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  • Media mixed on Iran nuclear report
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media mixed on Iran nuclear report
    Iran’s press has broadly welcomed a US intelligence report suggesting Tehran is not actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, although some papers caution against seeing this as a victory over the US.
    Israeli press comment notes the differences in US and Israeli perceptions of Iran. The Russian media saw the report as a vindication of Moscow’s policy of engagement with Iran, and the Chinese media thought it was an embarrassment for President (…)

  • Bush Drops Standard on Iran as Credibility Questioned
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Drops Standard on Iran as Credibility Questioned
    By Ken Fireman and Jeff Bliss – Bloomberg.com December 5, 2007
    President George W. Bush, his credibility under fire because of intelligence that Iran halted its nuclear weapons drive in 2003, adopted a new argument yesterday to justify tougher sanctions: Just knowing how to produce a bomb is dangerous.
    Bush, speaking at a White House news conference, said a new report by U.S. intelligence agencies concluding that Iran halted its (…)

  • Voices of the Iraq War Dissenters Ring Out
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “One’s first obligation is to the moral truth buried deep inside our own souls.” - Ex-Private First Class Joshua Key, U.S. Army (1)
    From soldiers in the U.S. Army, who refused to be deployed to Iraq; to diplomats who resigned their offices rather than endorse an illegal war; to courageous whistleblowers inside the U.S. and British governments, who put themselves at risk to tell the truth about the lies that took their countries to war; this book has it all, and more. Entitled: “Dissent: (…)

  • GEORGE W. BUSH’S ATTEMPT TO CLOAK FOR IRAN/CONTRA
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Operation Black Eagle : google it and you’ll find that the Bush Cabal has tried to connect it to operations being carried out by US troops in Iraq and, they’ve done a damn fine job of it too...
    Don’t be fooled!
    The Coke was Stored in Hangars 4 and 5 Operation Black Eagle became a network of 5000 people who made possible the export of arms in the direction of Central America, and the import of drugs ... in other words, IRAN/CONTRA www.freedomdomain.com/drugwars/contra01.html - 16k - (…)

  • US forces pillage, destroy humanity’s most ancient artifacts in occupied Iraq
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An-Nasiriyah
    Iraqi Resistance Report for 12/1/2007
    140,000 ancient relics officially recorded as having been stolen or destroyed since US invasion in spring 2003
    In a dispatch posted at 9:54pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces were continuing to destroy, rob, and smuggle ancient Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts despite opposition by UNESCO, Iraqi intellectuals, and even the attempts by the American-installed "Iraqi Ministry of Culture" to stop (…)

  • O’Malley Hugs Olmert, While USS Liberty Is Forgotten
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Time’s glory is...to wrong the wronger, till he render right.” - William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon
    On Nov. 27, 2007, an ultra-hyped, one-day Mideast parley was held in Annapolis, MD, the capital of the state. This is also where the U.S. Naval Academy is located. The idea that the hawkish Bush-Cheney Gang is going to successfully broker an Israel/Palestine peace is absurd. In a show-off-like gesture Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley invited Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for (…)

  • IRAQ: 120 WAR VETS COMMIT SUICIDE EACH WEEK
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Penny Coleman, ALTERNET November 26, 2007.
    The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
    Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the (…)

  • MILITARY SLAUGHTERS IRAQI CIVILIANS by DAHR JAMAIL
    2 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tomdispatch.com, November 27, 2007
    Mainstream media would have you believe the U.S. military has only killed Iraqi "militants," "extremists" and "criminals" — even when the people gunned down are women and children.
    "Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him." — Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
    Name them. Maim them. Kill them.
    From the beginning of the American occupation in Iraq, air strikes and attacks by (…)

  • Friendless dollar is turned away at the gates of the Taj Mahal
    30 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Friendless dollar is turned away at the gates of the Taj Mahal
    Ashling O’Connor in Bombay – The Times November 20, 2007
    The Taj Mahal and other top tourist sites in India are refusing to accept dollars to pay for admission, dealing another blow to the prestige of the weakened American currency.
    Entry tickets to the world famous Mughal tomb in Agra and about 120 sites run by the Archaeological Survey of India will be available only at a fixed rupee rate after the dollar lost more than (…)

  • Demolishing homes in the Empire, from New Orleans to Gaza: Rachel Corrie knew that ‘We Reap What We
    29 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “On 16 March 2003 in Rafah, occupied Gaza, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie from Olympia, Washington, was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver. Rachel was in Gaza opposing the bulldozing of a Palestinian home as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement.”
    This was a pivotal moment for many around the world. It proved once and for all that there are brave and selfless Americans who are willing to sacrifice their lives to undo what has been done. Israel has (…)