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  • BILL CLINTON, ANTI WAR ??? by FAIR
    3 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
    Times, Post and Bill Clinton’s dishonesty slide
    The New York Times and Washington Post (11/28/07) both failed to adequately challenge the dishonesty of former President Bill Clinton’s declaration that he had been opposed to the Iraq War "from the beginning." Clinton, in fact, was a supporter of the war, both before the invasion and in the first year or so of the fighting.
    In the Times’ words, though, Clinton’s new stance was just "more (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Australia dumps the United States: A Revolution in the Making
    1 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Before even taking office, Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is distancing himself, and the country, from the Bush administration and the “Anglo-American War of Terror”. Until now, UK and Australia have been two of the staunchest allies of the Bush administrations and its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, the situation has seriously changed, marking what seems to be the beginning of things to come for the US.
    Rudd has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • The Globe and Mail is peddling World War III: Will Canadians buy a war with Iran as easily as Americans bought Iraq?
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following article, “A plan to attack Iran swiftly and from above” by Paul Koring published in the November 22, 2007 issue of The Globe and Mail is an attempt to convince Canadians that a war with Iran is legitimate, and that it will have minimal consequences.
    What sane human being would read this article and not feel anger, sorrow, and the putrid smell of a neoconservative agenda to sell a war, a Nuclear World War.
    This propaganda piece disguised as a juvenile analysis of the (…)

  • IRAQ: THE WOMEN’S STORY (2006, 47’)
    26 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    StopWar.UK
    The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story.
    To make this film, two Iraqi women risk their lives to spend three months travelling all over the country with a camera to record the lives and experiences of women they meet. Dispatches: Iraq: The Women’s Story provides a compelling account of a life inside Iraq that is rarely seen (…)

  • Mike Gravel unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bravely speaks truth to power
    26 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This past Thanksgiving weekend, upon visiting a mall, I witnessed every day Americans coming together to support our troops overseas in Iraq and even Afghanistan. The volunteers manning this booth were collecting donated items and they in turn were packaging individual boxes to be shipped via Fed-Ex. These packages were being sent to our troops in time for the holidays. In seeing that display of true compassion, again in my mind, I screamed: They did not have to be there in the first (…)

  • No trace found for thousands of manuscripts U.S. troops discovered in 2003
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    azzaman.com By Mohammed Dhaher Azzaman, November 19, 2007
    Thousands of manuscripts have disappeared among them priceless copies of the Holy Koran, an Iraqi librarian said.
    The librarian, who wanted his name kept secret, said the manuscripts were “expropriated” by a U.S.-led force shortly after the 2003 invasion of Baghdad.
    The former government had moved the manuscripts from the national library shelves to a cellar close to the Umm al-Teboul mosque in Baghdad for fear of damage or (…)

  • Putin asks Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces to "be ready" for aggressors
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO’s "muscle-flexing" and said Russia’s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor.
    Putin, speaking to top generals less than two weeks before December 2 parliamentary elections, said the NATO military alliance had built up its forces close to Russia’s borders.
    "We see that military resources of certain states and members of the NATO alliance are being built up (…)