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  • Tariq Ali - Resistance is the first step
    4 November 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence
    This is the classic initial stage of guerrilla warfare against a colonial occupation
    By Tariq Ali
    The Guardian (UK) November 3, 2003
    Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo’s anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening was purely educative. The French won that battle, but lost the (…)

  • US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s...
    22 September 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s Annual List
    By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet September 17, 2003
    We know a lot more now about the dangers and disasters of U.S. empire building in Iraq - the ongoing bloodshed on the ground, expansion of terrorist activities, the huge budget busting costs of occupation, the stretching and undermining of the military, and the increased sense of fear and insecurity that many Americans feel as a result of the invasion and its potential for (…)

  • Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace
    30 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tariq Ali
    The Age
    August 27, 2003
    The recolonisation of Iraq is not proceeding smoothly.
    The resistance in the country (and in Palestine) is not, as Israeli and Western propagandists like to argue, a case of Islam gone mad. It is, in both cases, a direct consequence of the occupation. Before the recent war, some of us argued that the Iraqi people, however much they despised Saddam Hussein, would not take kindly to being occupied by the United States and its British adjutant. (…)

  • America’s Crumbling Authority
    25 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN Attack Underlines America’s Crumbling Authority And Shows It Can Not Guarantee The Safety Of Any One
    Robert Fisk
    08/20/03: What UN member would ever contemplate sending peace-keeping troops to Iraq now? The men who are attacking America’s occupation army are ruthless, but they are not stupid. They know that President George Bush is getting desperate, that he will do anything - that he may even go to the dreaded Security Council for help - to reduce US military losses in Iraq. But (…)