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  • All the Print that’s Fit to News
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    All totalitarian governments use the media to promote their policies, the media becomes an arm of the government. The Nazi’s understood the use of mass media to convince the public and as the bombs rained down on Germany cities the media would lament how the war had been forced on Germany. How that warmonger Churchill had forced Germany into war.
    In Russia everyone loved Chairman Stalin, the parades and demonstrations with school children dancing were proof enough to the casual observer. (…)

  • Politics Unmercifully Trespass Humanitarian Borders in Gaza
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip are unmercifully trespassing humanitarian borders there; they perceive in the collapsing economy of the Mediterranean coastal strip, which is rapidly developing into a humanitarian crisis, a political “window of opportunity.”
    Ironically they are counterproductively citing security (…)

  • VP Cheney in 94, Iraq would become a quagmire under US occupation. Amazing video
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

  • Cheney urging strikes on Iran (prisonplanet)
    10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy Newspapers
    President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues.
    At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned of unspecified consequences if it continued its alleged support for anti-American forces in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker had conveyed the warning in meetings with his Iranian (…)

  • The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story
    10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    62 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs (a plutonium bomb) ever used as instruments of aggressive war (against essentially defenseless civilian populations) was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew. The well-trained American soldiers were only "doing their job," and they did it efficiently.
    It had been only 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had decimated Hiroshima on August 6, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the (…)

  • Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism
    8 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Castillo, in his cool Asunción office, with the standard Paraguayan herbal tea, tereré in his hand, said these operations marked a shift in US military strategy. "The kind of training that used to just happen at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia is now decentralized," he explained. "The US military is now establishing new mechanisms of cooperation and training with armed forces." Combined efforts, such as MEDRETEs, are part of this agenda.
    Written by Benjamin Dangl (…)

  • Inheriting the Fireballs of Hell: The Hiroshima Challenge
    7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    5 Minutes to Midnight, Atomic Time: Half Past Sanity
    Bee Z. Bendigedig Bombshelter.org August 7, 2007
    As the world teeters on the brink of total Armageddon, thanks to a global network of war profiteers, multi-billionaire weapons manufacturers, corrupted politicians, apathetic and sociopathic mobs of industrial consumers, we once again cross the memorial marker of the first atomic bombing of civilian populations on our planet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    Every year, as an American (…)

  • Bearing Witness To Sen. Mikulski’s Complicity in the War
    6 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “One might expect [her] to consult [her] conscience...But, since it’s a matter of moral conclusions...there is, unfortunately, no cause for optimism.” — Carl G. Jung
    Baltimore, MD - August 3, 2007, was the ninth consecutive Friday afternoon, when pro-Peace activists gathered in front of the luxurious Hi Rise residence of Maryland’s senior U.S. Senator—Barbara Mikulski. They insisted on bearing witness to her complicity with the violence-breeding War, Death & Mayhem Machine of the (…)

  • Indo-Israeli military ties enter next stage
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    03 August 2007 Indo-Israeli military ties enter next stage
    A US$2.5 billion Indo-Israeli defense project marks a new phase in the two countries’ relations.
    Commentary by P R Kumaraswamy for ISN Security Watch (03/08/07)
    India’s recent decision to develop jointly a new generation of surface-to-air missile with Israel is a quantum leap in the two countries’ relations.
    In early July, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the US$2.5 (…)

  • Rice Backs Appointed Palestinian Premier and Mideast Democracy
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 3, 2007 By HELENE COOPER and STEVEN ERLANGER RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug. 2 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, embracing an appointed Palestinian prime minister here in the West Bank, said Thursday that the United States still supported democracy in the Middle East. But she defended the American refusal to recognize the earlier, elected, Hamas-led government.
    Standing next to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, during a news conference here, Ms. Rice said, “We believe (…)