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  • Thousands of police officers who refused to fight Sadr are given the sack
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of police officers who refused to fight Sadr are given the sack
    Azzaman, March 31, 2008
    Interior Minister Jawad Boulani has ordered the dismissal of thousands of police members and officers who allegedly refused orders to take part in the fight against the militiamen of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
    The decision covers most of the police force in the predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and also several cities in the southern Iraq including Basra where most of the (…)

  • Regime Change: An American Addiction
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The seizure of faraway lands by America...is a perversion of our national mission.” - President Grover Cleveland, in 1893.
    It didn’t start with the U.S.’s Neocon-inspired invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. Whether knowingly or not, the morally bankrupt Bush-Cheney Gang was following an imperial script which is over 110 years old. During that period, the U.S. has “overthrown fourteen governments that displeased it for various ideological, political and economic reasons,” writes Stephen (…)

  • Iraq : Classified memo reveals Iraqi prisoners as "starving" By Jason Leopold
    1 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Online Journal Mars 28, 2008
    A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is "so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
    “The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to do the right thing in terms of caring for the prisoners even with our own dollars, or release them,” says the memo, written late last month by Maj. Gen. John Kelly, (…)

  • Ralph NADER : The Silent Violence of Gaza’s Suffering That Candidates ignore
    31 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch
    The world’s largest prison—Gaza prison with 1.5 million inmates, many of them starving, sick and penniless—is receiving more sympathy and protest by Israeli citizens, of widely impressive backgrounds, than is reported in the U.S. press.
    In contrast, the humanitarian crisis brought about by Israeli government blockades that prevent food, medicine, fuel and other necessities from coming into this tiny enclave through international relief organizations is received with (…)

  • UN rejects water as basic human right
    30 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    OTTAWA - The Harper government can declare victory after a United Nations meeting rejected calls for water to be recognized as a basic human right.
    Published on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Source: CanWest News Service
    Instead, a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. The countries also chose to scrap the idea of creating an international watchdog to investigate the issue, (…)

  • ARE WE SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN IRAQ ?
    29 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ARE WE SEEING THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN IRAQ AS AN ALLIANCE OF SHIITE INSURGENTS JOIN FORCES AGAINST THE U.S.?
    Saturday, March 29, 2008
    Last October, 2007, Moktada al Sadr and Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, two of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite leaders, agreed to put their differences aside in an effort to confront their common enemy, the US occupation. For a while the two groups pulled their heads in while they reconfigured their approach to the problem.
    It seems now that they are ready to take (…)

  • In The Words Of The Dead
    26 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lizette Alvarez and Andrew Lehren
    March 26, 2008
    BY THE time Jerry Ryen King decided to write about his experiences in Iraq, the teenage paratrooper had more to share than most soldiers.
    In two operations to clear the outskirts of the village of Turki in the eastern Diyala province, Specialist King and the rest of the 5th Squadron faced days of firefights, grenade attacks and landmines. Well-trained insurgents had burrowed deep into muddy canals, a throwback to the trenches of World (…)

  • The Feudal Serf System in Tibet Before 1959
    23 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Society Based on a Regime that Combined the Political and Religious Powers, and Divided People into Three Strata and Nine Grades Tibet before 1959 had a society of feudal serfdom. Along with the general characteristics of feudal serfdom, there were many remnants of slavery. This social system was more cruel and reactionary than serfdom in Europe in the Middle Ages. The serf-owners’ economic interests were protected by a political system that combined political and religious powers, ruling (…)

  • NO ATTACK ON MOSUL CITY / IRAQ
    21 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Attack on Mosul!
    An International Emergency Statement of Intellectuals and Activists * - 05 February 2008. International Anti-Occupation Network
    Bush’s failure in Iraq requires a new “success”. While the blood-soaked US occupation in Iraq declares one victory after another since nearly five years, it stages massacre after massacre of the people of Iraq. ow the occupation declares a new “decisive” success is imminent, this time against the population of Mosul, the second largest city (…)

  • The Truth About Tibet : Not As Peaceful As They Want You To Think
    21 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is no excuse for the PRC’s violent response to the recent Tibetan protests, but the Western viewpoint of the peace-loving non-violent Tibetan monk is little more than a Shangri-la Myth carefully orchestrated by Tibetan exiles to insure Western support and favour.
    The truth of the matter is that Tibet was historically a feudal society completely dominated by noblemen and monasteries who enlisted Western support in the 1950’s when Communism threatened their power and wealth.
    Global (…)