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  • Censored For Being Too Subtle. An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Censored For Being Too Subtle An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog. The Reason: He Did Too Good A Job Illustrating The Casual Heroism Of Combat Kevin Horrigan 01/09/2005 The Pentagon reported last Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops wounded in the Iraq war had passed 10,000. Of the 10,252 wounded since the war began in March 2003, about half - 5,396 - were hurt so badly they couldn’t return to duty. The rest were patched up and sent back to work Also on Tuesday, in a not completely (…)

  • Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong Harry Browne January 15, 2005 You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons - past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq’s weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had - where they came (…)

  • There are many Kurdish refugees seeking asylum in Japan.
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Japanese Government is reluctant or, more frankly, has refused to give them the status of refugee.
    Mr. Kazankiran and his son, Ramazan were two such refugees. They sought help from the Japanese Government and support from the UN; they got none. January 17 2005, they were arrested to be deportated. Mr. Ohashi, a lawyer, has taken a quick step applying for suspension of deportation.
    But it was too late. They have the UN mandate!!
    Among advanced countries concluding the Refugee (…)

  • Call for the 2nd National Assembly of United for Peace and Justice
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Because the war in Iraq represents the U.S government’s unchecked drive towards global domination, and wreaks havoc on poor and working people at home and around the world, with ramifications so drastic we can barely imagine;
    Because this is a war, at home and abroad, against people of color and it must be ended in all its manifestations;
    Because the majority of people in our country and throughout the world oppose the war;
    Because hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been and continue (…)

  • The Gonzales Indictment
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marjorie Cohn
    Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States. He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, the War Crimes Act.
    COUNT I: Application of Geneva Conventions; Definition of Torture
    On or about January 25, 2002 through January 16, 2005, Defendant ALBERTO GONZALES, Counsel to George W. Bush, the President of the (…)

  • Is PM Allawi of Iraq just another Saddam?
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US official confirms Iragis PM Allawi shot six dead
    A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.
    The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week’s issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad (…)

  • Howard Zinn: US trying to bludgeon Iraq into submission
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ultimately we are going to have to get out of Iraq. It is only a question of how many people are going to die.
    excerpts from an interview on cspan which can be viewed here
    There are serious problems in this country and there is no money to solve them. There is no money for education, no money for health, no money for child care. While these problems are going on here, 40 million without health care, we are spending huge sums of money trying to conquer another country. Let’s face it, (…)

  • What Is the US Trying to Hide in Fallujah?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening.
    Speaking on condition of anonymity, he continued, "In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?"
    According to him, this was also done in the Nazal, Mualmeen, (…)

  • Two celebrations, two Americas: MLK Day and Bush’s Inauguration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Derrick O’Keefe
    This week features two major celebrations in the United States, and the contrasts between the figures being feted couldn’t be starker. Thursday’s second inauguration for George W. Bush comes only three days after Martin Luther King Day was celebrated on Monday, January 17. The two celebrations couldn’t be more opposed, revealing the chasm between the ‘two Americas.’ Gay and lesbian rights, and peace and justice issues were raised in a series of marches celebrating the (…)

  • The Scapegoat : Abu Ghraib - a policy, not an aberration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Justin Raimondo
    The show trial of U.S. Army reservist Charles Graner had something for everyone: tragedy, comedy, pathos, and propaganda. The tragic aspect was dominant, with the photos of the disgusting abuse illustrating the theme of senseless arbitrary violence, but there was also comedy, of a sort, with Guy Womack, Graner’s lawyer, making an argument that was unusual, to say the least:
    "Graner’s attorney said piling naked prisoners into pyramids and leading them by a leash were (…)