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was (…)

  • CHARMING KILLERS
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHARMING KILLERS
    By Peter Fredson
    August 17, 2005
    Last week I watched part of a TV documentary on Serial Killers. One which most aroused my curiosity was Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy, (Theodore Robert Cowell, born November 24, 1946,) also called “The Poster Boy of Serial Killers”
    He was different from stereotypes of murderous maniacs. He was usually well-dressed and very well mannered. He had a ready smile, was handsome, personable, smart, urbane and charming. As a college student he did (…)

  • Parents of fallen Marine make plea to Bush
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CLEVELAND (AP) - The parents of one of 16 Ohio-based Marines recently killed in Iraq want President Bush to take note of mounting casualties and come up with a new plan to bring the troops home. "The war is not going well. There have to be changes made," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said on Tuesday. "Bush is digging himself a foxhole. He can’t do that. He’s got to move on. Whether he leads them out by putting more troops on the ground or pulling them out - he (…)

  • Important Military Affairs
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    The death toll for U.S. forces in Iraq has surpassed 1,800, nearly 14,000 soldiers have been injured, there is no exit strategy and for all of our nation’s bloody sacrifice we have accomplished little more than transforming a secular Iraq into another Iran. With all things swell in sweltering Babylon, it is comforting to know that the Pentagon is paying close attention to military affairs.
    Just this week, for example, four-star general Kevin P. Byrnes was relieved of his (…)