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  • IRAQ : Conflict Takes Deadly Toll on Journalists, Especially in Iraq
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4559/print/ http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/ Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by The Los Angeles Times
    by Christian Berthelsen
    BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi journalists were killed in separate attacks Sunday, marking one of the deadliest days for reporters covering war-torn country in nearly a year.1016 01
    Four reporters for Iraqi media organizations were reported shot to death in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
    Previously (…)

  • THE IRAQI GENOCIDE by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blackwater Security, Bush’s Private Waffen SS
    Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?
    As a result of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other.
    It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from Iraqis (…)

  • London World Against War Conference on 1st December (STOPWAR.UK)
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Stop the War Coalition will be holding an international peace conference in London on 1st December. The World Against War conference is a follow up to the successful international conference we hosted in 2005.
    We expect peace and anti war groups from South America, the Middle East, USA, South Asia, Canada and Europe. The conference will discuss the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and opposition to any attack on Iran. It will also look at the broader struggle against war and for (…)

  • HILLARY CLINTON IS A HAWK
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CAMPAIGN 2008 Why Clinton voted with hawks Political reasons seen in declaring Iran corps ’terrorist’
    By Helene Cooper, New York Times
    (10-14) 04:00 PDT Washington —
    Sens. Joseph Biden and Chris Dodd voted against it. Sen. Barack Obama said he would have voted against it if he had voted. Former Sen. John Edwards implied he would have voted against it if he could have voted.
    And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton? She voted in favor of the measure in question, which asked the Bush (…)

  • WMD Chaser, Scott Ritter, Spreads Anti-War Advice
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Blake Morlock
    Scoot Ritter. Democrats and to try to teach them a thing or two.
    Lesson one: The term should be “war prevention,” not “anti-war.” It sounds better, Ritter said.
    Lesson two: Act like a military operation - learn the battlefield, prepare it and anticipate the other side’s moves before acting.
    “We need to start waging peace with the same tenacity with which we wagDemocrats were taken to school Sunday by a lifelong-conservative-Republican- turned-anti-war activist.e (…)

  • Turkey’s Kurdish Problem and its Impact on Northern Iraq
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Garbis Altinoglu 12-13 October 2007 Updated on 14 October 2007
    On October 7th, 13 army personnel, who were part of a unit conducting military operations at the Gabar mountain in the southeastern province of Shirnak were waylaid and killed by PKK guerillas. (These deaths followed the killing of 12 Kurdish peasants on September 29th in the same area, probably by the Turkish “security” forces.) On October 8th, two more soldiers died in mine explosions in Diyarbakir and Shirnak and three (…)

  • “Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Annihilation Of The Armenians?”
    14 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ruminant With A View
    SANTORINI, GREECE — (OfficialWire) — 10/14/07 — Elizabeth Boleman-Herring“I have issued the command—and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad—that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness . . . with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish (…)

  • Nothing depleted about ’depleted uranium’
    13 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi and visiting doctors, and a number of news reports, have reported that birth defects and cancers in Iraqi children have increased five- to 10-fold since the 1991 Gulf War and continue to increase sharply, to over 30-fold in some areas in southern Iraq. Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.
    The (…)

  • Pointing Out the Monsters among the Sheep
    13 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pointing Out the Monsters among the Sheep By David Glenn Cox
    They beat a 14-year-old child to death for a minor offense and the law says they did no wrong. Emmett Till was 14 when he was beaten to death in Mississippi back in 1955. He had supposedly whistled at a white woman but that minor offense carried a death sentence. Martin Lee Anderson had stolen his grandmother’s car and was sentenced to boot camp where he was executed for his crime. (…)

  • The People vs. the Profiteers
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Consider the case of Grayson’s client Bud Conyers, a big, bearded 43-year-old who lives with his ex-wife and her nine children, four of them his, in Enid, Oklahoma. Conyers worked in Iraq as a driver for Kellogg, Brown & Root. Spun off by Halliburton as an independent concern in April, KBR is the world’s fifth-largest construction company. Before the war started, the Pentagon awarded it two huge contracts: one, now terminated, to restore the Iraqi oil industry, and another, still in (…)