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  • Kurdistan’s Covert Back-Channels
    4 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How an ex-Mossad chief, a German uberspy, and a gaggle of top-dollar GOP lobbyists helped Kurdistan snag 15 tons of $100 bills.
    Laura Rozen April 11 , 2007
    In June 2004, journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that Israelis operating in northern Iraq under the guise of businessmen were in fact cultivating Kurdish proxies to gather intelligence in preparation for possible future action against Iran. About the same time, I too was hearing about Israelis operating in Kurdish (…)

  • Coming To A State Near You: Blackwater Air Force
    3 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tuesday, August 28, 2007
    Now why would the good patriots at Blackwater need airplanes that "can carry up to 1.5 tons of weapons, including 12.7mm machine-guns, bombs and missiles"? For their missions in Iraq, of course. Because, you know, the world’s largest military merely owning everything that flies over a third-world country isn’t enough in the way of air superiority.
    Blackwater Flies… August 27, 2007 Posted by Jim Booth
    Our friends at Blackwater Security are creating their own (…)

  • Bathroom Stalls or White House Halls
    2 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bathroom Stalls or White House Halls By David Glenn Cox
    Tea and sympathy fell like rain from the CNN (Corporate News Network) anchors yesterday. Poor Senator Larry Craig was forced to resign amidst an undercover policeman’s accusations. Wait just a damn minute here, when was the last time you heard a policeman’s sworn testimony called an accusation? In a purely legalese definition it’s factually true but it gives the impression of an unproven event which is demonstrably false.
    The (…)

  • Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial
    2 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    History Will Not Absolve Us
    by Nat Hentoff August 28th, 2007 6:30 PM
    If and when there’s the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA’s secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations, including an arm of the European parliament—as well as such deeply footnoted books as Stephen Grey’s Ghost Plane: The (…)

  • Scheherazade painting, Arundhati Roy & ART for Peace & Womens’s Rights in the Bush War on Women
    2 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    PEACE is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - we are obliged to at least INFORM OTHERS about gross human rights abuses, especially of Women and Children. What can decent people do about horrendous human rights abuse of Women and their Children around the World?
    I am an Artist as well as a scientist, writer and humanitarian advocate. I have an IDEA to empower decent folk - use ART to transmit a message of Peace and Respect for Women and for Mother and Child around the (…)

  • Lessons from the Fall of Roman Empire
    1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rome, Syria and America’s Empire by Trish Schuh
    PALMYRA, Syria— For a brief brilliant moment, like a flickering sunset on the horizon, Palmyra was a mercantile crown of the fading Roman Empire. Situated near an oasis at the nexis of east and west, water and caravan tarriffs insured its rising importance. By the 3rd century A.D. Rome had designated the city ’the capital of the province of Syria.’
    Palmyra, "the place of palms" was geared to religious tourism and commerce. Its delicate (…)

  • Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq By Chris Floyd
    31 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq
    By Chris Floyd http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18278.htm
    08/30/07 --- - From the New York Times: The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves...The effect of this vast migration is to drain religiously mixed areas in the center of Iraq, sending Shiite (…)

  • Death at a Distance: The US Air War
    31 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, August 31, 2007 by Foreign Policy In Focus Death at a Distance: The US Air War by Conn Hallinan
    According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan’s Pakitka Province and slammed into a Madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people were dead.
    The killers were robots, General Atomics MQ-1 Predators. The AGM-114 Hellfire missiles they used (…)

  • Neocons Polishing Iranian Attack Plans?
    31 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is no evidence of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
    Sun Tzu Wu
    Americans, dizzy from all the conflicting "War on Terror" reportage, were recently assured by numerous, customarily reliable sources that the Neocons no longer held the reins of the empire. Indeed, even the Neocons said so themselves. Witness their Exhibit A: the premature resignation of PNAC, which they ran from as if it were an unattended backpack in an airport. This from a group of fellows routinely (…)

  • Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money
    28 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money
    Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
    last updated: August 26, 2007 10:59:35 PM
    BAGHDAD — Iraq’s deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they’ve extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.
    The payments, in return for the insurgents’ allowing supplies to move and construction work to begin, have taken place since the (…)