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  • IRAN : B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran, Not For Decommissioning: Airforce Refused
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater
    By Wayne Madsen Sept. 24, 2007
    WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
    However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the (…)

  • USA : "The Revolt of the Generals": Generals opposing Iraq war break with military tradition
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Revolt of the Generals": Generals opposing Iraq war break with military tradition
    By Mark Sauer
    Global Research, September 28, 2007 Union Tribune - 2007-09-27
    The generals acted independently, coming in their own ways to the agonizing decision to defy military tradition and publicly criticize the Bush administration over its conduct of the war in Iraq.
    What might be called The Revolt of the Generals has rarely happened in the nation’s history.
    In op-ed pieces, interviews and (…)

  • IRAN-USA : Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
    By Juan Cole
    09/24/07 "Salon" — - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become a media circus. But the controversy does not stem from the reasons usually cited.
    The media has focused on debating whether he should be allowed to speak at Columbia University on Monday, or (…)

  • Blackwater: a summary of what Americans are paying for with their tax dollars
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It has taken a long time for the mainstream media to finally report on what is referred to as “America’s Private Army”. We welcome them to the truth, but unfortunately, as children who have recently discovered that there is no Santa Clause, they seem to be surprised as to the revelations of what is and has been happening.
    If their disbelief about Blackwater is genuine, or not, is something that you will have to personally decide. Many believe that the mainstream media has been (…)

  • IRAN : US, NATO and Israel Deploy Nukes directed against Iran
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US, NATO and Israel Deploy Nukes directed against Iran
    By Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, September 27, 2007
    In late August, reported by the Military Times, a US Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana with six AGM advanced cruise missiles, each of which was armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead. "... Missiles were mounted on the pylons under its wings. Each of the warheads carried a yield of up to 150 kilotons, (…)

  • IRAQ: Blackwater ‘may be worse than Abu Ghraib’
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steve Benen
    To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation.
    A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of (…)

  • The Broken Window
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Presenting neither the vision we would need to see of the world as it is nor protecting us from the cold rain. It exists as a relic, a partial reality but a total falsity. Invisible to the naked eye but jagged enough to bloody those who attempt to prove the point.
    The result’s are in the elections over! All hail President Hillary! The corporate vote is in and the rich and powerful have spoken. In a decisive victory corporate America has voted to continue the policies (…)

  • Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq ’Regime Change’ Before Becoming President
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Neil Mackay
    15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ’regime change’ even before he took power in January 2001.
    The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a ’global Pax Americana’ was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy), George W Bush’s younger brother Jeb and (…)

  • Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson, www.afterdowningstreet.org/possible
    [Remarks at September 15, 2007, impeachment rally in Miami, Fla., organized by www.floridaimpeach.org ]
    It’s great to see such a crowd and so many groups represented. I especially want to thank Veterans for Peace. Dave Cline was a great leader and will be badly missed. We should all go out and do as much as he did with his admirable life.
    On a lighter note, I went to a party yesterday in Washington, D.C. You might think we have very (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Even I question the ’truth’ about 9/11 (video)
    27 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience – just one – whom I call the "raver". Apologies here to all the men and women who come to my talks with bright and pertinent questions – often quite humbling ones for me as a journalist – and which show that they understand the Middle East tragedy a lot better than the journalists who report it. But the "raver" is real. He has turned up in corporeal form in Stockholm and in Oxford, in Sao (…)