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  • Pulling No Punches: We’ve been overtaken by gangsters
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’ve been asked to speak to you for 5 minutes or so. Please forgive me, but I’m going to take a little more than 8 minutes. The additional time that I’m going to steal from you is dedicated to my son, Casey, whose entire future was stolen from him.
    My son was killed in Iraq on this day one year ago, the same day of April on which Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. From a jail in Birmingham, on April 16 1963 Dr. King wrote these words: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely (…)

  • Children Recruited in the USA: ’Enlistment bonuses’ offered to 14 yr olds
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for future combat duty.
    By Tim Schmitt
    Colin Hadley spends most of his days after school skateboarding or playing Halo II on his new X-Box with friends. He sleeps until noon or later on weekends and rarely, if ever, does any schoolwork outside the classroom, where he pulls down solid C’s and a few D’s - just enough to get by. He’s the typical 15-year-old (…)

  • AT LEAST 50 US SOLDIERS KILLED ON THURSDAY, APRIL 14
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 14 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Thursday, 14 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province.
    Al-Q’aim.
    In a dispatch posted at 9:55am Thursday morning Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that after failing on Wednesday night to storm the besieged city of al-Qa’im from four directions, US forces used loudspeakers on Thursday morning (…)

  • Congressional report shows US investing hundreds of millions constructing "long-term" bases in Iraq
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: New Report From Congressional Research Service Shows US Has Long-Term Plans To Stay In Iraq Report Commissioned By Kucinich Shows US Is Spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars On "Long-Term" Bases In Iraq
    WASHINGTON — April 14 — A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report commissioned by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), and released today, shows that the United States is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the construction of "long-term" bases in Iraq.
    The (…)

  • How the Bush Administration’s Biological Weapons Buildup Affects You
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A U.S. company recently sent vials of a 1957 pandemic flu strain to laboratories across the world by accident is only the latest outrage from the billion-dollar boondoggle called the federal biological weapons program.
    As you might recall, the Bush administration started its “biodefense” spending spree following the September 2001 deadly anthrax attacks, and one of its first projects was to genetically engineer a super-resistant, even more deadly version of the anthrax virus. (…)

  • U.S. soldiers : how many have gone to war?
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even experts are surprised at the vast numbers of U.S. soldiers who have been deployed after 9/11. Even if troop levels in Iraq are cut next year, the military may be permanently damaged.
    By Mark Benjamin
    Three and a half years have passed since U.S. bombs started falling in Afghanistan, and ever since then, the U.S. military has been engaged in combat overseas. What most Americans are probably unaware of, however, is just how many American soldiers have been deployed. Well over 1 (…)

  • FIERCE FIGHTING IN AL-QA’IM, HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 12 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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    Tuesday, 12 April 2005.
    The Battle of al-Qa’im. Ferocious US attack repulsed.
    Resistance communiqué Tuesday night gives US forces 12 hours to withdraw from environs of al-Qa’im.
    Men and women fighters flock to defend liberated city.
    Woman Resistance fighter (…)

  • Occupation Watch: "No Staff on the Ground in Iraq"
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Occupation Watch Center, launched in July 2003 with the staff of "two Iraqi women and two international peace workers," was quietly restructured. Now the center has "no staff on the ground in Iraq." Lack of funding? If so, that’s a shame. As the power elite implant fake news and manufacture consent through the corporate media, the anti-war movement in the United States needs its own foreign correspondents, photographers, and documentary film makers. The Occupation Watch (…)

  • Karzai Wants US To Stay In Afghanistan Permanently
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a surprise move today, the Mayor of Kab...er...I mean the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is requesting a long-term security pact with the United states that - get this - may include permanent U.S. military bases. When asked about this latest development, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who is visiting the country, reportedly said that it was up to his boss, Junta leader George Bush to decide if the U.S. will honor Karzai’s request.
    In Washington, White House Press (…)

  • Rigging The Game
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    In sixth grade, I used to play pick-up basketball against a neighborhood bully and spoil sport nicknamed Major Pick. He was called Major Pick because he barked orders like a soldier and constantly picked his butt. His team would always win because the overpowering brute would either break the rules or change them.
    For example, in our game, the team that first reached 15 points always won. Unless, of course, the Major Pick’s team came up short, prompting him to (…)