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  • Ghost of Anbar
    23 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The ’Ghost of Anbar’ - also known as Abu Risha, the man behind the US success story in Iraq’s Anbar province, was brutally murdered in a roadside bomb this week.
    As a result, People & Power revisit ’Anbar’s Ghost’ which was shot just weeks before his death.
    The story behind Abu Risha’s so-called success fuels with controversy. US officials credit him with leading Sunni tribes who killed Americans in the past into a new alliance with them.
    Because of Abu Risha, American political (…)

  • Bush invaded Iraq For The OIL!
    22 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oil and Betrayal in Iraq
    Alan Greenspan should know. It was oil all along. The former head of the Federal Reserve writes in his memoir, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." Greenspan even advised Bush that "taking Saddam Hussein out was essential" to protect oil supplies.
    Yes, we suspected it. In a deep sense, many of us knew it, just as those in (…)

  • Coverage of September 15th Anti-War Rally in DC (videos)
    22 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manila Ryce
    Despite an unconstitutional federal ban being placed on the posting of promotional material for today’s September 15th Anti-War Rally, reports show that thousands have turned out to participate in the demonstration at the US Capitol.
    American citizens are marching on the White House, many arrests have already been made, and mass die-ins are also planned to represent the casualties of war and occupation. A number of prominent speakers are being heard at the rally in (…)

  • ANTIWAR MOVEMENT : War Opponents Launch Grassroots Campaign Aimed at Larger Numbers
    21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, September 21, 2007 by Associated Press War Opponents Launch Grassroots Campaign Aimed at Larger Numbers by John Christoffersen
    NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Fed up with the Iraq war, the peace movement is trying its own surge.
    After years of large-scale national demonstrations in Washington, New York and other cities have failed to end the war, activists are embarking on a campaign that starts Friday with more than 100 local protests around the country.
    The protests (…)

  • WHO’S MINDING THE STORE?
    21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "....let us sit upon the ground and talk about the death of kings"...Shakespeare
    So the US invades and occupies Iraq, and then Bush makes the most insensitive statement ever uttered by a tyrant/dictator: "The Iraqi people should be grateful to us for all we’ve done for their country" !!!
    We’ve wiped their homes,farms,schools, hospitals,mosques and streets clean with our superbombers, failed to stop looting and raiding of weapons storehouses, and participated in greedy corruption while (…)

  • The Architects of Iraq
    21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The architects of Iraq Tareq Y Ismael
    The impulse that drives United States policy in Iraq is reflected in the professional character of its leading military and diplomatic figures, says Tareq Y Ismael.
    18 - 09 - 2007
    A potentially decisive season of hearings and discussions about the performance and future of United States forces in Iraq has come to a provisional conclusion with the Congressional testimony of the US’s two leading players in Baghdad: military commander General David H (…)

  • IRAQ : 2m Forced to Flee Their Homes
    20 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by The Guardian/UK Refugees in Their Own Land: 2m Iraqis Forced to Flee Their Homes by Suzanne Goldenberg
    Nearly two million Iraqis have become refugees in their own land in the past year, redrawing the ethnic and sectarian map of Baghdad and other cities, a report by the Iraqi Red Crescent said yesterday.
    In Baghdad alone, nearly a million people have fled their homes.
    Last month saw the sharpest rise so far in the numbers of Iraqis forced to (…)

  • IRAQ : None Dare Call It Genocide
    19 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
    09/18/07 "LewRockwell" — — -How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq, whether "we" are bringing them freedom and whether their freedom is really worth the sacrifice of so many of our men and women. We talk about whether war aims have really been achieved, how to exit gracefully, or whether we need a hyper-surge to finish this whole business once and for all.
    But there’s one thing Americans (…)

  • BLACKWATER: A SECURITY COMPANY OR FOREIGN MELSHIA?
    19 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ahmad Ali
    The shooting on Sunday by Blackwater contractors and killing of more than 11 Iraqi civilians drew a fierce reaction by the Iraqi people. The incident occurred when a motorcade guarded by Blackwater was traveling through Nisoor Square on the way back to the Green Zone when the car bomb exploded, followed by volleys of small-arms fire that disabled one of the vehicles. Blackwater guards then shot at nearby civilians in act of revenge and killed more than 11 civilians. (…)

  • ORB Survey & 1.2 million Iraqi deaths IGNORED by UK-US-Oz anti-Arab anti-Semitic Holocaust Denial
    19 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Holocaust Denial is a criminal offence in much of Europe. Thus denial of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust in Austria will deservedly attract up to 10 years in prison. Recently the German Government proposed that the EU pass legislation to criminalize denial of contemporary genocides and holocausts. My view is that such legislation would be very useful but to prevent any negative effects on free speech there should be a no fine or custodial punishment (i.e. “no penalty criminalization”) but (…)