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  • DFA: US concerned over pullout of OFWs in Iraq
    27 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States has expressed concern over Manila’s move to bring home all Filipino workers from Iraq amid increasing insurgency there, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo said Tuesday.
    Romulo said US Embassy officials have raised the issue several times since Manila offered to fly home the estimated 6,000 Filipino workers after two died in apparent attacks earlier this month.
    The Filipinos represent the biggest number of foreigners working for US-run military installations in (…)

  • US soldiers exonerated: Firing at Italian reporter on secure road, while car was driving away is OK!
    26 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Naomi Klein on Democracy now about her conversation with Giuliana Sgrena...
    "She told me a lot about the incident that I had not fully understood from the reports in the press. One of the most - and at first, the other thing I want to be really clear about is that Giuliana is not saying that she’s certain in any way that the attack on the car was intentional.
    She is simply saying that she has many, many unanswered questions, and there are many parts of her direct (…)

  • Who’s Next ?
    26 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three capital cities have been bombed recently - Baghdad, Kabul and Belgrade - in a ten-year period, with the nations responsible, the US and UK, evincing no discernible signs of guilt. Twenty-three nations have been bombed by the US since WW2, from Japan in 1945 to Afghanistan in ’99 and recently Iraq- that’s one nation per three years. That’s fourteen percent of all UN member-states. Not one of these attacks had a shred of legality under international law, each was a criminal act. Over (…)

  • Howard Dean’s Sell Out And Betrayal
    26 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Dean even more importantly and catastrophically, this "war" is based on treasonous deceptions. When does all the blood shed become enough for our bloodthirsty leaders? Sorry to say, Mr. Dean, it appears that you have become one of them. You are like all the rest of the cowards who won’t speak out against the pointless slaughter Howard Dean’s Sell Out And Betrayal
    April 24, 2005 By Cindy Sheehan. My response to Howard Dean after he advocated for the continued occupation of Iraq
    Mr. (…)

  • Bush, & Prince Abduallah hold hands, discuss oil prices
    26 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US President George W. Bush (L) and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz discussed the soaring cost of oil but emerged with no short-term fix for sky-high gas prices.
    Exxon Mobil reaps record profits - 2001
    Bush and Saudi crown prince find no easy solution to oil price crunch
    Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profits - 2005
    The most obvious villains are the giant oil companies and rich oil countries such as Saudi Arabia.
    Exxon Mobil profits exceed $25bn
    The biggest reason pump (…)

  • Company E’s deadly ride through Iraq
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On May 29, 2004, a station wagon that Iraqi insurgents had packed with C-4 explosives blew up on a highway in Ramadi, killing four American marines who died for lack of a few inches of steel. The four were returning to camp in an unarmored Humvee that their unit had rigged with scrap metal, but the makeshift shields rose only as high as the marines’ shoulders, photographs of the stricken Humvee show, and the shrapnel from the bomb shot over the top. "The steel was not high enough," said (…)

  • UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The UN’s top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he presented a report criticising the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons.
    Cherif Bassiouni had needled the US military since his appointment a year ago, repeatedly trying, without success, to interview alleged Taliban and al-Qa’ida prisoners at the two biggest US bases in Afghanistan, Kandahar and Bagram.
    Mr Bassiouni’s report (…)

  • GM industry puts human gene into rice
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.
    Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating unnatural (…)

  • Bush Buddies Iraq Thieving Total Nears $2 BILLION
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ”That money could have been used to take care of soldiers”
    The Halliburton corporation, already the Iraq war’s poster child for ”waste, fraud and abuse”, has been hit with a new double-whammy.
    A report from the U.S. State Department accuses the company of ”poor performance” in its 1.2-billion-dollar contract to repair Iraq’s vital southern oil fields.
    And a powerful California congressman is charging that Defence Department audits showing additional overcharges totaling 212 million (…)

  • Terrified US soldiers are still killing civilians with impunity, while the dead go uncounted
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine.
    The driver and his friends were not hit, but many Iraqis do not survive casual encounters with US soldiers. It is very easy to be accidentally killed in Iraq. US soldiers treat everybody as a potential suicide (…)