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  • Few want vote in booming Dubai
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Heather Sharp
    As part of a series about young people in the Middle East, the BBC News website reports on views about democratic reform in a city where change does not seem high on the agenda.
    "We live in the best democracy ever," says Samir Marzouqi, 19, who lives in a country where citizens never vote.
    As a national of the United Arab Emirates, he lives in what is now the only country in the Gulf which has no elected bodies. Political parties are banned.
    But he points out that (…)

  • Hiroshima : Peace Declaration Aug. 6, 2005
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Friends,
    Following is the text of the official Hiroshima Declaration, read by Mayor Akiba shortly before 8:15 in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
    Copies of my speech at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs and Hibakusha testimonies can be found at www.afsc.org/pes.htm.
    Work for nuclear weapons abolition, peace and justice, Joseph Gerson American Friends committee
    This August 6, the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, is a moment of shared lamentation in which more than (…)

  • The Hiroshima cover-up
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
    ASTORY THAT the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller’s firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
    On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima; three days (…)

  • Never again? How the war in Iraq spurred a new nuclear arms race
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of Hiroshima, Iran is poised to go nuclear amid a new global arms race
    by Anne Penketh
    At 8.15am, a minute’s silence will reverberate around the world. The people of Japan will commemorate the victims of the first atomic bomb, which was dropped by an American B-29 on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
    Half a world away, in Tehran, the new hard man of Iranian politics, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will take the oath of office before the country’s (…)

  • RED ALERT! Rogue British,American and Israeli Mossad operatives To Stage Nuclear False Flag Attack !
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RED ALERT! Rogue British,American and Israeli Mossad operatives To Stage Nuclear False Flag Attack !!!
    URGENT: NUCLEAR FALSE FLAG ATTACK EXPECTED!
    [www.libertyforum.org]
    This article is excerpted from the complete version available here: http://www.physics911.net/nuclearfalseflagdraft.htm
    Synopsis: When is the next terrorist attack drill slated for the USA? This August.
    URGENT: NUCLEAR FALSE FLAG ATTACK EXPECTED!
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  • Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    60-year-old footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki — suppressed and nearly destroyed by the U.S. — will finally be shown in America.
    By Greg Mitchell
    In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years all but a handful of (…)

  • Thousands mark Hiroshima A-bomb 60th anniversary
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By George Nishiyama
    HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms.
    The anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing comes as regional powers continue talks in Beijing to urge North Korea to give up its nuclear programme, seen by Tokyo as a threat and one of the reasons behind rising calls in Japan to strengthen its (…)

  • Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials’ oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
    Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from (…)

  • Veterans for Peace speak out "What Have We Done?"
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, “We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq.”
    Just a two hour drive away in Dallas, at the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Dallas, I’m sitting with a (…)

  • The Nick Berg Cover-up: Officials Refuse to Answer a Simple Question about Him
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    Readers are invited to review my earlier post about the Oklahoma City television station suppressing its broadcast reporting that an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker was purchased from a University of Oklahoma (OU) library computer terminal. Before the news report, a librarian there had told me that the purchaser was a temporary library employee and not a hijacker. He was a white American male. The fact that he was never (…)