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  • Hillary Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry
    20 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hillary Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry
    By Leonard Doyle in Washington Published: 19 October 2007
    The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street’s favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their (…)

  • PEACE PRIZE AWARDS TO WAR CRIMINALS
    19 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nobel Hypocrisy By Stephen Lendman
    Alfred Nobel was a wealthy nineteenth century Swedish-born chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, armaments manufacturer and war profiteer who remade his image late in life by establishing the awarding of prizes in his name that includes the one for peace. This most noted award was inspired by his one-time secretary and peace activist, Bertha von Suttner, who was nominated four times and became the first of only 12 women to be honored.
    Since it was (…)

  • BUSH’S WW III
    19 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michel CHOSSUDOVSKY
    "We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously...." (George W. Bush, 17 October 2007)
    "I believe that. I believe that [the revolt of passengers on the hijacked flight 93 on (…)

  • Who Said What?
    18 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Score Cards! Get your scorecards! Can’t tell the players without a scorecard. In Soviet Russia the one party communist state would choose two candidates to run for a party office. Then the people would be asked to vote to decide on the candidates already anointed by the power structure. It was only the illusion of democracy, a silly exercise.
    Only by offering pastries and free beer to those who had voted could the Soviets keep the facade operating.
    So when Americans (…)

  • Can We Prevent an Iran Attack?
    17 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Galbraith, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch Posted on October 16, 2007, Printed on October 17, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/65335/ http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/
    This essay appeared previously on TomDispatch; it features an introduction by editor Tom Englehardt.
    Be careful what you wish for — that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the (…)

  • New Cold War : Simultaneously, Russia and America Conduct Major War Games (M.Chossudovsky)
    17 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, October 16, 2007
    There has been a virtual media blackout on the conduct of major military exercises by both Russia and the US. .
    Reminiscent of the Cold War, Russia and America are conducting major war games simultaneously.
    The Russian Air Force will be conducting major military exercises over a large part of its territory from the 16th to the 30th of October.
    These Russian exercises coincide chronologically with the conduct of major US (…)

  • IRAQ : Counting Iraq Death by Gideon POLYA
    17 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Layperson’s guide to counting Iraq deaths MWC News Magazine
    AVOIDABLE MORTALITY (technically, excess mortality) is the difference between the actual mortality in a country and the mortality expected for a peaceful, decently-run country with the same demographics (i.e. with the same birth rate and the same population age profile). Avoidable mortality is a fundamental parameter to be considered in any sensible discussion of human affairs – it is the bottom-line issue when assessing the (…)

  • 8 Million Deaths & Media Holocaust Denial
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    8 Million Deaths & Media Holocaust Denial from Media with Conscience
    by Dr Gideon Polya
    The 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan is approaching. This horrendous war crime was committed ostensibly in response to the 9/11 atrocity in which 3,000 people died.
    While the egregiously dishonest and violent Bush Administration asserts that this atrocity was committed by Muslim Men in Caves, nobody has been arraigned and tried and there is a large body of available evidence (…)

  • Why Are Americans So Fearful?
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why Are Americans So Fearful?
    Warning: this essay is chock full of politically incorrect musings.
    Observing our relentless march toward war abroad against Iran and looming dictatorship at home, it’s obvious to me that our “leaders” are getting away with this agenda because Americans are so fearful. But why? What are they afraid of? Answering this question is important because I think this irrational fear is finding an outlet in anger, which is evident in
    the police brutality we see (…)

  • Time to Ban Weaponized Uranium (DU)
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, October 15, 2007 by the Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)
    by Ron Forthofer, Dick Williams and Gretchen Williams
    ‘There is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of (ionizing) radiation so low that the risk of a malignancy is zero.”
    “The Veterans Administration seems always on the defensive to make sure the victims are not compensated.”
    These quotes by Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, one of the founders of the field of health physics who also served as radiation safety (…)