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  • Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest
    30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
    U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint (…)

  • DESMOND TUTU LIKENS ISRAELI ACTION TO APARTEID
    30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Adrianne Appel
    Published on Monday, October 29, 2007 by Inter Press Service
    BOSTON - South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu compared conditions in Palestine to those of South Africa under apartheid, and called on Israelis to try and change them, while speaking in Boston Saturday at historic Old South Church.”We hope the occupation of the Palestinian territory by Israel will end,” Tutu said.
    “There is a cry of anguish from the depth of my heart, to my spiritual relatives. (…)

  • A Mother’s View of War
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Mother’s View By Susan Handle Terbay of Dayton, Ohio
    Over four years ago when the President decided it was more important to invade Iraq than it was to pursue the group that attacked us on 9/11. I spoke out about it. I couldn’t grasp the whole meaning of attacking a nation that didn’t attack us and nothing and no one convinced me that was a good idea. Unfortunately my son was called up to go and help invade the country of Iraq. And I held my breath and prayed so hard that this was (…)

  • REDUCING US CASUALTIES BY KILLING MORE CIVILIANS
    28 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch
    Home of the Brave?
    By DAVE LINDORF
    Several years ago, I warned that as the Bush/Cheney administration sought to reduce politically problematic casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would resort to increased use of air attacks to combat the growing insurgency in Iraq and the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
    I also predicted that the result of this switch in tactics would lead to higher civilian casualties in those two countries.
    We’re now seeing those results. (…)

  • Why are Chickenhawks Allowed to Vote on War?
    28 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS
    DEMOCRATS:
    Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
    Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g . Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam. Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII. John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts. Charles Rangel: (…)

  • Oct. 27 Protests Throughout the United States (International ANSWER)
    28 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The October 27 demonstrations represented another important step forward for the anti-war movement in the United States.
    Oct 27 SF 2Over 100,000 people took to the streets in coordinated regional and local protests to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq. The October 27 demonstrations took place just six weeks after the September 15 National March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. that was led by Iraq War Veterans and family members of soldiers and marines.
    We have included below a (…)

  • Iran: The Road to Armageddon?
    27 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Felicity ARBUTHNOT
    Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists ..... “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13
    They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler? Then Saddam Hussein was “the butcher of Bagdad” and, of course the most dangerous man since Hitler - with weapons of mass destruction which could be unleashed on the world “in forty five minutes”.
    Colin Powell lied to the U.N., about the danger Iraq posed to the planet; George (…)

  • Fight the War Yourself or Just Shut Up
    27 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Camillo "Mac" Bica t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Monday 22 October 2007
    Recently, at a community forum on the war in Iraq, three individuals who termed themselves collectively as the "Patriots" made the argument that the war in Iraq was, and continues to be, necessary and important to fighting the war on terrorism, creating stability in the Middle East, and perhaps, even to prevent World War Three. Interestingly, none of the three "patriots" were, are, or intend to become (…)

  • The New Canadian National Anthem in honor of Canada becoming the 13th highest military spender in the world
    26 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Canada is spending more public money on its military today than it has since the Second World War, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
    According to the study, by Steven Staples, Director of the Rideau Institute and CCPA Research Associate, and Bill Robinson, Senior Advisor with the Rideau Institute, Canada’s military spending will reach $18.24 billion in 2007-08 — an increase of 9 percent over 2006-07 — and will continue to rise to $19.418 billion by (…)

  • THE SOVEREIGNTY SHAM OR SCAM
    26 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE SOVEREIGNTY SHAM
    By Peter Fredson
    October 26, 2007
    . The neoconservative NEW ORDER invaded Iraq by using false statements, killing thousands of its inhabitants, taking all the money in its banks, seizing control of all of its oil, destroying large parts of the infrastructure, and turning control of the country over to Far Right Christians and corporate executives to ravage and loot for fun and profit. It has constructed many firebases and forts, a huge expensive embassy, and (…)