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  • Israeli jailed for killing activist
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAN WILLIAMS
    AN ISRAELI soldier was jailed for eight years yesterday for killing the British activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot while protecting Palestinian children during violence in Gaza in 2003.
    The sentence was the harshest punishment meted out to an Israeli soldier for actions in a combat zone since the start of a Palestinian uprising nearly five years ago.
    Taysir Hayb, a Bedouin Arab soldier, was convicted in June of manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, an activist with (…)

  • In Iraq, No Clear Finish Line - Timing Is Muddy For U.S. Pullout
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Baker
    The Bush administration has sent seemingly conflicting signals in recent days over the duration of the U.S. deployment to Iraq, openly discussing contingency plans to withdraw as many as 30,000 of 138,000 troops by spring, then cautioning against expectations of any early pullout. Finally yesterday, President Bush dismissed talk of a drawdown as just "speculation and rumors" and warned against "withdrawing before the mission is complete."
    If the public was left confused, (…)

  • Bush declared war on Iran...
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In an interview with an Israelian news channel a desperate President whose polls showing each day less support of the American people for his policy declared practically war on Iran.
    Source German newspaper "Rheinische Post".
    http://www.rp-online.de/public/maga...
    sorry it is in German. But can be translate with Google language tools.
    WW III is unevitable! The American troops stretched to their ability might use nuclear weapons on Iran. That will create rage in the Islamic world. (…)

  • THE GREAT BUSH STRATEGERY
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE BUSH STRATEGY FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION
    (A dismal dirge for a country fallen upon evil times by evil people.)
    August 12, 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    We are soon coming up on a count of 2,000 “brave boys” who have died for Bush lies about oil, bases, embassies, and invasions of other countries. Perhaps the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq will soon match the 3,000 innocent people killed in the 9/11 disaster in New York. In this way Bush will be personally responsible for as many (…)

  • Why President Bush Should Not Speak to Cindy Sheehan
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan, speaking live on the Ed Schultz radio show (and elsewhere) on Thursday, August 11, said that the media and Congress have not held the president accountable for his actions. She added that the President’s decision on whether or not to speak to her, the Gold Star Mothers for Peace and the American people is the President’s accountability moment.
    Sheehan, the mother of Casey Sheehan, who died fighting for America in Iraq, has been holding a vigil outside the President’s (…)

  • It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits
    by Howard Zinn
    It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with that term during the second world war. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied countries. The United States liberated them from occupation. (…)

  • Area mother joining the fray in Bush country
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Barb Ickes, Quad-City Times
    A couple of books on tape, a cell phone and some junk food are the only things keeping Caryn Unsicker company on the long road.
    The Silvis, Ill., woman set out Wednesday morning on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage from her home to President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She probably won’t get but a few miles from the entrance to the sprawling retreat.
    But she has to go.
    Unsicker won’t know until she gets there today how many other mothers from across the (…)

  • No End in Sight in Iraq
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BOB HERBERT
    The news coming out of Iraq yesterday was that several more American soldiers had been killed. August’s toll so far has been mind-numbing. For American troops, it’s been one of the worst periods of the war. And yet there’s still no sense of urgency within the Bush administration.
    The president is on vacation. He’s down at the ranch riding his bicycle and clearing brush. The death toll for Americans has streaked past the 1,800 mark. The Iraqi dead are counted by the tens of (…)

  • Traditional Ta’zieh Play Pokes at Regime
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Saloumeh Peyman
    TEHRAN, Aug 13 (IPS) - By the time it was banned, a week before the Aug. 6 swearing in of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran, a bold Ta’zieh (traditional tragedy theatre) on the 1997 serial assassinations of several leading dissident intellectuals, had already had a month-long run.
    That month was wide enough a window in Iran’s restricted intellectual world to bestir the country’s young and thinking middle-class to flock to the capital’s main theatre and see for (…)

  • Israeli hawks circle Iran’s N-plants
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
    Ever since its 1979 Islamic revolution the only fate Iran has had in mind for Israel has been simple: its destruction. Now that Teheran seems to be moving towards acquiring its own nuclear arsenal, its plans for its great enemy threaten to be both fiery and radioactive.
    Sometimes Iran’s stated policy towards Israel is couched in inflammatory rhetoric, like that on a 40ft banner that used to hang outside the entrance of the foreign ministry in Teheran bearing (…)