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  • An interview with the mother and widow of a former contractor in Iraq
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Kelly
    Tim Eysselinck worked for RONCO Consulting Corp. in Iraq between August 2003 and February 2004. He headed a de-mining team that was responsible for the clearance of land mines, cluster bombs and other ordinance.
    Tim developed post-traumatic stress disorder, and his experiences in Iraq left him disillusioned with the war that he had previously supported. On April 21, 2004, he committed suicide at his home in Windhoek, Namibia, two months after he had resigned from RONCO. He (…)

  • THE CRUX OF BUSINESS
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE CRUX OF BUSINESS
    by M. Kato
    Marine One is getting old and the President needs a new state-of-the-art helicopter to ferry him around, both in the United States and overseas. More to the point, he needs twenty-three new machines to fulfill this requirement. The Navy Department considered proposals from Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, the latter having supplied presidential helicopters since the Eisenhower administration. In what is turning into a controversial decision, the Navy (…)

  • Women worldwide face effects of Bush’s gag rule
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dian Harrison
    Tuesday is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of women’s fight for equality and human rights. In light of this commemoration, it is especially disappointing that the Bush administration is working so hard to restrict women’s rights.
    Ten years ago, a landmark U.N. conference in Beijing adopted a platform seeking to establish global equality for women. Along with recommendations on issues such as domestic violence and education, the platform states women (…)

  • The Passion of Giuliana Sgrena
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Danny Schechter
    NEW YORK - Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. Her plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release.
    In response, Italy dispatched an intelligence agent to find her and negotiate her release. Miraculously, he did, but as fate would have it, was killed by US soldier suspicious of his car, which raced through, they say, a (…)

  • Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower : the Next Crusades
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By URI AVNERY
    Many years ago, I read a book called "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene. Its central character is a high-minded, naive young American operative in Vietnam. He has no idea about the complexities of that country but is determined to right its wrongs and create order. The results are disastrous.
    I have the feeling that this is happening now in Lebanon. The Americans are not so high-minded and no so naive. Far from it. But they are quite prepared to go into a foreign (…)

  • Bush’s Coalition Continues To Shrink
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Coalition Continues To Shrink Doug Lorimer March 09, 2005
    US President George Bush’s “broad coalition” of countries participating in the US-led “multinational force” (MNF) occupying Iraq is steadily shrinking. Since Spain’s pull-out of its 1300 troops last April, a dozen other countries have withdrawn, or announced that they will be withdrawing their troop contingents from Iraq.
    The list of countries with troops in the MNF - available at was last updated in October, and totalled (…)

  • US Officer: "Why I Disagree With Bush’s War For Oil"
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pip Hinman
    Brayden joined the US army not thinking he’d ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn’t entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
    He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004. Originally part of an Air Defence Artillary combat unit based in Germany, Brayden was sent to Iraq in May 2003 and spent 14 months there.
    His company of 125 soldiers, one of six that made up the 1st Armored Division’s Main Support (…)

  • Words Of Wisdom For President G.W. Bush
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    =&values[1]=2287] Words Of Wisdom For President G.W. Bush Sam Hamod, Ph.D. March 3, 2005
    Mr. President, if I may paraphrase General Eisenhower when speaking about Korea, he said, “I’m going to bring our troops home-now.” And he did. You should do the same in Iraq before more get killed, maimed or mentally disturbed. The only way you can conquer Iraq, as I said back when the war started, was to kill all Iraqis. Unfortunately, you and General Abizaid and the insane General Mattis, are (…)

  • The Iraq Election Backfired On Conservatives
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraq Election Backfired On Conservatives Jim Hightower March 02, 2005 Reality can be hard on theorists — just ask that gaggle of conservative geniuses who designed and pushed the invasion of Iraq.
    The theory propounded by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and President Bush’s other "Big-Thinker" war hawks (none of whom have ever actually been in a war) was that crushing Saddam Hussein would cause the flowering of a pro-American democracy in Iraq. In the glorious vision of these (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena : my Truth
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Giuliana Sgrena I’m still in the dark. Friday was the most dramatic day of my life. I had been in captivity for many days. I had just spoken with my captors. It had been days they were telling me I would be released. I was living in waiting for this moment. They were speaking about things that only later I would have understood the importance of. They were speaking about problems "related to transfers."
    I learned to understand what was going on by the behavior of my two guards, the (…)