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  • Block Tokyo from the UN Security Council!
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Tokyo manages to obtain a permanent seat, it will be a reliable pro-war vote in the foreseeable future, so all leftists, not just patriots in Asia, ought to join the campaign to block Tokyo from the Security Council. Read the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues’ message "Global Petition to Reject Japanese Bid to Obtain a Permanent Seat on the U.N. Security Council," and sign any of the four petitions recommended by the coalition.
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  • U.S. soldiers : how many have gone to war?
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even experts are surprised at the vast numbers of U.S. soldiers who have been deployed after 9/11. Even if troop levels in Iraq are cut next year, the military may be permanently damaged.
    By Mark Benjamin
    Three and a half years have passed since U.S. bombs started falling in Afghanistan, and ever since then, the U.S. military has been engaged in combat overseas. What most Americans are probably unaware of, however, is just how many American soldiers have been deployed. Well over 1 (…)

  • FIERCE FIGHTING IN AL-QA’IM, HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 12 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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    Tuesday, 12 April 2005.
    The Battle of al-Qa’im. Ferocious US attack repulsed.
    Resistance communiqué Tuesday night gives US forces 12 hours to withdraw from environs of al-Qa’im.
    Men and women fighters flock to defend liberated city.
    Woman Resistance fighter (…)

  • Occupation Watch: "No Staff on the Ground in Iraq"
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Occupation Watch Center, launched in July 2003 with the staff of "two Iraqi women and two international peace workers," was quietly restructured. Now the center has "no staff on the ground in Iraq." Lack of funding? If so, that’s a shame. As the power elite implant fake news and manufacture consent through the corporate media, the anti-war movement in the United States needs its own foreign correspondents, photographers, and documentary film makers. The Occupation Watch (…)

  • Don’t be fooled by the spin on Iraq
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US is failing - and hatred of the occupation greater than ever
    by Jonathan Steele
    Saddam Hussein’s effigy was pulled down again in Baghdad’s Firdos Square at the weekend. But unlike the made-for-TV event when US troops first entered the Iraqi capital, the toppling of Saddam on the occupation’s second anniversary was different.
    Instead of being done by US marines with a few dozen Iraqi bystanders, 300,000 Iraqis were on hand. They threw down effigies of Bush and Blair as well as the (…)

  • Child Malnutrition in Iraq Doubles: Let Them Eat Bombs
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
    This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations.
    It now appears that, far from improving the quality of life for Iraqi (…)

  • Iraq’s Oilworkers Will Defend the Country’s Oil
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Hassan Juma’a Awad
    Q: How was the Southern Oil Company Union organized?
    A: Two weeks after the occupying forces entered Basra on the 9th of April, 2003, Iraqi activists in the oil industry met to reestablish the union. We organized the workers for two reasons. First, we had to deal with the administration put in place by the occupying forces. Second, we fear that the purpose of the occupation is to take control of the oil industry. Without organizing ourselves, we would (…)

  • Karzai Wants US To Stay In Afghanistan Permanently
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a surprise move today, the Mayor of Kab...er...I mean the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is requesting a long-term security pact with the United states that - get this - may include permanent U.S. military bases. When asked about this latest development, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who is visiting the country, reportedly said that it was up to his boss, Junta leader George Bush to decide if the U.S. will honor Karzai’s request.
    In Washington, White House Press (…)

  • Israel presents aerial photos of Iran nuclear sites to Bush
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon’s military attache presented aerial photos of Iranian nuclear installations during the Israeli prime minister’s summit with US President George W. Bush, Israeli public radio reported on Tuesday.
    General Yoav Gallan, who accompanied Sharon to Monday’s talks at Bush’s Texas ranch, presented the photos as well as information gathered by the Israeli intelligence services on Teheran’s nuclear programme.
    The radio, which did not give details on how the photos were (…)

  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen debate the war in Iraq
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEGALA: Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Both President Bush in Texas today, and Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq, were talking about just how swell things are going in Iraq. But, a new survey says most Americans believe the war was not worth it. In the CROSSFIRE to debate Iraq, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen — she is a Republican from Florida, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, he is a Democrat from Ohio.
    HOLT: Welcome to the program, Mr. Kucinich, nice to see you.
    During the presidential campaign, (…)