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  • Time To Cancel Tsunami Countries’ Debt
    13 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mark Engler
    Despite an increase in promised aid to tsunami-affected countries last week, the United States’ aid offering still isn’t topping the list. Australia, for one, has donated much more. But the United States could make up for its somewhat meager offering by forgiving debt payments for tsunami countries. A temporary moratorium on payments won’t be enough. It’s time to go farther-much farther-and end debt obligations for tsunami countries in Southeast Asia. Trouble is, we (…)

  • Iraq: The Devastation
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The invasion of Iraq was just a preview of the untold misery and destruction to come under U.S. occupation.
    By Dahr Jamail
    The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I’m still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this.
    The illegal war and occupation of Iraq was waged for three reasons, according to the Bush administration. First for weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be found. Second, because the regime of (…)

  • Troops: Suicide or Prison better than returning to Iraq
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three recent stories (Jan 05) highlight just how bad Iraq is- that some soldiers would rather go to prison or die than return to the carnage that is the US occupation. A 19-year-old US Marine committed “suicide by cop” rather than return to Iraq.
    Raya was finally gunned down as he ran towards a group of officers, and apparently reached for a second weapon.
    Julia Cortez Raya told the newspaper that her son served in Fallujah.
    She said: “He came back different.”
    Marine Lance Cpl. (…)

  • Investigate Alleged Violations of Law in Fallujah Attack
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the beginning of their recent attack on Fallujah, U.S. Marines and Iraqi National Guard troops stormed Fallujah General Hospital, closing it to the city’s wounded and confiscating cell phones from the doctors. A senior officer told The New York Times the hospital was "a center of propaganda."
    Interviews with hospital personnel (which had revealed the extent of civilian casualties in an aborted April invasion) would not be a problem this time.
    As the invasion proceeded, air strikes (…)

  • Iraq, torture? Not if cheerleaders do it, lawyer claims
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jenny Booth
    Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.
    A lawyer defending Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids was a valid form of prisoner control.
    "Don’t cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" said Guy (…)

  • War Crimes Rountable- Who is really responsible for Abu Ghraib?
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War Crimes Roundtable
    As the Abu-Ghraib prison scandal began to pierce through the public consciousness, Contributing Editor Mark LeVine brought together four leading experts on international and American constitutional law to explore the implications of the scandal and the larger issue of the violations of international and American law that have become part of the fabric of the US-led occupation of Iraq.
    The extent of the daily violations of international law, including systematic war (…)

  • Why I Refused a 2nd Deployment to Iraq
    11 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First a brief forward from POAC co-editor Jack Dalton. I received an email a few moments ago from Kevin’s wife Monica. In it she has told me a total of 22 people in Sgt Benderman’s unit have refused to deploy to Iraq. 17 have gone AWOL and 2 have attempted suicide. The status of the remaining 3 is unknown at this time. We at the POAC fully support the decision to refuse deployment to Iraq which has been made by Sgt Benderman, and the others in his unit.
    I am Sgt Kevin Benderman and: (…)

  • AFL-CIO Condemns the Murder of Top Iraqi Trade Unionist
    11 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    * statements by the AFL-CIO and USLAW (United States Labor Against War)
    * AFL-CIO Condemns the Murder of Top Iraqi Trade Unionist January 05, 2005
    The AFL-CIO today condemned the murder of Hadi Salih, the international secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), who was shot last night by assassins who broke into his Baghdad home.
    AFL-CIO President Sweeney said, "Hadi was a courageous trade unionist fighting for Iraqi workers. He put aside all thoughts of his own personal (…)

  • The NeoCon Agenda and Tsunami Relief
    10 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the U.S. relief aid to tsunami-stricken Indonesia is undoubtedly saving untold lives, there is a dark side to it that will have a much longer-lasting effect on that nation than the devastation wrought by the killer waves. After a slow, seemingly reluctant start, with a paltry pledge of $15 million, George W. Bush did a complete turnaround and upped the number to $350 million. He also sent the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and a growing flotilla of other naval (…)

  • From the Collectif guantanamo france on the third anniversary of the concentration camp
    10 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The longest and biggest hostage taking of the 21st century enters its 4th year: guantanamo, a violation of right and sovereignty
    On this Monday, January 10th, the detention by the USA of 545 citizens from 42 countries at the concentration camp of Guantanamo, located on the territory of the Republic of Cuba, enters its 4th year. 202 other detainees have so far been released or repatriated.
    The expression ‘concentration camp’ has not been invented by the Nazis or by the Soviet rulers, but (…)