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  • Hizbollah ’did not use civilians as cover’
    27 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Lavie in Jerusalem
    In its strongest condemnation of Israel since last summer’s war, Human Rights Watch said yesterday that most Lebanese civilian casualties were caused by "indiscriminate Israeli air strikes".
    The international human rights organisation said there was no basis to the Israeli claim that civilian casualties resulted from Hizbollah guerrillas using civilians for cover. Israel has said that it attacked civilian areas because Hizbollah set up rocket launchers in (…)

  • Get Out of the Valley of Elah
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never "defund our troops." In the evening I watched Paul Haggis’s new film "In the Valley of Elah." I walked out stunned, shaken, far more angry than I’d been, and convinced that we shouldn’t be asking Congress Members to end the occupation, we should be asking them to watch this movie. If any Congress Member were to watch this (…)

  • Bush’s False Analogies Between Vietnam and Iraq!
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Brian McAfee
    With President Bush recently bringing up the killing fields of South East Asia as justification for the US continuing the war in Iraq [1], I could not help but think of John Pilger’s 1991 film "Cambodia: The Betrayal." This documentary investigates and outlines the West’s, particularly the US’s, behind the scenes and ongoing support for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Indeed, this backing began during the Carter administration and it continued throughout both the Reagan and (…)

  • Bush Planned to Invade Iraq regardless of UN approval.
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraq invasion and occupation was planned with or without UN approval.
    – http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e...
    Of course, we KNEW this in 2003. Both Blix and Scott Ritter declared there were no WMD and bush’s anxiousness to invade was personal, not based on threats.
    Impeachment is still off the table. Thanks Nancy.

  • 3800 Into the Valley of Death
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3797 Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 3 Total 3800 Latest Coalition Fatality: Sep 25, 2007
    The Charge Of The Light Brigade
    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854 Written 1854
    Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ’Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns’ he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six (…)

  • Ghost Dance
    25 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ghost Dance By David Glenn Cox
    When the Teton Sioux nation surrendered in 1876-77 they were promised that they could maintain sovereignty on their land. They would be treated as a sovereign nation; they could elect their own leaders and make their own policies. But very quickly it became apparent that they were captives on their own land. They could choose only the leaders that met with Washington’s approval. They could set only policies that (…)

  • A Remarkable Day at Columbia U.
    25 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Things are in the saddle And ride mankind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Like a rubber band pulled to its very limits before snapping, tensions regarding the "War on Terror", the Israeli issue, and the seemingly inevitable military conflict with Iran charged the atmosphere with electricity on Monday afternoon when President Amadinejad spoke at Columbia University. Not since the riots of ’68, which in part fomented the ideological foundations for Neoconservativism, has a University event caused (…)

  • US Doors Cracked to Iraqi Refugees - A full-blown humanitarian disaster looms in Iraq
    24 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, September 24, 2007 by Inter Press Service US Doors Cracked to Iraqi Refugees
    A full-blown humanitarian disaster looms in Iraq, warns a new report on the refugee crisis there by Amnesty International, and the international community is responding with little more than “global apathy”
    by Ali Gharib
    The report, “Millions in Flight: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis”, released Monday, charges that the international community and particularly countries responsible for the onset (…)

  • The Oracle Iraq Body Count
    23 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabriele Zamparini
    The Toronto Star informed us today:
    "The death toll could be twice our number, but it could not possibly be 10 times higher," he [John Sloboda, professor of psychology at Keele University, and a co-founder of IBC] told me, referring to the other studies.
    Question: How can a professor of psychology who collects Iraqi deaths through media reports possibly know what the death toll could be? We are in prophecy territory here. Don’t take me wrong; I love mythology (…)

  • Bush’s Fake Sheik Whacked: The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny
    23 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Turns out that the story of the sheikh in Anbar is another fairy tale.
    Bush’s Fake Sheik Whacked: The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny
    Posted By Greg Palast On September 17, 2007
    A special investigative report from inside Iraq
    Monday, September 17, 2007- Did you see George all choked up? In his surreal TV talk on Thursday, he got all emotional over the killing by Al Qaeda of Sheik Abu Risha, the leader of the new Sunni alliance with the US against the insurgents in Anbar Province, (…)