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  • Iraq future.
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Without Saddam’s iron fist,can the country called Iraq survive?What chances for partition or even outrite civil war?

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls: Camp Casey’s Newest Recruits
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No man is an island, entire of itself...any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
    John Donne
    No woman is an island either. Even if she’s a powerhouse of a woman named Cindy Sheehan. This diary is a collection of news clippings to celebrate some of those who’ve heard the bell toll, and are now answering its call by descending on Camp Casey.
    First, a good introduction: The Chattanoogan (…)

  • Olmert: Pullout not meant to tighten hold over West Bank
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied Palestinian suspicions that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, due to begin next week, was designed as a swap for permanent control over far bigger settlements in the West Bank.
    Sharon has ruled out dialogue on a Palestinian state before Palestinians disarm militants. Palestinians call this demand unrealistic without statehood on the horizon and fear Israeli settlement growth in the West Bank could dash their dreams.
    "Gaza is not a tradeoff for the West (…)

  • Holed up on a ranch, Bush won’t mix it up with ’Mom’
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD
    W. can’t get no satisfaction on Iraq.
    There’s an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.
    A new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans now think that going to war was a mistake and that the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. So fighting them there means it’s more likely we’ll have to fight them here?
    Donald (…)

  • US and European allies provoke confrontation with Iran
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Symonds
    The Bush administration with the support of the so-called EU-3-Britain, France and Germany-has seized on Iran’s decision to restart its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan as the pretext for condemning Tehran and threatening UN economic sanctions. Once again Washington and its allies, with the backing of the international media, are conducting a campaign of provocation and lies that will ultimately lead to open confrontation if Iran does not completely capitulate.
    The (…)

  • Baghdad elite flees Iraq and the daily threat of death
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Thomas Harding in Baghdad
    Quietly, in their ones and twos, the professional classes of Baghdad are slipping out of the country to avoid becoming another fatal statistic.
    Iraq is losing the educated elite of doctors, lawyers, academics and businessmen who are vital to securing a stable future. There is also fear that their departure will leave a vacuum to be filled by religious extremists.
    Outside the shelter of the Green Zone, home to the American and Iraqi political leadership, (…)

  • A forgotten man, one of many
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Uncle Jeff was just one of about 55,000 Americans whose lives were wasted killing about 2,000,000 Vietnamese people in the 1960s and ‘70s. Someone once told me in all seriousness that my uncle had died defending America, but I just laughed, and that wasn’t even a political response. I chuckled because anyone thinking my uncle died defending America had to be crazy or joking. I remember my Uncle Jeff’s dog and his car, but I don’t remember my Uncle Jeff. He had raised the dog from a pup, a (…)

  • An Apology From a US Christian to Palestinians
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is my apology for Christians in the US to Muslims, the Arab World, and particularly Palestinians. Too many of my co-religionists have made a travesty of the Golden Rule which unequivocally compels us, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
    For example Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority, and a Christian Zionist who doesn’t believe Israel should relinquish any of the illegally occupied territories, was asked by Bob Simon of CBS News: "What about the three million (…)

  • The death of a contender
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "I just want to get it done, come home, and continue my life."
    Those were just about the last words that Gennaro Pellegrini, Jr. — a 31-year-old Philly cop and up-and-coming boxer — said to us when we spoke last last November. In less than 48 hours, Pellegrini was about to step onto an airplane bound for Iraq, along with the rest of his Pennsylvania National Guard unit from Northeast Philadelphia.
    For anyone who’s worried about the return of a military draft, Pellegrini was living proof (…)

  • Like Nagasaki, August 9 is an orphan of history
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Harvey Wasserman
    And in that history, new, definitive evidence has finally surfaced that the atomic bombing there was completely unjustified.
    More than 80,000 human beings perished in Nagasaki three days after at least that many died in Hiroshima.
    The Bomb that destroyed this historic city was made of plutonium (Hiroshima’s was uranium).
    Whatever the case for nuking Hiroshima, it was far weaker for Nagasaki.
    The US had already shown it had this ultimate weapon. It showed it was (…)