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  • JOHN PILGER : LEST WE FORGET
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    1/15/07 "ICH" — — On Remembrance Day 2007 – Veterans Day in America – the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies. Hypocrisy was a presence. No one mentioned Iraq. No one uttered the slightest remorse for the fallen of that country. No one read the forbidden list.
    The forbidden list documents, without favor, the part the British state and its court have (…)

  • IRAQ : "BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE," a new book by DAHR JAMAIL
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Outrage in a Time of Apathy
    by Aaron Glantz
    SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it.In his new book, ‘Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq‘, Jamail writes of volunteering as a rescue ranger at a Denali National Park in the U.S. state of Alaska while news of the invasion and occupation of Iraq played on the radio.
    He had to get out of Anchorage, and in November 2003, (…)

  • Iranian Kurdistan: A simmering cauldron
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Simmering discontent among Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority - aided by the government’s conflict with a Turkish PKK offshoot - could spell major trouble for the Iranian government. The US government is fully aware of these tensions, and, according to published reports, is preparing several contingency plans to capitalize on mass discontent in these areas.
    12 November 2007
    By Kamal Nazer Yasin in Tehran for ISN Security Watch (12/11/07)
    The Iranian government is taking aim at a shadowy (…)

  • Iraqis Represent 17% to 21% of the World’s Refugees, and the People Responsible are Oblivious
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The Iraqi Red Crescent voiced ‘deep sorry’ for statements recently made by Iraqi officials on the situation of displaced people in Iraq, underlining that has nothing to do with the real situation of those displaced.
    “The Iraqi body voiced in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) that it is ‘deeply sorry’ for the statement made by some officials regarding the real situation of displaced people inside Iraq, mainly downplaying the sufferings and harsh (…)

  • Dems Put War Costs at $3.5 Trillion Through 2017
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Lobe
    U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $3.5 trillion through 2017 if both direct and indirect, or "hidden," costs are taken into account, according to a new report released Tuesday by Democrats in Congress.
    The 27-page report, entitled "War at Any Price?" [.pdf], concluded that the total economic costs incurred to date – including "hidden" expenses, such as higher oil prices, interest on borrowing, and the long-term care of injured soldiers – (…)

  • Spy Officials Tracking Key Scientists
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tracking scientists moving from country to country to share their expertise in building biological weapons is a major challenge, a top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday.
    By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, September 26, 2007
    (09-26) 11:21 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) —
    Unlike nuclear weapons or missiles, biological weapons can be manufactured in relatively nondescript facilities that are hard to detect. That makes tracking the people with the know-how to build the (…)

  • More Lost Weapons in Iraq
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African (…)

  • Marlboro Marine
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/
    "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh." George W. Bush

  • EDUCATION: SCHOOLS, ACADEMICS IN THE GUN SIGHTS
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    IPS - Inter-Press Service News Agency
    By Thalif Deen
    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (IPS) - A "dramatic increase" in targeted violence against schools and educational institutions, mostly in conflict zones, is having a devastating effect on students, teachers, trade unionists, administrators and education officials, according to a new U.N. study released here.
    Photo : International Action Center
    In 2006, militants killed 85 students and teachers, and destroyed 187 schools in battle-scarred (…)

  • The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet
    by Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D. – The Canadian November 8, 2007
    The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games (…)