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  • Obama to Urge Elimination of World’s Nuclear Weapons
    5 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
    In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a (…)

  • Imperial Playground : The Story of Iran in Recent History
    5 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew G. Marshall
    Global Research, October 4, 2007
    PART 1
    In recent months and even years, the United States and it’s close allies have been stepping up efforts to display Iran in a very negative light, labeling it as a terrorist nation bent on developing nuclear weapons to use against Israel and other allies of the United States in the Middle East, and possibly further outside of the region, or to deliver those nuclear weapons to the hands of terrorists hoping to use them against (…)

  • United States to begin Chemical Warfare operations in Afghanistan
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States is planing to implement a massive chemical-spraying program in Afghanistan, emulating the failed Plan Columbia program that has been in operation for the last decade in Latin American.
    “The recent appointment of a former US ambassador to Colombia as envoy to Kabul is seen as the most overt move by Washington to ensure that spraying takes place in Afghanistan. William Wood, who has acquired the nickname ‘Chemical Bill’ among British and other Nato officials for his (…)

  • Beytushebab Massacre: Lies and Crimes of Turkish Militarists
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Beytushebab Massacre: Lies and Crimes of Turkish Militarists Garbis Altinoglu, 3-4 October 2007
    On September 29th, Turkish news agencies informed the Turkish and world public about a so-called PKK attack in which 12 people of Kurdish origin (7 of whom were Village Guards working for the “security” forces) were said to have lost their lives. They were mowed down in their minibus near the village of Hemkan attached to Beytushebab town of Shirnak province (…)

  • AIPAC, Israel, and the United States, oh my
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    I want to preface my article, by stating it is important that you go to the link at the bottom to read all the embedded hyperlinks as well as watch the YouTube.com feed that is also embedded within the piece.
    AIPAC, Israel, and the United States, oh my
    By Mary MacElveen
    October 4, 2004
    As it pertains to the use of nuclear weapons or our concern whether or not a country does have them or our belief that a country is trying to build one, I often wonder if we even have the moral (…)

  • BLACKWATER WATCH OVER ME (song)
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Click on the music here:
    http://tristancafe.com/music/midis/some12watch.mid
    BLACKWATER WATCH OVER ME. There’s a company of mercenaries friends of George Bush, hey! won’t you please.... Blackwater, watch over me. The State Department was told that they should... free them from law, pay them "real good" Blackwater, watch over me. Although they may be just a tad trigger happy they’re just killing heathens, that’s OK, you see... Won’t you tell Congress to get off their case... criminal (…)

  • New revelations in attack on American spy ship
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Special report New revelations in attack on American spy ship
    Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn’t tell full story of deadly ’67 incident By John Crewdson | Tribune senior correspondent
    Remember the USS LIBERTY!
    – http://www.chicagotribune.com/servi...

  • LONDON : MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2007: MARCH TO PARLIAMENT, IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2007: MARCH TO PARLIAMENT, IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
    Tony Benn, Brian Eno, Mark Thomas, Walter Wolfgang, George Galloway and Ben Griffin (ex SAS trooper) will head the march to Parliament in defiance of the ban. Make sure you are there to demand troops out and in defence of our civil liberties. It is vital that we defy the ban. Don’t miss this demo.
    Assemble at 1.00PM in Trafalgar Square
    “If they are planning an Iranian attack they will have a public even more upset and (…)

  • VENEZUELA Defends Iran, Blasts ‘Hypocritical’ US Policy On Terror (commondreams)
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    NO AFP on Bellaciao please !
    UNITED NATIONS - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday used the General Assembly podium here to defend Iran and to blast Washington’s “hypocritical” policy on terrorism.../...
    URL to article: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/03/4299/

  • ’The US Will Lose War Regardless What it Does’
    3 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gabriel Kolko
    In an interview with Der Spiegel online, American military historian Gabriel Kolko argues that the situation in Iraq is worse than ever and that the artificial nation, created after World War I, is breaking up. The "surge," he says, is also failing.
    SPIEGEL: The long-awaited results of the "surge" are now in. Has the surge succeeded? Is there reason for optimism in Iraq?
    KOLKO: Both United States Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will deliver (…)