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  • You Can’t Eat A Soccer Ball
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the Autumn of 2004 in Baquabah, Iraq we made a lot of effort after the razing of Fallujah to win back some support of the Iraqi people.
    A general distrust grew among the local nationals and it was important to not lead into the elections with negative backlash. There was a surge of insurgent recruiting due to the injustice of destroying Fallujah and we wanted to take the wind out of it.
    One of the officer think tanks perched high above real action in Iraq, and high above any common (…)

  • Do we?
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do we really expect to read the paper tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now and expect no bad news out of Iraq? Apparently, several thousand Iraqis have made it a career choice to kill anything and anybody in the way of what they perceive to be justice. If we are going to pull out with our tail between our legs, shouldn’t we do it sooner rather than later?
    Do we really think we are helping things over there? What are we waiting for?
    Hell no. We are buying time to uninstall as much (…)

  • IRAQ: Making a killing: the big business of war
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While nearly 100,000 Iraqis and 1600 US troops have died as a result of the Iraq war and tens of thousands have been severely wounded, the war has proven to be extremely lucrative for the Houston-based oil services company Halliburton and the San Francisco-based construction company Bechtel. These are the two largest private contractors to the US occupation forces in Iraq.
    Iraq war and “reconstruction” contracts helped Halliburton to turn a profit in the first quarter of this year, after (…)

  • Custer Battles accused of killing innocent civilians, bilking millions and running wild in Iraq
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    His career in Baghdad was brief. And it ended badly.
    On a blistering July afternoon, three MP5 submachine guns were pointed at Robert Isakson. The men carrying the weapons wanted his money and his security pass.
    As Isakson tells it, they also wanted his guns, leaving him unarmed in a mess of a country and banned from its safest haven.
    "We were defenseless," says the former cop and FBI agent. He had come to Iraq to help rebuild the devastated country, accompanied by his 14-year-old son, (…)

  • Americans find innovative ways to fight unemployment
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The economy is strong...and it is getting stronger" George W Bush
    Upstate New York man gets the poop on outsourcing Sat April 30, 2005 1:19 AM GMT+05:30
    By Holly McKenna
    DELMAR, N.Y. (Reuters) - Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.
    Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labor, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings (…)

  • The case for immediate withdrawal
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE REPUBLICANS and Democrats can agree on one thing—the U.S. can’t withdraw its troops from Iraq right now.
    According to the Bush administration, U.S. forces have to help Iraq complete its transition to democracy, and prevent a slow spiral toward civil war.
    Despite occasional criticisms of Bush’s rush to invade, the argument from mainstream Democrats isn’t much different. “Now that we’re there, we’re there, and we can’t get out,” said Howard Dean, the new chair of the Democratic (…)

  • Revealed: documents show Blair’s secret plans for war
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair had resolved to send British troops into action alongside US forces eight months before the Iraq War began, despite a clear warning from the Foreign Office that the conflict could be illegal.
    A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that (…)

  • Vietnam vets reveal job struggle
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ALMOST half of Australia’s Vietnam War veterans experienced extreme difficulty settling into a job after returning from military service, research has found.
    By Roberta Mancuso
    ALMOST half of Australia’s Vietnam War veterans experienced extreme difficulty settling into a job after returning from military service, research has found.
    The study has been released a day before the 30th anniversary of the war’s end, when Saigon capitulated to the communists and was subsequently re-named Ho (…)

  • Howard Zinn: "To Be Neutral,To Be Passive In A Situation Is To Collaborate With Whatever Is Going On
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMY GOODMAN: He is an historian and author of one of the most popular books on American history, A People’s History of the United States. But before we go to him, we’re turning to an excerpt of a new film that chronicles his life. It’s titled, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, which is also the title of his autobiography. The film is produced by First Run Features. It’s narrated by Howard Zinn’s next door neighbor, actor Matt Damon.
    HOWARD ZINN: We grow up in a controlled society. (…)

  • Hugo Chavez: U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezulean leader: U.S. citizens oppressed Hugo Chavez in Havana for trade talks
    HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Saying that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.
    Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an international gathering of activists here that before an earlier trip to Cuba, a U.S. State Department undersecretary he did not identify warned (…)