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  • August 6th Protest at Crawford Ranch
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush said speaking about the dreadful loss of life in Iraq in August: (08/03/05): "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause."
    In reaction to these two assinine and hurtful statements, members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George’s vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements.
    1) We want our (…)

  • Rangel speaks out on Iraq war and Project for the New American Century
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IRAQ WAR: WHEN WILL THE KILLING STOP? By Congressman Charles Rangel
    With the deaths of 21 Marines in two days this week, the body count of U.S. troops killed in Iraq rose dramatically to 1,815 and counting. Even as newspapers and TV stations broadcast the death toll, we were still counting on the churches, synagogues and mosques to show that they recognize the inhumanity of this immoral war.
    Aren’t there passages in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah which command that killing for a (…)

  • The Bottom Line / Wrong on every count
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nehemia Strasler
    Israel is a corrupt country, at least according to the accepted norms of the Western world, the latest World Bank report released this week concluded. On every count, we ranked worse than the average in the West. Israel is regarded as a state with an unstable regime, bloated bureaucracy, high levels of corruption in government, and a low rate of law enforcement.
    Israeli bureaucracy is notorious worldwide. International investors are prevented from investing here (…)

  • Sharon Money Scandals Build on Prosecutor’s Desk
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
    The State Prosecutor’s office has received a police file which alleges that PM Sharon’s family improperly received more than one million shekels from the Israel Land and Development (ILD) firm.
    Police investigators completed their probe and transferred the findings to the State Prosecution on Tuesday. The file contains suspicions that PM Ariel Sharon’s Sycamore Ranch illegally received $325,000 in 1999 from ILD, headed by Ya’akov Nimrodi, in return for options to (…)

  • A Soldier Speaks: Zechariah
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editor’s Note: As of August 4, 2005, 1,821 American troops and between 22,500 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the war in Iraq. Domestically, the bill for the war has reached $204.6 billion.
    This is the first in a continued series of profiles of some of the tens of thousands of Iraq War veterans who have come home bearing the scars of battle — emotional and physical wounds that may never heal unless the nation pays them the attention and care that they deserve. We at (…)

  • About those permanent bases...why not ask the Iraqi people how they feel?
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Basic questions about bases By Ashraf Fahim
    Hardly a day has gone by in the past few weeks without a new press report detailing the US military’s plans to reduce its footprint in Iraq next year. First it was a leaked British memo saying that Britain would hand over southern Iraq to the Iraqis and the US would cut its troops in half. Then it was General George W Casey, the senior commander in Iraq, promising a "fairly substantial" US withdrawal by the summer of 2006. Finally, there was the (…)

  • Pro-Israel lobbyists charged in Pentagon case
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Vicini
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Two former officials of the pro- Israel lobbying group AIPAC were charged on Thursday with conspiring with a Pentagon analyst to obtain and disclose classified national defense information, U.S. prosecutors said.
    They said the indictment charges Steven Rosen, 63, the former foreign policy director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, with conspiracy to communicate national defense information provided by analyst Lawrence Franklin. (…)

  • Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Villagers in Lawsuit Say 4 People Died - Oil Company Questions if Attacks Took Place
    by David R. Baker Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs billed the company for $109.25 a day after they allegedly attacked two villages in the volatile country, killing four people and setting fire to homes.
    The company paid.
    The money was requested in a small invoice — stamped with Chevron’s logo and the name of its Nigerian subsidiary — that surfaced this year as part of a lawsuit against the (…)

  • How the UK gave Israel the bomb
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    London, United Kingdom
    Britain secretly supplied the 20 tonnes of heavy water to Israel nearly half a century ago which enabled it to make nuclear weapons, according to Whitehall documents which have been discovered at the Public Records Office.
    Officials in the Macmillan government deliberately concealed the deal from the United States, according to the files, which were discovered by BBC Newsnight and broadcast on Wednesday night.
    Historians and politicians have been startled by the (…)

  • Gov’t issues two construction tenders for W. Bank settlement
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nadav Shragai and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters
    The Housing Ministry issued two tenders Thursday for the building of 72 housing units in the settlement of Betar Ilit, which is situated between Jerusalem and the Etzion Bloc of settlements in the West Bank.
    This year, the ministry has issued tenders for the building of 235 housing units in settlements, the majority of which are for locations in high demand in the so-called "settlement blocs" near metropolitan (…)